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

Scott Aitken, Journalist

Features / Music
Make Some Noise
"We’re planning to show off a lot of new music we’ve been hiding."
Features / Music
Kandi Crush
"I wanted some Americans to explain themselves and like 200 people commented, some apologised and some were defending it and it’s an interesting debate."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Leonard Cohen
After thanking the crowd and the band one last time, Cohen was treated to a standing ovation before smiling and skipping off the stage.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Jae Laffer, Georgia Fair, Karl Smith
Laffer and his band finished off the set with lead single, Leave A Light On, and quickly filed offstage to a huge round of applause from the crowd.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Pále, Leon Osborn, Sid Pattni, Sable, Ssnoob
It featured a bubbling synth sound and reverb-drenched samples that got a huge response from the crowd, capping off a great night of electronic music and a great tour for the young British musician.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Listen Out
The humble Surrey born brothers performed an array of impressive live adaptations of their wide library of hits, to conclude a day that confirmed Listen Out’s title as not a festival, but a ‘carefully crafted party’.
Features / Music
A Lighter Shade
"I’ve got a load of tracks waiting so it will be interesting in terms of what I do because I don’t really have any plans.”
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Foals, Alpine
The crowd stood silent for fan favourite Spanish Sahara, which gradually builded to an exciting finale and drew one of the biggest responses of the night from the crowd.
Features / Music
Change In The Weather
“I’ve been on Instagram and stuff before but Twitter’s pretty interesting. I followed God the other day, I Am God or something like that."
Features / Music
Orchestral Manoeuvres
“I actually meant for it to be four years but a fellow thought that an orchestral show would be a nice big bang way of coming back and I’m glad he had the idea because it’s gone really well. "
Features / Music
Hardly Working
"We’ve always had a ball in Perth because people really party in a different way."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Bone, The Long Lost Brothers, Mudlark/Aloi, Doctopus
By the time it came around to the epic eight-minute-long Bath Time, the band had powered through all 42 minutes of the album to great effect and proven that while their music is certainly unique, nobody does it better than them.
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