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From Monday 22 December 2014

Playlist: Best of 2014

As you may be aware, we’ve spent the year curating monthly ‘Best Of…’ Playlists, to showcase some of the music that’s kept us going from month to month. Although not all of those tracks are on Spotify, we’ve been collating the ones that are in a 2014: Punktastic Playlist. So,

Thursday 18 December 2014

Playlist: The Skints choose their top 5 party anthems

Capdown provided us with their top party anthems at the weekend to celebrate the imminent Jagermeister UK Music Tour, featuring joint headliners The Skints and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Not to be outdone, London ska, dub, punk hybrids The Skints have selected the top five tracks

Wednesday 17 December 2014

Playlist: Disembarked’s Screams of the Underground

Disembarked’s ‘Nothing’s Wrong Here’ provides a late contender for this year’s “best of…” lists. Clearly influenced by the likes of early Pianos Become The Teeth and their ilk, the Swedish screamo five piece build a deep and ominous atmosphere, driven by the juxtaposition between beauty in their melody

Saturday 13 December 2014

Playlist: Capdown choose their party anthems

This week sees the start of the Jagermeister Music Tour, kicking off in Liverpool on the 18th December 2014. The eclectic line-up is all about having a good time – this year in particular – inviting Me First and the Gimme Gimmes to headline alongside The Skints, joined

Tuesday 02 December 2014

Playlist: Best of November 2014

November has seen some awesome bands pass through the United Kingdom, not least Against Me! whose Electric Ballroom headline performance was simply astounding. Nothing brought their shoegaze revival to the Green Door Store in Brighton amongst other venues across the nation, while New Found Glory were

Monday 03 November 2014

Playlist: Best of October 2014

In a month that saw the clocks change and the UK plunge into early darkness, there was a whole host of releases, news and events to keep spirits high. Mallory Knox released their long-awaited sophomore album, as a new release emerged from exciting Kent based prospects

Saturday 04 October 2014

Playlist: Best of September 2014

As Summer officially draws to a close, the cold begins to set in, and leaves begin to turn a golden brown before ceremoniously dropping to the floor, the new music release schedule shows no sign of turning grey. September saw some of the biggest names in up-and-coming British

Tuesday 02 September 2014

Playlist: Best of August 2014

In our eyes the end of August brings with it the end of summer. Gone are the weekly trips to often muddy fields, the engorgement on cheap, regularly cold meat from vans with questionable hygiene ratings, and the consumption of buckets of lukewarm beer and cider. August was,

Thursday 31 July 2014

Playlist: Best of July 2014

We’re well into the middle of the summer now, and there are no signs of the exceptional musical quality that has characterised the previous six months slowing down. This month saw Punktastic take to the ever-excellent 2000 Trees Festival alongside the likes of The Bronx, Trash Talk and

Wednesday 02 July 2014

Playlist: Best of June 2014

We’re right in the middle of festival season now, and following May’s Slam Dunk – Groezrock – Camden Rocks trio, June has brought us the behemoth that is Download Festival. When not singing along to The Offspring’s ‘Smash’, or witnessing Marmozets own their stage, we were lucky enough