The Maraschinos are back with Meow, a purr-fect new single that trades summer romance for something more sinister. With its femme-punk attitude, Meow finds The Maraschinos embracing the ugly, obsessive parts of a revenge fantasy. That darkness is a sharp turn from their previous single, I Think About You In The Shower, that was a bright, summery confession […]

Back in May, Buffalo, NY pop punk band Autoignition released their Against The World EP on vinyl through Static Era Records and on CD via 51st State Records. The band’s fervent energy, bouncy riffs, and seemingly carefree vocal delivery fit right alongside acts such as Saves The Day, Lifetime, The Story So Far, and Koyo. Autoignition have now unleashed a brand […]

The Fomites are back and faster than ever with their new full length, Smoke A Joint About It, that was recorded, mixed and mastered by Shafer Carson. The album takes inspiration from the never-ending carousel of existential horror, in response The Fomites have decided to sit back, light one up, and party through the apocalypse with their signature style of spooky skate punk. The songs on […]

Punk supergroup Pressure Set have dropped their short, sharp and fiery new single, Mutant Death Guide, that is the third song on their self-titled debut album that is due out on October 2nd through Dr. Strange Records. The band recorded from studios scattered around the globe, and despite the distance, the chemistry translated into a cohesive debut of […]

Hot to trot after releasing their latest critically acclaimed album, Nice N’ Rough, via Venn Records, Bristol, UK punk n’ rollers Split Dogs start 2027 as they mean to go on with a hefty UK headline tour in February. With support on all dates from Manchester punks Bruise Control, this tour is set to weave […]

Bridge City Sinners have announced the New Year’s Evil Tour, a four-show run with support from Riley Downing (The Deslondes) and Roselit Bone. The dates begin December 30 in Boise and include a New Year’s Eve hometown show at Portland’s Roseland Theater, followed by stops in Bellingham and Vancouver. The new announcements arrive as Bridge City Sinners prepare to return […]

Today, epic punk collective Fake Names have share their new single and video, If You Could See Me Today, from their upcoming album, Punk Ruins, that is due out on October 23rd via Epitaph Records. The track finds jangle pop emerging from the band’s DC post-hardcore roots, crackling guitars meet gritty bassline, and effortlessly magnetic vocals, […]

Detroit, MI’s Hayley & The Crushers have released Crash, via streaming platforms and Bandcamp via Kitten Robot Records, the track is the trio’s take on The Primitives 1989 hit single, Crash. “We’ve always loved songs that feel like candy with a switchblade tucked inside. “Crash” has that perfect mix of innocence, adrenaline and danger. So, […]

Frank Turner has announced that he stepping back from live performances after 28 years and over 3000 shows, the singer will play Lost Evenings X at London’s OVO Arena between the 4th and 7th November 2027. Frank Turner is unsurprisingly seeing out 2026 on the road with live dates in North America, including an appearance […]

Creeper have today unveiled a brand new video for Parasite, an arena sized anthem taken from their Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death album. It arrives as the band prepare to embark upon their Off With Their Heads! tour, which promises to take their ever-theatrical live spectacle to the next level as they bring the characters and themes of […]

Good Riddance‘s Russ Rankin has released his brand new solo EP, A Season In Hell, that is now available through streaming platforms and on 12″ inch blue vinyl via Indecision Records. The EP sees Rankin and Adam Gomez (The Dickies) deliver six brand new tracks, three covers and three originals, including his Rankin’s take on […]

Brooklyn, NY’s Gnarcissists today have announced their new EP, Paradise Aquarium, will be released on November 13th, the announcement is accompanied by the release of infectious, muscular lead single, Hi. The writing of Paradise Aquarium was fraught with misfortune: lead singer Matthew Orr was diagnosed with a connective tissue disorder that had hospitalized him after a near fatal […]

