Punk Underground - July 2026
Fast, fearless, funny, furious.
Featuring Rufio, Drunk Dial Records, TeethOut, The Real McKenzies, The Radio Addicts, Lost Planet Airmen, Radio Free Alice, Taxi Girls, Cassius Wolf & Das Abs, TORNADO LOBSTER KILLER, Rocketsuit Rogue, Triple Lutz, Wine Lips and Doghouse Rose.
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Rufio - Maps
Sixteen years disappear in a single chorus. Maps isn't about chasing youth. It's about discovering that what's left after the fame fades might matter more. "Now our fame and our fortunes are all gone, we're still here" lands like a victory, while Rufio's soaring melodic pop-punk reminds us that growing older doesn't mean growing quieter.
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Drunk Dial Records - Fakes – Volume Three: A Charity Compilation
There is something beautifully punk about treating fictional bands as if they deserve the same reverence as the real ones. Fakes – Volume Three doesn't feel like a novelty record, but like the afterparty where everyone finally admits that Sex Bob-omb, The Zits, and Spinal Tap shaped them as much as any legendary punk band ever did. Thirteen bands dive headfirst into that shared mythology with exactly the right amount of chaos, humour, and affection.
Every download and cassette supports Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), proving that punk's greatest tradition has never been nostalgia. It's showing up when it counts. This compilation is loud, ridiculous, surprisingly heartfelt, and worth owning for every reason.
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TeethOut - Tonight
Every chorus sounds like another failed attempt to forget someone. "If you call tonight, I won't pick up this time" keeps coming back until it stops sounding like a decision and starts sounding like wishful thinking. Fast melodic skate punk has rarely made emotional paralysis feel this exhilarating.
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The Real McKenzies - Read A Book
Only The Real McKenzies could make literacy sound like an act of rebellion. Bagpipes charge straight through the middle of this folk-punk riot while Paul McKenzie practically dares you to join the chorus of "Read a book!" Equal parts pub anthem and joyful provocation, it's impossible not to grin.
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The Radio Addicts - Let’s Party Like It’s The 90s
This doesn't romanticize the '90s; it remembers how gloriously unfiltered they felt. Guitars bounce, choruses explode, and the vocals tear through a house party where everybody wants to be noticed and nobody wants the night to end. Pure indie pop-punk adrenaline.
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Lost Planet Airmen - '93
Not every nostalgia song aches. '93 remembers scraped knees, bikes, and endless summer evenings with the smile of someone who's simply grateful they happened. You finish it wanting to call an old friend you haven't spoken to in years.
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Radio Free Alice - Lunch Money
Photo Credit: Pema Baldwin
There's an entire coming-of-age film hiding inside these three minutes. Between "They always took your lunch money" and dreams that don't survive adulthood, the song wanders through memory with jangly post-punk guitars refusing to let it become sentimental.
Noah Learmonth sings like he's trying to outrun the past, only to find it waiting at the next bus stop.
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Taxi Girls - Secret Handshake
Most summer songs celebrate the season. Secret Handshake mourns its ending. Beneath the garage punk spark and power-pop hooks lives the hope that some people never really leave, even after the last warm evening fades. One of the sweetest moments on Static.
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Cassius Wolf & Das Abs - Another Girl
You can hear two eras talking to each other. The restless DNA of late-'70s post-punk still drives Another Girl, but it arrives with the confidence of musicians who never stopped believing these songs deserved another life. Sometimes time doesn't dull an idea. It sharpens it.
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TORNADO LOBSTER KILLER - Obey
Taken from Lobsteria - this is the sound of the alarm clock finally fighting back. Obey tears through modern working life with melodic hardcore fury, hammering home "working your ass to the grave" until it feels impossible to shrug off. Angry, relentless, and painfully familiar.
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Rocketsuit Rogue - The Best Last Day on Earth
The sky is falling, the cities are burning, and somehow this feels strangely life-affirming. Like every great disaster movie, it finds hope exactly where panic should be. It's less about the apocalypse than the people you'd want standing beside you when it arrives.
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Triple Lutz - Brainwashed
Photo by KC Jonze @thelonius_punk
Taken from In the Hands of an Angry Mob, Brainwashed feels like every conversation where you bit your tongue finally deciding it has had enough. Fast, furious, and impossible to domesticate.
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Wine Lips - Projector
We've all met a Projector. The person who leaves every room lighter, simply because they've finally walked out of it. Wine Lips turn that feeling into three glorious minutes of psych-punk and garage-punk majesty, while "I'm not your verbal punching bag" lands exactly where it should.
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Doghouse Rose - It Gets Worse
There's something disarming about how openly this song admits that healing isn't linear. Between "my couch must be getting sick of me" and "before it gets better", Doghouse Rose wrap anxiety, depression, and self-doubt inside irresistibly bright punk melodies and power-pop harmonies. Somehow, it leaves you feeling lighter than when it began.
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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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