Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Will Oakeshott, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Touche Amore, Turnover, Endless Heights, Hindsight
"The starter gun had been fired and in response the quintet launched into their assault."
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Live Review: The Smith Street Band, Joyce Manor, Ceres, Allison Weiss
"The adoration was blatantly obvious on a grand scale."
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Live Review: WOMADelaide Day One
"If heaven exists on an artistic platform this was it."
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Live Review: Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band
"Even at 67 years old, Bruce Springsteen's inner punk still comes out to play."
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Live Review: Refused, Sick Of It All, High Tension
"Swinging the microphone, executing handstands, dancing and fly kicks, he is an enigma on stage."
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Live Review: The Front Bottoms, The Hard Aches
"Opening track 'Skeleton' transformed the venue into a crowded trampoline, which shook the entire building."
Features / Music
The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Will Oakeshott
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Violent Soho, The Bronx, Luca Brasi, Tired Lion
"The show became a blur of bodies and deafening chants."
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Live Review: The Jezabels, Ali Barter
"They are a flawless, mathematical machine in a live setting. Was this their recovery? Was this their return?"
Reviews / Arts
Henry Rollins
" Rollins is rather a different person from the young man who fronted titans of the hardcore genre Black Flag, though no less magnificent."
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Live Review: Totally Unicorn, God God Dammit Dammit, Powerxchuck, Stabbitha & The Knifey Wifeys
"Totally Unicorn could turn anyone's frown upside down."
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Live Review: Rolo Tomassi, Belle Haven, Stabbitha & The Knifey Wifeys, Tiger Can Smile, St Judes
"If the producers of 'Stranger Things' don't add Rolo Tomassi to the soundtrack, it would be criminal."