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
Why MC Raceless Didn't Want To Be Part Of The Human Race
"I don't know if I like the name any more but, when I was younger, I had a real hatred for racism and didn't wanna be part of the human race."
Features / Music
Make What You Want To Make - Backlash Be Damned
"We don't wanna be fettered by commercial expectations. We just wanna say what we have to say and kinda let it be at that."
Reviews / Arts
Miss Julie
"Miss Julie depicts female victimhood when today's feminism emphasises empowerment and transcendence. As such, his new ending will polarise."
Reviews / Arts
Supanova Pop Culture Expo
"Since Supanova launched in Sydney back in 2002, it's developed into a (sub)cultural phenomena."
Features / Music
How Frikstailers Hack Video Game Interfaces To Save Money
"We use a lot of video game interfaces we hacked and we turned into instruments... We try not to spend a million dollars on it."
Features / Music
Being Cavity Searched, Drake's Personal Barber & Being Cross-Format Entertainers
"[We're] not so much a band as we are kind of cross-format entertainers."
Features / Music
Clairy Browne
Why Clairy Browne Is A "Boss Bitch"
"You can be a confident person and have a lot to say and be friendly and gregarious and whatever, but you still can have fear inside…"
Features / Arts
Easily Offended People Shouldn't Leave The House
"If you're easily offended, please don't come."
Reviews / Arts
Martin Dunlop - Murder, He Spoke
"As hysterically funny as it is ingenious."
Reviews / Arts
Charlie Pickering - How To Tame A Wild Squirrel
"The random squirrel metaphor is explained at the end."
Features / Music
Boulevards' Jamil Rashad On Funk, Punk And Genres
"Funk music to me is just like punk music. It's rebellious and it's fun, it's sexy — and it makes you move. It makes you feel free."
Features / Music
Bringing People Together Under "The Banner Of House"
"We'll be sticking to our core ethos - high standard DJs through a crisp sound system in the Sunday afternoon at a cheap and cheerful price."
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