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From Friday 24 August 2012

Happy Blakfish Day 2012

So, everyone’s at Reading festival. Haven’t they heard that it’s Blakfish day? Don’t they know that they should all be at home crying into their pillows over the loss of one of the greatest British bands that never “hit the big time”? It’s been three years to the day since

Wednesday 22 August 2012

Playlist: Reading and Leeds

So. Who’s heading off to Reading and Leeds Festival tomorrow? We are and we are excited, you can expect lots of content throughout the weekend so make sure you’re following us on Twitter and Instagram (Just search Punktastic on the app) for all the latest goings on,

Tuesday 21 August 2012

PLAYLIST: 60 minutes of Joe Strummer for his 60th Birthday

60 years ago today, Joe Strummer entered our world. The music that he made during his lifetime has a permanent imprint on the global music landscape, and it’s impossible to count how many lives the music he made has touched and will touch. Unfortunately I’m too young to have seen

Saturday 12 May 2012

Playlist: Best Of April 2012

The Punktastic staff were tasked with picking three songs each from releases that they loved in April 2012, and you can see the results below: Selected by Tom Aylott: Straight Lines – Empty Chest One of the great unsung heroes of the UK scene at the moment, ‘Empty Chest’ showcases exactly why

Community Playlist #1: May 2012

Each month, we’ll be doing a ‘Community Playlist’, which will see our forum users selecting some tracks for a playlist! We thought that there’d be nothing better than a Slam Dunk preview this month, and the tracks selected by our users this month are the following: Rob Lynch – My Friends

PT Plays April 2012: Hit The Deck Vs. Groezrock

We’re heading to both Hit The Deck and Groezrock this month, and to rub it in, we’re going to give a list of our highlights in song form. Hopefully it’ll inspire you to sell your kidneys for a ticket to either, as there’s plenty to see at both! Our top 20

Thursday 10 May 2012

Lookback: Punktastic’s top 10 albums and top 5 EPs of 2011

This year, Punktastic decided to be democratic about our choices for Top 10 albums of the year, and we found out that we can barely agree on anything at all. That’s fine though because the final lists are both full of incredible music, and you can see our run

Songs that inspired the label: Walnut Tree Records

I first started listening to ‘punk-rock’ bands when I was about 14 as my best friend at the time had been borrowing his older brothers CDs and passing them onto me. I remember Face To Face and their track ‘Blind’ being the first that I really latched onto and

Playlist: “‘Core Blimey!” by Alex Fitzpatrick of Holy Roar

The first seven songs are a history lesson of sorts and the last six songs are stuff i think rules now… STRIFE – ‘Will To Die’ – Old masters came back last summer to show kids how it’s done. Victory Records and Roadrunner (!) had a bunch of good hardcore bands

Saturday 10 March 2012

Playlist: “It Would Appear That Andrew WK likes to party” by Tom Aylott

ANDREW WK is returning to the UK in the near future to bless us with a full band production of ‘I Get Wet’ in full. To celebrate, here’s songs he wrote that have the word party in them, from the essential ‘Party Hard’ to the disgusting ‘Tear It Up’. Get excited. We