Album Review: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever takes a dark turn with Endless Rooms
Australian band Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever released their third studio album on May 6 2022 with labels Ivy League and Sub Pop. Their latest release ‘Endless Rooms’, is their biggest one to date, packed with 12 songs and an evolution of their sound into more ethereal and political territorie
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
Scabs, unions and the beauty of pickets
Christine Lai explains why it’s crucial that we disrupt. Over the last few years, USyd has had its share of run-ins with management. Whether it’s fights against wage theft, casualisation of jobs or abhorrent course cuts, the bottom line remains the same: management’s profit-geared in
SURG On Repeat
This is your inaugural, highly-anticipated, deftly curated update on what your Exec and fellow SURG members are listening to!
How to put climate action first this election
Damon Gameau has some tips on how to best use your vote
Fresh Music Friday: Teen Jesus, LARA D, Jude Korab
Hello and welcome to a very exciting week in music! Get ready to be taken on a journey as Christine Lai, Zoe Biggs, and Matthew Forbes navigate through the latest and greatest from Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers, LARA D, and Jude Korab.
USU Launches 2022 Creative Awards Competition
While the Art Gallery of NSW has been busy announcing the 2022 Archibald nominees, the University of Sydney Union (USU) has been busy cooking up it’s own art competition. Open to all students of the University of Sydney (USyd), the USU Creative Awards gives students the opportunity to have the
SURG to cease broadcasting for 48 hours in support of Staff Strikes
SURG stands with the staff of the University of Sydney in their fight for better working conditions, stronger jobs security and improving learning environments at the University. SURG will not broadcast for 48 hours, during the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) strike from the the 11th to 13t
Songs to Soundtrack this Current Break-up Season
Tis’ the season of break-ups. It seems everyone I know is going through some sort of relationship kerfuffle. I’m not sure if it’s the fact that Sydney’s nightlife is finally opening up again after two years of lockdowns, or that Mercury is about to be in retrograde. Whatever the ca
FRESH MUSIC FRIDAY: KHALID, COTERIE AND KEHLANI
Welcome back to Fresh Music Friday! This week, Sophie, Christine and Kaela give us the low-down on new releases from Khalid, Coterie and Kehlani. SKYLINE – KHALID Sophie: I usually live for Khalid, but for this one it’s like I kept waiting for the bass to drop and it never came. I don