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Pinkshift explore the pain of friendship break-ups on new single When We Were Friends

As vocalist Ashrita Kumar explains, Pinkshift's new single When We Were Friends is about "getting kicked to the curb when there was a new relationship in my friend’s life."

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Pinkshift unveil beautiful new single, Snow

The trio’s final track of 2025, Pinkshift have shared perfectly-timed new single Snow…

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Pinkshift have unleashed a new single, Authority Problem

Following August’s Earthkeeper album, Pinkshift have already released another single – and it’s about wrath…

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Listen to Pinkshift’s playlist curated for this week’s Cover Story

Dive into The Sound Of Pinkshift – 25 songs hand-picked by the band themselves, featuring everything from punk classics to post-hardcore angst to some raging pit-starters...

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Pinkshift: “Love is rage, because when you love something, you fight for it”

When faced with mortality, we question our existence. What’s the point of our time here, and how do we make it meaningful? Pinkshift believe we have the answers inside us. On new album Earthkeeper, the Baltimore trio discover how anger and love have more in common than we think, and how both emotions can incite us to take ownership over our futures…

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grandson announces 2026 UK and European tour: “It’s going to be mayhem”

grandson is returning to the UK and Europe next year, with Pinkshift and VOWER joining him at various dates throughout.

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Album review: Pinkshift – Earthkeeper

Pinkshift’s second album is a significant level-up that’s a complex cocktail of rage, vulnerability and determination.

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“It’s really f*cking hard being young right now”: How Pinkshift are fighting back on new album Earthkeeper

Pinkshift have had no shortage of outrage to simmer on over the last few years. Rather than blindly raging against the injustices being perpetrated against minorities, the queer community and the broader working classes, however, superb second album Earthkeeper finds the Baltimore crew seeking solace and resolution…

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Download Festival issue statement about trans toilets policy

After a previous email regarding their toilets policy received backlash from NOAHFINNCE, Pinkshift, Witch Fever and festival fans, Download have confirmed that “the majority of toilets will be gender neutral and available to all”.

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Pinkshift have unleashed a timely, raging new single, ONE NATION

“Are we allowed to reject the crumbs that are being offered to us by the ruling elite, and demand they do something more with their power?” Listen to Pinkshift’s vital new single…

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The Gaslight Anthem announce new EP and North American summer tour

The Gaslight Anthem are releasing a new EP, History Books – Short Stories (featuring a Billie Eilish cover!), and then hitting the road all across North America with Joyce Manor, Pinkshift and The Dirty Nil.

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Pinkshift announce Suraksha EP, release huge new single Home

Listen to Pinkshift’s incredible new single Home, taken from their upcoming EP Suraksha…

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Pinkshift have just released their “very first love song”

Listen to Pinkshift’s new single to me, which the band reveal is “an introduction to a journey we’ll be embarking on this year of grief, ancestry, and spiritual growth”.

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Over 70 new names for Reading & Leeds including Sleep Token, Palaye Royale

The next Reading & Leeds announcement is here, with Sleep Token, Palaye Royale, Frank Turner, Rina Sawayama, Knocked Loose, Hot Milk and more added to the 2023 line-up.

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Album review: Pinkshift – Love Me Forever

Hotly-tipped pop-punk n00bs Pinkshift fulfil their promise on banging debut full-length…

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10 reasons why you need Pinkshift in your life

Ahead of the release of debut album Love Me Forever, Pinkshift look set to explode. Why do you need them in your life? Here’s punk’s most exciting new band tell you, in their own words…

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Pinkshift explore the pain of friendship break-ups on new single When We Were Friends

Pinkshift unveil beautiful new single, Snow

Pinkshift have unleashed a new single, Authority Problem

Listen to Pinkshift’s playlist curated for this week’s Cover Story

Pinkshift: “Love is rage, because when you love something, you fight for it”

grandson announces 2026 UK and European tour: “It’s going to be mayhem”

Album review: Pinkshift – Earthkeeper

“It’s really f*cking hard being young right now”: How Pinkshift are fighting back on new album Earthkeeper

Download Festival issue statement about trans toilets policy

Pinkshift have unleashed a timely, raging new single, ONE NATION

The Gaslight Anthem announce new EP and North American summer tour

Pinkshift announce Suraksha EP, release huge new single Home

Pinkshift have just released their “very first love song”

Over 70 new names for Reading & Leeds including Sleep Token, Palaye Royale

The 50 best albums of 2022

Album review: Pinkshift – Love Me Forever

10 reasons why you need Pinkshift in your life

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