No Time Wasters: Fake BEAT Classifieds 06-07

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

There is something immediately unsatisfying about calling a piece of art abstract expressionist, and perhaps that's the point. You are using the strictures...

Like it or loathe it, lastnightsparty (the website) has, like roadkill, attracted the attention of most people that have ever lost control and woken...

Who is Billy Apple? A short, compulsory art class to follow.

Billy Apple was once Barrie Bates, born in Auckland, moved to London to study graphic design...

Dear Mathew,

An adoring fan of mine kindly told me about your exhibition. I'm flattered to hear you have devoted it to me. If I had time in between combing...

You can imagine that if Jens Lekman wasn’t singing he would, in fact, be silent. He would be that shy guy,who sits thinking, laughs occasionally...

When you think world music I'm sure some wanky Vampire Weekend or Santogold record comes to mind. We know how you work. That's why we are here to keep...

Hey, I meant to ask you; you know Michi, don't you? I saw you with her at that party - she was the one in the Marc Jacobs pumps. Yeah, the ones with one...

Lou Reed famously said, "One chord is fine, two chords is pushing it, three and you're into jazz." Hi God People on the Astral Plane celebrates...

Restaurateur Nick Kutcher started Mamma's Boy because he wanted a healthy alternative to working long night shifts in hospitality. That 'better living'...

Like you, I also danced with joy down Swanston Street when we got UNESCO City of Literature status. (I was the one with the cape made from copies of...

Children around the world would probably cry if Mickey Mouse ever used a one finger salute, but at the hands of New York artist Kostas Seremetis the...

Listening to Phoenixis like listening to good advice. Their songs are ingrained with experience and a certain perspective that comes from never taking...

Isn’t genre a stupid word? Say it over and over and soon it begins to sound like the name of a particularly sleazy French uncle. We here at ThreeThousand...

The Bicycle Film Festival starts next week! It sneaked up on us like 'Kamikazi' without his lucky socks on.

The first event in the festival is an...

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

M83's Anthony Gonzalez pulls back the blinds a little on his new album, Saturdays=Youth by lightening his characteristic, night-drenched synthesizer...

No one makes mix-tapes anymore, but if they did, anything by Fionn Regan would be a good addition. In fact, we can pretty much guarantee that a track...

Richard Kelly won fans with his slice of moody postmodern angst, Donnie Darko. Now the long-delayed, much-maligned Southland Tales finally arrives...

The difficult second album is often the death knell for bands. There is always another younger band with tighter jeans, sharper haircuts, and an album...