Matt Skiba and friends are still cranking out the albums… but This Addiction says it’s time for Alkaline Trio to retire gracefully from the field of battle.

Another Welsh pop-punk band? Straight Lines may not be doing anything particularly new, but Persistence In This Game at least has the courage of its convictions.

Pop-punks Fireworks finish off the year with All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion, an album that presses all the right buttons and none of the wrong ones.

London four-piece Hope & State evidently remember when pop-punk went bad, and their Grand Gestures EP captures the moment before that in ragged lo-fi glory.

Despite some promising lyrical maturity, Jaded Playboy’s Broken Heartland EP is a prime example of why young bands shouldn’t rush to self-release their work.

Young Brit metal-popsters Deaf Havana spice up the formula with diet-friendly slivers of Southern rawk on début album Meet Me Halfway, At Least.

These are the end times, kids. If hating the hell out of Bowling For Soup’s “My Wena” is wrong, then I don’t ever want to be right ever again.

Veteran German pop-punk’n'rollers The Donots return to the fray an rewrite the rulebook with a raucous good-time mini-album titled To Hell With Love.

Just in case you were wondering, yes, bands like You Me At Six will be flogging that equine corpse until it stops bleeding money. Not long to go now, I hope.

Youthful South-coast power-popsters Not Advised are still keeping it honest and sincere on their latest offering, the bright and sunny Fight For This EP.