Burn After Reading

All the short-run CDRs, improv jams and general hippy mystique provided by the current wave of the "new, weird, America" certainly rock the...

"New Romanticism: In contrast to punks the New Romantics made an effort to look flamboyant in an attractive, luxuriant, beautiful, narcissistic way."

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Baby Boomers' Disco chintz returns emasculated and in altogether more sinister form with the new Italians Do It Better compilation, After Dark. Recent...

Voltaire was said to be polemic, which means he threw up after binge writing. He was also known for his sharp wit, philosophy and texts such as Candide:...

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...

For god's sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are. You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You... put on music. Now you start opening up your personal...

Pour café / petite dejeuner: While we French purists have been turning our noses up at Vue de Monde (it's Vue du Monde, Monsieur Bennett), its...

The future of Melburnian fashion isn’t necessarily stocked in-store, it’s evolving within studios, sketched in black folios and stitched together...

Person Pitch is the ideal title for Noah Lennox's latest record, save maybe The Ecstatic Dreams of an Embryo In and Out of the Cool Ocean. Transmitting...

Right now, Mumbai looms in the Western imagination as a place where terrorists gun down tourists in luxury hotels. I can't work out if now's a good or...

Full of scientific instruments, fossils, mounted bugs and barometers, Wunderkammer (Chamber of Wonders) is the kind of place in which you’d expect...

After what seemed an eternity between Wet From Birth and the release of Fasciination, I was anticipating an incredible, mind-blowing record which...

Mess and Noise is the Australian music magazine that stemmed from the loins of mono.net, the cyber community of music lovers forced to relocate...

We are truly an attention-challenged, internet-addled generation who has forgotten that news can be found outside an RSS reader. For us overwrought victims...

At the Order of Melbourne dark oak hues, sixties chandeliers, leather couches and a wall of fine wine accessible only by a library ladder makes us suspect...

Good white shoes are to fashionistas what water is to farmers: a vital component for prosperity. And both farmers and fashionistas alike have witnessed...

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away… there was an awesome art gallery called Per Square Metre!! As well as being run by the universe’s...

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...

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

With a reputation for hot leather and some Fat4 fostering, a Melbourne guy can start in custom-made art and embark on a fashion label. In eight years...