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# playlist: the best punk songs of january 2025
- URL: https://see-saw.fun/playlist-the-best-punk-songs-of-january-2025/
- Published: 2025-02-03T17:07:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-03T17:07:17.000Z
- Description: Seven dozen good songs that kicked off this hellish year, plus a blog about upheaval, community, and the Cher memoir.
- Author: Evan Minsker
- Tags: playlist

Amid the chaos that the beginning of this year continues to provide, new punk music still shows up pretty much every day. On a slow day, somebody in the [see/saw Discord](https://discord.gg/CHBEwmPSKB?ref=see-saw.fun) shares an old record I’ve never heard and it blows my ass completely off. (This is a joke, I have never had an ass.) Rich started the [Total Punk forum](https://forums.totalpunkrecords.com/?ref=see-saw.fun) while local scenes build online message and gig boards of their own. People with shared interests are reconnecting and steadily eyeballing just how gross it feels to use Instagram to promote and connect. Some people feel like they rely on it to find community, and that’s how I feel.

I’m keeping it around, but I rarely linger on Instagram at this point. It exists on my phone as this holdover from breaking news life; I scan it for information and otherwise just feel disgusting when I leave the app open for any substantial amount of time. The Discord, meanwhile, has been the spot. There was a boom of new folks who joined around when Groschi started the [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTCtZS6WiirCgBsJpDxtxceUMnM1V8E5hmB-Wg1DfZSJtAXQvUcXDSsY8cs6Y1jhhoynuKOXkGDQtjw/pubhtml?ref=see-saw.fun) cataloguing all the bands with piss names. People are in there talking about gear and pets, sharing demos and works-in-progress. I’m making new friends and deepening existing friendships in there.

On New Year’s Day, I did a past/present/future tarot reading, and for future, I pulled the three of cups. I don’t know shit about tarot, but from what I was made to understand by my people who know more about these things, it’s a card that signifies community, celebration, friendships, collaboration, and creativity. Having the Discord light up has felt good. Unwittingly, it’s become part of this greater push to establish punk and DIY community spaces online that aren’t dictated by the aristocracy (though it’s worth couching here that I don’t know shit about Rigdon Discord or whoever founded this chatroom app, they could suck shit for all I know). It’s also just fun to talk to people who I respect a lot and who like the good stuff. I’m having fun lurking over on Rich’s URL, too. 

Community, friendships, cleaving to your people—that’s what it takes in times of upheaval. Mid-January marked a year after being laid off from my job of a dozen years, plus the horror of the fires and the grim reality of the inauguration. I’m trying to ride through the tumult. 

Over the winter break, I listened to Cher’s memoir on audiobook. (It fucking rules. Also, fuck Sonny Bono.) There’s this point in the book where you’ve learned about her chaotic/adrift early childhood and teen years, and you’re like, “When is she going to ever get to chill out?” Literally a page later, she meets Phil Spector. Soon enough she’s living in a mansion and Sonny, deep into a pills bender, is doing an anti-marijuana PSA in gold silk pajamas.

Anyway, there’s this part of the book where Cher is isolated from society (long story), but then she finally leaves her room and goes to hang out with the people in her band. That’s when her life starts to get less heavy. I guess what I took away from Cher’s tutelage and *the cards* is that you can’t fully stop upheaval, but community makes it all feel less punishing. That’s probably the most obvious shit anybody’s ever heard, but I’ve been thinking a lot about why it’s important to reach out to your community.

There’s a see/saw benefit compilation coming soon, I’m finishing up the last tapes for see/saw Walkman Club, the Punk This Week podcast is seriously feeling more fun than ever, and the see/saw year 1 festivities are coming together. It’s a bunch of varied and ambitious collaborative projects. So that’s the plan right now; I’m proverbially leaving my room to go hang out with the band. Three of cups.

[**the best punk songs of january 2025**](https://bndcmpr.co/eca2ed6d?ref=see-saw.fun)

ELVIS 2: Grub Club  
Fast Johnny and the Slow Burners: Ain’t Slowin’ Down  
Plastic Act: Everywhere I Go  
Jacket Burner: Cold Leather  
TY: Nematode  
Sick Fucks: Sex Afterparty  
KLINT: Water Vapor  
Vermit: Conqueror Verm  
Punter: Bone to Pick  
GHOULIES: Towel King  
Sooflays: Carve Your Feelings Into Me  
SLOKS: Viper  
KOWBOJE: ELVIS-HENDRIX  
Intermission: Ball N Chain  
Whelpwisher: Same Mistakes  
Wetnap: Mortality  
Embargo: A-B-C ALARM  
Dorothy Fuzz: 123 Understand Me  
Kostenvorschlag: RE7  
Dru the Drifter: Sold My Soul for Rock and Roll  
Rapid Dye: Penance  
Skull Cult: Language  
Meow Meow and the Smackouts: An Decent Punch  
Day Residue: Nod If You Know  
Monda: Poe’s Law  
FKA Smiley: Thresher  
Midgee: Rock and/or Roll  
GPS: Earn My Life  
Erik Nervous: Kill the Kool (The Spits cover)  
Clean Needle: Brain in a Blender  
Razorface: Tarnished  
Waylon Thornton: Smash Mountain Cheer  
Huevo: No me siente bien  
Telesatan: Cut 'n' Slice  
Saafewaay: Bag Tax  
Can Kicker: Cariad  
STDEES: Steroid Dojo  
Sad Roach: Gobblin  
Your Pest Band: Reappear  
Pigeon Pit: Bad Advice  
Today Station: Wirecutter  
SEER: My Eyes  
Eskupa: Nexos  
Crayon Cats: October Girlfriend  
OYO: OO  
Lackey: Bambam  
Cult Crime: Desperation  
Ain’t Right: Concrete Hearts  
First in Line: Rebel Heart  
Die in Vain: Savage New Times  
Molbo: Sytsmart  
Power Pants: Fast Lane  
Delivery: Deadlines  
Liaam: Sole to Sole  
Ex-Vöid: Pinhead  
Shit Missile: No Soul  
1186: Ataque Sistematico  
Spleen: Albatros  
Seat Pisser: Hunt  
Raut: Love ME Do  
Healing: Sand Talk  
Public Assassination: Light Escapes  
Obedient: Bitter Man  
Stray Dogs to Good Homes: Grid City  
Beetle Kill: SHITWOLF  
Wesley & the Boys: Full-Time Asshole  
Astio: Bianco Oblio  
GNATS: GNATS!  
Lambrini Girls: Company Culture  
Crime Light: World Burns Back  
Snarewaves: Stimmy Lunch  
Heavy Mother II: Omnivore  
Gnome: I Like It  
Heet Deth: King of Swords  
Small Portions: I’m a Manchild  
Ismatic Guru: Eighteen Miles Long  
Sharp Pins: I Can’t Stop  
Good Flying Birds: Last Straw  
The Artists: Dancer  
The Hahas and the Blablas: Frowning rat and his sad destiny  
Nick Cage: Swing State  
Kristian Quint & the Quitters: Outer Drive  
Disappearamces: Collapse  
Seudo Youth: Big Mouth  
Silo Kids: Sick Licks