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Public Service Announcement 'Turn Up The Radio' video premiere
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Exclusive Video Premiere – you’ll want to ‘Turn Up The Radio’ for Public Service Announcement!

By Ruth Rae
Punk nostalgia abounds in this rock 'n' roll banger of a brand new single from High Wycombe's Public Service Announcement! 'Turn Up The Radio' is the band's first release since their 2024 album ‘Nothing To Lose‘, and once again sees Public Service Announcement working with producer  Steve ‘Smiley’ Barnard at Sunshine Corner Studios. Punktuation! Magazine is proud to Continue Reading
The Damned 2026 - photo by Ian Ladlow
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The Damned dazzle us all in their 50th Anniversary show at Wembley Arena!

By Ruth Rae
Promising us something spectacular, legendary Punk pioneers The Damned lined up a hugely impressive show to celebrate their 50th Anniversary as a band, at London's Wembley Arena on Saturday 11th April 2026. Launching the first UK Punk single 'New Rose' on October 22, 1976, The Damned forever changed the face of music, and influenced the careers of every musician who picked Continue Reading
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Album review: Dead Star Boys return with album #2 – ‘Rats’

By Ruth Rae
Hailing from Medway, Kent, UK, Dead Star Boys bring their own twist to punk and post-punk. Their second album 'Rats' is scheduled for release on Monday 13th April, just 8 months after their  self-titled debut. 'Rats' showcases Dead Star Boys' talent for phenomenal blasts to the ears of the grooviest and catchiest rock’n’roll! It's wild, it's writhing with earworms, and Continue Reading
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Exclusive – video premiere of Gypsy Pistoleros’ new single ‘King of Almost Everything’

By Ruth Rae
The third single from Gypsy Pistoleros' forthcoming new album, 'Dark Faerie Tales', 'King of Almost Everything' arrives with a brand-new video. A savage, cinematic takedown of false idols, hollow power, and blind devotion - “Almost everything… is still almost nothing.” Dark. Defiant. Unapologetically confrontational. This is Gypsy Pistoleros at their most dangerous - Continue Reading
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Album review – the hard rocking debut by Monkeys Blood – ‘Anthropoid’

By Ruth Rae
What do you get when three lads from several top Northeast English punk bands get together? A new, even wilder punk group named after a popular ice cream topping from their youth! Monkeys Blood are: Peesh (LoGoZ/Junkster/Cherry & Peesh) - guitar and vocals, Denni (The Undaclass/The Unnamed/All Out Attack) - bass and Iain (Slalom D) - drums. Monkeys Blood have gone down a Continue Reading
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Lenny Kaye’s Nuggets ‘Live At The BBC’ RSD 10” release – plus exclusive London listening party!

By Ruth Rae
To coincide with two sold-out shows at London’s iconic 100 Club, Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group, original Nuggets compiler), alongside Joe De Lorenzo (former The Damned tour manager), who co-promoted the London shows, assembled an all-star Nuggets Band and headed to BBC Maida Vale Studios to record a session for Marc Riley & Gideon Coe on BBC 6 Music. That electrifying Continue Reading
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Album review: Devon street-punks Riot City Radio are ‘Spitting Teeth’

By Ruth Rae
Plymouth, UK street-punk crew Riot City Radio released their sophomore album 'Spitting Teeth' on 27th March 2026 through Sunny Bastards Records. Sonically, Riot City Radio occupy that sweet spot between the melodic crunch of 'Wolves'-era Rancid and the defiantly working class camaraderie of Booze And Glory. And with a staunch anti-fascist slant, the band are determined to Continue Reading