Yung Mayne is a Bronx native with extensive experience in New York’s underground music scene as a curator and promoter. Always driven by the incentive of strengthening her community, she began booking underground punk and hardcore shows in high school over a decade ago. Mayne was one of the first to bring the compartmentalized scenes together through her mixed bills, which showcased musicians of many different genres on the same lineup. After a year of hosting her own radio show on KPISS.FM, she began getting booked across the east coast as a DJ, and her career has since taken on a life of its own. She now works at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, offering resources to local artists on a larger scale. Between DJing and drumming in her punk band Shawty, Yung Mayne can now add performer to her list of contributions to the scene.
Read more from Yung Mayne in No Smoking Media, and Champ Sound. Listen to Yung Mayne’s band Shawty.