NEWS:
The Sydney Festival launches this Saturday with "Festival First Night" a massive outdoor extravganza featuring over 600 international and local artists on the official schedule for 2009.

FEATURES:
Oyster talks to Canadian indie-pop band Stars after their recent "In Our Bedroom after the War" tour about their identity, music-making passions and how to manage incestuous band relationships.

OYSTER VISION:
This week Oyster Vision jet sets off to Paris to speak with the fashion forward Gaspard Yurkievich and musician Dani Siciliano about their fantastic new fashion/music collaboration.

FASHION:
Oyster showcases a new wave of amazing shoots by photographers Frederic Bastin, Petrovsky & Ramone, Ben Sullivan & Jonas Bresnan for our Dance Magic Dance Music Issue #79.

GIVEAWAY:
Oyster are giving away double passes to the V Festival for every state! Don't miss your chance to see The Killers, Snow Patrol, The Kaiser Chiefs, Elbow and more for less than peanuts!

WORLD SMIRK:
Have you been trashing yourself around town lately or slumming it at launch parties with E-list celebs? If not, what are you waiting for? Get out there and into one of our Smirk galleries!

OYSTER REVIEWS:
Oyster's fave designers get together to review their fave albums for 2009. Check out what they thought of: MGMT, Empire of the Sun, The Ting Tings, Black Mountain, Pop Levi & Yo La Tengo.

COMPETITION: 
Oyster are giving away tickets to the Laneway Festival NATIONALLY! Don't miss your chance to see Stereolab, Girl talk, The Hold Steady, Cut Off Your Hands, Port O'Brien and more!