Plus: Dollar Signs / Bad Luck / Taking Meds, Spite / Boundaries / Vatican / Bodybox, Strand of Oaks, Jens Lekman, the lineups for Aftershock and Osheaga, !!! (chk chk chk), and more tour and festival news.
Plus: Animals as Leaders, Hamilton Leithauser, Gel, Man on Man, Jawbreaker, Jawbox, Amber Mark, When We Were Young 2022, Thao, Mudhoney/Meat Puppets, OSEES, Slipknot, Future Islands, and more tour and festival news.
It includes a killer mix of albums from across the punk, emo, hardcore, screamo, etc spectrum, as well as archival releases by John Coltrane and The Beach Boys and the new Brockhampton album.
2021 was an incredible year for punk and its many offshoots. Here are the 50 best albums across punk, hardcore, post-hardcore, emo, screamo, metalcore, ska-punk, pop punk, indie-punk, and some hard-to-define stuff in between.