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

Xavier Rubetzki Noonan, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Day Ravies, Parading, Black Springs, Cull - Petersham Bowling Club
Day Ravies were clearly relishing the opportunity to test new material on a faithful audience at Petersham Bowling Club.
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Live Review: Food Court, Babaganouj, Woodland
The band’s presence was cheerful and blokey as all get-out
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Live Review: Hockey Dad, Babaganouj, Shaky Handz
Their catchy melodies and huge choruses just beg for a massive festival crowd.
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Live Review: The Preatures, Bad//Dreems, Gunns - Metro Theatre
The Preatures prove they're the real deal in Sydney.
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Live Review: The White Album Concert - Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
The show's problems lie not in its execution, but the idea itself.
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Live Review: The Creases, Shaky Handz, The Knits - Brighton Up
The Creases don't let the buzz get the better of them at Brighton Up Bar.
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Live Review: Dune Rats, Shining Bird, The Walking Who, The Knits - Oxford Art Factory
Oxford Art Factory saw Dune Rats spin their blend of hazy, weed-drenched slacker tunes.
Reviews / Film & TV
Frank
"When Frank aims to be a comment on artistic pretension and the blind pursuit of the experimental (case in point, the band’s name: Soronprfbs), its aim is confused by the glaring (if sort of wonderful) weirdness of the film itself."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Goodgod Tin Pan Alley
"It wasn’t until South Africa’s best-kept secret Penny Penny took the stage that it became really apparent why this show had to be at the Opera House."
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Live Review: DZ Deathrays, Palms, Foam
For the last song of the tour, every member of every band came on stage, shirtless, for a spirited rendition of the Beastie Boys.
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Live Review: Pixies
"Singing along to the bridge of Monkey Gone To Heaven or the chorus of Where Is My Mind in a full concert hall is a live experience unlike any other."
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Live Review: DMA's, Conics, LCMT
"Delete led to a huge crowd singalong, akin to seeing Oasis play Wonderwall."