Live News Gallery: Wax Chattels at Whammy Bar, Auckland by Happy Holy shit, a gig. Over the weekend Wax Chattels, Na Noise, Memory Foam and local photographer Cam Hay grouped up at Auckland’s Whammy Bar to document something that’ll seem like…
News The inaugural Farmer & The Owl Festival lineup is here, and it’s absolutely unbelievable by Happy UPDATE: Farmer & The Owl tickets are on sale now! Grab yours here. The label behind the wonderful Yours & Owls Festival have dropped the inaugural lineup for their brand…
Features Lists News 10 Essential New Zealand Artists to Watch by Tom Cameron Presented by NZ On Air, here are 10 essential New Zealand artists to watch. The past seven days have marked Happy Mag’s inaugural NZ Week, an initiative spotlighting New Zealand…
Lists News 5 incredible performances from BIGSOUND 2018 by Tom Cameron Having had the weekend to fully recover from the frantic wonder of BIGSOUND 2018, it was a really, really good time. From 8PM through till the wee hours, three nights in…
Music Introducing Wax Chattels: from the Land of the Long Black Cloud by Matilda Alex-Sanders There’s something going on in New Zealand. Our small and rainy neighbour teetering on the end of the Earth is nonchalantly (and without nearly enough fan fare) producing a slew…
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….