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LIVE: No Warning / Risk It! @ The Dome, London

Around the turn of the century, No Warning were the most sought after modern hardcore band in the world. Second only to American Nightmare, their influence could be heard in countless bands, and to this day, their debut album ‘Ill Blood’ remains one of the best contemporary hardcore

Wednesday 07 October 2015

LIVE: ArcTanGent Festival 2015

This festival may stand in stark contrast to the rest of Punktastic’s summer coverage, but in our mind, it’s just as deserving of its place as the behemoths found elsewhere in this section. Legions of fans of math-rock and post-rock have descended on Bristol from far-flung places like continental

Saturday 03 October 2015

LIVE: State Champs / Knuckle Puck / ROAM @ O2 Islington Academy, London

It’s pretty much the pop-punk tour we’ve been waiting most of the year for, and finally New York outfit State Champs have made their way to the UK for the first ever headline tour, something which seems a bit of an odd fact for a band

Tuesday 29 September 2015

LIVE: Butserfest 2015

Set in a country park just thirty minutes from Portsmouth is a Festival with an attitude, no drink, no drugs, just a whole lot of fun. Now in its ninth year, Butserfest aims to bring the younger generation the best in alternative music and prove that

Saturday 26 September 2015

A Drunken Stumble Through My First Awesome Fest

Labor Day is upon us again and although I would’ve loved to have spent the long weekend suffering through a sunburnt and sand all over my body while at an overly crowded beach, I decided to spend it sunburnt and damn near shitfaced in sunny and beautiful North

Wednesday 16 September 2015

LIVE: Reading Festival [Sunday]

It’s an early start on The Pit for up-and-coming atmosphere makers Black Foxxes. That doesn’t stop their blend of Brand New-esque melodies and heart wrenching vocals enveloping the modest tent, drawing in some weary passers-by with the music’s sheer beauty. Despite their niche sound, we’d wager that this is

LIVE: Reading Festival [Saturday]

Cobwebs. What cobwebs? Any reveller that might have been feeling a little tender early on the Saturday morning is quick to have it shaken off by Japanese phenomenon, Babymetal. Sitting somewhere between brilliant and fundamentally creepy, the trio are the biggest spectacle of the weekend – and rightly so.

LIVE: Reading Festival [Friday]

As Reading and Leeds Festival open their gates to tens of thousands of revellers at each site, the all-important weather subsides to allow a glimmer of sunshine in what has been an otherwise ferociously wet week. Tales of knee-deep mud are instantly debunked as excited fans gather at the

Thursday 10 September 2015

LIVE: Deafheaven / Marriages @ The Scala, London

In recent years, there have been few bands in the world of metal that divide opinion quite like Deafheaven. Their 2013 album ‘Sunbather’ was a glorious blend of lush shoegaze, and vitriolic black metal that polarized fans on either end of the spectrum. Regardless, it would become one

Tuesday 08 September 2015

LIVE: You Me At Six @ Dr Martens, Oxford Street

With their fourth studio album ‘Cavalier Youth’ shooting them into the mainstream last year and having spent a lot of their time touring across America in the past twelve months, it’s very rare that an occasion to get up close and personal with You Me At