News Vinyl Joni Mitchell’s ‘Shine’ is getting its first-ever vinyl release by Claudia Schmidt Attention Joni Mitchell fans! The first-ever vinyl release of Mitchell’s best-selling 2007 album Shine has just been announced. The release will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl and is set for…
Features A guide to Asylum Records in 5 essential albums by Luke Saunders In the psychedelic ’60s the Sunset Strip was soaked with LSD, counter culture rhetoric, and free loving ways. Iconoclasts of the movement will say it’s all a bunch of hogwash,…
Books Lists News Morning Glory on the Vine, Catch and Kill and more – Happy’s Weekend Reading by Dan Shaw Head into the weekend with some fantastic new books. Morning Glory on the Vine is Joni Mitchell’s collection of early songs and drawings, while Catch and Kill is a thrilling…
News Decades of iconic recordings revealed to have been destroyed in 2008 Universal fire by Charlie Young Over 10 years ago, Universal Studios Hollywood went up in flames but has recently returned to the news due to a series of cover-ups by Universal Music Group. In 2008,…
Books News Joni Mitchell to reissue closely guarded 1971 book to the public by Jessie Wilson This October fans of esteemed folk singer-songwriter and poet Joni Mitchell can expect something magical. The visionary, famed for her honest and unfiltered words, is reissuing her limited run handmade…
News Vinyl Joni Mitchell releases Love Has Many Faces on vinyl for the first time by Molly Lasker Originally released on CD back in 2014, Joni Mitchell‘s Love Has Many Faces: a Quartet, a Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced will be released on vinyl for the first time this…
News Lost recordings of Joni Mitchell and Neil Young from 1968 have just been unearthed by Louise Osborne Earlier this month, live recordings of previously unheard Neil Young and Joni Mitchell tracks were uncovered after rumours of being lost. The half-century-old recordings were unearthed by the Michigan History…
Lists News Good on ya Mum. Here’s a Happy Mothers Day playlist from the entire Happy HQ by Happy Celebrate Mothers Day with the best and the worst music our mums ever brought us, from disco to the blues and everything in between. Hopefully you were all over this…
Lists Part 1 of our series of winter albums you need to hear before you die (of the cold) by Happy So many great albums are intrinsically attached to the quintessence of a season. Music has this incredible ability to mimic the tone of reality with a combination of timbre, texture,…
