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Punk This Week

Punk This Weekis a weekly podcast from Evan Minsker (see/saw, Pitchfork) and Nina Corcoran (Pitchfork, Rolling Stone), breaking down the latest releases in the world of punk rock. Each episode highlights two records with brief discussions of an additional four. It’s a wide survey of the world of punk, with international releases both from the deep underground of heavy music as well as discussions of rising stars reaching bigger audiences and venues.

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01:27:05

102: Perennial + Eraser

Punk This Week ·

2026/09/22

There’s (almost) no time for snack talk because Nina attended Riot Fest over the weekend while Evan witnessed the power bill of Jim E. Brown, Uranium Club, Cherry Cheeks, and Citric Dummies. It’s a boom period for great live punk shows in the U.S. amid a killer week for excellent new punk records, including new stuff from Perennial, Eraser, Dabda, Fugitive Bubble, Meadow, and Name Names. Further relevant links: Eraser’s interviews in The Line of Best Fit and see/saw jukebox, the latest installment

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01:12:37

101: Lack + Unity

Punk This Week ·

2026/09/15

For episode 101, we pledge allegiance to the dogs, state some trail mix preferences, shout out our favorite boilerplate wedding reception bangers, salute the Nitro flag, and play a game of Candy Corn Pumpkins Minesweeper. We also talk about great new punk records from Lack, Unity, Egomaniacs, Bed Maker, Hung Kong, and El Cuarto Oscuro.Share this show with your friends! Leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and we will talk about a snack of your choosing!Punk This Week is a Ruinous Media

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01:37:40

100: Tense + 1-800+MIKEY

Punk This Week ·

2026/09/08

On the centennial episode of the podcast, Nina returns from Australia with tales of bands, bites, and BIZZA. We discuss new albums from Tense, 1-800-MIKEY, the Alices, Spread Joy, liga de barro, and HININ. Shout out new records by the Go, Loose Lips, Gleetch, Dirty Secret, and Snout Fever.Ad-free and bonus episodes are available only to paid see/saw subscribers. There’s a 25% off Labor Day Sale that ends after today (9/8). Share this show with your friends! Leave us a five star review on Apple

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01:16:59

99: Ty Segall + Totalitär

Punk This Week ·

2026/09/01

While discussing Toffifay at the five-star review behest of true head and grocery store vandal Geriatric Punk Rocker, Evan and Nina are shocked by Brazil’s rendering of Tony the Tiger as a scheming pervert. Nina prepares to raid Australia’s snack offerings. We bring new records by Ty Segall, Totalitär, Nekra, Kurralta Park, No Magic, and DETH. Shout out Wine Lips and Rat Cage.Share this show with your friends! Leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts and we will talk about a snack of your

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01:25:12

98: Plum + Guiding Light

Punk This Week ·

2026/08/25

Nina’s voice is compromised once again, but this time, it’s Alan Schilke’s fault. That’s right, she’s back from Cedar Point, where a surprise literally fell into her lap during one of many rollercoaster rides. Nina gets to the Sweeping Promises gig. Evan’s drinkin’ huckleberry soda. We talk about Plum, Guiding Light, Black Marble, Xanny Stars, Clean Slate, and Que Lindo.For more on Oslo’s punk scene, read Erik Egenes’ “near-arctic state of alert” on see/saw.If you like this podcast, please subscribe

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01:14:53

97: Sweeping Promises + xray xeroxx

Punk This Week ·

2026/08/19

Leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts and we will talk about a snack of your choosing. Choose your fighter. Nina tries an apple soda that goes full Jolly Rancher, then offers a report from the Fiddlehead and American Football shows (on the same night, of course). We discuss new records by Sweeping Promises, xray xeroxx, the Shooters, PANG, Navaja, and Terror Management Band. We must shout out the new records by Evil Island, TTNG, Credit Card, Calice, and Headcheese. Make sure to read Rocco’s

