Features ‘Eyes Like The Sky’: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s misfit masterpiece by Ben Robinson If you’ve heard a song from Eyes Like The Sky live, you won the King Gizzard lottery. After eight years, the Wizards’ sophomore album remains one of their most inventive….
Live Mighty solos and a Madonna cover: LAKYN hits a home run at The Lansdowne Hotel by Ben Robinson This past Thursday, a hundred or so music lovers congregated on the sticky floors of The Lansdowne’s gig room to be blessed by the chilled out vibes of LAKYN –…
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Interviews “I wanna have an empire”: chatting with Tkay Maidza, a hood princess in the making by Ben Robinson This article appears in print in Happy Mag Issue 9. Grab your copy here. Tkay Maidza – born Takudzwa Victoria Rose – stomped her way into our eardrums at the…
Interviews Taking life lessons from City Calm Down by Ben Robinson Only four years ago, City Calm Down were one of the most talked about and hyped indie bands in the country. Their debut In A Restless House was a smash…
Music Label? Check. Studio? Check. Space opera? Maybe: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets on their impending world domination by Ben Robinson Perth has an impressive track record. It has been the nest for some of Australia’s finest musical exports; Tame Impala, Pond, Birds of Tokyo, and Pendulum. Now there’s another act…
Music Growing up, fake friends and DIY guitars: the whirlwind year of Ruby Fields by Ben Robinson If you haven’t heard of Ruby Fields then you must’ve been living in a cave for the last 12 months. After years of slogging away in pubs and clubs, Ruby…
News PREMIERE: Future Love Hangover defies normality on experimental new track Out Of Space by Ben Robinson Out of Space is the first single from Future Love Hangover’s third album Sincere Input. Speaking of the project, artist Jack Prest says, “sincere is defined as free from pretence…
Interviews Music Kingswood on album number three, destiny, and what ‘making it’ actually means by Ben Robinson Kingswood don’t need an introduction. If you don’t know who Kingswood are, you may have been living under a rock for the past couple of years. To date they’ve released…
Music Detest group messages? So does Tom Calder on his dry-witted single JOKE/DREAM by Ben Robinson Much can be said about Tom Calder’s new track JOKE/DREAM. It’s smooth, it’s sexy, it’s sparkly. But above all, it’s unlike anything you hear on mainstream radio. Or any kind…
Music The Jim Mitchells try tenderness on terrific debut album Love Hypnotic by Ben Robinson If you’re a regular follower of this site or of local Sydney bands, The Jim Mitchells will not be strangers to you. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, you…
Music Montero bears his introversion to the world on monumental new album Performer by Ben Robinson There are two kinds of albums. There is the kind that’s strung together over a few months of writing and recording, released to the public in the hope for royalties;…
