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From Thursday 12 June 2014

Brendan Kelly/Sam Russo – Split the Tip

The theory behind split EPs is all well and good – two acts with potential crossover appeal to their respective fans appearing on the same release in order to milk that Venn diagram for all it’s worth – but too often they can serve to highlight the differences

From Thursday 13 February 2014

INTERVIEW: KEVIN DEVINE [FEBRUARY 2014]

Backstage in the graffitied dressing room of The Lexington, Punktastic had a fascinating conversation with Kevin Devine before the first of his recent UK shows. Kevin is touring in support of his dual records ‘Bubblegum’ (produced by Jesse Lacey) and ‘Bulldozer’ (produced by Rob Schnapf) which came out on

From Friday 22 November 2013

New Real McKenzies Album In The Works

Canadian faux Scotsmen and whisky lovers The Real McKenzies have made the following statement about a new record via there facebook page: “Hey everybody! Bone here! We’ve got a whole new batch of songs in the kitchen right now. Looks like were heading down to

From Wednesday 26 June 2013

LIVE: Download Festival Saturday Review

Round two of Download 2013, where we find PT Deputy Ed Lais MW and Jessica Acreman ready to shake off the cobwebs in the early hours Waking up way earlier than should be allowed to drop our single day loser editor Tom to the train station and do a Co-op

From Tuesday 11 June 2013

WTFEST V add loads more bands

We’re already excited for WTFEST V in Southampton August 29th – September 1st, the line-up was already looking great with the last ever Our Time Down Here show (sad), Muncie Girls, Off With Their Heads and so much more. But they’ve only just gone and made it better

From Saturday 11 May 2013

Palma Violets @ Coachella 2013

Punktastic got to hang with the overheated but ever-amusing Palma Violets before their set and chatted about getting abducted by audience members, getting stuck in trees, and had an impromptu in-trailer song sesh. The amount of energy they had then was nothing compared to onstage and they’ve skyrocketed

From Sunday 10 March 2013

Turbogeist – ‘Ancient Secrets’

The debut EP by London’s Turbogeist is a curate’s egg, the sound of a band suffering from an identity crisis. They don’t know whether to be a punk band, a garage band, a trash band, even a scuzzy glam band, and they try each valiantly but sadly don’t excel as any,

From Sunday 23 September 2012

Bowling For Soup – ‘One Big Happy’

Following on from a successful jaunt in the US and in support of their upcoming UK tour, Bowling for Soup, The Dolly Rots and Patent Pending have released a spilt cover album called ‘One Big Happy’. The three bands each cover two songs from one another, as

From Thursday 15 December 2011

Everything On Red – Songs For Sirens

Keyboards rarely find themselves on pop-punk albums, at least not in the same way as they do during their regular appearance on ‘Songs for Sirens’. Then again, it would not necessarily be appropriate to describe the six track EP as pop-punk. Although EVERYTHING ON RED take a

From Friday 15 July 2011

New Town Kings – M.O.J.O.

First, before the nitty-gritty, a slight aside: very rarely will you hear Punktastic bang on about an album’s packaging, mainly because most stuff is sent to us in MP3 format (there’s bugger-all exciting about that format). Well today you will. The CD for ‘M.O.J.O.’ is mocked-up to