Punk Underground - September 2025
A fiery round-up of the freshest releases from every corner of punk!
Featuring: The Penske File, Forester, The Mendozaz, MONTE, Calling All Captains, Fini Tribe, Takomaha, Talk To Her, RADIOACTIVITY, Haraball, MUGGER, Banquets, and The Carolyn.
Punk Underground - Hardcore / Garage / Post-Punk / Folk Punk / Pop Punk
The Penske File - Dead Maps
There's a certain kind of punk song that feels like it's been lived in for years, and Dead Maps is one of them. The guitars move with the restless energy of a band that's grown up together, but refuses to slow down.
It's tight, fast, and big-hearted; a song that reminds you why you fell in love with punk in the first place. You can hear the history between these three friends stitched into every shout and chord.
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Forester - You Were Born
Photo: Keenan Gregory
You Were Born hits like a storm you didn't see coming. Jagged guitars, pounding drums, and words that sting long after the song ends. It's messy in the way real arguments are, full of rage and regret, but there's also a strange beauty in how it unravels.
You can almost feel the years of waiting in those verses, like a fuse burning down before the final spark.
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The Mendozaz - Late Stage 12 Gauge
This one is pure, unfiltered fun: a wild 90s-style pop-punk ride with a grin plastered across its face. The Mendozaz spin tall tales of paranoia and shotgun stand-offs like they're passing around inside jokes at a basement show. It's fast, snotty, and sharp enough to leave you laughing while you shout along.
History class has never sounded this loud.
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MONTE - Popular Too
Popular Too feels like digging through old high-school memories and realizing the weird kid was always the coolest. MONTE wrap baggy clothes, parking lot hangs, and a sly sense of humor into a track that's as scrappy as it is catchy.
It's a misfit anthem with teeth; a song that makes you want to grab your friends, crank it up, and yell through the chorus together.
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Calling All Captains - A New Type of Grey
Photo: Karly Watson
Blending post-hardcore with pop-punk, A New Type of Grey is an anthem that hits hard both musically and emotionally. The guitars crash and pull back with just the right tension, while Luc Gauthier's vocals carry a mix of frustration and hope that sticks.
It's a song about breaking out of black-and-white thinking, delivered with an energy that feels both cathartic and defiant, proving that Calling All Captains turn personal struggle into anthemic punk rock.
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Fini Tribe - We're Interested
We're Interested sounds like it's been pulled straight from the damp rehearsal rooms of early-80s Edinburgh, and that's exactly what makes it so magnetic. Haunted piano lines collide with cold concrete, like the city itself breathing through the music.
A reminder of when post-punk still felt like uncharted ground; fragile, weird, and alive in its own crooked way.
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Takomaha - American Basements
American Basements doesn't play nice. It thrashes between feedback storms and sudden jolts of clarity, balancing right on the edge of collapse. It's messy in the best way; jagged guitars tearing through walls of distortion, like At The Drive In stumbling into a burning basement show.
It's punk that still believes in making noise dangerous.
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Talk To Her - PLD
Built on pulsing synths, PLD creeps forward like a heartbeat in the dark, before exploding into something much bigger, heavier, and stranger. The baritone vocal cuts through the smoke while the drums pound like a warning. It feels less like a song and more like a ritual: sharp, hypnotic, and unrelenting.
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RADIOACTIVITY - Time Won't Bring Me Down
Jeff Burke hasn't lost a step; if anything, he's kicking harder now. Time Won't Bring Me Down is a straight shot of tight hooks and no-bullshit energy, a song that makes you want to spill your drink and run in circles until you're out of breath.
It's garage-born punk that doesn’t need to be anything else.
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Haraball - Pink Tiles
Pink Tiles is twitchy, ugly, and somehow beautiful under the grime. Haraball smash hardcore speed into warped psych-rock tones, coming out with something that sounds like The Fall if they'd been raised in a basement full of fuzz pedals and bad ideas.
It's unhinged, it's weird, and it's absolutely punk.
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MUGGER - This Is Ours
Straight out of Austin, This Is Ours stomps in with the spirit of basement shows and fists in the air. Mugger sound like they're writing their own history while throwing a nod to the hardcore of the '80s; fast, blown-out, and impossible to stand still to.
Anna Troxell's vocals cut through with the conviction of someone who knows exactly why this music matters; a reminder that hardcore can still feel urgent, necessary, and built for community.
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Banquets - Who Will Inherit Us?
Taken from their comeback album Petty Relics (17 October), Banquets deliver a track that feels both reflective and triumphant. Who Will Inherit Us? asks big questions about legacy and the passage of time, but the music doesn't wallow; it soars.
The chorus lands like an open road at night, headlights stretching into the distance, melancholic and strangely freeing. This is the sound of a band that's lived through the grind, found their footing again, and still believes in the power of melody shouted into the void.
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The Carolyn - Routines
Photo Credit: Caroline Schlünsen
Taken from Pyramid Scheme of Grief, out on October 3rd and clocking in under three minutes, Routines burns with a restless energy that feels like trying to outpace your own thoughts.
The Carolyn turn exhaustion into a shout-along anthem, a song you throw on when you're stuck in the loop of your own bad habits.
It's short, sharp, and built to stick in your head.
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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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