Favela Rock 23

Cairns is known for its barrier reef, its melting mercury and its cruise ships. It's definitely not known for progressive fashion, because, we imagine...

Apartamento is exactly the kind of magazine that you look at and wonder why it's only up to issue two. Why hasn't this magazine existed for years? It's...

Fabulous Diamonds make avant garde music humbly disguised as pop minimalism. A counterpoint to all card-carrying local ‘art' groups, this restlessly...

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...

In those enchanted years between the pubes and the crow's feet I worked at Dave's Boutique. I'd arrive early in the morning and begin pricing second hand...

Forget to flit about the Art Fair last weekend? Or did you, in fact, flit... did you don your good jeans and was your spirit (and budget) broken by the...

In a world full of facts it is nice to think that a lack of knowledge can actually be powerful.

In his show Cosmic Divisions James Deutsher uses...

The partnership behind Romance Was Born was once offered an internship with Galliano. But for their love of Australian kitsch and commitment to personal...

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

Spit out your tobacco. Take a shower. This springtime Genki invite you to do away with trailer trash.

The Springtime Happy Caravan will be far from...

You may look like a deviant ducking into a laneway with X-shops and peeps, and maybe you are, but if you're not a pervert, Manchuria should be your destination...

We love Dexter.

Even as he's butchering his victims and gathering his blood-trophies, you can't help but love Dexter. He's been the star of his own...

‘Biggest ever' is a claim usually made by Napoleon Rosales via your trash folder. But get excited, because we've been told to bandy it around in...

Remember the days when sneaking a peek at your Christmas presents required a series of capers involving younger siblings, your dog, and prank calls to...

If you avoid heading down to the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art because of the amount of times the exterior is used to sell naff cars, then...

As ‘alternative’ fashion is continuously embraced as mainstream around Melbourne, it’s becoming difficult to dress without looking like...

For The Homies is a brand that draws influence from streetwear while mixing techniques more akin to high-end fashion, thanks to the cut and sew education...

Digitalism are two German record store employees who decided to hunker down in a WWII bunker in Hamburg and make a giant indie electronic crossover album...

This album is just too good. Trying to write about it has been nearly impossible, because it's amazing and obviously I can't say that more than the two...

It's been worth the wait for the Fleet Foxes' well-crafted debut to rear its head; folk, country, and bluegrass mixed together to rather more dreamy...