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NederPunk Festival Paradiso 2025
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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
Die Toten Hosen main - Vega Copenhagen - photo © Per-Åke Wärn
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Live Review: Die Toten Hosen – Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark 29th August 2025

By Per-Åke Wärn
When German punks Die Toten Hosen (The Dead Trousers) returned to Copenhagen for the first time in about 30 years, tickets for the +1500 capacity Vega sold out in under 10 minutes! The evening kicks off with a short sharp set by The Dead End Kids, another German band, picked by the headliners as support at most of the gigs on their ‘Keep Calm & Carry On – Euro Tour 2025’. Continue Reading
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Album review: Launch Control release ‘The Omnipotent Wage’

By Hannah Calver
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