LIVE: Slam Dunk South 2025

Slam Dunk South; traditional kick off to the UK festival season, it delivers the elusive festival highs and global lineup that sets the bar for the rest of the summer. A political undercurrent cuts through the day, like the rain clouds which threatened and never burst into controversy, but

Slam Dunk Festival 2025

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LIVE: Alkaline Trio / Slomosa @ O2 Ritz, Manchester

It’s a typically chilly July evening on the streets of Manchester, Alkaline Trio are in town tonight. The Paramount – a Wetherspoons within a stone’s throw of tonight’s venue – is already bustling with 30-somethings adorning faded skull and heart tattoos and stone-washed Bad Religion t-shirts. The Chicago three-piece have

Alkaline Trio, Lowlives @ O2 Academy, Leeds

Alkaline Trio – ‘Blood Hair And Eyeballs’

Matt Skiba and Dan Adriano have a lot on their minds. Alkaline Trio’s macabre punk vision of the world, one that’s informed a sound beloved by the melancholy for over two decades, is now dangerously close to reflecting reality. “A lot of the stuff that was inspiring me on this record

LIVE: Alkaline Trio / Taking Back Sunday / Destroy Boys @ O2 Academy Brixton, London

’90s punk rock is still alive and kicking, and tonight’s co-headlining show down at the o2 Academy, Brixton – between two giants in the game Alkaline Trio and Taking Back Sunday – only solidifies that statement. Trio’s ‘From Here To Infirmary’ and Sunday’s ‘Tell All Your Friends’

LIVE: Slam Dunk Festival 2021

For the longest time, it felt like the chances of us standing on the beautiful green grass of Temple Newsam and Hatfield House were slim to none – in 2021, at least. And yet, against all odds and through one of the most challenging possible years to pull off

Alkaline Trio – ‘Is This Thing Cursed?’

Death, darkness and despair. Since their beginnings in 1996 (yup, it’s really been that long), Alkaline Trio have carved stories of angst, haunting sorrow and failures. Though their punk rock early sound gradually mellowed over the years – who could forget their dramatic turn to the glossy, pop punk

Alkaline Trio release title track from upcoming album

Chicago punk rockers Alkaline Trio have shared the title track from the upcoming ‘Is This Thing Cursed?’ – their ninth studio album, and first since ‘My Shame Is True’ was released over five years ago. Check out the video below. ‘Is This Thing Cursed?’ is set for release on CD/Digital on