> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://see-saw.fun/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # playlist: the 60 best punk songs of april 2026 - URL: https://see-saw.fun/playlist-the-60-best-punk-songs-of-april-2026/ - Published: 2026-05-05T15:06:50.000Z - Updated: 2026-05-05T15:07:42.000Z - Description: Plus a blog about life as a corporate music media house cat before becoming a punk world social butterfly. - Author: Evan Minsker - Tags: playlist Being a member of the corporate music media who worked nights and weekends meant not getting out to as many shows. There was this culture at Pitchfork that I wasn’t part of, and I had to make my peace with that pretty early on. My coworkers were in New York City going to shows and hanging out together; I was a Midwest night owl watching the wall so my colleagues could log off at the function. It was my teenage dream job, and it required pragmatic compromise. “Hey, could you please remember to not cc me on these emails,” I once told an editor when informed of free donuts in the New York City break room. In the past couple years after that job, I’ve been around a lot more—staying out late at shows, giggling and bullshitting with the homies in backyards and parking lots. Most of the people I talk to at shows are in bands that I really like, which is a loose kind of tension since I’ve probably written something about them (and can’t remember for the life of me what I said). Still: I’m an observer, a listener, a sponge for gossip—an absolute pig in shit. One year after starting see/saw, I was standing outside with my back against a venue during a rainstorm while a guy in a band I love told me that I should be more negative as a critic. I explained that it really wasn’t where I was as a writer. Punk—the music, community, and everything that word implies—was a buoy out of a dark period. Negativity would feel manufactured and artificial, so I just didn’t write about the bad stuff. I called see/saw a love letter to punk and rock'n'roll in its nascency, and that’s still very much the case. Two years in, I still get stoked about new records every week. I love hearing about new bands forming and records on the horizon. I’m probably gradually getting bitchier as a punk writer when I hear mediocre music from a legacy artist who can and has done better, but then I spend more of my energy writing 2,000-word columns about the exciting stuff in a given week. Then I go to shows and geek out with my friends about punk records. [*teeter/totter: a see/saw benefit*](https://see-sawdotfun.bandcamp.com/album/teeter-totter-a-see-saw-benefit?ref=see-saw.fun) is a compilation spawned from my life both as a hermetic music writer and a social butterfly with ringing ears. There are bands that I’ve admired from afar and never met; there are artists I’ve been fortunate enough to get to know a little bit. It’s all new songs benefiting the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and the Immigrant Defense Network. So far, I’ve donated $1,000 to each organization from proceeds. Thanks to everyone who’s checked it out, and more tapes are coming soon if you missed out the first time. April was a powerful month for new punk records. These are the songs I liked the best (including two picks from the aforementioned see/saw comp). --- [**see/saw’s 60 best punk songs of april 2026**](https://www.buymusic.club/list/seesaw-best-punk-april-2026?ref=see-saw.fun) Media Puzzle: Knowledge Oddfellows: The Burden Fül Coverage: Fool Coverage Answering Machines: Crushing Blow Triple Ente: Los Pájaros Eddy Current Suppression Ring: I Need Some Space G.R.O.M.I.T.: What Can You Do Tonya: The Obstacle Body Shop: Fallacies The Tubs: Fade to Black Yleiset Syyt: Sotakoneet Puzzlehead: Inventory CS Cleaners: What’s That? Collaps: You Don’t Get Shit Useless Eaters: CONTRAST Brendan Wells: I Rent Sleep Cult: Boring Tórax y Las Extremidades: Combustión espontánea Billiam: Barbie Doll Brains \[Plastic Toy Mix\] Five Bucks: Metal Fumes Fever Mopar Stars: Feast for the Smile Choncy: Just Like Them Taxi Girls: Say It! Cronies: rose GÖTRI: YOUR UTOPIA, MY DYSTOPIA Awesome Snakes: Money (censored) The Subletters: Polishing a Knife Urq: This Dismal Village Subtle Turnhips: Pink Syd 700 Club: Black Iron Prison Shaved Ape: Gutless Democracy: Violent Dreams Mary Jam: REST IN PISS Surrealistic Pillhead: Chaos Stone Robber Robber: Talkback Winston Hightower: Selfish Soother Assembly: Spotlights Season 2: Holiday Skintern: Floorboards Gentilesky: Heavenly Body Clubhouse: Scum of Society Termite: Panic Hotline Socke: Unten Violet Bloom: Cognito (I Am) La RAF: Desposeídos Witch Piss: Barbarian Edging: This Head snarewaves: New Butt L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation: Boots on the Ground Power Pants: Checkout Gurl Esperanza: Decay Yambag: Nerve Damage Wax Head: Bug Doctor Subjects: Stutterer Dasgüt: Alcoholic Evil Weevil: Jenny Is a Fig Wasp National Photo Committee: Before the Feeling’s Gone Dillinger Four: Don’t Happy Be Worry Commitment: Pluto in Aquarius Poison Ruïn: Lily of the Valley --- *If you enjoyed this playlist, please consider sharing and* [*subscribing to see/saw*](https://see-saw.fun/#/portal/) *(a reader-supported publication).*