One More Year – ‘The View From Where I Stand’

Built from the ashes of old bands, One More Year have spent just over creating debut EP, ‘The View From Where I Stand’. The EP manages to blend pop punk and post hardcore into a stunning amalgamation of the genres, and it shows that One More Year aren’t fumbling

We Caught The Castle – ‘Time To Grow’

Paramore, Halestorm, We Are In The Crowd, Hey Monday, Next Stop Atlanta… stick a female as your lead and the comparisons will follow, though in this case you can take away the common denominator and We Caught The Castle’s Hollie Elizabeth is nothing like any of her cohorts. Aurally, We

Press To Meco – ‘Press To Meco’

Press To Meco’s self titled EP is an ephemeral burst of youthful energy, huge choruses and unexpected experimentation. The EP, which clocks in at under 15 minutes, displays the same frantic exuberance as early You Me AT Six releases, but is no simple pop-punk jaunt. The EP veers off in

Pacer – Making Plans

If you frequent punk shows in the UK, you’ll probably be familiar with Pacer. Mark Pavey and Dave House are known faces across the UK from their days in The Steal (and Dave’s solo work), so ‘Making Plans’ is an album that many have been looking forward to hearing

Anatomy of the Bear- Anatomy of the Bear

A concept band of sorts – originally (and seemingly continuously) writing tracks which relate directly to bears – Anatomy of the Bear match their transient philosophy to their music. In a futile attempt to compare the band to other post-rock outfits (perhaps This Will Destroy You closest to warranting

Hate Your Friends – Keep Me At Home

Hate Your Friends are a band from North Texas who’ve just released an EP entitled ‘Keep Me At Home’. The EP flies relentlessly into ‘Bring Down The Center House (ft. Queen Latifah)’ with catchy yet repetitive riffs reminiscent of Joyce Manor’s finer work. The choruses throughout are catchy and

Authority Zero – Stories Of Survival (re-issue)

‘Stories of Survival’ was 2010’s fourth full-length offering from Authority Zero, and this year a bonus edition has been released on Concrete Jungle featuring new live versions of 6 of the tracks. It’s an upbeat, fast paced punk rock album but there are clearly other influences appearing, namely skate punk,

B-SYDES – Wrecked Vessels

“Wrecked Vessels” is the second EP from the talented singer/songwriter B – Sydes (Benjamin Sydes). Having emerged from various bands and thus deciding to go alone in 2010 you can’t help but fell that when listening to the EP the support of a backing band might’ve made this

Peace Mercutio- Weather The Storm

It seems as if America absolutely loves churning out a plethora of pop punk bands and here is yet another slice of the action. Hailing from Seattle are the fantastic Peace Mercucio with “Weather the Storm” providing an offering jam-packed with twangy guitars, addictive lyrical clarity and classic

Colour The Sky – Alive