Home Articles posted by Herman de Tollenaere
Conflict 'Live In Holland' - main
New Releases Punk News Reviews

Album review: Conflict release their LP ‘Live In Holland’

By Herman de Tollenaere
During the 2025 tour, on the 26th of September, Conflict's only concert in the Netherlands was at Bibelot in Dordrecht. That show was recorded for this new live album ‘To Live On In Hearts – Live In Holland’. Furiously, dedicatedly, the band roared through a set of eleven classic Conflict songs and six tracks from their last studio album from 2025 'This Much Remains'.Continue Reading
New Releases Punk News Reviews

Album review: Greek punks The Overjoyed release ‘Overjoyed’

By Herman de Tollenaere
Athens, Greece punk rock quartet The Overjoyed have just released their third self-titled studio album. The songs are about subjects like personal struggles, mental health, addiction and identity.  Of the opening track 'Can’t Write Music', Leonidas writes: “I was in a really dark place… struggling with self-identity, drugs, a break-up… while living in a world recovering Continue Reading
New Releases Punk News Reviews

EP Review: Dutch punks Antillectual’s new record, in their native language!

By Herman de Tollenaere
After expressing themselves in the English language for over 20 years, Antillectual is taking a radical turn, with an EP sung entirely in Dutch. For this release, the band felt urged to write songs in their mother tongue about local symptoms of the current global shift to the right. The title of the new EP, 'Antillectueel' is the Dutch translation of the band name.Continue Reading
Hang Youth main - photo by Gerie Hermans
Punk News Reviews

Gig Review: Hang Youth in Leiden, the Netherlands, 18th Oct 2025

By Herman de Tollenaere
On 18th October 2025, Hang Youth, maybe the best-known Dutch punk band, played in the Gebroeders de Nobel venue in Leiden. Support came from Dutch rapper Zeldzame with his DJ Milky Way. Hang Youth played 45 songs in 90 minutes. Many of their songs are less than one minute long. All songs are in Dutch, and are about situations in politics and society from the band's Continue Reading
Penelope Houston booklet main
Punk News Reviews

Book review: ‘Early Days, a conversation about art, punk & otherness’ by Penelope Houston with Maria Elena Buszek

By Herman de Tollenaere
‘Early Days, a conversation about art, punk & otherness’ by Penelope Houston of The Avengers with Maria Elena Buszek was recently published in the USA as a 44-page booklet.The chapbook contains ten portrait drawings by Penelope Houston, and conversations about opening for the Pistols, women in punk, hardcore, queercore, riot grrrl, record labels, art schools, and Continue Reading
NederPunk Festival Paradiso 2025
Punk News Reviews

New book and LP on early Dutch punk celebrated at the Paradiso, Amsterdam

By Herman de Tollenaere
On 31st August 2025, Paradiso held a punk festival in its big hall. Journalist and DJ Oscar Smit launched a new expanded version of the first volume of his book series on punk in Paradiso. This volume is about proto-punk in 1976, and the explosion in 1977, after the Sex Pistols had played Paradiso. There is also a new compilation LP on Suburban Records 'NEDERPUNK: The Continue Reading