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From Wednesday 14 October 2015

Listen to Pentimento’s New Album In Full

New Yorkers Pentimento are streaming their new album ‘I, No Longer’ over at Noisey, where you can also read a short feature on the making of the album. Click here to read and (more importantly) listen!  

Tuesday 13 October 2015

Brand New Video From Smokey Bastard

Reading folk-punks Smokey Bastard have revealed the video for their brand new track ‘Archipelago’, from forthcoming album ‘Back to the Drawing Room’. ‘Back to the Drawing Room’ will be released by Bomber Music on 13 November and you can pre-order it on digital, CD and fancy 180g vinyl here.

Thursday 08 October 2015

Tellison – ‘Hope Fading Nightly’

It’s been four years since the last Tellison album, ‘The Wages of Fear’. An album which in a just world would have sent them into the stratosphere (or at least its sonic equivalent, the Radio 1 ‘A’ playlist). Sadly, we live in a world where justice is

Monday 05 October 2015

LIVE: Tellison @ St. Pancras Old Church, London

A few minutes’ walk from Kings Cross St. Pancras station, there stands a small church on a small hill. On a Friday night as the faithful file in through its narrow doorway they’re handed a home-printed hymn sheet featuring the lyrics of the songs to be

Friday 02 October 2015

Best Of… Jimmy Eat World

Welcome to Best Of… a playlist featuring the best tracks from certain artists picked by friends, readers and staff of Punktastic. This month on we have Rob Barbour taking on Jimmy Eat World.  Jimmy Eat World straddle demographics like an over-confident cowboy riding two horses at once. They’re the

Saturday 26 September 2015

LIVE: Creeper / Hindsights / Ghost Cub @ Old Blue Last, London

“This is our first show. Well – technically, it’s our second practice.” Ghost Cub vocalist, guitarist and general creative force Neil Kennedy might be smiling as he addresses a sold-out Old Blue Last, but he’s not joking. An underground super-group of sorts, the Southampton quintet

Monday 14 September 2015

Creeper – ‘The Callous Heart’

When Creeper first clawed their way out of the Southampton underground like a pallid sonic zombie, we drew comparisons between the band’s moody brand of punk rock and bands with a similarly gothic aesthetic like Interpol and Alkaline Trio before asserting that the band made us want to “jump

Monday 24 August 2015

Download the new Lydia Song for Free

Arizonan rockers Lydia have made their new song “Run Wild” available as a free download. To stream or download the track, visit their website at lydiaband.com

Brand New Bring Me The Horizon

Bring Me The Horizon have posted a lyric video for brand new song “True Friends”, taken from forthcoming album “That’s the Spirit” “That’s the Spirit” will be released on 11th September, and you can catch the Sheffield boys at this weekend’s Reading & Leeds Festivals.  

Saturday 22 August 2015

Templeton Pek – ‘New Horizons’

Birmingham Trio Templeton Pek have been at the peripheries of the mainstream for years, watching with presumed bemusement as an endless stream of British bands ascend to stardom on the back of more fashionable, but far weaker material than theirs. If 2013’s ‘Signs’ represented a lane change, consciously sanding