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 / Arts
The Ladies Taking On Sydney's Just For Laughs
"Sometimes I do get the sense [that], if you don't hit them in the eye straight away as a woman on stage, maybe you'll have your work cut out for you."
Features / Music
Marcus Mumford On Being A B-Boy, Leather Jackets And Their Development
"I'm not a purist. I love too many types of music to be able to call myself a purist. And I respect purists."
Features / Music
Raury Recalls A "Random Girl" Trying To "Tongue [Him] Down" At Last Year's Laneway
"I want a lot of kids to stumble across this album and know that a kid just like me made it."
Features / Music
How To Support Your Rivals
"We've always worked closely together. So us having albums that are coming out at a similar time kinda works well for both of us."
News / Music
Dear Azealia Banks, Why Do You Keep Slinging 'Faggot' As An Insult?
"It's her use of 'faggot' that makes headlines. Banks seems to use it as a default diss."
Features / Music
Sad Grrrls Club Stands Up To Male-Dominated Festival Bills
"It's a way of trying to send the message, not just to the mainstream music industry, but to female musicians and to all musicians."
Reviews / Arts
How Came That Blood
"The connections here between worker exploitation, gender violence and psycho-myth obscure."
News / Music
Banoffee Launches Fashion Line With Melbourne Brand
"All the clothing was designed at the same time that I was making the tracks for this EP, so everything ties in."
Features / Arts
Little Esther Loves Rifling Through Audience Members' Bags
"I really just get up there and I talk about all of the things that are wrong with me."
Features / Arts
Why Absinthe Is 'Intimate And Soft' Circus Arts
"We try to make it look as easy and effortless as possible. But it takes a lot of trust in each other."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Toni Braxton
"Nowadays Braxton is classified as 'adult contemporary' yet she presaged Jessie Ware's 'nightbus' and Beyoncé's Drunk In Love era."
Features / Music
On Compliments From Mark Ronson, Being A Tea Boy And Getting Haters
"If it comes down to us playing in front of volunteers, we've got mad respect for those people."
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