Octopus 8 launch - The Softness in the Rock: Hope in Disappointing Times

Described as the closest he'll ever get to writing an autobiography, Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick looks at the luxuries of life and the luxuries that...

Deerhunter's Fluorescent Grey EP is the dream existential suicide, insofar as you can commit it / listen to it more than once. There are only four songs...

For the second time in a year, James Cameron's Oliver Lane store was visited by junkie burglars recently. The second bunch were not stylish enough...

The accessory to have this winter is headphones and these bad boys from Sennheiser are right up there with the best of the bunch. Throw down your sissy...

Calling all those championing for the crowned shade-shape of the season. Eyeful US label ‘Slow and Steady Wins the Race' brings it home with Basic...

Art's physicality evokes responses outside of our control, and toying with our sense of material disgust or vertigo can push us to experience immediate...

Ripple is a new Melbourne-based project that has found a cunning way of redirecting internet advertising profits to charity. This enables you (kind...

In 1973 French writer Tony Duvert conducted a close reading of a series of children's sex manuals with the aim of revealing how the ‘sex-positive'...

The Festival Lounges at MIFF are not just comfortable waterholes for movie-talk. They're like life-saving cordial stations for marathon runners - because...

Gus Vant Sant is synonymous with a particular brand of American arthouse, epitomised by films like Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. Since...

Is that great literature in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Penguin have celebrated 70 years of accessible high quality writing with well...

By track two of Blonde Redhead's new digital shoegaze record, 23, you've imperceptibly fallen in love with reverb kitten Kazu Makino's supernatural...

What do gunfire sieges and ravioli have in common? On The Sopranos all that's missing is a stiff drink served by a big-haired broad in a tight dress...

Why would Melbourne's happiest publishing accident (aka ThreeThousand) do a print version? Is it not like denying our digital birthplace? Is it not like...

'Blood nut' is a funny noun. It's both affectionate and slightly offensive. Special Kev is a blood nut (according to his Uncle Nobby, who reckons that...

The first thing you need to know about Cylk designer Lexi Lavranos is that she makes an awesome mix tape. The promo CD for Cylk’s autumn/winter...

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...

If the Warner Bros. Duck Amuck clip taught us anything, there is much power in the grey lead and the pen; characters are at the mercy of their maker...

Full of scientific instruments, fossils, mounted bugs and barometers, Wunderkammer (Chamber of Wonders) is the kind of place in which you’d expect...

So this is it. The final laundry mat review. Over the last five weeks we've covered the inner west, south, north and east. For the grand finale I wanted...