Powerfest Review: State Champs
In 2017, Powerfest made its glorious return. After a few years of inactivity the Amsterdam-based indoor festival was back with some of the biggest names in poppunk and post-hardcore. With headliners Pierce The Veil and Sleeping With Sirens, Powerfest 2017 was bound to be epic and nothing could have been more true. Poppunk mayhem would be […]
Powerfest Review: ISSUES
In 2017, Powerfest made its glorious return. After a few years of inactivity the Amsterdam-based indoor festival was back with some of the biggest names in poppunk and post-hardcore. With headliners Pierce The Veil and Sleeping With Sirens, Powerfest 2017 was bound to be epic and nothing could have been more true. Kicking off the […]
Powerfest Review: Sleeping With Sirens
In 2017, Powerfest made its glorious return. After a few years of inactivity the Amsterdam-based indoor festival was back with some of the biggest names in poppunk and post-hardcore. With headliners Pierce The Veil and Sleeping With Sirens, Powerfest 2017 was bound to be epic and nothing could have been more true. The honour of closing […]
Powerfest Review: Pierce The Veil
In 2017, Powerfest made its glorious return. After a few years of inactivity the Amsterdam-based indoor festival was back with some of the biggest names in poppunk and post-hardcore. With headliners Pierce The Veil and Sleeping With Sirens, Powerfest 2017 was bound to be epic and nothing could have been more true. Pierce The Veil are […]
Slam Dunk Festival Diaries: Frank Iero and the Patience
It has been a wild, somewhat surreal past nine months for Frank Iero and the Patience. After the horrific bus crash in Sydney last winter which almost killed three of its members, the band -made up of ex-My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero, and his bandmates guitarist Evan Nestor, drummer Matt Olsson, and bassist Alex […]
Slam Dunk Festival Diaries: Set It Off
Frank Iero may have coined the genre of CoatCore, but if nobody has yet claimed the title of groove-punk, then that award definitely has to go to Floridian quartet Set It Off! Their sun-drenched, upbeat melodies came shining into my musical sphere only last Wednesday, at the Manchester show of their UK co-headliner with With […]