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From Wednesday 14 July 2004

Taunt them

Scots Tauntra have a new Pure Volume page up at www.purevolume.com/tauntra The band also play on the main stage at this years Wickerman Festival in Kirkcubright on July 23 with bands such as The Selector, The Buzzcocks, Aerogramme and Spiritualized.

Good dog!

Seeing as though most of our reviewers tend to go AWOL shortly after they start, we’ve hired another! Welcome Pete to the ranks and read his first review, of the new Underoath record, by clicking here.

Underoath – They’re Only Chasing Safety

Florida six piece Underoath bounce back from the disappointment of waving goodbye to front man Dallas Taylor in the middle of their 2003 Warped Tour dates with this powerful and adrenalin fuelled 10 track album. New vocals provided by Spencer Chamberlain are hurled and screamed with

Sullivan – Late Night Streaking

It feels like we’ve been on a new band reviewing tip recently here at Punktastic, with literally every other release coming from a young band looking to find their feet. Sullivan are no different, a four-piece releasing their first ‘proper’ CD, this time on Riot Records.

Kerfew – The Queen of (Black) Hearts

This review has been giving me a hell of a lot of grief from the first moment I listened to the CD. It’s obvious that that young trio have put their all into the production of the demo, with a nice understated quality to the packaging and

One Word Answer – My Last Goodbye

Ladies and gentlemen, this is how you put together a demo. Enclose a nice personal letter (not a generic one sent out to everyone), a well put together and packaged CD, clearly marked, and containing music that dumps over the vast majority of signed efforts I have heard

Tuesday 13 July 2004

Malkovich – 017

With my hopes high of some kind of ‘Evening with’ John Malkovich‘ quickly dashed, I set about listening to the lunatic sounds of the band and I am still no more clear as to what they set out to do, why they do it and what it

Festivals get networked

The Network have been added to the Reading/Leeds festival bill. You can see the entire weekend’s line-up here. Weekend tickets for Reading are long sold out, but weekend Leeds tickets are now very thin on the ground, so if you intend to go, get

Watch out for this lot…

Manchester upstarts The Maple State have a new song, ‘The City Is Under Marshall Law Until We Have Annihlated Them’ at www.myspace.com/themaplestate

Poindexter split

Our good friends in Poindexter have decided to call it a day. You can read the band’s parting statement by clicking ‘discuss this item’.