Tony’s known me long enough to know that I am a massive fan of The Get Up Kids, so I wasn’t at all surprised when
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Sweet Jonny – s/t (self-released, 2018)
Sweet Jonny contacted me through Facebook sometime ago for a review of their s/t album. Apologies to Sweet Jonny – it’s taken me a good
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Neighborhood Brats – Claw Marks (Dirt Cult Records, 2018)
First of all, many apologies to Chris at Dirt Cult and to Neighborhood Brats that this has taken so long. Sometimes real life gets in
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Youth Killed It – What’s So Great, Britain? (Rude Records, 2018)
Now then. I was kind of intrigued by these guys based upon something about the press material for this Norfolk based crew (for whom What’s
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Four Fists – 6666 (Doomtree, 2018)
During the 2000s, Apathy & Exhaustion’s tireless editor Tony was the co-owner of Roadkill Records, a punk shop haven located in a part of Manchester
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The Living End – Wunderbar (BMG / Rise Records, 2018)
Music at its best is supposed to evoke something in you. Maybe it’s something as simple as liking the sound of someone’s voice. Maybe the
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Art Thieves – Russian Rats (State Line Records, 2018)
My transatlantic (transatlantean?) buddy Mark Lind has been talking up the buzz on Art Thieves for quite some time now, and threatening to unleash the
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Bar Stool Preachers – Grazie Governo (Pirates Press Records, 2018)
Bar Stool Preachers is a name I see cropping up more and more often on social media feeds. Admittedly I’d never gotten around to checking
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Odd Robot – Amnesiatic (Wiretap records, 2018)
Odd Robot are from Fullerton, Southern California, and describe themselves as playing power pop with raucous hooks. Amnesiatic is the follow-up to their 2017 offering,
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Gloom Sleeper – Luminous Galaxies (Dirt Cult, 2018)
Looking at the band name and the record title, you might expect this to be some kind of epic and sludgy stoner rock epic that
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