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Remember what was said above about bloated running times and limited attention spans? Ignore it. New documentary Into Great Silence runs for nearly...

You can imagine that if Jens Lekman wasn’t singing he would, in fact, be silent. He would be that shy guy,who sits thinking, laughs occasionally...

With two Melbourne days over 36 degrees and summer just around the corner, you can’t blame us for being hyper on the sunglasses front of late...

From the team behind St Jerome's and Sister Bella comes a new little chick hatching before our eyes, this time in the form of café-cum-bar Bird...

We’ve come a long way since prescribing heroin to pregnant women. And Queen Victoria isn’t around to smoke a joint with her tea. Nor is Baudelaire...

Here's the deal: Red Road is the first in a loose trilogy called "The Advance Party". New directors were given a set of characters - defined...

Like something Patsy and Eddie might have dreamt up in the wee hours, High Fashion Crime Scenes takes fashion to the heights of bad taste and depends...

Westside was Conor O’Brien’s third photography book (after Where The Heart Is and Oh No I Think I’m Falling). Published last year...

A seemingly simple rearrangement of words can have startling effects. For example, "album cover" equals great, while "cover album"...

OK, so the breakfast only goes from 9.30am till 10.30am. This is weird because IKEA opens at 10am, but the restaurant opens at 9.30am. So when you go...

iD Magazine is genius. Why? Because they can cover interesting fashion and culture without coming across as a bunch of self-indulgent twits.

If...

Although C.W. Stoneking hails from Footscray in Melbourne, he is more Mississippi than Maribyrnong. His album King Hokum, if listened to without the...

This record is a jigsaw. A Rubick's cube. As soon as you enter this musical labyrinth you're lost in the shadows. Caught up in a running stream of repeating...

When it comes to forming an indie sensibility, many bands attempt to channel the talents of their idols, deconstructing popular sounds and influences...

Fabian invited me into his office, pulled a chair into the middle of the room and warned me it was a piece from the 1860s. Careful not to snap a chair...

What do 'The Bold and The Beautiful', Four and Twenty Meat Pies an Oprah's Book Club have in common? They're so bad that they're good. Such is the premise...

Male models, fish hooks in the face, endless self-examination and Dixieland jazz. All too often, we rely on film for most of our cultural reference points...

Oh for the innocence of youth. Those salad days of untainted, unbridaled joy. When excitement lay under the doona as opposed to regret and anxiety about...

Day tripping Brooklyn duo High Places thoroughly enchant on this singles collection - released locally through Mistletone. Sun-bleached, dreamy and...

There is so much going on upstairs from Von Haus, we'll soon be introducing a new section to the newsletter: HEAR, READ, SHOP, STRAY, VONHAUS. Until then...