Lists Bin Juice’s top 10 songs of 2016 by Happy While they’re smack-bang in the middle of putting the finishing touches on their upcoming EP, the five legends from Bin Juice have cooked up something just as special. Unlike the…
Lists 20 Aussie guitarists you need in your life by Sam Dawes The guitar has long stood as the benevolent God of all instruments. Bursting with possibilities in its versatility and power, in the right hands, the guitar can implode your skull…
Live If you see only one live band this year, it has to be Mangelwurzel and they proved why at Newtown Social Club by Sam Dawes It was quiet for a Saturday night in Newtown, aside from the occasional inebriated Kings Cross dropout, bringing his lifeless irritation elsewhere due to recent legislative force. Upon entering Newtown…
Music That’s not the sound of an insane asylum, it’s the debut LP of Mangelwurzel, Gary by Sam Dawes While attempting to discover a worthwhile musical act in today’s violent menagerie of recycled condensation remains a vastly difficult pursuit, if you dig deep enough beneath the steaming pile of…
News Happy presents Mangelwurzel on their album tour! Listen to their new single I.O.U by Shayen de Silva One of the breakout stars of 2015, Mangelwurzel haven’t failed to impress with their frenetic and intoxicating tunes. A violent concoction of punk rock, 70s kraut rock, jazz, and power…
Lists These are the 8 Aussie albums you can’t afford to miss this year by Shayen de Silva Hello 2016! Last year was a pretty good one when it came to quality Aussie releases, and we have a good feeling that this year will be no different. While…
Lists Shake that raincoat off and get loose at these 4 gigs this weekend by Happy Holy shit. What a week. Dunno how the rest of the country is doing but here in Sydney we are soaked to the bone. How is it the FUCKING MIDDLE…
News St Kilda Festival 2016 drops mammoth line-up by Emily Mathison Australia’s largest free music event, St Kilda Festival, is returning for 2016, bringing with it an insanely huge line-up. The 36th annual event will kick off on Saturday February 6,…
Lists Our call on the 5 acts we think will explode in 2016 by Happy We pride ourselves on having a pretty firm grasp on up and coming bands in Australia. If a band did something cool in 2015, we wrote about it. The past…
Lists Happy’s Top 100 Songs of 2015: 21-30 by Happy 30. Burnout – The Lulu Raes 29. Open Yourself Up To The Sky – Upskirts 28. Cycle As The Deal Goes Down – YEEVS 27. Same Old Thing –…
Lists The 25 best music videos of 2015 by Happy With the New Year in sight there is a lot to look forward to now it’s December. Star Wars, beach times, fireworks, Christmas…Star Wars. One thing that we’re pumped for…
Lists Dig deep, we know you can do it, get your sorry arse to one of these 6 gigs this weekend by Happy Ok, we know things are starting to get a bit crazy. Gig season is well and truly in swing. It’s that time of the year where you have gig tickets…
Lists 9 Femme Fatales who are killing it part 3 by Che-Marie Trigg There’s heaps of lists about girl who are in rock music. Sadly, many of these seem to be in lads magazines, with titles like ‘Sexiest Women in Rock’, women’s magazines, about the…
