Daft Punk's Electroma

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...

Film festivals occasionally throw a few obscure horror gems into their programs to up their cool quotient, but MIFF takes it a step further this year...

Has David Lynch just become a friendly caricature of American oddness? I mean, once you turn sixty, start evangelising about meditation and release...

Until now, Gretchen Mol’s roles have ranged from ‘somewhat forgettable’ to‘still somewhat forgettable’. Suddenly, here...

Do you know what a hippie is?

With their headscarves and hand bells, communal chanting and four-part harmonies, Yeasayer have a lot in common with west...

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

There are three words to describe drinking on Flinders Lane: “wrong,wrong, wrong.” Which is why Two Fingers, located just behind The Forum...

Sometimes you've just gotta get stuff off your chest. Equally (and except in the case of certain mammary reduction procedures), it can be good to witness...

Rapt! is billed as a timely survey of contemporary art emerging from Japan, but will also encompass projects that cross national borders, including...

They went into Germany. They went into Israel?! Finally it's our turn. So tear yourself away from your online shopping and shimmy on down to American...

With tedious predictability, every year I exclaim, ‘I wish you could get hot cross buns the whole year round’, and then realise that they...

Like P-plate drivers, many of us refuse to believe that we are breakable. It takes moments of pain and legacies such as scars to remind us that flesh...

This new record from one of New Zealand's most riotous acts has a definite whiff of maturation about it. Once upon a time, you see, these Dunedin boys...

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...

Both the design and the purpose of NowNow’s freshly launched gallery is based upon simplicity. Its white space and careful curatorship (by...

Vanessa Berry sees things differently from other people. Some would say she's a genius; her mother might say otherwise. Like everyone, however (except...

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...

The story of Deerhoof is a long and complex one. Punctuated by band members leaving and angels arriving (Satomi – singer), audiences have nevertheless...

Sometimes I like to go into Big Dubs just to see what's snappin'. This fine emporium stocks much more than $6.25 flannies and $9.82 hipster plimsolls...

Don't ask how they got up there, but those sixteen full-sized palm trees on the roof of the Carlton Hotel are but the icing on the cake - the tassel on...