Interviews Magazine Substance over style and finding comfort in giving up: a conversation between Jack Ladder and Alex Gow by Nick Stillman This article appears in print in Happy Mag Issue 9. Grab your copy here. Tim Rogers (the artist known as Jack Ladder) and Oh Mercy‘s Alex Gow have reached a…
Arts “You have to do it again, only better”: a chat with Sydney photographer Dani Hansen by Nick Stillman Dani Hansen is one of our favourite rock ‘n’ roll photographers in Australia. We’ve been lucky to have the chance to work with her on loads of shoots – live…
Music Middle Kids on being control freaks and why DIY is the way to go by Nick Stillman Sydney’s Middle Kids are about as charming as you can get. Not in the least because of their name, they very much feel like a tight-knight family, with their idiosyncratic…
Interviews Pro Audio Cracked logic and working from bed: going against the grain with Buzz Kull by Nick Stillman Marc Dwyer is Sydney’s darkwave prince. The man behind Buzz Kull, he has been lurking around for a number of years now, releasing his own music, collaborating with other artists…
Arts Quadrascopic cameras, 3D renders and QR codes: the bizarre techniques of photographer Phillip Muzzall by Nick Stillman Phillip Muzzall is not one to sit idly by while the world flashes past his eyes, bands play shows, and moments beg to be captured (and altered). For a little…
Nature Photography Lose yourself in the surreal, prehistoric beauty of Luca Tombolini’s desert photography by Nick Stillman Few places on Earth are as surreal and alien as the desert. The near complete lack of organic life is something entirely foreign to most people, as is the sense…
News Pro Audio Spitfire Audio’s vast LABS library of sounds is now available for free by Nick Stillman The LABS library of sounds and samples from Spitfire Audio is a goldmine for producers and composers, partly because it’s extremely vast, and partly because it’s extremely cheap – actually, until…
Features Pro Audio Chatting experimental setups and layered guitars with DZ Deathrays by Nick Stillman DZ Deathrays have been lords of Australian party-punk for closing in on a decade now, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be slowing down any time soon. Their latest single…
News Pro Audio This world class music college is offering a synth programming course for free by Nick Stillman If you’re sick of wading through hours of YouTube tutorials trying to get your head around how to program soft synths, then this will be right up your alley. Berklee…
News S U R V I V E’s Stranger Things season 2 soundtrack is getting 4 separate deluxe vinyl releases! by Nick Stillman The soundtrack to season two of Stranger Things by S U R V I V E (made up of Austin synth lords Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon) is getting a…
Interviews Pro Audio Domestic bliss: Owen Penglis looks back on his early days recording bands in his lounge room by Nick Stillman Owen Penglis is the man behind some of the best rock records to come out of Australia in the past decade. From his own project Straight Arrows to blistering releases…
News Pro Audio Joe Bonamassa says pedalheads are “f**king lazy” in new interview by Nick Stillman If you’re one of those guitarists who is forever fretting over whether you’ve gone too far down the rabbit hole with pedals, that you’re too reliant on them for crafting…
News Pro Audio Jimi Hendrix’s iconic 1967 Fuzz Face is going up for auction by Nick Stillman Jimi Hendrix’s iconic 1967 Fuzz Face is going up for auction this weekend. The collection is heading under the hammer this Saturday at Julien’s Auctions Gallery in Los Angeles. Jimi…
