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Glue Foot -‘Seed’

Something 90s this way comes. Music, like fashion, is cyclical and it seems we’ve reached the point where the British music scene is looking back to Seattle, circa 1992. Though each added their own identity, bands like Hindsights (RIP) and Milk Teeth have an energy, sound and aesthetic that

Friday 04 March 2016

LIVE: Creeper / Grader / Blood Youth @ Underworld, London

We have our suspicions that many of the reviews for tonight’s sold-out show, upgraded from a sold-even-more-outier Barfly, were written before the venue’s doors even opened. Not literally, of course, but there’s been an undeniable hype machine behind Southampton sextet, Creeper, and an associated narrative which logically leads to

Friday 26 February 2016

LIVE: Mewithoutyou / The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die @ Tufnell Park Dome, London

The last time Mewithoutyou toured the UK, we still had a Myspace Top 8, Crunkcore was an exciting new movement and Bring Me The Horizon were a metal band. In the years since, the Philadelphia elder statesmen of don’t-call-it-emo have released three albums, while Connecticut’s The World Is A

Wednesday 17 February 2016

Creeper – ‘The Stranger’

The third EP from Southampton “coroners” (it seems we’re not the only ones running out of spooky adjectives to describe them), Creeper, ‘The Stranger’ is being billed as a ‘sequel’ to 2015’s ‘The Callous Heart’ EP. Rather than effectively forming the second half of a 10-track album, though, the

Wednesday 10 February 2016

IDestroy Premiere New Video

We’re stoked to bring you the new video from Bristol trio IDestroy. Originally featured on January’s Punktastic POV Podcast, this short, sharp slab of garage-rock glory is the title track from their debut EP, ‘Vanity Loves Me’, which is out on the 26th February. The

Tuesday 09 February 2016

Patent Pending – ‘Riot Hearts Rebellion’

‘Riot Hearts Rebellion’ is both the fourth album from alleged pop-punk band Patent Pending, and a microcosm of everything wrong with alternative music in 2016. The record is a cynical mish-mash of the barest of punk rock morés and the kind of mainstream pop influences that have sent Fall

Monday 01 February 2016

LIVE: Milk Teeth @ 2 Pigs, Cheltenham

The album launch show is a strange beast; so often no more an opportunity for music industry types to be seen at that night’s hot ticket event, only unfolding their arms to tweet about watching a hype band in a tiny venue. In a world in which

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Refused, Sikth & More For Hevy Fest 2016

Hevy Fest, the annual 2-day festival specialising in music at the, well, heavier end of the spectrum, has announced its first acts for 2016. Refused, Sikth, While She Sleeps, Animals As Leaders, Gnarwolves and Hacktivist will be helping Hevy christen its brand new home in Derbyshire. They’ll be joined by Krokodil, No Consequence,

Monday 25 January 2016

Punktastic POV Podcast Special: Becky Blomfield of Milk Teeth

In the first of a new series of podcast interviews, Rob Barbour chats to Becky Blomfield, bassist and vocalist for rising stars Milk Teeth. On the eve of the release of Milk Teeth’s début album, ‘Vile Child’, learn more about the making of the album, the “physically exhausting” nature of writing

Friday 22 January 2016

Stream Milk Teeth’s Brilliant New Album, ‘Vile Child’

It’s no secret that here at Punktastic, we’re beyond excited about the release of Milk Teeth’s début full-length, ‘Vile Child’. The album’s out next Friday, but as an early treat the band are streaming the entire record right now. ‘Vile Child’ is released on the 29th January via Hopeless Records.