Hoochie Mama

I'm so white. And gay.

So it will sound pretty ludicrous when I tell you about the dope beats and mad flow this Chicago duo gots. But from their name...

This record is a jigsaw. A Rubick's cube. As soon as you enter this musical labyrinth you're lost in the shadows. Caught up in a running stream of repeating...

As you can see, I am pretty smart. But I find that when you look like a numnut, one thing you need is an outward sign of intelligence. This might be...

Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples are Scanners. Well, I can't prove it but they have been openly dabbling with telepathy as a means to explore the dynamics...

Kurt Vonnegut once said, "If somebody says, ‘I love you,' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply...

Not everything makes sense at the start and it's important to test the waters, analyse what you do and re-shape it if necessary. Take NowNow, for instance...

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...

Fabian invited me into his office, pulled a chair into the middle of the room and warned me it was a piece from the 1860s. Careful not to snap a chair...

Let’s talk Godzilla. Not the one who fought Ferris Bueller in the US remake, or the one from the Saturday morning cartoon – with his oh-so-adorable...

Why does the word eclectic get bandied around so much? Does everything that’s even slightly diverse have to be considered eclectic? In light of...

There are so many things you can do with A3 newsprint. For examples see: Beat, that News Limited rag, ANP Quarterly and ACNE Paper. Let’s...

We know that it’s rude to point. But when you wind up in a foreign land without the local tongue, pointing might save you from a world of trouble...

'Sheer' and 'joy' are perhaps the two words that best describe the experience of turning off Smith Street, walking twenty meters, and falling into the...

The other thing that Waterfront City should be recognised for is the triad of terrifyingly awful statues of Australian entertainers that some misguided...

Sequels might have a bad reputation: sloppy seconds, double dipping, Teen Wolf Too. But The Drawing Machine II, jointly curated by Ghostpatrol...

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...

The Runners Four is the new album from enigmatic San Franciscan band Deerhoof. It is their first straight-up, look-you-in-the-eye guitar rock album...

Finally, The Presets are damn near back on home shores and, to prevent frostbite after a stint in northern England, they’ve prepared a mix tape...

According to Ernie Dingo and the Northern Territory tourism board,‘You’ll never never know, if you never never go'. It’s catchy. We’llprobably...

This year the door of MIAF's Artist Lounge will be bulging at the hinges with VIP-mystery. The bar staff are well prepared for those without tickets who...