“Are you 21?” My reward for confidently answering this legally stagnant, pro-prohibition question – in typically terse Jannus security fashion – is to have my
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Good Grief – Shake Your Faith (Everything Sucks Music / HHBTM Records, 2022)
Good Grief are from Liverpool and have been around for a bit now. Probably over a decade at this point. Seemingly this is their first
Read moreRadar State – Strays (Disconnect Disconnect / Wiretap Records, 2019)
Tony’s known me long enough to know that I am a massive fan of The Get Up Kids, so I wasn’t at all surprised when
Read moreStaff top tens of 2018: Nate Worrall
Full-Length LPs 1. Nothing – Dance On The Blacktop Dance On The Blacktop by Nothing What more can I say on this record? Glorious third
Read moreBedford Falls – Send More Bees (Dead Broke Rekerds / Boss Tuneage / Brassneck Records, 2018)
Y’know when you’ve heard a band’s name mentioned over and over again for years? For me, Bedford Falls (from Cardiff) are one of those bands.
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
Read moreThe Pretty Flowers – Why Trains Crash (Dirt Cult Records, 2018)
The Pretty Flowers hail from Los Angeles, and are made up of members of a whole raft of bands I’ve never heard of because I’m
Read moreThe Stayawakes – Dogs and Cats / Living Together (Surefire Discs / badHORROR Recordings / ShoveItUpYourCult Records, 2018)
The Stayawakes are from Southsea, and Dogs And Cats / Living Together is their debut album. They reportedly play “loud, fuzzy indie-punk with poppy melodies,
Read moreFuture Girls – Motivation Problems (Dirt Cult, 2018)
Future Girls are from Halifax, Nova Scotia. They started out in 2015 as a song writing outlet for Matty Grace (of Fat Stupids, Weekend Dads).
Read moreSuperchunk – What a Time to Be Alive (Merge, 2018)
For a good while I’ve had the concept for a music magazine feature rattling around in my head, even as we’re told over and over
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