REVIEW: “Pupil Slicer have struck that hard-to-strike balance, leveraging their experience while remaining unafraid to be experimental.” Pupil Slicer's new album 'Fleshwork' is out now. https://www.punktastic.com/album-reviews/pupil-slicer-fleshwork/

If, like me, you'd been curious what had happened to Marmozets... www.kerrang.com/marmozets-in...

Just in case you missed the new Marmozets video... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bww7...

LIVE: “It feels like we all made it to the end of a punk rock scavenger hunt today,” We ran up and down Camden High Street to catch some bands on the Common Thread tour. www.punktastic.com/live-reviews...

Read this great peice then watched the film. Think I'm obsessed with it too.

Yeah - this band is awesome! #Music #Newmusic

Cars the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of motors on our roads as there were 30 years ago, but anti-Low Traffic Neighbourhood and anti-cycle lane campaigners keep claiming they 'cause congestion'. Okay.

REVIEW: "This is emo music that is unafraid to bare its heart with full sincerity, using its textural layers to inform the raw emotion of the songs themselves." Give Up's new EP ‘The Possibility That Love Is Not Enough’ is out this Friday. www.punktastic.com/album-review...

Radiohead have reopened Dead Air Space. radiohead.com/deadairspace/

LIVE: “It’s a show that’ll send ripples out through the scene, and firmly re-stamp Mouth Culture as the intriguing up-and-comers.” We went down to Mouth Culture's sold out show at The Garage. www.punktastic.com/live-reviews...

Marmozets teasing a new album. Just in case you've forgotten how amazing their guitar parts are... open.spotify.com/track/7Mvo5a...

🔥 ALBM REVIEW 🔥 UK mathcore outliers PUPIL SLICER return with 'Fleshwork' Released via Prosthetic Records. "It's a deceptively simple sounding record that draws you into its world and doesn’t want to let you go." Read: therazorsedge.rocks/2025-11-albu...

This is an incredible piece. Well worth reading.

Solved the pop song mystery. A short-lived band called ALLstars. No wonder I couldn't work it out. Got the era right though. Cheesy as hell, love it. open.spotify.com/track/4dyoQt...

At spin on Monday a pop song was played. I didn't ask who it was by and have spent the entire week being driven mad trying to work out what it was. Halloween themed pop song, suitable for spin, features the lyric 'the night' at the end of a chorus, played after the Backstreet Boys, anyone?

Period drama spoof Fackham Hall has a trailer and release date in the US - but there's no sign as of yet of a UK release. filmstories.co.uk/news/fackham...

INTERVIEW: Canadian rock band Autumn Kings talk to us about primal instincts, songwriting, and their next album. https://www.punktastic.com/radar/interview-autumn-kings/

LIVE: "The O2 Arena is a beast of a venue to fill, but they make it feel intimate when it needs to be and massive when the moment calls for it." Architects take over the O2 Arena.  https://www.punktastic.com/live-reviews/live-architects-wage-war-house-of-protection-the-o2-arena-london/

"Others still report the rationing of sanitary products and toilet paper – a single roll was supposed to last four people a week – or spending entire days in their underwear while they waited for their only outfit to be washed." My latest, in the I.

🤘 LIVE REVIEW 🤘 The completely unique Igorrr mesmerised at the O2 Ritz Manchester. Support: IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT and MASTER BOOT RECORD Read: therazorsedge.rocks/2025-10-live... 🖊 Dan Barnes 📸 @richpricephoto.bsky.social

LIVE: "Tonight feels like a stepping stone for Nova Twins: an important one for sure, but just one spot on an endless path that strides across the musical landscape." Nova Twins end their tour on a high at O2 Forum, Kentish Town. www.punktastic.com/live-reviews...

Arrvied at work after a 50 minute commute to find I hadn't picked up my rucksack - it's literally like a tortoise forgetting its shell. Had to go all the way home then come back. Not a good day.

Yes! - Rolo Tomassi just released a new EP - #NewMusic rolotomassi.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...

(if anyone would like to maybe start some sort of campaigning or pressure group of and on behalf of immigrants with ILR and settled status in Britain then I would be interested in helping, or indeed trying to get it off the ground myself, email in bio, etc)

The only film magazine in the world to give the front cover to #ISwear, the breakout British film of the year. The full exclusive inside story in our latest issue, here... buff.ly/XLfy0tQ

REVIEW: "If anything, it’s a wonderful soundtrack to listen to whilst enjoying our current dystopian nightmare." Perturbator's new album 'Age Of Aquarius' is out today! www.punktastic.com/album-review...

REVIEW: "The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are doing it with heart and care, without ever sacrificing the fangs of their hard-forged sound." The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' new album ‘X’s For Eyes’ is out tomorrow. http://www.punktastic.com/album-reviews/the-red-jumpsuit-apparatus-xs-for-eyes/

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

In which I explain the actual details of the big thing everyone is talking about today:

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

New False Advertising single! falseadvertising.bandcamp.com/track/the-so...

This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.

Reform's plans to end indefinite leave to remain go to the post I wrote last week on their slide towards chaotic authoritarianism. The British constitution would allow them to do it if they had a majority but at vast cost to our society and way of life. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

MY DOCTOR

There. Is. No. Such. Thing. Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries. "Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.

The media industry is being increasingly reckless with, and negligent about, the medium-term economic impacts of integrating AI technologies. We have been here before.

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

"My mum's gonna try to shag you."

“As long as he continues to exist, it will remain a real thing that happened and not a hazy half-formed memory I can eventually let go of. If a tree falls in the woods and Xavier isn’t around to remember it…” Read the full article & many more on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/137454...

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scams all the way down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=plle...

Whenever Nigel Farage is properly challenged, he reminds me of those 1920s burlesque entertainers, whose act consisted of swapping the position of fans or balloons, really fast so nobody could catch a glimpse of their fanny.

LIVE: "Friday at Reading feels like potential energy about to explode. Time to dive in!" With some great bands to get us started we kick off 2025's Reading Festival https://www.punktastic.com/live-reviews/live-reading-festival-2025-friday/

A political party, that's topping the polls, lauding someone who called for human beings to be burned to death should be a moment for national self-reflection. This is not who we are nor who we should become. Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.

Radiohead are playing some shows.

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

Another day, another utterly shameful cruelty against refugees announced. Recognised refugees - so people granted the long term right to stay in the UK because they have escaped real danger - will face new barriers to reuniting with spouses & children safely in the UK #r4todat

New piece from Labour MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social for @politics.co.uk: “When Nigel Farage stood up this week and outlined his so-called 'plan' for immigration, he didn’t sound like a democrat. He sounded like Vladimir Putin” www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...

"Future historians will surely debate at great length whether it was economics or media culture or simple incompetence that led the Starmer government’s moral compass to break. But they surely won’t debate who, out of the Taliban or the people who fled from their regime, were actually the baddies."