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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

Tuesday 18 December 2001

The Aquabats – The Fury of the Aquabats!

There are some people, in this world, who are too crazy and too just plain odd to be let near trumpets. The Aquabats are one such band. Picture if you will full grown men running round in capes and masks, hailing to their leader as the ‘Bat

Monday 17 December 2001

Belltown – Desillusion Day

If you would have said the name Belltown to me two weeks ago, I would have given you a confused look. I had never, ever heard of them. That was until their bassist, Christian Lundqvist got in touch with me, said he loved

Fenix TX – Fenix TX

Way back in BL , a group of Texans got together and stuck out an album full of crazy, quirky punk rock tunes. Acting the goat like a certain US threesome with the name Blink 182, they garnered quite a following for supporting the oft-naked

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

Saturday 15 December 2001

Matt – Good Clean Fun Records

Running your own label, it would be real easy, huh? Just think, signing your favourite bands, going to really cool gigs, what could be better? Well, if you’re a multi-million pound corporation like Fat Wreck or Epitaph, then there probably isn’t that much better to be honest. But those

Green Day – International Superhits!

Greatest hits albums, don’t you just love them? No I don’t! Greatest hits albums are nothing more than an attempt by greedy record companies to exploit more cash from already successful artists. In this case the artists in question are Green Day, and there

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