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

Scott Aitken, Journalist

Features / Music
The Latest DJs Attracted To Our Female Pop Stars
"To be honest, Natalie Imbruglia might be a guilty pleasure."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: James Blake, Oliver Tank
As he hummed the melody to Retrograde, the audience let out a huge cheer which ended up looped in with the vocals, returning again and again throughout the song.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Villagers, Courtney Barnett
The audience seemed to feed off as well, becoming more and more responsive as the set progressed and even surpassing the band in volume a few times on Becoming A Jackal with their singing.
Features / Music
Go Go Gadget
"I definitely wasn’t writing the track for commercial purposes or for anyone but myself, really."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Gignition
As much as it would have been good to see them with a band behind, the laid-back vibe of their set was a great closer to another entertaining and varied Gignition performance.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Gold Fields, Phebe Starr
The guys had the whole crowd going and by the time it came to a close there were a few members at the front of the pit looking particularly exhausted. Consider that a job well done.
Features / Music
A New Sentry
"Like I was the first person on a US talk show but that’s mad specific. I haven’t done anything like Hilltop Hoods or Bliss N Eso have done before."
Reviews / Arts
Adam Hills: Happyism
Nevertheless, Hills won over his audience and even received a standing ovation from the majority of the crowd as he left the stage.
Reviews / Arts
Jim Jefferies
Despite his relatively short set of an hour, Jefferies managed to fit in enough laughs to satisfy the rowdy audience and left the stage to a huge round of applause.
Features / Music
Saint Walker
"I guess at the moment a lot of energy’s going into doing this tour and we’re heading back to Canada and we’re doing a bit of a US tour possibly at this stage."
Features / Music
Experimental Chemistry
“I just don’t have enough songs that are frenetic and crazy enough to satisfy my desire to make it crazy."
Features / Music
The Graduate
"We played in Perth a couple of months ago at the Nannup Music Festival and people were so excited they started getting naked in the crowd, which was quite outrageous.”