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.

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The Top 25 Albums Of 2021 (So Far): Teenage Joans - 'Taste Of Me'
'The Music' team on the releases you need to hear from 2021.
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The Top 25 Albums Of 2021 (So Far): St Vincent - 'Daddy's Home'
'The Music' team on the releases you need to hear from 2021.
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The Top 25 Albums Of 2021 (So Far): June Jones - 'Leafcutter'
'The Music' team on the releases you need to hear from 2021.
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The Top 25 Albums Of 2021 (So Far): Julia Stone - 'Sixty Summers'
'The Music' team on the releases you need to hear from 2021.
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The Top 25 Albums Of 2021 (So Far): Olivia Rodrigo - 'Sour'
'The Music' team on the releases you need to hear from 2021.
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The Top 25 Albums Of 2021 (So Far): Odette - 'Herald'
'The Music' team on the releases you need to hear from 2021.
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The Top 25 Albums Of 2021 (So Far): Mdou Moctar - 'Afrique Victime'
'The Music' team on the releases you need to hear from 2021.
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