The girls featured in this issue’s reviews will inevitably have their music uncomfortably pigeonholed by genre for easy reference, but more than most music-makers in 2010 they have ripped up the rule-book, turning stylistic signifiers upside down and demanding new genres. And don’t we l❤ve it when our ladies are demanding? Greg Bowes takes a closer look …

Icelanders Einar Tonsberg and Rósa Birgitta Ísfeld started hanging out last year in Reykjavik. It all started out very chilled – he needed a vocalist, she came over. They started making love songs.

Before your sweet tooth starts craving, Sweets Workshop is in fact a retail art gallery exhibiting yummy art, tastydecorative objects and sweet giftware produced by local Australian and international designers and artists.

Michelle Viljoen caught Chew’s eye with her sensitive typographic application and design.

me&oli produces fashion, textiles and illustrations with a whole lot of RAH! Chew teleported Down Under to chat to the delightful Lalita Lu and discover what makes a successful textile print, why she would want to be the incredible robotic cat Doraemon and what her fave thing to do is on a warm summer’s arvie…

Chinese-Malaysian sisters Angela, Juliana and Rowena Foong are the design collaboration behind High Tea With Mrs Woo. Fascinated with weaving memory into clothing, they explore the ability of fashion to unfold great stories. Chew had a little chat with the sisters…