According to the internet, Billy Liar is “an acoustic punk/folk band from Edinburgh, fronted by the solo singer of the same name”. Not really sure
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Mark Murphy & The Meds – On The Brink (Brassneck records / Bloated Kat / All In Vinyl / Cat’s Claw Records / Horn & Hoof Records, 2021)
Probably if you follow this shit on Facebook, you’ll have been aware that I came close to calling it quits on the existence of this
Read moreThe Drowns – Under Tension (Pirates Press Records, 2020)
Now then. After an inauspicious return to reviewing “relatively current” releases, and the first one of 2020 with Beach Slang’s disappointing (on many levels) recent
Read moreThis Is Not A Drill – Fight Like A Girl (self-released, 2019)
South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire’s finest, This Is Not A Drill return to the fray with a new self-released full length album, Fight Like A
Read moreStaff top tens 2018: Tony Maher – 7in & EPs
What a year. In many regards. It’s been a real emotional rollercoaster. I’m properly in my 40s now. I’ve seen my kid turn 1 year
Read more7in & EP round-up December 2018 (part 1): Christmas Special
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes – Santa Baby (Fat Wreck Chords, 2018) I really used to enjoy Me First rather a lot. Nowadays, not
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
Read morev/a – They Came From Boston vol. 1 (State Line Records, 2017)
What we got here is what amounts to a 4-way split LP between some perhaps not so well known bands from the current Boston punk
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Interview with Mark Lind on the Ducky Boys, growing up in Charlestown and Dirty Water (part 1)
Proud to present the very first interview on Apathy and Exhaustion, which is with one of my favourite punk rock song writers of all time,
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State Line Records, Boston – an introduction
What up crazy dog people and crazy cat people (and general cray-zeeez)? This article is a bit of an introduction to a label based in
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