punk this week: stress positions, artificial go, the gotobeds + 15 more
When you can’t fit Meditation, KiLynn Lunsford, or Snooper into the headline, you know it’s an unbelievable week.
It’s time for Punk This Week, see/saw’s weekly punk and rock'n'roll recommendations column. As calendar weeks for punk rock records, this is one of the biggest of 2025 so far. There’s new stuff from Stress Positions, Artificial Go, the Gotobeds, KiLynn Lunsford, and Snooper. That new Meditation tape is unbelievable, and I love the new ones from No Sector, Bugg Music, and Kram-a-Xam.
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Stress Positions: Human Zoo [Three One G]
If you’re in the market for rabid, sadistic hardcore with the intensity cranked to maximum, it’s Stress Positions time. Stephanie Brooks is in the pantheon of artists who exude raw and intense conviction like it’s nothing, wielding sustained unhinged screams like a raised sword. The band’s pummeling fury feels like the commensurate rage release after years of fascist darkness. Brooks screams about genocide, colonization, anti-abortion laws, military indoctrination, and systemic racism. Stress Positions shows are places of power and release. This record captures that feeling, but the decaying skull and the feeling of listening on headphones are unnerving reminders that the people whose faces most need to be caved in by this music and these messages are never, ever listening.
