Indie-pop perfection: Stereolab at the Metro Theatre
Sam O’Reilly and Felicity Errington review We wandered into the Metro Theatre on the 21st of June, joining a flock of striped and gleeful 20-somethings. The venue itself was a tad self-serious, reflected in a $13.50 Newtowner and rather severe bar lighting. A trip to a gig is never a ticket of
Wednesday, live at at the metro theatre 3/6/26
Alize Viner and Lucy Horton mow the leaves … Alize With Sydney hearing Bleeds, Wednesday’s 2025 album, live for the first time, it felt fitting for the band to kick off the concert with a passionate rendition of the first track ‘Reality TV Argument Bleeds’. Swells of buzzy guitar
Erika de Casier with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, live at the Sydney Opera House
Ynes Fernandez reviews … After coming here a handful of times before in seedier, smaller venues––the Oxford Art Factory for one––the Copenhagener Erika De Casier made her Sydney Opera House debut as part of the Vivid LIVE music program. She brought her drummer, Jonathan Jull Ludvigsen,
mariners and woodsmen: salem, live at the sydney opera house 22/05/26
Feature Image: ‘snake eyes’ by John Holland. Ronan Linsley reviews … Emerging from the haunting pinelands comprising the state of Michigan is one of our generation’s most defining sounds. Equal parts melodic, harsh, and transcendent, SALEM have cemented themselves in the zeitgeis
When I’m in an awesome gig competition and my opponent is Loathe: cappy hall reviews
Cappy Hall reviews Loathe at the Metro Theatre, 14/05/26
john maus at the metro theatre, 30/04/2026
Fanged Numinous. Bangs Numerous. Today was a lot of explaining, to various barristers and housemates, what retro-futuristic darkwave organum-pop might sound like: Hollow. Sparkly. Eerie. Sweaty. Drony. Avant-garde … where the ‘guard’ is one of any conventions of contemporary pop music, an
All Stirr’d UP
Angus piper reviews: stirr, live at the union hotel 21/03/226 Guitars unorthodoxly utter. The saxophone wails while the vocals clarify the chaos. This is Stirr, live at The Union Hotel for the single release of ‘Broken Arm’. At the Courty for pres, the tables were still drying. You could hear sh
Hellp! Dimes Square is Leaking
Jesse Carpenter reviews: the hellp, live at Astra Kulturhaus 12/03/26 As SURG’s Foreign Correspondent, a coveted position that I recently made up, I went to see The Hellp live at Astra Kulturhaus in Berlin for the strict purpose of ethnographic study of the greater Schaeffer library scene. My find
Winter in Rear View: CAMERON WINTER, LIVE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE 16/02/26
Vance McDonald reviews Cameron Winter live at the Sydney Opera House 16/02/26
Dissect HXC @ Monster Mouse Studios, Marrickville Saturday, October 11, 2025
It’s a balmy Saturday evening in Marrickville. Various band members (whom I mistake, on two occasions, for staff) direct people to bathrooms, re-fill the water dispenser, and perch on the couch propped up against a whitewashed wall in Monster Mouse Studios’ open-plan artist’s space. I realise