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

Liam Apter, Journalist

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19, writes about bands. Manages a hip hop group and works as a gardener on the side. Aspirations include having one job.

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Southbound And Falls Festival Lineups Drop
Foals, Disclosure, Bloc Party and more massive names coming to oz for new years..
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Watch: Foals – Mountain At My Gates
Foals team up with Go-Pro for a 360 take on their latest single, Mountain At My Gates..
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Watch: Mark Ronson - I Sat By The Ocean (Featuring Kevin Parker, Andrew Wyatt and Kirin J Callinan)
So. Many. Goddamn. Stars..
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Listen: Meg Mac - Never Be
Meg Mac returns with the first single, Never Be, from her untitled upcoming album..
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According to eBay this is what your average Splendourite will look like
There are a lot of John Lennonesque Glasses, Peasant Blouses and a sprinkling of Fedoras in Byron Bay right now..
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Converse debut new shoe: Chuck Taylor All Star II
First debuted in 1917 Converse are giving their Chuck All Stars an update for the modern world..
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Watch: Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin
Kurt Vile goes pop and tries out some droll lyrics.. Pretty Pimpin' is Kurt Vile's most pop single to date; the drums are foot-tappin' catchy and the almost whip snapping nature of Vile's lyrical flow alongside some jangling guitar riffs are ever-so enjoyable. Within his broader canon, which isn't very broad more lengthy as pretty much every album waltzes along a Bob Dylan vein, Pretty Pimpin isn't so different that you would say he's heading off in a new sonic direction. Rather its frenetic mood makes the song so exciting and the changes don't end quite there. Vile's also tries his hand at whimsical lyrics in Pretty Pimpin like, "I woke up this morning / Didn't recognise the man in the mirror / then I laughed and said, 'Oh silly me, that's just me.'" And sure Vile isn't going to win any awards for comic music writer of 2015 but it's refreshing to see Vile can actually stretch his songwriting capabilities and still sound credible. Pretty Pimpin is the first single from b'lieve i'm goin
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Listen: Foals - Mountain At My Gates
Foals' second single Mountain At My Gates is out..
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Watch: City Calm Down - Rabbit Run
The video for Rabbit Run is a metaphorical representation of the song's lyrics..
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Listen: Royal Headache - Another World
Royal Headache's Another World sounds like The Jam have returned in 2015..
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Listen: Green Buzzard - Hollywood (Tobias Jesso Jr Cover)
And it's Tobias Jesso Jr approved!.
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Listen: Chvrches - Leave No Trace
Chvrches are back. And so is auto-corrects insistence on spelling it Churches..
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