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01:24:16

96: Useless Eaters + Kariah

Punk This Week ·

2026/08/12

After a deeply wholesome vacation and a trip to see the Gories, Evan hears about a D&D bar with vegan food, Green River, Suuns on the aux, and Malort ice cream. We shout out some favorites from our week off by Society, Mopar Stars, Sistema de Entretenimiento, and Mallory Hawk. We wax poetic about Useless Eaters, Kariah, Daddy’s Boy, Anti-Spectacular, pennines, and JUG. Shout out Quinn Moreland’s Riverdale recap.Ad-free and bonus episodes are available only to paid see/saw subscribers! If you

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01:15:03

see/saw jukebox 13: Sweeping Promises

Punk This Week ·

2026/08/04

see/saw jukebox is a bonus podcast about perfect punk records from Punk This Week hosts Nina Corcoran and Evan Minsker. Each episode, we’re joined by special guests to curate perfect punk records for a mythical jukebox. This time around, we sit down with Sweeping Promises prior to the release of their new album You Say I Romanticize. Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug discuss their Boston years, the ups and downs of literally living in the studio, their ambitious plans to record Good Living Is Coming

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01:20:29

95: Dog Date + Mesh

Punk This Week ·

2026/07/28

Featuring Dog Date, Mesh, Vida Ruim, Cel Ray, Falcon Crust, and Cuticles.Bam! Bam! Bam! We’re swooning over punk records like some construction workers who just saw some meatballs get dusted with parmesan. A discussion of multiple outings to shows, the big five U.S. orchestras, and Nina’s superhuman ability to never get sick (until this week).Some quick housekeeping: Punk This Week is taking next week off, so we’ll be sharing a brand new episode of see/saw jukebox (usually a bonus podcast behind the

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01:17:39

94: Cry Cyclops + Cold Comfort

Punk This Week ·

2026/07/21

This week we discuss new ones from Cry Cyclops, Cold Comfort, OUST, Loaming, Face Off, and Rupture_punk.You want to live like we do? Eat some sour Super Cola candies from Japan, breathe that museum air away from all the wildfire smoke, (literally) introduce your parents to Twisted Teens, and most importantly, watch the cinema classic Face/Off (1997). Shout out Jet Moto (1996) and Rather be a fuck up (2025). Ad-free and bonus episodes are available only to paid see/saw subscribers with the link at

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01:25:34

93: Twisted Teens + The Carp

Punk This Week ·

2026/07/14

After a discussion about the lucha mask that lives on the back of a baseball hat (see below), sour candies, Krill, and the hostile puppet takeover of a sick Chicago ice cream spot, Evan and Nina cement their legacy as innovators with the invention of Drumba.They also discuss the new albums by Twisted Teens, the Carp, piso franco, NightFreak, La Increíble Patrulla X, and Vital Stress. Be sure to check out Matt Mitchell’s Twisted Teens feature for Paste Magazine, plus the “Florida Water Blues” music

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01:21:19

92: Overlooked Favorites + The Ritornello Form + Hot...

Punk This Week ·

2026/07/08

On a post-Independence Day episode where we talk about the Ritornello Form, Hot Load, Grey Matter, Smirk, Far Too Late, and Chrome Cell Torture (plus ska, Nitro, and fruit salads), we open the episode with our overlooked favorite punk records from 2026 so far (which we hadn’t brought to the podcast this year so far). Evan’s picks: Useless Eaters’ Music for Clout, Noxeema’s Sick, Body Shop’s Sex Body, Touch Girl Apple Blossom’s Graceful, and Aswan Dam’s In the Playground of the Damned. Nina’s picks:

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01:22:13

91: Fiddlehead + Alien Nosejob

Punk This Week ·

2026/06/30

This new episode features records by Fiddlehead (read David Anthony’s piece), Alien Nosejob, Consensus Madness, Old Yeller, Girl Trouble, and Baby Jane. Plus, Evan and Nina take a long walk through recent ponderings—seeing “Weird Al” live, hearing bluegrass gossip about troublemaking cloggers, the rebranded resurgence of FKA Altoids Sours, the possibility of violet-flavored Choward’s, Jeni’s Ice Cream flavors that unsurprisingly freak it, the backyard black raspberry crop, seeing The Fly for the

