punk this week podcast: overlooked favorites + the ritornello form + hot load
A discussion of our favorite overlooked punk records from 2026 so far (aka records we haven’t brought to the podcast until now).
Punk This Week is see/saw’s weekly podcast from co-hosts Evan Minsker and Nina Corcoran—a discussion of the latest and greatest in the world of punk rock. We talk about six new punk records we’re loving from the past week.
On a post-Independence Day episode where we discuss new ones from the Ritornello Form, Hot Load, Grey Matter, Smirk, Far Too Late, and Chrome Cell Torture (plus ska, Nitro, and fruit salads), we open the episode with our overlooked favorite punk records from 2026 so far—eight highlights we hadn’t brought to the podcast this year so far.
Evan’s picks: Useless Eaters’ Music for Clout, Noxeema’s Sick, Body Shop’s Sex Body, Touch Girl Apple Blossom’s Graceful, and Aswan Dam’s In the Playground of the Damned.
Nina’s picks: Latinameric Anfútbol, Lip Critic’s Theft World, Chemical Threat’s Promo Tape, and A.I. Death Calculator’s A.I. Death Calculator.
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Punk This Week is a Ruinous Media podcast; thanks to Ruinous for their support. Thanks to Baby Tyler Band for use of our theme song “Needs” off their self-titled album. Thanks to Waylon Thornton for the bumpers. Thanks to Tyler Nickell for the podcast’s artwork.
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