
Punk News

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

Teo Wise and his band have come all the way from Italy, and from the start, it’s clear that they’re having a ball, with the main man brandishing his Flying V guitar like some kind of rock n roll rifle. Self-described as ‘spaghetti rock n’ roll’, he blends elements of punk, rock n’ roll and new wave with Italian-language lyrics.Continue Reading

Miss the glory days of Epitaph and Fat Wreck Chords-style skate punk? It's safe to say that Southampton trio Everyone Lies do too, as they're doing a great job of breathing new life into the genre. They're about to release a new EP, 'Web Of Lies', and we caught up with the band for a chat ahead of their Salisbury launch gig and London show with The Drowns.Continue Reading

Sure, there are elements of great bands like Fugazi, Refused, At The Drive-In and Les Savy Fav, but Club Brat have taken those influences and fearlessly fed them through a meat grinder, resulting in four tracks that sound at once familiar and like no-one else around.Continue Reading

Of all the many great punk and rock n’ roll bands that Witchdoktors recall, Rocket From The Crypt are forefront in our minds tonight; not just because the riff from ‘Neck Tattoo’ resembles that of the San Diego crew’s 90s hit ‘On A Rope’, but also because these guys are showmen through and through.Continue Reading

Not only do the French quartet turn in a belter of an 18-song set, sounding like a bunch of garage-punks who’ve broken into Devo’s practice room and are going nuts with the synthesisers, they also have a bassist who plays a THEREMIN with the neck of his instrument!Continue Reading

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

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