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

Jessica Dale, Journalist

Features / Music
Why This Album Wasn't Exactly A Blank Slate For Jess Locke
"It's like a bit of a team so that's certainly new compared to how I've been doing things before."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Pete Tong & The Heritage Orchestra
"If you get the chance to see Tong and co live, don't let it slip by you."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Bernard Fanning & The Black Fins, Sahara Beck
"If you've travelled down from Armidale, tell Barnaby Joyce to get fucked."
Features / Music
Writing Globally Relatable Tunes Is Out Of This World
"My favourite kind of thing at the moment is I get to pick supports to go on tour with me."
Features / Music
Taking The Space, Patience And Time To Do 'My Queen' Justice
"I was really giving myself a lot of space and patience and time to just write and rewrite and co-write and pre-produce, and just get really in the whole creation of the songs."
News / Music
"I'm Up Against My Ex-husband": Here's What This Year's ARIA Nominees Had To Say
From the mouths of PNAU, Busby Marou, Kasey Chambers and Vera Blue...
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Alex Lahey, Sloan Peterson, Morning TV
"As much as the night was a celebration of her latest work, Lahey put together a setlist that both rewarded and enticed the crowd with songs new and old."
Features / Music
Creating A Genre Of Her Own For Album #1
"I just wasn't present, I wasn't aware. I was inflamed and manic when I was awake. I'm so proud of myself for achieving what I was able to achieve in writing those albums and performing."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Tina Arena
"If you were there and didn't get overcome with emotion at that point, you have no soul."
Features / Music
Why It Took Breaking Up To Learn How To Write Together
"It's been a sort of dream to write like this together, so we finally got there."
News / Music
Eddie Vedder during Pearl Jam's Wrigley Field concerts last year
We Saw Pearl Jam's New Doco And It Was Not What We Expected
A review from our resident Pearl Jam fan.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Getaway Plan, Harbours
"They played a cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams', before disappearing for a mid-set intermission — quite long a break, roughly 20-25 minutes, considering most of their crowd is under 30…"
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