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

Jan Wisniewski, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: SLAM Day: Seminal Rats & Fortress Of Narzod
It’s a great feeling to know that a band that first entered the Melbourne scene in the ‘80s can still play an absolutely killer show at one of the city’s best venues.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Chook Race, Pageants & The Towelheads
An excellent night is capped off when the likeable trio pull-off a cover of classic Wire track Mannequin.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: High Highs - Open Season
The folk-tinged Bridge is compelling through its short running time, while the more extravagant Love Is All is perhaps the pinnacle of the album.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Thee Oh Sees, Boomgates, Nobunny & East Link
When a band make it near impossible to single out the high points, you know they’ve killed it.
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Live Review: Woods, Milk Teddy & Mouth Tooth
Due to the packed Tote bandroom once again making a mockery of the encore tradition, the band quickly reconvene on stage for a much more elegant final tune.
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Live Review: Hunx & His Punx
It isn’t long before Bogart announces the final song for the night, responding to the crowd’s audible disappointment by explaining that’s it hard to be in a band that only writes hit songs.
Features / Music
Writer's Poll - Jan Wisniewski
Jan Wisniewski. Another person to add to the ever-growing Tame Impala fan train.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Heavy Beach, Lowtide, Nite Fields
A few more hard-hitting sets like this and Heavy Beach are bound to become favourites on the live scene.
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Live Review: Buried Feather, Baptism Of Uzi
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Live Review: Last Dinosaurs, The Jungle Giants
Reviews / Arts
Text Of Light
The forced combination of two art forms produced an overall piece of which no one interpretation will be the same. A lesson in the ambiguity of meaning.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Ocean Party, Pageants, Hot Palms