Trash This City

If all little girls should smell like roses, then all men should smell like Dior’s Bois D’ Argent.

A concoction of masculine musk and...

Bigger than Fraggle Rock, more reliable than a pyramid scheme, Pyramid Rock is a festival on NYE.

What kind of a festival? Well, it’s more beer...

Three hours north of Melbourne, on the banks of the Mighty Murray, lies the sleepy town of Echuca. I grew up in Echuca, and my childhood was one long...

The story that follows is a festering blight on my record, not to mention an indictment of humanity. It starts with me being in New York City, which is...

After two years of exhibiting at the Chapel galleries and having raised over $15,000 for children's charities in Melbourne, the Basefield Projects once...

There are lots of things that go on in backyards: domestics, barbecues, the burial of a dead bodies and money. You do not need an excuse to be in one...

Dario Argento is called ‘The Italian Hitchock’ and sure, he loves his knives, but it doesn’t do justice to the rich, drenched psychodrama...

Philosophers come big and small, male or female, little known or well known, and in all colours. They come in structuralist, existentialist, futurist...

Black Dice are completely sublimated, Shinto-like, in the teeming hive of sounds on new album, Load Blown. The New York trio's ‘ecological'...

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...

‘Dr’ is one of those marketing prefixes that implies a sense of expertise, which unfortunately is not always reflected in its associated products.

One...

Let's face it. Even a monkey could snap something pretty with Polaroid. Its nostalgic feel, its play of light, its instant development; Polaroid is one...

With a faux D&G logo designed by Josh Petherick and James Deutsher, this show looks like something you might find next to the Louis Vuitton on Silk...

Philippe Genty's puppetry sure has changed since the '80s. Now, instead of a flirtatious exchange between a feather boa and an old camera, there are...

A glance at the Everything Ecstatic cover art might make us think that Four Tet has suffered from an Art Attack. Whether or not blip-wizard Kieran...

With earmarks of Cabbalistic ritual, smacky trips, mind-rattling confusion, Spider Vomit are a passport to the northernmost hills of Melbourne's band...

Far superior to its fat little friend the pancake, the crepe has had a long and successful cinematic career. Its lunar resemblance has made it a popular...

I once said the word 'letterpress' in a roomful of designers and I won't be making that mistake again, not without a poncho. Blubbering, sweating, the...

Peter Rabbit; Miffy; Mushie Moro. Ask anyone - bunnies are so hot right now. Riding high on the bunny bandwagon are artists Dan and Kozue Kitchens, with...

FOOL: People who wax lyrical about how 'international' Melbourne is, how it's the 'World's most liveable city', a 'smart city' blah blah blah our ears...