The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival is chockas with pretty brill, inspiring movies that are geared to leave with you with a smile in your dial and the thought that you can make a difference.

Things that you will find at a normal gallery opening: crowds, bad red wine, and nobody actually interested in the art. Things that you will find at the opening night of Next Wave: old school party games, live tunes, nooks full of surprises, and of course, some art.

Jo's soujourn in California for Coachella has come to an end, culminating in a meteorite shower as Radiohead wooed the audience into rapture.

Spiderman should take up macrame. However, with Coachella hitting 46 degrees this year, Spiderman should not take up festival going in lycra onsies. However, our editor Jo has, and the journey continues.

Installment numero duo from our editor Jo, whom is currently being fed fairy floss mojitos by monkeys in California pre-Coachella.

This year Byron Bay Blues Festival brought the goods once again, hauling together a crazy-good lineup of acts from the '70s and '80s who proved they were not past their use-by-dates.

Goody goody goody! New Order is coming back to Australia for the first time in a decade!

Camping at festivals can be so 'meh': dealing with dirty clothes, wet socks and a packet of corn thins that is now somehow crumbled at the end of your sleeping bag. Well, not anymore.

Perthlings! Did you know that Perth Festival is starting next week?

We hand over full-heart ownership to these boys and their jangly guitars and hyper-coloured lyrics.