DC melodic punk band Celebration Summer has spent the past few years refining their sound, blending influences from Dischord-era punk, gruff melodic hardcore, and introspective folk and country songwriting. With their recently released J.
For over 25 years, Ottawa-based punk rockers The Riptides have been delivering high-energy, melody-driven blasts of pop-punk that have earned them a loyal following both at home and abroad.
Toronto punk heroes PUP— comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladkowski— will release their highly anticipated forthcoming album Who Will Look After The Dogs? On May 2nd via Little Dipper / Rise Records. Who Will Look After The Dogs?, PUP’s pummeling and cathartic fifth LP, is their most immediate, no-frills, and hard-hitting full-length yet. It was made in Los Angeles with producer John Congleton over the course of three weeks, and it’s the culmination of PUP’s past decade of constant touring and their palpable, livewire chemistry.
From the very basement of the city itself, Dayton, OH’s own The Raging Nathans return with their sixth full-length album, Room For One More, their most powerful and fully realized record to date.
his One’s Gonna Hurt is the second full-length from the Colorado Springs punk rockers The Sleights featuring 12 tracks of guitar driven punk-rock.
Some of the tracks deal with many real life problems, depression being at the forefront. “It's something that all of us can relate to, the song 'Believe’ is about giving up because things just won't change. It's a lot better to sing about giving up than to actually do it," shares singer/guitarist Luke Blanton.
Pet Need’s ‘Kind of Acoustic’ from Xtra Mile Recordings came out on January 24th 2025, and boy oh boy, it rules. 12 tracks in just over half an hour, the album is by turns cheeky and incisive.
Released on January 24th, ‘Lucero Unplugged’ is a minimalist retrospective on the best work from Lucero, played simply and beautifully by the band’s lead singer Ben Nichols and keyboardist Rick Ste
ZEPHR’s ‘Past Lives’ hit shelves on January 17, the band’s second LP from Snappy Little Numbers / Dumb Ghost Records. The record is around 37 minutes, divided into 10 tracks.
‘North by Southwest,’ available since January 23, 2025, is the newest release from Let Me Downs, a punk trio from Washington state, published by Felony Records.
Australia’s CIVIC have today announced the May 30 release of their third album, Chrome Dipped, via ATO Records. Willing to break free from the raw, distinctly Australian punk rock blueprint of Future Forecast (2021) and Taken By Force (2023) — an album praised by Mojo with four stars and hailed by NME as “a blunt, muscly rock record that’s constantly on edge” — CIVIC push themselves into fresh creative territory with Chrome Dipped. Marking a bold shift from their signature sound, the LP finds the band exploring new sonic territory while maintaining their sharp intensity.
