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
Laura Mvula On Why Women In Music Should Support Each Other
"As women, as young black women, in music, in our country, that it's important for us and for others that we're seen to be supporting one another."
Features / Music
HMC By Day, Tuff Guy By Nite
"DJing as Late Nite Tuff Guy, it's a lot of fun, but I think I get to be more creative when I'm DJing as DJ HMC."
Features / Music
'You Can't Hold Onto Stuff - You Can't Hold Onto Anything That Was'
"I think that's about going forward. Musicians have had to change and performers have had to change and the whole industry's had to change."
Features / Music
A Love-Hate Relationship With The Guitar & An Acoustic Take On An Illustrious Career
"To play guitar, you must practice eight, nine, ten hours a day, and I'm kind of lazy."
Features / Music
There's Nothing Stranger Than Competing With Your Heroes
"I think a lotta people found out about us through these special projects and maybe weren't aware of what we do the other 99% of the time."
Features / Music
Electric Guest Made A "Garbage" Album Before Coming Up With 'Plural'
"We'd send the stuff into the label and they're like, 'Oh, this is pretty dark, this is pretty heavy - you should keep writing.'"
Features / Music
Expanding Horizons While Getting Closer To Himself Than Ever Before
"The reality is this is the closest thing to me as a person and as a musician and as a music lover as I've ever done."
News / Music
EXCLUSIVE: US DJ Porter Robinson Laments Syd Lockouts & Aus Dance Culture
"I think clubbing particularly in Sydney is not as easy as it used to be."
Features / Music
Porter Robinson & Madeon
One Song, One Tour: Robinson & Madeon's 'Fleeting' Collab After A 10-Year Friendship
"We are not making an album and we do not have more music together."
Features / Music
Why Basement Jaxx Don't Care For Music Run By 'Advertising People'
"There seems to be a corporate mindset."
Features / Music
Why Little Simz Doesn't Wanna Be Boxed In As A Grime MC
"It's not to say that I'm not into grime or anything like that..."
Features / Music
Why Nobody's Holding NAO's Hand In The Studio
"I found the power in just telling people how much this album is a part of me, how much I put into it, in writing all the songs."
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