News Album Premiere: Max Quinn’s Onomatopenis – Self Titled Debut by Alex Gordon For over two years now, Ballina native Max Quinn has been living in the big city – its smoggy air permeating his lungs, its greasy thai food satisfying his stomachly desires, its Darlinghurst darlings populating his…
News Album Premiere: Max Quinn's Onomatopenis – Self Titled Debut by Alex Gordon For over two years now, Ballina native Max Quinn has been living in the big city – its smoggy air permeating his lungs, its greasy thai food satisfying his stomachly desires, its Darlinghurst darlings populating his…
News Single Premiere: Mega Ogre – Hikikomori by Alex Gordon Last we heard of Brisbane’s wonderfully, amazingly, onionly named Mega Ogre, was their jangly single The Ethereal Darkness Beyond Planet Earth – a track that showed the band were definitely taking notes…
News Video Premiere: Sagamore – Iodine by Alex Gordon I was about to start this article by saying “there are so many great songs named for elements of the periodic table”, and then all I could think of was…
Music Lime Cordiale – Falling Up The Stairs EP by Alex Gordon In the 12 months that I’ve been writing for Happy, there’s been a name conspicuously missing from the (now rather unweildy) database of bands, artists and producers catalogued in this…
Music Video Premiere: Braves – Seapunk by Alex Gordon A wise band once summarised the duality of summertime pop music by listing the first track on their album as “If Your Song Title Has The Word Beach In It…
Live Aussies at CMJ Music Marathon by Alex Gordon I’m always fascinated by the reputation Australians have in the international community – being born here and only hearing polite things even from the drunkest of foreigners, I’m still left…
Music Andras and Oscar – Cafe Romantica by Alex Gordon Andras and Oscar is the electronic collaborative project between two household names in electronic music, Oscar Key Sung and Andras Fox. Well, perhaps not household names as such, but definitely two…
Music Jenny Broke The Window – We Could’ve Done This Grant by Alex Gordon It’s been a quieter year for the local powerhouse that is Jenny Broke The Window* – last year saw the release of the phenomenal Rum and Cola, the now familiar summertime…
Music Jenny Broke The Window – We Could've Done This Grant by Alex Gordon It’s been a quieter year for the local powerhouse that is Jenny Broke The Window* – last year saw the release of the phenomenal Rum and Cola, the now familiar summertime…
Live Doprah @ The Lansdowne by Alex Gordon Ahead of Doprah’s debut show on Australian shores, we sent a few questions the band’s way about what they’re gonna be up to. Catch the band’s only show in Aus at Sydney’s…
Live JAWS presents Bears With Guns, Main Beach & Montes Jura by Alex Gordon When you answer and send emails 6 days a week about music, venues and Jake Stone, there’s a certain obliviousness that forms as you work. An obliviousness to the fact that on a linguistic level your entire email…
Exclusives Exclusive Track + Q&A with Bloodhounds On My Trail by Alex Gordon We came across Bloodhounds On My Trail a couple of months back and really loved their two demos. Now, they’re dropping a four track EP next Tuesday the 14th and launching…
