Joyzine

About me:

It's time to get back to what we got into this game for in the first place - the sheer, unadulterated rush, the emotional reaction, the goddamn JOY!!! From 2003 to 2005, Joyzine chronicled anything and everything that excited us in the new music scene, giving early reviews to the likes of Art Brut, The Rakes, Long Blondes & Bloc Party (as well as plenty of others, just as good, that never made the cover of the NME).

Seven years later there's a whole new generation of great new music, art, film and literature just waiting to be discovered. If it makes us laugh, cry, think or dance around the bedroom, you'll find it at www.joyzine.org

Volume 2, Issue #2 Online now!!! with the following delights for your delectation:

> A cavalcade of features with Revere, who have even gone so far as to curate our front cover this month, in celebration of their wondrous album 'Hey! Selim'
> Sounds Like Joy: a free downloads album with 12 whole tracks for your listening pleasure, featuring Abdoujaparov, Subliminal Girls, Dirtblonde, How to Swim, Ten City Nation, Stagecoach, White Witches, The Helmholtz Resonators, Cours Lapin, The Victorian English Gentlemen's Club, 00000000 and The Bridport Dagger
> Summer Festivals reviewed and previewed - we look back on 2000 Trees, Indietracks, Secret Garden Party + Stag & Dagger and look forward to Offset, Stop Making Sense, Southsea Fest and Summer Sunset
> Signal to Noise - introducing two exciting new bands from East London, featuring Miss Cosmos and Wolfgang Smash
> Try Something New - Sarah Malt gets us hula-hooping
> Joyzine Recommends - our new listings page for music, culture & creative pursuits
> And of the course all of our favourite new releases reviewed. Singles & Albums from Revere, Thomas Traux, Being 747, Mother Mother, Cheatahs, Colours, Dignan Porch, Not Cool, Foxy Shazam, The Good Gods!, The Strange Death of Liberal England, Tweak Bird and The Life and Times Of

Joyzine is a new/old online music & culture magazine from some of the people that bought you Maps Magazine & a few of their most talented friends.



We're looking for new people to help make Joyzine - if you fancy writing, drawing, taking photos or doing anything else (and getting free cds, guestlist places, festival tickets, etc. into the bargain), email paul@joyzine.org