Featured articles
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Live Review: Slaughter Beach, Dog (Nottingham, 14/01/2020)
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Show Announcement: Camp Cope + Caves + Fresh in Nottingham!
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Band Interview: Jouska discuss their latest EP, comic book tie-ins and recording live sessions
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Exclusive: Stream Quesadilla’s (ex-Taco Hell) debut EP (Hopefully)
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Album Review: American Nightmare – American Nightmare
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EP Review: Downhaul – Where We Started
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Upcoming SYS Zine Tackling Putting on Shows – Get Involved
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Album Review: Propagandhi – Victory Lap
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Cassettes and the DIY Scene
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SYS Exclusive: Marona take on capitalism in “Red Tape”
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Seeing Your Scene Fest #1 info – stage times, tickets, etc
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Interview: Phaedra’s Love
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Live Review: Slam Dunk Festival – Midlands (Birmingham, 27/05/17)
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News: Triple Sundae release new track “Avoiding Everything is Not Your Only Option”
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Album Review: AFI – AFI (The Blood Album)
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Album Review: The Menzingers – After the Party
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Single Review: Los Campesinos! – 5 Flucloxaillin
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Looking back at 2016 with… Home Schooled
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Looking back at 2016 with… Jaded
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Live Review: Pinegrove + support (Nottingham, 03/10/16)
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Album Review: Atterkop – Liber Abaci
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Band Interview: Young Adventurers
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Exclusive stream: Khamsin – Old Fang
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SYS Exclusive: Jum stream new music video for ‘Cut’
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Album Review: Medictation – Warm Places
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Exclusive: Atterkop release ‘Picket Fence’ video
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Live Review: The Smith Street Band, Apologies, I Have None & Woahnows (Nottingham, 13/07/16)
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Album Review: Revenge of the Psychotronic Man – Colossal Velocity
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How To Be In A Band When You’ve Never Been in a Band Before
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Album Review: The Hotelier – Goodness
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Looking at Nottingham’s DIY scene with Little Bribes and Merrick’s Tusk
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SYS Exclusive: Watch the new Deadlines video for “Fermi”
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Band Interview: Ducking Punches’ Dan Allen chats Fizzy Brain, crowdfunding and mental health
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EP Review: Geistfight – Ruin or Worse
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Album Review: Yr Poetry – Rocket Season
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How to be in a band without ruining the lives of every other band around you
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Album Review: Marvelous Mark – Crushin’
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Band Interview: Alexei of Yr Friends / Johnny Foreigner / Yr Poetry + sessions
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How to be in a band during the worst gig of all time
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SYS Exclusive: Watch the new Revello video for “Saltwater”
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Live Review: The World is a Beautiful Place… + mewithoutYou (Birmingham, 12/02/16)
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Live Review: The Front Bottoms + Kevin Devine (Nottingham, 10/02/16)
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How to be in a band when you’re touring in a Honda Civic for a few days
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News: Johnny Foreigner play JT Soar (03/03/16) with Papayer and the Blue Period
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Album Review: Edgarville – Fingerprints & Handwriting
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Live Review: Turnover + support (Nottingham, 16/01/16)
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How to be in a band when you’ve been doing it ages and you still aren’t Justin Bieber famous
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News: The Owl Sanctuary, Norwich forced to close
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News: Manchester Punk Festival adds The Flatliners, Citizen Fish and more
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Looking back at 2015 with… Mallcops
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Looking back at 2015 with… George Gadd (solo / Little Bribes)
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EP Review: Gnarwolves – Adolescence
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Looking back at 2015… with Oxygen Thief
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Band Interview: China Shop Bull
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Label Spotlight: Big Scary Monsters
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SYS Exclusive Stream: Lions and Creators – “Better Days”
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Band Interview: Wank for Peace on calling it quits
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EP Review: Dogleg – Dogleg
News
by Max Qayyum
May 4, 2018
Brighton emo band I Feel Fine have released their first EP Long Distance Celebration today via Failure by Design. The EP is an…
by Max Qayyum
April 19, 2018
This is mega exciting! On September 3rd us and our friends at Fan Club have got the amazing Camp Cope…
by Max Qayyum
March 30, 2018
Cardiff's Deadlines have announced their debut album End of History which will be released on May 11th via Circle House Records. You…
Features
by Jordan White
October 25, 2017
This article is written by Jordan from Circle House Records and features his musings on cassette tapes. It also features…
by Max Qayyum
December 29, 2016
Home Schooled had a good 2016! The emo band from the Midlands answered our classic end of year questions. Stay tuned…
by Max Qayyum
December 21, 2016
First in our series looking back at 2016, we've got Birmingham emo band Jaded! Keep an eye out over the…
Interviews
by Kyle McCoy
April 18, 2018
Shortly after the release of Topiary, the Albany quartet Jouska took a tour that brought them to Christmas Island, a Houstonian…
June 22, 2017
We caught up with the lovely Jordan White AKA Phaedra’s Love to chat about mental health, DIY and his new…
by Eleanor Parkinson
October 19, 2016
We caught up with Exeter's excellent Young Adventurers ahead of the release of their EP 'Short Sighted', out on cassette tape via Circle…
Reviews
by Max Qayyum
January 26, 2020
Slaughter Beach, Dog returned to the UK for the first time since 2018 when they supported Tigers Jaw and Worriers.…
by Kyle McCoy
March 12, 2018
Early ‘00s hardcore kids had a moment to forget that they’d become less-hardcore adults when news broke that American Nightmare’s…
by Liam Pritchett
February 16, 2018
Downhaul are an indie/emo pop group from North Carolina and Where We Started is their soon to be released third…