Beautiful Burnouts

There’s no need to wait around until Saturday when new artists and designers can be trawled from your veritable lap. A one-stop on-line hot shop...

Described as the closest he'll ever get to writing an autobiography, Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick looks at the luxuries of life and the luxuries that...

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...

If you hate Battle of the Choirs, but you like old people, Sonic Youth, and wish to help the homeless, then here's a date for your diary. MIFF and Rooftop...

Here's a hit of sunshine to spark up your day like a doobie. Mood Patterns is the debut full length from Belles Will Ring, the Blue Mountains' answer...

Here's the deal: Red Road is the first in a loose trilogy called "The Advance Party". New directors were given a set of characters - defined...

There is great joy in giving gifts... but not always so much joy in finding them. Especially not if you have to do it in a sweaty, drunken, Christmas-party-fuelled...

Eugene Von Guerard was a prominent Australian colonial landscape painter who lived above The Paperback on Bourke Street. Actually, we don't know how...

Strut Records is a UK-based boutique label that stumbled a bit and is coming back strong. After releasing the first two discs in the 'Disco Not Disco'...

Biopics are perhaps the suckiest genre in all of cinema. Interesting lives almost never translate to interesting cinema, and their main appeal is showing...

From what we can work out, it’s kind of like an artist chain gang. Coming up at Westspace, Skeleta 2006 is a themeless mutating exhibition...

Lars Von Trier is not a happy camper. The sadistic tendencies of his anti-cinema have resulted in wildly bleak films that are often fascinating in theory...

Limited to only 1000 copies on vinyl this slugish slice of psychedelic disco is the debut offering from King Kung Foo records, a brand new label from...

Affordable is to art what Andrew G is to fashion. By all accounts it should work, but it clearly doesn't. Well, we're here to deliver you some good...

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...

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...

The popularity of the music documentary section of MIFF may lead many - like your idiot housemate - to assume that this is all the doco program has to...

Artist and animator Dell Stewart, of Sleep Club fame, has been recently obsessed with woodgrain. This has emerged from long-term exposure to wood during...

Forget Victoria markets, Camberwell or St Andrews markets, or any other hippy dive – Coburg Trash & Treasure is the real deal! Situated...

There is a saying in the city: What happens at a Trough party, stays at a Trough party. This is said for many reasons. Among them, the fact that straight...