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From Wednesday 19 August 2015

LIVE: Korn @ O2 Academy, Brixton

Three US Presidents. Four British Prime Ministers. 9/11, 7/7 and the frankly inexplicable rebranding of Opal Fruits as Starburst. A lot has happened to the world since the release of KoRn’s self-titled début album in 1994, but you wouldn’t know that to glance around Brixton’s palatial O2 Academy this evening. Hell, the

Tuesday 11 August 2015

Saosin Back in the Studio With Anthony Green

Saosin have confirmed via their Facebook page that they are recording a new album with Anthony Green. Green quit the band in 2004 but famously reunited with them ten years later; when the new album is released in 2016 it will their first album in 13(!) years to

New Lyric Video From Secret Eyes

Secret Eyes have joined the recent trend for hyper-animated lyric videos by releasing one for their song ‘Kiss For Kill’, which is thankfully far better than its title: Secret Eyes’ album ‘Comatose’ is out now via Tragic Hero Records.

Knuckle Puck Post Video for ‘True Contrite’

Knuckle Puck have released an official video for ‘True Contrite’. While the video won’t be winning any awards for originality, it’s a great tune and everyone should check it out. ‘True Contrite’ is taken from the album ‘Copacetic’, which was released on 31 July 2015 via Rise Records. You can catch

Monday 10 August 2015

State Champs Stream New Song

New York pop punkers State Champs are streaming a brand new song, ‘Losing Myself’, on YouTube.   ‘Losing Myself’ is taken from the band’s forthcoming second album ‘Around the World and Back’, which will be released on 16 October via Pure Noise. You can catch the band on tour a month or

Friday 07 August 2015

Homebound – ‘Permanence’

We’ve all dreamed about travelling back in time. Whether a Biff Tannen-esque voyage into the past to amend one’s own financial destiny or the age-old fantasy of imparting the wisdom of adulthood to our younger selves, “What would you do if you could change history?” is a question that

Thursday 30 July 2015

Brigades – ‘Indefinite’

“With each release,” starts the press release accompanying ‘Indefinite’, “Brigades push the boundaries of their sound and continuously evolve”. Now, let’s be honest: this is mostly codswallop. One doesn’t need to listen to this, the debut album from “South Carolina’s breakout pop-punk band” – a description which is at best

Thursday 23 July 2015

Introducing: Homebound

As a band making contemporary pop-punk, a genre with a reputation for being as much about friends and fun as it is about introspection, the only way Homebound’s conception could have been more appropriate would be if it had involved pizza. “Some of used to rock out in a

Wednesday 22 July 2015

Ghost Cub Tracks Now Available To Download

Last week, Punktastic brought you an interview with Southampton’s Ghost Cub, along with an exclusive stream of their tracks ‘American Hymn’ and ‘Rope’. You can now download those tracks on a pay-what-you-like basis from Ghost Cub’s shiny new Bandcamp page Ghost Cub will support Creeper at their sold

Friday 17 July 2015

Meet Ghost Cub & exclusively stream their new tracks

“I thought I was doing a wall kick, but it was a curtain. I went through it, and it turns out what was behind the curtain was a set of stairs. How the fuck I didn’t break my neck is beyond me, but I got the biggest cheer of