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From Friday 26 September 2014

LIVE: Rob Lynch / The Candle Thieves / Sam Little @The Monarch, London

After a summer spent playing the acoustic stage at Warped Tour, Stamford’s Rob Lynch is going from strength to strength. His new album, ‘All These Nights In Bars Will Somehow Save My Soul’, has just been released on Xtra Mile in the UK and was picked up by

Thursday 25 September 2014

LIVE: Riot Fest Sunday – Veggie Nachos

My final day at Riot Fest was my busiest day of the three, mainly because there were a ton of smaller bands playing whom I’ve never seen before and I wanted to make it a point to see as much as possible before the festival finished. At the

Tuesday 23 September 2014

LIVE: Owls / Johnny Foreigner @ The Dome, London

It’s a cult thing. Some people tonight will have waited more than a decade to be in the same room as Owls – or perhaps more specifically their frontman and all-round eccentric Tim Kinsella. Joining him is brother Mike on drums, also of singer-songwriter fame as Owen, and

Monday 22 September 2014

LIVE: The Front Bottoms / PUP @ The Garage, London

The Front Bottoms at Reading Festival 2014 Sometimes a band simply explodes in stature before your very eyes, often as the result of being picked up by mainstream radio, press and TV. Sometimes, as is the case with tonight’s headliners The Front Bottoms, the explosion is far more subtle.

Thursday 18 September 2014

LIVE: Riot Fest Friday: Chicken Strips, Orange Mohawks, Ripped Ponchos

For three years now, I have been attending Riot Fest Chicago at the end of summer prior to my favorite time of year in the Midwest: the fall. What used to be a seasonal punk festival in multiple Chicago venues has turned into an outdoor ceremony that spans

Tuesday 16 September 2014

LIVE: Gnarwolves / Woahnows / Creeper @ The Black Heart, Camden

Gnarwolves celebrated the release of their debut self-titled album by throwing a last minute launch party at the tiny Black Heart in Camden. Punktastic were genuinely fortunate enough to win a spot at the free show as one of the lucky crowd picked from the band’s mailing list.

Friday 12 September 2014

LIVE: Reading Festival (Sunday)

Check out our photo galleries of the Saturday at Reading Festival. Part 1 | Part 2 Back to Saturday Bleary eyes and pounding heads from the night before, what better way to kick off Sunday’s proceedings than with a dose of pop punk all the way from

Thursday 11 September 2014

LIVE: Young Guns / Twin Wild @ Madame Jojo’s, London

Having taken to the Main Stage at Reading and Leeds Festival only a week prior to the Madame Jojo’s show, the intimate subterranean burlesque club in London’s notorious Soho district is a far cry from Young Guns’ usual surroundings. Acting as a homecoming, tonight is not just an

Wednesday 10 September 2014

LIVE: Reading Festival (Saturday)

Check out our photo galleries of the Saturday at Reading Festival. Part 1 | Part 2 Back to Friday This is a moment we’d all been waiting for. From the moment that Gnarwolves got announced on the Reading Main Stage, the punk community had been up on

Tuesday 09 September 2014

LIVE: Lonely The Brave / I Am Giant @ Dingwalls, London

‘Life-affirming’. That’s the way Tom Beck – erstwhile proprietor of the late, under-rated Walnut Tree Records – described the song ‘Backroads’ by Cambridge (then-quartet) Lonely the Brave when it was included on WTR’s 2009 compilation ‘Punktastic Unscene 5’. It’s been a half a decade in the making but, fuelled primarily by that very song,