After our majorly successful first issue of youth magazine Teen Spirit launched a year ago to South Australian teenagers, the magazine will now be distributed nationally!

Alongside our national features, every Australian state and territory will carry locally tailored content, spotlighting emerging artists from each region – written by locals who know their scene inside and out.

Thanks to the support of the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, Teen Spirit, will be kicking off its long-awaited encore later this year.

With the social media ban now firmly in place, Teen Spirit offers a tangible alternative. We’re encouraging Australian teenagers to ditch the screen and pick up a ‘zine, distributing directly into schools nationwide. If the choice is Teen Spirit or a science textbook in our spare time, we know the decision is obvious.

Distributed across every state and territory in Australia and directly into schools, this ink and paper magazine will make it into teens’ hands across the country, into school backpacks, and be taken home to flick through all the music-filled pages.

The national edition of Teen Spirit will have a focus on teen music culture and feature interviews with beloved national and international artists and bands, upcoming all-ages gigs to get teens out and about at gigs, reviews for the latest Australian tracks, stories of young people working in the music industry and curated sections unique to each state and territory – highlighting the voices of local artists and young culture makers – and much, much more.

Freelance writers across Australia with a great involvement with their local music scene are encouraged to contact The Note if they would like to get involved with the project.

The first edition of Teen Spirit was created in partnership with Carclew, with the ambition of getting kids to gigs and involved in Adelaide’s vibrant music and arts scene, and now it has evolved to be for teens across all of Australia.

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