Wrote about Robber Robber's new album and when your apartment goes up in flames for @pitchfork.com

I loved hanging out with Jeremy Bolm for see/saw jukebox. You want Touché stories? Fat Mike lore? A discussion of the Ramones’ acting chops? Terrifying plane tales? Deeply fun episode, amazing dude, shout out @ninacorcoran.bsky.social

I talked about the see/saw year 2 party (one of the most important nights of my almost four decades on the planet), @ninacorcoran.bsky.social decided that it's time for me to choose a baseball team, and we discussed six exceptional new punk records from the past week. new PUNK THIS WEEK podcast!

what people sound like when they say i asked claude

This might be a hot take but all MLB closers should come out to rock music, it just hits different (Announcer has to let the music breathe a little before jumping in though)

The nu-metal renaissance has hit the major league

Wednesday remain the best rock band in america

Love is learning the entire roster of your partner's favorite team before keeping up with the new hires on your own team

You know, many people today are saying "baseball". You're hearing a lot of people saying it.

Bad announcers saying bad things on air, yeah baseball is back

MARCH 27-28 in MINNEAPOLIS: see/saw turns 2 across 2 sick punk shows Friday come see Makin’ Out, Heather the Jerk, Brendan Wells, Orchid Club @ New World ⚙️ Saturday it’s the Sleaze reunion, Bermuda Squares’ final original lineup set, Kilynn Lunsford, Miracle Debt, BUIO Omega, TY, W-9 @ Eagles 34 🪩

in the new episode of the PUNK THIS WEEK podcast, @ninacorcoran.bsky.social and I discuss the joys and sorrows of POP TARTS + six very sick new punk records. I can't stop excitedly yelling "Trance Bill" in this one, so if you've never listened before, this is a pretty typical episode tbh [positive].

Post-punk doesn't really do it for me these days, which makes it extra special when an album does – like Landowner's latest

Not the Princess Bride theme, how are nominees expected to not cry off their makeup in that room

PSA: Fugazi released the Albini versions of In on the Kill Taker and it sounds excellent Bonus PSA: a bunch of other top-tier punk records came out this week and you can hear them here: see-saw.fun/punk-this-we...

on PUNK THIS WEEK, @ninacorcoran.bsky.social + I's podcast about new and upcoming underground punk bands that nobody's heard of and merit your attention, we'd like to introduce you to Fugazi and Steve Albini

I love this review. You come away knowing absolutely everything you need to know about the band and its music/sound, withOUT the critic tropes of "This band sounds like that band, with a little bit of the other band, influenced by that other band." It's about the music, and honors the music.

This is ace. Springtime feeling

new podcast on six excellent punk albums and which Pokémon @ninacorcoran.bsky.social and I have encountered in the pit irl

Hanging in the Model after closing time, walking back though 3-foot-tall snowbanks, passing that enormous Shell sign on the charles? You could never make me hate boston

Mike Kinsella will never change but American Football will (thank goodness)

every month, @ninacorcoran.bsky.social and I offer up the bonus podcast see/saw jukebox. together with some punk rocker guests, we curate perfect punk records. Philadelphia heroes ERASER absolutely crush the assignment here. a blast of a conversation; sub to see/saw ❤️

JetBlue remains undefeated because a flight attendant complimented my Mannequin Pussy shirt

i miss when we logged in to kick it with people who care about things and never to gawk at various voids where a personality ought to be

When @ninacorcoran.bsky.social writes a BNM, you know it’s a BNM pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

It really is that good, y'all cpnpc.bandcamp.com/album/blame-...

Let’s fucking GOOOOOO

Remember the last time you couldn't stop recommending an album to everyone you know? Twisted Teens are that band, and they sound like a dusty pedal steel player and a 70-year-old chain-smoking auto mechanic playing country punk songs on a front porch

@ninacorcoran.bsky.social and I achieve stolen valor by talking about Grimace lore one episode after @dbanthony.bsky.social's guest spot on the pod. we also talk about the exceptional TWISTED TEENS album and some other heaters on the PUNK THIS WEEK podcast 🍇

Everyone says they want 90-minute comedies to come back In my entire life, I've never heard a crowd laugh as loudly and continuously as they did during the Music Box screening a few months ago. Left on a crazy, days-long high. I can't recommend it enough! Go see it this weekend!!

PUNK THIS WEEK's first ep with a full-on guest host! @ninacorcoran.bsky.social and I force @dbanthony.bsky.social to talk about his band RITUAL CROSS. we also did our first-ever AD READ and talked about the new MUPPET SHOW and SAVORY ICE CREAM FLAVORS and GETTING YOUR LONG HAIR CAUGHT IN STUFF.

Happy Ratboys album release day 🐭 If you've never heard this band, are feeling down (who isn't?), or miss that sensation of a spark burning inside of you, give this album a spin. It's one of those records that keeps on giving the more you play it

the new ratboys record is out today. i’m so thrilled everyone finally gets to hear it. enjoy it, soak it in. you’re not alone

After a month and a half break from print, the Reader makes its debut as a monthly. Thank you to everyone who supported the paper last year when we were scraping by week to week, and all the ups and downs before then. Thank you to everyone who picks up a new issue, it means the world.

We dropped the new Ritual Cross tape today so I wrote about it and some other cool new music

2026 feels like it's gonna be the year of Ratboys, and bless @ninacorcoran.bsky.social for this beautiful piece that captures them in this eternal moment pitchfork.com/features/rat...

Getting clocked by the library security guard......an honor

An amazing profile of Chicago—through the eyes of a band that embodies the city—penned by the talented Nina Corcoran. Listen to "A Vision," eat a hotdog, drink some Malort, and read what will undoubtedly be one of the best feature pieces of 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ezM...

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on see/saw jukebox (our bonus subscribers-only podcast), @ninacorcoran.bsky.social and I welcome guests to add perfect punk records to a mythical jukebox. this time, we get some classics added in by texas garage punk icons the marked men.

ratboys forever pitchfork.com/features/rat...

This, to me, is the essence of what I love about Chicago artists. You don't make art here to become a media darling or get rich or parlay it into some other career. You make art here bc you love doing it for its own sake, unpretentiously. You do it here bc you love & are inspired by this place.

Oh hell yes!!!

I can't make it to Prince George today for the early listening/release event but I don't think I can come up with a theoretical album more made for me than "Ratboys' Narrow Stairs"

Ate hotdogs, got tiki drinks, and holed up in a snowstorm with Ratboys, who've never sounded more like their truest selves than on this album

before we started recording this episode of the punk podcast, @ninacorcoran.bsky.social and I were so angry and depressed. then I called the show PUCK THIS WEEK, we watched Kelsey Grammer fall off stage, and we discussed six excellent new records. listen to new music, talk to your friends.

NO GODS NO MASTERS NO PAYWALL LET'S GET THIS STRIKE GOING

Big news for us! Not much will change for the listener! If anything, I hope this leads to bigger and better snack talk with, if my dreams pay off, absurd novelty samples

An underrated joy of living in the midwest is Jets pizza

Michael Rapaport raking food into his mouth on the Traitors, you can't unsee that