Emerging Writers’ Festival x Jack Colwell

The fantastic, Melbourne-based Emerging Writers’ Festival is a cultural melting-pot for writers to come together to learn their craft, showcase their work to their peers and let off some steam. If you thought musicians… Read More

Getting to Know Kamikaze

Switzerland-based outfit Kamikaze deliver a fine, multi-faced harmony in songs that will get you feeling hot and heavy. We asked them to tell more about themselves: Kamikaze formed when we met at 2am in… Read More

Collarbones X Synergy Percussion: Review

I began my annual love affair with VIVID, Sydney’s cultural calendar epicentre of light/music/idea events with a celebration of The Avalanches (which was really fucking brilliant, by the way). But, as the three-week… Read More

Film Review: Frank dark comedic bliss

Frank (Michael Fassbender) is eccentric with boundless creative energy and has the making of a very famous musician. He is however, trapped within an enormous novelty head constructed of papier-mâché. We follow Frank… Read More

Art: Tove Jansson and the Moomin

Alice Parsons does some self-initiated research into Tove Jansson, the Finnish illustrator and Artist who created the ever-popular Moomin: I’ve been a fan of Tove Jansson’s distinctive style for a while; always able to… Read More

Sharon Van Etten, Are We There – Review

Released two years after her breakthrough album, ‘Tramp’, ‘Are We There’ is the record we’ve been waiting for. Haunting and filled with harmonies, Sharon Van Etten created the record with producer and kindred sprit Stewart… Read More

The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick Age 81

You may better know JB Morrison as Jim Bob, lead-singer of legendary 90s indie duo Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine. However, while Carter are finally winding down (they play their last ever reunion gig this… Read More

Vancouver Sleep Clinic live in Sydney

Brisbane-based Vancouver Sleep Clinic have been one of the ‘bands-to-watch in 2014’, which I have witnessed popping up in internet feeds, after a positive reception in Triple J’s Unearthed competition last year. It’s… Read More

Hanson: It feels great to have survived

We talk to (28-year-old!) drummer Zac Hanson: Life is pretty weird. For example, the other day I interviewed Zac Hanson. In the mid-1990s, this information about my future self would have been enough for… Read More

First Aid Kit, Stay Gold – album review

Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg have been consistently winning hearts with their beautiful, country-influenced folk music and their shiny, swooshing hair since they appeared on Youtube doing Fleet Foxes covers back in… Read More

How to host a kickass casino party

If you enjoy the excitement of gambling but are understandably keen to avoid losing your last dime while doing so, you might wanna consider hosting a casino-themed party. Not only is this a great method of… Read More

Getting to Know Rabbit Island

Lo-fi Perth-based artist Amber Fresh recently released “65% Hits”, a double-album of intimate home recordings, under her moniker of Rabbit Island. We asked her to tell us a little more about herself: Rabbit Island… Read More