Absoluten Calfeutrail / Blarke Bayer launch

In the tough world of independent publishing print titles can drop off faster than a dinger off a limp dick - and you know that you truly like a magazine...

The Emergency is one of my favourite Australian bands. They remind me that electronic music can be done sans cheese. Their songs have the everlasting...

Like a gay lion, the sticky date pudding was once a humble beast. Content to sit on its own, quietly appearing on the menus of certain pubs and upper-middle-class...

There is a book sale on at The Athenaeum Library at the moment. ‘The Athenaeum Library?’ you may ask. And if so, you have stumbled upon...

Sure, you're an unassuming, left-leaning gen-X or Y-er who goes to the occasional independent Czech film showcase, has flirted with vegetarianism and...

Kids (and adults) no longer need to fear the creatures in their cupboards because Kooky Spooks make your scariest nightmares your cutest companions...

Midlake create songs that are so beautiful and natural you will know what the sound of one hand clapping really is. With lyrics as simple and evocative...

It is said that there is a point in anyone's success when your formula is known (1). Seinfeld in season 7, The Simpsons since Homer stole Bart's...

There must be something powerful in the air around Windsor, even stronger than the scent of scorched skin wafting out of Tantrum solarium. For the past...

Every fashion designer is familiar with, and more often than not inspired by, Little Edie Beale’s incredible outfits or as she would say “revolutionary...

Iggy and Bowie went there. Nick Cave and RSH went there. Even HTRK and The Devastations went there. Now you can see what all the fuss was about with Rainer...

Remember what was said above about bloated running times and limited attention spans? Ignore it. New documentary Into Great Silence runs for nearly...

There was a time when I used to be completely intimidated by wine and only know two things about it. I knew Cab Savs were the most robust, and I knew...

So we are standing in an opaque glass cube, cantilevering out three metres, but 300m above Southbank when the glass goes clear and there is a second of...

Although it's described as ‘great music to punch cones to' by certain street press, Wolf & Cub's debut album Vessels is more intelligent...

Ariel Pink's music is beautiful in that ultimate, metonymic way of having no substitute; its feeling simply cannot be expressed in any other way. Obsessively...

Myer stocktake sale? The biggest sale in the country? Phht. Whatever.

If it's the knocks and bruises to the bottom lip you're after, then clamber the...

Early last year a new wave of Swedish artists began to receive mainstream attention. A year on from ‘The Whistle Song' and the Scandinavian invasion...

We often talk up new labels who are striving to make our streets a little better looking. If you bought every item we talked up, you're probably be skipping...

If you want to know the time there are two options - analogue or digital. Sundials look sweet but aren't that practical, and trying to chart the sun's...