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The bad news: now that fashionable trendy kids in trenchcoats have appropriated the post-punk misery of depressed, social...

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...

Listening to Phoenixis like listening to good advice. Their songs are ingrained with experience and a certain perspective that comes from never taking...

A safe distance from the spruiking dog fights of Lygon Street’s main drag, I Carusi’s unassuming exterior, hidden amongst the warehouses and...

In On the Beach, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner fall tragically in love as they wait for the nuclear fallout that has already wiped out the Northern...

Midlake create songs that are so beautiful and natural you will know what the sound of one hand clapping really is. With lyrics as simple and evocative...

There has been many a market regular who's pondered the origin of ‘flea market'. Like, was the first flea market run by business-savvy fleas that...

Ladies love cool jewels, so let ThreeThousand introduce you to the wonderful Jade Gedeon, designer of the featured fit-for-a-queen Kingfisher Pendant...

In his short story, The Destructors, Graham Greene writes that "After all, destruction is a form of creation", only that it happens in reverse...

Ever since Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket from his Aunt Effie’s farm in Massachusetts, man has been launching animals...

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...

It’s time to put an end to tabloid magazines. Supermarket checkout-stands could instead be filled with sardonic literary journals and a shining...

Not all dance music should make you dance. In fact at its best, dance music should probably reduce its listeners to a mild mannered sway or a transcendental...

Bred from dissatisfaction in homo culture's convergence with mediocrity through its inter-breeding with the mainstream, Melbourne-based They Shoot Homos...

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...

Keeping up with a dirty hipster's required reading can be dispiriting. You've gotta know your Lethem from your Eggers, classic novels from graphic novels...

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...

Lou Reed sang that Andy Warhol's diaries "were not a worthy epitaph" for his life's work. Warhol was constantly claiming his own blank simplicity...

DJs Edo and Steezy are awesome DJs in their own right, but team them together and it's the Apollo Kids that drop the bombs. Sure, we might be a little...

Everybody has a couple of beaters in the cupboard. But did you know you can actually bring those fargones back to life with a little elbow grease? What...