Ultra Q, the band fronted by Jakob Armstrong, the youngest son of Green Day’s Billie Joe, announce their debut album ‘My Guardian Angel’ to be released via Royal Mountain Records in June and share the single ‘VR Sex’!
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The New Jersey punks of Pollyanna unleashed their energetic new single and video ‘Mars’ from the upcoming new album ‘Slime’!
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Simple Plan announced their highly anticipated new album, along with their “Blame Canada” tour which begins April 29th!
Simple Plan teamed up with Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley to deliver the anthemic new single ‘Ruin My Life’!
Texas pop punk/rock outfit RōZY released the new bubbly single and video “Drunk On Love”!
Avril Lavigne announced officially her upcoming new album and releases the 2nd single ‘Love It When You Hate Me’!
Australian pop punk favorites Yours Truly release an official music video for the track ‘Siamese Souls’ just as they’re about the embark on a much needed tour!
Here’s another pop-punk feelgood offering by New Found Glory. Put on that party hat and get in the pit.
Anti-Flag have just dropped a video for their new single ‘Hate Conquers All’ off their upcoming record ’20/20 Vision’.
Hopeless Records launches their “Songs That Saved My Life” campaign, supporting organisations benefiting mental health and suicide prevention!
Photo Reports
Sum 41 came to set Vorst Nationaal in Belgium on fire. They brought Cassyette and Simple Plan to support them in giving everyone a great evening.
An evening of fun and enjoyment in the large and beautiful hall of the Ollympiahalle in Munich with pop punk veterans Sum 41, special guests Simple Plan and surprising discovery Cassyette as opener.
Punk rock fans were spoiled on a Saturday a couple of weeks ago when the absolute legends of hardcore punk GBH turned On The Rocks in Helsinki into a complete chaos of old school punks and new school punks dancing and partying like there’s no tomorrow. An event by Loose Mind Productions and support from Broken Trend and Likaiset Pikkarit.
YUNGBLUD at Kulttuuritalo Helsinki on his “Life on Mars Tour” was quite the rock ‘n’ roll experience. People saying that rock is dead, clearly haven’t seen this guy rockin’ the stage! With support from Boy Bleach, it was an absolutely memorable night!
Janez Detd filled played a packed Vooruit for their “Beenies & Blockheads” Rewind Show, a throwback to 1998 for an enhusiastic crowd.
Pictures of the show of The Used at The Beacham in Florida, one of the stops of their North American tour that is not to be missed!
Swedish punk rock band Satanic Surfers played their very first Belgian live show in Ostend. Now, about twenty years later, they return. This time they played in Elysée and brought Antillectual, BRLRS and Wasted 24/7.
In October our friends from Bearded Punk Records managed to get Frenzal Rhomb all the way from Australia to Kavka, Antwerp. As if that wasn’t reason enough to rush out for a ticket they threw in some of the godfathers of Belgian punk rock F.O.D.! Before F.O.D. played You Nervous? shook the stage and as a warm up Bearded Punk’s own For I Am gave it their best.
On this years Sunday Punkrock Matinee 5 bands rocked all out without limitations. No Trigger (US) – Not On Tour (ISR) – Get Dead (US) – Young Hearts (BE) – Boxing Day (BE) showed us what they’ve got and you can enjoy it with us in this photo coverage of Nosta’s awesome event!
Gig Reports
At the “Does This Look All Killer No Filler tour” stop at Vorst Nationaal in Brussels, Cassyette provided us with something new to check out while Simple Plan and Sum 41 provided a true trip though memory lane.
The old school “Brummie Hardcore Punks” of GBH came to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their debut album ‘City Baby Attacked by Rats’ and started a riot at On The Rocks in Helsinki with support from Broken Trend and Likaiset Pikkarit!
We truly believe we got to experience the new prince of modern rock on his rise to kingdom when we got to go to his Kulttuuritalo Helsinki stop on the “Life on Mars Europe tour”! What an artist, bringing new life into rock ‘n’ roll while being a genuine and down-to-earth human being. Support came from Boy Bleach.
Satanic Surfers have a special kind of bond with Belgium, or rather with the Belgium punk rock family. Their very first gig in Belgium was in Ostend actually and they were more than happy to be back. Even while it was in a tiny basement, no fucks were given this evening.
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The music industry is at it again at full force after the festival season with a massive amount of really cool releases coming out, just look at the number of our most anticipated releases for September have grown into and then we probably could have included more still. With new albums from Blind Guardian, Yungblud, Wolfheart, Slipknot, Starcrawler, Lost Society, The Hu, Vermin Womb, Vermilia, Bloodbath, Slugcrust, Electric Callboy, Innumerable Forms, Tribal Gaze, Gaerea and Graceless, it’ll be quite the month again!
Album Reviews
Australian punkster Bonnie Fraser exorcises her demons on Stand Atlantic’s third outing ‘F.E.A.R’. Out on Hopeless Records.
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‘Going Viral’ – a truly fun release from the Canadian punks Modern Terror that will make you forget a bit about the past 2 years of pandemic misery.
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After celebrating the 10th anniversary of their album ‘Nothing Personal’ in 2019, All Time Low went back to the basics for their latest album ‘Wake Up Sunshine’. “We got back to how we started. It had been a long time since the four of us made a record under one roof. That became a central […]
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