If you remember Absolute Garbage, you probably remember the absolute ripper they dropped in 2024, Chef's Kiss—a record packed with greasy New York pizza flavor and old-school punk attitude. As a Christmas gift at the end of 2025, the New York middle-aged punks came back with Now We're Cookin', a 14-track feast that keeps the... Continue Reading →

Boston's The Grimly Pleased return with a new EP; "Do Nice Things", their fifth release; they simply don't know how to put out a mediocre record. Released in April 2026, this four-track EP keeps everything that makes the band so enjoyable: catchy songwriting, an effortless blend of country, garage rock, folk, and punk influences, and... Continue Reading →

This brand-new split between Pennsylvania's Bad To Worse and Asheville, North Carolina's On The Block delivers exactly what you'd expect from two bands rooted in East Coast hardcore, punk, and Oi!: fast, heavy, stripped-down songs that hit hard and get out before wearing out their welcome. The release comes on a beautiful green cassette, limited... Continue Reading →

So, the Knoxville guys in American Thought Criminals just dropped their third record, Bored of Peace, via Robot Polisher Records, and it’s pretty much exactly what you’d want from an O.S.H.C. outfit. This isn't some over-produced studio project. It feels like a sweaty basement show in Tennessee. They’re leaning hard into that Old-school Hardcore, Skate-Pop... Continue Reading →

Let’s be real: usually, when a band from a place like Middletown drops an album titled Take a Five, you expect a mid-tempo slog or some over-polished radio rock. But FALSE ALARM just kicked the door down and reminded us that Ohio still has teeth. The album released this past October, Take a Five is... Continue Reading →

Forget the over-produced, plastic "punk" you hear on the radio. LOS FIASCOS—the one-man from Cleveland wrecking crew known as ARON—is about to slap the caffeine right out of your hand. Dropping officially on July 13, his new record Pick It Up is a love letter to the era of baggy cargo shorts, sweat-soaked basements, and... Continue Reading →

DC’s Finest are Back: R-NØT Drops "Gaslighter // Part 1" with a Punk Legend in Their Corner If you thought D.C. alternative punk rock had nothing left to say in 2026, R-NØT is here to kindly (or not so kindly) kick your teeth in. Fresh off the poppy punk rock of last year’s Dumpster Fire,... Continue Reading →

Hey folks, so I finally got my hands on a copy of "Earn Your Wings" by W.Witosky and The Dirty Dog Dick Eaters - D3E, (who da fuck are they?) this country-punk outfit from San Antonio, Texas, dropped under the Robot Monster Rechords label. These guys are kinda that band you hear about through word-of-mouth—slowly... Continue Reading →

Beta Voids is a punk rock band from Astoria, Oregon; they come out swinging on Scrape It Off, a seven-track EP that taps straight into the raw pulse of early L.A. punk. You can hear shades of bands like Redd Kross and Black Flag in the way everything feels fast, loose, and a little unhinged.... Continue Reading →