playlist
playlist: the best punk songs of august 2024
Check out the greatest heavy rock'n'roll music from the past month.
Evan Minsker
Evan Minsker is a critic and journalist who used to run Pitchfork’s news section. Now he freelances and runs this newsletter about punk records.
punk this week
punk this week: the bug club, exit mould + 8 more
Plus new records from It Thing, Speccy, Power Shovel, and a stacked compilation called Delinquents and Shitbags.
podcast
punk this week podcast 01: fake fruit & melt-banana
Welcome to see/saw’s new podcast Punk This Week, co-hosted by Evan Minsker and Nina Corcoran
punk this week
punk this week: fake fruit, bad anxiety, the gobs + 6 more
Plus the return of Fastbacks, a new band from Buck Biloxi, and some wildness from Virginia’s Homemade Speed and Finland’s Bless
interview
billiam has a hard time believing in billiam
The Aussie garage punk wunderkind makes excellent records at a clip. Presented with this evidence, he calls himself “pretty fuckin’ lazy.”
punk this week
punk this week: gel, total hell, chris burns + 9 more
Plus the latest from Rixe and Human Trophy, a Palestine benefit featuring Memphis musicians, and much more
interview
hank wood and the hammerheads’ stay home!! at 10: an oral history
The members of the NYC punk band look back on their complicated relationship with their second album and the conditions that led to its creation.
punk this week
punk this week: billiam, osees, fucked up + 10 more
Plus great new ones from Baby Tyler Band, Big Baby, General Baxter, Booji Boys, Straight Arrows, Booji Boys, H8 Mile, and more
playlist
playlist: the best punk songs of july 2024
Check out the greatest heavy rock'n'roll music from the past month.
punk this week
punk this week: x, poison ruïn, exo + 7 more
Plus new ones from Cammy Cautious and the Wrestlers, La Llama, Jacket Burner, Electric Prawns 2, and more.
record exchange
wand’s cory hanson on this heat, martin rev, and never doing the same thing twice
In this installment of “Record Exchange,” Hanson discusses This Heat’s influence on his life as a creator, plus the often-imitated but never-replicated style of Alan Vega.
punk this week
punk this week: peace de résistance, white collar, the sleeveens + 6 more
Plus a crash course in the Piss Wizard trilogy, a feature-filled Cool Sorcery record, and some excellent hardcore from Ireland’s Bedsores