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The best things in Melbourne are often the hardest to find; the perfect 'Costanza' parking spot, a good pair of jeans, or in this instance, a good value...

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

The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival is famous for exhibiting the beautiful, the absurd and very fit men. This season, we're into three performances which...

Yesterday I was doing 400 km/h around the Great Ocean Road in my Bugatti Veyron, listening to Gorgoroth, when I came upon the small town of Wye River...

Je Suis Animal took all the interesting subjects of their arts degree and spun them into an album. It's the cinema geek in-jokes told through the strings...

Day tripping Brooklyn duo High Places thoroughly enchant on this singles collection - released locally through Mistletone. Sun-bleached, dreamy and...

They've released four 7-inches, five CDs and two LPs, 16 tours, travelled the world, done a soundtrack for a puppet show... performed on street corners...

Dear Mathew,

An adoring fan of mine kindly told me about your exhibition. I'm flattered to hear you have devoted it to me. If I had time in between combing...

Have a look at this breakfast roll will you? Have you ever seen anything healthier and better looking in your life? The trouble with the internet is that...

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...

David Shrigley has made a new book.

There is no way to explain
this book
other than to write down various things
that are in it.*

I have sampled the...

Let's face it, most magazines write about their friends anyway, so treat this not so much as a review but as a congratulations to The Temper Trap for...

For the past six years, Bus Gallery has been serving Melbourne’s art community like no other space in the city. Supporting sound art, installations...

Do you plan to have intercourse in the next six months? Scratch that. Do ever you plan to have intercourse? If your answer is a resounding "Fuck...

There is great joy in giving gifts... but not always so much joy in finding them. Especially not if you have to do it in a sweaty, drunken, Christmas-party-fuelled...

There’s a scene in Ghost Dog where the hero walks straight through a group of people and no one sees him. With no special effects, you’re...

Sabbatical Records' in-house engineer and co-conspirator, Marcus Cook nee hard-wired ohm freak, Default Jamerson - gets his due release on the local...

Blanket Magazine has been publishing in the fine, time-honoured tradition of downloadable pdf since December 2006. It's less about writing than it...

Walking into Match on a Tuesday afternoon I found it hard not to imagine the place on a Friday night, teeming with types I cross the road to avoid, but...

To be honest, Architecture In Helsinki have at times sounded a bit too much like a school band for our liking. However, with sold out shows all over the...