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From Thursday 23 November 2006

Mailing list!

We have a brand new mailing list, which you can sign up to at www.punktastic.com/mail Anyone who has signed up for the forums BEFORE yesterday will automatically be on the mailing list. Anyone else needs to sign up if they want to be kept up to date

Cancer Bats – Birthing The Giant

There’s a real buzz building up about Cancer Bats right now and ‘Birthing The Giant’ goes to show why. This is one hard rockin’ bitch of a record, all boozy guitar riffs, attitude and energy in abundance. Although the band come from the same Canadian stable as

303 Did This To Me – “

What do you get when you combine Daft Punk’s beats with the sillyness of HelloGoodbye? Well, something that would sound a little like Hampshire’s 303 Did This To Me. With retro gaming all the rage, this Nintend-esque sound is becoming very prevalent among modern-day

Heavy Heavy Low Low – Everything’s Watched, Everyone’s Watching

Ferret’s Heavy Heavy Low Low (HHLL for the rest of this review!) are, unsurprisingly, a band that rely on heavy riffs, tuned low. And with some blood curdling screams and metallic jazz noise thrown in for good measure, it creates an interesting 11-tracker – which actually flies

Bite the bullet

Bullet For My Valentine have cancelled their UK and US dates until the end of the year. UK shows have been rescheduled for: Wed 3 Jan – Newcastle Academy Thur 4 Jan – Manchester Apollo Fri 5 Jan – Birmingham Academy Sun 7 Jan – Cardiff University Mon 8 Jan – Hammersmith

The Honeymoon Suite – The Matrimony EP

For some reason, the UK cannot seem to get the pop-punk game right. While bands like fall Out Boy, Cartel, Hit The Lights et al get lauded over here like the Second Coming, the UK just cannot produce a pop-punk band of this

Wednesday 22 November 2006

Nice chorus, shame about Wentz’s hair

Watch Fall Out Boy perform their new single ‘This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race’ at www.punktastic.com/tv/231

MC iPod – S/T

You cannot listen to MC iPod and not compare him to MC Lars. It’s impossible. And to be fair to the Norwich, UK artist, he recognises that very fact in his first song ‘Intro to iPod’. This white-boy MC-ing business has opened up

Senses Fail interview

You can check out Andy’s interview with Senses Fail at www.punktastic.com/interviews/166

Use PunktasticTV!

Remember we have a whole host of studio and live videos, plus Cribs, making the videos and a whole host of extras at www.punktastic.com/tv If your band has anything to add, email me a youtube link to paul@punktastic.com