Ready to get your YouTube on? Sarah’s fave look in the M.I.A. video “Bad Girls.” Sarah Frances Kuhn’s fall 2012 collection is inspired by some of the most iconic women in music who’ve made some of the most striking videos—yes, it’s that major. And this B

Jane Birkin, singer, actress, director, muse and wild life hunter. Source: Supplied JANE Birkin travels the world as a singer, actress, director and global style icon but the city that makes her heart skip a beat is Adelaide. Born in London and now based

The first thing that used to come to mind when someone mentioned Tibi, was bright colors, floor-length maxis and sweetheart dresses. Hummingbirds, flowers, palm trees. Girly. This Fashion Week Fall Collection was a stark contrast. The room was packed and

Set List Air , the French duo of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, has fused together a broad range of influences — '70s synth-pop, Pink Floyd , Serge Gainsbourg and The Carpenters, to name a few — over the course of a career that's spanned lots of

When Tom Cruise nauseatingly dirtied his knee in 2005 in front of Katie Holmes at the Eiffel Tower, you could almost feel Paris - and Parisians - cringe with displeasure. Yes, we all know this oh-so-chic city is the capital of l'amour, but did this Holly

Tibi's fall clothes exemplifed the beauty of simplicity. PHOTOS: TIBI Beginning with a plain, pewter green pantsuit, the brand set a relaxed yet traditional tone. An avian print was used in crisp silk skirts and pants, followed by pared-down sweaters and

This is the legendary incident from 1986 when french singer Serge Gainsbourg met Whintney Houston on a french live TV-Show Whitney Houston, the multimillion-record selling singer, was found dead in her Beverly Hilton hotel room on Saturday, at 3:55pm. Sh

Singer Jane Birkin will perform at Brisbane Powerhouse in March. Source: Supplied WATCHING the horrifying television reports of the tsunami in Japan, Jane Birkin knew what she had to do. The singer, actress, decade-long muse to French star of song and fi

What you’d expect from a studio offcuts album would be experimental arrangement, quirky instrumentals, understated vocals. Stage Whisper, to the listener’s surprise, is not that; rather, it is a compact release of a mere seven tracks, filled with disco b

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a man of many talents. Having already proven his worth as an actor in both drama and comedy (on TV and on the big screen), exposing himself as a pretty damned good impersonator of Serge Gainsbourg, as well as running his own colla

What a short, strange road it's been for Lana Del Rey: The puffy-mouthed pop throwback was an internet lightning rod for months before her big, Saturday Night Live coming-out party. That, as even your mother now knows, didn't go too well. Then her debut

Sunderland siblings Peter and David Brewis, aka Field Music, draw on influences as wide-ranging as Stravinsky, Stax R&B, Fleetwood Mac, Serge Gainsbourg, Thelonious Monk and Kate Bush. So far they have released three acclaimed albums, but in the Capital

Here, we take a slightly different tack, matching returning librarian interviewer Kate Sheehan with Valla Vakili, CEO and cofounder of Small Demons, not a publisher but a web startup that bills itself as ground zero of the “storyverse.” Like libraries an

The story goes like this: Just a couple of years ago, Leonard Cohen was a septuagenarian retiree, more or less done with music, living in a Buddhist monastery in California. He stopped touring in 1993, and his last studio album, Dear Heather, came out in

Make: NIKON CORPORATIONModel: NIKON D80Date/Time: 2011:11:24 23:33:56 Source: Supplied IN THE evening, the Treasury Mess Hall becomes a trove - a dewy oasis with a backyard vibe, wedged deep between old brick buildings. Its a real treat: merpeople swim i

Mike Ragogna: Alyssa, you were one of iTunes' "New & Noteworthy" singer-songwriters. What do you think it is about your music that iTunes picked up on? Alyssa Graham: iTunes is such an amazing platform for independent artists like myself. I believe they

Serge Gainsbourg cut “Requiem pour un Con” in 1968 for Jean Gabin’s film Le Pacha (see clip below). Forty years later Casey Dienel, under the nom de tune, White Hinterland, released the Francophone, six song, Luniculaire ep. I’ve been revisiting the coll

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