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

Annelise Ball, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Little May, E^st, Robert Muinos
Confessing they're massive dorks who've planned the set as an "acoustic mountain", Field informs we're now ascending to the "angsty, restless, lovelorn section".
Reviews / Arts
Sameena Zehra: Homicidal Pacifist
"Zehra still struggles to suppress her homicidal tendencies when confronted with fuckwits."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Gospel Brunch
"The festival director herself, Natalie Lidgerwood, works the pews handing out Pope Joan's brunch boxes like a flight attendant."
Features / Music
Why Underpreparing For The New Album Turned Out To Be For The Best
"It added a great pressure and at times resulted in things being a little different than expected."
Features / Music
Things Are Changing For Australia's Coolest (Expecting) Opera Mum
"It's marking the end of an era in my life."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: John Butler Trio, Tinpan Orange
"One princess pre-schooler twirls around joyfully during 'Pickapart', while another little lady tries super hard to jump to the beat."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Leon Bridges, Ainslie Wills
"Bridges dances and shimmies his way around the stage in slick mustard tweed."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Mac DeMarco, GUM, Free Time
"Another One is romantic enough to inspire swaying cigarette lighters, one 'accidentally' lighting up a punter's joint."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Husky, Gena Rose Bruce, Coda Chroma
"Welcome home, Husky. We’re very glad you’re back."
Features / Music
Get Up And Dance To The Fiddle With The East Pointers
"It makes it so much better when people get up and dance."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Chris Cornell, Dave Leaupepe
"Punters walk out, ears ringing, knowing Chris Cornell is a truly masterful soundsmith indeed."
Features / Music
On Controversial T-Shirt Slogans, The Paris Terror Attacks And Powerful Messages In Music
"There's constantly horrible and horrific things happening on our planet, and this was yet another one."