News Study finds Victorians are the biggest heroin and MDMA users, while NSW loves cocaine by Sarah Gillard The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission’s (ACIC) seventh National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program covers 54 percent of the population, which equates to about 12.6 million people. The report shows that NSW had the…
News Get out your daily planners: The Gum Ball have dropped their full 2019 program by Rianna Manuel 2019 marks the 14th year of The Gum Ball festival and this one’s bigger than ever. Announcing their first run of artists late last year, organisers have just dropped their…
News Return To Rio is Australia’s most unique festival, and nobody knows it yet by Happy Booking a good lineup and fostering a community within a music festival are two completely different beasts. Most festivals struggle with one or the other, and very few successfully nail…
Lists 5 artists from New South Wales that we’re digging right now by Bill Robinson It’s that time of year again. The time of year when we scour the depths of Australia and New Zealand to bring you some raw talent as part of our Needle…
Interviews Lisa Mitchell is getting ready to gift us with some new music. We caught up with her to find out what she’s been up to by Sam Dawes Australia’s favourite songwriting sweetheart, Lisa Mitchell has been busy. As her luscious sound experiments expand ever farther, fans can’t help but salivate as they wait for what happens next. Luckily, we got a…
Lists Indecisive about where to blow your money this summer? Here are 10 amazing boutique festivals you can’t afford to miss by Nick Stillman This part of the year is always unabashedly ruthless on our wallets. Once the mercury begins to rise up from the icy grips of Winter, festival promoters unleash hell. Once…
Features Music Vid O' The Week: Babe Rainbow's Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest by Alex Gordon What remains of our knowledge of the western world’s most celebrated decade is, I would assume, a pretty biased picture, skewed towards the carefree and the senseless rather than the Vietnam draft…
Live Happy’s Guide to The Gum Ball by Alex Gordon Held every year in the Hunter Valley, The Gum Ball is one of Australia’s longer running rural festivals, celebrating it’s 10th anniversary this year. Over that time, the festival has cultivated a…
