It’s a weird thing, innit, how the young ‘uns take the sounds from days of yore and then act they invented it. Yes, I’m aiming
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Clowns – Endless (Fat Wreck Chords, 2023)
Ah, yes. The long awaited (by me at least) 5th album from one of Melbourne, Australia’s premier punk rock acts. While we’re here, why do
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Born Shit Stirrers – Scratch n’ Sniff (Serial Bowl Records, 2023)
The year is 2023. The musical state of play seems to suggest that hardcore punk, let alone the broader punk scene is suffering from a
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Toronto Blessings – Big Wins (Serial Bowl Records, 2023)
This is one of those occasions where people that you know do something cool. The people, or rather, person in question is one Rik Whitehead.
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Tearjerker – s/t (Little Rocket Records / Sell The Heart Records, 2023)
There’s something unique about post-industrial small towns in the North of England in their seeming ability to spawn legendary or at least heavily cult status
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Ont Road x Apathy and Exhaustion – Clowns / Mannequin Death Squad / Daves at The Key Club, Leeds, UK, 20/07/2023 – Collaborative Live Review
ToN: I’d like to welcome Lukas on board for collaborating on this article (his words are in normal typeface, mine are in italic), and thank
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Rivalry – Sometimes You Have to Look Back (Brassneck Records, 2023)
It’s 2023, and Coid related lockdown seems almost like a bizarre memory, almost like it’s still an “actual thing”. To me, at least. I’m still
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Airstream Futures – Armer L’Harmonie (Little Rocket Records /Rad Girlfriend Records, 2023)
It’s always a happy time when a record you really enjoy drops. Here we are taking a look at Armer L’Harmonie, which is the third
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Where have I been?
Nowhere. It’s been a damnable amount of time since I wrote my last review. And yet here we are, some 6 months since the last
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Dealing With Damage – Use the Daylight (Little Rocket Records / Rad Girlfriend Records, 2023)
Time seems to move fast. It’s weird. It seems like about only last week that Dealing With Damage released their first full length album, Ask
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