Cool Thing Records Playlist

As well as being the frontman of successful alternative band Asylums, Luke Branch is also the founder of Cool Thing Records. Luke has curated a special playlist just for Punktastic showcasing some of the best artists Cool Thing has to offer and we give you a look at their

Asylums release new single and announce album

These may be turbulent times, but if there’s one thing we can still rely on, it’s new music – and Southend four piece Asylums are more than happy to deliver in the form of stadium-ready new single, ‘A Perfect Life In A Perfect World’. The single and its accompanying video,

Asylums release video for new single ‘Catalogue Kids’

Fresh from their latest tour supporting the legendary Iggy Pop, Southend based alt-rock band Asylums return with new single ‘Catalogue Kids.’ “Catalogue Kids is the thematic microcosm to our new album. I became a father during the writing and recording of the album, as I contemplated this awesome new responsibility

LIVE: Camden Rocks Festival 2019

Camden Town; arguably the geographical epicentre of the British music scene. There’s nowhere quite like it. As soon as you walk out of the dusty tube station and into the equally dusty streets, it’s like stepping into an alternative dimension compared to the rest of London. That, however, is

Mood Board : Asylums

LIVE: Wilkestock Festival 2018 – Saturday & Sunday

With a weekend of perfect weather in sight, the cutest festival décor known to man, and a line-up of artists ranging from the totally unknown to Radio 1 favourites, Wilkestock’s 11th year was always destined to be three days of pure joy. The Punktastic team are pleased to report that

Wilkestock Festival 2018

2000trees – Saturday

Asylums – ‘Alien Human Emotions’

It’s generally acknowledged that music and society are closely intertwined. From Lou Reed and Warhol’s Factory to Dead Kennedy’s ‘Holiday In Cambodia’, they reflect the landscape around them. Given the somewhat tumultuous state the world is in, both politically and societally, perhaps this is what drove London four-piece Asylums

Asylums record label, Cool Thing Records presents exclusive label sampler “An Introduction”

Asylums have been running their own label,  Cool Thing Records, since August 2014 when they released their debut single ‘The Death Of Television’. In between Asylums debut album ‘Killer Brain Waves’ (July 2016) and their highly anticipated forthcoming sophomore album ‘Alien Human Emotions’ (July 2018) they have released a series