Future of music 2025 - Rolling Stone Australia

The Future 25

Meet the Australian and New Zealand acts we’re most excited about this year in our Future 25 list below – from a globetrotting pop-rock band to a rising country star to Australia’s next big electronic music export, and many more.

Future of Music 2025: The Full List

Our editorial team compiled a list of 25 of the most exciting and innovative artists from Australia and New Zealand. Check out the acts we believe are destined for the very pinnacle of music

Gut Health

The dance-punk band were nominated not once but twice at the 2025 Rolling Stone Australia Awards, including for Best New Artist

Drax Project

The NZ pop-rock band recently embarked on a headline tour of Europe and will do it all again this May

Ninajirachi

The DJ and producer creates the kind of epic and universal EDM that takes you from creating music in your bedroom to playing festivals the world over

KUCKA

Having already worked with the likes of Flume and A$AP Rocky, the producer's status as one of Australian electronic music's leading lights shouldn’t surprise

Mia Wray

The Melbourne-based singer-songwriter just dropped her long-awaited first album, 'hi, it’s nice to meet me'

Delivery

The Melbourne five-piece make the kind of primal garage-punk designed to peel the paint off the walls of small, sweat-soaked clubs