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Fireworks release new track from upcoming bonus acoustic EP

Fireworks have released ‘Oh, Common Life’ from their upcoming bonus acoustic EP. It’s every bit as lovely as you should expect.

Thursday 27 March 2014

Fireworks – ‘Oh, Common Life’

‘Oh, Common Life’ is the eagerly anticipated follow up to Fireworks 2011 sophomore effort – ‘Gospel’ an album which probably surprised a fair few people with it’s substance and songwriting. It was always clear as day since Fireworks first started teasing the record that ‘Oh, Common Life’ would

Thursday 20 March 2014

A Wilhelm Scream/Gnarwolves @ The Borderline, London

Some gig reviews get written on the bus home. Some are written in an orderly way, the following morning with a nice pot of the black stuff, with a marshalling of the facts, a prosaic and faithful transcription of the show. Some are hurriedly scribed on the backs of

Punktastic needs YOU (to come write some reviews for us)

In an ongoing effort to try and help cover even more music that’s coming through to our inboxes, we’re looking to expand our team a little further. First of all we’d like to welcome aboard Tom Connick as deputy reviews editor to the team, Tom has been a long time

Wednesday 19 March 2014

Plague Vendor sign to Epitaph, release debut video

Californian punks Plague Vendor have announced that they have signed to Epitaph Records to release their debut album ‘Free To Eat’ on April 14th. You can check out the video for their track ‘Black Sap Scriptures’ below. Like what you hear? you can pre-order the

Thursday 13 March 2014

EXCLUSIVE: Track by Track – I Am The Avalanche

Monday sees the release of I Am The Avalanche’s third album, ‘Wolverines’ to celebrate we asked front man Vinnie Caruana to take us through the album track by track. If it wasn’t clear from listening to the record, the below explanations go a long way to showing just how

Steve Klein and New Found Glory issue response

Following yesterdays news that ex New Found Glory guitarist Steve Klein is due to appear in court later this month for a variety of charges in relation to lewd contact with a minor, both the band and Steve Klein’s lawyer have issued a response. Debra White – Steve

Wednesday 12 March 2014

Former NFG member Steve Klein arraigned on several charges

It’s been revealed the former New Found Glory guitarist, Steve Klein had been arraigned on several charges related to lewd conduct with a minor. On the same day that Steve Klein was arraigned on these charges, it was revealed that he had parted ways with New Found Glory. The charges are

Tuesday 11 March 2014

I Am The Avalanche stream new album with billboard

I Am The Avalanche are streaming their new record ‘Wolverines’ over on billboard.com You can also find our review right here. ‘Wolverines’ is officially out on March 18th

I Am The Avalanche – ‘Wolverines’

Brooklyn’s I Am The Avalanche have received their fair share of plaudits in the past. It’s clear that with just the three albums in the last ten years that I Am The Avalanche prefer to focus on quality rather than quantity and ‘Wolverines’ is no different. Things open up