News NPR release huge archive of performances, featuring Sonic Youth, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, more by James Peppercorn NPR have released a huge amount of live performances. Taking place between 2005 and 2017, NPR hosted performances from hundreds of acts live from Washington DC’s 9:30 Club. This move…
Music PREMIERE: Doctor Goddard unveil desert-dazing new single ‘Canyonero’ by Luka Simonetti Ever feel like high-tailing through terrestrial desert plains on a drug-induced bender, Hunter S. Thompson style? As fun as it sounds, you probably shouldn’t do that. But new track Canyonero from Doctor…
Music News Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp release cover of John Lennon’s ‘Isolation’ by Happy Famed English rock guitarist Jeff Beck and Hollywood actor Johnny Depp have decided to team up as a musical duo. The pair have just released their first track, and fittingly,…
Books News Ninja Bandicoots and Turbo-Charged Wombats, Why We Can’t Sleep and more – Happy’s Weekend Reading by Dan Shaw The new year has brought us a selection of brilliant new reads. Ninja Bandicoots and Turbo-Charged Wombats invites children into the world of Australia’s loveable and rare creatures (with proceeds…
Books Features Flea’s pain-stricken memoir Acid for the Children is a moving journey by Luke Saunders Is Acid for the Children as good as Scar Tissue? No. It’s nothing like it. Flea is assuredly aware of the magnificence of Anthony Kiedis’ autobiography and has not set…
Books News What lies beyond perception? On High Weirdness by Erik Davis by Riley Fitzgerald “The Beyond, whatever it consists of, might not be nearly as far away or inaccessible as we think.” – Michael Pollan Compare Erik Davis to rock critic Greil Marcus. Like…
News Eric Clapton, Tom Petty and Brian Wilson to feature in new doco documenting LA in the ’60s by Luke Saunders Echo In The Canyon is a new documentary paying tribute to a near bygone era featuring Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, Beck, Regina Spector, and countless others. It focuses on life…
Arts News Remembering Michel Legrand, the man who gave French New Wave a sound by Molly Lasker Polymathic musician and composer Michel Legrand has passed away over the weekend at the age of 86. The composer was active for over half a century and was famed for…
News These are the biggest fiction bestsellers of the last 100 years by Molly Lasker The team at Literary Hub have compiled a list of the bestsellers in adult fiction over the last 100 years via data collected from Publisher’s Weekly’s information archives. It’s interesting looking…
Arts News See authors get cozy with their furry friends in new book Writers and their Cats by Louise Osborne Alison Nastasi has just announced a follow up release to her bestselling book, Artists and their Cats, aptly named Writers and their Cats. The book will take an intimate look…
Features News The end of an era: a eulogy for Rolling Stone Australia by Riley Fitzgerald Thanks for the rock writing, but it’s time to move on. In the case you hadn’t heard, Australia’s long-running edition of Rolling Stone is bottom up. Not by fault of…
Arts News These nugshots were made to “look cool when you’re high” by Happy Smoking weed can make shit look beautiful. Anyone who’s stared too long at a pretty tree, a sunset or the pattern on your bathroom wall while absolutely wiped can attest…
Music Corniglia’s debut album is brittle, beautiful, and beyond powerful by Bill Robinson On their impressive self-titled album, Perth’s Corniglia produce a stunning collection of dark and delicate indie psychedelia that feels as powerful as it does fragile. The Western Australian duo, comprised of…
