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From Friday 17 May 2013

Now That’s What I Call Music (I Don’t Particularly Care For) Volume 1 comp out now

A new compilation called ‘Now That’s What I Call Music (I Don’t Particularly Care For)’ has been released today. It features a stack of bands doing covers of various bands (everything from Papa Roach to Rihanna), and you can listen to it using the player in this article.

Folk-O-Rama tribute to Punk-O-Rama released

A tribute to the classic Epitaph Punk O Rama compilations has been posted it online. It’s been made by ‘Folk O Rama’ and you can check it out using the player in this very article. A

Lemuria announce July/August 2013 UK tour

Lemuria have detailed a UK run in July/August in support of the release of their new album. The tour stops all over the country, and you can see the list of dates below. JULY 21 SHEFFIELD Tramlines Festival 22 LONDON Black Heart 23 NORWICH The Marquee 24 STOKE ON TRENT Minister’s Bar 25 LEEDS Cockpit 26 KINGSTON

NOW.HERE post ‘Hey Mark!’ video online

Pop punks NOW.HERE have posted their music video for ‘Hey Mark!’ online. Check it out using the player in this article. http://www.facebook.com/nowhere.poppunk.1

Interview: Hatebreed

A couple of weeks ago, Punktastic headed down to Cardiff Solus to watch Hatebreed play an absolutely storming show. Beforehand, we caught up with frontman Jamey Jasta to talk touring, the new record and how they stay stoked after 19 years of the band being together. HOW ARE YOU? Good!

Punk Rock Holiday announces day splits

We don’t really plan on shutting up about Slovenia’s Punk Rock Holiday festival before, during or after it happens. It looks amazing. They announced some new bands yesterday, and have now published the day splits of the line up. Salivate over the following… if you wanna come, Wizz Air

LIVE: Narrows, Coliseum, Pariso at XOYO London

Following their destructive set at Belgium’s recent Groezrock Festival, Narrows return to London for only their third show in the nation’s capital. Hot on the heels of the release of the seminal ‘Sister Faith’, Coliseum join as main support with London’s own Pariso kicking things off. With all three

The Dowsing/Annabel Tour is just around the corner!

Dowsing and Annabel hit Europe for their tour from the end of May all the way through June. We love both bands here at Punktastic. Dowsing have even been our Introducing band to watch (read that here: http://punktastic.com/radar/introducing-dowsing/) so we highly recommend hitting up a tour date

Songkick Detour goes into public release phase

Songkick Detour London has come out of its invite only beta phase after a series of successful campaigns to bring bands to the city. This includes the Braid show we helped make happen, that expanded into a UK tour. head over to https://detour-ldn.songkick.com/ to get involved with the project,

Thursday 16 May 2013

Man Overboard’s new album streaming on Spotify now!

You can stream the new Man Overboard album, ‘Heart Attack’, via. Spotify right now. It comes out on May 27 via Rise Records. http://www.facebook.com/ManOverboardNJ