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

Charmaine de Souza, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Rag N' Bone - A Handful Of Ash
"Punchy, grungy and unapologetic."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Various - Fifty Shades Darker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
"There's bound to be at least one song that you'll find yourself humming along to."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness - Zombies On Broadway
"It's as if the audience is privy to his innermost hopes, fears and desires."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Menzingers - After The Party
"Where are we gonna go now that our 20s are over?"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Alexisonfire, The Getaway Plan, Behind Crimson Eyes, The Dirty Nil
"Get that fucking circle pit going!"
Features / Music
The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Charmaine de Souza
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Bernard Fanning, Dustin Tebbutt, Ainslie Wills
"A collective hush spread throughout the crowd as they watched on."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Cute Is What We Aim For, Lights Of Berlin, Calm Collected
"In a matter of minutes, the entire room was 15 years old again, singing along to every word and fighting for the barrier."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Troye Sivan, Tyde Levi, Nicole Millar
"The man was right at home on stage, showmanship oozing effortlessly from his pores."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Montaigne - Glorious Heights
"You'll be grooving one minute and bawling the next."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Dope Lemon - Honey Bones
"It's the kind of music you'd hear in an indie flick as the protagonist cruises through the countryside in a beat-up camper."
Reviews / Arts
Yianni: The Simpsons Taught Me Everything I Know
"It's simply cromulent in every sense of the word."