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

Tom Hersey, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Clutch, Cosmic Psychos
"Ross Knight's unshaven face should replace the Queen's on our $5 notes."
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Live Review: The Sword, Clowns, American Sharks, Hobo Magic
"John D Cronise and Kyle Shutt play licks upon licks upon licks like an air guitarist's wet dream."
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Live Review: High On Fire, Smoke, Kyzer Soze
"Lemmy's dead and Phil Anselmo is a racist; now one of the only personalities the metal world has to idolise is Matt Pike."
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Live Review: Tiny Ruins
"The beauty of the 'intimate' show — it forges a cast-iron link between whoever is in attendance and the performer."
Features / Music
Heading In A Different Direction, Whether You Like It Or Not
"High Country is the sound of a band that's been around for 10 years and seen a thing or two."
Features / Music
The Music 2015 Writers' Poll: Tom Hersey
Features / Music
Why Josh Pyke Is Mixing It Up And Living On His Own Time
"I am ambitious, and I will always be, but my ambition rests more around making better and better music, rather than getting bigger and bigger."
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Live Review: Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Smoke
"The exploitative uneasiness present in the filmographies of Russ Meyer or Herschell Gordon Lewis has found its way onto all of the band's records."
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Live Review: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Alex Cameron
"It's one of those rare nights — the crowd is seeing the right band at the right venue on the back of the right album, everything has come together."
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Live Review: Oddisee, Sampa The Great, Ali The Great
"Sometimes during the set, the hyper-articulate motor mouth seems like he's just showing off."
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Live Review: Marlon Williams & The Yarra Benders, Ben Salter
"Woolly Mammoth staff hurriedly put out chairs in the mosh pit."
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Live Review: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Martyr Privates
"Watching them on stage, it seems that this band could really go anywhere with their music and it would come off sounding excellent."