Sneaker Freaker Issue 11 magazine launch and pool party!

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...

It’s a big week for Neon Parc. Not only are they opening Lane Cormick’s bold (and sometimes beautiful) photographic snapshots, they’re...

Is there anything better than nervous laughter spreading slowly through a cinema? Old-fashioned Spanish ghost story The Orphanage possesses the entire...

If there was ever a patron saint for the art of bravado, the title would undoubtedly befall Florence Broadhurst.

Best known for her flamboyant wallpaper...

Skillfully maneuvering droning organs, looping guitars, and swooning violins, London-based muso Daniel Lea (aka By the Fireside) has written an album...

You don’t have to walk down King St too often to realise that humans (particularly men) behave like animals and in an Attenborough-esque analogy...

Think back to primary school winter wash outs. It's pouring outside, your polar fleece track pants smell of damp and playing poison ball on the basketball...

WOWCH is a T-shirt label from New York and now your mind wanders about how amazing New York is and you would like to be there blah blah blah…...

Fat 272 isn’t exactly new to the Melbourne retail game, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t as fresh as the day they sprung up on Chapel...

Dead pets and hand jobs might seem like the obvious choice for exploring the themes of trust and relationships, but that's exactly the framework for the...

Oscar Wilde once noted that, “Alcohol, when taken in sufficient quantities, often produces all the effects of drunkenness”. Otherwise known...

Bad taste never goes out of fashion. How do we know? Because The Hopetoun Tea Rooms have been around since 1892. Charming & elegant to an unearthly...

Separately Together brings together (well, separately, but together) emerging artists from University of Melbourne and VCA whose work hijacks language...

The most exciting part of the Vic Market is easily the deli section. Before starting your weekly shop you have the opportunity to make a nuisance out...

When it comes to forming an indie sensibility, many bands attempt to channel the talents of their idols, deconstructing popular sounds and influences...

Voltaire was said to be polemic, which means he threw up after binge writing. He was also known for his sharp wit, philosophy and texts such as Candide:...

Gertrude Street is great. For reasons both contemporary and historical. But it's the transition that seems most interesting. Or problematic -depends on...

Minimal psychniks Fabulous Diamonds release their debut longplayer, 7 Songs, this week, and - as befits one of Melbourne's most idiomatic acts - it's...

Even though it’s been seriously abused over the years (Turner anyone?), Variable Speeds by Melbourne-based artist Mark McCarthy proves that...

Black Dice are completely sublimated, Shinto-like, in the teeming hive of sounds on new album, Load Blown. The New York trio's ‘ecological'...