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Album Review: Dead Strong release ‘147 Days’ musical diary

By Sonny Tyler June 24, 2026

Straight out of Austin, Texas, this one man project Dead Strong commentates on the current US political climate... It is indeed melodic punk with a metal edge, and the production values have created an impressive, beefy sound. The musicianship is top-notch but at the end of the day, the lyrics are the star of the show for me. The words very effectively document a difficult Continue Reading

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Album review: Could this be the final chapter for CJ Wildheart, with ‘Devil’?

By Ian Ladlow June 24, 2026

The ever-prolific CJ Wildheart is back with ‘Devil’, his eighth solo album. “I’ll be honest, I really struggled with this one, not so much writing it, but trying to find the drive," CJ explains. "Each year it gets harder to survive as an independent artist, and I always put in 100 percent into everything I do and this time round I came so close to just stopping." CJ Continue Reading

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Album Review: Triple Lutz Unleash Explosive Debut ‘In the Hands of an Angry Mob’

By Harriet Static June 23, 2026

After a nine-year wait, it’s finally time to get excited about Triple Lutz’s debut album. Dropping on 26th June, ‘In the Hands of an Angry Mob’, is coming in hot. Nothing is off limits: from internet rage and public shaming to societal injustices and even religion. For a band driven by race-against-the-world urgency, they pack a lot into the twenty-minute run time - Continue Reading

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EP review: Mclusky – ‘i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley’

By David Osbon June 23, 2026

Following up from 2025’s full length album (and first one in over 20 years!), ‘The World Is Still Here and So Are We’, Mclusky give us 6 tracks (some new and some not) that are spiky and sometimes uncomfortable but remind us how much energy this 3 piece have.Continue Reading

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Album review: Totalis – ‘Griefstate’

By Alex Goose June 23, 2026

Something of a hardcore/crust supergroup? They’d probably hate the idea, but there’s no denying the members’ impressive pedigrees - not least as they also recruited none other than Napalm Death frontman Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway and Fredrik Wallenberg of Skitsystem to share vocal duties.Continue Reading

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The B-52s/Devo, London O2 Arena, 20th June 2026

By Alex Goose June 22, 2026

My goodness, the O2 Arena, it’s been a very long while! We at Punktuation don’t often find ourselves at venues of this size, but when these two titans of American new wave decided to join forces (along with some sterling support, we might add) for a couple of UK dates, we knew we had to be there.Continue Reading

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Album Review: Gloria Mundi revisit unique landmark debut ‘I-Individual’ in timely re-release

By Sonny Tyler June 22, 2026

This great 'lost' band had a relatively short existence (1976-79), but the mark they left on the music scene at the time was unquestionable. Gloria Mundi have had an influence upon the alternative music scene ever since. Their landmark debut album 'I-Individual' has now been remastered via Antenna Records, and deserves your attention as a snapshot of a time when art Continue Reading

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Album review: Dead Pioneers – ‘Wagon Burner’

By Alex Goose June 22, 2026

Are these folks the new Rage Against The Machine? Perhaps that’s a lazy comparison, but it’s hard to think of another band of recent times that has spoken truth to power as forcefully and eloquently as Gregg and his band do on ‘Wagon Burner’, and that also had such musical muscle to back it up.Continue Reading

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Live review: The Abbey Ghosts, Tape It Shut, & Cheap Dirty Horse at The Butler, Reading, 18/06/26

By Hannah Calver June 21, 2026

What a fun night this was! A new folk punk band - The Abbey Ghosts, my favourite local punk band - Tape It Shut, and a folk punk band from Nottingham - Cheap Dirty Horse…what more could you ask for?! This night, put on by Shadow Promotions, was definitely needed!Continue Reading

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EP Review: Mr. Dinkles release R.I.P.T.

By Hannah Calver June 20, 2026

LA / Seattle power punk duo Mr. Dinkles blend garage rock, lo-fi punk, post-grunge, and sharp-tongued power punk, with a mix of humour, frustration and genuinely catchy songwriting, underneath the chaos. Across new EP ‘R.I.P.T.’, Mr. Dinkles confront the realities of modern adulthood, from economic uncertainty and social media fatigue to political frustration and personal Continue Reading