Umbel Ballits performance

There’s something disconcerting about seeing comic book characters age slowly. Comic book fans are used to dramatic flashbacks and glimpses into...

A couch, sleeping bag, lamp, guitar, laptop and a hermit crab tank. These are Ian Wadley's belongings furnishing Bus Gallery's tiniest nook. After a...

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

The partnership behind Romance Was Born was once offered an internship with Galliano. But for their love of Australian kitsch and commitment to personal...

Beg, borrow, steal because anyone that remembers the last Chiodo sale will realise that these are not to be missed.

Running for three days in a warehouse...

Last Thursday night nearly 500 people packed into the CCP to celebrate the first shows of 2006, an impressive turn-out for some equally impressive...

Buying is the new stealing. Forget any preconceptions that you had about file-sharing and embrace Mazar, the new site that seeks to aid up and coming...

Baby Boomers' Disco chintz returns emasculated and in altogether more sinister form with the new Italians Do It Better compilation, After Dark. Recent...

Fort Heart Co (get it, ‘for the art') presents an exhibition tonight with the frankly incendiary title of 'Nice Box'. More than thirty artists...

When Secret Machines' Benjamin Curtis decides to leave his highly successful group and make new, interesting, and wholly better music, it becomes newsworthy...

Everybody likes to think of Bradford Cox - frontman of last year's best buzz-band, Deerhunter - as a freak, anorexic Perry Farrell-lookalike. "True...

Here's a hit of sunshine to spark up your day like a doobie. Mood Patterns is the debut full length from Belles Will Ring, the Blue Mountains' answer...

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...

After fretting that we hadn't brought enough CDs to keep us from getting bored, it was a pleasant surprise to find that Black Spur Drive - the breathtaking...

Tom DiCillo made one of the ‘90s most canonical indie films: the great low-budget movie about the ego-driven horrors of low-budget movie-making...

There are people in this world who hoard anything from the colourfully absurd to the handy gadget. There comes a point in these people’s lives when...

Dragons. Gargoyles. Fiery breath*. Huge inflatable men. Yok is in town. Yok, who started in the graffiti scene and has exhibited in Tokyo, New York...

In the tough world of independent publishing print titles can drop off faster than a dinger off a limp dick - and you know that you truly like a magazine...

The White Stripes pride themselves on being simple with Jack's no messin' around durgy, bluesy, swamp rock guitars against Meg's straight shootin' accented...

Male models, fish hooks in the face, endless self-examination and Dixieland jazz. All too often, we rely on film for most of our cultural reference points...