Music News Whitney Marks 7th Anniversary of “Light Upon the Lake” with Limited-Edition Vinyl by Tammy Moir Whitney’s celebrated debut album, “Light Upon the Lake,” turns 7 today, and the band is marking the occasion with a special limited-edition Cotton Candy vinyl release. Chicago’s Whitney is celebrating…
Lists News Happy Listening: the 5 best new releases of the week by Ben Hansen As the week comes to a close it’s important to get your tunes in order as you head into whatever adventures you have ahead. Each week to help you decide…
Music LISTEN: Whitney – ‘Hammond Song’ (The Roches cover) by Luka Simonetti After announcing an entire covers record, Whitney have released their own take on The Roches 1979 classic, Hammond Song. Boasting a slide guitar solo and drummer Julien Ehrlich’s soothing falsetto,…
Music Happy listening: the best new releases of the week by Patti Burton This week has been a big one for new music! So grab a drink, sit back and enjoy our latest instalment of Happy Listening. From beloved songstress Lana Del Rey’s…
Music WATCH: Whitney – Used To Be Lonely by Evie Weily Whitney share the video for their latest single Used To be Lonely, which reflects on evolving relationships in a series of perspectives filmed amongst Chicago city landmarks. Watch the clip…
News Happy Listening – the 5 best new releases of the week by Patti Burton This weeks edition of Happy listening goes out to all of you who are NOT at Splendour In The Grass. Instead of getting sweaty in a mosh, peeing in a…
Lists Music News Happy Listening: this week’s 6 best new releases by Patti Burton After a long and cold first week of winter, we can at least find comfort in the stack of new music that we’re loving! From Sydney’s inner-west Angry Girl Band™…
Live Survived Sydney Laneway Festival? Get a look at your sweaty self in our pics from the weekend scorcher by Happy If you managed to survive the heat of St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival Sydney, congratulations. We were there, and managed to snap a few pics in between our ice baths. Over…
Interviews Music Whitney shares the journey of Light Upon The Lake, the Chicago-born album that Australia fell in love with by Nick Stillman Whitney is the product of a band’s breakdown and two mates rising from the heap to reinvent themselves. In 2016, following the dissolution of their first previous band Smith Westerns,…
Lists The Ruminaters’ top 10 songs of 2016 by Happy When we went through the painstaking but ultimately fucking fun job of piecing together our favourite 100 songs of last year, we knew our mates The Ruminaters had to be…
Lists Big Scary’s top 10 songs of 2016 by Happy At the close of the year Happy put together our top 100 songs of 2016, an all-Australian collection detailing the personal favourites of all our staff. With their gorgeous tune The…
Lists News The 5 best Pitchfork Music Festival sets from a decade of recordings by Tom Cameron If you’re any kind of cluey Happy reader, you may have noticed us fawning over Pitchfork before. The world-class publisher is an endlessly satisfying tastemaker, consistently serving up fresh perspective,…
Lists Best guitar riffs ever would be impossible right? So we decided to focus on the best shreds 2016 has given us so far by Liz Nash Frusciante, Hendrix, Richards, Parker – a bloody good guitar riff can kick a song out of the ordinary and into outer space. Whether big and brash or short and punchy,…
