Monocle First Birthday Issue

God bless ye olde record store. It's great that you can (still) wander in and find fresh tunes you've never heard of, or have someone recommend awesome...

Some people don't know how lucky they are. We, on the other hand, know exactly how lucky we are. We get to work in an office that is only a stone's throw...

It's official - white is the new black.

After Black Mountain, Black Angels, Black Dice, Black Keys, and Blackety Blackety Black Black (they're HUGE...

The summer release of WEIRDO RIPPERS saw No Age bring together a collection of songs that had spanned five independently released EPs,as kind of an introduction...

There are few ladies who have gone down in history. A fair lady who articulated Spain's rainfall. A floppy-eared cocker spaniel who shared spaghetti with...

So it's kind of similar to the Korova Milk Bar from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, only instead of milk laced with drugs and naked lady furniture, they've got...

Edward Cole, creator of COLE'S FUNNY PICTURE BOOK, was not a conventional Victorian fellow. An entrepreneur and idealist, he took it upon himself to spread...

Though internationally renowned for club music, Baltimore's been spawning some weird, cool, arty bands lately. Dan Deacon's SPIDERMAN OF THE RINGS...

A decade ago, Sweden's Robyn was considered by TwoThousand to be one of the most frighteningly M.O.R. artists to spook the charts. Her Max Martin penned...

Some artists and their releases are easy to write about but Cornelius, and his latest release Sensuous, is not one of them. With so many things taking...

It's ironic that some of the most recognisable faces in NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD are American. Why does Quentin Tarantino know more about Australian genre...

It seems the best book shops hide behind a tough, gritty and casually cool exterior. Think Out of Print Books on battered Canterbury Road or the piles...

If you can recall the founding members of The Yardbirds; the band who released 'Listen To Your Heart' in 1988; and James Newell Ostergberg's stage...

Heather Graham smoked them in BOOGIE NIGHTS, Olivia Newton John hardly took them off in XANADU and who could forget Scott Baio in SKATETOWN USA!? A lot...

Do you shower with a bucket? Maybe you separate plastics from paper? Or use the same bathwater after your partner/spouse/flatmate?

Our environmental...

If one thing is for sure the tattoos in HOME MADE TATTOOS RULE didn’t come from bubblegum packets. As a 96-page photographic tribute to both the...

Can we shift gears into First Person for a moment? Thanks. I’m not proud of it, but should admit my occasional cultural cringe towards Australian...

Ellen Page's role as 16-year-old mother-to-be Juno MacGuff guarantees that every vaguely alternative boy in the western world is now in love with her...

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 art of photography lost some of its romance when the age of digital dawned. Now it's all fun, point, shoot and delete if you're the one who looks...