playlist: the best punk songs of july 2025

I used to do these playlists every month—a collection of songs with a short blog about how it’s going—and then I got a day job. For some reason, playlists were the thing that started to fall through the cracks. Sorry about that. I did a make-good for the first six months of the year, and now let’s pick up with July.

As for how it’s going, I’ve been harvesting berries, basil, kale, cucumbers, and potatoes in the backyard. The wildflower seed mix we tossed around over bare soil during lockdown has finally exploded into color years later. I’m in full toddler father mode, impersonating animals and talking way too much about the toilet. I threw a couple deeply sick punk shows and have been spending time with the extended fam.

This is the 200th post I’ve ever done. see/saw recently hit a milestone of 2,500+ overall subscribers and 500+ paid. That’s double where it was one year ago. As an art practice and niche music journalism/criticism endeavor, that’s pretty unreal and I’m incredibly humbled by the support.

I’d still love for more people to keep finding it. Tell your friends about see/saw so I can keep the podcast going and can keep paying writers to do things like interview Wesley and the Boys at a Memphis recording studio. Here’s the stuff I loved this month (with some late June and early August additions because punk time). If you like it even a little bit, please subscribe!

the best punk songs of july 2025

Big Modern: Parasite
Uhu: Tapi Boong
Los Retumbes: Bomba de humo
Muscle Cats: Purrrfect Wave
Snooper: Worldwide
R.M.F.C.: Ecstatic Strife
TVO: Dumb Fucking World
Sex Mex: Magic Words (M.O.T.O. cover)
Dark Thoughts: Different World
Sick Thoughts: Another Piece of Plastic
Dog Lips: Gush
Useless Eaters: Ego Shell
Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Despite It All
The New Eves: Highway Man
Public House: Read the Meter
Guyscrapers: Ba Ba Ba
Answering Machines: I’ll Know Who’s There
Faulty Cognitions: Arsonist
dona casque: 1.2.2.
The Dissidents: Endless War
boo/hiss: Hey! 2!
The Unknowns: All Grown Up
DÄÄCHT: Candle
Fen Fen: Motorcycle
Upchuck: Plastic
Scud: I ❤️ Dirt
The Cars That Ate Paris: Girls on Telephones
BIG&HEAVY: Lie
Kombynat Robotron: Finsternis
U.I.S.: Primitive Decline
Poky: Black Rider
Ronny Spoiler: Mit dem Terhmomix durch den nuklearen Winter
Shanty Sleaze: She Do
Dead Drugs: I Wanna Get Weird
The Educated Fools: Arrow Clear
Yuasa-Exide: Acetylene
The Wind-Ups: A Fine Pink Mist
Outdoorsmen: When They Bury You Down
Girl Fit: Birthday Suit
Cluttered Grotto: Night Terrors
Technopolice: Hellastic Mr. Pox
Balloon Thief: Premium Kills
Annual Report: Shots in the Shower
Havana Syndrome: Dirt Machine
Jug & the Bugs: Wrist Watch
Visual Learner: Cure-All
Bee Bee Sea: It’s All About the Music
Dick Move: Fuck It
Cruelster: Simple Eyes
Snarewaves: Dive Bar
Apéro: Tribute to Dwayne the Rock Johnson
Power Pants: Laundromat Love
PB: Trapped
Sneer: Psychic Psychosis
AYUCABA: COCAINA
Claimed Choice: Bootboy (Don’t Stop)
Jumbo XL: Who to Hurt
Class Act: Monkey Business
Supreme Joy: Dead Mice
Street Eaters: Cuts
Wealth Gap: She’s the One
Ignorantes: Adiós Camarada
Acid Smoothie: Shandarita
Neon Kittens: Are You on Glue?
Special Delivery: Treading Water
Knowso: Sin of Property
The Plane Crash: Sidewalk Cemetery
BODEGA: Rot in Helvetica
Metho: Lonely Time
Dümmel: Nothing There’s Motionless
Shagg Carpet: Beach Body
D.R.L.N.: A to B
Lash: Second Time
Lovebomb: Out for Love
JJ Sizza: Wandering Eyes
Otioxi: Human Supreme
T.L.B.M.: im smoking fucking weed
Grocery Bag: Lies
Era Bleak: Spliff Bunker
La Llama: The Blade of the Knife
Tunnel Vision: Clap Back
Besta Quadrada: Running
Who Pays: Sectarian Violence
FRENZY: Arian Blood on my Boots
Illiterates: Hig Champion
BRUT: Blood of My Own
Chinese Junk: Shut Up About the USA
Total Vacation: Modern Ruse
KNEE: Hellbound
Tokarev: nameless
Spirit Level: Memory Burn
BLAMAGE: Rohrkrepierer
LAVA: Fuck Off
Self Interest: Claim 2 Be
NÃO: Glória
Sympos: Welcome to Ballybricken
Top Dollar: Constant Desire
High Risk: Genocide in My Eyes
Intro: No Time for You
Cutup: Army Toys
Ruined Virtue: Long Pig
Mantis: Tristes Pendulos
RUBBER: Grasping Noose
PUKE: Justice For Us
KLEENER: Sira Ulo
GUMMO: Todo el dolor será pasajero
Moleskine: No More Guests
Worst Worry: Moving Backwards
Star Sign: Blood Sugar
Big Trouble: Gas, grass, or class war
Emmett O’Connor: Burger King From My Dreams