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From Wednesday 19 December 2001

Blink will play with who?

Mystery surrounds the second support band for the Blink 182 January tour. At last night’s New Found Glory gig in Nottingham, guitarist Chad said that NFG would be supporting Blink along with Jimmy Eat World. But just two weeks ago, Alkaline Trio frontman

Sunday 16 December 2001

Finch new album details

Melodic hardcore punks Finch have made a new track available for their fans to download. ‘Untitled’ is a brand new song that will feature on their new record, ‘What It Is To Burn’. The CD has been produced by Mark Trombino of

Friday 14 December 2001

Sum 41 announce UK dates

Pop punkers Sum 41 have announced further dates in the UK, following their succesful October tour. The dates are as follows: Rock City Nottingham, WED 06/03/2002 Brixton Academy, London THU 07/03/2002 Leeds University SAT 09/03/2002 The Civic Hall, Wolverhampton SUN 10/03/2002 The Bristol Academy WED

BBC goes punk

The BBC has announced that it will finally run a punk rock radio show, namely ‘The Lockup.’ The show will kick off on January 7, and feature guest performances from a variety of well-known punk bands. Bad Religion will kick the series off with tracks from their up-coming album.

Thursday 13 December 2001

AFI go major

Goth punks AFI have laid to rest a series of internet rumours and finally announced that they have signed to Dreamworks. In a statement released on the bands website, Davey and the boys stated they had become too big for Nitro. The statement reads: “Hey Everyone, We know there’s been tons of

Bratmobile announce 2002 plans

Lookout! signings Bratmobile have announced plans to release a new record and to tour the UK in 2002. In May, the band expect the new CD to hit the shelves. The girls told their official website, ww.bratmobile.com: “Allison has just returned home to DC after a month of writing

Wednesday 12 December 2001

New Found Glory date IS on!

Contrary to internet reports, New Found Glory‘s rapidly-approaching Nottingham date is still on. Various online ticket outlets are currently advertising the gig, on December 17, to be cancelled, but Punktastic can prove this is not the case. A spokeswoman for Nottingham Rock City said today

Midtown dates

Midtown have finally released dates for their Euro tour, starting on 11th February with a support slot for AFI at the London Astoria. The whole date list is as follows: February 12th – London Astoria 13th – Bristol Fleece & Firkin 14th – Birmingham Flapper &

Get Up Kids announce new record plans

Kansas emo Kings The Get Up Kids have announced plans for their long awaited third studio album. Writing on their official website, the band put up an interesting post that announces Scott Litt will handle production duties, on the so far self-titled CD. The post said: “The

Millencolin’s new album finished

Millencolin‘s new album is done and dusted, the cover artwork and also the title are completed as well. ‘Home from Home’ will be the band’s fifth album, and will be released in March if everything goes according to plan. The album will contain 13 tracks, which are:-