2022’s festival season kicked off with the return of Slam Dunk Festival, bringing some of the best in pop punk, with the first of two dates at Leeds’ Temple Newsam. We sent photographer Abbi Draper-Scott to capture the day and you can check out the photo highlights from Slam Dunk North below, including Cancer Bats,…
After last year’s event being pushed back to September due to Covid, this year Slam Dunk Festival was back where it belongs in our calendars, kicking off the festival season of 2022 with a much needed dose of some of the best in rock and pop punk! Check out some of our photo highlights, captured…
The sunshine (eventually after a bit of rain), shone down on Slam Dunk Festival (South) festival-goers, both in the literal sense and in the form of Mod Sun’s (our very own sunshine) Slam Dunk debut. Playing on the Rock Sound stage Mod brought an energetic performance to the crowd, performing hits from his latest album,…
MOD SUN has released his first new music since the highly successful release of his 2021 album Internet Killed The Rockstar, which has now surpassed 100 million streams. Continuing the revival of the pop-punk genre MOD SUN and John Feldmann have again teamed up on this anthemic new release Rich Kids Ruin Everything, which features…
It’s been 20 years since Avril Lavigne released her first album Let Go, (yes, 20 years) and here we are writing about her highly anticipated 7th album, Love Sux. The release is Lavigne’s first album to be put out on her new record label DTA (Travis Barker’s label) and Elektra Records, which are part of…
After releasing a cover of Taylor Swift’s Exile Ft. Bon Ivor at the end of last month, Rugby based wars have followed up with a brand-new cover. This time giving their post-hardcore treatment to MOD SUN’s hit single Flames, which features Avril Lavigne. The track, which has even been rated by MOD SUN himself, who…
Earlier this month MOD SUN released the deluxe version of his album Internet Killed The Rockstar, which featured eight new tracks, including acoustic versions of some of those featured on the original. One of those new tracks included Amnesia, which has been released as the latest single. In a recent chat MOD told us that…
Speaking to MOD SUN (aka Derek Smith) is like speaking to actual sunshine. He oozes positivity and energy, and his excitement for where he is in his life right now and his passion for music is so infectious. After reminiscing about the old times, (where we didn’t just go to live shows, but we queued…
Following on from their acoustic version of Flames release earlier this month, MOD SUN and Avril Lavigne have now released an accompanying music video and it’s so simple, yet so stunning and intimate. The video sees Lavigne and Derek Ryan Smith (MOD SUN) performing the track surrounded by various lit lamps (as opposed to burning…
Earlier today our new favourite punk power couple MOD SUN and Avril Lavigne released their stunning acoustic cover of previously released single Flames. Taken from MON SUN’s latest album Internet Killed The Rockstar, the original version of Flames amassed over 15 million listens on Spotify since its release back in January. At the beginning of…
When we first heard that Avril Lavigne and MOD SUN were working together with Machine Gun Kelly and producer and Goldfinger guitarist and vocalist John Feldmann, we knew we could expect something big, and that big something was the anthematic Flames. Released earlier this month MOD SUN recently announced that the track was the fastest…
