!All things black and white will come together from Thursday August 19th at The Loft in Sydney, as nightlife photographers Hobogestapo open an exhibition featuring ‘Overexposed’ photos from their extensive collection. The VIP opening will include lots of black and white treats as well as The Piano Man and The Backhanderz DJ’s. ... read more

The Holidays, sunny, happy and always something to look forward to. The same goes for the Sydney four piece. It’s about to become a big year for the four boys who have just unleashed their new single ‘Golden Sky’ while announcing the release of their debut album ‘Post-Paradise’ in September. They seem to be cramming The Holidays with as much action as possible.

In early August ‘The Hazy Shade of Winter’ sees The Holidays sticking to the east coast with Hungary Kids of Hungary... read more

The world’s favourite twins, MK & A, have joined forces with eyewear company Linda Farrow, to launch a second range of sunglasses for their successful label The Row. The Olsen’s grungey, down town girl style, which is usually dominated by bug eye shades shielding their faces, is heavily photographed, published and imitated, so it seemed inevitable that this would be the next product on Mary Kate and Ashley’s list to brand and market.

“Designing eye wear was definitely more complicated... read more

For their Autumn/Winter 2011 campaign, Missoni has teamed up with famed avant garde artist Kenneth Anger, now 83, director of Scorpio Rising and Fireworks, to create a short fashion film. “I’m fascinated by Kenneth Anger’s use of colour and his ability to transform a film into a three-dimensional texture, a fabric of images in movement,” explains Angela Missoni, on the venerable Italian company’s choice of direction. The video is typically Anger in style; bright, trippy... read more

Crossing boundaries, literally, the Gorillaz have become the first British band ever to play in Syria’s capital, Damascus.

Last Sunday (July 25^th) the usual Damon Albarn ensemble plus his collaborator friends played songs from their new album Plastic Beach in the ‘Citadel’, a 11^th century palace. The guest performances listed huge international stars such as De La Soul, Kano, Bashy, the National Orchestra For Arabic Music, Bootie Brown, Bobby Womack and astonishingly... read more

!Arena rock band Kings of Leon had to end a show in St. Louis last Friday after pigeons infested the stage. The band stormed off stage after bass player Jared Followill had one particular pigeon defecate in his mouth. What initially sounds like a question asked in Spicks and Specks has outraged die-hard fans in the St. Louis and caused the band to refund all tickets sold. The band’s publicist soon after released a statement saying ‘Jared was hit several times... read more

Alpha 60 designers Alex and Georgie Cleary have made no secret of their obsession with pop culture, since launching their label in 2005. In every collection they blatantly reference iconic films like Buffalo 66, The Ice Storm, La Haine, and Twin Peaks. Most reverently, the pair’s ultimate cinematic inspiration is Jean Luc Godard’s 1965 cult classic Alphaville, which inspired the label’s moniker, the Welcome to Alphaville stores and their best selling t-shirts adorned with the director’s... read more

We have just received news that pages favourite, Antipodium will be showing their SS10/11 collection on schedule at London Fashion Week this September.

The collection entitled ‘Hothouse’ takes on a spectrum of designs, prints and colours from floral, sophisticated neutrals, mulberry, plant inspired silhouettes and a ‘veritable crop of lustworthy looks’.

The Antipodium show will take place in the Portico Rooms at the LFW official venue Somerset House... read more

As the countdown to Splendour In The Grass tick tick tocks away, General Pants Co. ramps up their involvement in this year’s festival.

The festival favourite high-street retailer are shipping in their very own pop-up store for the event, situated within The Very Small Mall. Splendourites can shop when they are too tired to bop to the tune of Ksubi, Cheap Monday, Insight, Havaianas and Converse – all so very festival appropriate! In addition, Insight are shipping in a merchandise... read more

The German techno mega fest ‘Love Parade’ that saw 19 people killed in a stampede last weekend, including one Australian woman, will never be held again according to German main organizer Rainer Schaller in a press announcement yesterday.

Dubbed the largest electronic music festival in the world, boasting 1.4 million people dancing in Berlin’s streets, ‘Love Parade’ started in 1989 as a political demonstration against the Berlin Wall, which was teared down four months later.

Officials... read more