Daniel Cribb, Journalist

You know how you can really save rock’n’roll? By not buying this CD.

Bon Jovi aren’t getting worse, but they don’t appear to be getting any better. Stick to their greatest hits and leave it at that.

"The world is such an incredible place, and to see so blatantly the injustices faced by so many of our people is just completely unacceptable to me."

Home is the record that will see Off With Their Heads break out of their little subgenre and onto broader horizons as a force to be reckoned with.

“I’ll be very honest, we’d never even played those songs for each other – we’d sent them back and forth via email, and that’s kind of how we do things."

"I wrote it during a breakup, but I didn’t want to go all Taylor Swift and write a bunch of breakup songs, I really wanted to turn it around and make it a little bit more positive and look on the bright side of life, and I guess he did me a favour."

“We’re going to spend some time over in Germany because we’ve been offered an artist-in-residence – basically a house to go and hang out and be part of the community and try and be a creative influence on the community."

Although the crowd started slowly fading away during the last couple of bands, Hits & Pits – a festival for people who hate festivals – was a great way to kick off an amazing week’s worth of punk shows in Perth.

In their most honest and original release since 2005, Alkaline Trio have injected new life into the band.