Music After School Care unleash an absolute frenzy on their debut EP ‘No Hat No Play’ by Happy On their debut EP, After School Care churn punk through the ringer of alt-rock and leave audiences with a bloodthirsty and totally addictive set of…
Premieres PREMIERE: On The Stoop will take you down on their raucous new single ‘Hard Town’ by Brendan Neville On The Stoop’s new single Hard Town is dripping with fast, loud attitude. We’re completely addicted to this cocktail of punk madness. Have you ever…
Live Gallery: STFD with Step-Panther and Mac the Knife by Happy Last Friday Happy Mag hopped over to Cuckoo once again for STFD: a seated gig featuring Step-Panther and Mac the Knife. Who says you can’t…
Music Die! Die! Die! charge into the climate collapse with a righteous new 7″ by Caitlin Hely Unapologetic punk pin-ups Die! Die! Die! prove they’re only get better with age with the release of a gritty new 7″. Not long ago Die!…
Music LISTEN: Flight to Dubai – ‘Strife’ by Happy Seven songs, 16 minutes, and not a bar wasted. The new EP Strife from Sydney-based proto-punks Flight to Dubai comes with style in spades – give it…
Music LISTEN: Flight To Dubai – ‘Sparse Space’ by Happy Flight To Dubai have revealed another single from their upcoming EP, Strife. A slow-burner for the heartsick, Sparse Space layers cowboy guitar rhythms against an impassioned…
Music A. Swayze & the Ghosts – ‘Paid Salvation’ Album Review by Luka Simonetti A. Swayze & The Ghosts fit a post-punk aesthetic, donning hard eyeliner, cropped leather, and occasionally bleached mohawks on stage. A. Swayze & The Ghosts…
Features Manic Street Preachers – ‘The Holy Bible’: Why It Mattered by James Peppercorn The Holy Bible from Manic Street Preachers is a document of pure truths, showing us our world’s horrors and failings in their most confronting form….
Features Pixies – ‘Bossanova’: Why It Mattered by James Peppercorn Following a gruelling and self-destructive tour supporting their 1989 masterpiece Doolittle, Pixies were on the brink of collapse. Nervous exhaustion from consistent gigging plus bitter…
Music News WATCH: Total Revenge – ‘The Fair’ by Kayla McNicoll LA-based artist Ryan Pollie recently announced his new project Total Revenge, blessing us with the first single The Fair, an infectious slosh of woozy pop-punk….
Features News The Dandy Warhols – ‘Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia’: Why It Mattered by Kayla McNicoll In their first six years as a band, The Dandy Warhols quickly established themselves as outliers in the rock and roll scene. Tinkering with garage, psych-rock,…
Features The Clash: the only band that matters by James Peppercorn Of all the artists who “changed everything”, The Clash stand loud and proud. Over the course of their seven years (only taking into account the…
News VIC Premier Dan Andrews allegedly gives all clear for using coke in lockdown by Ben Hansen When Melbourne punk band Clowns tagged Victorian Premier Dan Andrews in an Instagram poll asking if cocaine was allowed during lockdown, they didn’t expect a…
