Shortly before The Word Alive took to the stage at Slam Dunk North, Ben Tipple caught up with Telle Smith and Daniel Shapiro to discuss what the band had in store. HOW ARE YOU DOING TODAY? TS: Good thanks, how are you doing? GREAT – I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING THE FESTIVAL GOING. HAVE [...]

Following their European Tour with The Story So Far, The American Scene graced Slam Dunk Festival with their presence, opening up on the Macbeth Stage for early punters. We caught up with guitarist, co-vocalist and expectant dad Jeffrey Wright immediately after their set up North. YOU’VE LITERALLY JUST WALKED OFF STAGE. HOW DID IT GO? [...]

Cologne rockers City Light Thief have just released their new album, ‘Vacilando’, and our roving reporter Tom Beck took the opportunity to sit down with vocalist Benni about life, love and music Congratulations on becoming a father for the first time recently, how have you found it? Thanks, I appreciate it! Becoming a father was [...]

Senses Fail have been touring the UK before their appearance at Slam Dunk this weekend. Chris Marshman grabbed frontman Buddy Nielsen for a quick chat in Cardiff. Hey Buddy, hows the tour going? Really good honestly. It’s been good, people who are coming seem to be very excited so I can’t complain. Has there been [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Punktastic headed down to Cardiff Solus to watch Hatebreed play an absolutely storming show. Beforehand, we caught up with frontman Jamey Jasta to talk touring, the new record and how they stay stoked after 19 years of the band being together. HOW ARE YOU? Good! Last night was the first [...]

Last month Punktastic met up with Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan. We talked about how the music industry has changed, the good old days, when you can expect to see them back in the UK and their new album, which comes out on Monday. Get stoked! HOW ARE YOU? Good. Punktastic, thank you. [...]

Punktastic caught up with Jake Bugg pre-performance at Coachella (spoiler alert- his set had so many people flocking to the stage the tent was literally spilling over with from all sides- and it was totally worth suffering through the intense desert/body heat combo to witness it all!) and chatted about being an old soul, what [...]

Punktastic got to hang with the overheated but ever-amusing Palma Violets before their set and chatted about getting abducted by audience members, getting stuck in trees, and had an impromptu in-trailer song sesh. The amount of energy they had then was nothing compared to onstage and they’ve skyrocketed to the top of my must-see lists- [...]

Punktastic caught up with the Neighbourhood (Jesse Rutherford, Jeremy Freedman, Zach Abels, Mikey Margot, Bryan Sammis) in between Coachella weekends, on a night where they played an absolutely kick-ass set with Foals. After spinning their single ‘Sweater Weather’ non-stop and hearing them live twice they’ve definitely become a band worthy of seeing live & in [...]

Following the release of the excellent fourth album by Kentucky punk band Coliseum, we caught up with frontman Ryan Patterson shortly before they graced the stage at Shoreditch’s trendy XOYO. Ryan opened up about the evolution of their sound, his feelings on genre classification and certain scepticism towards reunions. LET’S TALK ABOUT THE NEW ALBUM. [...]