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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...

PM's friend: Oh herro. So what are you wearing to the dress-up party?
PM: Um. I was thinking of wearing my Lara Croft outfit.
PM's friend: PS that is...

Everyone knows that to be hip in this day and age you need three things: style, trendy facial hair, and a cool name. Pop Levi has all three in spades...

More than just a reference to Courtney Love’s angst-ridden 1994 album, Kain Picken and Rob McKenzie’s Live Through This explores the contemporary...

When Patti Smith moved to NYC in 1967 she said she was going to "kick poetry's ass". Obviously it was not only poetry's butt that had the...

It might come as a surprise to some of the OC generation, but there’s more to Mexico than Spring Break and ‘The Real Cancun’.

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There is something immediately unsatisfying about calling a piece of art abstract expressionist, and perhaps that's the point. You are using the strictures...

To fish on our beautiful bay in winter, you need sea legs, cast iron guts, and a stiff, nautical beard (that covers your entire body). Thankfully though...

Eugene Von Guerard was a prominent Australian colonial landscape painter who lived above The Paperback on Bourke Street. Actually, we don't know how...

Concentrated listening duo, ii, are Melbourne's best bliss pop-improv act. Their sound pushes the limits of known recording and performance technique...

Many zines throughout history have been lowbrow. That was their whole shtick really. But sometimes haphazard photocopying and an overload of cut and paste...

Senses of Cinema, one of the world's most popular film websites, is celebrating its 40th issue. To do this, they have enlisted the dotmov media arts...

It's been three years now since CocoRosie's debut album, La Maison de Mon Rêve, set the indie world on full-blown freak alert. Such abashed eccentricity...

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

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...

Described as the closest he'll ever get to writing an autobiography, Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick looks at the luxuries of life and the luxuries that...

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:...

Eddy Current are the finest garage band to come out of Melbourne in years. People have been talking them up pretty seriously in the last six months...

A couple of years back, ‘folktronica' was the genre of the moment for many music journos, and no review of UK act Tunng and their debut album Mother's...

In an age of million dollar film clips and Kanye mouthing off at the MTV awards, it's not uncommon to feel that the art of capturing the meaning of music...