Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

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: Day Ravies, Lowtide, Parading, Contrast
I Don’t Mind is a highlight, Staring Is Caring stands out, and songs with fuzz bass and synth stabs show how much this band have going for them, and how bright their future is.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Thelma Plum
Energised, canonical takes on Oliver’s Army, Pump It Up and (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea ensure that, even as we call out for still more, no one leaves feeling ripped off.
News / Music
Joss Stone's Plans For World Domination
"The idea is to play at least one show in every country in the world"
Features / Music
In Session
"I’d like to go further into Australia. Dive right into the middle of the country and see what happens."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Magic Band, Grandmothers Of Invention
It’s a privilege to witness such influential pioneers in 2014 and to hear these distant transmissions burn so brightly.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Burnt Letters, The Acfields
Closing with Talk To You, the opening track from the debut EP they launch tonight, the choir returns and Burnt Letters give us another emphatic example of inclusive warmth.
Features / Music
Strange Fruit
"I have to keep all the young people in line so they don’t walk on the wild side!"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Snakadaktal, City Calm Down
An ironically bombastic end to a career of a band that, like them or not, never faked a note and chose to float away rather than self-destruct.
Features / Music
Leaving Home Behind
"The album is dead for me."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Dear Plastic, Invisible Dears, Oh Pep!
Like a fervent soundtrack to a David Lynch film, Dear Plastic are not, as they claim on their Bandcamp page, “dishing out more melancholy than Radiohead”. Their emotional range is far greater than that.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Wendy Rule
Frankly, she’s Wendy Rule and, reductionist materialism be damned, she is a woman who knows exactly what she’s doing.
Features / Music
Chali's Angles
"I get what I give. I ain’t out here trying to beef and battle rap."
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