

Yep, it’s that time of the year again! Here’s to you, Vive Le Rock - you’ve had a great year (we especially enjoyed the issue with the Brian James feature), and we’re pleased to hear that the anniversary gig is set to become an annual fixture in our calendars.Continue Reading

This EP is only ten minutes long, so that’s perfect for my gnat-like attention span. Opener ‘Catching The Rain’ rides in on a fabulously groovy bass line and those shimmering post-punk guitars that Explode The TV have long made their stock in trade.Continue Reading

If I hadn’t gone for a browse in London’s excellent All Ages Records a few months ago, I wouldn’t have heard them playing Sheffield quartet Nylon’s excellent debut album ‘Chariot Of The Gods’ over the PA, and would have missed out on a short-but-great slice of stripped-down and brutally effective hardcore.Continue Reading

Spunge, bless them, have long had a fine sense of the ridiculous, and the bizarre antics continue to this day. After all, why make a grand entrance when you could just get on stage and offer the crowd some Doritos? Why not pause mid-set whilst the crowd attempts to construct a human pyramid?Continue Reading

Texan headliners Wiccans are hardcore at its most noisy and chaotic, and they deservedly whip up a storm in the pit. They’ve been described as “Poison Idea trying to make a record in the style of Fucked Up” and we’d drink to that, with songs like the stomp-tactic four-minute ‘Primordial Sorcery’ clearly the work of a band with plenty of great ideasContinue Reading

As prolific as we at Punktuation like to think we are, we can’t quite measure up to Mannie of Shake Some Acton fame. Putting on gigs can be a damn stressful business (certainly more so than writing about them), but he’s somehow managed to make nearly fifty of them happen this year alone!Continue Reading

London, for the next half hour, you’re in Riff City!” The Californians have faced a stiff challenge from Overpower, but ultimately triumph by being the absolute tightest, fastest and most manic version of themselves - with Charlie almost taking out the drum kit halfway through a scorching ‘Killing Fields’.Continue Reading

This Sunday matinee is a fine example of why we love small gigs; this is my first time at the Trades Hall, and there’s a fun, friendly atmosphere, decent sound, and a bartender wearing rainbow-coloured Doc Martens. What’s not to like?Continue Reading

If you’re gonna step back in time, you might as well do a great job of it - and that’s certainly true of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. In truth, tonight feels less like nostalgia than a reminder that we could do with a few more bands like this right now.Continue Reading

If it’s truly thunderous, bass-driven riffs you’re after, then Dead Air are your men for the job. Seriously, we’re talking ones that the giants of desert rock (yep, QOTSA, Kyuss, Fu Manchu et al) would probably kick themselves for not having written. Continue Reading


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