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

Samuel Fell, Journalist

Samuel Fell
Features / Music
The Rising Singer-Songwriter Who's Melding Styles, Genres And Eras
"We were always aware that we were 21st century people... it really does you a disservice to pretend that you're not."
Features / Music
PVT Admit They Threw Caution To The Wind When They Were Young
"I hear it and it's so naive in some ways; the music sounds naive, but to me that sounds really enduring, that sense of joy."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Ben Salter
"A fine set from a man who’s been around the block and who’s still striving to challenge both himself and his audience."
Features / Music
Recording To Tape With The Clash's Mick Jones
"He ended up just coming around every day with his guitar, just jamming all the songs, and we couldn’t get rid of him.”
Features / Music
Ben Lee Is "Vehemently Disinterested In The Past"
"We build all of these stories based on things that happened in the past, and the past doesn’t really exist in any meaningful way."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Charlie Musselwhite, Mal Eastick, Buddy Knox, Dan Hannaford
"Overall, a stellar display of electric blues, done the way it was always meant to be: with feeling, passion and fire."
Features / Music
Why Playing Sydney Opera House Is On Their Bucket List
"We’ve played Carnegie Hall, we’ve played Royal Albert Hall..."
Features / Music
Taking Brit Rock Back For The Working Classes
"No matter how high they rise, these guys have their feet firmly on terra firma."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Pond, Doctopus
They're a band worth keeping an eye on.
Features / Music
Back To Basics
"People ask me if I get tired, and I say, ‘I get tired every night and I fall asleep, and then I wake up and get to the next gig’."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Will.i.am - #willpower
To paraphrase the American writer Samuel Clemens, “There is [goodness] on [#Willpower], but for every [bit of goodness] there are five blushes, ten shudders and a vomit. The [goodness] is too expensive.
Features / Music
Home Grown Tunes
“I mean, how do you grow over time? It’s kind of a struggle. When you’re a pony like me that’s only got a few tricks up his sleeve… how do you go forward?"
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