Second Chance Sunday: The Stories You Might Have Missed This Week

The Stiffys vs Passion Pop, The Medics frontman wins $20,000 prize, New Found Glory saves a horse and more!

Iiiit's Sunday, and that means it's time to kick back and enjoy the dying hours of your freedom from work — if you're the sort of person who doesn't work weekends, at any rate, or who just doesn't work, we guess — so to help you achieve that goal we've compiled a handy list of some of what we think is the best, most underrated reading from the past week!

Let's get to it…

passion pop won’t return the stiffys’ calls, and they’re pretty miffed

Melbourne art-rock duo The Stiffys have severed their non-existent business ties with candied-alcohol makers Passion Pop, letting everyone know of the conscious uncoupling on social media: “TO ALL THE OTHER WHITE WINE COMPANIES WE WANT TO MAKE THIS CLEAR: THE STIFFYS ARE OPEN FOR BUSINESS.”

premiere: breaking orbit - transcension

We got the chance to premiere Transcension, the follow-up album (to 2012’s The Time Traveller) from Sydney prog-rockers Breaking Orbit this week. Released on Friday, if you’re thinking about giving it a buy — or haven’t yet exposed yourself to the band — give it a whirl now!

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Kahl Wallis Of The Medics Takes Home $20,000 ‘Dreaming Award’

The National Indigenous Arts Awards were held this week, with The Medics frontman Kahl Wallis being recognised as the recipient of the $20,000 Dreaming Award, providing funding assistance to an 18- to 26-year-old artist to create a major body of work.

Melbourne film festival gives us a look at this year’s first-glance line-up

Sundance prizewinning independent comedy-drama Me & Earl & The Dying Girl has been announced atop the first glance at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival selection ahead of the event's 64th iteration this July and August, but there’s much, much more on offer...

horse named new found glory saved from death by some band with the same name

Seriously, exactly what the headline says. Pop-punk vets New Found Glory melted our hearts this week when they spared the life of a horse destined for the glue factory, literally. If you’ve been looking for a happy ending this week, consider this it.

kitchen knives come to life via science and magic to perform a 40-year-old bee gees song

HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR? ... Well, if it’s producing things like an electrified kitchen-knife orchestra recreating The Bee Gees’ 1977 smash Stayin’ Alive, then we say it’s only just starting to go far enough.