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  "description": "Plus a blog about life as a corporate music media house cat before becoming a punk world social butterfly.",
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  "textContent": "Being a member of the corporate music media who worked nights and weekends meant not getting out to as many shows. There was this culture at Pitchfork that I wasn’t part of, and I had to make my peace with that pretty early on. My coworkers were in New York City going to shows and hanging out together; I was a Midwest night owl watching the wall so my colleagues could log off at the function. It was my teenage dream job, and it required pragmatic compromise. “Hey, could you please remember to not cc me on these emails,” I once told an editor when informed of free donuts in the New York City break room.\n\nIn the past couple years after that job, I’ve been around a lot more—staying out late at shows, giggling and bullshitting with the homies in backyards and parking lots. Most of the people I talk to at shows are in bands that I really like, which is a loose kind of tension since I’ve probably written something about them (and can’t remember for the life of me what I said). Still: I’m an observer, a listener, a sponge for gossip—an absolute pig in shit.\n\nOne year after starting see/saw, I was standing outside with my back against a venue during a rainstorm while a guy in a band I love told me that I should be more negative as a critic. I explained that it really wasn’t where I was as a writer. Punk—the music, community, and everything that word implies—was a buoy out of a dark period. Negativity would feel manufactured and artificial, so I just didn’t write about the bad stuff.\n\nI called see/saw a love letter to punk and rock'n'roll in its nascency, and that’s still very much the case. Two years in, I still get stoked about new records every week. I love hearing about new bands forming and records on the horizon. I’m probably gradually getting bitchier as a punk writer when I hear mediocre music from a legacy artist who can and has done better, but then I spend more of my energy writing 2,000-word columns about the exciting stuff in a given week. Then I go to shows and geek out with my friends about punk records.\n\nteeter/totter: a see/saw benefit is a compilation spawned from my life both as a hermetic music writer and a social butterfly with ringing ears. There are bands that I’ve admired from afar and never met; there are artists I’ve been fortunate enough to get to know a little bit. It’s all new songs benefiting the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and the Immigrant Defense Network. So far, I’ve donated $1,000 to each organization from proceeds. Thanks to everyone who’s checked it out, and more tapes are coming soon if you missed out the first time.\n\nApril was a powerful month for new punk records. These are the songs I liked the best (including two picks from the aforementioned see/saw comp).\n\n* * *\n\nsee/saw’s 60 best punk songs of april 2026\n\nMedia Puzzle: Knowledge\nOddfellows: The Burden\nFül Coverage: Fool Coverage\nAnswering Machines: Crushing Blow\nTriple Ente: Los Pájaros\nEddy Current Suppression Ring: I Need Some Space\nG.R.O.M.I.T.: What Can You Do\nTonya: The Obstacle\nBody Shop: Fallacies\nThe Tubs: Fade to Black\nYleiset Syyt: Sotakoneet\nPuzzlehead: Inventory\nCS Cleaners: What’s That?\nCollaps: You Don’t Get Shit\nUseless Eaters: CONTRAST\nBrendan Wells: I Rent\nSleep Cult: Boring\nTórax y Las Extremidades: Combustión espontánea\nBilliam: Barbie Doll Brains [Plastic Toy Mix]\nFive Bucks: Metal Fumes Fever\nMopar Stars: Feast for the Smile\nChoncy: Just Like Them\nTaxi Girls: Say It!\nCronies: rose\nGÖTRI: YOUR UTOPIA, MY DYSTOPIA\nAwesome Snakes: Money (censored)\nThe Subletters: Polishing a Knife\nUrq: This Dismal Village\nSubtle Turnhips: Pink Syd\n700 Club: Black Iron Prison\nShaved Ape: Gutless\nDemocracy: Violent Dreams\nMary Jam: REST IN PISS\nSurrealistic Pillhead: Chaos Stone\nRobber Robber: Talkback\nWinston Hightower: Selfish Soother\nAssembly: Spotlights\nSeason 2: Holiday\nSkintern: Floorboards\nGentilesky: Heavenly Body\nClubhouse: Scum of Society\nTermite: Panic Hotline\nSocke: Unten\nViolet Bloom: Cognito (I Am)\nLa RAF: Desposeídos\nWitch Piss: Barbarian\nEdging: This Head\nsnarewaves: New Butt\nL.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation: Boots on the Ground\nPower Pants: Checkout Gurl\nEsperanza: Decay\nYambag: Nerve Damage\nWax Head: Bug Doctor\nSubjects: Stutterer\nDasgüt: Alcoholic\nEvil Weevil: Jenny Is a Fig Wasp\nNational Photo Committee: Before the Feeling’s Gone\nDillinger Four: Don’t Happy Be Worry\nCommitment: Pluto in Aquarius\nPoison Ruïn: Lily of the Valley",
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