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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We love Perennial's new album and you probably will too 🩷

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Justin Anderson-Weber @jlweber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I see you anytime in the near future, expect to hear from me about this new Perennials album I know about thanks to @see-saw.fun and @ninacorcoran.bsky.social perennialtheband.bandcamp.com/album/modern...

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Modernism, by Perennial

10 track album

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stew Leonard's mentioned on the Sopranos?!?!?

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Evan Minsker @see-saw.fun · 22/09/2026

On this new episode of Punk This Week, @ninacorcoran.bsky.social + I discuss some wildly good new records by Eraser, Perennial, Fugitive Bubble, Name Names, Dabda, and Meadow. We also get Nina's highlights from Riot Fest 2026 + my recap of a night with Uranium Club, Citric Dummies, and Jim E. Brown.

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punk this week podcast: perennial + eraser

On a big week for punk shows and perhaps an even bigger week for new punk records.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Probably my most conservative belief: smoking in a crowd, indoors or outdoors, is selfish at best and unsafe at worst. Forcing people around you to inhale smoke of any kind is shitty

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Evan Minsker @see-saw.fun · 15/09/2026

episode 101 means we're talking about dogs and I immediately put my foot in my mouth when I'm like "killing dogs for fashion is the worst thing an animated villain has tried to do" and @ninacorcoran.bsky.social replied "what about genocide." anyway: some great new records this week

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punk this week podcast: lack + unity

We celebrate trail mix nut variety, salty crunchies, and the late Domino. It’s episode 101. This one’s for the dogs.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@jtkantor.bsky.social Josh, hi! I didn't know you were on bsky, hope you've been good! I'm back in town for a wedding and sneaking in tonight's Sox game. Any chance of hearing a Krill song ("Infinite Power"? Their theme?) or more timeless "Moving Right Along"?

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wrote about M(h)aol's new song, inescapable botox & glp-1 ads, and why noise rock mirrors the disgust of self-loathing so well pitchfork.com/reviews/trac...

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M(h)aol: “Scam Manifesto”

Read Nina Corcoran’s review of the track.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Can't believe we've done 100 episodes, it's been 2 years, and I get to hang with Evan every week to joke around & discover underground music Thank you to everyone who listens to Punk This Week, bands refusing to stop letting their creativity run wild, and Evan for being my coworker-turned-true pal

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Evan Minsker @see-saw.fun · 03/09/2026

the Punk This Week bonus podcast see/saw jukebox returns with Christina from Gouge Away! a great chat about excellent records, taking care of your voice when your job is screaming, being shy in punk world, and the Florida scene. subscribe + listen!! cc: @ninacorcoran.bsky.social

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see/saw jukebox: gouge away’s christina michelle

The Portland-via-Florida screamer on perfect punk records, the self-conscious nature of vocal warm-ups, and her cat Noodle.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Reviewed Guiding Light's debut album, which opens with a true "where has this been all my life" song that feels like an old classic RIYL: German vocals, jangle pop guitars played loud, post-punk that sounds like it was recorded in a hot dusty garage pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

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Guiding Light: Fear on My Own Time

Read Nina Corcoran’s review of the album.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Bag check at security but my purse is full of candy bars: a memoir

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Evan Minsker @see-saw.fun · 01/09/2026

new episode of the podcast features the revelation that Tony the Tiger's rendering in Brazil is weirdly menacing and very possibly sleazy. we also talk about sick records from TY SEGALL, TOTALITÄR, NEKRA, KURRALTA PARK, and more. classic ep of Punk This Week.

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punk this week podcast: ty segall + totalitär

We learn that Tony the Tiger is nasty like that outside the U.S.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Did you know you can buy good manners in Australia

Grocery aisle sign that lists the categories "biscuits savoury, carbonated drinks, cordial"

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"We're so grateful to be in Chicago again. I didn't mean for it to take 23 years, but traffic was really bad." - Karen with possibly the greatest excuse?

