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Why does everyone love Pixar? Exhibit A: when Pixar became aware of footage showing someone who cried every time the hero of their latest film simply...

I thought long and hard about a shop in Sydney that best captures what TwoThousand is about. It kept me up at night. Days later, I'd still failed to come...

Field Day… Meredith… Falls… Pub Sounds… Big Day Out… Laneway – the list of Summer music festivals is longer than...

For over 200 years there has been an annual Cheese Rolling contest held in Gloucestershire, England, which draws crowds of up to 5,000 people. As the...

If a transition from mass-ear interest in New Wave guitar groups towards the synth and lo-fi undergrounds of yore has long been in the offing, only now...

A couple of years back, ‘folktronica' was the genre of the moment for many music journos, and no review of UK act Tunng and their debut album...

Music eZines, like MESS+NOISE or PITCHFORK, are great vehicles for promotion (and perhaps hype) if you are an independent artist or label. They have...

Published Art may have been around for a while, but like a chameleon it regularly changes its novel skin with the constant flow of art, design and architecture...

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...

Hot little people making hot little songs in a hot little studio, all crafted with their hot little hands - it only makes sense that this record is hot...

As we write this, a chicken is laying an egg. Pop! As you read this, a chicken is laying an egg. Pop!

It's happening all over the world; the process...

Jeffrey Eugenides knows about love. Dave Eggers, the ‘Bono of lit', knew that Jeffrey knew about love, and asked him to compile a book of love stories...

It's a ‘beacon of pop culture in the suburban backstreets of Camperdown'. Literally. The closest pop-cul fix to Pigeon Ground is a Hello Kitty...

Some moments in life, however superficial, stick in your mind. One of these was in a second floor boutique in Melbourne called Marais. On the counter...

Yes, this water is what we would regard as a ‘luxury item' - yes, it's more expensive than a carton of beer and yes, technically it's just water;...

From the rubber floor to the fanciful graphic prints to the plastic static menagerie, every one of the 29 square metres of Alfie's Friend Rolfe is chocked...

Describing music is, almost inevitably, a frustrating series of inadequate analogies. In the case of SONGS, my grey matter latched onto the following:...

Arising from a concern that homosexuality and mediocrity were beginning to blend TSHDT? is, so they say, a look book for gay men and their admirers...

Editor Alice Gage once wanted to rock some serious boats. She was filled with rage at the numbness around her and thought that a cutting political publication...

Following his debut release ‘Dance Not Dance’, Germany’s Cajuan pulls on the happy pants and shuffles his way onto the biggest dance...