We were excited for our compatriots over at Deus ex Machina when they opened up their Bali Motorcycle and Surf Shop, and were looking forward to their next project. They just dropped a new video called House of Simple Pleasures, and the title really just nails what it’s about: the Deus philosophy of living, which […]

Australia’s PVT have just released their sophomore album Church With No Magic on the peerless Warp Records. Leftfield, dense with textured sounds and more than a bit deranged, the band formerly known as Pivot have a headlock on damaged techno, for lack of a better term. Amidst all that digital rubble, however, are beautiful layers […]

Instead of taking money and buying jewelry with it to bling up one’s life, artist Tine De Ruysser has cut out the middleman and just turned the cash itself into the jewelry. Her Banknote Jewelry Collection features everything from thick bracelets and pins to necklaces and brooches, all made from folded legal tender from across […]

Graz Mulcahy launched his GRAZ line after a stint with fellow Aussies at Ksubi and his own line AM eyewear. The unisex hand-made acetate frames come in five different colors and feature a keyhole bridge. This style is called Obstacle, and is a collaboration with arguably the best magazine in Australia, Monster Children (Ok, I […]

This Yaris spot won an Australian short film competition to become an actual commercial. The only problem was that after it was shown women’s groups instantly condemned it as sexist, and Toyota had to apologize and cease showing it. People are so damn sensitive. It doesn’t seem sexist to me — just seems pretty honest. […]

I love riding motorcycles, but every time I do I can’t help but think about how crazy exposed you are, where the smallest of errors could result in the greatest of pains. I’ve crashed before, in Zurich, and the accident cost me 2 days in the hospital, an agonizing night of suffering and my meniscus. […]

Coordinates: Sydney [Every Coordinates we’ll be bringing you the best of a city, a personalized tour of a locale’s dizzying highs n terrifying lows as seen through the eyes of an LIAS Ambassador.] For the inaugural installment of our Coordinates series we could not have chosen a better subject than Angus Gruzman, aka Gus da […]

Midnight Juggernauts‘ Dystopia was one of the best albums of 2007, taking dance music exactly where it needed to go — elevated from the brainless serotonin backwash of 4/4 monotony to the edge of, dare I say it, prog. Part Pink Floyd psychedelia, part Ennio Morricone paranoid dreamscape, part disco synth fancy, Melbourne’s Midnight Juggernauts […]