Expressions by Studio Locaso

No doubt comic books will soon snake down to the bottom of the cultural ladder again but, for now, nicely bound graphic novels are available in credible...

Noise music can be one of the most divisive little buggers out there and there can be an extremely fine line self between exploration and outright self...

If your idea of a workshop is more to do with thinking than drinking, then you need to enrol in Workshop 413-417. Industrial by both name and by nature...

Buying a T-shirt is kind of like choosing a pizza base. Stay with me now. Imagine yourself walking up to the local pizza store. You're hungry, damn hungry...

NowNow. It's what your mum would say when you were young and you’d had a run inwith the footpath or the foot of your brother. It's what she'd...

There was once a certain rock band who intentionally produced an album that was so left-field that their heavyweight record company, Virgin, had to break...

Things go in and out of fashion right? Fondue, disco, tie dye... ahem, and other things that aren't from the ‘60s and ‘70s. Like Tatebanko...

You might not be able to pronounce his name, but designer Alexandre Herchcovitch first rose from the streets of São Paulo ten years ago and ...

Although Napoleon Bonaparte's Frenchmen didn't survive the winter, Melbourne's Dead Frenchmen are taking it by the balls of the brass monkey. Their new...

The Emergency is one of my favourite Australian bands. They remind me that electronic music can be done sans cheese. Their songs have the everlasting...

The Tom Tom Club's 1981 self-titled debut is a rare nugget of bold artistic genius and its stupidly fun. Comprising of Talking Heads' rhythm section Tina...

Laurent’s Mirage cake looks a little bit toxic. It’s fluoro green. It’s foamy and swirly, with slime, a lone blueberry and gold-leaf...

Photography has a cruel habit of capturing the cruellest of moments and inopportune poses. The muffin top hanging over the hipster jeans, the angle where...

Everyone has a cinema aesthetic they'd secretly like to live inside. Tim Burton's gothic whimsy? Michael Bay's hyper-saturated blockbuster sheen? Don't...

Wolves is an album for the brooders. For those stuck in a rut or just stuck at a tram stop. It is for those with a headache, or worst-case scenario...

"They're turning kids into slaves, just to make cheaper sneakers. What's the real cost cause the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper? Why are we...

With two Melbourne days over 36 degrees and summer just around the corner, you can’t blame us for being hyper on the sunglasses front of late...

We've all been there. In the red for 130 large. Mustached men at your door, brandishing cigar clippers. Delicately tying your privates between your legs...

With seventeen days of films on offer, some of your choices will come down to guesswork - even if you fine-tooth through the program with IMDB bookmarks...

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...