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

Kristy Wandmaker, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Haim, The Preatures
The big finale of a drum and lights show was sublimely primal – a true “I remember when” moment for the lucky audience.
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Live Review: Royston Vasie, Cabins, The Jones Rival
Come On closed out the night with additional tambourine and bell-bottomed dancer invading the stage to celebrate the show. A riff and lick love-in.
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Album Review: Beady Eye - BE
If you can listen to BE without knowing who the band is, through shuffle or Spotify, there is much to like. However, the chances of the band ever escaping the Gallagher shackles are slim.
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Album Review: Little Boots - Nocturnes
If you can’t remember any of that crap (lucky you) odds are that you will still struggle to get through any Little Boots track without thinking of Our Kylie.
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Album Review: Noah & The Whale - Heart Of Nowhere
Heart Of Nowhere is like an ‘80s Cosby sweater: a little dated and daggy, but still warm and comforting.
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Album Review: Frankie & The Heartstrings - The Days Runaway
This latest effort is produced by Bernard Butler, most noted for his involvement with Suede, and the influence is palpable.
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Live Review: Something For Kate, Courtney Barnett
The band have aged well, not trying to recreate what they once were or desperately holding onto their youthful glory. They continue to be exactly who they are and exactly as you’d want them to be.
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Live Review: CW Stoneking
His understanding of music history, or more accurately music folklore, translates easily into blues, country and calypso. He is a phenomenal talent of whom Australians should be most proud.
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Live Review: Bonjah
The new rockier sound sits well with the sex bomb stage presence and reveals a level of talent previously obscured by the party reggae country ballads.
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Live Review: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Martinez Acoustica
Not just one or two members swapping instruments, but every player on something new – and doing it with a skill level most dream of on their primary.
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Live Review: Fred Wesley & The New JBs, Brass Knuckle Brass Band & DJ Stephen Ferris
It was truly a privilege and one that the crowd was reluctant to let go with two encores and a call for more echoing through the Beresford long after the band had left the stage.
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Live Review: Tim Rogers & The Bamboos, Rocking Horse & The Baby Dolls, The Vanns
The crew were crazy, classy, crass and cool as fuck.