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Watch John Coffey Perform in Session at Jera on Air

In yet another fantastic session from Punktastic’s partnership with Just Like Your Mom, we bring you this session from Dutch punks John Coffey. Check out more from Just Like Your Mom at Jera On Air through our YouTube playlist. Don’t forget to subscribe

Monday 18 July 2016

Pretty Little Enemy – ‘Bitch, Please!’

‘Bitch, Please!’, the debut EP from Minehead alt-metallers Pretty Little Enemy, is an interesting case of a rarely-exercised nostalgia: that for indie-label British nu-metal. From the band’s rock-night-at-your-local-community-hall aesthetic to the one-finger chugga-chugga downtuned riffs, everything about PLE suggests a band who had themselves cryogenically frozen mid-song in 2002, and were recently

Wednesday 08 June 2016

Seven Stories High – ‘Take the Long Road Home’

South Wales’ Seven Stories High instantly nail their colours to the mast on ‘CTRL’, the opening-track-proper of new mini-album ‘Take the Long Road Home’. The quintet come bounding out of your speakers like an enthusiastic puppy who’s been on the Red Bull, all double-pedals, pop-metal guitar fireworks

O Captain – ‘Within & Without’

When Sheffield’s O Captain first emerged with the ‘Ghetto Hikes’ EP, we were blown away. Seemingly out of nowhere, the band delivered three slabs of shimmering, Smiths-influenced emo-pop. As debuts go, it was far more polished and confident than it had any

Friday 27 May 2016

Thrice – ‘To be Everywhere is to be Nowhere’

‘To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere’ is the eighth studio album from post-hardcore Demi-Gods, Thrice. That #makeuthink title comes from the advice a Roman philosopher gave to a friend to ease up on his book habit (really) and focus on fewer, better authors. Quality over quantity.

Thursday 26 May 2016

Vinnie Caruana – ‘Survivor’s Guilt’

Perpetually bridging the divide between pop-punk and hardcore, The Movielife and I Am The Avalanche frontman Vinnie Caruana has carved himself a very specific niche: heartfelt rock songs which work as well played by a 5-piece band on the main stage of a punk festival as they

Wednesday 18 May 2016

The Stone Foxes – ‘Twelve Spells’

San Francisco’s The Stone Foxes play the kind of fuzzed-up, retro garage rock that’s been keeping Jack White in fancy hats and anti-smile serum for the last fifteen years. In other words, they sound pretty much exactly the way you’d expect a band called ‘The Stone Foxes’ to sound.

LIVE: Vinnie Caruana / Murray Macleod @ Boston Music Room, London

Murray Macleod – the Cobain-haired, girlfriend-threateningly handsome frontman of The Xcerts – can sing. Like, really sing. That he’s in possession of a strong and distinctive voice isn’t in question this evening. The question instead is “What time is Vinnie Caruana on?” and for many, the answer appears to be “In

Monday 09 May 2016

Tour Gavin Tour

Dance Gavin Dance are bringing their 10-year Anniversary tour to Europe in November. On the band’s Facebook page, the influential post-hardcore troupe explain that the tour “will be similar to their recent 10 Year Anniversary US run, that featured their vocalist, Tilian Pearson, but also the band’s previous vocalists, Kurt

Less Than Jake Announce October UK Tour

Perpetually touring Florida ska legends, Less Than Jake, have announced that they’ll be back over on our side of the Atlantic this October. The Punktastic favourites will be headlining the ‘Fuelling the Fire’ Tour, sponsored by cinnamon-whiskey regret-facilitator Fireball, and which is taking in some seriously sizable venues. They’ll be