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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 ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the yeeeeeeear! Yes, the Joyzine Advent Calendar is back once again to bring you 24 days of fantastic free music downloads from a amazing array of our favourite artists ...

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 ...

The bayan is a type of accordion named after an 11 th-century Russian bard. I had to look that up, just as I had to look up the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal when I reviewed ‘Edinburgh’ – the previous ...

Anticipation was building before The Lemonheads took the stage at the Electric Ballroom in Camden for the first of two shows here. We were all wondering what type of gig this would turn out to be- ...

When you looks at Isobel Waller-Bridge’s CV it appears she is someone who isn’t much for sitting still. She is a mercurial spirit who can be experimental, playful, minimal and maximal, having worked ...

“Face it, it’s a filthy stinking world but there are some smashing things in it” – Jimmy Brewster (Alan Bates). One afternoon a few years ago I was at home idly scrolling through TV channels and ...

Spacemen 3 were a neo-psychedelic band formed in Rugby in 1982. Forty years later, in nearby Birmingham, the neo-neo-psychedelic band Spincycle was formed as a two-piece and has since doubled in size.

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 ...

What does it feel like to return to the music industry more than 20 years after a hit single? You may or may not have heard of bôa (I’ll confess I hadn’t) but the story is more than intriguing and a ...

Ghostwoman have been one of my favourite acts since hearing their Lost Echo’s EP, a growling record that I said was “packed full of rattlesnake venom and bourbon”. Ille van Dessel (drums) and Evan ...