Cosplay takes centrestage at Supanova 2023
The weather was a little wet over the weekend but it was a perfect storm of cosplay, comic culture and celebrity guests at Supanova 2023, held…
Mushroom Music celebrates 50 years with an immersive experience at the Australian Music Vault, Melbourne
This year sees Australia’s premier music company the Mushroom Group celebrate half a century of making and delivering excellent music. To help mark this golden anniversary,…
Stan goes into partnership with Lionsgate, makers of Mad Men and a bunch of beaut new TV series
Stan, currently Australia’s leading local streaming service, announced today that it is expanding its partnership with Lionsgate, with a multi-year output agreement that’ll see Stan streaming…
Netflix drops trailer for Wham! documentary but we hear the doco could be a little grittier
Netflix has dropped the first trailer for its documentary on ’80s pop music duo, Wham! with the doco set to stream on July 5. If you…
A new song from The Beatles is being made using AI technology and what kind of sorcery is this?!
You might have heard some scary things about artificial intelligence lately, and you’d be right for feeling a little frightened. We wouldn’t want our every move…
Kitchen hack: Go green and keep your greens even greener with ‘The Swag’
They say if you wet sheets of newspaper and wrap your lettuce in them, your greens will stay fresher and crisper. But who buys newspapers anymore?…
Smash Hits: Pet Shop Boys release colossal 3CD and 6LP compilation sets
Always very clever with their diction, the new Pet Shop Boys 55-song compilation goes by the simple title of Smash. The name came about likely because…
I thought you looked a bit different…
You may have noticed we’ve made some changes to our look and content. Welcome to the new Cream. New, but fairly retro. The end of last…
‘American Psycho’ author Bret Easton Ellis says he’s sad for Millennials: “Obviously there’s pain there; this is not the happy generation”
Bret Easton Ellis gets into much strife over the things he says. Usually the critics are a third his age (he’s 59) and have no idea…
Everything new is old again… If Snapchat and Spotify chose to advertise the old-school way
Modern brands get a vintage makeover…
From the vault: an interview with Dannii Minogue | 20th anniversary of ‘Neon Nights’ out this month
On Friday 16 June, Dannii Minogue is reissuing her classic dance-pop LP Neon Nights which boasted four top 10 smashes: Put The Needle On It, I…
Soap Stars: a Gallery of Vintage Soap Ads in a Time of Frantic Sanitising
The other day I went out shopping for office supplies and came back with a stapler, A4 paper, squishie toy shaped like a hotdog, Post-Its and…
Blur to release a new album this July
Blur have announced the band will be releasing a new album The Ballad of Darren in July – their first studio release in over eight years.…
