2019 – Apathy & Exhaustion

Affected Youth – Formative Years (self-released, 2019)

April 14, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Affected Youth are a punk rock band from Galway, in Ireland. In the band’s own words: We play a lot of different styles and fuck

7in & EP round-up: April 2019 (part 3)

April 11, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Trophy Jump – Haphazard EP CD (Horn & Hoof / JeboTon / Punk & Disorderly Records) Regular readers may recall that Trophy Jump made these

7in & EP round-up: April 2019 (part 2)

April 10, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Teresa Banks – Bridges We Build/ Bridges We Burn EP (Fast Decade Records / Melodic Punk Style / Punk & Disorderly Records / Milestone Sounds)

7in & EP round-up: April 2019 (part 1)

April 9, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Custody / The Phoenix Foundation – split 7in (Little Rocket Records) When Graeme Philliskirk hit me up about this one, he said he wasn’t going

A Pale Horse Named Death & Transport League @ Rebellion, Manchester 23/03/19

April 3, 2019 Dave Ogden Live Review

Saturday night was the first chance for me to get a live gig review under my belt (so go easy). The opportunity to review (and

Teenage Bottlerocket – Stay Rad (Fat Wreck Chords, 2019)

March 26, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

To say I’d been looking forward to this one for a while would be an understatement, especially after the thoroughly underwhelming Stealing the Covers record

The Murderburgers – What a Mess (Brassneck Records / Asian Man Records / Umlaut Records / Waterslide Records, 2019)

March 1, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Because I’m a total loser, I only came across the Murderburgers for the first time when they played at that place I can’t ever remember

Lenny Lashley’s Gang of One – All Are Welcome (Pirate’s Press Records, 2019)

February 28, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Lenny Lashley is (was?) frontman of Boston scene stalwarts (The New) Darkbuster. This I guess is his new solo project. Anyway, I saw my dude

Minors – Abject Bodies (Holy Roar / Deathwish Inc., 2019)

February 27, 2019 Dave Ogden Record Review

Abject Bodies, the new LP release from Minors, of Ontario, Canada, was my first taste of this four-piece band, although Tony reviewed their previous effort,

The Burnt Tapes – Never Better (Lockjaw Records / Wiretap Records, 2019)

February 19, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

OK then. I’ve not thus far got a fabulous track record with Lockjaw Records releases, having been somewhat critical of recent releases by Fair Do’s