punk/post-punk news
NEWS: Camden Rocks Festival Announce Additions And Changes To The Line-Up
It’s now only a matter of weeks until Camden Rocks Festival! 20 venues and 200 bands across Camden on June 4th, this is something that should not be missed! Today sees some changes to the line-up, so there’s some good news and some bad. Starting with the bad then; both Escape The Fate and We …
See: Slow Riot release Trophy Wife video + Gig news
Slow Riot follow up their very well recieved EP ‘Cathedral’ with another cut of classic sounding post-punk. “Trophy Wife” see’s the band from Limerick, a town more notorious for knife play than music (although it did give us The Cranberries ), continue to drive along the new wave style way, twisting the basics laid down …
Tour News: Refused – UK and European Tour
Following the success of last year’s critically acclaimed album, Freedom, the Swedish punk rock visionaries Refused return to our shores as they continue their all conquering tour across Europe and the UK. Over the next few months the band will be performing multiple headline shows along with three festival appearances consisting of Dutch Paaspop Festival in …
News: Reading and Leeds Festival Announce Final Co-Headliners
Leeds Festival announced its final two headliners this week! This year the Reading and Leeds Festivals will have no less than FIVE headliners across the three days; wherein there are co-headliners on two of the days, and they take turns topping the bill at either Reading or Leeds. So, joining this bill as the Friday …
News: Backseat Mafia Live! – Coastival, Scarborough13-14TH Feb
Get your buckets and spades ready, because Backseat Mafia is going back to the seaside, only this time it’s going to be bigger and better!!! Backseat Mafia has once again been asked to take part in Scarborough’s Coastival festival – www.coastival.com – The festival runs from Friday 12th of February right through to the evening of Sunday …
Track: The KVB – In Deep, plus European tour dates
Out on March 11th via Geoff Barrows Invada label is the new studio album from London duo The KVB, aka Nicholas Wood & Kat Day. From it, the bands fifth LP since 2010, the pair have released a single, In Deep. Described by Wood as being about longing, “there is definitely a romantic undercurrent to …
News: Wet Nuns announce charity fundraiser
If you’re a long term reader of Backseat Mafia, you’ll be well aware of Wet Nuns. The hell raising Sheffield duo were favourites of ours pretty much throughout their existence, and we bowed before their gritty, occasionally gruelling link blues and worshipped. Sadly, first e band snarled and growled to a halt, leaving behind only …
News: FIRST FLUFFER PIT PARTY with GOD DAMN, Baby In Vain, Eighteen Nightmares At The Lux, Dressmaker
1 SECRET WAREHOUSE. 4 BANDS. NO STAGE. Sounds like a whole heap of fun to us. Cult underground record label Fluffer Records who first brought you the likes of Slaves, Cerebral Ballzy and God Damn are launching a new series of nights in partnership with Clash Magazine to shake up the underground music scene called, …
See: Vulgarians release new video for “Wet Juice”, plus Tour dates
Hull post-punk outfit Vulgarians wagon has picked up momentum and doesn’t look like its set to stop rumbling until they’ve brought the intensity of their fuzzed out, reverb rich noise to every inch of the UK. Their live set, along with leaked demos, “Autocratic” and “Naturally Nothing” started attaracting attention earlier in the year, and …
See: Chastity – “Saliva” + Tour dates
Canadian band Chastity have just unleashed their latest track “Saliva”, it’s a pretty damn savage tune, that is more than capable of standing out among the plethora of punk music out there at the moment. But when you get the track played alongside the video, you get one of the most powerful, thought provoking, and …