“We write a song, a year later it's more relevant than the day we wrote it. That keeps happening, and to be honest, it fills me with dismay.” This is the emotional devastation prevalent in DEAD PIONEERS’ third album Wagon Burner, an incredibly moving, politically charged, and rage-inducing album made up of defiant punk-rock carnage and evocative spoken word from vocalist Gregg Deal. Its core message is unshakable in its fierce sound and lyrics “No kings, no masters / Kick aga

In the damp cellar of Camden’s Underworld venue, we spoke to the multi-media artist, poet and activist Gregg Deal , now also delivering his sharp, poignant and witty lyrics as the founder and frontman of political punk band, DEAD PIONEERS . The band's first stirrings began when Deal suggested to friends he wanted to try out a musical element to accompany his eye-opening and soul searching performance piece, ‘The Punk Pan-Indian Romantic Comedy’. With the “idea of using punk

Camden in 2026 is a strange place. Infamous for its outsider cultures, it now props up a touristic doppelganger of itself, skewed like an AI replica, propagated for commerce. The old school punks passing through, clad heroically in their leather and safety pins, are homing beacons for the grit-edged music scene pulsating at the fringes, still pulling in the notable and notorious. DEAD PIONEERS , a five piece political punk band from Denver, finished their tour here at The Und