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

Ben E Webbs, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Milk! Records - Good For You Tour
"Leave it to Barnett and Cloher to take their talent and good fortune and funnel it into a joyously makeshift lo-fi Aussie rock'n'roll circus."
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Live Review: Max Savage - Astral Weeks
"Some drongo punter opened the venue's fire escape causing an alarm to pierce any sense of intimacy that might've been forged."
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Live Review: Max Savage - Born To Run
"...Less of a tribute to an extremely successful bloke from New Jersey, and more of a tribute to the power of amazing songs."
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Live Review: St Jerome's Laneway Festival
Laneway Adelaide was reminiscent of the Big Day Out at its prime.
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Live Review: Taylor Swift
"Swift is a contemporary cultural phenomenon — a bonafide world famous pop star in a large scale production."
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Live Review: They Might Be Giants, Cosmo Thundercat
"TMBG would probably argue that 'euphoria' is as valid an emotional response to art as any other."
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Live Review: Bahamas, Fraser A Gorman
"Bahamas is fucking sublime."
Features / Music
The 9 Types Of Punter I Met At An '80s Revival Gig
All your favourites, including the slightly camp Bruce Willis doppelganger.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Drones
"'I wouldn't watch your fucking band and talk through your fucking songs'," [Liddiard] taunted."
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Live Review: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, The Red Paintings, Sincerely Grizzly
"[The Red Paintings perform] like some ill-advised Circus-Oz/Paramore collaboration fronted by a character Chris Lilley retired for being too ludicrous."
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Live Review: The Peep Tempel, Horror My Friend, Battlehounds
"The band’s radio singles are delivered with an outrageous Aussie accent that flirts with novelty, yet on stage Scott lapses blatantly into cockney."
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Live Review: Motley Crue, Alice Cooper
"Having special guest Alice Cooper along was a patently bad move, since his band outclasses the headliner in every possible way"
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