Parklife – Continued
Send your Parklife feedback to cream@pobox.com to go in the draw to win a copy of Ministry Of Sound’s ‘In The Club! Volume 2’ featuring the…
ALBUM: Chromeo ‘Business Casual’ (Atlantic)
Jokingly self described as “the only successful Arab/Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture”, Chromeo have maintained the consistency of featuring a talkbox in possibly…
ALBUM: Gypsy & The Cat ‘Gypsy & The Cat’
The continuing rise of London-based Melbourne-bred duo Gypsy & The Cat is somewhat similar to the unveiling of annoyingly relentless Beiber fever. Replace a pre-pubescent teenybopper…
Cream of the crop
The latest in Phiadon’s acclaimed ‘Cream’ series has arrived on our shores, and it’s far grander than the past four installations. Currently the most in-depth and…
Spunky new small car – Hyundai’s impressive i20
From the outside, the Hyundai i20 looks compact and smart but on the inside it’s spacious and even smarter. For a small hatch (on paper at…
Capital treatment
According to studies undertaken to reveal what men harbour as a main physical concern, 70% name “hair mass” as a worry. It seems as though they…
Album: Scissor Sisters ‘Night Work’ (Universal)
The Robert Mapplethorpe photograph emblazoned on the cover of ‘Night Work’ is a brazen mission statement: the Scissor Sisters are back as lurid as ever. This…
Album – Maz Mazak ‘Soul Tripping’
Sydney-based singer-songwriter Maz Mazak has soul down to the very core of her being. Embracing contemporary grooves and a seductive sound that grows on you –…
Album: M.I.A ‘// / Y /’ (Remote Control)
When M.I.A (aka: Maya Arulpragasam) notified media of the name of her new album as ‘// / Y /’ (read: MAYA), journalists figured the artist was…
The Vampire Stories at Slide
Dinner and blood-thirsty vampires would ordinarily sound like a frightening mix, literally and metaphorically, but when the cuisine is a five-course degustation menu concocted by celebrated…
Album – ‘The Distance Between Two Truths’
With a sound that combines John Mayer and Jamie Cullum, albeit with a subtle melancholy pop sensibility, ‘The Distance Between Two Truths’ by Mark Sholtez is…
Gettin’ away with it
For the last decade we’ve been told the internet is the perfect medium for information dissemination, allowing people of all walks of life, locales and languages…
Twisted side of the moon
It takes a lot of guts to pick up a classic album and transform it in your own style. Bands might often say they admire vintage…
