The Monobrow Show

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...

Chester F. Carlson was an impatient fellow. You can't blame him, really. He worked as a patent analyser for an electrical component maker. His job was...

Baltimore girlfriend/boyfriend duo Beach House have achieved an increasingly difficult feat; they've created a sound that is both instantly recognisable...

They come served in a milk cartons and pizza boxes, delivered to you through the window of an ice cream truck. Writing about them makes me want *TyPe...

Inevitably, with a band such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, sound and style are intricately linked. Each listen is imbedded with images of Karen O in all...

If you've spent any time on music blogs in the past few months, you'd have heard the growing murmur about Passion Pit. The hype has built to levels rivaling...

Relevance is an elusive thing – no matter whether you are trying to find it or provide it. So it goes without saying, that when you find something...

Once upon a time in the Northern Territory, a curly-haired boy and a leggy lady linked arms and creative endeavour. Together they trekked south easterly...

The bookshelf is a prized pantry of carefully selected manuscripts, fine films, musical specimens, exotic publications and zine-like hooha. Keeping all...

Joost Bakker is without a doubt one of Melbourne's most resourceful men, creating incredible industrial flower displays, furniture, installation art...

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

Denim, it seems, isn’t just a material. It’s a social classifier, a status symbol, a sex invite, a controversy and sometimes, a stigma.

It’s...

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...

If folklore has taught us anything, the woods are enchanted and hold lessons to learn. Snow White sought refuge by hitching her gown and bolting for the...

“Fashion is the last repository of the marvellous”, said Christian Dior (and Malcolm McLaren, who would typically pilfer the quote for...

Move over Victoria’s Secret, take a hike John Galliano and get lost Akira, the RMIT kids are here with an electric new wave of designer pieces...

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...

Sounding somewhat similar to Confest, Resfest does not involve thousands of people walking naked on the beach, patchouli, or chickpeas, although it...

We'll be honest. When you look at these watches it's hard to believe they are actually made for the blind. It's like Inspector Gadget and the design team...