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

Nic Toupee, Journalist

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Let's Get Chopping
"The whole band worked a lot of jobs for ten or 11 years of playing from ‘95 to 2006 – we went through quite a few jobs, homes, girlfriends.... and then finally everything went right."
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'I Don't Like Nostalgia' Says The Cult's Ian Astbury
The band will play their 1987 album Electric in full on their forthcoming tour.
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The Art Of Making Love
"Working with Rubin in 1986 in New York, we were hanging around at Def Jam with Rick and the studio was a meeting place for everybody on the label. LL Cool J, Run DMC, Beastie Boys – they all seemed to turn up, particularly around dinner time."
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"The fans want to hear the obscure songs, the B-sides."
Stephanie Ashworth makes no apologies for being a hard taskmaster
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Plucked From Memories
"The way things are done these days is so different. We had four years off but the industry has changed so quickly."
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Wandering Home
"We’ve been touring Australia for seven years with this project, and it’s a big wide world out there, man."
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Social Music
"Music is like a collage, an alchemy of elements which turn into something different again. It’s not easy – it’s always an act of will.”
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One Man's Trash
“One day, coming home from college, I found some telephone wires along the side of the road, and some tubes. I picked them up, and when I got home hooked up the tubes to the wires, and it made a hum."
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Reworked Equation
“Right now we’re trying these ideas out as a band, and we’ll see which songs live or die, or at least make it to our tour in Australia,”
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Let It Brew
“It’s in the last couple of years that we started on various occasions to work together again, which we’re very much enjoying."
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Eccentric Detonation
“I’ve been fascinated with the diversity of Australian bands since the ‘90s: The Scientists, The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds, Lubricated Goat..."
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Past Futures
“When the idea of playing our old albums was first suggested I was the biggest opponent of it; I thought as an artist you want to be thinking about your latest album."