Yes, you heard. FUCK BUTTONS! Band names are best when they double as both an endearing insult and a great activity. These twin bumps of cursing are in fact two arch dukes of experimentalism. Their debut album ‘Street Horrrsing’ sprinkled lavish promise across 2008 allowing 2009 to be the site of a true manifesto in sound. Their new album, ‘Tarot Sport’, is here and it may just be one of the best albums of this year. They weld intense cortex frazzling sounds with walls of psychedelic noise

Eddie Riggs, the coolest roadie on the block. We feel like we know him, we digg him, he’s our pal, he’s the heavy metal alter ego of us all. But considering how much we’ve seen of him and the adventures he’s about to embark on, being a brütal legend, we have very little ideas of what to expect once we get there, to that place. What does that world beyond our own have in store for our eyes? Addressing these wonderings, Double Fine went loose and gave us a grand tour of the places and visuals of t

By Garret Schuelke Western Herald In event inventions on Facebook, Scorpion Island always has “If you don’t know, ask someone who does” in place of a street address. This tactic serves the distinct purpose of keeping the house venue operating, which would be compromised were law enforcement, and/or land lords to discover the cover operation that is Scorpion Island. The only clue to its location is that it’s across from La Iglesia, which is located on Locust Street. “Word of mouth is cra

While there’s also a Local Shorts program playing on 10.03, Sound Unseen’s International line-up was the one that caught my eye. Included are films by the director of Heavy Metal Parking Lot and the brilliant Jem Cohen , and also The Archive , a sad and fascinating account on the state of the American record industry. For the full line-up, check HERE . International Shorts Program Friday, October 2 Trylon Microcinema 9:00 l $8

T his isn’t the VUWSA election season we all know and love. Things have been disgustingly quiet—cordial, even. The prickly tentacles of civilised discourse seem to have taken hold and wrapped themselves around the torso of this year’s band of gnarly political bandits. The universal law of student politics, much like the science described in Back to the Future , says two student politicians cannot exist in the same space without the universe collapsing. So, Salient went along to this yea