Beyond Our Ken

The Beatles. The Stones. Godard. The Cold War. This is the old testament of rock and roll. Psychic Soviet fittingly looks like a pocket bible, albeit...

That heavy weight we feel when we walk into a gallery? Ignore that; that's the white elephant of theory and history that squats grossly in the corner...

War might be hell, but it's also totally awesome, right? That's the message embedded in most war movies. François Truffaut even claimed it's...

Skull Disco live in nascent digs beyond the known perimeters of British dubstep. Over two years and seven split 12" singles, Sam Shackleton and Laurie...

Yeah, we can't help ourselves but butt-plug our latest issue - and it's a wholesomely rotund number 10, if you don't mind! Loaded with exclusive stories...

Just as Christmas crystallizes forever as a crushing, final symbol of avarice and greed, along comes Mistletonia - a sundry new collection of yuletide...

Never sure how to tell your Merzbow from your Masona, your Jandek from your Scott Walker, or understood why John Zorn is a big deal? Don't have...

Since April 2005, Mess+Noise Magazine has been jumping off the floors of record stores and into our bags quicker than a handful of shoplifted CDs. Founded...

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'...

Le Tigre posed the question in their catchy call-and-response 'What's Yr Take On Cassavetes?', "Misogynist? Genius? Alcoholic? Messiah?"...

Karl Marx once said that religion is the opium of the masses but in Melbourne it would seem that alcohol is the new religion. This is not only because...

Describing music is, almost inevitably, a frustrating series of inadequate analogies. In the case of Songs, my grey matter latched onto the following:...

Has David Lynch just become a friendly caricature of American oddness? I mean, once you turn sixty, start evangelising about meditation and release...

To be honest, Architecture In Helsinki have at times sounded a bit too much like a school band for our liking. However, with sold out shows all over the...

Not only does the title of this crankin' mix get us all hot buttered at the SF HQ in Fitzroy, it's the bangin' mix of the very hip, very now stylin' of...

It seems like a new restaurant opens up on Carlisle Street each week, although only some of them look like they're going to stay. Ugly Sister certainly...

Who can deny the eccentricity of a well-tended moustache or the embarrassment of maintaining said moustache during the tired, yet well-meaning ritual...

Love, or rather, the word love, was sullied by highschool. It was a time when people started feeling hot and bothered. A time when we first confessed...

Birthdays are crap. They happen once a year and remind you of your age while people try to distract you from this horrible fact with presents. Unlike...

It took a few unhappy Frenchman to build the Eiffel Tower. It took a few stoners to figure out that weed causes laziness. And it took a few years of sitting...