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Roach Squad – Roach Squad LP (2025, Little Rocket Records / Rad Girlfriend Records)

November 19, 2024 Tony Maher Record Review, Release announcement

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

Heavy Seas – Distortion Days (Little Rocket Records / Rad Girlfriend Records, 2024)

April 29, 2024 Tony Maher Record Review

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

States of Nature – Brighter Than Before (Little Rocket Records / Sell The Heart Records / Public World Records, 2024)

April 10, 2024 Tony Maher Record Review

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

Heavy Seas – Everything Breaks (Little Rocket Records / Rad Girlfriend Records / Sell the Heart Records, 2021)

July 19, 2021 Tony Maher Record Review

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

Video premiere: Moral Mazes – Illinoise By Numbers (Little Rocket Records / Rad Girlfriend Records)

November 6, 2020 Tony Maher Exclusive Stream, Record Review

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

7in and EP round-up: October 2020 (part 2)

October 24, 2020 Tony Maher Record Review

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

Secret Smoker – Dark Clouds (Belladonna Records, 2019)

August 16, 2019 Tony Maher Record Review

Secret Smoker are from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dark Clouds is their second LP, which follows their debut, Terminal Architecture, which was released via Protagonist /

Staff top twenty of 2018: Tony Maher – LPs (#20 – #11)

January 1, 2019 Tony Maher Real talk and opinion, Record Review

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

Red Hare – Little Acts of Destruction (Dischord / Hellfire Records, 2018)

June 29, 2018 Tony Maher Record Review

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

My War: Anxiety, Depression and Me (part 3)

October 12, 2017 Tony Maher anxiety and me, My War, My War: Depression, Real talk and opinion

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