The Brutals

Airplanes collide, atoms collide and somewhere in the middle Children Collide. It has been happening for years, in games of British bulldogs, dodge-ball...

With all the warmth of a forensic investigation, acclaimed Beijing photographer Xing Danwen explores the impact of modernity on an increasingly global...

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...

The innumerable kung fu films of the Shaw Brothers Studios always promised honourable deaths, sudden betrayals, supernatural powers, the mismatched...

Richard Kelly won fans with his slice of moody postmodern angst, Donnie Darko. Now the long-delayed, much-maligned Southland Tales finally arrives...

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...

The cult of electro-pop is here to stay and in Spectrum Deadly The Emergency make a journey to the darkest corner, haunting, mysterious and all style...

Sick of being all alone whilst mulling over your thoughts? The memories of evil exes; that invention that will revolutionise the world; or maybe just...

In Winter, most would agree that Melbourne’s fashion pallet is more Yamamoto than McQueen. Come June 1, black, noir and shock horror, charcoal...

There are a few annual events that can’t be forgotten. Your Birthday –imagine forgetting that! No cake for you! The Queen’s birthday...

One thing better than a store opening is, um, a sale. Ingrid and Moni from TV know this just as well as they know how to make metallic leggings, leather...

V, the infinitely cool bible for the rich, has a male partner, quite cryptically entitled VMan. While the sister publication is so big that it has...

Sterling vocabulary and deft handling of simile aside, essayist David Rakoff is all about one thing. And it's not himself. Though the he depicts his writings...

The Ambiguous Horse of Pip Carroll's many-tentacled design agency is thankfully more ambiguous than Khartoum, the prize stallion that meets an unhappy...

The summer release of Weirdo Rippers saw No Age bring together a collection of songs that had spanned five independently released EPs, as kind of an...

Japanese dude: Oh hello, can I please have a DVD of locally produced soft porn?
Japanese porn purveyor: There it is man. Over there next to Astro...

With renowned photographer Max Doyle as editor-in-chief, Doingbird is somewhat of a diamond-in-the-rough of locally published magazines. Well-written...

Since April 2005, Mess+Noise Magazine has been jumping off the floors of record stores and into our bags quicker than a handful of shoplifted CDs. Founded...

Self Service magazine doesn’t mince words. In fact, apart from the editor’s letter they barely have any until page 264. Not that we are...

Conor O'Brien was born in South Africa, raised in Perth, has lived in Sydney and Vancouver and now resides in Melbourne. A recent member of The...