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

Rhys Anderson, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Blacklist
"Dark Mofo proves us wanting for weird."
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Live Review: Heart Of Darkness
"With the final refrain ebbing, a heavy tension is lifted to thunderous applause."
Reviews / Film & TV
The Greasy Strangler
"It revels in its own gore, foul language, full frontal nudity and outrageous sex scenes."
Reviews / Live
Photos by Eden Meure
Live Review: Eddy Current Suppression Ring, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, JP Shilo
"Judging by the exhausted smiles and wild, adrenalin-soaked eyes of people funnelling outside the crowd won't let the fuckers get them down."
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Live Review: Hymns To The Dead
"Raising its arms the figure yells with the bestial call of the damned as wailing guitar and demented church organ rises through the smoke."
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Live Review: Songs Of The Black Arm Band
"The music is good but the stories contained within them may be carried much longer by the audience."
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Live Review: Urthboy, L-FRESH The LION, Okenyo
"Urthboy works the room like a ringmaster as the audience packs within a breath of each other around."
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Live Review: Intense Hammer Rage, Gape, Mephistopheles, Atra Vetosus, Create The Crayon
"The music is loud and brutal, with fantastic delivery of almost primal incantations and a tongue-in-cheek approach."
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Live Review: Waratah Laneway Street Vibes Party
"Lazer Baby perform a set worth the ticket price alone."
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Live Review: Fat Freddy's Drop, Thomas Oliver
"It felt as if the building would be torn apart — this may sound like hyperbole, but the danger was real!"
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Live Review: Party In The Paddock
"Singer Joe Thowe grabbed his mic and jumped down into the circle pit, stripping down. Naked, he joined the mosh, dick swinging and legs akimbo."
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Live Review: Vulgargrad
"'Hey, let go! I'm not dead, I'm just drunk!' Polish actor Jacek Koman (also Vulgargrad's lead singer) announces."