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From Friday 28 April 2006

Panic! At The Disco – Leeds Met Uni

I’m getting worried that I’m almost old enough to be the grandfather of some of the kids that are attending gigs nowadays. I swear I saw children at this show – like six or seven years old. Now that’s a worry. You know when a band has hit the

Hit this

I am interviewing the ace-tastic Hit The Lights this weekend. Questions, as usual, are welcomed by clicking ‘discuss this item’.

NOFX – Wolves In Wolves’ Clothing

I didn’t like ‘War On Errorism’ all that much. To be honest, I was beginning to think 20 years of recycled riffs was beginning to wear a bit thin. Of course I should have known Fat Mike and co would pull it round, and ‘Wolves…’ is an

Top of the pops

Want to see what Punktastic’s readers are listening to? Then visit out last fm page at http://www.last.fm/group/Punktastic Taking Back Sunday currently top the charts, with NOFX, Fall Out Boy and Blink 182 not far behind…

Thursday 27 April 2006

New Amsterdams – Story Like A Scar

Believe me, I love Matt Pryor. The Get Up Kids are arguably my favourite band of all time and so I’ve always been keen to hear The New Amsterdams, if only to hear Matt’s vocals seeing as though TGUK have sadly called it

TMS shows

The Maple State have a number of upcoming shows. If anyone can fill June 1 for TMS and Chaser please let me know on paul@punktastic.com 28/04/06: London – The Barfly (w/ Gym Class Heroes) 30/04/06: Manchester – The Mark Addy 17/05/06:

Hush, there’s a sound

Submitted: “The Hush Sound will release ‘We Intertwined’ as a download only single though Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen on May 22, followed by new album ‘Like Vines’ on June 5.”

Reading/Leeds extra bands

Fightstar, Gogol Bordello, Flogging Molly, Coheed and Cambria, The Shins, Less Than Jake, Dashboard Confessional and Taking Back Sunday are among the latest Reading/Leeds additions announced tonight.

I’m a cunt so listen up (part two)

A friendly reminder – we don’t review singles or two track demos. Please don’t send them. Please don’t email us asking to review MP3s. We won’t. There is currently a waiting period of two to three months for reviews on demos. We are seemingly popular then

I’m a cunt, so listen up (part one)

Firstly, apologies to everyone for the recent issues. The forums are now back-up, but unfortunately we lost everything and you will need to re-sign up. Sorry about that! Our recent issues are almost totally resolved – there may be some short downtime in the next