Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

It's surprising what one can find in the bowels of Surry Hills. Within this maze of intestinal narrow back lanes and congested industrial warehouses...

What spells indie cred? New Wave influences? Edgy haircuts? 80s fashions? If so, Rihanna and Kelis seem to be dripping with Crown Street currency...

In an age where we count Napoleon Dynamite, Batman and Hello Kitty amongst our icons, and pay homage to vinyl, video games and wacky gadgets, Robio...

THE WRESTLER is an extraordinary film. It's as if Mickey Rourke's entire sad, bizarre history - his squandered 80s potential, his boxing career, his mashed-up...

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...

Romance Was Born is one of those labels that refuses to be pigeon-holed. Despite its acid-trip design tendencies (like boggle-eyed Dunlops and kaleidoscope...

Most of us are fairly familiar with the ex-super power, Russia, and have no doubt drunk the national drink on more than a few occasions.

Some of us may...

Lindstrøm starts off 2008 right with an album that, if you didn't know what it contained, you might very skeptical about parting with your money...

PLAYTIME FOR JOHN MOUNTAIN is an album caught somewhere in time; between Zombies 'Odessey and Oracle' [sic] pop, '60s film soundtracks, four-part baroque...

Are you an aspiring industrialist stuck in a journalist's pay packet? CIGAR AFICIONADO is the periodical for you. While it won't help you make your...

Quiet achiever Matthew J. Tow may not be a household name, but this Sydney-sider's been melting tuned-in heads here and abroad for years.

Tow fronted...

Like the end of Sunday afternoon, or a song by Natasha Khan, an irresistible melancholy defines the work of Leah Fraser. There's something eerie and...

Oh Captain my Captain! There are no victims in this classroom! Everyone complains about Hollywood’s love of remakes, but no one bats an eyelid...

There are a lot of things up with the world today, largely a result of the human race giving the finger to common sense and moral sensibilities. Deforestation...

It takes a special kind of magazine to make an airport tolerable during the school holidays. In a sea of screaming kids, irascible check-in attendants...

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...

As a sprouting youth obsessed by secret corridors, tunnels and labyrinths, the illusive nature of entry to this here bar really turned me on. One arrives...

If, like us, you associate short fiction with READERS' DIGEST and the smell of your Granny’s lounge room then you need Francis Ford Coppola’s...

As a label, The Cassette Society has its roots in the grind, krump, club and strut of modern dance. It's not about tap shoes and jazz hands, but tearing...

It's no Cannes, but now that's over Erskineville hosts its version (actually Newtown's version) of the much-hyped film event. Now in its third year...