Ska collective The Family Business Ltd have released their debut self-titled full length via Hellcat Records that can be streamed and purchased here. The Family Business Ltd‘s debut release is packed with grooving drumbeats and the infectious energy of two-tone ska from the collective that joins Jordan Cardy (Rat Boy), Preston (The Ordinary Boys), and Antonee First Class (The English Beat), with Tim Armstrong (Operation Ivy / Rancid) and Jesse […]

Released in 1986, Orgasmatron featured the line-up of Lemmy, Phil Campbell, Würzel and Pete Gill. It marked a new chapter for the band, pushing further into heavier territory while retaining the speed, aggression and raw energy that had defined Motörhead from the beginning. The album’s production was the subject of much discussion among the band and their […]

Jen Pop, aka Jen Razavi of The Bombpops, has released the video of her acoustic version of NOFX‘s The Idiot’s are Taking Over, the track is taken from Jen Pop‘s Borrowed & Blue EP that is now available via streaming platforms and on CD and blue vinyl via Stupid Rad Merch. Jen Pop will also […]

I had been waiting 45 years to see Wasted Youth live and my wait finally culminated with this incredible show at the long-standing Doll Hut in Anaheim. Somehow, I missed seeing the band back in the early 1980s even though I was going to shows almost every weekend. The current incarnation of Wasted Youth is […]

The Punk Rock Museum is opening a new exhibition dedicated to Motörhead and Lemmy Kilmister from October 2nd to celebrate one of rock music’s most influential, uncompromising, and unforgettable forces. Led by Lemmy Kilmister, Motörhead helped define the sound and attitude of heavy metal while maintaining deep roots in punk rock. Lemmy’s connection to the British punk scene ran […]

Bridge City Sinners are heading back to the UK and Ireland this fall. The Repent and Repeat tour starts September 30th in Brighton and runs through to October 11th. Later that month, the band brings its Trick or Treat shows to the West Coast before joining Streetlight Manifesto for three Texas dates in November. You can view Bridge City Sinners‘ UK & […]

Manchester, UK’s beloved grassroots music event, Neck of the Woods Festival, will celebrate its fifth anniversary in 2026 with its biggest edition yet. The festival takes place across two venues: Fuel Cafe and Cafe Blah in Withington, on Saturday 26th September 2026, the festival brings together fresh emerging talent, alongside a host of returning favourites from previous years. Founded by Sam […]

The New York/Virginia based band Unmade, which features former members of Walk The Plank, have announced that they will release their self titled debut EP on 7″ vinyl on the 10th November via their own Toro! Toro! Records. Ahead of the EP’s release the band have made two tracks, Colossus and Shadow Tip, that are […]

Following the recent announcement of a special 30th Anniversary Edition of their seminal debut album 1977, Ash have revealed a song that many fans will have thought lost forever. Bittersweet Blue was originally written before the Rockfield album recording session, was performed supporting Therapy? at The Point Depot in December 1995 and was finally committed […]

Mansfield, UK punk trio Hold Fast have released the five track Kapow! The Nearly Live EP through streaming platforms, the band’s latest release was recorded live at Unit 5 Studios in Mansfield and follows on from their 2025 debut EP, Raw. Hold Fast are currently working on their debut full length, watch this space for […]

PUNKTUALS may be the most honest musical project to emerge from the Emerald City in decades. Made up of seasoned veterans who spent years on the road with a litany of popular Seattle bands, the group features D. Lee on guitar, Gator on vocals, Mickey Diablo on bass, Notorious J. Rock on guitar and backing […]

It’s not too often on a life time that a band comes along that grabs you by the scruff of the neck, or some other bit of your anatomy, and bids you “come with me my friend” on a journey that you just never want to get off.  Now I’m a very old music listener […]

Manchester, UK’s beloved grassroots music event, Neck of the Woods Festival, will celebrate its fifth anniversary in 2026 with its biggest edition yet. The festival takes place across two venues: Fuel Cafe and Cafe Blah in Withington, on Saturday 26th September 2026, the festival brings together fresh emerging talent, alongside a host of returning favourites […]

