Author: Radi Safi

We couldn’t possibly be more excited to announce the launch of Spookyland’s debut single The Silly Fucking Thing this Friday the 2nd of May. The launch will be celebrated by a short time free download of the track leading up to an incredible show at FBi Social on Friday the 13th of June.We’ll post ticketing…

You can now pre-order the Spookyland studio debut, Rock and Roll Weakling. Spookyland’s EP is equal parts haunting and mesmerizing. You can support the release and pre-order Rock and Roll Weakling here. We’ll be announcing a release date and EP launch shortly.

Take one listen and you’ll be sorry you didn’t jump on the train bound for Spookyland ages ago. Monday Records did and have just signed the Sydney based singer & poet with plans to release the EP Rock and Roll Weakling in March. Produced by Tony Buchen the four tracker features a reworking of the…

Join us for a rooftop gig in Newtown this Saturday on the cnr King St & Church St Newtown for the opening of the Sandfly Film Festival. The bands are supported by one of the best aussie music blogs around! Happy. It’s also worth mentioning our official new site and our introduction to user experience…

Atlas B Salvesen will join the Adelaide folk rockers The Beards on Saturday the 7th of September at The Annandale Hotel in Sydney. Our message is simple: grow your beards or your leg hair or both and get the fuck to the Annandale. GET TICKETS HERE

Last November Atlas B Salvesen released his debut EP Smoke Signals and has been pretty busy since then getting his sounds to the people as well as working on what looks be a full length for release later in the year or early 2014. Happy’s Tilly Street caught up with Atlas last week and talked…

3 months of demos have reached a peak for Circle with their new track We Can Play. Up until now the guys have been working almost exclusively ‘in the box’ but invited a drummer along to jam through this track and were able to get a good 10 hour session in. The addition of kids…

Frank Ocean has Teddy Riley, Babyface and R. Kelly to thank for his taste and passion for the thumping and the melodic music he writes just as much as Teddy and crew have the Beatles to thank for the very same thing. John & Paul, heck they have Bach to thank! Alas, it would seem…

We love this bio so we’re going to share it again: Atlas B Salvesen is a folk singer at heart and a philosopher of his own head. Born and raised in the Midwestern field state of Iowa, USA, there is a ghostly sense of isolation and alienation that permeates his music. He is a lyrically…

Following on from their very popular demo sessions from late 2012, Circle have dished up a couple more gems for us to sink our teeth into. With almost 10,000 plays in a month, the demos are doing the rounds and a couple have even made the Hype Machine radar.