Punktastic
Penny Bennett currently serves as an Editorial Assistant at Cognizant, collaborating with the Google Arts & Culture team since July 2024. In addition to this role, Penny has been the Editor In Chief, Photographer, and Deputy Editor at Punktastic since May 2011. Previous positions include Communications Assistant at Academy Music Group from November 2023 to July 2024, Music Programmer at Cognizant from July 2021 to October 2023, and Press Assistant at Academy Music Group from May 2019 to November 2020. Penny's educational background includes attendance at Westcliff High School for Girls Academy Trust.
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Punktastic
Punktastic is one of Europe's most popular online-only music magazines, and also one of it's longest running. We've been around since 2000 so we have an amazing heritage in the sector. We cover a loose range of music that goes from the niche (punk, hardcore, thrash and others) to the more mainstream (pop-punk, metal, emo and others). Our competitors generally cover famous bands, and although we also do this, our specialty is knowing and promoting unsigned and independent bands, or ones on smaller diy labels. We try and tell the truth when others can’t be bothered, calling out BS and giving a platform to the new music that everyone else ignores. We’re part of the culture and we care deeply about it, giving kudos to people doing new stuff and creating things ourselves that make the scene better. Our team of editors, writers and creatives break all the latest news in the sector, write reviews and interviews, cover gigs and festivals around the world, comment on the industry, record sessions, and tons more. We work directly with the UK and US music scene to help give talent a push forward.