Don’t Call Them Twee Bro!
… But don’t call them Indie Sleaze or Hyperclash or Electroclash Revival or Indietronica or Bloghouse either … Jesse Carpenter has some words for the taxonomical sleazebags … At the concert you see a guy wearing a D&G shirt: standing for Deleuze and Guattari, or maybe Drain and G
An Interview with James Litchfield and Lucinda Reynolds of Alphabet Lane (2026)
Charlotte (Vice President, FilmSoc) and I (Digital Content Director, SURG) sat down with James Litchfield and Lucinda Reynolds, the writer-producer duo behind Alphabet Lane (2026). You can see it on screen on Saturday September 5 as part of the Sydney Opera House’s Australian film program. Sho
Life during wartime: on massive attack at afterpay arena, August 9 2026.
Orpheus carefully yet assuredly steps toward his reflection in the mirror. He thinks not of his recently murdered wife, Eurydice, but of the princess of death with whom he has fallen in love. He makes contact with the mirror’s surface, which breaks and ripples. His body and reflection converge
“We’re friends first and a band second”: Deadshowws discuss the release of their new album, You In Colour
Deadshowws discuss the release of their new album, You In Colour.
I was the “Rat” in the “Bin” that was Jim E Brown at Mary’s Underground
I expected Friday the 26th of June 2026 to be about a lot of things: The last gig at Mary’s Underground ever. My friends’ dual birthday party. Faux-Pom post-punk synth-pop. Millennial-style self-deprecation. 9-11. (All things hyphenated to death.) Instead, my night was about the pristine McChick
Maddie’s secret at the Sydney Film Festival
Alex Steen reviews … When, a few weeks ago, I went to see the Australian debut of John Early’s Maddie’s Secret, there was a palpable sense of good-will in the audience. One got the sense that this was a movie people were excited to see, not just one they went to because they needed to [&he
The birth of Christ or the birth of Unknown Pleasures?
Felicity Errington reviews 24 Hour Party People … When I am alone, either on the bus to uni or just before bed, I think of a scene from 24 Hour Party People: Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) walks through a shadowed alleyway and is heckled by a homeless Mancunian (Christopher Eccleston) who monologu
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,
Rave Culture: A New Era (Australian Premiere) at Vivid LIVE, 31/05/26
Cassidy Newman reviews … Accompanied by a fantastic soundtrack and featuring British rave legends such as RatPack, Fabio, Grooverider, SL2, and Leeroy Thornhill from The Prodigy, Eduardo Cubillo’s Rave Culture: A New Era invites us to travel back in time to when the DJs spun vinyl, the molly