RETROSPECTIVE: Electric Light Orchestra’s Out of the Blue deserves a place in the pantheon of double albums
The Birmingham band’s explosive seventh album is an oft-overlooked classic, writes Alex Glase. The double record, so often derided for its looseness and filler, allows an artist room to breathe and experiment with musical convention. Lists of the best double albums ever recorded have a few usual s
RETROSPECTIVE: Frances Ha fumbles the bag and charms her way out of a quarter-life crisis
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s debut collaboration, which turns 10 this year, untangles the uncertainties and joys of youth through a series of vignettes. Christine Lai reviews. A remedy for those entering their ‘twenty-something’ years, Frances Ha is a film that presents a heartfelt study i
Marlow’s Indefinite Search for Novelty: An interview with PULP’s new Senior Editor
Alex Dent and Kaela Goldsmith sat down with Marlow Hurst the incoming Senior Editor of the newly revamped PULP. If you haven’t heard already, campus journalist extraordinaire Marlow Hurst has been announced as the incoming Senior Editor of the USU’s publication, PULP. This new role will see Hurs
Album Review: I’ve walked through 13 rooms of Harry’s House, and I adore them
With an easy charisma and suave disposition, Harry Styles has given us an introspective record that takes a modern day visit into 80s techno-infused pop-funk. The album sweeps through vignettes of his life and gravitates around the pull of desire, growing up and what he considers to be ‘home’. H
How to put climate action first this election
Damon Gameau has some tips on how to best use your vote
USYD Staff Strikes: Here’s what you missed on the picket line
Missed the staff strike this week? Wondering why you couldn’t get onto campus on Wednesday or Thursday? Christine Lai has you covered. The previous 2 days have been electric on the picket lines at USYD. An entire campus shutdown following a vote for industrial action has seen many vibrant grou
Strikes & Pickets: A Beginners Guide
USyd staff are set to strike for 48 hours this Wednesday and Thursday (11-12th May). This protected industrial action was voted overwhelmingly in favour by members of USyd’s National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) last month and is a response to growing casualisation that has left a systematic ma
USU Board Candidates on Campus Facilities
Who will free the Holme Building (SURG studio included) from the great mould/asbestos infestation of 2022? The USU Board candidates have answered as best as they can. Given the unusually low turnout of campaigners along Eastern Avenue this week, it’s quite possible that you might not be aware that
Retrospective: The Legacy of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, 20 Years Later
In light of Jon Watts’ ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’, which shattered box office records in December, the decade-old question re-emerged: Who is the best Spidey? Yes, it is impossible to deny the charm of Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland. However, to many fans who grew up in the 90s and early 2000s
Who is bar italia?
“I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape.” So goes the opening lines of Patrick Modiano’s French mystery Missing Person. The novel follows a recently retired private detective, hunting down fragments of a past, an identity, he has since forgotten. The protagonist, Guy Roland, has amnesia, and t
