Name: Boomtown Festival Where: Matterley Estate, near Winchester, Hampshire When: 10-13th August 2017 Headliners: The Specials, M.I.A, Cypress Hill Also Featuring: Ziggy Marley, Reel Big Fish, Black Sun Empire, Caspa, The Prototypes, Redlight, Rusko, S.P.Y, Shy FX, Pieman A Brief History: Boomtown Festival started back…
Brace your eyeholes for some some trippy new visuals from queer punk band Aye Nako. The group have shared a video for their track ‘Nightcrawler’, which recently premiered on Afropunk. It’s full of colourful, cool animation, and shows the group…
Ordinary backgrounds, ordinary occupations, and an extraordinary passion to make the music they love; Southend rockers Asylums are a band who should definitely be on your musical radar. Together, Luke, Jazz, Michael and Henry have managed to form a regionalised…
Like a weird mix of Alex Turner and Billie Joe Armstrong, Frank Carter’s voice on Modern Ruin shows just how shiny and new a punk’s voice can be polished. The former Gallows man has seemingly left the guttural and screeching…
Glen Matlock is an accomplished musician, founding member of The Sex Pistols, and all round person of interest. He began his career as the co-author of 10 of the 12 tracks on iconic punk album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex…
Set in sallow yellow, PJ Harvey and her 10-strong company stand together in an open semi circle. Among them long-time collaborators, Mick Harvey of Bad Seeds acclaim and musical polymath and producer, John Parish (Sparklehorse, Jenny Hval, Perfume Genius, Eels)….
Emerging French rock band, The Shapers, resemble the punk pop tones of Green Day, mixed with the pure rock elements of the Foo Fighters. The band have already been directed by the Media Director of Vans, who has previously worked with…
Have you ever tried to standstill to a track by The Prodigy? It’s physically impossible. Fact. The punk rave pioneers have been creating dance worthy hit after hit since the 90’s and, thankfully, show no signs of slowing down. Gigslutz…
The Ethical Debating Society (also known as T.E.D.S to their fans) is one of the most exciting D.I.Y bands around at the moment. They are a three-piece consisting of Tegan (Vocals and Guitar) Kris (Vocals and Guitar) and Eli (Drums)….
“What kind of creature bore you Was is some kind of bat They can’t find a good word for you, but I can… TWAT.” Rapid-fire delivery and satirical performance poetry uniquely defines John Cooper Clarke like no other punk. The…