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

Liz Galinovic, Journalist

Features / Music
Cretan dancing
Good Or Shit: Australian Folk Music
Maybe there is something in us creating a new Australian folk culture, one that reflects the kind of people we are. Dances we can do at weddings and various festivities. Songs we can sing around campfires for generations.
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Good Or Shit: Delilah And The Dangers Of Googling
You start at looking up True Blood and end at 'vampire porn'. It's a great big cyber adventure.
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Good Or Shit: Mood Swing
Today we go "dancing through queues and crowds with more cheer than Santa on meth".
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Good Or Shit: How Weed Improves A Festival Vibe
Attendees to a Dutch festival have their water bottles confiscated but their weed is allowed through.
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Good Or Shit: Gurrumul - world music or Australian music?
I hope that Gurrumul’s overarching ability to touch people with his music is a sign that perception in this country is starting to change.
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Good Or Shit: How Beyonce Healed The World
Australia is not perfect, we have many race issues, but we can give ourselves a little pat on the back for being too lazy to lynch.
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Good Or Shit: How To Win A Stereo Beef
Ladino, Judeo-Spanish folk vs progressive house. Two genres enter the ring, only one will leave...
Features / Film & TV
A Ridley Scott Film
"They were contraceptives with KY Jelly,” Ridley Scott lets us in on some filmmaking tricks on the eve of the release of Prometheus.
Features / Music
Good Or Shit: Middle Class Hip Hop Vs Commission House Rap
With the general middle class-ness of local hip hop, Sky'High's commission house-ness could frighten a few of those girls in frocks.
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Good Or Shit: Razzle Or Dazzle
Missy Higgins' music is nice if a bit meh.
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Heaps Of Songs
"If you want to do it because you want to get famous, don’t bother. You will be very unhappy and it’s unlikely you will get famous," says Imogen Heap about life in the music industry.
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Oooh ooh ooh, cushion
Good Or Shit: Oooh Ooh Ooh, Matt Corby
Matt Corby: one hit wonder or king of the oooh ooh oohs?