Yes, they’re happy. Songs like “The World Is a Magical Place” and “The Day After Albert Changed the World” are as whimsical and ecstatic as anything that ever twinkled Snoopy’s toes. Their dippy ...

No, this isn't the new Modest Mouse video -- which is to say, the old Modest Mouse video. Rather, it's the latest short from going-for-baroque Dallas-based pop-rockers The Happy Bullets. Titled "The ...

It started in the john, where all great shows start. I met Josh as we both washed our hands at the Fairplay Hotel’s ground-floor restroom, and after a few minutes of life-on-the-road talk in the ...

Hooray for psychedelic pop! Happy Bullets are great. Upon first listening to them, it seemed like Coldplay might sound like this if they'd paid more attention to the Kinks, but I think that was just ...

The Dallas band Happy Bullets are the critic’s choice in this week’s Pitch, the New Times alt-weekly in Kansas City. Thanks for the dig, Pitch: On the other hand, Vice [The Vice and Virtue Ministry, ...

The Happy Bullets conducts interviews during lunch breaks from quirky day jobs, scheduling a tour has become contingent on the baby-sitter and “a good night’s sleep” has become a relative term. Yep, ...

When is the Pas/Cal-Happy Bullets double bill? Like Detroit’s own nattily attired pop outfit, Dallas-based Happy Bullets write baroque pop songs done up in Kinks and Nilsson finery that nod also to ...

Using the B-word when describing a new young band can be the kiss of death, but the sonic palette Happy Bullets use on The Vice and Virtue Ministry brings to mind a psychedelic-era Beatles album as ...