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01:12:48

90: Roberta Lips + Non Plus Temps

Punk This Week ·

2026/06/23

As Midwestern punk podcasters who love snacks, we finally talk about Culver’s and chalky candies. Nina introduces Evan to Sky Bar, who immediately creates the Sky Bar Challenge. This time we discuss new records by Roberta Lips, Non Plus Temps, the Annabel and Calendars split, L.O.T.I.O.N., Quitters, and Body Suit.If you like this podcast, please leave us a review + share it + subscribe!Punk This Week is a Ruinous Media podcast; thanks to Ruinous for their support. Thanks to Baby Tyler Band for use

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01:13:32

89: Buckets + Cherry Cheeks

Punk This Week ·

2026/06/16

Don’t go down to the basement (to watch D. Sablu) while the Knicks lock down their historic game four comeback. Two decadent desserts: butterscotch budino and Stuf of Doom Oreos. We stan toot meme kings Miles Davis and Victor Von Doom. We’re mall walking, we’re demanding some globes (again), and we’re talking about new records from Buckets, Cherry Cheeks, Potluck!, Finale, Reveal Yourself, and the Sex Shoppe.If you like this podcast, please leave us a review + share it + subscribe!Punk This Week is

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01:09:33

88: Gimic + Edging

Punk This Week ·

2026/06/09

Evan and Nina discuss how many boxes of Cracker Jacks we’re putting down in a given year, New England-exclusive seltzer flavors, why all punk bands should be sending out fan club cards, and some great new records by Gimic, Edging, Pleasure Cube, Gripe, TANO!, and Prisão. (A bonus shout-out to Teathing, Osees, Slippers, and Rejecter.)Be sure to check out the new episode of see/saw jukebox with DEVO’s Gerald V. Casale! If you like this podcast, please leave us a review + share it + subscribe!Punk This

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01:11:50

87: Eddy Current Suppression Ring + Hillsboro

Punk This Week ·

2026/06/02

Evan and Nina celebrated some dear friends over the weekend. This happened mere days after getting shouted at by one of their heroes during a taping of see/saw jukebox. (Everybody’s cool, it’s an amazing conversation.) We tell the story of that imminent episode and talk about some records that remind us of Zorak and Breakout. It’s episode 87 featuring new ones from Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Hillsboro, Concrete Lawn, Emergeense, WWW, and DALAÏDRAMA.If you like this podcast, please leave us a

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01:07:38

86: Marbled Eye + FILM

Punk This Week ·

2026/05/26

Nina asks a burning question about public bathroom hand dryer technique and road trips for a grail television and some free VHS tapes. This episode’s unofficial title is “Dysons, Drive-Ins, and DBZ.” We chop it up about new records from Marbled Eye, FILM, Jacket Burner, Piper Maru, Obamacare, and Gremlin.If you like this podcast, please leave us a review + share it + subscribe!Punk This Week is a Ruinous Media podcast; thanks to Ruinous for their support. Thanks to Baby Tyler Band for use of our

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01:11:55

85: PINKLIDS + Prisonnier du Temps

Punk This Week ·

2026/05/19

One host enjoys a weekend with Robber Robber and a very fast wooden rollercoaster. The other spills coffee all over their office floor in the middle of recording. Which band shirt is used to mop up the coffee spill? Find out and hear us talk about new stuff from PINKLIDS, Prisonnier Du Temps, Edna Mode, G2K, God Entered My Body Like a Body My Same Size (check out Drew B. Hall’s comics work), and Jake King.Punk This Week is a Ruinous Media podcast; thanks to Ruinous for their support. Thanks to Baby

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01:01:32

84: Cola + T-Models

Punk This Week ·

2026/05/12

Evan tries root beer float cereal, Nina orders an alcoholic root beer, and we both go see Reno’s Rotary Club on their conquering tour of the Midwest. We both admit that we wish we had fancy globe bar carts in our respective offices, and we pay our respects to Greedo’s dying word (2019). This week we’re getting into new records from Cola, T-Models, Fiona Slide, Automatic Lovers, open carry state, and King Automatic. Remember to grab a copy of teeter/totter: a see/saw benefit.Punk This Week is a

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