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
From Fake IDs To Manning The Decks
"We just walked over the main hill and looked down at this amphitheatre — and it was people dancing everywhere, an unreal vibe."
Features / Music
There's Always Stuff Cooking For Danny Byrd
"If I get my brandy on the rider, it'll be a hype set!"
Features / Music
Producing Skillz And Paying Bills
"If I try to keep too close an eye on what's cool and what's not, I lose sight of what it was I was trying to achieve myself."
Features / Music
Why Elliphant Is Inspired By Her Difficult Childhood
"I think my childhood, and what [my mother] gave me, was just giving me a lot of inspiration for my creative expression."
Features / Arts
Why Adam Zwar Is Staging Agony Live
"I saw the writing on the wall around 2001. I was pretty keen to get out..."
Features / Music
There's A New King In Town, And He's Mexican
"Here's a concept that you know already — be it Elvis or an American pop tune or universal pop tune — and then [I] flip it, put a moustache on it and change it."
Features / Arts
Carrie Brownstein Says She Didn't Write A Rock Memoir
"There's kind of a voracious desire to know everything and a sense of entitlement about what we're allowed to know."
Features / Music
Why Dr Motte Might Become A Monk
"[If] I cannot do anything to protect my privacy and my freedom, I will go to a Buddhist monastery and become a monk!"
Features / Arts
Catching Up With Street Artist Simon Luxton
"The ticket-holders are what keep it alive. I guess they can almost make themselves feel like shareholders in these events because, without them, they don't exist."
Features / Music
Cumbia Cosmonauts May Have Accidentally Cornered A Niche Market
"I think ['world music'] is an outdated concept ... but I wanna be positive and constructive about it."
Features / Film & TV
On Women Directors, Ripping Off Woody Allen And Adam Scott Acting Like A Creep
"It was very difficult to find somebody who was willing to play someone so shitty."
Reviews / Arts
Desdemona
"Ultimately, Desdemona's narratives transcend time and place."
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