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

Kate Kingsmill, Journalist

News / Music
Vampire Weekend: 'Rock Music Is In A Crisis'
Their acclaimed 2013 album is their reaction
Features / Music
Sound Evolution
"I think rock music is in a crisis."
Features / Music
The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Kate Kingsmill
James Blakes' 'Overgrown' made it as one of Kate Kingsmill's favourite for 2013.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Courtney Barnett, Teeth & Tongue
Barnett performs a beautiful solo version of Ode To Odetta before the band return for a souped-up version of Scotty Says.
Features / Music
Can't Stop The Press
"There's this little vomit stain in one of the rooms which is Ian Brown's vomit stain."
Features / Music
Gypsy Kings
“Folk music is just music of the people… I guess sonically it’s got some conventions."
Features / Music
Music Therapy
"I had two people in my family die at the beginning of the process, I was in a car accident, we were working our way through the album budget really quickly and I was starting to panic about where we were going to get the rest of the money [from]."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Ghostpoet, Oscar Key Sung
For an encore, Ghostpoet brings out Finished I Ain’t and Us Against Whatever Ever and with these he finally finds his groove.
Features / Music
Choose Life
"I think the flatter the line is, the more at peace you are with the world and the universe. So that’s something that I aspire to. And of course death is the ultimate flatline.”
Features / Arts
Between Friends
"They do something that involves blurring the lines of their sexual orientation."
Features / Arts
Just Don't Call It Ballet
"I'm a big bugger, I’ve got a bit of a gut on me, so the audience gets to see a fat boy going hard, and using my belly as an instrument."
Reviews / Film & TV
Now You See Me
Climax after climax, twist after turn, we lose these flimsy characters in a ridiculous maelstrom of a plot. No wonder poor Mark Ruffalo looks so confused.