Music
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, fresh from his 81 day incarceration at the hands of the Chinese government in 2011 - ostensibly for tax evasion, but not really - has an album called The Divine Comedy coming out on the 22nd of June. He's made a video for the first single "Dumbass",...
You occasionally hear bands that you know for a fact would be more popular if people gave them a chance. Unfortunately, the majority can't abide by any music that features growling or screaming vocals, so it's always destined to be a cult scene. That's good news for us, beca...
As the popular conception of death metal morphs into a sensationalised splatter of plastic speed and indecipherable technical gore, Autopsy stay out of the food fight, remaining fully committed to their own template. After a 14-year hiatus, 2009 EP The Tomb Within and...
Eyebrow (Art)
I've had to ruminate on this show for a week before writing about it. What Daniel Kitson does is attempts to refine his audience and his act to such an extent that writing about it becomes almost impossible. He defines and then contradicts himself so many times without you r...
I am old enough to remember the buzz around The Planet of the Apes. It was pre Star Wars and sci-fi was still pretty strange and often scary and this is possibly what attracted me to this genre. I remember the movies, the short lived TV series, the very weird cartoon, t...
This is a small press book that is written and drawn by Kathryn Newman. It's all about 'manly' things. Ms Newman is an artist / illustrator living in London. As well as this comic you can find her webcomic of the same name at www.nervoustic.co.uk And a great selection of oth...
Film
Poor Bill. His girlfriend is acting up, he's got a big game on the horizon, he's trying to become student body president, and with all that, his sister and parents are possibly involved in some incestuous and psychotic secret society. It’s no wonder Bill is ultra-paranoid, freaking out, and hallucinating all sorts of shit. But now B...
Way back when, there was a time when dirty puddles splashed, women looked over their shoulders, and unseen cloaks whispered death on the ugly city streets of New York City. Ah, the 80s – what a time for danger; a period when a certain slew of movies combined the gritty nastiness of everyday life with the surreal aspects of a great s...
Two Little Boys is the latest film from New Zealand funnyman Robert Sarkies, and it stars the two equally as funny, some would say more so, laugh guys Bret McKenzie and Hamish Blake. My experience with Kiwi-land is of course related to the man, the myth, and the living legend, Peter Jackson, but I'm also aware of their impressive mu...