The Red Hot Summer tours over recent years has had an incredible impact on moulding the artists featured in Triple J's Hottest 100 Australian songs.

As Eric Gales prepared 2025 Australian dates, he is also prepped the arrived of his album 'Tribute to LJK', an album for his later brother Emmanuel Gales (aka Little Jimmy King) (1964-2002).

Jethro Tull founder, frontman and songwriter Ian Anderson has had a prolific four years with three new Tull albums 'The Zealot Gene' (2022), 'Rökflöte' (2023) and 'Curious Ruminant' (2025).