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White People are Stealing Australian Jobs
The government is flooding the country with economic refugees from Europe, and Aussie battlers are losing out.
ESG Don't Appreciate Your Sample Credits
In the early 1980s, three sisters from the South Bronx were given instruments by their mum in an attempt to keep them off the streets. The sisters formed ESG, and have spent the past 34 years creating post-punk tinged dub and hip-hop. This month they...
Fatti Frances Would Bring Whitney Back Over Michael
Fatti Frances is the exploratory (and by that we mean deeply sexual) R&B project from former Jemima Jemima, the Ancients and Jessica Says drummer Raquel Solier. She’s performing in Melbourne this Thursday at our Raised Up Right launch party at Liberty...
We Saw This: Liquid Handcuffs + Guy and Marcus Blackman Experimentation Project
Reasons why this show at Hell’s Kitchen on Saturday night was bound to be good: Guy and Marcus rarely play; it was Liquid Handcuffs’ first show; Jack Mannix was launching a zine and the flyer promised cute boys that were young, hung and dumb.
We Saw This: Holy Balm
Usually when a band from Sydney plays Melbourne no one really cares, unless it’s Circle Pit. Or, it turns out, Holy Balm. For an icy evening an impressive bunch of people turned up to see these guys at the Liberty Social. In the city. Since Holy Balm...
We Saw This: Standish & Carlyon
Hanging out at Melbourne's music/chess equivalent of Indecent Proposal.
Artful Meanderings
Jane Badler is easily best known for her role as Diana in the 80s sci-fi series, V, where she played a villainous alien lizard posing on earth as a friendly, stunning-looking human. The specific scene she's best remembered for is one in which she...
Big And Ugly
It's 1979 and Robert 'Simply Irresistible' Palmer stands at the back of a dingy Melbourne venue in his best pop star finery looking at the stage in mild disgust. Someone from his entourage has dragged him along to a Little Bands night and he doesn't...
Vice Fashion - Fix Up Look Sharp
Sharpies emerged from Melbourne’s suburbs in the early 70s and evolved out of existence by the end of the decade. They wore jeans and tailor-made cardigans, which they would design themselves in an attempt to outdo all the other sharpies.
Theatre Restaurant Hell
There are three theatre restaurants that we are aware of in Melbourne: Witches and Britches, Draculas and Hunchbax. We have always been secretly curious about exactly what happens there so decided that we would check out all three and compare them in...
Move Over, Manhattan
There's no longer a need for Australians to travel a million miles to move it in downtown, because Australia has M-town.