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From Friday 17 June 2011

Topman CTRL at Underage Fest

Topman CTRL is once again heading to Underage Festival on Friday August 5th in London’s Victoria Park. One lucky festival goer will be given the chance to take CTRL of www.topmanctrl.com in the run up to and during the event – past Controllers

Free new Blitz Kids song from Banquet

BLITZ KIDS are offering up a track from their forthcoming album ‘Vagrants and Vagabonds’ on the Banquet Records site called ‘Orion‘ for free download. To download the track, and pre-order the album that comes out on July 11th, head to the following link: http://www.banquetrecords.com/hassvagvaga

CUBA CUBA, BOY JUMPS SHIP & MIMI SOYA UK TOUR

CUBA CUBA, BOY JUMPS SHIP & MIMI SOYA tour the UK this summer. You can check out the dates below: July 31st – O2 Academy, Newcastle August 2nd – Dry Bar, Manchester 3rd – The Underground, Stoke 4th – Soundhouse, Leicester 5th – Monto Water Rats, London (Club Show)

All Eyes West stream new album on BandCamp

Jumpstart records have posted a stream of the forthcoming ALL EYES WEST self titled record on BandCamp. You can listen to it below: All Eyes West by Jump Start Records

New NOFX hardcore covers record?

NOFX have announced that they will release a ‘9-song record of hardcore covers’ on the Fat Wreck Store that comes out on August 2nd. It’s marked as nine tracks long but no track titles have been released and no further details have been announced. Check

Municipal Waste sign to Nuclear Blast

Pioneers of party thrash, MUNICIPAL WASTE, have signed a new global deal with Nuclear Blast records. The band play Hellfest this weekend on the mainstage, and are expected to enter the studio this summer to begin work on their fifth studio record and a 2012 release is expected. For more information

I Set My Friends On Fire album stream

I SET MY FRIENDS ON FIRE are streaming their forthcoming album ‘Astral Rejection’ on their Facebook page in full. To have a listen, head to http://www.facebook.com/ismfofmusic

Great Cynics – Don’t Need Much

Giles Bidder, former solo artist as Cynics then band as Cynics, then “whoops there’s a band called Cynics“, now GREAT CYNICS, has finally got around to releasing ‘Don’t Need Much’, a back-to-basics set of “sort of acoustic songs done electric, but

Flogging Molly – Speed of Darkness

Flogging Molly used to get a fair few unjust “Dropkick Murphys clone” accusations at them, and probably still do, but the fact is they are and always have been so much more than that. Deep rooted in Folk, and one

Thursday 16 June 2011

Say Hello To SongKick

Here at Punktastic, we’re always thinking of new ways that you can get the latest information on all of your favourite bands. As you may know, we used to have a gigs section of the site that we’ve now depricted. The reason this dissapeared is that we simply couldn’t keep