Twenty two summers in, and Download shows no sign of ever slowing down. With a lineup to thrill everyone from hardcore slammers through to pop punk kids, the biggest weekend of the year channels the ...

In four hours time, Mike Davenport will play his first show in the UK for a decade. That might rattle some, and there will be more than a few nervous faces onstage in the Monster Energy tent over the ...

Daniel Foggin aka Smote holds the unlikely dual-vocation of landscape gardener and purveyor of imperious drones. While these two professions may appear to be wholly disparate, it is his pursuit of the ...

H_ngm_n have been peddling their own take on emo for several years now; stripped back, two-piece and contemporary, yet capable of reaching anthemic highs that evoke mid-2000s pop punk bands like ...

Bristol noise punks Knives have had a killer year. Their debut LP ‘Glitter’, released in April, is a churning powerhouse of nightmare rhythms; a personal favourite of 2025. They’ve taken their ...

Of course ‘Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death’, Creeper’s song awaited fourth album, is released on Halloween. And the fact it’s centred loosely around a Lost Boys-esque story about a vampire rock band ...

Friday at Reading feels like potential energy about to explode. The sun beats down on freshly pitched tents, and there’s that familiar mixture of excitement and mild panic as people realise they’ve ...

Karolina Malyan is a renowned live music photographer, specialising in narrative and meaningful captures of emotions. Hailing originally from Poland, she lives and works in London, UK, and loves to ...

It never quite seemed fair that Motion City Soundtrack were painted with the brush of pop punk early in their career, or that their later albums were judged in that light. Certainly, ‘Commit This To ...

The word ‘grey’ has plenty of negative connotations. Tarmac is grey, the sky is grey, depression is grey, porridge is grey, the mood is very much grey. Despite it being part of their name, ‘grey’ is ...

It’s been less than five months since PRESIDENT took the world by storm with their first single and now finally we’re being treated to a six song EP. Since ‘In The Name Of The Father’ was released all ...

Marseille’s LANDMVRKS have worked hard to cement their place within the metalcore scene, since their explosion in 2014. Since day one, they’ve been pushing boundaries, marrying raw energy, delightful ...