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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Distants – LP (Salinas Records, 2024)
I’ve been vaguely fucking with the music of Distants online for a few months now, but didn’t really know how to get ahold of their
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Back Teeth – ‘Guillotine’ Video Premier & 7in release announcement (Little Rocket Records / Sell The Heart Records / Sounds of Subterrania, 2024)
Apathy and Exhaustion is proud to present to you Guillotine, the debut video from Back Teeth. The track is taken from their self-titled 7in EP,
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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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Yesterday’s Ring – Always A Little Bit Sad (Little Rocket Records, 2022)
Yesterday’s Ring are from Montreal, Canada, and feature members of The Sainte Catherines and Medictation. Yesterday’s Ring allegedly formed on the porch of a punk
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Tearjerker (ft. Frankie Stubbs) – Love Being Alone (Little Rocket Records, 2022)
Here we are. A good number of months since (in old money) I last put pen to paper (or in the current state of the
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Video premiere: Tearjerker – Done & Dusted (Little Rocket Records, 2022)
Now then. Here’s another exclusive for you. Tearjerker are a band of mysterious provenance, the constituent members having no previous musical claims to fame as
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Shackleford – III (Side Mission Records / Cats Claw Records, 2021)
Dean from Side Mission has raved about Shackleford for a while, this album has been a while coming so I’m quite keen to hear it.
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Premiere: Clayton – Escape EP (Disillusioned Records, 2021)
Apathy and Exhaustion in association with Disillusioned Records are proud to present a premiere from CLAYTON (a punk rock band from Nantes, France). Their debut
Read moreBilly No Mates – S.F. Sourdough (Unless You Try Records / 10 Past 12 Records, 2020)
I saw Billy No Mates years ago on a tour with Frankie Stubbs of Leatherface. In the changeover, The Piss Mops performed which was a
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