Category: Pop-punk

• Neck Deep: “Neck Deep” Album Review – Fifth self-titled return shakes off doubters

  Jan 27

  Neck Deep’s self-titled album encompasses everything the Welsh band have been about throughout their illustrious careers – raw, high-octane pop-punk mischief dialled up to eleven. When long-time drummer Dani Washington… more ›

• Pop Punk’s Not Dead: why people have a problem with it…

  Mar 13

  Pop Punk’s a pleasure. A guilty pleasure. I’m an advocate for pop-punk. Like a big slice of chocolate cake from the fridge in the middle of the night, pop-punk is… more ›

• WACO: “ROCK SPIRIT ABSOLUTE JOY” album review – redefining ‘cosmic punk’

  Sep 6

  This album is like WACO themselves. It dodges descriptions. It cannot be categorised. This is a band who have lost everything before, and have nothing left to prove or fear.… more ›

• Shark Bait: ‘Late Bloomer’ singles review – fast and stalwart alt-punk

  Aug 17

  Hailing in the heart of South Yorkshire, 4-piece Shark Bait don’t do things by halves. Gritty with an earnest complexity that we hear from the likes of Neck Deep and… more ›

• have we lost our punk?

  Jul 17

  Revisiting the life and times of Pistols and Clash and their whole ‘scene’ got me thinking about where we are now with it all. Being punk now in 2022 is… more ›