Punk Underground - June 2026
A fiery round-up of the freshest releases from every corner of punk.
Featuring Taxi Girls, Seven Crowns, Cello, Steppin' Razor Blades, GrimSkunk, The Light Show, Stunt Drummer, Faiyaz & the Wasted Chances, Among Legends, FakeYou, Yee Loi, Micko & The Mellotronics, Weird Bloom, The Joy Thieves, Panic Shack, Tornado Lobster Killer, Best Band, Siouxie & the Skunks, Chaser and Radkey.
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Taxi Girls - Say It!
Say It! crashes out of the gate with the cigarette-burn rush of garage punk and rock 'n' roll attitude, feeling made for stumbling through wet Montreal streets at 2 AM with your ears still ringing.
Taken from the upcoming album Static, the track turns emotional exhaustion into something sharp and immediate, especially when Jamie Radu and Vera throw the chorus back and forth like an argument nobody wants to finish.
"I can’t read your mind / But oh boy I try" lands with bruised frustration, while the guitars keep pushing forward without mercy.
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Seven Crowns - Side Effects
Something is haunting about the way Side Effects moves; heavy psychedelic punk that feels like headlights cutting through rain on an empty road after bad news.
Taken from Haunted Head, the song carries grief without collapsing under it, balancing massive riffs with a sense of reflection that lingers in the background like smoke trapped in old curtains.
Seven Crowns sound weathered but defiant here, pulling melody and abrasion together into something deeply human.
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Cello - We Do What We Want (When We Want When We Want To)
Cello's latest single from the upcoming Kung Fu Disco album is basement-punk chaos in its purest form: damp walls, sticky floors, bad decisions and the feeling that the night might never end.
The repeated chant of "We do what we want / When we want to" hits like a gang vocal shouted by strangers pressed together in a tiny room with the ceiling dripping overhead.
There's freedom in its messiness, and Cello delivers every line with the reckless confidence of someone kicking the door open just to see what happens next.
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Steppin' Razor Blades - In Stereo
Photo credit: Cat Meade
Taken from Stay Sharp, In Stereo revives classic Two-Tone ska punk with enough bounce and brass-soaked spirit to turn even the dullest weekday into a sweat-soaked dancefloor.
The Steppin' Razor Blades lean fully into sharp rhythms and upbeat grooves, but there's still grit underneath the upbeat pulse, like cracked pavement beneath checkerboard shoes. It feels less like nostalgia and more like a city block party refusing to die quietly.
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GrimSkunk - Nice Dice
Photo credit: Carl Thériault
Nice Dice stomps forward with hard rock weight and punk hostility, sounding like a crowded bar seconds before somebody flips a table. Released alongside United & Strong, the track spits venom at greed and indifference through lines like "You steal, you lie and cheat" while the band drives the tension harder and harder with every repetition of "Sacrifice!"
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The Light Show - Fighting With The Night
Fighting With The Night feels built for sticky club walls and voices disappearing into the chorus together. The Light Show mix indie-punk drive with fast-spitting verses and huge melodic hooks, creating a track that barrels ahead without giving you time to breathe.
By the time the outro explodes into its final crescendo, it feels like sunrise creeping in through broken blinds after an all-night disaster you'd probably repeat tomorrow.
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Stunt Drummer - Warm Up
The title track from Warm Up, Tiger sounds like a band throwing sparks at each other inside a collapsing practice room and somehow turning the wreckage into music. Jagged guitars slash through restless rhythms while the vocals wobble between confrontation and complete derailment, giving the song a beautifully unstable pulse.
Stunt Drummer make noise-garage punk feel gloriously unpredictable messy in the best possible way, like hearing the walls shake during a show that's probably gone too far already.
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Faiyaz & the Wasted Chances - Bleeding Out
Photo credit: Mimi Abitbol
Bleeding Out masks exhaustion beneath bright garage punk momentum, creating a strange tension between its catchy bounce and the weight sitting underneath the lyrics. "Migraines every night don't mean shit to me" lands less like bravado and more like somebody forcing themselves upright one more time before collapsing again.
As the opening statement for the band’s forthcoming album, the track feels immediate and restless, with stripped-back production that leaves every shout, scrape and crack fully exposed.
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Among Legends - H/A/C/K
Among Legends come out swinging on H/A/C/K, the lead single from Lose My Grip, blending melodic punk with the exhaustion of endless highways and fluorescent truck-stop nights. The lyrics paint a poisoned industrial landscape: "Your smokestack neck belching cubic tons of dreck", while the band charges through the chaos with sharp hooks and relentless momentum.
There's anger, but also burnout, the sound of people trying to keep moving while everything overhead darkens.
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FakeYou - SOLACE
Photo credit: Al'affiche Montreal
Taken from Promise to Disappear - SOLACE carries the emotional punch of late-90s melodic punk without losing the roughness that makes it hit so hard. The raspy vocals sound worn thin from holding too much in for too long, while the instrumentation surges forward with desperate urgency rather than polished precision.
