Andy Hazel, Journalist

Andy Hazel is a writer and musician based in Melbourne. He is also the senior editorial producer at The Saturday Paper for which he also writes. His writing also appears in IndieWire, The Monthly, Guardian Australia and The Curb.

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.

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

"I get what I give. I ain’t out here trying to beef and battle rap."

Sunnyboys. Pic by Chrissie Francis.

Live Review: Sunnyboys

A stunning show, and not just to those who were lucky enough to grow up with the catchy musings of Jeremy Oxley on their Walkman.

Live Review: Elizabeth Rose, Safia, Fishing

The Good Life, the closing defiant anthem and opening track from Rose’s self-titled EP (being launched tonight), is final proof that we’ve all witnessed a monumental talent on the way up.

Features / Music

Calling The Shots

"It’s a lot of lazy bedroom techno."

Live Review: Yo La Tengo, Dick Diver

Yo La Tengo close with a mammoth take on I Heard You Looking, the song’s phenomenally evocative riff highlighting the strongest and laziest traits of this most obdurate of bands.

Features / Music

"I’ve never really thought of myself as a singer."

Live Review: Okkervil River, Roller One, Ernest Ellis

Okkervil River explode to life with a set full of emphatic, articulate rock.

Live Review: THE KITE STRING TANGLE, KILTER, LEAKS

“This is my last song. Take a guess,” he smiles ruefully as the crowd thrust iPhones aloft, the bass rumbles in a way it hasn’t all night and his triple j smash Given The Chance sends us up then out.

Live Review: Laneway Festival

As the night takes over and sunnies and hats are put away, Warpaint close Moreland Road Stage. The band stand stoic, bathed in purple and red lights, as they introduce the crowd to their most recent record.

Live Review: King Krule, Nick Allbrook

At the close of another 40 degree stinker of a day, the huge soft slashes of Nick Allbrook’s guitar are perfect balm for the heat-weary.

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