Cyclone Wehner, Author at NME

Big Scary – ‘Daisy’ review: Melbourne indie-pop duo return with their grooviest album yet

Tom Iansek and Jo Syme set aside the guitars and recast themselves as an eccentric disco outfit on their fourth album

Jesswar: “I can walk into any space anywhere and be proud of who I am”

The Fijian-Australian rap phenom tells NME about the road to her searing debut EP, ‘Tropixx’

Genesis Owusu – ‘Smiling With No Teeth’ review: a transcendent conceptual opus

The Canberran artist defies the conventions of Australian hip-hop, personalising jazz-funk, punk and folk on his debut

Odette: “I’m just a bundle of nerves experiencing things, trying not to be a bad person”

On new album ‘Herald’, the Sydney pop-soul auteur candidly chronicles her coming of age and struggles with mental illness

Tasman Keith: “I’m always evolving – I don’t know if I ever wanna ‘find’ my sound and get stuck there”

The Bowraville rapper’s just dropped his debut mixtape – and his sights are firmly set on global superstardom

BLESSED: Under-the-radar veteran of Aussie hip-hop embraces his “true self”

The early Kid LAROI collaborator formerly known as Miracle returns with a new moniker and genre-busting ‘debut’ album

Stevan – ‘Ontogeny’ review: Bold second mixtape from rising psych ’n’ B star

The Wollongong up-and-comer shows a rawer side on his second project for 2020 – this time drawing on trap and electronic influences

Triple One: “We’re still trying to challenge people’s ideas of Australian rap”

The Inner West Sydney hip-hop crew sprawl out and open up on debut album ‘Panic Force’

JK-47: The First Nations MC from Tweed Heads keeping it both real and inspirational

On his solo debut album ‘Made For This’, Jacob Paulson doesn’t shy away from hard truths and heavy stories. But he remains a believer in music’s transformative power

Briggs: “I’ve got this far off my gut instinct, so I often go with it!”

The Shepparton polymath talks his bold new EP, ‘Always Was’, the next A.B. Original project and why some recent Black Lives Matter engagements have felt like “brand activation”