Pop punk
See: Good Charlotte release live video for “Life Changes”, Slam Dunk Festival headline spot
Good Charlotte have released a live video for “Life Changes” filmed at a recent sold out show at the Brixton Academy. The track first appeared on their 2016 post-hiatus album Youth Authority, and is given the cinematic treatment in this video, where the band perform it with their usual pop-punk bombast. To be honest, I …
See: Seaway release new video for London, plus UK tour dates
Canadian quintet Seaway have today released a video for ‘London’, taken from their excellent new album ‘Vacation’ which was released via Pure Noise Records. It comes ahead of the band arriving on these shores for a headline UK tour, and the song is a infectious, joyous slab of pop punk, with just enough angst in …
LIVE: Slam Dunk Festival North, Millenium Square, Leeds, 28/5/2017
Ever since moving the Leeds date of Slam Dunk Festival to Millenium Square and the surrounding area, the festival organisers have set the bar high. This year is set to be no different, featuring some of the crowning jewels of the rock, pop punk and metal scene. Taking to the main stage in an unexpectedly …
Live Review: State Champs, Leeds Beckett University – 16.03.17
A tour like this has possibly been in the minds of pop punk fans for a while, As It Is backing up their impressive new album okay. and State Champs, coming up to the two year anniversary of their newest album Around The World And Back are arguably two of the best UK (As It …
Track: Talay returns with ‘Parents House’
With a departure from her acoustic debut, Talay is back and cranking it up to eleven with an anthem for millennials. Everything from the musical composition to its tone and subject matter all comes together to create a track that’s highly addictive. Musically it feels like a brilliant throwback to pop punk of the early …
Premiere: Low Cut Connie release video for Revolution Rock n Roll
What happens when things get rather out of hand. Low Cut Connie Frontman / songwriter Adam Weiner describes a night thats been documented in their new video for Revolution Rock n Roll as one where “the room was throbbing with existential tension and orgiastic release…our fans showed up stressed and depressed and we gave them …
Album Review: WSTR – Red, Green or Inbetween
After a thankfully brief period where it seems like the pop punk genre has been populated by lesser bands hitting the charts with a more pop focused version of the genre, it’s bands like WSTR (from Liverpool, UK) that can get things back on track to what it actually means to be successfully classed as …
See: Homebound reveal new video for Distrait
Farnham pop punks released a new video for recent single Distrait, taken from the bands forthcoming third EP, ‘The Mould You Build Yourself Around’, out via Rude Records (Set It Off, Blood Youth, Less Than Jake) on 10th February 2017. Distrait, distracted or absent-minded for those that don’t know, is a pulsating, muscular slice of …
Track: Hello Casanova – I’ll be waiting
Formerly known as Foreign Affairs, Northern Irish pop punk three piece Hello Casanova yesterday released their new single I’ll be waiting. The band, Matt Irwin (rhythm guitar and vocals), Ethan Williamson (lead guitar and vocals), and Martin Miller (drums and percussion), recorded I’ll be waiting with acclaimed producer Rocky O’Reilly (And So I Watch You …
See: Green Day release new video for Still Breathing
American three piece Green Day have recently released the album Revolution Radio, which has been receiving about the best reactions since their most famous album American Idiot. Their second single from Revolution Radio is “Still Breathing”, a song which brings the powerful and energetic sounds of the band but also with it small details, electronica …