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’High Fidelity’ has nothing on Music Recommenders. Combining forty leading independent record stores from around the world it pools their...

Harmony Korine: he did the screenplay for KIDS, he used to do Chole Sevigny (until he started doing too many drugs), he's done Letterman, and even...

Ok, so for $2 you get bacon, sausage and eggs, only scrambled eggs. You also get two hash browns and half a tomato. Fried. Cut in half. The bacon looked...

Perhaps if For The Homies had been on the scene a little earlier, Biggie and 2Pac would still be alive today. If only someone back then had the foresight...

The lungs of Joanna Newsom seem to be an acquired taste, like eggplant or anchovies. According to fans, her voice is 'delicate', while another (less doting)...

Some people hope short fiction will save the world. Or, at least, they hope that within the carefully designed pages of the latest anthology or journal...

Rince is not your average gallery space. Set up like a loft, smaller than a toilet block, with every spare inch covered in canvas - it's a far cry from...

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...

Electronic music can get predictable. To hold an audience's attention, it helps if you douse yourself in fake blood and put on a theatrical live show...

Let's be honest. Many of us get a little shiver of excitement around festival time. The rest of us are overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the program...

Don't be fooled by the name...there's more to Jaipur Sweets than the tooth-achingly saccharine offerings in hazchem colours that have made India famous...

With the sanctity of poor little Alice in tatters amid allegations that Lewis Carroll loved absinthe and with the demise of Wonderland Rooty Hill (R.I.P)...

If life’s a cocktail, then Mike Giant is living a dirty martini. Born colour blind and nearsighted, Mike grew up in New Mexico immersed in hot...

Awaba café provides a great reason NOT to visit the North Shore. Situated just across the road from Balmoral Beach, you would expect the tranquil...

Catherine Breillat is best known for her films A Ma Soeur! and Romance. If you're a Breillat fan, you will know that her films portray a world that is...

The Ambiguous Horse of Pip Carroll's many-tentacled design agency is thankfully more ambiguous than Khartoum, the prize stallion that meets an unhappy...

Possibly the world’s most famous book jacket designer, Chip Kidd sounds like a jock but draws like a genius. The man is not only associate art...

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’...

What's with cafés these days? They're pimped out with the latest organic free-trade coffee, a million-dollar fit-out and the hippest of hipster-doofus...

As musical genres go, the aesthetic guidelines for hardcore are about as tight as a nun's cooter. Not much deviation or cross-breeding here...

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