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Andy Hazel, Journalist

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Andy Hazel is a writer and musician based in Melbourne. He is also the senior editorial producer at The Saturday Paper to which he contributes profiles on musicians, actors and directors. His writing also appears in IndieWire, The Monthly, Guardian Australia and A Rabbit's Foot. Andy is also the producer and host of Twin Peaks The Return: A Season Three Podcast.

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Hot Chip & World's End Press
Tonight is their last show of a ten-month tour, so unsurprisingly the set is tighter than Jones’s snare drum.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Tiger & Me - The Drifter’s Dawn
It’s refreshing to find an Australian group who know when to rein in the jams, work as a multitalented collective and who know how to sift through a sprawling range of styles to come up with a coherent and punchy album.
Features / Music
Writer's Poll - Andy Hazel
Andy Hazel looks back on his 2012 highlights.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Primal Scream & Sand Pebbles
The band finish with their most rock-ready hits, Jailbird and Rocks, and the crowd shout themselves hoarse as the music ends and the stage is overtaken by a howling wall of feedback, looped percussion and those blinding lights.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: John C. Reilly & Friends & Steven Smyth
Finally a singalong of Goodnight Irene seals the whole show as one in which the musicians are there for the love of the music and its performance alone, without having anything to prove or sell.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Ball Park Music, Loon Lake, Courtney Barnett
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Tully On Tully, Tulalah, Laura Smock
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Oliver Tank, Lost Animal, No Zu
Reviews / Live
Live Review: 20 Big Ones - Chapter Music 20th Birthday Party
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Lowtide, Sleep Decade, Tonto
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Jens Lekman, Brous
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Beach Boys
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