Bleached – ‘Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough?’

Under the hot sticky skies of 1980s Los Angeles, as described in Brett Easton Ellis’ novel Less Than Zero, it paints a picture of the hedonistic lifestyles of young, rich college students. It is an environment of endless excesses but is ultimately a hugely vacuous and pointless

The Hunna: “It felt like we were almost held hostage”

He Is Legend – ‘White Bat’

When He Is Legend arrived on the scene in the early 2000s, they were a bit of an anomaly. Their immediate peers in bands like Every Time I Die and Norma Jean were still sticking to their own brand of angular metalcore, and hadn’t yet started experimenting with other

LIVE: Community Festival 2019 @ Finsbury Park, London

Based just outside Central London in Finsbury Park, Community Festival has become a mid-summer favourite for festival goers of all ages. With a line-up that combines the best of indie and alternative music, there’s something for almost everyone. The Punktastic team braved the intense sunshine, downed a few ciders, and

LIVE: Converge / Terror / Sect / Fange @ The Ritz, Manchester

Being the opening act for a seminal, vastly influential band like Converge must be beyond nerve-wracking. Being that act on just a couple of weeks’ notice because the original opener pulled out last minute, doubly so. With that in mind, fair play to Fange for getting up there and

LIVE: Single Mothers @ The Key Club, Leeds

If there’s one pertinent question in punk at the moment it’s, ‘Why isn’t everybody listening to Single Mothers?’ The self-proclaimed ‘band that split up in 2009 and have been touring ever since’ are a unique bastion within a genre where originality can be found somewhat wanting at

2000trees Festival Preview

Named the Best Medium-Sized Festival in the UK for 2018 and based in the beautiful Cotswolds countryside, 2000trees is now a well-established part of the festival calendar. Its cool, intimate, and relaxed atmosphere provides the roots for an incredibly varied line-up covering just about every alternative genre out there

The Bottom Line – ‘No Vacation’

As gaps between debut and sophomore albums go, seven years is pretty extreme – especially for a band that resides in the eternal churn of a genre like pop-punk, where visibility and popularity is key to survival. It doesn’t seem to have fazed Brit four-piece The Bottom Line though,

Petrol Girls announce UK headline tour

Following the success of new album ‘Cut & Stitch’, Petrol Girls have announced a run of UK headline shows in September. Having spent 2019 touring with the likes of La Dispute, Milk Teeth, and War On Women, as well as a slot at Roskilde and the upcoming 2000 Trees,

Save Ferris Added To Fireball Tour Lineup, plus Hottest Band competition returns

Every year, the Fuelling The Fire Tour brings together some fantastic bands to create spectacularly memorable nights. And the 2019 tour looks no different. Legendary ska punk band Save Ferris will join co-headliners Less Than Jake and Goldfinger, as well as the winners of last year’s Fireball’s Hottest Band