punk this week podcast: covenant eye + visual learner

Why are indie rock dude nipples so funny while the drummer from Visual Learner’s nipples are not?

punk this week: real shocks, sick thoughts, visual learner, pardoner + 15 more

Plus Famous Mammals, CLAMM, Kelley Stoltz, the Monsters, PUST, Cheap Fix, and two sick benefit compilations.

smirk’s speculative fiction is based on a true story

Finding strange facts in fiction and mapping the band’s secret history with Ringo.

punk this week podcast: retail simps + tramhaus

Two sleepy punk critics discuss the most important topics: eating your friends’ pizza crusts and shampooing your bald head.

punk this week: retail simps, smashing times, death valley girls + 14 more

Soup Activists and CLASS kick off album cycles. Melbourne’s the Bolt Ons come on strong with their debut. Punk rules.

playlist: the 63 best punk songs of september 2026

Stewing on punk’s ephemeral nature and playlisting a red hot month for new music.

punk this week podcast: baby tyler + able baker

Looks like we got ourselves a Bizza boy, baby (Tyler)!

the best bands of gonerfest 23

Throwing beers. “I Smoke It, It Smokes Me.” Adult diapers. Twee pop shit talk. Nearly getting electrocuted. It all happened in Memphis at the 23rd Gonerfest.

punk this week: p.p. rebel, bad sports, tv buddha + 19 more

The Etters, Yuasa-Exide, Stef Chura, Baby Tyler. It’s a great big pile of good rock'n'roll records this Bandcamp Friday.

protomartyr’s joe casey still comes to jumbo’s. (just not every night.)

Sitting at the bar that looms large in his band’s legend, Casey discusses Detroit’s contemporary punk scene and the new album Hotel Usona.

punk this week podcast: gilla band + crv

Gurriers, Brain Tourniquet, and the deeply relatable fear of exiting the waterslide as a corpse.

punk this week: weird 1000, protomartyr, gash + 9 more

You like weird music? Come read about these weird punk records.