LIVE: AFI, TR/ST @ Manchester Academy 1

Sometimes, you become a fan of something, and are forced to wait YEARS for the next instalment. Euphoria season 3? Four years. Chinese Democracy? Fourteen years. Winds of Winter? Fifteen years and counting! And yet, AFI take the lead on all of those, as it’s been SIXTEEN YEARS

AFI, TR/ST @ Manchester Academy 1

LIVE: All Points East Presents Outbreak 2026

Weeks of drought might have turned London’s Victoria Park into Arrakis, but like the Spice, the heaviness must flow. Outbreak’s takeover of All Points East brings new acts, old favourites returning, and the headlining set that proves Deftones have transcended from a band to a full-on experience.  Words: Kate

All Points East Presents Outbreak 2026

Top 25 Albums Of The Year

AFI – ‘Silver Bleeds The Black Sun…’

‘Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’ is not a record from the AFI that play in the memory of every early noughties alt kid. The masters of subtle reinvention, who slid from hardcore basements to MTV screens, who flew their Black Sails In The Sunset across a Silver and Cold

AFI – ‘Bodies’

When posed the question as to what studio album number 11 means to a band like AFI, bassist Hunter Burgan presciently responds: “Every album is an opportunity to show people a snapshot of our evolution.” And if there was ever a punk rock band unafraid of evolving, its AFI.

AFI – ‘The Missing Man’

The release of 2017’s self-titled, or ‘The Blood Album’, was heralded as the comeback critics and fans had been waiting for from AFI. It was a return to the post-hardcore sound that began with ‘Sing the Sorrow’ and coursed through ‘Decemberunderground’, and it felt like a band

AFI’s Davey Havok announces new novel, ‘Love Fast Los Angeles’

AFI vocalist Davey Havok has announced the release of his upcoming new novel, ‘Love Fast Los Angeles’. Due for release on the 6th February 2018 and following up Havok’s first novel, 2013’s ‘Pop Kids’, the story follows Alvin, a party photographer. His controversial, taste-making site has brought fortune and fame to

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