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
RZA On "The Brotherhood, The Loyalty, The Fight Against Oppression"
Why Martial Arts Is A Lifelong Love For RZA
Features / Music
Why Neoteric Wants To Be A Conduit Towards New Sounds
"I don’t want to be the guy at the massive festival with his hands in a heart playing a choreographed set to pyrotechnics"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Spandau Ballet
"The Brits open the show with the new 'Soul Boy' – a throwback to 'Gold', complete with signature Steve Norman sax solo"
Features / Music
Why He's Okay With Knee-Jerk Reactions To Passion Pit
“I always wait about six months after a record is released, particularly a Passion Pit record, for people to kind of come around to it"
News / Film & TV
RZA and Paul Walker in Brick Mansions Pic via Facebook
RZA On Paul Walker Passing: 'I Could Have Hung With Him For The Rest Of My Life'
Rapper talks working with the late actor before his death
Features / Music
Brodinski On Working With Kanye And Challenging The Parameters Of Techno
“I wanted to make an album that was a bit surprising, too – just moving the walls, breaking them and opening the spectrum.”
Reviews / Live
Live Review: A$AP Ferg
Live, even more than on record, upwardly mobile hip hop luminary A$AP Ferg proved himself a charismatic, dynamic and, importantly, punctual performer to an eager, receptive crowd
Features / Music
What To Do When Tommy Lee Emails You
"I’m like, ‘I just got an email from Tommy Lee!'"
Features / Music
"We’re Not A Hip Hop Group"
And you really shouldn't call them "alt-hip hop" either.
Features / Music
Their Next Album Should Be More "Organic"
The siblings turn their focus to album number two.
Features / Arts
Just A Fully Naked Encounter With Harley Breen
“This title came from a conversation I was having with a young lady who lives on the other side of the world in Belfast, Northern Ireland."
Features / Arts
She's Had A Skins-full
"It was brilliant to get scriptwriting and acting experience, though. And they give you food."
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