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

Cyclone Wehner, Contributor

Cyclone Wehner

Cyclone Wehner is a Melbourne journalist writing about R&B, hip hop, dance music, synth-pop, and film/TV. She's interviewed everyone from Beyoncé to Daft Punk to Jane Campion. Cyclone has also DJed at feted clubs like Revolver. She is obsessed with vampires and, currently, curating concept playlists.

Features / Music
How Rage Against The Machine Shapes Citizen Kay's Live Shows
"I didn't put a filter on myself in whatever way."
Features / Music
Screening Out The Haters & Focusing On Making Good Music
"There was an older generation who sort of pushed back against the music that I was making."
Features / Music
Another New Album, Another New Style; The Man's GoT Ideas
"... Your job is to impress people; to win people over. The way I've been thinking about 'True Care' is the same way."
Features / Music
"I am not Madonna. I am Tina."
"It's not an easy thing being a woman in the music industry, because you can be treated like an object."
News / Music
Taylor Swift Is Confronting The Biggest Backlash Of Her Career
Following the release of her new single.
Features / Music
The Honest And Raw Inspirations Behind His Latest Release
"The primary goal that I was striving for was to really just share my story."
Features / Music
The Influencers And Sounds Driving Mallrat's Forthcoming EP
"I'm so excited to release it - I think it'll be out by the end of the year."
Features / Music
Sampling Lance Ferguson's Own Samples
"It's really important for me that both the originals and the reconstituted songs stand up as pieces of music on their own two feet."
Features / Music
Is Australian Recognition Without Global Validation Possible?
"I was at WOMAD[elaide] at the start of the year and [Hiatus Kaiyote singer] Nai Palm was in the crowd... no one knew who she was."
Features / Music
The Bombay Royale Have Their Sights Set On Bollywood
"Ironically, there's no one really in India doing what we do, in a way - in terms of that big band sound."
Features / Music
On The Big Futures That Have Grown Out Of Past Little BIGSOUNDs
"I think the days of sitting in the room and just listening to people talk all day are well and truly gone."
Features / Music
If Hip Hop Is A Young Man's Game, Then Jay Z Just Changed The Rules With '4:44'
"Authoritative, empowering and woke."
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