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Let’s face it, most magazines write about their friends anyway, so treat this not so much as a review but as a congratulations to The Temper Trap...

After what seemed an eternity between Wet From Birth and the release of FASCIINATION, I was anticipating an incredible, mind-blowing record which pushed...

Nobody does a cover as sweetly and subversively as Nouvelle Vague. "Sweet” and “Subversive” are a great coupling and they are...

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;...

In its current incarnation (as an institution of the Sydney live music scene) the Annandale has rocked up...er, that is clocked up eight years worth of...

WATCHMEN is a Graphic Novel noir-detective tale/super-hero fable/political thriller/romance with social commentary, brutal psychological realism and...

Taking risks can pay off, or at least that's what we've been told. If you're unfamiliar with this line of thinking, then a visit to Duffy's Bistro will...

Martin Luther King had a dream. I had two: one involved wearing a g-string to my 2012 Oscar acceptance speech, the other; a cute-as-pie boutique/coffee...

Hot little people making hot little songs in a hot little studio, all crafted with their hot little hands - it only makes sense that this record is hot...

I’ll take the brusCHEtta. “Certainly sir. The brusHEtta.” This happened – twice - so now I can never ever eat on Norton Street...

If you've spent any time on music blogs in the past few months, you'd have heard the growing murmur about Passion Pit. The hype has built to levels rivaling...

I realised I was procrastinating in the library the other day when I borrowed a time management handbook. True story. But at Izrock we love all books...

Chuck Palahniuk owned the late 90s. From the moment FIGHT CLUB splattered into popular consciousness, he stood in the cyclone-eye of our every swirling...

Ever drunkenly caught a glimpse of yourself at 5am and realized you bear a striking resemblance to post- breakdown Britney? There is hope (for you, not...

If Kurt Cobain had never killed himself, and Courtney Love hadn't become a shallow, snobby media whore, they might have formed The Time Of The Assassins...

We don't usually blow our own trumpet, but the excitement is building for the next Incu Window Project, so here comes the big up...

The Kingpins...

Interviews aren't always as simple as picking up the phone, dialling Spain and talking with a beautiful - and evidently not single - French pop star just...

For many, who have been put off horns and all things Gypsy by the likes of The Cat Empire, Beirut’s debut album ‘Gulag Orkestra’ is...

Ugly is beautiful. You know it. I know it. Betty knows it. And, as it turns out, a local photographer called Ben Ong knows it too.

Something of...

If 70s glam rock iconography and a harsh sarcasm (i.e. anti-Hallmark, anti-pop symbols, anti-Damian Hurst) bites yer apple, then perhaps Vanila Netto's...