Nom De Guerre

It’s not often you hear ‘non profit’ and ‘music promotion’ in the same sentence, but it’s not often you come across...

Life as an independent film-maker ain't easy. For one, you need talent. Lots of it, so much talent that you can write a screenplay, convince people to...

Julien Temple has a long career in music video, and directed the fascinating Sex Pistols doco, THE FILTH AND THE FURY, back in 2000. It used snippets...

One of the great delights of being in Texas was the 1lb bag of Oh Boy! Oberto beef jerky. Settling in with half a kilo of dried meat and some beers...

Sydney Non Objective (SNO) is focused, as the name suggests, on the non-objective: art that is not representational and doesn't feature recognisable figures...

Before homes had laundries and landlords had the good sense to introduce the communal coin-op variety, the humble laundromatte was the place to be seen...

What band could pull off an album with this stupid name and a really corny intergalactic "concept", complete with airline steward voice-overs...

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...

Nestled amongst a bakery, newsagent and several boarded-up shop fronts is arguably Australia's best anthology of out-of-print and collectible books. Co-owner...

Surry Hills is no longer a one-bakery town, there's a new bread kitchen on the block and its dough is primed.

Le Pain Quotidien is a lofty bakery-restaurant...

PAGES… is a monthly magazine crammed full of fashion, beauty, art and music news. A feast for the senses, with great audio as well as stellar...

Who Am Eye is a brethren of indie boys making clothing for other indie boys. They may lack a question mark and consistently misspell a common,one-letter...

You're probably aware of Gertrude and Alice's secondhand-book-come-coffee-shop empire. On one hand, it's a refuge for quiet folk who eschew Sunday morning's...

From the outside 'Recycling Works' looks like your run of the mill second hand furniture and bric-a-brac shop. But once you step inside... its still pretty...

PERSON PITCH is the ideal title for Noah Lennox’s latest record, save maybe ‘The Ecstatic Dreams of an Embryo In and Out of the Cool Ocean’...

Pikelet’s eponymous debut is an uncanny, down-the-rabbit-hole trip that remakes instrumental sounds with unabashed wonder. Terrifically paced, its...

For those among us who’d like to stab Mischa/Nicole/Paris et al between the eyes, THE SARTORIALIST is a breath of fashionably fresh air.

Scott...

It feels contradictory to feature this shop. Its innocuously placed signs require, at the very least, a second glance to figure out where they point;...

When grunge dominated the musical landscape there was no shortage of bands eager to replicate. Nowadays it’s Baltimore club and aspiring producers...

Way back when, before Sting got naff, The Police were one of the biggest bands going around. Telecaster-wielding Andy Summers was both band guitarist...