The Presets Mix Tape

With Amanda De Simone’s new exhibition, Crying Boy Fanclub, it would seem that The Cure were wrong all along – boys do cry. Similar to Sam...

"I used to work at this convenience store, and on Sunday mornings the only thing that kept me from gutting the customers in a sleepy rage was Degrassi...

George Orwell speculated our paper-less society in Nineteen Eighty Four, "The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures."...

The top-hat, the shoe and the iron have been replaced by a pimp, a marijuana leaf and a crack rock. Community Chest and Chance Cards have been abandoned...

It’s like SneakerFreaker for your chest. Even if your T-shirt obsession doesn’t rival that of the Threadless gang, the first issue...

Who Am Eye is a brethren of indie boys making clothing for other indie boys. They may lack a question mark and consistently misspell a common, one-letter...

King Zhou was the most notorious tyrant of the Shang dynasty. His wit was sword-sharp and his bare hands could rip the flesh of any ferocious beast...

Travelling the MIFF screens is like boarding The Magical School Bus for a history lesson on butt-comfort through the ages.

The Forum's gargoyle-guarded...

If you've spent any time shopping for vintage in Melbourne you're sure to have had an impossibly fashionable woman with a wild blonde afro look after...

Separately Together brings together (well, separately, but together) emerging artists from University of Melbourne and VCA whose work hijacks language...

It is said that there is a point in anyone's success when your formula is known (1). Seinfeld in season 7, The Simpsons since Homer stole Bart's...

Fat 272 isn’t exactly new to the Melbourne retail game, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t as fresh as the day they sprung up on Chapel...

Booklyn boy Jonathan Lethem has been burning up the NYC writing scene ever since his book The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn was named Esquire's...

Instead of getting caught up in the peppered language of perfume – sensuous…cradled slumber…caressing skin…you get the drift...

At some time or another we’ve all had that crazy notion that it’s much cheaper to make your own lunch. It’s not. By the time you buy...

No one makes mix-tapes anymore, but if they did, anything by Fionn Regan would be a good addition. In fact, we can pretty much guarantee that a track...

Bruce “My Parents Are Dead!” Wayne has great toys and fashion sense, but crippling angst. The first act of Iron Man, though, is packed with...

One thing better than a store opening is, um, a sale. Ingrid and Moni from TV know this just as well as they know how to make metallic leggings, leather...

Definitely more impressive than a mule, Band Of Horses sound is far from sterile. Bred from orchestral pop band Carissa’s Weird and released...

Since April 2005, Mess+Noise Magazine has been jumping off the floors of record stores and into our bags quicker than a handful of shoplifted CDs. Founded...