If you've enjoyed some Nuggets, some Sharp Pins records, any DIY guitar music that makes you feel warm and alive, you should 100% try this En Kernaghan Band record. (And the last one too!) A bunch of sick new records on the latest PUNK THIS WEEK column.

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.

I love Minneapolis

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.

someone I know got their ass kicked by ICE, detained, and had their photo spread as propaganda. I’m supposed to see that and be like “uh oh I better not mess with ICE” and instead I’m rooting for the south Minneapolis punks looking out for their neighbors more than fucking ever. real patriot shit.

In the 1984 music video for Phil Collins and Philip Bailey's "Easy Lover," they had enough money in the budget for a helicopter. It’s abundantly clear that the industry has regressed, and a Universal Basic Income for Artists isn't enough. My proposal: a Universal Helicopter Budget for Artists 🚁

lost a subscriber and got a furious email because I said “fuck ICE” in this week’s column. bon voyage, bitch!

yesterday I postponed the weekly punk column out of solidarity with a general strike. today Alex Pretti was executed by ICE on the sidewalk. you can find the new punk column on see-saw.fun for free. I can't really imagine asking for anyone's money rn. go donate to a mutual aid fund. fuck ICE.

There was another state-sanctioned murder of a dissident in the streets of Minneapolis by the secret police today. Yesterday tens of thousands marched, threw a general strike, stood up in such massive numbers to say they’re fed up, and today another observer was murdered.

nothing hits quite like clicking "view entire message" at the bottom of an overstuffed forced exposure email blast

Discovery thanks to the eternally great @see-saw.fun see-saw.fun/paper-jam-on...

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

a great piece from Levi Langley, who hung out with Denton's Paper Jam outside a club in Texas to discuss their twee & punk cornerstones

PUNK THIS WEEK is now a RUINOUS MEDIA podcast we get a spontaneous drop-in from our new pod father Joe Plummer to make sure we're actually holding up our end of the deal. we talk snacks. we talk gylt + dbr + rifle + more. a classic episode of the podcast, and the first of a bold new era

ok I gotta stop talking before I become my generation's grouchy former pitchfork guy. congratulations to everybody with a job in music journalism, I genuinely salute you.

I moderate a discord that anybody can join for free if they want. I book punk shows and don't get paid for 'em. I co-host a podcast where listener engagement is a cornerstone. when a corporation charges $5 and says "we're cultivating community around music discourse," community was never the goal.

Trick Bag, Aquarium Drunkard, Stereogum, Hearing Things, a billion independent newsletters…just saying! if you cherish the spot where you read about music, especially if it’s eternally dangling on the precipice of financial oblivion because there’s not a corporation behind it, throw them some money.

if u want to subscribe to an independent, worker-owned music and culture pub w/great criticism (and features, interviews, blogs etc) from five ppl you know and love, hearing things launched in october 2024 in the wake of conde nast's pitchfork layoffs :) www.hearingthings.co

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a powerful week for lead singles announcing bigger projects. a big week for politically furious and righteous hardcore. read all about the best new punk records on see/saw this week and every week.

shout out @ninacorcoran.bsky.social for repping the best stuff on the biggest platform

This interview really made me want to hear the album. So it worked.

I owe my life to the early 2000s Athens punk scene. Bands: Carrie Nations, Zumm Zumm, Madeline, This Scares Me, We Versus the Shark. Venues: Tite Pockets, Caledonia Lounge. Haven't lived there for two decades, but happy to see a scene report. Hope this comic gets printed for Fluke!

I met Abby Kacen in Cincinnati, summer 2024. She was working in an art & supply shop and I was putting up flyers for see/saw. We met again in a Memphis comic book store during Gonerfest. Read this comic about the state of Athens' punk scene + go get Sid & the Sickos.

on the new episode of PUNK THIS WEEK we sing the praises of sick records by Winged Wheel, Bungee Jumpers, Doe St, mangled, and more. @ninacorcoran.bsky.social searches for yard mint, I discuss how some vibrantly hued frosting on a bakery counter sugar cookie made me feel like a sweet little prince.

LP/CD comin SOON on e/n

I asked Sydney Salk if she wanted to interview Maxwell Bottner from National Photo Committee, she said yes right away and then he said "we're doing it now." A lot of urgency to this piece about a sick Chicago band and their wonderful surprise NYE album drop.

I've been lucky enough to get advice from some truly high-powered music industry titans, and when I look at see/saw, I'm trying to figure out if I listened really well or not at all.

there are a handful of people who understand what the job looked like. it was exacting. it had no boundaries. it earned only scrutiny. there were panic-inducing shifts. @jeremygordon.bsky.social had one of those 10 years ago.

I also recently got the @see-saw.fun year end broadsheet in the mail. Very fun, lots of music to check out. This is going to be my afternoon.

the past week has yielded some truly sick new punk records: raw power Dublin speed punk, one of my favorite young DIY crews in Chicago, sick shit from Australia and Japan, etc etc etc subscribe to see/saw for $4/month or $40/year to get the full PUNK THIS WEEK column in your inbox throughout 2026.

fuck ice, what the absolute fuck

really relate to a lot of what @dustyhenry.bsky.social writes here

I like to think of myself as a maverick in the journalism field. For example, if I was the new anchor of a prestigious nightly news program, I would *not* lick the ass of a politician responsible for violating international law.

to kick off 2026, a shocking new episode of the PUNK THIS WEEK podcast centered around the word “fuckface.” please weigh in, would you street-scream the words: "we have the fucking right of way, you fuckface" also: records by slut intent, fog lamp, jarta attack, ntl photo committee + more

conde nast gave this guy pitchfork, and by my count, 19 staff from my time got cut or left. two years later, he's leaving to work with pharrell. remembering that pitchfork was sold to conde nast with the understanding that conde would be good stewards of the publication. just reminiscing, is all.

as we move wholesale into the good new records from 2026, here's a playlist documenting just how wildly stacked december was for punk music

This @see-saw.fun best punk albums of 2025 zine is getting tacked to the basement wall.

one thing they told me in a forgotten parenting book is to sportscast, not forecast: focus on what’s happening right now. let’s live in the present to keep our senses sharp. focus on your breath. try not to get bogged down by hypothetical futures. support an artist today.

get yourself the pape

really cool of @jlweber.bsky.social to rep see/saw in Of Note, thanks so much, and I agree, subscribe to all these places!!

spend 2026 supporting weirdos and listening to punk music, cleave yourself to community irl, let’s make stuff and protect each other, see hyphen saw dot fun

rock’n’roll record collector nerds join the see/saw discord 2026 let’s GO

for the final episode of PUNK THIS WEEK in 2025, we gathered some friends of the pod around the podcast table to discuss their respective favorite punk things of the year

some brand new punk records to get you through the final days of the new year—a free n brief installment of the PUNK THIS WEEK column

Here we go: @ninacorcoran.bsky.social and I talked about our respective top three punk records of the year 2025. It's the latest episode of the PUNK THIS WEEK podcast.