News Pyjama Jam recap: Yeah Yeah Yeahs covers and Peter Bibby eating a tomato by Happy Last night you might have tuned into Pyjama Jam from your homes, your workspaces, or any old internet-connected locale. It’s the second live streamed gig we’ve put on to make…
Lists News New Zealand’s best new music right now by Happy The world may have ground to a halt, but one scene certainly hasn’t. Music has become a solace for many fans, and some of New Zealand’s best new music has…
News Pyjama Jam returns on Friday April 17th! Live at your place! by Happy Last Friday night we hosted the inaugural Pyjama Jam, Happy Mag’s first ever live streamed gig. After a massive response we’re now delighted to announce round two, going down on…
News Pro Audio Watch Miss June perform ‘Please Waste My Time’ Live at Enmore by Happy New Zealand rockers Miss June visited our fair shores recently and swung past the Live at Enmore studios. They dished up a decidedly lively and loud performance of their track,…
News Partner Content It’s another massive month for live music at The Bank. Here’s what’s on by Happy It’s been a solid few months since The Bank Hotel in Sydney’s Newtown rejigged its live music room, Waywards. Since then it’s been all systems go, and the room has…
Features Lists News 10 Essential New Zealand Artists to Watch by Tom Cameron For a country with a relatively small population, the amount of musical talent New Zealand houses is staggering. We’re all familiar with their most popular forces, from pop dynamos Lorde…
News Julia Jacklin, Aldous Harding and more join A Festival called PANAMA by Luke Saunders Today, Tasmania’s A Festival Called PANAMA has announced the lineup for its seventh annual event. The eclectic lineup strengthens the reputation that A Festival Called PANAMA has created, presenting an enigmatic…
Interviews “We were never going to be a band that’s easy to categorise”: Miss June chat their debut album by Bill Robinson Miss June’s live performance is an explosion. Whenever the band take to a stage, they leave shards of musical shrapnel flying across the room. With this consistently hard-hitting live show,…
Lists 5 artists from New Zealand that we’re digging right now by Luke Saunders With the Needle In The Hay vinyl competition well under way we figure it’s that special time when we pull out the telescope and head over to the Land Of…
Music Raw and raucous: Introducing Auckland’s Miss June by Happy Having come together in 2013 after frontwoman Annabel Liddel recruited a group of musicians to support her solo performance, Auckland band Miss June have not wasted any time in establishing…
News Here are the first 75 artists heading along to BIGSOUND 2018 by Happy Each year, Australia’s largest music conference BIGSOUND descends upon Fortitude Valley in Brisbane, bringing together musicians, labels, media, and just about every other cornner of this country’s thriving music industry….
Lists Love New Zealand and Punk? These are the 6 bands you need to know according to legends Die! Die! Die! by Happy Dunedin three-piece Die! Die! Die! have been thrashing their way across stages for well over ten years. With another blistering EP What Did You Expect under their belts and an…
Lists 8 Femme Fatales who are killing it right now Part 2 by Shayen de Silva There isn’t anything better than a girl bashing on a guitar. Sorry boys, they just make it look way cooler. Former Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns had a ‘Girls Rock’ sticker…