LOUD WOMEN Fest is only a few days away. I can't think of a better way to warm up for Saturday than checking out their latest compilation album. This is their seventh release. The compilation includes ...

Back in 2022, I went to my first LOUD WOMEN Fest and felt like I had arrived at my musical spiritual home. I have attended ...

Indonesian band Strange Fruit are, according to their PR, “shaped by shoegaze drift, motorik repetition, and kosmische-inflected electronics”. That’s not yer regular boastful nonsense – that’s hard ...

The brilliantly titled Word Weapons is the first EP release from exciting Houston-based band The Secret Plan. They have already gained a reputation as a great live band with loud, chaotic performances ...

When my partner and I first saw four-time UK beatboxing champion Grace Savage performing incredible feats of vocal acrobatics at LOUD WOMEN Fest (review here), little did I expect that almost a decade ...

Common heard utterances when people are discussing some of their favourite music. Lines trotted out over and over, yet there lies a hidden, more subtle, birthing of a musical love affair. Its the ...

Back in the day, I was very keen on a band called Team Waterpolo. For a brief moment, so were plenty of record companies. Maybe their name was just as important as their brand of spiky synth indie pop ...

It seems like only last week that Joyzine reviewed Sex Mask’s second and self-titled EP, and that’s because it was. Their latest single ‘Lockjaw’ is not one to stay tight-lipped about. Sex Mask are ...

In Paul F Cook’s recent review of Rowena Wise’s new album he wrote that she had: been using music as therapy after some difficult years of big life changes and Bad Things Feel Good* is a poetic and ...

It is hard to believe we are already past the midpoint of 2026. The year has passed so quickly that, all of a sudden, Punk Christmas, otherwise known as Rebellion Festival, had arrived again — and ...