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

Carly Packer, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Mountain Goat Valley Crawl
"The nascent annual event has made it its mission to fill the precinct with the sounds of some seriously excellent emergent and established acts of all walks."
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Live Review: St Jerome's Laneway Festival
"St Jerome’s Laneway Festival has pulled out all the stops this year."
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Live Review: SixFtHick, Velociraptor, SPOD, WHALEHOUSE
"This writer wonders why [SixFtHick] haven’t been pushed to the very forefront of Australia’s rock'n'roll industry."
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Live Review: Max Chillen & The Kerbside Collective, FeelsClub, First Beige
"Max Chillen & The Kerbside Collective certainly live up to the hype they’ve so quickly garnered."
Features / Music
The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Carly Packer
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Wildlife #9: From Oslo, YELLOWCATREDCAT
"It only takes a few songs to get the growing crowd moving and thrashing to every note."
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Live Review: Bad Pony, The Con & The Liar, Landings
"The set is filled with an almost rhythmic energy... endearing and enduring, filling both body and mind."
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Live Review: Good Boy, Zefereli, Make More, Simi Lacroix
"These boys are an iconic Brisbane band in the making if ever we've seen one, and the voice of latter-day Gen Y."
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Live Review: The Hard Aches, FOLEY!, The Strums, YELLOWCATREDCAT
"People are crowd-surfing onto the stage and even being crushed against the Crowbar's low ceiling."
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Live Review: I Love Life Festival
The mini-fest returns in 2016 and brings with it a rambunctious raft of punk-rock ebullience for the ages.
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Live Review: BUGS, The Con & The Liar
"BUGS are experts at engaging their audience, and there are many moments where we see people sitting on each other's shoulders."
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Live Review: Morning Harvey, Sans Parents, Sawtooth
"Groovy keyboard notes and fat, trembling bass lines."
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