Unlike most projects hatched during a half-yelled conversation inside a club, Cut Copy's Oceans Apart mix actually ended up happening. Now we can plug this thing in at the end of night, open the blinds and spend another hour and 20 minutes flinging our bodies around.

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It’s nearly the end of the year and well before a New Year’s party has been locked in I’ve heard buddies murmuring their 2015 goals. One of the most common ones that have popped up; partially due to our insta-world, is making room for some ‘me time’. Some dudes have already booked in time with their musical instrument whilst others are on the hunt for some sort of therapeutic creative practice that is yet unknown. It’s probably best to dip your toes in all of the creative pots before you lock yourself in this summer. Luckily Perth’s very own zine Side Project is set to debut – a quarterly release on making and creating for the dabbling maestro.

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Created by Pendleton Ward in 2006, Adventure Time is a cult cartoon series set in the semi-post apocalyptic Land of Oooh; a land of imagination overload where it makes perfect sense that a worm would preside over a fake wedding between a unicorn made of rainbows and a muscly cup cake. The show follows the always funny, mostly cute, and occasionally dark and ominous lives of two adoptive brothers – a human boy named Finn and a shape-shifting dog named Jake – as they embark on adventures with their friends Princess Bubblegum and Marceline, and as they try to keep the evil/desperately uncool Ice King from screwing up everyone's freakin' lives.

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Garage rock scallywags ScotDrakula just released a shed melter of a debut record. They also made us a mixtape. Matt's explanation of Brian Eno's 'Here Come the Warm Jets' is the most apt we've ever read.

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Purple Rain – the song, the album, and the movie – turns 30 this year, and here's your offbeat tribute to it. This split issue of the Melbourne zines Fulsome Prism and You takes a personal angle for revisiting Prince's vivid masterpiece of an album and the often infuriating 1984 movie that it soundtracks.

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Northbridge's Chinatown holds the densest set of laneways in Perth with the alleyways' population being made up of the resident chefs from each restaurant uniforming their sweaty singlet whilst sucking back on a ciggy. Now tucked away in the centre of it all is Clint Nolan's newest project; Sneaky Tony's, a rum bar with an entry procedure modelled off the speakeasy-prohibition days.

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The first short story I read as a kid had a plucky young protagonist stranded atop a broken ladder off the wall of a coal station in the Midlands, swaying in a high breeze. His chums had demolished the lower section of the ladder with rocks and ran off with the girls he was trying to impress. A light rain was picking up. I guess the moral was that wherever there are ladders, there are snakes; whenever there's something that can take you high, there's a long way down. And so we have Jack Ladder's forth album Playmates, maybe the most comprehensive missive on the perils of romance since Steph had Dan Fitzgerald's baby.

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“There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told”, Lena Dunham writes in the introduction to Not That Kind of Girl. Her debut book is a memoir of her life thus far; a tangled collection of stories that are more often than not dysfunctional and misguided but nonetheless fearless forays into self discovery. Simply telling a story for the sake of owning that story must too be the mantra behind Girls, an often directionless and indulgent series about the lives of young people in New York which Lena writes, directs and stars in. It may sometimes seem like a demonstration in self-obsession, but its existence is necessary in that it holds a mirror up to ourselves, and tells us to be brave about who we are, no matter how unimportant – or how gross – we may feel.

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You can't be angry with The Ocean Party, even after they leave the house in the morning without feeding the cat or doing the breakfast dishes or bringing the bins in. They're too young and charming. The sound is bittersweet, Sunday morning hangover pop, honest and cynical in the exact way we all want to exist, but can't because we have to be at our jobs all the time standing around the water cooler smiling at each other's weekend stories. Each release from The Ocean Party is more on point that the last, maturing in that beautiful, cynical way and leaving us all in their youthful wake.

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Nicking flowers from laneways can be fun, but there's times we all like to shell out a few clams for a fresh boukie, or have some shelled out on our behalf (winks to my future boy/girlfriend/housemates/self). The Little Posy Co.'s Helen has freshly arrived back from Brooklyn, florally schooled by two of New York's best independent shopettes in the ways of the bouquet while she was working as a journalist there. Dream jobs!

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There is a certain excitement felt when discovering that something you love and want to buy was created ethically. It's like being given permission to indulge because you know your purchase is not harming or taking advantage of anyone. Jane Heng's jewelery, ceramics and silks are all made in Jane's country of heritage, Cambodia. Since her teens, Jane has split her time between Cambodia and Melbourne, always waiting to be part of building job creation and in some way contributing to her motherland and its people. After packing up to spend time living in Cambodia and working with jewellers, ceramists and silk workers Jane has released a new collection 'Temple'.

