Teenage Bottlerocket - Apathy & Exhaustion

Ont Road x Apathy and Exhaustion – Clowns / Mannequin Death Squad / Daves at The Key Club, Leeds, UK, 20/07/2023 – Collaborative Live Review

July 22, 2023 Tony Maher Live Review

ToN: I’d like to welcome Lukas on board for collaborating on this article (his words are in normal typeface, mine are in italic), and thank

No Matter – Bad Chemistry (Brassneck Records / Waterslide Records, 2022)

June 11, 2022 Tony Maher Record Review

No Matter are a four-piece from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They’ve been around from about 2011, and describe themselves as playing “fast-paced, energetic pop/skate punk”. If

The Copyrights – Alone in a Dome (Fat Wreck Chords, 2021)

March 28, 2022 Chris Mundie Record Review

The Copyrights have passed me by a little. They probably shouldn’t have as they are a Ramones-y Pop Punk combo from Illinois. That’s something that

Shackleford – III (Side Mission Records / Cats Claw Records, 2021)

November 12, 2021 Chris Mundie Record Review

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.

Scene rant #3567: Sick(ening) Sesh

September 3, 2021 Tony Maher Real talk and opinion

Ever sit back, think about how far we’ve come as a global punk scene? And then you remember that some of the people we look

Houseghost – s/t (Rad Girlfriend Records, 2020)

February 4, 2021 Chris Mundie Record Review

Tis the season for… errr… horror pop punk it seems. This is Houseghost, they have an album out that also seems to be called Houseghost.

Kimberly Steaks – Confessions of a Justified Cynic (Brassneck Records, 2020)

December 3, 2020 Chris Mundie Record Review

I like The Kimberly Steaks, they are fully on my hit list to get on at my pub (The Salty Dog, Northwich) once the plague

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

November 30, 2020 Tony Maher Record Review

The Raging Nathans / Reaganomics – Midwest Duress EP (Rad Girlfriend Records / Red Scare Industries) Goodness me. The Raging Nathans have already been hella

The Raging Nathans – Oppositional Defiance (Rad Girlfriend Records / Brassneck Records, 2020)

June 16, 2020 Tony Maher Record Review

There’s few bands out there that I seemingly truly can’t get enough of. The Raging Nathans would be one of them. The band (assuming you

Teenage Bottlerocket – Stay Rad (Fat Wreck Chords, 2019)

March 26, 2019 Tony Maher Record Review

To say I’d been looking forward to this one for a while would be an understatement, especially after the thoroughly underwhelming Stealing the Covers record