Don and Karen Peris of the Innocence Mission playing guitar onstage at Lincoln Hall in Chicago on 8/29/26

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I can't believe I'm seeing the Innocence Mission tonight

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Andrew Evans @fakeandrewevans.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Had never heard of this band until this morning, haven’t turned them off all day. There’s Stop Making Sense energy all over this

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JJ @p0chita.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Super fun album.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

No album this year makes me want to dance in inexplicable, limbs-flailing, deeply awkward and fun ways like this Plum album does RIYL: The B-52's, Talking Heads, Devo, Sweeping Promises, Ava Luna, Elvis Costello, post-punk with new wave style

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Plum: Bodies in Motion

Read Nina Corcoran’s review of the album.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Biked to the cutest library branch name (Chicago Bee!) for their free learn-to-play chess class and I ended up being the only one there so it became a private tutoring session with the sweet Ms. Morgan. It was so fun! Libraries rule!!! Don't forget to explore other branches and their events!!

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Standing in the sunlight on a 73 degree day sets everything straight

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One time somebody left a review saying Evan and I have "really pleasant voices" and I've never forgotten it You too can leave kind lies in your review of the podcast and get us to try the weird novelty snacks you enjoy!!!

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thank you, celebrated music journalist Dan Ozzi, for shouting out Punk This Week and @see-saw.fun

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David Anthony @dbanthony.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Back on the beat writing about music and watching your hometown get destroyed via Instagram stories.

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However you figure it

Some thoughts on Northwest Indiana, water, and a bunch of new music.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There are SO MANY good bands in Chicago right now, it’s so great. Not just post punky stuff; name a genre and this city will serve you bangers.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Put Cel Ray on a bill with No Men and Stuck, and the world will weep at what Chicago can do.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

At last, a post-punk album where the frontperson's humor actually makes me laugh: Cel Ray's debut album

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Cel Ray: Cel Rayzer

Read Nina Corcoran’s review of the album.

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David Anthony @dbanthony.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Aside from the knock to the ever-dwindling music journalism ecosystem, I just think about what this all means for smaller and mid-tier bands. If you're not already huge, who is going to cover your album? Who is going to post about your tour? Who is going to…

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Evan Minsker @see-saw.fun · 04/08/2026

see/saw jukebox is a bonus podcast where @ninacorcoran.bsky.social, myself, and punk luminaries talk perfect punk records. we're joined by Sweeping Promises. this episode is free for all listeners! the other 12 episodes of jukebox are behind the paywall. Punk This Week will return next week!

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see/saw jukebox: sweeping promises

Caufield Schnug and Lira Mondal on their new album, their Boston days, and some perfect punk records.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Is there a Michigan band called the Flaming Yips yet

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Justin Anderson-Weber @jlweber.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Listening to Punk This Week in the way to therapy, as you do, and marveling at the amount of music @ninacorcoran.bsky.social saw last week. 1) Major FOMO. I should’ve gotten out more. Just the one ESS garden show for me. 2) Chicago is just the best. We’re so lucky.

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Evan Minsker @see-saw.fun · 28/07/2026

new podcast about new albums we love by MESH and DOG DATE and CEL RAY and CUTICLES and FALCON CRUST and VIDA RUIM. we watch Emeril, talk about the million live shows @ninacorcoran.bsky.social went to this week, and I recount how my son literally collided with a zydeco musician at Eaux Claires 2026.

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punk this week podcast: dog date + mesh

Nina sees one billion shows. Evan’s child slams into a zydeco musician. We lose it for construction workers losing it for Emeril. “Falcon CRUST!”

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Song of the summer: power edition (seizing it, ceding it) pitchfork.com/story/20-con...

