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 / Film & TV
Vampires, Metahumans And Superheroes: The Scoop From The Australian Movie & Comic Expo
We catch up with Cleverman's Hunter Page-Lochard The Vampire Diaries' Malese Jow and Pretty Little Liar Tammin Sursok.
Features / Music
Driven Wilde By '80s Nostalgia
"The first gig, there was a lovely bunch of flowers and a bottle of champagne."
Features / Music
On Being An Annoying Kid And Covering Your Bases For A Diverse Crowd
"If I can create some extra confusion around my record, then it's good, I think!"
Features / Music
BLACKstreet
Don't Expect A Karaoke Set From BLACKstreet
"I wouldn't even call it a 'classic' because it just stays so relevant all the time."
Features / Music
Kylie Auldist On Kungs' Out Of Tune Back-Up Singers Singing Her Parts
"I don't wanna be Engelbert Humperdinck."
Features / Music
Mac Miller Hopes No One Thinks He Thinks Trump Is Cool
"[Ariana Grande] definitely influenced the vibe of the record."
Features / Arts
Melbourne Wants To Eat Your Brain: Get Your Zombie On
"The Victorian Capital is Australia's zombie hot spot, with shuffles and obstacle courses to give fans the quintessential apocalyptic experience."
Features / Music
Why Gregory Porter Thinks American Music Is Experienced Better From A Distance
"We all can't go off the rails and off the chart and do whatever it is that we wanna do in terms of genre-leaping."
Reviews / Arts
Margaret Cho: PsyCHO
"There are salaciously OMG confessions - like how Cho nabbed prescription painkillers from the late glamour model Anna Nicole Smith."
Features / Music
Blu Cantrell
Why Blu Cantrell Scared Men With 'Hit 'Em Up Style'
"Some guys would come up to me and say, 'Oh, 'Hit 'Em Up Style' - I'm afraid of you!'"
News / Music
Blu Cantrell Says R&B These Days Is 'Played Out' And 'Ridiculous'
She's heading down under with Nelly, TLC and co. for that huge R&B reunion!
Reviews / Arts
Disgraced
"This narrative remains a deeply unsettling portrait of both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in contemporary America."
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