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

Joe Dolan, Journalist

Joe Dolan

In 2016, I was studying professional writing when an email dropped into my inbox with an opportunity to intern with a budding street press magazine (those were a thing back then). By the end of the eight-or-so-week course I was hooked - and for some bizarre reason,The Musicdecided to keep me around.

Since then I’ve gone on to review countless live gigs, albums, standup sets, theatre shows and gotten to interview some bone fide legends along the way too. Nowadays, I even perform and work on the occasional show myself, but I still like to find time to get out amongst the action whenever I can.

If it weren’t forThe Music, I can genuinely say my life would be totally different. Definitely more boring, to say the least.

Features / Arts
Lawrence Mooney Admits "It Was Sort Of Thrilling" To Be At The Centre Of That Twitter Feud
"Anything that hasn't been said on stage is a genuine, deep dark secret that will never see the light of day."
Reviews / Arts
Joseph Green: Death Of A Ladies Man (MICF)
"Handsome, charming and possessing the type of voice that audiobook companies have wet dreams about."
Reviews / Arts
Silent Comedy On The Yarra River (MICF)
"Regardless of who may pop up, this is an event that is well worth experiencing."
Reviews / Arts
3 Little Gigs
"A few unfortunate downs, but plenty of ups throughout."
Features / Music
Grab Your Inhalers, Cough Are Coming To Take Your Breath Away
"Years ago I would have found the idea of us not doing more [together] weird, but now we are all older and crotchety and hardly tour as it is."
Features / Music
How Time & Temptation Helped Shape Mannequin Death Squad's Debut EP
"Temptation doesn't take long to creep in."
Reviews / Arts
The Architects Of Sound: Arena Spectacular (MICF)
"The attitudes of better-than-you, before-their-time "musicians" is inspired."
Reviews / Arts
Jacqueline Mifsud: Sink Full Of Forks (MICF)
"If all else fails, the phrase "C'est la vie, dickheads" will surely entertain."
Features / Arts
The Who's Who Of Ha Ha: Anne Edmonds, Nazeem Hussain & Aunty Donna Talk MICF
"Now we can't start a day of comedy without six hours of stretching before we get to the work."
Features / Arts
British Comedy Royalty Phill Jupitus Talks Punk Poetry And Audience Intimacy
"If you are all complicit in a notion or idea... I imagine it's like a threesome when it works well."
Features / Arts
Comedian Romesh Ranganathan's Mum's New Celeb Status Has 'Gone To Her Head, Mate'
"She's not being humble about it."
Features / Arts
Josh Ladgrove & His Alter Ego Neal Portenza Admits He's 'Phenomenally Annoying'
"I have no idea why my girlfriend puts up with me."
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