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

Brent Balinski, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Black Keys, Royal Headache
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
Production-wise, this is the most polished the band have ever produced.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: NOFX - Self Entitled
They don’t care if we think they’re stuck in a time warp, and you wouldn’t care either if you were having this much fun.
Features / Arts
Hard Yards
"It’s all kind of been, ‘Oh man, why’d you put saggy tits on your cover’ or whatever. 'Are you thirteen?! Have you ever had a girlfriend? Are you even a person?' But yeah, that’s the story behind the picture.”
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Jim Ward, Jen Buxton
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Aaron Freeman - Marvelous Clouds
If you ever wished Ween would tone it down and grow up a little (though why would you?), then this’d be damn near perfect.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Matt Skiba & The Sekrets - Babylon
His love for teen goth morbidity and pre-fabricated phrases is undiminished, and his way with big choruses and his blending of pop-punk with The Cure is as savvy and enjoyable as it’s ever been.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Tim Barry 40 Miler
On the whole, there aren’t many surprises here, but this is a great collection of simple, honest, urgent, soulful tunes by a chap who’s doing this for the best of reasons.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Frank Turner Manning Bar
Turner and co. put on a tremendous show to a packed Manning Bar. You get the feeling the next album they tour out here will be to much bigger venues.
Features / Music
One Foot Forward
So it was only in the last couple of minutes that I actually looked and went, ‘Fucking hell! This is enormous.’ But yeah, it felt good.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Zappa Plays Zappa
Dweezil managed his father’s guitar pyrotechnics, just with less obnoxiousness.