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

Sean Drill, Journalist

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Live Review: RTRFM Radiothon Party 2016
"Cocktails flowed as selector after selector took to the decks."
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Live Review: sleepmakeswaves, The Contortionist, Tangled Thought Of Leaving
"The ethereally beautiful will quickly devolve into a sonic barrage that shakes at the listener's core."
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Live Review: Jam Sandwich
"Frontman Steven Knoth took a break between songs to discuss his own mental health issues that arose from being the victim of an unprovoked assault nearly a decade ago."
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Live Review: Babicka, Mic Mills, Andrew Sinclair
"Babicka and collaborator Mic Mills descended with a collection of dubplates, white labels and digital releases."
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Live Review: Usurper of Modern Medicine, Jacob Diamond
"Dominated with heavy beats, pulsing bass and thundering synths."
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Live Review: Mt Mountain, Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving, Skullcave, Erasers
"The set hit every track from the new album in all its deafening glory."
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Live Review: Common, Talib Kweli, Charlie Bucket
"Common had the crowd eating out of his hand, mixing poetry, spoken word, singing and rhymes."
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Live Review: Ratatat, Kirin J Callinan, The Community Chest
"Synchronised clips of lions, pigeons, fireworks and marble bust melted and rotated into psychedelic Mandelbrot visualisations..."
Reviews / Arts
Steve Hughes: Nervous Breakthrough
"Steve Hughes is a comedian at the top of his game."
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Live Review: Sundown Sessions
"The African, Caribbean and Latin tunes were the perfect soundtrack to a lazy afternoon, and nicely foreshadowed the other upcoming acts."
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Live Review: Nightmares On Wax - DJ Set
"It was a pretty safe set, but with Ease so adept at reading a crowd, it was still able to keep everyone dancing for two-and-a-half hours."
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Live Review: Thievery Corporation
"For an act that started off as a Lounge electronica act, this is a band that really knows how to rock a party — how do they make the sitar sound so funky?"