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
Martika
Why Martika's Love Of Music Never Left
"I'm not really basically career-driven like I was back when I was a teenager. When I was a teenager, I wanted to take over the world."
Features / Music
Why Broods Wants To Drop It Like It's Hot
"It's hard to know what you're supposed to do to make a difference but, when I figure it out, I'll be able to do it."
Features / Arts
Drag As A "Celebration Of All That Is Female And Beautiful And Girly"
"It's never meant to be misogynistic or putting women down or trying to make fun of who we are as a gender."
Features / Arts
Hot Brown Honey Aren't Just Looking For Cosmetic Change
"If we just put different people in these roles that it will be a change, right? And, yes, it will. But what we're after is an overall change."
Reviews / Arts
Oz Comic-Con
"Two days are not enough."
Reviews / Arts
Double Indemnity
"Holloway's 'Double Indemnity' retains Cain's sharp dialogue — and gritty humour."
Features / Music
Why Writing 'Blastoma' Wasn't So Much Cathartic As Educational
"I wanted nothing more than not to write it as, at the time, I was quite exhausted from touring and personal pain."
Features / Arts
Questioning The Role Of Capitalism
"We're getting greedier and greedier and greedier, but at what cost?"
Features / Arts
Opening Discussion On Industry Equality Through Her Photography
"There's been a lot of press here in the States lately about the lack of females in directorial roles in Hollywood."
Features / Music
How HDTM's Future Is Evolving The Past
"You can hear 'Whole Lotta Love', played on a giant PA and played properly. I think that's actually what is unique about HDTM."
Reviews / Arts
The Glass Menagerie
"TGM evokes the quality of old black and white films with screen titles, dual real-time projections, and a cinematic score."
Reviews / Arts
Straight White Men
"The acting is exceptional, and a scene involving the brothers raving and breakdancing hilariously choreographed."
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