We’ve had a bunch of uploads in the past few days from Overlander TV, aka Mark Shea, who’s created a podcast travel series of his experiences driving through Australia.

Hokkaido has all the cold-climate necessaries like mountains with reliable fresh powder, hot springs, and ice floes from through the Sea of Okhotsk. The only thing that’s missing from this perfect picture? The Northern Lights.

Les Inrockuptibles a French music magazine that kicks the collective derrière of major US titles, but is sadly little-known here, because, well, it’s in French, launched their annual festival yesterday.