The Brutals

No, its not a collection of art critics; almost the opposite. There's a sense of lost opportunity walking out of some galleries; 'emotionless', 'formless'...

Sabbatical Records' in-house engineer and co-conspirator, Marcus Cook nee hard-wired ohm freak, Default Jamerson - gets his due release on the local...

In 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit strung up a cable between two corners of the World Trade Centre buildings in New York and went for an...

Lonely Planet writers have set the precedent for fictional travel writing - who needs to visit a country when the chick you're dating has been there?...

Eddy Current are the finest garage band to come out of Melbourne in years. People have been talking them up pretty seriously in the last six months...

Like something Patsy and Eddie might have dreamt up in the wee hours, High Fashion Crime Scenes takes fashion to the heights of bad taste and depends...

Dan Arps buys psychedelic fantasy pop art posters from a bong shop near his house in Auckland, known as 'Sharpies', and paints or sticks things on them...

Good fiction can be distinguished by the level of disorientation you feel when you look up from your page. If the world that exists between the pages...

No matter who you are, where you live or what you do, some visual symbols are instantly recognisable.

If for instance, we showed you a dark human silhouette...

iD Magazine is genius. Why? Because they can cover interesting fashion and culture without coming across as a bunch of self-indulgent twits.

If...

A little-known fact about ThreeThousand's editor is her pathological hatred of chickens, "alive or dead". I, on the other hand, love the little...

This book is so good. It's the true story of Reena Virk, a 14-year-old girl from British Columbia who was beaten and drowned under a bridge by her schoolmates...

While many new 'psych' proclaimed acts go a path of diet dread and mind-split affectation - little further than the recent, forced drug sound of Brian...

Shiners Ezy Wash is a laundry mat straight out of the future. Or what the people who did set design for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure imagined...

If only Too Obscure had been around several years ago, to save me from the clutches of an identity/wannabe hiccup. Amidst a bout of teen-angst-induced...

There seems to be an unspoken law that says every film festival must feature a new Takashi Miike film. Luckily, he churns out multiple features a year...

With a cast of characters initially tied together only by the family unit and their own fallibility,Little Miss Sunshine is a road trip film of...

Black is the creative offspring of Grant Fell and ex-Pavement-fashion-editor, Rachael Churchward. Now, Pavement is a great magazine and everything...

The mid-fifties were great for drive-in cinemas, beat poets and swing dancing. But the victims of the Cold War and Soviet Union vs America space-race...

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...