So Young Magazine

The pages of this magazine are crafted with passion and dedication. So Young is our heartfelt gift to you, encouraging you to keep attending concerts, purchasing albums, and appreciating the artwork that accompanies your favorite tunes. With a focus on community, we strive to connect fresh illustration talent with the vibrant underground guitar music scene. Drawing inspiration from the fanzines of the punk era, we maintain an optimistic perspective. Our mission is to document the exciting happenings across the country and internationally, whether in pubs, clubs, squats, or living rooms. In an age where music and art can feel disposable, So Young stands out as a physical publication, beautifully illustrated by both emerging and established artists. Our limited print runs make So Young a collectible item that you’ll want to cherish.

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So Young Magazine - Listen - Water From Your Eyes - Life Signs

4 days ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

Two years on from breakout 2023 album ‘Everyone’s Crushed’, NYC duo Water From Your Eyes are back, sharing details of a new album – ‘It’s a Beautiful Place’ (out 22nd August via Matador) – alongside beguiling new single ‘Life Signs’.
So Young Magazine - Listen - RIP Magic - 'Loot'/'Dox'

5 days ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

There’s not many bands that embody the mystique of ultra-hip urban cool right now quite like RIP Magic. Fronted by Marco Pini (Sorry), a secretive last 12 months has been all super exclusive East London parties, sneaking onto the lower echelons of tastemaking festival bills, waiting for the iron to get hot, waiting for the right time to strike…And good news is that their debut release – a double whammy no less – positively tingles with promise.
Picking Flowers / Que?

2 weeks ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

Meeting at art college in Brighton before gravitating towards the South East London suburbia, 8-piece PARADE are a band that bring together talents in music art, fashion, design (and more besides), and who revel in this mutli-disciplinary, multi-genre DIY experiment. Opening themselves up to the world with a double single release on their self-founded imprint Appointment 1, our first introduction to PARADE offers up as many tantalizing questions as it provides delicious answers.
So Young Magazine - Review - Wanderlust Festival 2025

1 month ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Callum McCormack

Wanderlust Festival returned over the May Bank holiday and with an extra day of music programmed, Wanderlust cemented itself as an additional jewel in the crown of the Southampton music scene. Whilst the festival is only in its second year, there’s already a strong sense of community as festival-goers gathered to collect their wristbands outside the festival’s smallest venue, Heartbreakers.
So Young Magazine - Listen - Most Things - Lucky

1 month ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

They say that music is more about what you don’t play than what you do. As if mainlining this mantra straight into their bones, Most Things’ newest cut provides yet another exquisite exercise in how much nuance they can achieve and feel with just a bass, drum-kit and mic. The sound of a band working maximalism into minimalism, ‘Lucky’ sows a whole field with a handful of seeds; takes a stepladder and reaches for the stars.
So Young Magazine - Listen - Blousey - Chances

1 month ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

London’s Blousey share new single ‘Chances’ and announce debut EPSix-piece Blousey are all about donning black blazers, puffing out chests, pushing back hair, and belting out a big fat chorus. Within a live show that elsewhere sets its stall on pounding gloomy gothic rumbles a la 80s Nick Cave, new single ‘Chances’ serves up a glinting and melodic moment.
So Young Magazine - Preview - Wanderlust Festival 2025

1 month ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Callum McCormack

As the clouds drift apart and the sun peeks its head, festivals are drawing upon us. We may not have hit prime t-shirt and shorts weather just yet but the the spring jackets are out as Southampton’s Wanderlust opens the door to 2025’s festival season. Returning for their sophomore year after its debut in 2024, Wanderlust welcomes along some of the best talent around to Southampton.
So Young Magazine - Review - the healing power of horses - 'tape (NS005)'

1 month ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

Every so often, music must confront you purely with the image of a turquoise cassette tape on a wooden table and your imagination must run wild. For example, there’s a feasible alternative timeline out there where the healing power of horses are some hotly-tipped group from the U.S finally arriving in the UK on the back of serious stateside buzz, fully formed, next in line for fans of horsegirl, bar Italia, C Turtle to savour.
A fully illustrated new music magazine

1 month ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

The New Eves are rising. Signing to Transgressive Records, the Brighton quartet mark their much-anticipated return with furious new single ‘Highway Man’. Launching for the jugular with sickle in hand and flowers growing at their feet, ‘Highway Man’ offers the band’s most compelling and cutthroat offering to date.
So Young Magazine - Listen - Kissing on Camera - Lil' Horse

2 months ago | soyoungmagazine.com | Elvis Thirlwell

A solemn and tremendous ode to not having a good time, listening to Kissing on Camera’s ‘Lil’ Horse, from our perspective at least, is the best time. Wasting no time in following up last month’s ‘Corner Couch’, ‘Lil’ Horse’ sustains the quartet’s deliciously earnest virtues – a thick-cut, doleful Irish accent decrying above a grunge’d up mixture of lugubrious slowcore and fractured emo.