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Kacy Heywood, designer of emerging independent Melbourne label Ka-He finds inspiration from two different elements coming together. It could be how a garment sits on a stranger in the street, or the meeting of texture and colour, and these little encounters from the surrounding world turn over in her mind until they evolve into a Ka-He design.

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At first glance, Verner's SS14/15 Collection Eat Cake is an elegant assortment of voluminous silhouettes, contrasting soft and bold colours, and classic fabrics. But look a little closer past the rich cottons and heavy crepes and you'll discover all is not as it seems. The lookbook model wears the items with a coy apprehension, a very self-conscious attempt to look casual – which kind of sums up the collection with a distinct wink to the audience.

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Fool's Gold San Francisco kid Giraffage is leaving Cali and heading to Perth for an all night dance extravaganza. Having dropped his debut LP Needs last year and releasing an EP with XXYYXX back in 2012 you know that Giraffage has got the goods to keep you gurning all night long.

Griaffage will have huge support on the night from AKilla, Clunk and Sleepyhead so you can keep dancing from midnight to daylight. Get down when the moon is high so you can lay your mits on the free Giraffe masks.

New exhibition Horizon is hitting the Fremantle Arts Centre this weekend. The exhibition will host 17 artists who have responded to the WA coastline, horizon and ideas of exploration and adventure.

Some of the artists include Emma Washer, Bruce Bradfield, Snapcat and Teelah George to name a few. The exhibition will be supported by a range of related guided walks, intimate talks and interactive workshops that touch on recycling, memory and place, pollution and migration.

Boo-yah! The bitumen devils of the burbs AKA SRHL are back for a night of multiple-choice shenanigans at MANY 6160. Since puckin' off in mid 2013 the crew have expanded to 43 suburban teams. Now the curators are shakin' their cans to raise funds so they can build a rink down at Wembley for the teams.

Grab your mates and get a table, Box Pizza are feeding ya and the bar will be cracking the bushies amongst other ice-cold goodies. You'll also be able to try your hand at the raffle and silent auctions – so pop down and support your local stick wielders.

The Urban Orchard will be hosting a post-Pride Parade party this Saturday. The party will see liquor flowing and Pimps of Sounds bringing the dance-off tunes with the help of DJ Curlee. An array of roving performances will be happening across the night including performances from Mis Hula Honey, Sugar Blue Burlesque and The Sirens.

It's a fiver for entry and all funds will go towards the staging of the Pride Parade - get down to get down.

Mei Saraswati is so ahead of the curve it is ridiculous, honestly watching FKA Twigs on Fallon saw the line muttered “FKA Twigs is awesome, but she's no Mei” and this Saturday is the debut of her full band.

Usually riding solo, Mei's fingers tap out a huge sound so expect a packed out Bird this Saturday when she has a full live outfit in toe. Huge, rare and time travelling supports from two piece Cosmo Gets and jazz tendancies from A.J. Williams.

Michigan man Seth Troxler is bringing his own brand of house and techno to Villa this Friday. Seth took the title of numero uno in Resident Advisor's 2012 Top 100 DJs poll. Seth's no stranger to bringing the good times having played his way through Coachella, Sonar and Detroit's Electronic Music Festival.

Now at Villa, Seth will have a strong support line up in the form of Shadow Brothers, Craig Hollywood and Aarin Fraser.

How often have you been caught outdoors, having lingered too long, having too much fun in a park/beach/backyard/abandoned rail tunnel and disappointedly uttered, “I wish we had music. Someone should, like, invent a portable sound system”? You try huddling around an iPhone, but it kinda kills the mood and everyone just sort of shuffles off home. Thankfully some geniuses have a solution to this particularly quandary. Classic accessories label Nixon has provided what is potentially the best al fresco service known to man, transportable music. Their range of Mini Blasters are here to enhance your social (or solo) occasions.

The speaker is sand and water resistant meaning you can take it anywhere and create an instant outdoor party, without the pesky elements ruining the device. It’s Bluetooth capable, and easily attached to your phone or music player. Each Mini Blaster comes with a cute wrist loop, so you can basically wear it all the time and, most importantly, avoid dropping it if you’re scaling a cliff face (though, it is also shock-resistant). Available in a range of lovely colours and sophisticatedly designed with a durable rubber sleeve, and a 6-8 hour battery life (!), what’s not to like? Everyone’s life is poorer without one, or at least, quieter. We have one Nixon Mini Blaster to giveaway. To enter, answer the following question: