Triple J’s Hottest 100: more than 2m votes have been cast – but who will win?
The radio station keeps its countdown tightly guarded – but there are a few predictions that can safely be made
‘It’s more productive than doomscrolling’: film-maker Ben Wheatley on his secret life as musician Dave Welder
While playing with nine-figure Hollywood budgets, the Kill List and Meg 2 director has become a prolific music producer. Next up is his experimental film, Bulk
Sébastien Tellier: ‘I thought I’d be famous after Eurovision – but nobody noticed’
The musician’s elegant electropop marked him out as one of the ‘cool French dudes’, before an attempt to literally crash the Song Contest fell badly flat. Now back with an adventurous new album, he talks about the man who stole his identity and why he doesn’t care for ‘good taste’
‘By 15, I was hanging out with Skrillex’: the idiosyncratic club music of reformed EDM kid Villager
Disillusioned by his early EDM success, Alex Young bought hardware, embraced UK dance culture – and reinvented himself
Soul-baring ballads, alt-rock fury and neon-lit techno: five-star albums you may have missed this year
Valentina Magaletti drummed for her life, Sarz got hips swinging and Daniel Avery got slinky and serpentine: our writers pick their favourite unsung LPs from 2025
The 10 best global albums of 2025
Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan returns with mournful minimalism, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra’s 1982 album of Punjabi disco makes a comeback and Venezuelan-Guatemalan duo Titanic serve up ecstatic tracks
The 16 best Australian albums of 2025
Your guide to Australia’s best music of the year, including Folk Bitch Trio, Ninajirachi, Tame Impala and others
Ikonika: Sad review – vocal-led new direction is a hit for the Hyperdub veteran
(Hyperdub)The dancefloor producer weaves seductive and steely lyrics with their trademark production in a convincing embrace of pop
Peaches: ‘We need lube to smooth out the friction of the world’
The Canadian electroclash icon on No Lube So Rude, her first album in a decade, the state of global politics, the ‘punk energy’ of the older generation and her love of ping-pong
Debit: Desaceleradas review – Afro-Latin club sounds slowed to a seductive crawl
The producer’s second album is a granular dissection of cumbia rebajada, forcing the listener to focus on the strangeness of every moment in her ambient soundworld
Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer review – uncanny ambient music for an agitated era
Made using a cache of Y2K sample CDs that Daniel Lopatin salvaged from the internet’s fringes, the kaleidoscopic result speaks to contemporary information overload
Amyl and the Sniffers dominate 2025 Arias with four wins: ‘Probably won’t have to work at IGA ever again’
Rock band take home album of the year while electronic breakthrough Ninajirachi wins best solo artist from a leading eight nominations
Ninajirachi started making music because of YouTube. Now she’s up for eight Aria awards
The 26-year-old’s debut album I Love My Computer has already netted her some of Australia’s most prestigious prizes – and it’s all about the delight and depravity of growing up on the internet
Post your questions for Peaches
As she prepares to release No Lube So Rude, her first album in a decade, the Canadian dance-punk icon will answer your questions
Portishead’s Geoff Barrow: ‘I can’t think of any worse music to make love to than ours’
As he moves into film production with the thriller Game, the musician – also known for Beak> – answers your questions on Myspace rappers, sex playlists and whether Portishead will ever make new music