

Berkshire's best kept Punk Rock secret tell us how fucked the world is! Reading-based band Launch Control are socio-political punks, who have been together since 2011. ‘The Omnipotent Wage’ is their first full length album, combining thoughtful, socially conscious lyrics with hard-hitting high tempo punk rock, and incorporates genre-bending influences from metal to Continue Reading

Barcelona quintet Radioactivas come across as much a gang as a band, and they’re a gang that we wanna join. Vocalist Eri hands out some Iggy Pop masks for us to wear before the swaggering ‘La Iguana’; appropriate enough, given that her band have clearly taken plenty of influence from The Stooges. And hey, why not? Continue Reading

The Festival season isn't over - Undercover will host a fantastic line-up - join us there for 2 music-packed days at The Showground, Battlesbridge Antiques Centre nr Wickford, on 26th and 27th September 2025. Featuring an impressive array of established bands, including Subhumans, Skids, Popes of Chillitown and Eddie & The Hot Rods, plus a top selection of newer and Continue Reading

Rock Radio UK DJ, musician, and all-round mega personality Griff Griffiths is back with a joyful cover of one of his all-time favorite songs, 'Twist and Shout'. Teaming up once more with Sunshine Corner Studios producer Steve ‘Smiley’ Barnard who also plays drums on the track, and Darren Beale from the Boomtown Rats on guitar, the song and video celebrate music, family and fun. Continue Reading

Brighton-based band Dunce are not the same as your typical punk band. They have some similarities to Primus and Warmduscher, so the punk element is there for sure, but they also have a techno spin to their music! Their latest EP, ‘Penis Fly Trap’ consists of four tracks; all are unique and very different..Continue Reading

Great tunes played with passion and no end of roguish charm; that’s The Long Tall Texans way, and it’s a recipe that still draws crowds after all these years. Oh, and a sense of humour - how else to explain the chuckle-worthy closer ‘What Part Of Fuck Off Don’t You Understand’?Continue Reading

From Long Island, New York, Bad Mary are an edgy glam punk band, formed in 2011. They are a family unit, consisting of a daughter, her father, her husband, and her professor. Bad Mary's latest live album ‘Live on Long Island’ was released on 15th July 2025 and features 16 live cuts from previous gigs of tracks from previous albums and EPs. This band are incredibly Continue Reading

Headliners Equals What? are - to their eternal credit - an inclusive and gloriously riotous band. Inclusive, in the sense that their vocalist isn’t shy to confront bigotry and say the things that (alas) still need to be said.Continue Reading

Every so often, we see a band that makes us wish we’d been born a good decade or so earlier. Last year, it was Midway Still; this year, Instigators play the kind of urgent, passionate set that has us envious towards those who saw the anarcho-punk quartet back in their 80s/early 90s heyday.Continue Reading

A while back, I resolved to try to stop constantly comparing bands to my beloved Motörhead, but it has to be said that Lemmy and co would surely approve of Fantazmaz; tonight, everything really is louder (and rawer, and more intense) than everyone else.Continue Reading