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29/04/2023
By Aidan Elwig Pollock
SURG

Oasis: So much more than Wonderwall

Aidan Elwig Pollock urges you to drop your pretensions and listen to the back-catalogue of an era-defining band that remains strikingly relevant. Four months ago, stuck in heavy traffic on the M1 Motorway heading back to Brisbane, I told my cousin he should get into Oasis. We started from similar pl

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06/04/2023
By Bella Rough
SURG

Retrospective: Filth – trainspotting’s grimy younger brother

utter depravity and a truly unlikeable protagonist: bella rough reflects on filth (2013). Content Warning: This article discusses film depictions of drug abuse, mental illness, and suicide Filth was released in 2013, seventeen years after another Irvine Welsh adaptation that you are probably a bit m

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05/04/2023
By Kelly Caviedi
SURG

The Subtle Art of Shoegazing

Kelly Caviedi makes a case for the shy, ethereal genre. Whenever I get a hold of the AUX and put on some obscure playlist I’ve been recycling since junior high, my younger siblings groan and say “I can’t hear what they’re saying underneath all the noise”. Being listeners of R&B, modern

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