Sabbatical presents: NOISE

It's time to bring out your dead. Rise and Fall have just announced the inaugural International Skull Drawing Competition. With no million dollar...

Written in a deliberately clipped, staccato fashion, The Contortionists Handbook acts to convey the rapid-fire thoughts of John Dolan Vincent, a fast-thinking...

Denim, it seems, isn’t just a material. It’s a social classifier, a status symbol, a sex invite, a controversy and sometimes, a stigma.

It’s...

A few years ago, Hamburg-based artist Thomas Baldischwyler became understandably intrigued by the memorably titled record Shit is harder than penis...

Rapt! is billed as a timely survey of contemporary art emerging from Japan, but will also encompass projects that cross national borders, including...

Before there were computers, people did EVERYTHING by hand. This might seem unbelievable to those of us that now consider our computers lifelines, but...

Dictionary.com states that Babylon is either a place of great luxury, sensuality, vice and corruption or a place of captivity and exile. This seems...

Mike Relm is as badass as they come. He has won turtablism championships, plays live with completely original video DJing mash-ups, and is just releasing...

Yes, more old or rare films are coming out on DVD all the time and yes, you have a flatscreen TV and 5.1 sound and yes, we're all very impressed. What's...

For a sexually explicit and politically subversive producer, Christine Vachon holds a homely title.

The “Godmother of politically committed film”...

Straddling the Little Greece and Chinatown pockets of the city is Waratah Place, and nestled in amongst Club X, Erotica Plus, Cheapaway Bottleshop and...

Midlake create songs that are so beautiful and natural you will know what the sound of one hand clapping really is. With lyrics as simple and evocative...

We know year 8 history lessons were no fun without shoebox dioramas or discovering crap in fossilised rock. But those educated brain cells were probably...

Can we shift gears into First Person for a moment? Thanks. I’m not proud of it, but should admit my occasional cultural cringe towards Australian...

There is something cinematic about listening to The Dears, but also something so personal that it would probably piss you off if you ever heard it on...

Remember guitars? Not angular, choppy, post-punk dance guitars, or echo-effects-laden no wave guitars. We mean BIG fuzzed-out power chords, walls of shimmering...

Finding a good karaoke joint can mean the difference between you blowing your entire weekend’s drinking allowance over three, frequently interrupted...

Person Pitch is the ideal title for Noah Lennox's latest record, save maybe The Ecstatic Dreams of an Embryo In and Out of the Cool Ocean. Transmitting...

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...

Lenko has a new range in and thusly you should go in to Lenko. Since the store opened in 2005, it has gained legions of fans and a few bonus labels...