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

Danielle O'Donohue, Journalist

Features / Music
It's Easy Being Green
"Hip hop derives from so many things. That’s why the music we make I still think of as mostly hip hop more than anything else."
Features / Music
Stepping Up
"At this point in my life I wanted to be singing about something that was just me, really, wherever I am in life at the moment. I was going through quite an up and down period of my life, battling a bit of depression."
News / Arts
"Women's Power Is Coming Out": Inside Yoko Ono's Sydney Press Conference
The acclaimed artist speaks on the eve of her War Is Over exhibition's opening.
Reviews / Arts
Game Of Thrones: In Conversation WIth George R.R. Martin, Lena Headey & Michelle Fairley
Fairley joked, “Some of us are good mothers. Some of us have husbands that love us” and with a mischievous grin Headey came back with, “I fuck my brother.”
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Jimmy Eat World - Damage
Though they’re unlikely to bother the charts too much here it’s a guarantee tickets to their next Australian tour will be snapped up and the fans will be able to sing along to all the new songs.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Marques Toliver - Land Of CanAan
Of course, the irony is radio would never be brave enough to give someone like Toliver airtime, but thankfully in this internet age, he has plenty of other options to find an audience as he certainly deserves one.
Features / Arts
Answering The Call
"I think when one of your first gestures is created by an act like The Avalanches you know you're going to get stylistic collisions. They were among our first collaborators and they very much encouraged that."
Features / Arts
Slow Show
"Even in our working relationship I can feel like I have these great ideas and he doesn’t appreciate them because he doesn’t believe in me. And he has great ideas but I think he’s overbearing and it’s his idea or nobody’s idea... in a certain way."
Reviews / Live
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Live Review: Seth Sentry, Tuka, Ellesquire
If Sentry’s next step is to try his hand more extensively in the US, his live show is a pretty good showcase of what this Melburnian is capable of.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Local Natives, New Gods, Texture Like Sun
Local Natives are great because they know what they’re good at and they do it very well indeed.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Gaslight Anthem, Dave Hause
Though making it to the Enmore is no mean feat, this is clearly a band with even bigger ambitions and, on their performance here, hopefully next tour they’re given the chance to step up again.
Reviews / Arts
Edible Pets: The Farewell Tour
Though there are some lazy jokes in the piece, Dyktynski's acting chops hit the right marks and the lack of a fourth wall makes it easy for the audience to go with the gags.