Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Brynn Davies, Journalist

Features / Music
Amarillo Look For Their "Lightning In A Bottle" Moment
"Listen to The Stones play Gimme Shelter live - they can't even play that song again. That event happened once, only once..."
Features / Music
More Dick & Fart Jokes In Metal, Please
"So I'm out there playing with dildos in the street at 8.30 in the morning on a Monday, it was literally the worst time..."
Features / Music
Getting Sticky With STIFI In The Sex Capital Of The World
"I think Crabs got a bit too excited and basically beat the crap out of Dann. Dann could hardly walk... He was fucking paralytic."
Features / Arts
The Bread Winners You Knead In Your Life
The humble bap, roll and bloomer have been elevated to the highest culinary echelons by genius-level bakers.
Features / Music
Scratching The Turntables Balls-Out
"I'm a very aggressive, headstrong DJ, so I tend to go in all balls-out... I'm like 'na, let's just smash it'."
Features / Arts
D'oh D'oh Doughnuts
Mmmmmmmm dooooooughnuts. We check out four of Melbourne's best.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, '68
"Cannons blasted streamers from the rafters and smoke from the stage; we screamed and gnashed our teeth."
Features / Music
Vaudrey
Why Vaudrey Moved To Brooklyn To Record
"Early ideas and inflections can be so valuable, so if you're set up always and can capture these you're winning."
Features / Music
Why Music Is A Private Experience For Andrew Samuel
"It is at times a very dark set of songs, that has been called 'unnerving in its bleakness'."
Features / Music
The Ocean Party And The Smelliest Tour Bus In Australia
"[It's] not a good smell - six guys in a stuffy van who haven't showered for two weeks. We can't notice, but I'm sure everyone else can."
Features / Music
The Patron Of Mullum Fest Wants You To Ask All The Stupid Questions
"It's interesting because when people ask you those questions, 'What have you learnt?' you go 'God, I dunno.'"
Features / Music
Caravana Sun On Sharing A Bond To The Australian Landscape
"We didn’t want to be like these white guys trying to be black..."
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