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
Mouseatouille Live Changed My Life
Calista Burrowes reviews their Phoenix Central Park set, 13/8/26 When I stumbled into a very exciting opportunity to see Mouseatouille at Phoenix Central Park, I couldn’t contain my excitement. I had never seen the band live. I’d attempted to, several times now, but each time, I just missed them
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
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
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
Sem 2 ’25: Hysterical Women
Show Spotlight We’ve come a long way, baby. Gone are the days of popping benzos and not owning a credit card because the feminist movement has won women the right to pod. Consider us the madwomen in your attic – we’re two hysterical women discussing hysterical women in history and pop culture.
Old mervs at the roundhouse
Henry Carringtonn-Jones and David House – the twosome that comprises Old Mervs – looked casual and comfortable onstage at the UNSW Roundhouse. It was as if they’d been plucked from the crowd in front of them and instructed to use just an electric guitar and a drum set to expertly command an ot
Wild Fun at Manning
Indie folk band Wild Rivers impresses and entertains at USYD’s student bar It was difficult to discern everything that Devan Glover and Khalid Yassein of Canadian indie folk band Wild Rivers said in between songs at Manning Bar last Saturday over the techno rave happening in the venue’s courtyar