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.

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Midge Ure, Sammy Paul
Ure closes with a taste of what is hopefully to come: Ultravox’s enduring Dancing With Tears In My Eyes.
Features / Music
Big Klock
“I thought, Okay, so these guys discover Detroit now again... For the young kids this is something completely new and they really like it because it’s just timeless, good music."
Features / Music
Like A Diamond
“I was really kind of stand-offish about putting it on the album at first, but I just thought, Nah, let’s go for it – let’s do it. You only live once.”
Features / Music
Finding His Balance
The UK DJ gave up hard house when he realised "All these records sound the same!"
Features / Music
A Night At The Aston
"In terms of the album itself, we don’t wanna give too much away, I guess – and, at the end of the day, it’s impossible to really do it justice in words, anyway."
Features / Music
Ultra Cool
"We were a bit lost. We weren't the electronic rock band that they thought we were. We were a bit confused about what we actually were at the time."
News / Music
Pharoahe Monch Confirms Another M-Phazes Collab
US hip hop artists also admits he supports tougher gun laws in the US.
Features / Music
Keepin' It Real
"We’re happy that we had Cherry Wine – she sounds great on it – and it’s my way of representing for a good friend who I shared the same birthday with, September 14th, which was really our connection.”
Features / Music
A Beautiful Thing
“For someone like me, it’s more difficult now because the radio want to play all their electronic stuff, whatever’s hip, and it’s harder to get guitar music played."
Features / Music
Sonic Animation
New Palettes
“It’s a new learning experience, really – it’s like coming back into the industry and starting from scratch, with the exception [that] people recognise the name.”
Features / Music
Let There Be (Soulful) Rock
“They’re getting quite popular in England. Some churches have become venues as well now. There’s a popular one in London called Union Chapel and most people play there..."
Features / Music
Castles Made Of Sand
“I decided that, with the music, I was just gonna go into it without putting these kind of boundaries on myself or expectations of trying to make something for radio or to please a certain audience or anything like that.”
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