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From Saturday 19 March 2011

The Cape Race post acoustic vid, new single next week

Manchester rockers THE CAPE RACE have posted a video of ‘The Reprieve’ which they recently recorded acoustic for a BBC Introducing session, which you can watch below. The guys release their second single, ‘Little Whites’ on March 28th, which is taken from their

Yellowcard – When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes

When most bands pull the ‘indefinite hiatus’ card out of the bag, it’s usually a coded message to their fans that the end is in fact a bit more definite than they’ve let on. But then, YELLOWCARD are not most bands. It’s been two and

The PT Sessions: Such Gold

Didn’t get enough of SUCH GOLD while they were over here? Have a watch of their contribution to The Punktastic Sessions below, or over in our videos section. Big thanks to the guys at Chasing Safety Media for hooking this up!

Friday 18 March 2011

Wheatus back in London/TDB back in the charts

WHEATUS play the O2 Academy Islington on October 6th. Tickets go on presale tomorrow morning at 9am from this link: http://www.artistticket.com/link/?s=wheatus. The band’s love/hate anthem, ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ is charting in the Top 40 again and if you want to get it higher, pick it up on

Hopeless vs The Wonder Years

Hopeless Records caught up with Soupy from THE WONDER YEARS when they were over last month. Watch the interview below:

Free HGB track

To celebrate the release of the band’s new record ‘Would It Kill You?’ (Deluxe Edition), you can score a free HELLOGOODBYE track at http://labrecs.com/HGBTweet. The album is still streaming from the Punktastic homepage (eyes to the right!) and you can read our review here:

Mike Scott reaches Saturation Point

MIKE SCOTT‘s new album ‘Saturation Point’ is out on April 11th. You can download the title track for free and pre-order your copy from http://mikescottacoustic.bandcamp.com/.

All Time Low – Brixton Academy, London

It?s not often you get three big name bands playing Brixton Academy together, for the price most people would happily pay to see just the one, but alas tonight is a case of just that. The first of two sold-out (OK, almost sold-out)

City Light Thief – Laviin

With a delightfully bratty edge on this, their debut, Cologne’s CITY LIGHT THIEF create playful hardcore referencing the likes of Thursday, Dananananaykroyd and Tubelord. The German quintet are both fun and compelling in equal measure, with rollicking, soaring choruses and tight,

Rev78 – Boy In The Blitz

REV78 are bound to become the new best thing in the hipster world. With their boyish looks, they’ll most definitely have all the ‘cool’ kids by the balls, especially in the indie capital and their hometown, London. However, despite their aesthetic appeal, their debut album ‘Boy In