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

Lauren Baxter, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Ali Barter – Hello, I'm Doing My Best
"[R]aw and uninhibited."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Kim Gordon – No Home Record
"[S]he uses creation as a tool of resistance."
News / Music
Major Sale Of TEG To US Company Promises 'More & More Local Tours'
"Business as usual for our touring businesses."
Features / Music
Photo by Renee Rodenkirchen.
Dallas Green Isn't 'A Sad Person' So Stop Dismissing Him As Such
Scientists say we are living in the loneliest era of human civilisation. Dallas Green, aka City & Colour, tells Lauren Baxter why his "pill for loneliness" will always be music.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: City & Colour, The Jezabels, Odette, Didirri
"We are watching grief, watching emotions being processed in real time."
News / Film & TV
How Red Wine & Lohan Helped Me & Over 1m Aussies Through 'The Masked Singer' Premiere
"'Bachelor' Osher is dead, long live 'Masked Singer' Osher."
News / Music
Forget The Other Guesses, These 'Masked Singer' Picks Are The Real Hot Tips (Probably, Maybe)
'The Masked Singer' Australia makes its debut on Monday, and because we've been sucked into the same rabbit hole as everyone else, we've spent the past week analysing the clues and crunching the numbers to determine who is (probably) under those whacky costumes.
News / Music
Zheani Sparkes. Pic via YouTube.
Australian Rapper Zheani Sparkes Files Police Report Against Die Antwoord's Ninja
As reported by 'The Sydney Morning Herald'.
News / Music
Beloved Indie Artist, Daniel Johnston, Passes Away
"No matter how dark the day... 'true love will find you in the end'."
News / Music
Is Drug Law Reform In Australia’s Future? BIGSOUND Panel Suggests Yes
The key takeaways from BIGSOUND's 'Health & Safety: Music's Long-needed Wake-up Call' panel.
Features / Music
The Middle East Were Never Going To Be Splendour's Mystery Act
Back doing things on their own terms, Lauren Baxter returns to 2011 with Jordan Ireland of The Middle East.
News / Music
'It’s Not A Question If You Have A Dick': Punk Professor Vivien Goldman Schools BIGSOUND
On her first trip to Australia, the Professor Of Punk, Vivien Goldman, schooled BIGSOUND on how punk liberated women artists in the '70s and how learnings from that era can be applied today.