Fantastic Man Magazine

Reductive art-rock trio My Disco continue to distil the drums-guitar setup to its essence with Paradise - a new album of unsettling, hyper-disciplined...

Some might see it as a touching tribute to a great artist. Others, more like a grave-robber wrenching the jewellery from the hand of a rotting corpse...

Determined to go down in the record books as making the most shameless plug ever, I'm going to use this spot to let you all know that the next issue of...

In the 1800s, Levi Strauss would have had little concept of the implications of his invention. Of the jiving, the flaring, the acid-washing, the skinny...

Most markets either compel you to search for things that aren’t there, like the cactus that makes peyote, or to come home with stuff you don’t...

Fitzroy Gardens is undeniably one of Melbourne's daytime delights. Ice cream vans. Peaceful Falun Gong practitioners. A greenhouse and statues. I once...

Shame on anyone out there who thinks it’s okay to pack a pooch into a purse. It’s not. It’s so tacky. The new PC pooch punishment is...

Bruce “My Parents Are Dead!” Wayne has great toys and fashion sense, but crippling angst. The first act of Iron Man, though, is packed with...

Sugar-related funnies aside, Donuts Deluxe is the newest shop filling the 0 in Melbourne's retail cool. The genii behind the project - Ben and Sam Totty...

Alighting from Kensington station, you may be forgiven for thinking you had been transported to the other side of the looking glass with Alice. Bellair...

OK, so the breakfast only goes from 9.30am till 10.30am. This is weird because IKEA opens at 10am, but the restaurant opens at 9.30am. So when you go...

With a name like Lover, it is not enough merely to be loved - as this Australian label surely is - you must, like the great seducers of history, love...

Melbourne’s artist-run label Brothersister Records has issued an astonishing new pop compilation. Like its complicated and beautiful sleeve art–...

Oh just because he kicked the bucket you thought you were free from the ass kicking you deserved from that bad muthafu-SHUT YO' MOUTH! Look, I was just...

Torpedo, the first offering from independent publishing house Falcon vs. Monkey, Falcon Wins, is very pretty. And, unlike a human, it gets prettier...

Affordable is to art what Andrew G is to fashion. By all accounts it should work, but it clearly doesn't. Well, we're here to deliver you some good...

Not since a grade 5 music recital have we been subjected to an instrumental, and although this is probably not a good point of comparison Classics...

For years, I've noticed solitary gloves on the ground in winter. They fascinate me, lying there frozen in their final gestures, wet, hand-shaped blankets...

Those ‘from the ashes' supergroups are often doomed to forever compare palely to their forefathers. In retrospect, was anyone really ever going...

For a country of over 9 million people, Sweden certainly exports a lot of culture. Cheap Monday... Ingmar Bergman... IKEA... ABBA...

Another astounding...