When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Unlike its name suggests, Lt Collins boutique Extinct doesn’t deal in dinosaur bones. It does however take influence from the best of bygone fashion...

Bean bag, bean bag. Whatcha doin’ sittin’ on that bean bag?
Reading Shrigley’s Worried Noodles!

Tree stump, tree stump. Whatcha...

Loop is one of the few inner city bars that has managed to maintain its chic for more than a few months. A beautifully crafted angular bar and great lighting...

Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples are Scanners. Well, I can't prove it but they have been openly dabbling with telepathy as a means to explore the dynamics...

For The Homies is a brand that draws influence from streetwear while mixing techniques more akin to high-end fashion, thanks to the cut and sew education...

Hot Chip with their laptop be-bop synths and soulful lyrics are too good to throw to the seagulls. Their album Coming On Strong is not as in your...

Jeffrey Eugenides knows about love. Dave Eggers, the 'Bono of lit', knew that Jeffrey knew about love, and asked him to compile a book of love stories...

“In the murky saloon bars of the East End of London…where the scum of the earth got drunk and the chief topic of conversation was crime...

Seeing a silent film accompanied by a live score is a thing of wonder - anyone lucky enough to have caught the Blue Grassy Knoll's performances for...

It's ironic that some of the most recognisable faces in Not Quite Hollywood are American. Why does Quentin Tarantino know more about Australian genre...

It seems that the kitsch movement brought with it personality crises for many every day objects. Sofas became beds. Lamps became naked ladies holding...

Having been released in Sept 2004 this album might not be gracing the grubby pages of the local street press but things move quickly in the media world...

In the spirit of Gloria Estefan The Knife’s new album, like love, cuts both ways. On one hand it marks a departure from the wavering and sometimes...

Biopics are perhaps the suckiest genre in all of cinema. Interesting lives almost never translate to interesting cinema, and their main appeal is showing...

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...

Spit out your tobacco. Take a shower. This springtime Genki invite you to do away with trailer trash.

The Springtime Happy Caravan will be far from...

There’s more to being a Slayer fan than obsessing over serial killers, satanism and warfare, collecting box sets and feuding with Megadeth. If you’ve...

There are a few annual events that can’t be forgotten. Your Birthday –imagine forgetting that! No cake for you! The Queen’s birthday...

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...

Forget for a second that you could probably watch both these shows online right now.

There is no better way to embrace the inevitability of middle-aged...