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in the rubble of another round of Egg Punk Discourse, here's a new installment of the weekly punk column. essential pittsburgh hardcore, nashville shit-kicking garage punks, international wildness. 2-week free trial! get through this bullshit year with loud ass music. see-saw.fun/punk-this-we...

The week before the year 1 party in Minneapolis, I'm throwing a punk rock pizza party in Eau Claire, WI: 3/29 at Leona's, the brand new pizza spot from the folks who brought you COVIZZA. Citric Dummies (MPLS), Heather the Jerk (Madison), and American Muscle (MPLS via Detroit). Cannot wait.

the only king I recognize is ELVIS 2 elvis2.bandcamp.com/track/grub-c...

I have never been more out of touch with the state of underground punk as I am now, but this pod has done an amazing job of helping me remedy that. They do an amazing job of finding the gems, and deserve a lot of credit for it.

Double bass powerviolence, extra playful egg-punk, and the first band to get a repeat mention on the podcast (!) thanks to 2 stellar eps – now that's what I call Punk This Week with @see-saw.fun see-saw.fun/punk-this-we...

In the new PUNK THIS WEEK pod, @ninacorcoran.bsky.social and I talk about snacks for dinner and records by: ✝️ the none 👁️ heavy möther ii 🤮 smear campaign 🔥 oust 🎷 vale vale vale vale vale 🛠️ sexykitten69 The first time we’ve revisited a band in 23 episodes! Come listen: see-saw.fun/punk-this-we...

“I’d rather be a fuck up than a fascist” youtu.be/euaK2G1GSBg?...

you know I didn’t have a fear of flying until very recently hmmm

on April 5 in Minneapolis, I'm throwing a party to celebrate one year of see/saw with some of the best punk + rock'n'roll bands out: retail simps, judy and the jerks, neo neos, artificial go, 208, abi ooze, and panel. grab tickets now, let's have some fun 🍾 see-saw.fun/get-your-tic...

this week I published an interview, the column, a podcast, and a radio show featuring an interview; there was a new video from ben, tickets to my year 1 party in minneapolis went on sale irl, and I submitted the files for a benefit compilation coming soon see-saw.fun

happy valentine's day to each and every one of you unless you're a nazi fuck. I wrote about the flood of sick new punk records out there this week. headlined by rapid dye, heavy möther ii, and split system, there’s 22 records highlighted and way more mentioned briefly. see-saw.fun/punk-this-we...

MINNEAPOLIS gets first dibs at tickets to the see/saw year 1 party, available now over at Extreme Noise Records

this might be the best joke I’ve ever written

loved chatting with the great Pittsburgh punk GEM FAIR on the latest see/saw radio, do yourself a favor and go listen to the new Positive Thinking album www.mixcloud.com/evanminsker/...

one of my favorite bands in Minneapolis rn is Panel, the project of Annie from Green/Blue, the Soviettes, and Bermuda Squares. EP is coming soon. here's an interview and performance live at Cloudland: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofBa...

@see-saw.fun So excited to get my poster up in Canada. Gorgeous! Big!

I use an app to lock me out of other apps, technology addiction breeds technological barricades, honestly it works better than all my false promises to “throw my phone in the woods”

It means a lot that Justin trusted me with the SABLE, and fABLE bios. Those conversations will live with me forever. shorefire.com/roster/bon-i...

Evan Minsker: author of the wonderfully Bon Iver-coded Bon Iver bio

grab the bean dip and savory ice cream for a deeply fun episode of PUNK THIS WEEK with @ninacorcoran.bsky.social see-saw.fun/punk-this-we...

organizing some files from old hard drives, a dozen years of working at pitchfork means you end up with a folder titled "Baauer." really wondering what to do about the Baauer folder.

been sitting on this inspiring conversation with Kristine Nevrose of the L.A. hardcore band S.O.H.—a wild presence in hardcore who’s also an activist, community organizer, actor, and pulmonologist. highly rec their album COST TO LIVE. see-saw.fun/s-o-h-s-kris...

TONIGHT there’s gonna be an egg bake Somewhere in the town TONIGHT there’s gonna be an egg bake So don’t you be arooooound

hit 2026 subscribers, and by binding vote, the discord members have determined that the channel will now run through music from the NINETEEN TWENTIES and so on

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I write ~1500 words about a pile of punk records every Friday. always some incredible and bizarre stuff in there. $4/month to read. I'm obsessed with the Amor Muerte Y Leonara tape, but also gotta shout the goofy/serious political psychedelia of Frankenstein’s Uterus! see-saw.fun/punk-this-we...

Lots of fun for your ears from @see-saw.fun

Writing about punk records is fun as hell. I love punk records. But as Zac Ives once told me, punk lives in the room. It's true, so here’s a vid series from see/saw with videography by Benjamin Mohr. First up is Minneapolis’ Laugh Track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu1G...

boot’s gotta taste pretty exceptional huh

recently started a part-time not-journalism job, and it feels pretty incredible to fully divorce music writing from work music writing as art practice > music writing for c-suite 1%ers

while we recorded, @ninacorcoran.bsky.social looked out the window to see iconic Chicago yard rabbit JEFF; I think he made the episode better

before the Grammys on Sunday, @ninacorcoran.bsky.social and I recorded this zippy lil pod episode about zippy little records; join us for a very special PUNK THIS WEEK called “Oops! All EPs” see-saw.fun/punk-this-we...

here's a playlist of some great punk songs from the start of this bullshit year this post includes an essay about moving through the latest era of upheaval by embracing community + lessons learned from a new year's day tarot reading and the cher memoir see-saw.fun/playlist-the...

some absolute gems from all over the world in this week’s punk column, including a trio of hits from the iconic Italian label Goodbye Boozy + some great stuff from Australia and Tokyo + some effortless Chicago power pop + ELVIS 2 see-saw.fun/punk-this-we...

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it's fuckin stupid being a person promoting anything right now, each day is a new nightmare

hit 2008 subscribers today so I started a new discord channel called NEW SUBS DANCE PARTY celebrating music from the corresponding year as new people subscribe discord.gg/CHBEwmPSKB

I'm in love with the main EP I talk about on this episode of Punk This Week, plus new records by DITZ and Eskupa 💫

The twentieth ep of Punk This Week features some incredible @ninacorcoran.bsky.social lore—an astonishing and bloody tale from the pit. We also discuss some sick new punk records that just came out: ⌨️ ty 🐕 today station 🛋️ day residue 😱 ditz 🐈‍⬛ skull cult 💧 eskupa see-saw.fun/punk-this-we...