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PREVIEW: Swn Festival 2013 – 10 acts you don’t want to miss

Cardiff’s very own SXSW: Swn Festival is set to take place this week. The Huw Stephens and Jon Rostron founded four day event has become a staple in the Cardiff Autumn, with the thriving city providing an inspiring back drop to discovering some of the best and most exciting

Atlas Losing Grip post preview of new song online

Ahead of more EU mainland shows, Sweden’s Atlas Losing Grip have posted a snippet of a new song online. The track’s called ‘Cynosure’, and will be on the band’s currently in production new album. Check out the video with the clip of song out using the player in this article,

Win an Idle Class T-Shirt and album!

Well, well, well. The new Idle Class record (streaming over at Already Heard here), is excellent, and we couldn’t resist bringing in some swag from those German punks for people to win in the wake of the release… What we’ve got up for grabs is a copy of

Stream the new Crazy Arm album alongside the liner notes

We love a bit of Crazy Arm here at Punktastic, and with the band releasing their brand new acoustic album ‘The Southern Wild’, we just had to bring attention to the release! So, what better than having a read through the liner notes alongside a stream of the album? Check out

Forever Can Wait Announce EP Release Details and Nov UK Tour

Southampton alt rockers Forever Can Wait have announced that they will release their debut EP ‘Beauty&Grace’ on 27th November, to coincide with their tour supporting Out For Tomorrow around the UK. Check out a track from the band below with the EP track listing and the full list of tour

Bad Religion Day 2013 – 9th November

A labour of love, international Bad Religion day is November 9th, running from 9am-9pm Eastern Standard Time (so mid afternoon onwards here). The day has been celebrated since 1999, but this is the third year it’s going to be internet based, over at http://www.badreligionday.com Here’s what

Full Descendents/All ‘Filmage’ UK screenings detailed, Mark Hoppus to host London events

Everything Sucks Music have put together UK screenings of the Descendents/All documentary ‘Filmage’ in the UK, and the full list of dates have been revealed today. In addition to the new Glasgow, Bristol and Leeds screenings, we can reveal that Mark Hoppus of blink-182 will introducing the London screenings

Listen back to last night’s Radio One Review Show, featuring Punktastic and Wilkinson

Last night we had a blast on Radio One’s Review Show, chatting to Edith Bowman and Wilkinson about new releases! We selected a track by Moose Blood to play on the show – which you can listen to as part of the broadcast playback for 7 days over here:

Red City Radio stream new album, ‘Titles’

Red City Radio are streaming their new album, ‘Titles’. The album’s out this week, and you can check out the whole thing in full using the internet player music thing in this article. We think it’s great and hope you agree!

The Swellers – ‘The Light Under Closed Doors’

This October is a special month for The Swellers. After wrangling over labels for what felt like forever, the band have followed up their self-released 2012 EP, ‘Running Out Of Places To Go’, with a full length record. ‘The Light Under Closed Doors’ is the band’s first LP since ‘Good