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 ...

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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 ...

Today has seen the release of Obsessed With You (The Early Years) an official release of X Ray Spex demo recordings which would later evolve into classic punk album ‘Germfree Adolescents’ an album ...

A recent influence on Cincinatti-based Choncy is egg punk band Snooper from Nashville, whose goofy-but-serious album Worldwide was one of my favourites from last year. Trademark is Choncy’s third ...

When you see an album description on Bandcamp, that speaks directly to you, the reader, as if you yourself are a valued member of the band’s musical audience, how can you not be so intrigued you have ...

It’s been twenty years that Tamikrest representing the music and culture Kel Tamasheq (Touareg) people of the Sahara and Tamikrest means ‘connection’ or ‘union’ in Tamasheq. Assikel is the band’s new ...

“It’s our most eclectic album, there’s a little bit of everything. The songs are harder to label. We wanted to do something different. Less in your face, less poppy, less obviously psych-rock. More ...

There are few bands as deeply woven into the fabric of Joyzine as Art Brut. We first crossed paths in the very earliest days of both the band and this site’s existence at a South London Music Tourist ...

Documentaries always have a slant. Narratives that either emerge through the creation of the film or are something that is planned beforehand. Is the film you are making the uncensored truth or pure ...

Until the PR email dropped into the Joyzine inbox I didn’t realise my life had been the poorer without Elijah Minnelli in it but from the opening track of his new album Clams As A Main Meal my mood ...