I’ve known James “Gutter Star” Lamont since the days of the Manc Punk Scene forum (R.I.P) in the early/mid-2000s – I was probably mercilessly ripping
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Hot Water Music – Light It Up (Rise Records, 2017)
Hot Water Music (along with bands such as Avail – R.I.P) are notorious for being hardworking, constantly on tour, and immune to anything approaching mainstream
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Rancid – Trouble Maker (Epitaph, 2017)
Bloody hell. These guys have been around for a long ass time now, considering they were formed in 1991. That’s 26 years innit. Obviously, they’ve
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Pizza Tramp – Blowing Chunks (TNS Records, 2016)
OK. Let’s cut to the chase: this Pizza Tramp record, was, against my expectations, actually pretty good… “Why against your expectations, Tony?” I hear you
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My War: Depression, anxiety, and me (part 1.a)
Another incomplete night’s sleep has seen me wide awake at 4.30am, mind racing. This is an addendum to the original My War post that I
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Woah-woah! The gang’s all here! Introducing the writers: part 3
So this is the third installment of this series. So I thought that I would lay bare my soul and/or inner depths of my rotten
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Descendents – Hypercaffium Spazzinate (Epitaph Records, 2016)
These days I seem to be in the habit of reviewing records that come out after a band has been on a bit of a
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