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A Chat With Youth Killed It

On the second to last show of their run with MassMatiks, we caught up with vocalist Jack and bassist Josh from Youth Killed It to talk about their debut album, new single, the UK rock scene and plans for the future.   Your album Modern Bollotics has been out for five months now, how has […]

MassMatiks/Youth Killed It @ The Joiners, Southampton

The dark confines of Southampton’s The Joiners are just beginning to fill as Basingstoke pop-punk outfit We Deny take to the stage. Their set is twenty minutes of easycore riffing and singalong choruses, belted out with bravado by vocalist Loren Mancini who takes ownership of the stage for this brief time. Their tried and tested […]

The Movielife – Cities In Search of a Heart

Before the likes of Brand New, Crime In Stereo and Taking Back Sunday conquered the Long Island punk scene there was The Movielife. Cutting their teeth in sweaty basements the band gradually rose in prominence all the way to their seminal 2003 record Forty Hour Train Back To Penn, after which they shocked the industry and […]

The Movielife Talk New Album and UK Tour

We caught up with Brandon Reilly from The Movielife to talk about the new album, Cities In Search of a Heart, an upcoming U.K. tour and their legacy as melodic hardcore legends.   You’re about to drop Cities In Search of a Heart, your first album in fourteen years, how are you feeling on the […]

Seaway – Vacation

As the sun retreats and Autumn takes over, colourful Canadian pop-punks Seaway are giving listeners a Vacation, in the form of their third full length record. Twelve upbeat tracks coalesce into a sun soaked ode to days gone by. The result is a ‘tour de pop-punk’ of a release, where the band set out to […]

The OBGMs – The OBGMs

Toronto, Canada has given the world its fair share of exciting punk bands in recent years, from PUP to Fucked Up and The Dirty Nil, but it’s never produced one quite like THE OBGMs before. This band, who’s name stands for The Ooohh Baby Gimme Mores, began life as a rap group before picking up […]

Montroze – ESCAPE

In 2012 UK pop-punk began its takeover and Bath natives Montroze have been there since the beginning, releasing a steady stream of EPs that have seen them polish and refine their sound. Their latest release ESCAPE sees them take the next step in their evolution with six tracks that aim to capture the rawness of […]

PVRIS Premiere New Video For ‘Anyone Else’

PVRIS have premiered a haunting, Victorian inspired, video for their new track ‘Anyone Else’ on the OUT Magazine website. The song is taken from their forthcoming album ‘All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell’, which is released on August 25th. Lead vocalist Lyn Gunn co-directed the video with Raul Gonzo (who’s directed […]

SHADED Reveal New Music Video and UK Tour Dates

Pop-punk quartet SHADED have revealed a video for new single release ‘Better With You’. The single is taken from their forthcoming EP ‘The Better Man In Me’, due to be released on the 1st September 2017. “We’re so excited to finally be able to show people what we’ve been up to” explain the band. “We […]

Tigers Jaw @ The Joiners, Southampton

Pennsylvania indie-rockers Tigers Jaw have returned to UK shores for a headline run in support of their fantastic new album Spin. I went along to catch their date at Southampton’s best-known sweatbox The Joiners. The job of getting things started on a drizzly Friday night is given to local ‘dirty pop’ outfit Faux, who certainly […]

Crumbs – Mind Yr Manners

Leeds quartet Crumbs are throwing a splash of colour into the UK punk scene this July with the release of their debut album, Mind Yr Manners. It’s a short and sweet collection of tracks as unconventional as they are catchy. Mind Yr Manners is an album of juxtapositions, Ruth Gilmore’s vocals detail various struggles in […]

We Chat to A Promise To Forget

Ahead of releasing their debut album Dying To Live on the 11th of August we had a chat with drummer John Fleetwood and vocalist Tim Castle from A Promise To Forget about recording the album, playing it live and dream collaborations. Your debut album Dying to Live hits shelves on August 11th. How are you […]

A Promise To Forget – Dying To Live

After overcoming numerous hurdles along the way, Birmingham metalcore outfit A Promise To Forget are ready to drop their debut album Dying To Live in August. The fruit of their long labours is a self-released record of immense sincerity and personality. ‘Metalcore’ is something of a blanket term these days, applied to an increasingly disparate […]

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