Exquisite Corpse

Let's begin by setting the scene. It's Friday night, around 7.30pm, and you're further gone than Tony Bullimore in his little yacht. This is a crucial...

There are only a handful of cities around the world that popular culture won't stop mythologising. Yes, this is yet another film about Paris - but after...

Both as individual songs and as an album, Ten Lives is a narrative record. Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Michael Gondry and Chris Ware’s ‘Jimmy...

Back when we actually were kids and not just pretending to be, escapism took the form of movies and books as opposed to beer, while darkness and excitement...

FANTASTIC MAN is not a superhero but it’s certainly here to save the day. ‘A Gentleman’s Style Journal’, the magazine focuses...

If you want to know the time there are two options - analogue or digital. Sundials look sweet but aren't that practical, and trying to chart the sun's...

The ancient Chinese didn't just spend their time building great walls and playing with fireworks. Truth be told, they spent most of their time sipping...

The irrepressible convention stranglers Damn Arms have long been rubbing shoulders with the highest echelon of post-punk-new-wave glitterati like Test...

TwoThousand blames Crown Street "designer/photographer/DJj/t-shirt makers" for the fact that it is impossible to find a plain anything anywhere...

I've got good news and bad news.

The bad news: now that fashionabe trendy kids in trenchcoats have appropriated the post-punk misery of depressed, social...

If you've spent any time on music blogs in the past few months, you'd have heard the growing murmur about Passion Pit. The hype has built to levels rivaling...

Take heed, for the next few weeks the city is going to be bursting with art like a penguin pregnant with a panda. In less convoluted (and disquieting)...

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...

1978 New York was a very different place. Junkies, trannies, punk bands... junkie tranny punk bands.

NEW YORK NOISE showcases the whole flea-ridden...

What band could pull off an album with this stupid name and a really corny intergalactic "concept", complete with airline steward voice-overs...

Remember when Marvin Gaye was so disillusioned by the Vietnam War he was moved to write the soul classic ‘What's Going On'? You don't? Oh wait...

We all know that heartbreaking moment when the food arrives and everyone else's dish looks better than what you're having. It's enough to put tears in...

The step up from comic zinester to graphic novelist is so treacherous that many fear for their livelihoods. And, let’s face it, who’s going...

The founders of TANK, Masoud Golsorkhi and Andreas Laeufer, began the magazine because the one that they wanted to read didn't exist. A mixture of fashion...

Travellers returning from a Parisian sojourn prattle on about history, architecture, and romance (blecch), but true sophisticates go for one reason: the...