Beyond Our Ken

Flavours of Lakhoum is the perfect little Moorish-inspired oasis of cool, comfort and calm. The ambiance is set with turquoise and metallic gold wallpaper...

Unless it’s sunburn, or Michael Schumacher, most would agree that things look better in red. Bright, bold, sexy and potentially dangerous the Polaroid...

If you hate Battle of the Choirs, but you like old people, Sonic Youth, and wish to help the homeless, then here's a date for your diary. MIFF and Rooftop...

Meet Kenji Kawakami, designer, pathological mail-order enthusiast and author of this book. Kawakami is the founder of Chindogu, the art of the 'unuseless'...

OK, there's a procession, which is an all-too-rare occurrence at art openings these days (where everyone is there to be seen, except for the artist who...

After extensive testing on animals, OS and national tours, and two EPs ( Blow Up, The Girl And The Sea ) The Presets have released their debut album...

Naive opinion brands Dosh as white-boy experimental hip hop just because he sits on the Anticon roster. Sure, there are percussive leanings towards...

Interviews aren't always as simple as picking up the phone, dialling Spain and talking with a beautiful - and evidently not single - French pop star just...

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

Jamming good - San Francisco's Wooden Shjips have all the sea rhythm and outsized heaviness their name suggests. Loving on the strung-out sounds of ‘60s...

As ‘alternative’ fashion is continuously embraced as mainstream around Melbourne, it’s becoming difficult to dress without looking like...

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...

There are so many things you can do with A3 newsprint. For examples see: Beat, that News Limited rag, ANP Quarterly and ACNE Paper. Let’s...

So far as children and Dan Deacon are concerned, music exists primarily to be enjoyed, and enjoyment is directly proportional to a listener's involvement...

Centre Place is deceptive - it looks all niche but there are an alarmingly high number of generic pide rolls on offer. Fortunately, the guys at Jungle...

Hello. Are you like me? Endemically prone to bouts of unrealism and grandiosity in your conception of yourself? Do you find your chronic lack of cash...

Art's physicality evokes responses outside of our control, and toying with our sense of material disgust or vertigo can push us to experience immediate...

Always makes a future kind of phonic music exclusively composed of vocal sounds. Like Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, his spinning tracks seem to affect...

Take a deep breath and reminisce the mass of muddy punters sweating out their day's worth of beer. Remember the good times?

Last year the Trainwreck...

Did you ever find out you’ve got a word completely wrong? Like saying “malapropism” when you mean “melanoma”-this would...