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From Saturday 02 May 2009

Get your Slam Dunk Fest tickets

Slam Dunk Festival in Leeds is just 3 weeks away now so if you haven’t yet got a ticket, get one fast! All the details about who is playing where – plus the Punktastic.com Stage! – can be found at www.myspace.com/slamdunkclub

Friday 01 May 2009

ThisCity dates

ThisCity tour later this month: 4 May 2009 Little Civic – WOLVERHAMPTON 6 May 2009 King Tuts – GLASGOW 7 May 2009 LIMBO (Club Night) -EDINBURGH 8 May 2009 Fat Sam’s – DUNDEE 11 May 2009 Leadmill -SHEFFIELD 12 May 2009 Barfly – CARDIFF 14 May 2009 The Royal -DERBY 15 May 2009 Great Escape

Friday Night Boys post new tracks

The Friday Night Boys have added a new song to www.myspace.com/thefridaynightboys

Sparks The Rescue – Eyes To The Sun

Does the world need another band like Sparks The Rescue? No. But if you like Mayday Parade and We The Kings then these guys are also pretty essential listening. There’s nothing new and no wheels re-invented, but Sparks The

Anti-Flag – The People or The Gun

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to take Anti-Flag seriously after they signed to RCA – a band so ‘fuck the man’ they then signed to the man – watered down their sound and “after fulfilling their two-album deal” (read: were dumped) have wound up on

Green Day add show

Green Day have added a date at Wembley Arena on November 1. Tickets on sale now.

Dissolved In tour starts today

Dissolved In start their UK tour tonight: 1 May 2009 20:00 The Roxy Ulverston 2 May 2009 20:00 The GRV Edingburgh 4 May 2009 13:00 MAYDAY! MAYDAY! Rios Leeds (w/Go:Audio) POSTPONED Leeds 6 May 2009 20:00 Rockers Glasgow 7 May 2009 20:00 Cooperage Newcastle 8 May 2009 20:00 Crawford Arms Milton Keynes 9 May 2009 20:00 Keystone Escape Kettering 10 May 2009 20:00 Tap n Tin Chatham 11 May 2009 20:00 Mentholmans @

Forgotten Roots – 7-track EP

Forgotten Roots remind me of an Alkaline Trio-esque hybrid of many different bands, just sadly all of them are better. The Newcastle boys have self-released this 7-tracker and, to be honest, it’s a little bloated. Five tracks would probably have been that bit better

Transit – Stay Home

Here’s a solid little number from Boston (Massachusetts not Lincolnshire) five-piece Transit that proves not everything that comes out of the scholarly New England city derives from Celtic street punk. In fact, Boston is quite the bustling hub of underground punk music. ‘Stay

RIP Portman

Portman have gone on ‘indefinite hiatus’.