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

Rip Nicholson, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Joey Bada$$
"He then treats us to a new joint 'Pull Up', which is punctuated with smoke explosions from four cannons front of stage."
Features / Music
Sometimes The Funkin's Hard On You, Sometimes You're Hard On The Funk
"I have fun performing so it's not a job. I feel like I'm on drugs even though I'm not on drugs anymore."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: BIGSOUND Festival 2017: Night Two Live Reviews
Everything hurts, but there's music to be heard.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: BIGSOUND Festival 2017: Night One Live Reviews
The erstwhile 'night before' - now first official night of - BIGSOUND is always way bigger than you intend it to be.
Features / Music
How Boo Seeka's New Album Is "Like A Photo Album"
"If you told me that I'd do all that in two-and-a-half years I'd have said, 'What drugs are you on? 'Cause I'd be fucking keen to try those!'"
Features / Music
From Bjork To Brisbane
"I've used a lot of electronic manipulation and beats as well as some amazing guest vocalists to create an album in two halves - one for the legs and one for the heart."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Horrorshow
"The way in which these guys recreate these ditties live makes us suspect they'll be ringing in our heads for days."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Body Count, AB Original, Total Eclipse
"Body Count are in full murderous swing."
Features / Music
Ho99o9 Say Their Brand Of Hip Hop/PunK Isn't 'A Pose' Or 'A Trend'
"There's a lot of posers out there. A lot of people fakin' the funk. That's what we are born to get into. It's all real for us."
Features / Music
Skunkhour
Dean Sutherland And Skunkhour Are Making Our Lives Better For One Night Only
"We'll give them what they can recall from the last time they saw us in the '90s. It's always high energy, it's a lot of fun."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Living Colour, Massive
"One of heavy rock's most versatile music acts."
Features / Music
Miles Electric Band 'Is Not A Tribute Band'
"I was always mesmerised by the motion of the drummer - the limbs, like an octopus."
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