In 1977 The Ruts emerged from London with a sound unlike anybody else around them, the raw urgency of punk colliding with reggae, dub and rock, driven by formidable musicianship and a fierce sense of purpose. With Malcolm Owen, Paul Fox, Dave Ruffy and Segs Jennings, The Ruts created a body of music whose power […]

Carbondale, IL’s Jolly Roger have released their brand new EP, Skin Deep, that is now available through streaming platforms and as a name your price download through Bandcamp. The Jolly Roger EP follows on from the Dick Tater EP that was released in April 2025. “The new EP is now available on our Bandcamp for […]

Following on from their 2025 album, Bloody Hello, Gosport, UK’s Rats! Rats! Rats! have released their new album, Heavy Petting at the Lido, via streaming platforms and on vinyl through Horn & Hoof Records and on CD, minidisc, and cassette from Rare Vitamin Records. On Heavy Petting at the Lido the band address such subjects […]

Southern California’s Mad Tab have released the long-awaited new album, Alas! The Bomb Voyage…, via InnaNuttshell Reekordingz, the label founded by Fishbone bassist and co-founder Norwood Fisher. Spanning 17 tracks, Alas! The Bomb Voyage… captures the full range of Mad Tab‘s sound: raw SoCal punk urgency, intricate musicianship, dual lead vocals, analog synth textures and four-part harmonies. The album arrives as […]

Japanese trio Dizzy Sunfist have released their new album, Our Dream Is Not Dead, on CD and vinyl via Fat Wreck Chords. After grabbing attention with singles like Shooting Star and Carry On, and more reimagined versions of previous fan-favorite tracks, the band have now unveiled a dozen dazzling songs in total. “The 12 songs […]

Naked Raygun, one of the most influential bands in Chicago punk history, will release Live at Riot Fest on November 6th via Loud Pizza Records. The double album, which is pressed on raygun infra-red vinyl, captures the band’s game-changing November 5th 2006 headlining set at the Congress Theater, the reunion show that brought Naked Raygun back from […]

This is the debut EP from the new must see band from London, it showcases a trio songs that by the sound of it will propel them to great things, and hopefully a place in your music collection and heart. Inner Dog are one of the bands that still shows just how much punk is […]

Australia’s C.O.F.F.I.N have released their sixth studio full length, Out In Oslo, via (pdoom) Records. In conjunction with the album’s digital release the band are also streaming their feature-length documentary 10,000 Miles From Oslo, through YouTube. The most recent taste of the album, Gettin’ Down, serves as the album’s focus track, the accompanying music video, the fourth to be directed by […]

Siouxie & The Skunks have returned with Mr. Cock O’ Nut, the second single taken from their forthcoming album, Songs About Hiding, that is due out on December 4th via Wild Honey Records. There was no single moment when things went wrong. Mr. Cock O’ Nut is about something more insidious: the slow process by […]

Today sees the release of a new solo album by Gary Marx, the man best known for co-founding The Sisters Of Mercy with Andrew Eldritch and forming Ghost Dance in the wake of the original line up of the Sisters imploding. Gary Marx continues to defy expectations and throw the coolest of curveballs, his new album, Red Planet Blue, is the eagerly […]

Following Farewell, Salt and Aim High, Gothenburg’s Åskväder reveal another side of their forthcoming album, Wax, with their latest single, On The Fence. The song lives in the uneasy space between conviction and uncertainty. Its lyrics follow someone searching for a way forward through exhaustion, promises and deception: should they trust the voice calling them into the light, or turn away? The […]

As the old saying goes, “Good things come to those who wait.” In the case of Detroit melodic punk trio Middle-Out, the wait has been almost two and a half years since they released new music. Following up on their self-titled debut album, the band are back with their brand new single, Pipe Wrench, that is […]

It’s September which means it’s time for the latest instalment of Cartridge Heart‘s annual Go Kick-Ass! compilation. Go Kick-Ass! 4 features 32 previously unreleased tracks by 30 artists based out of Ontario, plus two from Quebec. Go Kick-Ass! 4 features exclusive tracks from Alert The Audience, Azure Rose, Baby’s First Pistol, Big Bank, Big Evil, […]

