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From Friday 22 January 2016

Milk Teeth – ‘Vile Child’

To an outsider, the Milk Teeth camp might seem a strange place to be at the moment. The apparently sudden departure of guitarist, co-vocalist and de facto frontman Josh Bannister – just three and a half weeks before the release of this, their debut album – would for many

Friday 15 January 2016

Like Pacific Get Distant In New Video

Beanie-sporting Canadians Like Pacific just uploaded a video for brand new track ‘Distant’. Taken from the maple-botherers’ forthcoming début album ‘Distant Like You Asked’, it’s a great example of the crunchy pop-punk we’ve come to expect from the Pure Noise label. ‘Distant Like You Asked’ is out on the 19th

Thursday 14 January 2016

Check out the new video from Milk Teeth

Punktastic favourites Milk Teeth have revealed the video for their latest single, ‘Brain Food’, which premiered on the Radio 1 Rock Show recently. Maintaining the distinctive early-90s MTV aesthetic of their previous videos (with the notable exception of acoustic outlier ‘Kabuki’), ‘Brain Food’ is the band’s first video as a

Friday 08 January 2016

Cap-Attila-ism: Has Fronz gone too far?

Wednesday 30 December 2015

End of Year Review: Rob Barbour

Wednesday 23 December 2015

LIVE: The Story So Far / Turnstile @ KOKO, London

If Brendan Urie from Panic At The Disco designed a venue, it would probably look like Camden’s KOKO. Its multitude of balconies, prominent disco ball and decadent, burgundy art-deco design strongly evoke the artwork and aesthetic of PATD’s early work, while the theatre itself even hosts a night called ‘Buttoned Down Disco’. All of which

Wednesday 16 December 2015

Highlives – ‘Misguided Youth’

It’s a great time for UK pop-punk right now. Heavy-hitting US labels Hopeless and Pure Noise are taking notice of the homegrown scene, with Neck Deep’s success on the former proving the catalyst (pun absolutely intended) for a UK-centric signing spree. 2015 has seen deals inked for Trash Boat,

Thursday 10 December 2015

Interview: Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio / in the Emergency Room)

It’s been a busy year for Dan Andriano. Seemingly addicted to touring, Alkaline Trio completed the touring cycle for 2013’s storming return to form, ‘My Shame is True’, holed themselves up rehearsing all eight of their studio albums and then hit the road again on the ‘Past Lives tour. After playing

Tuesday 03 November 2015

Press to Meco – ‘Good Intent’

“I start to feel a fundamental flaw to this whole plan”, sings Luke Caley. His distinctive voice, equal parts lairy geezer and sugary pop superstar, soaring over a distorted, jagged riff and followed by a three-part vocal harmony which evokes nothing so much as The Bangles’ 80s

Tuesday 20 October 2015

Coheed and Cambria – ‘The Colour Before the Sun’

Concept albums. Typically, if unfairly, seen as the last resort of a band low on ideas but high on many, many other things, the very words set off alarm bells despite having given the world such gems as ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’, ‘American Idiot’ and