Vivian Girls

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...

A paean to freedom and knowing its truth, Beaches' debut is a powerful, sex-driven record smacking of Stooges greatness. Edgeless and heavy, freely oscillating...

Everyone loves a French film. There’s something about the accent coupled with the anticipation of unexpected nudity that puts even the best of us...

So Mercy Arms have always been OK - they've been around for a while and they've scored some nice supports slots like The Strokes. Then Capital Records...

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...

Sometime in the 1950s someone thought to themselves "Man", they thought, "this fizzy powder in the middle of my Hoppy Pop is so good. It's...

Amidst Little Italy's grinding espressos, warm trattorias and Soprano-style suits, lies the quiet pages of Shearer's Bookshop. It would seem like your...

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...

Gus Vant Sant is synonymous with a particular brand of American arthouse, epitomised by films like DRUGSTORE COWBOY and MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO. Since then...

We live in a global village, which means it’s now possible for gigantoid multi-national corporations to exploit swarthy, fly-attracting people in...

I remember going to the butcher as a child. A burly man would always give me a frankfurter to eat. It made food shopping bearable.

So, as things go in...

The latest release from Qua (pronounced, "kwah") bounces into your grey matter like a wave of technicolor cartoon plushies. Q&A is a shimmering...

The Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Smashing Pumpkins... there've been a lot of stupid band names. So don't let the laughable moniker of this Philadelphia...

Here's something that annoys me about interesting stuff: as soon as it gets juicy, it's all over. This truth I apply across the board to relationships...

After being greeted at the counter by surely the cutest of all deities, Ganesh the Hindu elephant god of arts and sciences, this is the place to try some...

Growing pains are all part of growing up and in the last year TWOTHOUSAND has gone from infancy to puberty and right on through to rest safely in perpetual...

For an accessories label, Paris House has one hellava mission statement:

‘The truth isn't the truth until people believe in you, and they can't...

If there was an Opulent Bible, it would be a compiled back-catalogue of THE FADER magazine, and we would refer to it as "The Good Book of All...

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...

As per usual, this week TwoThousand has chosen the easy way out. Meaning what exactly? Well, because typing a proper street address into our SHOP section...