playlist: the 58 best punk songs of october 2026
Some punk songs for that post-Election Day glow. Also: Punk Night in Menomonie approaches.
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punk this week podcast: seductive + yuasa-exide
Candy, costumes, and the first major label record ever discussed on the podcast (we think).
punk this week: piss, yuasa-exide, cult crime + 15 more
Halloween weekend means merciless hardcore tapes, themed spooky shit, and feedback for miles.
see/saw jukebox: first day back
The Santa Cruz emo band behind the excellent 2025 album Forward on the records that changed how they thought about music.
punk this week podcast: billiam + waifish
Nina has a life-changing snow cone in New Orleans. Evan meets the Kit Kat Count. Joel shames both hosts about the Replacements.
punk this week: invertebrates, billiam, public acid + 14 more
MR. [REDACTED], Paper Jam, Kohti Tuhoa, SIKM, Acid Test, Nisemono, and so many more heaters landed this week.
punk this week podcast: covenant eye + visual learner
Why are indie rock dude nipples so funny while the drummer from Visual Learner’s nipples are not?
punk this week: real shocks, sick thoughts, visual learner, pardoner + 15 more
Plus Famous Mammals, CLAMM, Kelley Stoltz, the Monsters, PUST, Cheap Fix, and two sick benefit compilations.
smirk’s speculative fiction is based on a true story
Finding strange facts in fiction and mapping the band’s secret history with Ringo.
punk this week podcast: retail simps + tramhaus
Two sleepy punk critics discuss the most important topics: eating your friends’ pizza crusts and shampooing your bald head.
punk this week: retail simps, smashing times, death valley girls + 14 more
Soup Activists and CLASS kick off album cycles. Melbourne’s the Bolt Ons come on strong with their debut. Punk rules.
playlist: the 63 best punk songs of september 2026
Stewing on punk’s ephemeral nature and playlisting a red hot month for new music.
podcast
punk this week podcast: baby tyler + able baker
Looks like we got ourselves a Bizza boy, baby (Tyler)!
at the show
the best bands of gonerfest 23
Throwing beers. “I Smoke It, It Smokes Me.” Adult diapers. Twee pop shit talk. Nearly getting electrocuted. It all happened in Memphis at the 23rd Gonerfest.
punk this week
punk this week: p.p. rebel, bad sports, tv buddha + 19 more
The Etters, Yuasa-Exide, Stef Chura, Baby Tyler. It’s a great big pile of good rock'n'roll records this Bandcamp Friday.
interview
protomartyr’s joe casey still comes to jumbo’s. (just not every night.)
Sitting at the bar that looms large in his band’s legend, Casey discusses Detroit’s contemporary punk scene and the new album Hotel Usona.
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punk this week podcast: gilla band + crv
Gurriers, Brain Tourniquet, and the deeply relatable fear of exiting the waterslide as a corpse.
punk this week
punk this week: weird 1000, protomartyr, gash + 9 more
You like weird music? Come read about these weird punk records.
see/saw tv
if selfish teammate were a horse, they’d bite you
The Minneapolis duo’s “Field of Flowers” video features equine VHS studies and sweaty garage performances fried by video synth.
interview
toody cole could not be less interested in retirement
Sitting in the home she built with the late Fred Cole in Oregon, the Dead Moon hero sat down for a chat ranging from her childhood to the Rats to her latest EP.
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punk this week podcast: perennial + eraser
On a big week for punk shows and perhaps an even bigger week for new punk records.
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punk this week: fugitive bubble, early grave, the drin, c.o.f.f.i.n. + 14 more
Perennial, EVINSPRAGG, Wesley and the Boys, and Name Names are among the bands rounding out a massive week for new music.
podcast
punk this week podcast: lack + unity
We celebrate trail mix nut variety, salty crunchies, and the late Domino. It’s episode 101. This one’s for the dogs.
interview
mesh’s boots on the pavement view of philadelphia
Following the release of their new album No Fun at All, the band discussed coming together pre-COVID, their slurry of influences, and the state of Philly’s DIY scene.