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

Rip Nicholson, Journalist

Reviews / Arts
Jim Jefferies
"A bloke who's half drunk and is just gonna chat a bit."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Danny Brown
"Brown, with a half-cut swagger, saves the stunnas for last, '25 Bucks' and 'Dip' to get the Tivoli turnt and tilted."
Features / Music
Looking Out For The Youngbloods
"We always need to pass on our stories, our experience and our journey because that could be a learning curve for them."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Underachievers, Powers Pleasant
"A new school whose every beat-drop, bounce and announce is followed like Beast Coast Movement was a dictatorship."
Features / Music
Back Together Again And Hitting The Road
"We're grown-ass men but we had to — not prove to each other — but to show to each other. We had a lot to express."
Features / Music
Why Milwaukee Banks Are Stuck In The Middle, Somewhere
"I just wanted to go in and that was me going in. I had to dust those shoulders down, man."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Wu-Tang Clan
"This seemingly lifetime event left an aftertaste more like an anticipated encounter with a dream girl for a short tryst behind the bushes."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Exit Strategy, Rezadent, Nuggy Gee, Grime Connoisseurs, Pauly B
"While the bar is slow and moody at best, the venue once again proves worthy for a raucous show-out of boom-bap."
Features / Music
Moving From Experimental To Traditional
"If something really hits from the audience you tend to follow that musical thread."
News / Music
Watch The Tongue's Aussie-First Interactive 360-Degree Video Clip Before His Album Tour
The acclaimed rapper has joined an elite few who have constructed a mind-bending, all-encompassing accompaniment for their music. Behold it and tremble
Features / Music
Why New Producers Are Like New Girlfriends
"I wanted something that people could move to, but I still wanted it to be lyrically interesting. Because that can happen, it can be both."
Features / Music
Okmalumkoolkat's Mission Is To Instil Confidence In Kids
"Sometimes if DJ Zharp Zharp is struggling I will have Okmalumkoolkat come help him."
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