Far from epoch-defining stuff, but for melodic, hook-laden indie pop delivered with humour and verve one could do a hell of a lot worse. Adam Elmahdi reviews Happy Birthday with support from Spectrals.
Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday – Happy Birthday
It’s a little bit scratchy, it’s a little bit glam, it’s a little bit punk and it’s whole lotta fun. Euan Mackay reviews the newie from Sub Pop signings Happy Birthday.

The SXSW Diaries // Day 1
Straight from the frontline, Jen Long starts her daily SXSW blog in style. With words, videos, photos and music from jj, Happy Birthday and The Smith Westerns.
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
Videos
Latest Reviews
- Field Music – Plumb
- Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
- Coolrunnings – Dracula Is Only The Beginning
- Tennis – Young And Old
- Maribel – Reveries
- Woodpigeon – For Paolo
- Amanda Mair – Amanda Mair
- Karen Dalton – 1966
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
- Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
- James Levy and the Blood Red Rose – Pray To Be Free
- Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal
- Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks










