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

Natasha Lee, Journalist

Features / Music
Phone It In
"There is of course a fine line between fashion and douchebaggery. You know what I mean – those cats who let the headphones hang limp around their neck without even sliding them on."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Don McLean, Catherine Britt
Hundreds of voices all chanting, “Bye, bye Miss American Pie”with McLean as choir leader was worth the ticket price alone.
Reviews / Live
Mark Wilkinson, Pic by Angela Padovan
Live Review: Mark Wilkinson, Little Bighorn
Wilkinson is one of the rare artists whose vocals embody a kind of charisma that pulls you in and forces you to do the rarest thing in the world… feel.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: John Mayer - Paradise Valley
Here’s hoping Paradise Valley sets Mayer on the road to musical redemption.
Features / Arts
Onesie Moment, Please...
"Onesies are a fad. You know, a trend. These things come in waves; like planking, My Little Pony and mankinis."
Features / Music
Boy & Bear
A New Habitat
"I started writing about two months after we got back from Nashville. I felt like Nashville was a little distressing at times, because I just didn’t have the motivation to start writing over there."
Features / Music
Love Bros
“When your full-time job is a muso, and a touring muso, and you travel from city to city and spend nine hours in a van or longer – you day ends up revolving around a 45-minute set.”
Features / Music
Feelin' It
"I think it’s very nice being the only girl in a band full of boys."
Features / Arts
Inside The Life Of A 17-Year-Old Fashion Powerhouse
"I have an easier time writing about the ones I have more experience dealing with, well, given my limited experience with things – I mean, I’m from a middle-class suburb and I’m a white girl."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Grinspoon, The Snowdroppers, Dave Larkin Darwin Theory
"With arms outstretched like some crucified rock star Jesus, Jamieson pontificated and gesticulated across and around the stage..."
Features / Music
Troubling Times
"I think part of the reason I did Bleeders on my own, was because I hadn’t really met the right people."
Features / Music
The Simple Life
"Coming to happiness and talking about happiness seemed like the most frightening thing I could do as an artist."