d.v.d at Aphids Reel Music Festival

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...

In this instance, the singer is songwriter Markland Starkie. Known as Sleeping States to you and I, Markland has produced an earnest charm of an album...

Like a scene out of Oliver Stone's sixties psyche-crapfest The Doors, last summer Melbourne's Sand Pebbles trekked out into the desert with a bag full...

Bean bag, bean bag. Whatcha doin’ sittin’ on that bean bag?
Reading Shrigley’s Worried Noodles!

Tree stump, tree stump. Whatcha...

Born in upstate New York, Mike Giant now lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The place Bugs Bunny should have taken a left turn at, the setting...

For lovers of his acoustic duo Kings Of Convenience or of his eponymous solo/collaborative project, then The Whitest Boy Alive is another excellent...

Alice has turned ten this year and not only that but she has spawned a double on Gertrude. Well, not a double so much as a slick younger sister for...

With all the warmth of a forensic investigation, acclaimed Beijing photographer Xing Danwen explores the impact of modernity on an increasingly global...

If you're tired of Google grouping your innocent request for "stationery fetish" in with a much more alarming activity, you'll be happy to know...

Cinema and surveillance go hand in hand. In fact, someone really needs to put together a Surveillance Film Festival: Coppola’s The Conversation...

From its mid-20th century heyday to popular neo-noir incarnations, film noir has proven that deep down we're all gloomily romantic at heart. Noir maintains...

Who? Clor? Never heard of them. At least we hadn’t until about a week ago, and the long and short of it is that we still don’t know what to...

In places like South Central Los Angeles, Saturday nights are for listening to N.W.A and mulling over two possible career choices: Bloods or Crips. It...

If America's Top Model has taught us anything, photo shoots are all "walruses in chiffon" and "look bitch, I was chosen out of a million...

Working as a doctor, the stethoscope around your neck earns you a certain amount of respect. Even as I accidentally wander into a family bereavement room...

After the roaring success of last Saturday's ‘Pants & Pies' sale, James Cameron presents ACT II this weekend. Vintage wash denim, Japanese...

They've released four 7-inches, five CDs and two LPs, 16 tours, travelled the world, done a soundtrack for a puppet show... performed on street corners...

Pikelet's eponymous debut is an uncanny, down-the-rabbit-hole trip that remakes instrumental sounds with unabashed wonder. Terrifically paced, its intricate...

It took a few unhappy Frenchman to build the Eiffel Tower. It took a few stoners to figure out that weed causes laziness. And it took a few years of sitting...

The Nicholas Building is a work of art in itself, and if you go there to visit the Collected Works bookshop, or one of the many odd little shops hidden...