Like doubling over around a punch to the gut that you well and truly deserve. Accepting the punishment with humility and gratitude. Being violently thrust
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Heavy Seas – Distortion Days (Little Rocket Records / Rad Girlfriend Records, 2024)
Distortion Days is the second full length from Chicago trio, Heavy Seas. It follows the 2021 debut album Everything Breaks, which I reviewed at the
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States of Nature – Brighter Than Before (Little Rocket Records / Sell The Heart Records / Public World Records, 2024)
States of Nature are from Oakland, California. Their line-up boasts members of Static Thought and Everybody Row. Brighter Than Before is their debut full length
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Heavy Seas – Everything Breaks (Little Rocket Records / Rad Girlfriend Records / Sell the Heart Records, 2021)
Do you know what’s great? When people you have a great deal of admiration for put a load of effort into writing, recording and releasing
Read moreVideo premiere: Moral Mazes – Illinoise By Numbers (Little Rocket Records / Rad Girlfriend Records)
Apathy and Exhaustion in association with Little Rocket Records (UK) and Rad Girlfriend Records (US) is proud to present the European premiere of the new
Read more7in and EP round-up: October 2020 (part 2)
Moral Mazes – s/t 7in (Little Rocket Records UK / Rad Girlfriend Records US) Ooh. Another “supergroup”. But fear not, it’s a good ‘un. And
Read moreSecret Smoker – Dark Clouds (Belladonna Records, 2019)
Secret Smoker are from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dark Clouds is their second LP, which follows their debut, Terminal Architecture, which was released via Protagonist /
Read moreStaff top twenty of 2018: Tony Maher – LPs (#20 – #11)
The other day I posted up a list of my top ten 7in records and EPs of 2018. Have a look, and see if you
Read moreRed Hare – Little Acts of Destruction (Dischord / Hellfire Records, 2018)
For the unfamiliar, Red Hare are a historied band with deep roots in the Washington D.C. hardcore punk scene of the 1980s and 90s. Their
Read moreMy War: Anxiety, Depression and Me (part 3)
For this installment, I wanted to talk about my problematic relationship with the punk scene, and how I’ve felt about it / how it’s made
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