Cory Wells, Youth Fountain @ Boston Music Rooms

Punktastic Picks: Volume 1

There’s one thing that we know for sure when it comes to Punktastic’s readers. You, like us, proper bloody love a bit of new music. Few feelings quite match the excitement of discovering a new band and being able to follow their journey – wherever it may lead –

LIVE: Cory Wells / Luke Rainsford @ Gullivers, Manchester

Nothing says Sunday night like a dark, humid room above a pub in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, filled with people in black t-shirts and beanies clutching increasingly warm pints. Well, maybe not to some, but to music fans, this is our odd sort of heaven – and drawing us out

Top 25 Albums of the Year

LIVE: Dashboard Confessional / Cory Wells @ Deaf Institute, Manchester

When Chris Carrabba said he’d be “back next year” during his 2018 tour, we probably weren’t the only ones who were a tiny bit sceptical. After all, it was the first time we’d seen Dashboard Confessional on our shores in ten years – surely we couldn’t be so lucky

Punktastic Presents: Playlist – December ’19

2019 is coming to a close and what a year it’s been. It feels like only yesterday that we were packing up tents, gathering an extra pair of pants and cramming our bags full of beer in preparation for festival season. And now we’re stuffed into hoodies, beanies and

Don’t ‘Walk Away’ from the emotive sounds of Cory Wells

The combination of acoustic guitar and soulful, emotive vocals has produced many of my favourite soundbites in the past and Cory Wells can add his name to that list with latest track ‘Walk Away’. What begins as a soothing melody over a gentle, finger-picked pattern, bursts into life in