Empty Mag

Birthdays are good for you. They must be because the people who have the most birthdays live the longest. So it is with unreserved celebration that we...

Long since the demise of Fitzroy's original and most fondly remembered skate shop, the Snake Pit, there has been a certain hole in these parts, for those...

For the knowledgeable urban dweller the art of being lost has all but disappeared. Like cultural assassins, we know exactly what is around every corner...

And finally, without rhyme or reason, a wildly non-exhaustive list of some films that made our cinematic spider-sense tingle on first flip through the...

If you, like Kate Hannaford of MOTH Design, were opening a temporary fashion retail and exhibition space in an old city warehouse, would you call it ‘MOTH...

Chester F. Carlson was an impatient fellow. You can't blame him, really. He worked as a patent analyser for an electrical component maker. His job was...

As ‘alternative’ fashion is continuously embraced as mainstream around Melbourne, it’s becoming difficult to dress without looking like...

When I'm not working out on my Bullworker or transcribing the voices in my am radio's static I like to spend my nights at the Roberts Street park screaming...

There's nothing like a game of Scrabble to ignite the fires of unhealthy competition. This unassuming board game separates the sane from the insane...

There is nothing more regal or romantic than a wax sealed letter. Jane Austen tried countless times to come up with the literary equivalent, and despite...

The third compilation from Parisian purveyors of ‘lectro dance mash and gravy, Ed Banger Records, is out now, proving that Busy P and his gang can...

Gen-X shadow masters Autechre remain unclassifiable even on their own terms. While new records often have that samey, 'desktop' production sound, this...

These San Diegans (that just doesn't sound right) have something to their sound that makes it instantly recognisable. Maybe the harmonica, maybe the effects...

Fabulous Diamonds make avant garde music humbly disguised as pop minimalism. A counterpoint to all card-carrying local ‘art' groups, this restlessly...

Shops will open. Dressing room doors will open. And when you weaken at the knees over a piece featured in the "must-have" pages of your glossy...

I don't know art but I know what I like, and that's the work of Melbourne-based artist Matt Griffin. You might have seen his work in the first installment...

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 peak of the festive season when spirits are at their highest and love and joy abound, there is no better time to take a good hard look at death...

PM: Lamington Drive is a pretty weird name for a gallery.

JW: Jeremy Wortsman is an even weirder name, so that wasn't an option.

PM: Why did you...

If a transition from mass-ear interest in New Wave guitar groups towards the synth and lo-fi undergrounds of yore has long been in the offing, only now...