Exciting times. The long-awaited second LP from Sunderland’s Tearjerker will be up for pre-order on Friday 9th October 2026. The new album is called Ghosts
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Release announcement: Tides – How to Survive a Fall (A.D.D Records / Little Rocket Records, 2026)
After years of kicking around the scene playing in various bands, the gravitational pull of the earth brought together this group of punk rock veterans
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Unseemlier – I Have A Screw Loose, Somewhere (Little Rocket Records / Sell The Heart Records, 2025/2026)
Bit later than I wanted it to be, this. Sporadically ill child (plus associated doctor’s appointments, blood tests), new role at work and half term
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Diaz Brothers – The World is Yours (Serial Bowl Records / Dead Broke Rekerds, 2025)
We’re at about the mid-point of 2025, which has been something of a mixed bag. Some great records, but the world continues to be some
Read moreDays and Days – Chris MacDonald (ECW Press, 2024)
‘Days and Days: A story about Sunderland’s Leatherface and the Ties That Bind’, to give this volume it’s full title, is the second book by
Read moreCustody – 3 LP (Brassneck Records / Shield Recordings / Sell The Heart Records / Combat Rock Industry / My Ruin, 2024)
Cast your mind back if you will to the cusp of Covid lockdown. You may recall I reviewed Custody’s second LP, innovatively titled ‘2’. You
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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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84 Tigers – Time In The Lighthouse (Spartan Records, 2022)
I’d been peripherally aware of this release being on the horizon, and then promptly forgot about it. Today is apparently the day to redress that
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Bear Away – A Drastic Tale of Western Living (Brassneck Records / Shield Recordings Waterslide Records, 2022)
There’s a certain thing about shit towns in the North of England. They have a weird tendency to spawn decent bands in a way that
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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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