Mercy Arms

"We want to turn the lights down, get stoned and then blow our heads off."

Morbid? Maybe but in the current UK musical environment of Libertinesesque...

For years, I've noticed solitary gloves on the ground in winter. They fascinate me, lying there frozen in their final gestures, wet, hand-shaped blankets...

Mike Relm is as badass as they come. He has won turtablism championships, plays live with completely original video DJing mash-ups, and is just releasing...

If you've spent any time on music blogs in the past few months, you'd have heard the growing murmur about Passion Pit. The hype has built to levels rivaling...

What is it about black books? At primary school if you got in trouble you got your name put in a black book. In Nevada the black book holds a list of...

Everyone knows that to be hip in this day and age you need three things: style, trendy facial hair, and a cool name. Pop Levi has all three in spades...

In Hellboy, Guillermo Del Toro finds the big red muse that lets his artsy aesthetics and blockbuster tendencies combine into a glorious mess of pulp...

"They're turning kids into slaves, just to make cheaper sneakers. What's the real cost cause the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper? Why are we...

Who can deny the eccentricity of a well-tended moustache or the embarrassment of maintaining said moustache during the tired, yet well-meaning ritual...

If you avoid heading down to the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art because of the amount of times the exterior is used to sell naff cars, then...

What’s your favourite song? Well it’s about to become a whole lot favouriter: the long awaited, much hyped iBuzz has come to town. This naughty...

If you're anything like us, all it takes is two beers, and the next thing you know, you’re surrounded by 20 sweating salarymen in a small cubicle...

Ever since Blood Simple back in 1984, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced a steady stream of unrelentingly oddball features that totter on the border...

To be honest, Architecture In Helsinki have at times sounded a bit too much like a school band for our liking. However, with sold out shows all over the...

There is a book sale on at The Athenaeum Library at the moment. ‘The Athenaeum Library?’ you may ask. And if so, you have stumbled upon...

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...

Fat might have turned ten, but these girls aren't coasting on the double figures. For a decade, they have been working for a better-looking Melbourne...

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...

It would be a shame for Tom Vek to be consumed and spat out like a liquorice jellybean by the hype-machine that is inevitably about to engulf him. Vek...

Nike Savvas's work, Atomic: Full of Love, Full of Wonder, is made specifically for ACCA and is an exploration of illusion and how we perceive and...