I Want To Live Here

The story of Deerhoof is a long and complex one. Punctuated by band members leaving and angels arriving (Satomi – singer), audiences have nevertheless...

If you've spent any time on music blogs in the past few months, you'd have heard the growing murmur about Passion Pit. The hype has built to levels rivaling...

Ignoring by the slightly fruity ! in the title, we are dragging our pathetic, cynical feet to Craft Victoria this week for a breath of fresh, enthusiastic...

A little-known fact about ThreeThousand's editor is her pathological hatred of chickens, "alive or dead". I, on the other hand, love the little...

Just like a real Holmes novel, the Penguin website only gives you a few tantalising clues as to the contents of this beautiful box set. Bound in classic...

Few would've guessed from their comparably jovial surf rock meets scream-core self-titled debut (part Nick Cave, part Ennio Morricone, part Arcade Fire)...

Good white shoes are to fashionistas what water is to farmers: a vital component for prosperity. And both farmers and fashionistas alike have witnessed...

Playtime For John Mountain is an album caught somewhere in time; between Zombies 'Odessey and Oracle' [sic] pop, '60s film soundtracks, four-part baroque...

Philosophers come big and small, male or female, little known or well known, and in all colours. They come in structuralist, existentialist, futurist...

OK all you savages, you lovers of commas, you students of fear. The man who made it acceptable to write about whatever the hell you want as long as you...

Sure, the UN has a ‘counter terrorism strategy’. When it comes to the crunch though, who’s really going to protect us? As Einstein said...

Things you can do on a Sunday morning in Melbourne:

1) Hang out on Flinders Street Station steps wearing black eyeliner, four layers of black clothing...

Bigger than Fraggle Rock, more reliable than a pyramid scheme, Pyramid Rock is a festival on NYE.

What kind of a festival? Well, it’s more beer...

Gen-X shadow masters Autechre remain unclassifiable even on their own terms. While new records often have that samey, 'desktop' production sound, this...

The Emergency is one of my favourite Australian bands. They remind me that electronic music can be done sans cheese. Their songs have the everlasting...

As Roisin Murphy has saucily demonstrated, art-as-fashion can be fetchingly cast into everyday life - a dress that necessitates built-in scaffolding...

Any man who quotes Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin DSO in his manifesto has more to offer this world than credit card debt and pollution. Banksy...

Who are we kidding? Pretending that we actually read more than one thing per week apart from Famous magazine, the scintillating iLove or the occasional...

There's a great podcast here of a talk by Carl Honoré who wrote In Praise of Slow. Listening to it is bound to have even the most speed-addicted...

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