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Vera Cruz – Surviving Farah Fawcett

So here we have a French band with a Mexican name and an album title that pretty much makes no sense about an American actress. Who is now dead. Anyway, this is four tracks of pretty brutal and uncompromising melodic hardcore and it’s pretty damn good.

Call Me Ishmael – Call Me King

Game of King is the first EP from Glaswegians Call Me Ishmael and I have to say it’s one of the best I’ve heard in a while and having only played together for a year or so they definitely have an impressive resumé, including supporting

Madball post new track

Madball have posted a brand new song over at http://www.myspace.com/madball

New Cheese

The next issue of Big Cheese magazine is now available with Linkin Park on the cover. It also features NOFX, Alkaline Trio, Good Charlotte, Jimmy Eat World and others. Get more details at www.bigcheesemagazine.com

Still Rings True – I Wouldn’t Call This Living

f you like Pop Punk that isn’t just cynically packaged pop, like back when dudes could do punk with melodies and still sound like they were were turned up to 11 and rocking the fuck out with massive shit eating grins and buckets of energy, then you’ll love

David Lehr – Daisy

To look at David Lehr appears to be a bit of a Justin Bieber clone but whilst I have no idea how old he actually is his self recorded EP Daisy sounds a great deal more mature than I expected. Mainly acoustic this 6 track DIY

Art Is A T-shirt

New label ‘Art is Hard’ is due to put out its first release on a Tshirt. The release titled ‘Brink of the Clouds’ features a selection of the South West’s finest alternative/indie/lo-fi acts and is due for release September 20. Richard Walsh, co-founder of Art is Hard explained “We

NOFX extra set?

Punktastic understands NOFX are the secret co headliners on the Lock Up stage at Reading tomorrow.

Thursday 26 August 2010

Greedy

Disconnect Disconnect have released the debut LP from San Francisco’s Greedy Eyes. Combining a sound between Mock Orange, The Honor System and The Beatles, ‘Poetic Poverty’ is 5 tracks of melodic indie punk. The 5 track LP includes a cover of

Architects announce new single and album

Architects will release new single “Day In Day Out”on September 27 via all digital platforms. New album “The Here And Now” will hit the shelves in early 2011.