FakeYou turn emotional fallout into something loud enough to rattle the room, but there's still a lingering ache underneath all that momentum that keeps the song hanging in your chest after it ends.
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Yee Loi - Why Ask Why
Why Ask Why charges forward with scrappy punk rock 'n'roll spirit that feels ripped straight from somebody's first basement obsession with The Ramones and Johnny Thunders.
The way Yee Loi throw themselves into the song is excitingly loose: fast drums, sharp rockabilly guitar lines, and vocals that sound fed up with explaining anything to anyone. "Don’t ask me why" becomes less of a chorus and more of a wall slammed shut in frustration, teenage confusion turned into pure velocity.
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Micko & The Mellotronics - Shadow
Photo credit: Peter Tainsh
Shadow twists post-punk tension and retro art-rock into something strangely theatrical, like wandering through neon-lit corridors while old memories flicker against the walls. Taken from the upcoming album The Trinity, the track confronts darker impulses without sinking into self-pity, instead pushing toward release and acceptance.
Micko’s vocals carry a restless, talk-sung urgency that suits the song's psychological unease perfectly, while the jagged guitars and tight rhythm section keep everything moving like a machine running slightly off balance.
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Weird Bloom - More Punk Than You
More Punk Than You reeks of cheap beer, motorway asphalt, and an exhaustion that turns into laughter somewhere around 3 AM. Saturated guitars grind against a swaggering groove while Weird Bloom take aim at self-important scene politics with a smirk instead of a lecture.
There's grime under this song's fingernails; a blue-collar punk track about survival, bad food, ugly venues and the ridiculous competition over who gets to call themselves "real".
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The Joy Thieves - No Anchor feat. Chris Conelly
No Anchor, taken from Apocalypse Pending (June 5), feels like a city collapsing under flickering fluorescent lights while everybody keeps pretending things are normal. Industrial, punk, and darkwave textures grind against each other through constantly shifting riffs that never fully settle, creating a sick, unstable tension running through the entire track.
Chris Connelly's vocals sound cold and worn down by what he's describing, giving lines about moral collapse and isolation the feeling of a warning nobody bothered listening to in time.
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Panic Shack - grin & bear it
Photo Credit: Panic Shack
grin & bear it turns workplace exhaustion into a blazing punk release built on frustration, sarcasm, and the slow death of motivation under endless routine. Sarah Harvey spits lines like "Overworked, underpaid" and "I wanna stop the world, let me get off" with the fury of somebody halfway through another dead-end nightshift under flickering lights.
The massive guitars hit like pure adrenaline, but beneath all the noise lies something painfully familiar: the feeling that modern life keeps demanding more while giving back less every year.
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Tornado Lobster Killer - Pay to Play
Pay To Play is melodic hardcore dragged through the financial and emotional wreckage of underground touring culture, all bitterness, sweat and stubborn survival instinct. Tornado Lobster Killer don't romanticize DIY struggle; instead, they tear into it directly, exposing shrinking venues, burnout, and the humiliating economics of trying to stay visible in a collapsing scene.
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Best Band - Another Decayed
Photo credit: Claire C
Another Decayed, taken from The People's Cub, stumbles through post-punk, avant-punk and weird lo-fi repetition like a strange late-night monologue overheard on the last bus home.
The looping bassline traps the song in a hypnotic spiral while the lyrics drift through depression, memory and surreal imagery: "feeling like a wellington in a drawer / a baby skeleton" somehow sounding both absurd and deeply sad at the same time.
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Siouxie & the Skunks - Mira
Mira crashes around like a stray animal tearing through alleyways at night: noisy, affectionate, unpredictable and impossible to domesticate. Taken from the upcoming album Songs About Hiding, the track wraps distorted garage-punk chaos around something strangely tender, especially when the repeated "Mira is my cat" slips between obsession and admiration.
Siouxie & the Skunks capture the messy beauty of attachment: blood on your hands, sugar on your teeth, loud laughter echoing somewhere after midnight.
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Chaser - Three Little Birds
CHASER transform Bob Marley's Three Little Birds into a soaring melodic skate punk anthem without stripping away the warmth that made the original timeless. Taken from the upcoming Gonna Be Alright 7”, the track feels made for summer drives, festival crowds and strangers screaming the chorus back together with arms over each other's shoulders.
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Radkey - Ready To Burn
Photo credit: Sarah Jaben
Ready To Burn tears forward with the hunger of a band that's spent years surviving on instinct, bad luck and pure stubbornness. Taken from the upcoming album Bedroom Sand, the song blends punk, garage rock and heavy riff-driven energy into something that feels built for cramped venues and blown speakers.
There's nostalgia running through it too; flashes of endless touring, highway nights and DIY survival, but Radkey never sound trapped by the past. Everything about the track pushes forward, restless and loud, like they're still fighting to prove something every single night.
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About Eugenia Roditis
Eugenia's passion for music was ignited from an early age as she grew up in a family of musicians. She loves attending concerts and festivals, while constantly seeking fresh and exciting new artists across diverse genres. Eugenia joined the MusicnGear team in 2012.
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