News Learn how to build unforgettable music events in our free online workshop by Happy At 5pm today (Wednesday May 27) Happy Mag and the City of Sydney will present Building Your Own Events, a free online workshop. If you’re a young or emerging musician…
Lists Penelope Pettigrew runs us through each track of her set by Happy Later this month, Sydney-based artist Penelope Pettigrew will be returning to The Newsagency for another huge performance… and we’re pretty bloody excited. But before her gig on March 27th, we…
Interviews Face the shadowy reaper of death with Burden Man by Happy Burden Man is an artist you can’t ignore. He treads a topic society on the whole tends to avoid – death. It’s the only certainty in our lives, the shadowy reaper…
Live Sarah Belkner and Katie Wighton turn The Newsagency into a comedy club by Shayen de Silva How would you describe The Newsagency? We won’t hold it against you if you said ‘intimate, ‘cozy’ or ‘cute’. Indeed, the tiny room nestled in Marrickville is all of those things….
Exclusives EXCLUSIVE: No need to apologise – Sarah Belkner and Katie Wighton cover Chicago by Shayen de Silva Ah the 80s love ballad. So much pining, so many over the top declarations, so many gloved drummers using that same snare sound. Yeah, they’re tacky as hell and many…
Exclusives EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Belkner and Ed Wells cover alt-J’s Tessilate by Shayen de Silva No one would ever admit that a triangle is a sexy shape (a parallelogram maybe). That was of course until alt-J dropped the sexually charged Tessilate on the world a few years…
Live Helen Shanahan live at The Newsagency by Shayen de Silva Helen Shanahan is one of those artists who is best experienced in an intimate space. Her acoustic ballads are laced with memories of sadness and introspection, and on a chilly…
Lists 12 Sydney weekly club shows all bands should play by Jacob Stone Are you a young musician trying to pick up a gig or support slot in Sydney, but scared of ending up playing folk songs in a random, horrible Blue Mountains…
