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10/05/2026
By Calista Burrowes
FeatureMusicOpinionSURG

The Kneecap Boys are Back in Town 

calista burrowes reviews fenian What do you do when it seems like the whole world is against you? Do you retreat into obscurity? Do you just send it and live up to the villainy people assign to you? Kneecap does not have a fully grounded answer just yet, but FENIAN is their interim response to [&hel

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10/05/2026
By Elise Martin
NewsOpinionSURG

WHAT’S NEXT FOR 2SER?

Elise Martin attends… Beloved community radio station 2SER is grappling with the big question––what comes next?––as the July deadline for an alternative funding source to save the station rapidly approaches.  2SER has served as a cultural pillar of the community for nearly 45 year

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19/03/2026
By Jesse Carpenter
Concert ReviewFeatureMusicOpinionShowsSURG

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

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03/03/2026
By Sofia Hartley & Sofia Hartley
OpinionRetrospectiveSURG

uh-oh. A twenty-something is yearning again.

I’m standing in the back of a ute screaming my lungs out over The Sydney Harbour Bridge and I’m convinced that I am, in fact, Emma Watson in ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’; except I don’t have the head shape for a pixie cut, and this year’s Triple J champion ‘Never Be Like Y

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