Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2026, Part One. Featuring Armor Class, Briefbombe, Manicdotes, Playboy Manbaby, Chopping Block, The Convicted, Violent Way, and more.

In what might be his first regular column for In Spite, 1MU contemplates Japanese devotional blues punk, Satanic esoterica, the inner voice of a deranged thespian, and more…

Portland’s Old Cross strips things back with an acoustic EP that finds new weight in familiar songs.

Paul Holstein takes on the nearly impossible task of narrowing down the more than 200 punk rock releases he reviewed in 2025 to his Top 50.

Southern Ontario’s 4hateu8 drags hardcore and thrash back into the sewer where they belong. Life of Grime is eight songs of fast, filthy crossover that doesn’t preach redemption, only self-destruction, survival, and taking what’s owed.

Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2025, Part Twenty. Includes Bad Beat, Regal Beagle, Soldiers of Destruction, and more.

Top 12 Oi! Oi! Oi! Releases of 2025. Booze & Glory, Potato Skins, Knife’s Edge, Lion’s Law, and more.

Top 25 Punk Rock Christmas Songs of 2025. New additions by The Boy Detective, Briefbombe, and Too Bad Eugene.

Top 20 Punk Rock Cover Songs of 2025.

Two Lancashire punk lifers reunite after forty years to make some of the most inventive and heartfelt music of their lives.

Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2025, Part Nineteen. Zeke, The Boy Detective, Vice Squad, The Brokedowns, Half Dizzy and more.

Our Girl at the Rail, Kim Moenich, sat down with Spike Slawson of Spike and the Gimme Gimmes to talk Christmas songs, the Pittsburgh fiasco, and what song the band will never cover.

The Dickies turned Albany’s Ivy Room into a full-blown punk carnival with Supersonic Symbiotic, The East Brothers, and Blunt Force Karma.

Supersuckers, Fashion Crime, Crippled Fox, Stabber, Haggus, Pridebowl, C4 and more.

BlackPoo and Hot Pink Sewage: the names alone clear the room; the music fills it back up. Straight from the gutters of Blackpool’s punk underbelly.

Evan Swartz brings us coverage of the highly anticipated Celebration Summer/ Wolf-Face split live vinyl record.

Booze & Glory, Dropkick Murphys, S.M.I.L.E., Dead Neck, Restraining Order, Mitraille, I.C.B.M., Bad Cop/ Bad Cop, xWeaponx, Death Pill and more.

secondSELF, Snooper, Billy Batts and the Made Men, Dark Thoughts, Pulley, Fire Sale, Teenage Bottlerocket, Violent Disorder, Planet on a Chain, Nuke ‘Em High, Plastic Meat and more.

Evan Swartz covers the long-awaited Milo Goes to College Reissue campaign sweeping record stores.

The Remote Controls, Potato Skins, Lot Lizards, End It, The Hives, M.D.K., Flip The Switch, Legal Disaster, Another Fucking Problem, Painted Graves, and more!