The Emergency

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...

What one place can you score: mix tapes made by Calvin Johnson, furry dolls by Mike Kelley, claymation DVDs by Ian Svenonius, limited edition Maui and...

Not so long ago some Nancy in chino's and a bum bag wrote a travel story titled, "The New Euro". It outlined the 'hip' new things to do and...

Fact: there is more crap in the blogosphere than in the Ganges River, but in amongst all the self-indulgent diatribes you will find a few pearls, shining...

Picture the screenwriters: they're brainstorming up the new Genghis Khan biopic and need some way to make the infamous 13th century Mongolian conqueror...

Rivaling, maybe surpassing, the natural world in terms of dimension and mystic order, Snawklor's work unfurls in blooms and retractions akin to living...

Tom DiCillo made one of the ‘90s most canonical indie films: the great low-budget movie about the ego-driven horrors of low-budget movie-making...

With two Melbourne days over 36 degrees and summer just around the corner, you can’t blame us for being hyper on the sunglasses front of late...

Adult Swim has been running with the cartoons-for-grownups idea for years now. Personal favourites include Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, a show...

No one knows more about street style than our good mates at Nylon magazine. When I popped by their SoHo offices during last spring's New York collections...

Everybody loves the jungle! Except for Vietnam veterans maybe, and those whom The Phantom imprisoned in his Skull Cave in the deep woods of Bengali, and...

Envisage the Vanishing Point crossroads of German electronic Kraut and heavy-headed late night rock'n'roll. Portland trio, Chromatics, go there with...

Weirdo electronic music pioneer, Bruce Haack (1931-1988), was a fantastically creeped-out character who, while making a career in children's music during...

Gen-X shadow masters Autechre remain unclassifiable even on their own terms. While new records often have that samey, 'desktop' production sound, this...

Sahara, despite its name, is an oasis in a desert of crap city cafes. Positioned above Swanston Street it is a nice reminder of what Melbourne used to...

For a while now Cansei De Ser Sexy (Tired of Being Sexy) have been in the spotlight of music tastemakers such as FBI fm’s Fat Planet...

Apparently Japanese salary men aren't eating sushi off naked ladies' bodies any more. It's a bit passé. And smutty and completely reeks of bad...

Tired of busting your nuts Mr T-style in Melbourne's department stores, tripping over Megan Gale and Miss Universe while you're just trying to haggle...

Not everything makes sense at the start and it's important to test the waters, analyse what you do and re-shape it if necessary. Take NowNow, for instance...

In our worldly population of over 6 billion, the average person has around 700,000 hours to live. While most have watched a clinically damaging number...