The Blood and the Bourgeoisie

Artistic collaborations are a pretty sweet thing. Matthew Barney and Björk, Andy Warhol and Lou Reed... Starbucks and Sonic Youth.

'Anglomania'...

Are you a fan of all the new-exciting-party-musics: Crunk, Hyphy, Baltimore Club, Baile Funk etc etc and have no idea where to go to buy them? Jimmy...

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...

From its mid-20th Century heyday to popular neo-noir incarnations, film noir has proven that deep down we're all gloomily romantic at heart. Noir maintains...

Through Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills's work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the '60s, JG Ballard's suburban sci-fi, Throbbing Gristle's camp...

This record is a jigsaw. A Rubick's cube. As soon as you enter this musical labyrinth you're lost in the shadows. Caught up in a running stream of repeating...

Worldly, business savvy but with a finger on design and fashion, this site and monthly magazine aims not just to inform, but entertain. By filtering...

Neighbourhood dining is not familiar territory for most Sydney-siders. The hustle and bustle of the daily grind is enough to make even the most social...

-Complimentary plates of fluro coloured pickles.
-Faux marble and gold cornices and glorious murals of the coast of Lebanon.
-Tabouleh of mint and tomatoes...

Sunset. Blankets. Holidays. Heartbreak. Conor O'Brien's images are warm like your towel after a swim; silent like eye contact across the room; awkward...

In addition to sharing the name of one of Melbourne's finest bygone groups, Brooklyn's Vivian Girls sound Australian in other Chapter Music / best...

Digitalism are two German record store employees who decided to hunker down in a WWII bunker in Hamburg and make a giant indie electronic crossover album...

Although Napoleon Bonaparte’s Frenchmen didn’t survive the winter, Melbourne’s Dead Frenchmen are taking it by the balls of the brass...

The original Deus in Camperdown has long been the ultimate male shopping-destination-come-café. Nothing evokes contemporary masculinity more than...

Reading David Sedaris is like sharing those rare moments with friends; when you laugh so hard at someone's self-deprecating recollection of their misfortune...

Picture this scene: Fresh fruit... picked daily we're sure. It's some of the healthiest produce you'll ever see. It sits comfortably on rustic wood boxes...

Think of a manuscript cut into pieces, thrown in the air and put back together in a random order, and that is a Robbe-Grillet story.

This book is like...

Surprisingly, there are two chocolate factories in Petersham. One is a high profile apartment block and the other is the real deal. Floor-to-ceiling confectionary;...

One of my all time heroes is the illustrator Christopher Niemann. This talented American does all kinds of graphic-based work for loads of magazines and...

With a name like Lover, it is not enough merely to be loved - as this Australian label surely is - you must, like the great seducers of history, love...