Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2025, Part Five.
Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2025, Part Five. The Templars, Heathcliff, Kicked In The Teeth, Zero Again, xWeaponx, Cemetery Girl, MDOP, Sistema Obsoleto, Commitment, Phane, Visions of War and more!
Coachella from your Couch
Niyaz Pirani gives us his Coachella must-sees, and we give you the link to watch it all for free from the comfort of your couch—minus the hipsters, blistering sun, dust storms, and $30 drinks.
Featuring: Amyl and the Sniffers, the Circle Jerks, the Viagra Boys, Bob Vylan, and Lady Gaga.
Don’t Drive to Punk in the Park San Francisco—So You Can Drink More
John Greenwood strongly suggests taking public transport to Punk in the Park San Francisco—just get there for Pennywise, Screeching Weasel, Lagwagon, Comeback Kid, Good Riddance, Leftover Crack, Dead to Me, Manic Hispanic, Rich Kids on LSD, The Queers, Channel 3, The Side Eyes, and Knocked Down. Beer, food, and fun for the whole family.
San Francisco’s Not Dead: FNG at The Independent
Jordan Ranft takes in Family Not a Group (FNG), a 17-person collective of rappers, singers, DJs, and artists, at The Independent in San Francisco, CA.
Hardcore: Slutbomb, Body Farm, Cemetery Girl, M.D.O.P., Porcupine, Gut Gash, Lava (In Corktown).
Slutbomb live at Metropolis Cycles in the Corktown district of Detroit 03/29/2025. 7-band bill that included Lava, Gut Gash, Porcupine, M.D.O.P., Cemetary Girl, and Body Farm.
The Queers, The 66ers, Middle-Out, B-Plot and The Black List.
The Queers, The 66ers, Middle-Out, B-Plot and The Black List.
Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2025, Part Four.
Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2025, Part Four. Bad Beat, D-Bloc, Reagan Youth, The Raging Nathans, The Manicdotes, Battering Ham, Soldiers of Destruction, The Strikeouts, Lion’s Law and more.
Drunky Punks are Lucky Punks
Dick Slaughter takes in Punk in the Park’s Lucky Punks in the OC—featuring Bad Religion, the Dead Kennedys, the Aquabats, Lagwagon, Street Dogs, and maybe you.
Punk Rock Bowling Weekend: More Than Just A Festival.
Punk Rock Bowling Weekend: More than just a festival. Pool parties, late night club shows, The Punk Rock Museum, Evel Pie, Punk Rock Bowling Poker Tournament, and more!
The Premiere of Doll Fest
John Greenwood covers Doll Fest—an all-ages, all-femme-fronted music and arts festival—at Cornerstone, Berkeley, CA, on March 1 & 2, featuring acts such as Bite Me Bambi, Slaughterhouse, Trap Girl, Dollheads, Katie Cash, Tess & The Details, Tsunami Bomb, and many more.
Agnostic Front New York Blood U.S.A. Tour 2025
Agnostic Front / Murphy’s Law/ Violent Way. New York Blood U.S.A. Tour 2025, at The Sanctuary Hamtramck, MI 3/15/2025.
Vote for Celebrity Punk Hunk of the Year 2024
Finally, a chance to vote for something that matters!
Thirteen Punk Hunks are battling it out for the coveted title of In Spite Magazine’s Celebrity Punk Hunk of the Year. Candidates include: Dave Dictor, Jack Grisham, Paul Hostage, Peter Jones, Jim Pursey, Carol Hodge, Penny Rimbaud, Stan Lee, Gee Vaucher, Russell Mummy, Steve Ignorant, Blag Dahlia, and Lewis Peck.
Polls close on April 20th—vote wisely!
Pick It Up Media Presents: Punkerton Records’ Half Dizzy, The Boy Detective and more.
Pick It Up Media Presents: Punkerton Records’ Half Dizzy, The Boy Detective, and more.
Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2025, Part Three.
Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2025, Part Three. Riptides, Let Me Downs, Grassy Knoll, Sex Pistols, Punter, Sunami, Pain of Truth, Bombardement, Tower of One, Armored Flu Unit and more!
Hardcore: D-BLOC, Bad Beat, Escalation of Force, Resolute, Killing Field.
Hardcore: D-BLOC, Bad Beat, Escalation of Force, Resolute, Killing Field at Edgemen Printing.
The Exploited and Total Chaos at the Mystic Theatre
John Greenwood takes in The Exploited and Total Chaos at the Mystic Theatre in Petaluma, California.
Punk Rock Record Reviews: The Best of 2025, Part Two.
Punk rock record reviews, 2025 part two. The Sissy Boys, Fight Back Mountain, Oh The Humanity!, Fucked Up, RBNX/The Car Bomb Parade, Grand Scheme, Sloppy Seconds, The Slime, R-NOT and more.
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass San Francisco
John Greenwood caught Patti Smith at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco
Fear And Negative Approach pay tribute to David Johansen.
Fear and Negative Approach at The Magic Bag, paying tribute to David Johansen and putting on a killer show.
