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The Besnard Lakes, Are The Roaring Night

Article published 10th Mar 10
Release: Album
To Cure: A predictable playlist

Sometimes I wish I didn't have to tell you about music via a flashing computer screen.

I wish I could just play you something at a party. Or make you a mix CD. Some things are better if you find them out by accident, or from a friend. The Besnard Lakes have too much personality for the impersonality of a computer screen.

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Art Month

Article published 4th Mar 10
Medium: Everything
Drink: everything

You know what? There's way too much great stuff in Art Month to list here. Check out the schedule. Over 70 galleries are participating, and there are over 140 events - most of them free. If you can't find something that grabs your interest, you truly are a jaded douchebag.

Might we suggest:

1) Artist displays at Fairfax and Roberts (Michael Zavros), The Commons (Lyn and Tony, 24-28 March) and both Incu stores (Tara Marynowsk, CBD; Kate Rohde, Paddington).

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Holly Miranda, The Magician's Private Library

Article published 2nd Mar 10
Release: Album
To Cure: A predictable playlist

Words like magical, enchanting, and playful get used a lot these days. Unfortunately, they're often meant to endear you to bands whose work has more twinkling and twee affectation than real emotion.

These words could describe Holly Miranda's debut - yet DON'T be frightened by this (or the album's title or artwork.

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John Waters interview

Article published 23rd Feb 10
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Won't hurt a bit

American auteur John Waters' early films involved overweight drag queens eating fresh dog poop, and singing anuses. His recent works include Tony Award winning Broadway musicals and Hollywood A-list stars. In John's one-man show, This Filthy World, he explains his unbelievable career trajectory in his inimitable, frank, sardonic, style.

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Tiny Vices Books

Article published 17th Feb 10

We live in tiny apartments on tiny budgets. We can't afford giant works of art selling for giant sums of money.

What we can afford are small, beautifully crafted books and zines, cataloguing more works of art in a six-inch stretch of bookshelf than we could ever afford in wall space. Though more expensive than a Whopper value meal, as far as luxury goes, these are our "tiny" vices.

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Darren Sylvester

Article published 9th Feb 10
Release: Album
To Cure: A predictable playlist

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Melbournite Darren Sylvester's heroes should be tickled pink.

As a visual artist, Sylvester took this saying to ridiculous, ludicrous extremes: perfectly re-enacting music videos by David Bowie and Kate Bush; re-building from scratch a classic, now defunct drum machine used by New Order; even constructing an elaborate stage set recreation of the Carpenters' backyard garden.

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Stroke: Stongs for Chris Knox

Article published 3rd Feb 10
Release: Compilation
To Cure: A broken heart

The history of punk and DIY music is super inspiring, and songwriting is fu*king tough.

These are just two reasons why Chris Knox is revered not only in his native New Zealand, but worldwide. In 1979 he formed Tall Dwarfs with Alec Bathgate, helping to pioneer a lo-fi, DIY aesthetic that combined punk's simplicity and disdain for musical virtuosity with home-recording experiments, cryptic lyrics, introspection, and the ultimate rebellion in counter-culture circles - admitting to love pop songs and hooks.

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