Interviews Chatting hip-hop influencing Taylor Swift and psych rock, to making music that is just fucking weird with Nick Allbrook by Nick Stillman Nicholas Allbrook is one of the most enigmatic characters in Australian music. Frontman of psych purveyors POND, ex-bassist of Tame…
Music News Pond drops ‘Neon River’ a collision of shoegaze and pop-metal by Tammy Moir In Pond’s latest release, ‘Neon River,’ Nick Allbrook channels his signature maximalist Aerosmith-inspired spandex mode to perfection Pond, the ever-evolving…
Music Listen to San Cisco’s anthemic new single ‘Summer Days’ by Tom Disalvo San Cisco are somehow “lonely in the middle of a disco” on bittersweet new single, Summer Days San Cisco have…
Music Video WATCH: Walt – ‘i love you on the internet’ (promo video) by Happy Melbourne band Walt released their debut album i love you the internet on 12 March 2021. Their first full-length release…
Interviews Dating advice, prog rock, and POND with Jay Watson and James Ireland by Riley Fitzgerald Jay Watson is sitting in a tent. Next to him is James Ireland. James is POND’s drummer, a quiet guy….
Magazine Wading through the noise: Jay Watson on refinement, maturity and the future of POND by Tom Cameron With a decade on the circuit, seven LPs to their name and a shitload of facemelt along the way, POND…
News Eloquent and energetic, Human Buoy fully explores his extensive catalogue on Animation Station by Alastair Cairns A debut album is an artist’s first chance to stake their claim. To make an offering that is simply too…
Music Are you ready for the end? POND sing a swan song for the world’s destruction on The Weather by Freya McGahey The Weather takes us into an unexpected conversation. Although confidently known for their alt-psych sound, POND’s latest album fuses distinct…
Features Lists News Happy Mag’s top 100 songs of 2016 by Happy Well, here it is. It was a tougher year than ever to pick favourites – we had to limit ourselves…
Lists Happy’s Top 100 of 2016: 81-90 by Happy [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/283755533?secret_token=s-BI2Il” params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] 90. Australia – Love Is Better 89. Zeahorse – Torana 88. Morning TV…
News Been down on the last few Laneway lineups? Forget it, because 2017 is set to be their best year yet by Tom Cameron St Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2017 have completely blown it out of the water with a star-studded lineup that will get…
Lists Struggling to pick which music festivals to blow all your hard earned cash at in the back end of 2016? Read on. by Happy Across the world, there are few events quite as unifying, cleansing and colossal as music festivals. From Glastonbury to Lollapalooza to Pinkpop and beyond,…