Ásgeir, Into The Silence – album review

When I heard about this mind-blowing new talent from Iceland I was the biggest of naysayers. Being a massive Sigur Ros fan and a moderate Bjork worshiper it irritated me greatly that Ásgeir’s… Read More →

Things that annoy us more than they should

The other day, a couple of our contributors were having a conversation about the little things that absolutely shouldn’t be annoying but are. Like how self-service checkouts arbitrarily don’t use pronouns sometimes (“Unexpected… Read More →

Wadjda is important and amazing

Carol Bowditch reviews the boundary-pushing, landmark offering from Haifaa al-Mansour: Can I just start with saying that you need to see this film? It’s gratifying, it’s important and amazing. Feel free to switch over to… Read More →

The Cairos: Photos we shouldn’t share!

Following on from their critically-acclaimed EP Colours Like Features in 2012, The Cairos are finally set to unleash their debut longplayer, Dream of Reason, in May this year through Island Records. Never a… Read More →

Music: Southern, Where The Wild Are

Belfast-born, Liverpool-based brother and sister band Southern are set to unleash their new EP, ‘Where The Wild Are’ this April. Following their previous, eponymous release, this offering is another collection of songs that… Read More →

Lyla Foy album review, Mirrors In The Sky

You may have heard of London songwriter/producer Lyla Foy under the WALL moniker. Well, now she’s unleashed her debut longplayer and it’s well worth a listen, as Joe Haddow explains:  If the haunting style… Read More →

Line of Duty DVD Giveaway

Thanks to our buddies at eOne Hopscotch, we’re giving away five copies of cracking British police television drama Line of Duty FOR FREE to our Australia-based readers. Line of Duty is a hard-hitting, fast-paced thriller… Read More →

Reasons I’d rather be chubby – Opinion

Laura Ghafoor tells somethingyousaid.com why her gym membership isn’t utilised especially regularly: I think I was a size-ten aged ten. “It’s puppy fat, Princess” – my Dad’s a glass-half-full kind of person. So… Read More →

The Growlers – Live Review & Interview

Before playing the last show of their Australian tour, The Growlers’ Überchiller/bass player Anthony Braun Perry talked to James Booker about how two broken knees and the fondest of brotherly love is the source of his… Read More →

Cornersmith café opens for drinks

Alyssa Anne has a tipple in Marrickville: Billed as a ‘tipple and a pickle’, one of Inner West Sydney’s favourite cafés has recently nabbed itself a license. Instead of pairing their locally and seasonally-sourced dishes with… Read More →

Model interview: Sally Paton

Kaya Strehler interviews her friend and aesthetic pleasure, Perth-born, London-based model Sally Paton: I thoroughly enjoy good-looking people. And I mean that in the most unshallow way possible. For me it’s like walking… Read More →

China and its little absurdities – Guangzhou

It’s hard to feel culture-shock when you come from a country as multicultural as Australia. I still don’t think that’s an ethnocentrically obnoxious claim to make, which is why, from the floor of the… Read More →