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Twisted Teens: “Florida Water Blues”

No amount of meticulous planning or vacation-fund pooling will guarantee a memory as unforgettable this summer as an impromptu hang with your dirtbag friends. Don’t have any? Twisted Teens will whisk you away with “Florida Water Blues,” free of charge. Every image singer-guitarist Caspian Hollywell conjures with his signature rasp is a pro-tip: swig from a flask of rubbing alcohol, tilt your head back in the rain from an old-school sprinkler, take a selfie of your warped selves in the convenience store’s CCTV. Hollywell puts it best: “After all, you’re just a person who doesn’t know shit/We get everything we have by the grace of heaven.” Grab what’s yours and run. — Nina Corcoran

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Charli XCX: “Wink Wink”

While vulnerability has never been off the table for Charli XCX, she hasn’t sounded so content to sprawl on the couch and call it a night as she does on “Wink Wink.” She’s laughing at past attempts to be seductive while licking cream off strawberries. She’s jumping on a trampoline with no underwear one minute and reclining in wide-leg pants the next. That trademark indecision of summer takes root in her words and spreads through the music until her vocals diverge in the chorus, peeling like a clementine’s skin as one shrill line scales upward and the other remains monotone. Is she being fickle or coy? It’s all in the eyes. —Nina Corcoran

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Random guy on the sidewalk asked my partner three times if I'm his wife and then said "she's lickable"

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Dare you to play this Cold Comfort album and not enter peak summer mode

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Evan Minsker @see-saw.fun · 21/07/2026

the Cry Cyclops record whips total ass, the OUST record whips total ass, the band Face Off whips total ass, the film Face/Off (1997) whips total ass. all these insights plus sour soda candy talk with @ninacorcoran.bsky.social on a new episode of the very eloquent podcast PUNK THIS WEEK

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punk this week podcast: cry cyclops + cold comfort

Your assignment? Watch (or rewatch) Face/Off.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Jeff Rosenstock residency night 5 dedicated to shoe

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I cannot believe Nirvanna the Band the Show is going to be on Hulu and will become the biggest, most quoted tv show the way it should've been from the start

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Best seat in the house for Jeff Rosenstock night 1 (next to a middle schooler who sounds like a muppet yelling every song)

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Fiddlehead never miss I wrote about their new EP, addiction, death, and friends who rush to your aid for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

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Fiddlehead: Baby I’ll Change EP

Read Nina Corcoran’s review of the album.

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Evan Minsker @see-saw.fun · 14/07/2026

This is an episode about two of the best punk records of the year, which happened to come out the same day (Twisted Teens + The Carp). It's also an episode where you can fully hear mine and @ninacorcoran.bsky.social's brains melting due to this wild Midwest summer heat. long live drumba.

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punk this week podcast: twisted teens + the carp

An episode about Twisted Teens’ continued hot streak and the advent of Drumba.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Not Karly's first words at Wrigley Field being "We're Wednesday from North Carolina. I promise we love country music" after already screaming "Reality TV" and "Fate Is"

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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Tonight we're renaming it Krillbourn Park

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Gelli Haha playing overhead in Tony's, that's bonus grocery store points

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la araňa discoteca @tape.website · 07/07/2026

KRILL FOREVER

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Evan Minsker @see-saw.fun · 08/07/2026

new episode of the PUNK THIS WEEK podcast features @ninacorcoran.bsky.social and I talking about six highlights from this past week + our overlooked favorite punk records from 2026 so far

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punk this week podcast: overlooked favorites + the ritornello form + hot load

A discussion of our favorite overlooked punk records from 2026 so far (aka records we haven’t brought to the podcast until now).

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Nina Corcoran @ninacorcoran.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

You are limiting yourself if you only listen to Truck Violence through the lens of Chat Pile Wish their sophomore album exceeded the heights of their debut, but I'll take this thicker blend of banjo + post-hardcore + sludge metal any day My review for @pitchfork.com 🪕

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Truck Violence: The weathervane is my body

Read Nina Corcoran’s review of the album.

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