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

Christopher H James, Journalist

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Album Review: Tenniscoats - All Aboard!
Limited by nothing other than the collective boundaries of their imaginations.
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Album Review: The Datsuns - Death Rattle Boogie
Extensive reconditioning and new spark plugs transmitting fresh inspiration are what’s required to make this motor run again.
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Album Review: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat + Bone
Not quite the prodigal triumph, but it’s hard to think of any other band that could’ve come closer to rediscovering the animal core of pure rock basics. Welcome back.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: This Is Nowhere
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Album Review: Gilded -Terrane
Terrane is finely balanced and reveals something new with each listen.
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Album Review: Dinosaur Jr - I Bet On Sky
A decent shot at trying to overturn a few expectations.
Features / Music
Gold On The C String
Ok, cool, so is there anything you have in mind? What do you want me to play?’
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The Italian Job
The Mondo Cane album is “…half done already. I just have to put it in the assembly line and get it done. It basically was done by the same method the first one was done."
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Community Theatre
"It’s a wonderful feeling to look back and say, ‘Oh my god, I’ve been a woman for 35 years now. I’ve always been insecure about this. I’ve always been self-conscious about this. I didn’t even know it, and I’ve finally let it go,’ and that’s just an incredible death, and I wish it for every single woman out there, because it plagues us all.”
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Album Review: Antony And The Johnsons - Cut the World
Sometimes frustrating, often inspired; what else can be said at the end of the day other than it’s unequivocally, unmistakably, emphatically “Antony”?
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Album Review: Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough
An album littered, or possibly splattered, with great moments, yet it’s not quite the definitive Gaslamp statement the unwashed minions were baying for.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Earth, Margins, Original Past Life