Angine de Poitrine Invade KEXP with Extraterrestrial Microtonal Vibes
Canadian rock duo Khn & Klek de Poitrine are poised to take over Planet Earth with math rock in 2026.
Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2026, Part Two.
Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2026, Part Two. Asspatch, EKG, S.M.I.L.E., Slutbomb, and more.
Slow Death Make Winter Sound Fun Again
Slow Death delivers a cold and compelling debut on Fast Life, blending post-punk atmosphere with gritty punk energy from upstate New York.
The Darkly Fuzzy Fantasy of Under the Pit
Fuzzy Feelings’ first full-length album arrives in a moody, but dream-like haze of reflection and garage rock.
Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2026, Part One.
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.
Signposts Underground: January 2026
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…
Old Cross Go Acoustic and Nobody Dies
Portland’s Old Cross strips things back with an acoustic EP that finds new weight in familiar songs.
Top 50 Punk Rock Releases of 2025.
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.
The Power Of Grime Compels You!
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.
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.
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 all time (as of 2025)
Top 25 Punk Rock Christmas Songs of 2025. New additions by The Boy Detective, Briefbombe, and Too Bad Eugene.
DefBlonde Keep the Lancashire Punk Spirit Alive Across Decades of Chaos and Creation
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.
Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2025, Part Nineteen. Zeke, The Boy Detective, Vice Squad, The Brokedowns, Half Dizzy and more.
Spike and The Gimme Gimmes take on Mariah Carey
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 Old Enough To Know Better, Too Old To Care
The Dickies turned Albany’s Ivy Room into a full-blown punk carnival with Supersonic Symbiotic, The East Brothers, and Blunt Force Karma.
Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2025, Part Seventeen.
Supersuckers, Fashion Crime, Crippled Fox, Stabber, Haggus, Pridebowl, C4 and more.
BlackPoo and Hot Pink Sewage: a Glorious Toilet Affair
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.
Dcxpc: Celebration Summer/Wolf-Face split Live Vinyl
Evan Swartz brings us coverage of the highly anticipated Celebration Summer/ Wolf-Face split live vinyl record.