Framed – restore the ride

It used to be a truck rental garage, now it’s a bakery. Actually it’s a commercial bakery, but it’s also a café. But don’t...

OK all you savages, you lovers of commas, you students of fear. The man who made it acceptable to write about whatever the hell you want as long as you...

Before there were computers, people did EVERYTHING by hand. This might seem unbelievable to those of us that now consider our computers lifelines, but...

Once upon a time mad, cynical geniuses like Kurt Vonnegut and Phillip K. Dick made a living hacking out stories for pulp magazines, trashy bits of entertainment...

There must be something powerful in the air around Windsor, even stronger than the scent of scorched skin wafting out of Tantrum solarium. For the past...

Love Hate Lollipop Tape is the sassiest adhesive since Swiss hiker George de Mestral invented Velcro when a burr got stuck to his sock. As the brain child...

Antony and the Johnsons second release I Am a Bird Now may see you spirited away into the sullied glamour of a downtown New York cabaret. Or, you...

The house in The Royal Tenenbaums is a model of Wes Anderson’s films: obsessively packed with minutia, showing the internal worlds of his characters...

Fat might have turned ten, but these girls aren't coasting on the double figures. For a decade, they have been working for a better-looking Melbourne...

If you're looking for something new this weekend, why not try the Trauma ward at the Alfred? Sure, it can be tough to get in (I got run over by a van...

The cover has had a bad wrap. "Don't judge a book by its cover", they sneer. "That blue-grass cover version of Snoop Dogg's ‘Gin...

There’s no shortage of ethos options being slammed in all directions atany given moment. Let alone the hounds of ‘culcha’ who are only...

Recently I caught up with Jamie Doom from the Bang Gang Deejays. We took a few minutes to chat about the new album they are releasing, why Melbourne is...

The Sporting Club Hotel is at once unspectacular and a secret cavern of wonders, depending on how you see things. Yes, it’s true that you probably...

On the first rotation Razorlight's debut 'Up all night' seems to have all the right attributes of another classic NME funded attempt to resuscitate the...

Much like his previous band Sidewinder, Nick Craft uses wall-of-sound sonics, distorted guitars and more of that lovely stuff that made his former cult...

Torpedo, the first offering from independent publishing house Falcon vs. Monkey, Falcon Wins, is very pretty. And, unlike a human, it gets prettier...

There seems to be an unspoken law that says every film festival must feature a new Takashi Miike film. Luckily, he churns out multiple features a year...

PM: Lamington Drive is a pretty weird name for a gallery.

JW: Jeremy Wortsman is an even weirder name, so that wasn't an option.

PM: Why did you...

Envisage the Vanishing Point crossroads of German electronic Kraut and heavy-headed late night rock'n'roll. Portland trio, Chromatics, go there with...