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

Liz Galinovic, Journalist

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Without getting too morbid, Bat For Lashes' hit 'Laura' would be a rad funeral song.
Good Or Shit: Funeral Songs
Should you even care what songs will be played at your funeral? Just go with anything from Jeff Buckley and you'll be set.
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Good Or Shit: Australia Day
Johnny Farnham's The Voice. Bringing Australians together since 1986.
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So there is someone out there who didn't go ga-ga for Impala.
Good Or Shit: Tame Impala
Liz Galinovic is preparing herself for an onslaught from the Tame Impala faithful - just like she received from those olive fanatics.
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Good Or Shit: Christmas Road Trips
A mother and daughter bonding session over the course of a seven-hour road trip, complete with a random mix of tunes. Yep, this was Christmas.
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Good Or Shit: The Shift
Be it the end of the year - or the end of the world - Good Or Shit reflects on a year of change, learning how to be a woman and top shelf R&B
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Good Or Shit: Solange Knowles
Solange Knowles: I owned Sol-Angel And The Hadley St. Dreams but it didn’t have a huge effect on me. Nothing like the effect Losing You is having on me. I practically have Solangitis.
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Musicians like Tom Waits once wrote songs for peace, but what about now?
Good Or Shit: Israel/Palestine
Perhaps it is time our musicians drop the peanuts and started throwing a few stones at the gorillas.
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Good Or Shit: Kendrick Lamar
He is clever but he hasn’t tried to be overly clever. It’s not going to take you weeks of constant listening to figure out what the hell he’s on about while waiting for the tunes to grow on you.
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Good Or Shit: Tragic Kingdom
Back then, No Doubt is what we needed. And what they’ve got now isn’t hitting the same spot. And maybe that’s because that spot isn’t there anymore. Maybe we have grown up and grown out of it. And maybe No Doubt should too.
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Good Or Shit: Urthboy And Politics
This country is home to loads of Empire-loving fogies. Out of date and out of touch with the reality of contemporary Australia.
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Miranda Lambert seeking revenge in Gunpowder And Lead
Good Or Shit: Misogyny Vs Misandry
I have learnt a new word - misandry. Without getting too technical, it means ‘the hatred of men and boys’. That’s right there is a word for this and it’s not ‘feminism’ as many people like to assert.
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Good Or Shit: Reinventing An Image
It’s so hard to win. Lana Del Rey - reinvention - massive criticism. Lady Gaga - reinvention - massive love. Snoop Lion - reinvention - massive amounts of laughter.