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

Bryget Chrisfield, Journalist

Bryget Chrisfield

A lifelong love of music and writing consolidated when Bryget Chrisfield started penning live reviews for Inpress (now TheMusic) while studying Professional Writing & Editing at RMIT. After graduating, Bryget was initially employed as full-time staff writer before being promoted to Victorian editor of this national street press publication - now website - where she remained for over ten years. She is currently a freelance journalist - her byline appearing in publications including STACK, The Big Issue, The Music and Beat - and it is through interviewing musical geniuses that Bryget finds true happiness.

Features / Music
Emma Donovan
Emma Donovan: ‘I Wanna Celebrate My Songs And My Stories Now’
Stepping out of The Putbacks’ “funk-soul bubble”, Emma Donovan hopes to “get street cred from all the uncles and the mob” through the release of her stunning new solo record ’Til My Song Is Done’, which pays tribute to her country heritage.
Features / Music
San Cisco
San Cisco: ‘Sometimes You’ve Just Gotta Face The Music’
We caught up with one of Freo’s finest bands for a chinwag about embracing collaboration, getting woken up by your own song, and how “juxtaposition” informed their latest album, ‘Under The Light’.
Features / Interviews
Holy Fuck
Holy Fuck On ‘Embracing The Foolish Side Of Technology’
Holy Fuck talk technology, not sounding like anyone else, working with Aussie stars and more ahead of their MONA FOMA appearances and Australian headline tour dates.
Features / Music
Middle Kids
Middle Kids: ‘If You Want To Be A Mum And A Touring Musician, There’s Sacrifice’
We chat with frontwoman Hannah Joy about the urgent need for muso-mum prototypes, touring with a three-year-old while pregnant, learning to accept her creative process, and finding songs for ‘Faith Crisis Pt 1’ during solo staycations.
Features / Interviews
Take That
Take That: ‘I Feel Proud That We Put The Graft In’
Take That will tour Australia later this year. To celebrate, Howard Donald discusses new beginnings, closing the Coronation concert, the helpline set up for Take That fans following their 1996 split and more.
Reviews / Film & TV
Kyle Sandilands, Marcia Hines & Amy Shark on 'Australian Idol'
'Australian Idol' Season 9 Episode 1 Recap: World-First Format Change, The Queen Returns & LOL-Worthy Improvisational Mime
'I'm Too Sexy', 'The Only Arena' and 'Something In The Orange': here are the most memorable moments from season 9 episode one of 'Australian Idol'.
Features / Music
Vacations
Vacations: ‘How Much Do I Have To Achieve To Be Recognised By My Own Country?’
Campbell Burns - frontman of Vacations, one of the most-played Australian acts on Spotify - checks in to discuss the Pure OCD diagnosis that informed his band’s latest LP ‘No Place Like Home’, and why he had to relocate Stateside to thrive.
Reviews / Album
Merci, Mercy
Album Review: Merci, Mercy - 'Like An Orchid EP'
With 'Like An Orchid', merci, mercy continues to pair buoyant melodies with profound subject matter.
Reviews / Live
The Living End @ Festival Hall
Live Review: The Living End, Area-7 @ Festival Hall, Melbourne
Chris Cheney cheekily suggests we reclaim the “home ground of the Hillsong Church” as “the home of rock” tonight.
Features / Music
Queens Of The Stone Age
Queens Of The Stone Age Use Humour As A Coping Mechanism: ‘There's Been Some Darkness Surrounding Some Of Us’
Following their recent 2024 Australian tour announcement, Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Troy Van Leeuwen ponders what makes them one of the most exciting live bands on the planet: “It's just our chemistry.”
Features / Interviews
INXS
Tim Farriss & Kirk Pengilly On How Australia's Pub-Rock Heyday Influenced INXS's Journey To Superstardom
Two Worlds Colliding: Tim Farriss and Kirk Pengilly on INXS’s enduring legacy and newly compiled 12” remix collection, 'All Juiced Up Part 2'.
Features / Interviews
Diesel
Diesel On The Anxiety, Adrenaline & ‘Visceral Reaction’ That Power His New Album, ‘Bootleg Melancholy’
Diesel on turning “jamming with oneself” into the masterpiece that is 'Bootleg Melancholy', slaying the anxiety dragon and sharing a bizarre pre-performance ritual with Tina Turner.
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