Melodic shredders Team Dresch are back with Furthermore, their first new full length in three decades, that is out today via Jealous Butcher Records. Originally formed in 1993 in Portland, OR, back when it was still an under-the-radar postindustrial midsized city, where an artist could still live in a punk house for $200 a month, […]

“I want to bite the hand that feeds me,” opined Elvis Costello in his paradoxically radio-friendly New Wave hit Radio Radio in 1978. At the height of his angry powers and riding that wave of skinny tie and trouser popularity, his excoriation of British popular music broadcasting was never really appreciated as the flaying we […]

Descendents have announced that their Bonus Fat album will be reissued on November 13th via Org Music, the album collects the band’s earliest recordings, the eight-song release brings together their debut single, Ride the Wild, from 1979, the landmark Fat EP from 1981 and the compilation outtake Global Probing. Originally compiled in 1985, Bonus Fat captures the formative years of one of punk’s […]

Authority Zero‘s have released their new single, Apocalyptic Summer, and the band is opening the song up for others to pull apart, rebuild and take somewhere entirely new. The band handed the track to two longtime friends, Ted Bowne (Passafire) and Wayne Lothian (The English Beat), and asked each of them to reinterpret it in his own language. Both […]

The Southern California punk community is rallying behind TSOL’s Mike Roche as his health continues to decline following dual Parkinson’s disease and dementia diagnoses. The Offspring, Pennywise, Circle Jerks, Adolescents, Guttermouth, Change Today, The Mainliners, Death By Stereo, Love Canal, and Dissension will perform at a November 7th benefit at the Garden Amphitheatre in support […]

Anxious are currently on tour a massive North America supporting their labelmates Citizen alongside Hotline TNT, Rocket, and Cryogeyser, and today they’ve released their new single, Secret Weapon, via Run For Cover Records. The track follows last month’s single, Don’t Move, and the two tracks represent the first new music from Anxious since the release of their acclaimed sophomore […]

Toronto’s Little Window have announced that they will release their debut album, Red Ant, on the 27th October, the band approached recording their debut full length with the same persistence that shaped the writing process, pushing through creative obstacles from the first ideas to the final master. Written through cycles of insomnia, grief and self-destruction, Red Ant embraces the horror […]

Ska-punk veterans and live-show ringmasters Less Than Jake have released Another Hostage Situation, a B-side from their 2024 EP Uncharted, giving fans another chance to explore the material from one of the band’s most recent releases. The release arrives as Less Than Jake prepare for a run of live dates throughout 2026, with appearances in the US, Australia and New Zealand. […]

The Part Time PR Fest has confirmed it will return to Philadelphia, PA’s Ortlieb’s across Friday 11th and Saturday 12th December. This year’s event will feature The Warhawks, Hanalei, Massive Nightmares, and The Blackburns on the Friday, whilst the Saturday will welcome Goddamnit, The Carolyn, Bike Tuff, and Reunions. You can purchase Part Time PR […]

Dundee’s David Delinquent & The IOUs are a power pop punk band fronted by songwriter David Delinquent (The Delinquents / Spacers / Football, Beer & Punk Rock Podcast) who mix classic ’77 punk with sharp melodies, big hooks and a distinctly Scottish edge while delivering energetic, no-nonsense anthems. The band have today released their eagerly awaited debut album, Scandal, that […]

Japan’s Hi-Standard have announced that their new EP, Screaming Newborn Baby, will be released on October 23rd via Fat Wreck Chords, Screaming Newborn Baby will be available through streaming platforms and on several special new vinyl variants, including one from Japan’s Tower Records, that can be pre-ordered here. “I first saw Hi Standard in the […]

If there isn’t a T shirt with ‘Harrison Gordon Is A Band’ printed on it, there bloody well should be. Harrison Gordon is, in fact, the musical vehicle for Harrison Gordon the human being. The band is the channel for a particular kind of crusty no-fucks-given-grunge that careens between heavy angry grinding and velvety melody. […]