Favela Rock

If you go out to a band today, you're sure for a big surprise, as the ubiquity of animal band names is getting downright ri-donkey-luss. Formed in 2000...

For many, who have been put off horns and all things Gypsy by the likes of The Cat Empire, Beirut's debut album Gulag Orkestar is less about imitating...

This is the first book in the Superior Person's trilogy. A buffet of quirky words to memorise and dazzle those around you with incessant coruscations...

Sugardough looks and smells just like grandma's kitchen. Pretty Portmeirion and fine china tea cups hang on the walls along side ornate plates, adding...

This small exhibition in South Yarra is only on for a few more days, but is a compelling enough concept to make the journey. Stephen Haley's Mesh is...

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...

So that you know Gaff = 'woof' in Russian but the Shout Out Louds are from Sweden. Regardless of this bilingual confusion Howl Howl Gaff Gaff is...

The house in The Royal Tenenbaums is a model of Wes Anderson’s films: obsessively packed with minutia, showing the internal worlds of his characters...

There's crappy plastic chairs, and some partially deflated green balloons. Are you enthralled yet? You should be, because the walls at Sports Club may...

We're running away and you won't recongise us at this Collingwood warehouse. We could be hiding behind the hoods of Pigeons Combine's darkly intellectual...

Who? Clor? Never heard of them. At least we hadn’t until about a week ago, and the long and short of it is that we still don’t know what to...

A picture is worth a thousand words. The recommended industry rate for freelance writers is $799 for 1000 words or less and 80c per word thereafter. Rolling...

FOOL: People who wax lyrical about how 'international' Melbourne is, how it's the 'World's most liveable city', a 'smart city' blah blah blah our ears...

Day tripping Brooklyn duo High Places thoroughly enchant on this singles collection - released locally through Mistletone. Sun-bleached, dreamy and...

George Orwell speculated our paper-less society in Nineteen Eighty Four, "The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures."...

Not too long ago, two promoters from different clans were overheard talking on Lonsdale Street. It was time, they said, for a coming together of the families...

If you are sick of pecks ‘voting for Pedro’ then Via Alley has a solution.

Graniph is based in Japan, but collaborates with artists...

We are truly an attention-challenged, internet-addled generation who has forgotten that news can be found outside an RSS reader. For us overwrought victims...

Australians all let us rejoice because surely we have national icons to wave our flags about? According to two American ex-pats, Eric and Steve, our nationalistic...

These San Diegans (that just doesn't sound right) have something to their sound that makes it instantly recognisable. Maybe the harmonica, maybe the effects...