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

Stephanie Liew, Journalist

Features / Arts
Sugar Mountain's Sensory Restaurant 'Feels Like Some Fucked-Up Bunker Shit'
"Once you put your finger on one flavour it seems to morph into something else entirely."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Sugar Mountain 2017
"A Remi Kolawole sighting makes us wish he was actually on the bill! Next year, please?"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Tegan & Sara, Lupa J
"Sara, stepping into the spotlight, waxes lyrical for an extended amount of time on her cats."
Reviews / Live
Photos by Jay Hynes
Live Review: Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington
"These aren't simply live renditions of hip hop tracks, inferior facsimiles of the recorded version - this is how these songs were meant to be heard."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Sufjan Stevens, Ngaiire
"We're hypnotised and on the verge of panic. And then the roller coaster stops. We're spent."
Reviews / Arts
Lungs
"Lungs ultimately stays with you in the way that those niggling thoughts about the human condition and the universe keep you up at night sometimes."
Reviews / Arts
The Village Bike
"We're literally peering into their home and bedroom, voyeurs and witnesses to indiscretions, suppressed urges and compartmentalised insecurities."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Vince Staples, B Wise
"Staples says it might be hard for the largely white crowd to relate to some of his lyrics — he'll try not to make us have to sing the N-word too much."
Features / Arts
White Port Cocktails
Reviews / Arts
North By Northwest
"Those who missed its first incarnation will still be impressed by the performances."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Grimes, Hana
"Grimes begins her version of Ave Maria a capella and the crowd is stunned into silence — until she chokes cartoonishly and we crack up."
Reviews / Arts
Meow Meow's Little Mermaid
"She even sings while tumbling through the air in a harness, impressively."