I love Sydney. For most of its quirks. All in the space of a few hours you can smoke cigarettes and shisha inside a club with BYO drinks, then catch an Uber a few suburbs over and spend $25 on a smoothie that you’ll drink while cosplaying as a...
Joseph worked on a murder trial that took over Australia’s group chats and then turned the frenzy into a comedy show. We spoke about his show The Mushroom Lady and Me, his tour of India and the strange dance between a comedian and a room full of strangers. For...
What are you working on? Bro, for real, just more music. Like, that’s it. That’s the currency for us artists. So yeah, this month I’ve just been working, I’ve gotta keep it a buck. My audience knows I’ve been doing ‘acts’ and the acts are...
It hit 39 degrees on the last Sunday of January. Most young Sydneysiders weren’t at the beach – we were running up and down King Street, catching gigs and meeting up with friends in local bars for the King Street Summer Crawl 2026. No less than 24 hours earlier, thousands...
‘Excuse me, are you guys halal?’ It’s the last resort after spending a few minutes scanning the walls for a halal certificate, and scouring Google with the trusty ‘[restaurant name] Sydney halal’. A simple question. One that induces my fight-or-flight response. I hope they know what halal means. I...
We only just launched, so we’re playing catch-up. Here are three EPs from the back half of 2025 that deserve a proper listen. RubyHoo are a Perth indie rock band with pop instincts – songs that land fast and stick in your head. Frontman Matt Preston leads with a gritty,...
We sat in a car park in her Northern Beaches suburb, down the road from her house and not far from the bottle shop where she works at her day job. She’s also studying nursing ‘in case music doesn’t work out’. I talked with Arielle (TikTok: @ariellevs), a...
