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Pre-order announcement: Tearjerker – ‘Ghosts’ (Little Rocket Records / Cat’s Claw Records / A.D.D Records / Sell the Heart Records, 2026)

October 9, 2026 Tony Maher Exclusive Stream, Premiere, Release announcement

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

Release announcement: Tides – How to Survive a Fall (A.D.D Records / Little Rocket Records, 2026)

September 21, 2026 Tony Maher Release announcement

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

Reissue announcement: Too Many Daves – Weekend At Daves (ADD Records / Little Rocket Reecords, 2026)

June 19, 2026 Tony Maher Release announcement, Uncategorized

Too Many Daves hail from Tampa, Florida, and feature most if not all of your favourite Daves (apart from Dave Lombardo, once of Slayer fame).

The Miller Lowlifes – Pinch Hitters (ADD Records, 2025)

October 30, 2025 Tony Maher Record Review

ADD Records is back! Jah bless the great ship ADD Records, captained by one Dave Disorder (Too Many Daves etc. etc.). After a major downturn

City Mouse – ‘So Far Out’ LP (Brassneck Records / It’s Alive Records, 2024)

October 11, 2024 Tony Maher Record Review

I love City Mouse, me. They are, if you are unfamiliar, a 4 piece from Tampa, Florida. On this outing, ‘So Far Out’, their second

Days and Days – Chris MacDonald (ECW Press, 2024)

October 3, 2024 Tony Maher Book Review

‘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

Come Closer – Pretty Garbage (Pirate’s Press Records, 2021)

May 7, 2021 Tony Maher Record Review

I suppose I’ll start this off with a spurious statement of sorts: this is I think the big surprise release of 2021. Well, in so

Chagrin – Ground Scores (Rad Girlfriend Records, 2020)

August 16, 2020 Tony Maher Record Review

So, anyways, Josh at Rad Girlfriend passed me a bunch of stuff for review a couple of months back and I’ve been steadily chipping away

Drunken Sailor Records (Stoke) – an introduction, part 1

December 1, 2016 Tony Maher Interview, Record label feature

Bon soir, mon petit pois (as a French fellow might address his vegetables of an evening). This is part one of an introductory feature on

Dead Broke Rekerds, New York – an introduction (part 2)

October 27, 2016 Tony Maher Record label feature, Record Review

For serious. You spend a few years away from listening to much music, and a load of good stuff mysteriously passes you by. After years