Category: Music News


  • Germany’s Melonball roar back today with a fiery new single, Silence = Compliance, that has been released jointly through Thousand Islands Records (CAN) and Rookie Records (GER). A blistering call-to-action, Silence = Compliance delivers a pointed message: when injustice thrives, silence is not neutrality, it’s complicity. With lightning-speed riffs, razor-sharp precision, and commanding vocals from Oli Barth-Jurca, the single urges listeners to speak up,…

  • Bad Nerves have released their new single, Loner, that will also be issued on exclusive 7″ vinyl that is set to drop in December. The vinyl will feature the new single, live recordings of Loner and Antidote that were recorded on their US headline tour in May 2025, along with an exclusive demo of Braindead. Bad Nerves are today…

  • Cambridgeshire garage-punks The Baby Seals have returned with a fierce take down of consumer capitalism on new single, Tamoo Trance, which is out today via Trapped Animal Records (UK) & Green Island Music (IND). Following acclaim for last year’s debut album Chaos and a recent tour with new wave legends Bow Wow Wow, the band share a track about getting stuck in a trance-like state…

  • Peter Hook And The Light – Live At The Boiler Shop Newcastle 

    Saturday night November 15th remember that date, because that’s when Peter Hook & The Light hit Newcastle’s Boiler Shop with their New Orders ‘Get Ready’ album in full tour, this was half way through the tour after already performing at Worthing, Bournemouth, Coventry, Liverpool and Edinburgh, so being fully warmed up and already laying down…

  • GFL (Gas Food Lodging) is the creation of twin brothers Dylan & Evan Car, the brothers started the band in their hometown of Lakeport, California. In the early 2010s the brothers left there hometown in search of new pastures, venturing up to Seattle performing as a two piece bass and drum combo, eventually ending up in Portland, OR where…

  • The Damned Announce Two EU “Not like Everybody Else” Shows 

    The Damned have confirmed they will be playing two EU Not Like Everybody Else shows in addition to the previously announced UK show at Manchester, UK’s Albert Hall on the 28th January 2026. The band will be appearing at Paris’s Bataclan on the 1st February 2026 and Cologne’s Essigfabrik on the 3rd February 2026, tickets…

  • The Brokedowns – Let’s Tip The Landlord 

    From the off, I/We at The Punksite do not endorse Alpha Dog Serum X in any way shape or form, this is a fictional magic drug for the masses, listen to the album for further details on it’s non-uses! This is a band from somewhere in Illinois that have amassed a fair few albums and…

  • Quicksand’s Landmark Post-Hardcore LP “Manic Compression” Gets 30th Anniversary Reissue 

    Iodine Recordings is presenting the 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Quicksand’s Manic Compression, a landmark of post-hardcore innovation. The reissue restores the original sound and art of the 1995 album, which proved the band was a movement by fusing hardcore ferocity, metallic heft, and alt-rock melody into a tightly-coiled 12-track assault. This carefully crafted edition…

  • The Dark Wave Drops Energetic New Post-Punk Single And Debut EP 

    Amsterdam post-punk band The Dark Wave has released their debut EP, Trapped Behind Glass Walls, via Walboomers Music, simultaneously dropping the energetic new single “Forget.” The single is an emotional tour de force, with pounding drums and a colossal chorus featuring a wall of sound. Lyrically, the band questions how war refugees can ever forget…

  • Michele Ducci’s New Track Is A Blissful, Collaborative Indie-Pop Flow 

    Michele Ducci and Letizia Mandolesi have released “Follow the Sun,” the first single from their upcoming album and animated film, Snail in the Clouds. The psychedelic-tinged pop song, recorded in a “fantastic flow” with Simon Milner and other collaborators, evokes a ramble in the sunshine and explores the theme of the sun having a home.