News Fairgrounds Festival just dropped their 2018 lineup and it’s a ripper by Louise Osborne Australia’s beloved boutique Fairgrounds Festival is back for another year and they’ve just announced a pretty bloody good lineup. The lineup features some of Australia’s favourite homegrown artists including Courtney Barnett,…
News Meredith Music Festival share their massive 2018 lineup by Molly Lasker Victoria’s Meredith Music Festival has this morning dropped its massive 2018 lineup, and it’s bigger and better than ever. This year’s highlights include American rockers The Breeders, Animal Collective’s Panda…
News Jungle Love’s first lineup announcement has dropped and it’s a monster by Louise Osborne Beloved music and arts event Jungle Love Festival is back, running in 2018 at a secret new site in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland from 29 Nov to 1 December. POND, OPIUO,…
News Feast your eyes on Festival of The Sun’s absolutely mammoth 2018 lineup by Happy UPDATE: Festival Of The Sun has officially sold out! Hope you snapped up those tickets. NSW’s longest running BYO festival, Festival of The Sun, is turning 15-years-young this year… and…
Music LISTEN: Pond – Burnt Out Star by Happy Perth’s psych-pop cosmonauts Pond are back in action with Burnt Out Star, an 8-minute epic adventure into a whole other galaxy. Burnt Out Star is out now via Spinning Top…
Lists Turn It Up, Neck Exercise, Throwing Javelins: a playlist by Psychedelic Porn Crumpets by Happy On the eve of Sydney’s BAD Friday festival, we were hunting after the kind of tunes that are just bad to the bone. You know, grit-your-teeth, bang-your-head, down-a-bottle-of-Jack-and-see-ya-in-the-mosh BAD. So,…
Music WATCH: POND – Fire In The Water by Happy Ahead of their appearance at Laneway Festival this February, POND have a dropped a new track, Fire In The Water, plus a video featuring some shenanigans shot in Tokyo.
Lists Happy Mag’s Top 100 Songs of 2017: 11-20 by Happy 20. The Babe Rainbow – Peace Blossom Boogy 19. Yon Yonson – This Evening 18. Donny Benet – Konichiwa 17. Fishing – Yuwa 16. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever –…
Live Blasting arena-worthy psych into the Enmore Theatre pit, POND ripped us apart yet again by Dani Hansen In front of a roaring, adoring crowd at Enmore Theatre, POND proved to Sydney once more that they’re amongst the best live acts in the country. The very first time…
Magazine Wading through the noise: Jay Watson on refinement, maturity and the future of POND by Tom Cameron With a decade on the circuit, seven LPs to their name and a shitload of facemelt along the way, POND have well and truly blasted their way into the psychedelic…
Lists Space out to a 20-song selection from psych-rock troubadours Cosmic Flanders by Happy Soon enough we’ll be dropping Issue 5 of Happy Mag, and we’re having a party to celebrate. Having asked six of our fave Sydney bands to join us on the 29th…
Lists News 5 artists from Western Australia that we’re digging right now by Happy It’s been a little while since we did this, but with the launching of our Australia-wide (and now NZ) Needle in the Hay vinyl comp last week we thought – why…
Interviews Pro Audio Gobs of fuzz and a resurrected phaser: pedal talk with Psychedelic Porn Crumpets by Nick Stillman There is no shortage of ace psych bands in Perth. Yes, it’s home to Tame Impala, POND etc, but these bands are at the vanguard of a much bigger scene….
