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

Alex Michael, Journalist

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Reviews / Live
Live Review: Odesza, Yahtzel, Feki
"Heavy-petting couples were scattered liberally throughout the crowd, drifting somewhere between second and third base..."
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Live Review: Waxahatchee, Infinite Void, Julia Why?
"Crutchfield's damn-tight band were all female shouldn't have been something that even registered as surprising — but it was."
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Live Review: Moses Gunn Collective, Noire, Top Lip
"The wildest, most discordant tracks had the shirts-tucked-into-acid-wash-jeans crowd gurning away."
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Live Review: Majical Cloudz, Anatole
"This was a bump and sway kinda night; crescendos were far and few between and all the more impactful for it."
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Live Review: The Rumjacks, Eightball Junkies, Stu Tyrrell
"The band's 13 million+ view YouTube sensation was one of the clear highlights as band and audience alike bopped and jigged..."
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Live Review: Father John Misty
"Tillman was his usual amazing self, rarely missing a note as he danced and finger-waggled his way around stage."
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Live Review: The Smith Street Band, Andrew Jackson Jihad, The Sidekicks, The Sugarcanes
"That moment where it all comes crashing down was second to none."
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Live Review: Volumes Festival
"The crowd, for those playing at home, was an extra two to three per cent hipster more than usual."
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Live Review: Palms
"The bands were a barrelling steam train of energy."
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Live Review: sleepmakeswaves, This Will Destroy You, Gay Paris, Serious Beak
"The sap was saved for the microphone, because the rest of the set was balls-to-the-wall heavy, melodic guitars, equal parts clean and distorted."
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Live Review: Future Classic
"His extended set had everybody on board as expected, what with this being one of only two Australian shows before he’s back frying bigger fish."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Mew - + -
"What we have here is a good pop record, and an okay Mew album."