The Dutch Masters

This is what you want in a haircut.

A barber with a good haircut who plays good music.

The music is played on vinyl and played loud enough to make...

I used to think audio tours were lame. All those people smugly strolling around galleries, wearing headphones, getting told what to think. I prefer my...

Newtown SC has branched into horticulture. Long the home of an impressive pot plant collection, Newtown has opened a tiny shop within their café...

Never sure how to tell your Merzbow from your Masona, your Jandek from your Scott Walker, or understood why John Zorn is a big deal? Don't have...

The great thing about Melbourne is it's super flat. No hills. No mountains. No volcanos or steep inclines. If you have a bike and a functioning pair of...

I was going to throw eggs at the homeless this weekend, like I always do, but then my friend Todd said, "You know what we should do? Go out to Wobbies...

At the super-gay end of the male magazine spectrum you get chiselled men and bad bad fashion... at the super-straight end you get articles on Shane...

'Creativity'. It's rare as hen’s teeth and yet was winner of the 'Most Over-used Word Award 2005/06'. It's the sort of stuff that makes money out...

So many people felt betrayed. Good people. People who had spent weeks - months even - sitting at their computers staring at a sixteen year-old, not...

Mark Barrage's new album is much more avant-Krautrock than dance anthem, no matter how much the onesheet tries to tell you otherwise. One of Melbourne's...

Inevitably, with a band such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, sound and style are intricately linked. Each listen is imbedded with images of Karen O in all...

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...

Why is Zembla one of the best magazines in the world? Ekow Eshun touches on it during his interview with Dan Crowe in the new issue when he states...

The Kaiser Chiefs have been hyped to the eyeballs and have press clippings poking out their ears. Sounding like the bastard lovechild of Franz Ferdinand...

I've never been to Brisbane, but I wanna go. Everyone I've ever dealt with there has been super friendly, and judging from their perky, upbeat bands (The...

For a sexually explicit and politically subversive producer, Christine Vachon holds a homely title.

The “Godmother of politically committed film”...

The five boroughs are used to describe the distinct areas of New York City to avoid confusing it as one large whole of geographical space. It is also...

By mid-2004 it seemed that if a band was touted as the “next big thing from Williamsburg” it would be a sure sign to avoid them. Amongst the...

Chances are you've already decided if you're interested in seeing The Dark Knight, so I'll keep this short.

This is pure pop-mythology. That doesn't...

Bad taste never goes out of fashion. How do we know? Because The Hopetoun Tea Rooms have been around since 1892. Charming & elegant to an unearthly...