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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Nightmarathons are from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. According to their bandcamp page, “Nightmarathons melds varying punk, post punk, and first-wave emo influences to create their own unique
Read more7in and EP round-up: October 2020 (part 1)
Noi!se – Lost / Price We Pay (Pirates Press Records) NOi!SE are the thinking mans Oi! band, which isn’t as rare as you might think,
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Pkew Pkew Pkew are from Toronto, Canada, and formed in 2013. After a couple of EPs they released their first album ‘Pkew Pkew Pkew’ on
Read moreFour 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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Holy sheeeeeee-it. This one has come totally outta the left field and grabbed my ass. I was not expecting this. Particularly from A-F Records, whose
Read moreVans/Journeys Warped Tour, 01/07/17, Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg, FL
It would always have taken something extraordinary for me to even consider letting the Warped Tour into my peripheral vision. Describing it as a money-gathering
Read morePinkerton Thugs – End of an Era (re-mastered re-issue) (State Line Records, 2017)
Although this record was originally released way back in 2000 via Go Kart (remember them? And those sampler CDs of variable quality that they used
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