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Friends of Big Shout A page for former readers of Big Shout Magazine (1989-1996), a monthly entertainment mag that covered music & lifestyle from Philly to the DE Beaches.

In 1993, we kicked off our first Beer Issue and from then on August became the traditional month for our ensuing Beer Is...
08/10/2025

In 1993, we kicked off our first Beer Issue and from then on August became the traditional month for our ensuing Beer Issues. Here's one of our first articles highlighting local breweries. We've made editor's updates since then and we've recovered some fascinating facts. Did you know the old Latrobe Brewery (formerly the home of Rolling Rock) began brewing Real American Beer for WWE star Hulk Hogan in 2024? And then he died a year later?! Read on...

Founder David Yuengling (the stern-looking guy with the cane, front row center) and his crew circa the mid-1800s. By GREG KITSOCKBig Shout Magazine, August 1993 Every little village and hamlet used to have one — not just malt shops, drive-ins, or corner drug stores but breweries. There were more t...

The industrial music scene was all but over in the Delaware Valley by this time 34 years ago. Here were some of the last...
24/09/2025

The industrial music scene was all but over in the Delaware Valley by this time 34 years ago. Here were some of the last gasps...

Industrial mechanics Claude Willey (left) and Mr. Spit (photo by Gregg Kirk) By GREGG KIRKBig Shout Magazine, October 1991 The industrial music scene in this area can best be described as being sort of like a Jehovah’s Witness — you may not know that it exists until it comes knocking […]

This article appeared 35 years ago this month!
24/09/2025

This article appeared 35 years ago this month!

HEAVY MACHINERY — (From left to right) Mystery Machinists Roger Hillis, Cliff Hillis, Jenny Grodzicki, and Bill Gatter (Photo by Gregg Kirk) By GREGG KIRKBig Shout Magazine, October 1990 The glow of the television flickers on a silent figure slouched on a sofa watching early-morning cartoons. The ...

Four years ago we lost this guy. He was pivotal in helping us get the magazine going in the early days...
25/06/2025

Four years ago we lost this guy. He was pivotal in helping us get the magazine going in the early days...

Big Shout Magazine was a monthly entertainment tabloid that covered the arts, issues and entertainment in the Delaware Valley from March 1989 to June 1996.

Twenty-nine years ago we interviewed Delaware native Vinnie Moore about his upcoming album (Out of Nowhere) and tour sup...
06/05/2025

Twenty-nine years ago we interviewed Delaware native Vinnie Moore about his upcoming album (Out of Nowhere) and tour supporting the band Rush. The first stop on the tour was in his backyard at the Spectrum in Philly, and he described what that was like, driving from his home directly to the load-in area of the gig.

BY GREGG KIRK Big Shout Magazine It was around 1985 that Newark native Vinnie Moore captured the imagination of just about every bedroom-guitar-playing kid cutting his teeth on his first Van Halen record. This was the year that Moore sent a cassette tape and a picture of himself to Guitar […]

Thirty four years ago our entertainment magazine reported some hard news because we were secretly sent U.S. air force ps...
06/05/2025

Thirty four years ago our entertainment magazine reported some hard news because we were secretly sent U.S. air force psyops (psychological operations) flyers they had been dropping on the Iraqi soldiers during Operation Desert Storm.

By GREGG KIRKBig Shout Magazine, May 1991 Bombs, bullets, and Patriot missiles weren’t the only weapons used against Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi army during the recent Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm). The Allied Forces also engaged in some very effective psychological warfare. This “P...

Sometimes an entertainment magazine focused on local band profiles and restaurant reviews becomes a historic document. T...
30/04/2025

Sometimes an entertainment magazine focused on local band profiles and restaurant reviews becomes a historic document. This week marks the 33rd anniversary of the L.A. riots, and a Delaware expat gave her firsthand account...

By LYNNE DAVISBig Shout Magazine, June 1992 Editor’s note: Lynne Davis is the former bassist for the band Richard Bush & the Candles. Well, here it is April and having been in Southern California only five months now, we’ve already survived the floods of ’92, a 6.1 earthquake, and a […]

This year, the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference (SXSW) announced that they would be downsizing the live mus...
04/04/2025

This year, the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference (SXSW) announced that they would be downsizing the live music portion of the conference next year due to the reconstruction of their home base (Austin Convention Center), and the fact that more participants are joining online instead of going to see live bands in person. In fact, they've eliminated the music-only weekend that was the foundation of the original conference. If video killed the radio star, streaming services have killed everything else related to music. Here's a detailed account of what the original conference was like when it was only in its third year...

An Eyewitness Account of the Unmitigated Schmoozing, Boozing, and Cruising at Austin’s Biggest Music Conference By GREGG KIRKBig Shout Magazine, April 1990 “… And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching an...

Thirty-three years ago, local DE/PA musician Charlie Crystle flew to England to kickstart a music career and he was stop...
01/04/2025

Thirty-three years ago, local DE/PA musician Charlie Crystle flew to England to kickstart a music career and he was stopped at the border... mainly because of his hair... or lack thereof...

An Innocent Passage to London Turns Into Disaster When an American Expatriate Finds Himself… BANNED IN BRITAIN By CHARLIE CRYSTLEBig Shout Magazine, April 1992 Editor’s Note: In the February issue of Big Shout Magazine, singer/songwriter and Parrish Blue frontman Charlie Crystle bid farewell to ...

It was 30 years ago that local Delaware band Gravity's Pull came back to their home state to play some shows after migra...
13/03/2025

It was 30 years ago that local Delaware band Gravity's Pull came back to their home state to play some shows after migrating to Chapel Hill, NC three years before. Here are the details...

PULLING IT OFF: (Left to right) Mark, Nick, Mike, and Sue Ivanitch By GREGG KIRKBig Shout Magazine, March 1995 Remember Gravity’s Pull? You should. In the early part of this decade, they sprang from nowhere and developed from a fledgling semi-cover band into one of the state’s more prominent ori...

Thirty years ago we profiled the fledgling, up and coming Creep Records located at the time in Downingtown, PA. They now...
04/03/2025

Thirty years ago we profiled the fledgling, up and coming Creep Records located at the time in Downingtown, PA. They now have brick and mortar store fronts in West Chester and Philly, PA...

By RACHEL ESKENAZIBig Shout Magazine, March 1996 “Wanna see something scary?” a guy named Rufus asks as he plants his combat boots in the door of Creep Records. Before anyone can answer, he pulls off a knit hat to reveal a fuzzy crew cut. Rufus, it seems, got sick of […]

Thirty years ago this month, the band Gravity's Pull came back to play in their home state of Delaware, after transferri...
03/03/2025

Thirty years ago this month, the band Gravity's Pull came back to play in their home state of Delaware, after transferring to Chapel Hill, NC three years before. Here are the details...

PULLING IT OFF: (Left to right) Mark, Nick, Mike, and Sue Ivanitch By GREGG KIRKBig Shout Magazine, March 1995 Remember Gravity’s Pull? You should. In the early part of this decade, they sprang from nowhere and developed from a fledgling semi-cover band into one of the state’s more prominent ori...

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