A Place Tells A Story

It seems it's a real challenge to write about art without getting high on your own cultural superiority. But the writers of un Magazine have always...

With earmarks of Cabbalistic ritual, smacky trips, mind-rattling confusion, Spider Vomit are a passport to the northernmost hills of Melbourne's band...

If their debut is anything to go by, Tic Toc Tokyo have some exciting times ahead. Artefacts sees their tribal-infused post-punk styling expertly merged...

The Emergency is one of my favourite Australian bands. They remind me that electronic music can be done sans cheese. Their songs have the everlasting...

Fabulous Diamonds make avant garde music humbly disguised as pop minimalism. A counterpoint to all card-carrying local ‘art' groups, this restlessly...

The onslaught of anime in the '90s brought us tentacle sex, exploding heads, ninjas drowning in molten gold and psychic children who might be god...

After four years off to write a novel, Neil Jordan has come out of the study to bring Breakfast on Pluto out of the closet. Adapted from Patrick...

Ok, so we all know that horror movies are cool, have always been cool and will remain cool till the end of time... Why? We don't know, but it's true...

Think back - it might've been pessimism, or melodrama, or just those leftover shards of Sunday School that can never be extracted from the human brain...

Dario Argento is called ‘The Italian Hitchock’ and sure, he loves his knives, but it doesn’t do justice to the rich, drenched psychodrama...

Everybody likes to think of Bradford Cox - frontman of last year's best buzz-band, Deerhunter - as a freak, anorexic Perry Farrell-lookalike. "True...

OK tell the truth, Ruth - ever since Lesley Arfin came here on her book tour, you have secretly wanted a pair of those heart-shaped sunnies she was...

For the past six years, Bus Gallery has been serving Melbourne’s art community like no other space in the city. Supporting sound art, installations...

I'm so white. And gay.

So it will sound pretty ludicrous when I tell you about the dope beats and mad flow this Chicago duo gots. But from their name...

There's a certain subset of people who'll happily accept all kinds of ridiculousness in their cinema - guns that never need reloading, perfectly choreographed...

To be honest, Architecture In Helsinki have at times sounded a bit too much like a school band for our liking. However, with sold out shows all over the...

Is Not Magazine. A magazine. A poster. Known locally for insane parties and lauded internationally for original, prize-winning design: it confused...

Both the design and the purpose of NowNow’s freshly launched gallery is based upon simplicity. Its white space and careful curatorship (by...

Remember the days when sneaking a peek at your Christmas presents required a series of capers involving younger siblings, your dog, and prank calls to...

Melbourne, and Other Myths examines the mysterious charm of this city in a way that is altogether more interesting and less embarrassing than the ads...