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On days when you need decisions made for you, The Wall is perfect. Nothing is a disappointment: the service is quick, food is delicious (but no fuss)...

Pixelated palm trees blur into the background as your cherry red Lambo speeds into the sunset. That's the scene set in the video game world of PLUG-IN...

Remember the time that sending your risotto al-funghi back to the kitchen meant having it return with some sort of suspected spittle included? Or when...

If THE CASTLE had been set in Sydney, simply putting a link to the movie up would have been enough to explain the romance of Greyhound racing. For those...

Skillfully maneuvering droning organs, looping guitars, and swooning violins, London-based muso Daniel Lea (aka By The Fireside) has written an album...

You know when you do something so good you don't want to risk spoiling it by telling everyone - this is that. It is with great reluctance but a whole...

For one of America's most famous auteurs, David Lynch's best work has always been with someone else reining in his more insane impulses - like Barry...

Parklife revealed the trash-glam scene hitting tipping point. And now the ubiquitous hipster fashion on Trender Bender is churning through vintage...

Naive opinion brands Dosh as white-boyexperimental hip hop just because he sits on the Anticon roster. Sure,there are percussive leanings towards...

Wandering between tombstones on a wintery Sunday sounds like a beautiful scene out of a classic English novel...or a contrived clip from a bad teen cult...

We've been picking and mixing since we were kids. Back then, one of the best pick 'n' mix(es) was at Target. This was when the concept of 'paying by weight'...

Can we shift gears into First Person for a moment? Thanks. I’m not proud of it, but should admit my occasional cultural cringe towards Australian...

Australian based music taste-makers, Modular, don’t seem to be content with just spotting and nurturing talent anymore. Over the past few months...

If baile funk was the emerging sound of the last twelve months, then kuduro - a bastard blend of traditional African music with ragga and techno - may...

Yes, we’ve bitched about biopics here before – but when the subject is Ian Curtis of Joy Division, who sound as good now as they ever...

Fans of West Coast style - THC strength character, brainy arrangements, episodic movement, game loving bounce - are put on immediate need-to-know basis...

Not a plank of dimensional lumber, not a 1998 film about Irish labourers directed by Jimmy Smallhorne, not a Metallica song off LOAD (1996) or a Blind...

A bad haircut can leave you in dis-tress. Jokes aside, my favourite barber is Sedition on Victoria Street, Darlinghurst. Barber Michael Joyce is a transgressive...

Its title sounds like a bad translation, but don’t judge INTO THE NATURE – OF CREATURES AND WILDERNESS by its cover, judge it for the depth...

Recently I found myself shark hunting in the Gulf of Mexico with my very special friend Mr. Lou Diamond Phillips. We were sitting aboard my boat THE CHINGA...