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

Andy Hazel, Journalist

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 MonthlyGuardian 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: Johnny Marr, Dean Whitby
Impressive, but then he is, as the T-shirts at the merch table scream in red-on-black bold type, “Johnny Fuckin Marr”.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Mac DeMarco, Scotdrakula
A penis-themed cover of Weezer’s Undone – The Sweater Song (less faithful than Bored Nothing’s take on it here last month) follows and soon the gig moves into the band’s divisive-but-passionate ‘covers’ section: Takin’ Care Of Business and phenomenally half-assed versions of Enter Sandman and Stairway To Heaven raise the sloppy party vibe and close the set with a very happy audience howling for more.
Features / Music
The Music Writers' Poll 2013: Andy Hazel
Andy Hazel predicts that 2014 will be a good year for art, but not for politics.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Steel Panther, Buckcherry
As Starr shouts whenever presented with a pair of bouncing breasts in his mock-astonished face: “Heavy metal rules!” Tonight, it totally fucking does.
Features / Music
The Power Of Music
"I would hate to be so jaded or uninspired that I couldn’t appreciate how amazing moments in my life actually are."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The 2013 Age Music Victoria Awards
Introducing him as “our Elvis Presley” it’s hard not to see the soul-powered rock legend’s torch not only passed from one to another, but also shared and redoubled, ending a killer night.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Palms, Bored Nothing
While Grigg’s Dylanesque chewing of lyrics softens the otherwise blazingly confident delivery, it’s not enough to undo a pithy set from a great band in an interesting locale.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Stillsons, The Bastard Children, Bill Jackson & Pete Fidler
The punters emit nothing but raucous shouts and massive smiles. Win.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Television
Returning again for a stunning take on Friction the band share another smile and leave the stage to even louder howling, ending a night that transcends the regurgitation of a classic album.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Fuck Buttons
Yet again, Fuck Buttons move onward, upward and outward blazing a path we’re more than happy to follow.
Features / Music
Field Of Dreams
"You keep on listening more, and as time goes on you think: ‘Ahh, maybe it’s not that good’."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Caribs, Strange Tenants, Ska Vendors
Patou Powell, Rodrigo Pino and Rebecca Ari all shine, but The Caribs make the night.