News Merivale have your summer music fix sorted with a huge free gig program by Molly Lasker Merivale and Furphy have the remainder of your summer gigs sorted with See Sound, their collaborative live music program bringing the best local music from Sydney and beyond to venues…
News Come boogie with Happy Mag at Splendour In The Grass 2018! by Happy The cat’s out of the bag – this year we’ll be taking over the Sunday lineup at Smirnoff’s The Wilds – a laid back bar space at Splendour In The…
News WATCH: The Jim Mitchells – Love Hypnotic Album Tour Diary by Happy The Jim Mitchells are always a bleedin’ good time, we’ve even been lucky enough to host them at one of our own parties. Now, you can jump on board their…
Music The Jim Mitchells try tenderness on terrific debut album Love Hypnotic by Ben Robinson If you’re a regular follower of this site or of local Sydney bands, The Jim Mitchells will not be strangers to you. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, you…
Music LISTEN: The Jim Mitchells – Easy Love by Happy Shedding the thrashy garage vibes in favour of languid psychedelia, The Jim Mitchells drop new track, Easy Love. It’s a beaut. Soak it up.
Live Like dark preachers of the netherworld, ORB took the Lansdowne to a wicked, wicked place by Dani Hansen Spotlighting their dizzying kaleidoscopic take on proto-metal, psychedelia and prog-rock, ORB churned like raving dystopian preachers at The Lansdowne. They’ve toured extensively with labelmates King Gizzard and The Murlocs and appearing…
Live News Relive the utter fucking chaos of our Happy Mag Issue 5 Launch by Tom Cameron Nudity, nonsense and gnarly rock ‘n’ roll. Not even we were expecting the utter chaos of our Happy Mag Issue 5 Launch. Whoa. Saturday marked our party at the Lady…
News PREMIERE: Love knows no bounds for The Jim Mitchells in their contagious new single Ankle Deep by Freya McGahey The Jim Mitchells are one of Sydney’s best loved acts. An acid-soaked take on garage rock, their latest track Ankle Deep evolves through blistering guitar, mellow drums and smatterings of…
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…
Features News Want to avoid your mind exploding at Sydney Psych Fest? Here’s Jim Mitchell’s 5 tips for keepin’ it together by Happy Sydney Psych Fest is about to undertake it’s third year, and since the full lineup was unleashed we’ve been counting down the days. For an event like this, preparation is paramount and we’ve…
News Sydney Psych Fest drop their third wave announcement of brain-bending psychedelic royalty by Happy With two waves of beastly line-up announcements having already reached our newsrooms, Sydney Psych Fest III is shaping up to be the boutique festival’s most frazzled incarnation yet. The first clipping…
Lists Happy’s top 100 songs of 2016: 31-40 by Happy 40. Koi Child – 1 5 9 39. Nutrition – Space Odyssey 38. Owen Rabbit – Oh My God 37. Death Bells – Stainless 36. Unity Floors – Moving to…
Lists Thanks to NASA, we now know what Saturn sounds like. Listen here, and check out these 5 artists who should be sampling our favourite ringed planet by Happy Some time ago, a series of radio emissions picked up by the Voyager, INJUN 1, ISEE 1 and HAWKEYE space probes were compiled together and converted into sound waves by the scientists…