The Get Up Kids - Apathy & Exhaustion

Low Standards, High Fives – Everything Ends (Engineer Records / Dead End Street Records, 2025)

January 27, 2026 Tony Maher Uncategorized

Low Standards, High Fives hail from Turin, Italy. On their bandcamp page, they describe themselves simply as: “We are a 5 piece band from Turin

The Get Up Kids/Hot Rod Circuit February 5th, 2025 Jannus Live, St Petersburg FL

February 27, 2025 James Lamont Live Review

“Are you 21?” My reward for confidently answering this legally stagnant, pro-prohibition question – in typically terse Jannus security fashion – is to have my

The Latchkey Kids – 6-8 Sessions (self-released, 2022)

November 3, 2022 Tony Maher Record Review

This was looking like it was going to be one of those potentially awkward situations that I periodically get myself into. Situations off my own

Loose Behaviour – Sad Action (Rad Girlfriend Records, 2020)

July 12, 2020 Tony Maher Record Review

Pretty Boy Thorson (The Slow Death + others) and Josh Goldman (The Raging Nathans, The Dopamines + others) in THE SAME band? Whuuuuuttt? That’s two

The Union Ares – s/t LP (Disillusioned Records, strictly no capital letters, Old Man Giles, 2020)

June 4, 2020 Tony Maher Record Review

Wow. Just wow. I bloody love discovering new bands that are this great. Props to Disillusioned Wayne (that’s what I’m calling you from now on

Custody – II LP (Brassneck Records / Shield Recordings / Combat Rock Industry, 2020)

March 7, 2020 Tony Maher Record Review

Custody are from Finland, and describe themselves thusly: “We make melodic music that makes us happy. We sound like Sergie Loobkoff having a knife fight

Pkew Pkew Pkew – Optimal Lifestyles (Big Scary Monsters, 2019)

May 14, 2019 Wayne Hyde Record Review

Pkew Pkew Pkew are from Toronto, Canada, and formed in 2013. After a couple of EPs they released their first album ‘Pkew Pkew Pkew’ on

The Get Up Kids – Problems (Polyvinyl, 2019)

May 8, 2019 Fiona Wolstenholme Record Review

OK. I have to own up that I’m slightly biased as I love The Get Up Kids. Like, really love them. ‘Something to Write Home

Radar State – Strays (Disconnect Disconnect / Wiretap Records, 2019)

January 30, 2019 Nate Worrall Record Review

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

Staff top tens of 2018: Nate Worrall

December 21, 2018 Nate Worrall Record Review

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