I'll Stop When You Stop, the new CD by Melbourne trio Mandala will be launched in Canberra on Saturday June 27 at The Front Gallery and Café. Described as "a three-man demolition team with absurd references to prog rock, or, imagine an avant garde sensibility bumping into the Headhunters moments after a terminal hit and run with New Ageism". Go figure. Mandala are also here to spread the news of a new CD label called Downstream Music, which is a music orphanage for all the sounds which fall in the cracks between jazz, improvisation, experimental, electro acoustic, sound art and noise. Sitting in with the trio will be the widely renowned trumpeter Miroslav Bukovsky, with support from Andy Campbell Trio. Head to www.downstreammusic.com.au/mandala for more info on the band and the show, but to score one of two double passes, show us a pic of an amazing mandala. 

"All the best songs are short, sweet and have lots happening in them." The words of Slow Down Honey's front man and fundamental songwriter Alex Bennison in reference to their debut EP In The Picture. The Umina boys have been jamming and composing since childhood and are finally letting the rest of us in on the material they have been sitting on for all these years. And guess what? Yep, you got it... we have five copies of this pop packed EP to give away. The record consists of five short, snappy tracks; an electric mix of captivating melodies and dynamic harmonies. To get your sticky hands on a copy of this record just tell us what else (apart from pop songs) you love to be short and sweet. This pumping EP will redefine the meaning of the word pop... so get writing!

Wasn't it the greatest thing ever? Returning home after a big one and crashing heavily on the couch, ham and cheese toastie in hand, and flicking on the teev to see your favourite songs brought to life by short film? Everyone's favourite music show Rage has gone retro, with the good folk of ABC delving into the archives to bring us a 30 track double CD and 30 track DVD of all the songs and film clips we know and love from the 80s. On the CD we've got Bowie, we've got Billy Idol and Blondie,  a bit of De La Soul and Soft Cell, and Aussie heroes Divinyls, Nick Cave, The Triffids and The Go-Betweens, while the DVD features much of the same and more. To score the sweet deal of one of five copies of the CD or DVD or indeed both, just send us the Youtube link to your fav clip. 

The hills were definitely alive with music and bromance down south Cooma way when the boys from Cat Cat recorded the Dig Mountains EP in a ten hour recording sesh. It's the latest offering from the wave of new sounds that is Canberra's hippest DIY label Birds Love Fighting. Listeners are abruptly sent into the catchy Swamp Rat via the entry track Dig which is one half of the exit track Mountains. Once we've been introduced to the band track three Bobby Killed The Cat transports us into a more relaxed tone, only to be contradicted by the urgency of the popular fourth track Old New. A sense of stepping back to the future is track five, B, a strange mix of delightful '60s influenced jangle and bird screeches which sails us off into chirping crickets and Mountains, track six. To nab one, send us your fav lolcat pic.

Legendary actor Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich in Changeling, a provocative film based on the extraordinary true story of one mother's determination to find her son while taking on one of the most ruthless and corrupt police divisions of its time, the LAPD. Los Angeles, 1928: on a Saturday morning in a working-class suburb, Christine Collins (Jolie) said goodbye to her young son and left for work. When she comes home, she discovers he has vanished. Soon after a search ensues, and months later to Christine's initial relief a boy claiming to be the nine-year-old is returned. However, the boy is not her son. Despite this she is convinced to take him home amid a sea of confusion, a media circus and pressure from corrupt police. Intriguing, enthralling, and potentially quite gripping, no? To bag a copy of the DVD, tell us about the time you ran away from home and mum went nuts.