Pennsylvania native, Kylie Lotz formed Petal a few years ago and her first EP Scout soon followed in 2013. Most recently, she released her debut album Shame on Run For Cover Records. Not only is Kylie a musician but also an actress, recently relocating from her home in Scranton to New York City. Her new album […]
Seminal pop-punk band from the early 2000s, The Movielife, announced their reunion at the end of 2014, and it seemed perhaps frontman Vinnie Caruana would spend some time focused on that project. But that would be very unlike Vinnie. Between The Movielife and chant-along punk band I Am the Avalanche, he certainly has his hands […]
On Friday 8th April in Nottingham, two EPs from local bands were released in harmony to a full house at The Chameleon Cafe. Little Bribes performed their debut EP Obstacles and Merrick’s Tusk their sophomore Regroup and Reform. It night was a proud moment for Midlands DIY. Getting the party started as people continued arriving and helping […]
Whether it’s finding the strength to play a gig to no-one on a Sunday night whilst coming down hard off legal highs that you bought from the internet; or arguing with a promoter who is saying he’s been in a car accident so can’t pay you as much as agreed for playing a bandstand in […]
Happy International Women’s Day! Welcome to Queens of the Neighbourhood, a brand new SYS feature. If there’s one thing that is obviously frustrating about alternative music, a scene that is meant to exude diversity and equality, it is the underrepresentation of women. It doesn’t take much to look through any alternative magazine or even looking at […]
On a good day playing a show anywhere across mainland Europe means you are met warmly by staff at the venue, fed well, given plenty of beer to drink, people show up, enjoy the show, they chat afterwards, buy merch, everyone generally feels validated at their choices in life. Then you are given somewhere decent […]
Touring. The dream. What a laugh. What a lark. Morrissey slammed the fast rise of Arctic Monkeys back in 2010 by saying “it’s all a bit unnatural…they haven’t been driving up and down the M1 for fifteen years.” Cool, nice one Moz, you really showed ’em but have you done more than one gig in a […]
Although no one really asked for another article from someone in a band telling you “how to be in a band” and “truths” and “how it really is” and “this is what it takes if you can handle it,” I figured with my head full of knowledge from our own little corner of making music, I had […]
In the music community, especially online, you will hear, “that’s not punk because…” People tend to take things like this, in my opinion, too seriously. Obviously it wouldn’t make sense to categorize DJ Mustard, or other similar artists as punk. But typically these arguments aren’t things based off of the important things, like music or […]
Big Scary Monsters is an East London based independent record label specialising in no genre in particular. It was formed soon after the millennium and in the last decade has put out music by Tall Ships, Caspian, Matt Pryor, DZ Deathrays, Gnarwolves, Pulled Apart By Horses, Kevin Devine, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., Woahnows, This […]