Punk Favourites – hear what's hot! This playlist, refreshed regularly, features my top 30 punk-rock tracks of 2025. It's all about highlighting the best under-the-radar bands (mostly) you might miss in my other huge playlists. You'll only find killer punk rock tracks here. No compromise, always right in your face, balls to the wall. Think of this as your punk starter pack, a taste of the best new music from 2025. Enjoy!

Roughly 90 minutes, full-on attack, non-stop, no bullshit, exclusively pure fire for all straight-ahead punk rock fans.

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 Playlistcover: HELLE from Leeds, UK

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 April 12, 2025

• Artist: HELLE (Leeds, UK)
• Song: Pornography (new single from the feminist punk four-piece, released April 11)
• Artist: The Last Mile (Montreal, Canada)
• Song: Farewell for now (taken from the brilliant new album „Holding On To Hope“, released April 11)
• Artist: Templeton Pek (Birmingham, UK)
• Song: Paradigm (single, released February 27. If anyone asks what punk rock is all about, just tell them to check the dictionary under 'T' like Templeton Pek!)
• Artist: Allium! (Bristol, UK)
• Song: See No Evil (single, released Feb 2. High enery melodic female vocals & fast power, chord-driven guitars)
• Artist: King Ludd (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
• Song: Trouble (single, released March 25. Blistering debut by seasoned producer & engineer Michael Keire feat. members of The Dirty Nil, The Trews, Ellis, Dead Tired, The Wild High and even more Hamilton, ON talent.
• Artist: RATSALAD. (Geraldton, Western Austrailia/ Jambinu, Yamatji)
• Song: Guilt_emo_rs_song.mp3 (single, released Jan 10. Does punk/hardcore give you goosebumps? It sure does!)
• Artist: Ravagers (Baltimore, Maryland)
• Song: Public Hell (taken from the new album, ‚On the Loose‘, released April 5. Punk’n Roll banger!)
• Artist: Curbside (Ontario, Canada)
• Song: Black & Grey (single, released March 25. High-speed punk-rock!)
• Artist: Cruel Hope (Toronto, Canada)
• Song: The End of the Beginning of the End (taken from the album with the same title, released April 4.)
• Artist: Last Ditch Effort (San Diego, California)
• Song: Twenty-25 (taken from the ep ‚Twenty-25‘, released February 21. Heavy, angry, awesome.)
• Artist: NERiMA (Toronto, Canada)
• Song: Fifty Years (single, released March 14. Classic punk-rock hit!)
• Artist: Trashed (Bristol, UK)
• Song: Drip Fed (single, released February 21. Classic punk-rock hit!)
• Artist: Fake News (Queensland, Australia)
• Song: Southbound (single, released April 9. Turbocharged punk-rock)
• Artist: The Speakeasy (Montreal, Canada)
• Song: Trouble Waters (single, released February 25. An example of prime modern punk rock with all the power & fantastic production.)
• Artist: Typeset (Melbourne/ Naarm, Australia)
• Song: No Signal (debut single, released February 7. Melodic punk and from the get-go the first song is a banger!)
• Artist: Dorian Creech Is Dead (Michigan, US)
• Song: It’s True, Chad. You’re Half Hillbilly (2nd single so far, released March 5)
• Artist: Benihana (Colne, UK)
• Song: Trick (taken from the 3-pc debut ep, released January 17. Sounds like a good old friend and it's quite haunting. Fantastic!)
• Artist: Last Good Thing (Chicago, Illinois)
• Song: All My Friends Are Manic Depressive (taken from the 2-pc single ‚Passenger Van‘, released March 17)
• Artist: Reason To Leave (North West England, UK)
• Song: What Is True? (Taken from the ep ‚What Is True?‘, released March 28)
• Artist: Clancy (originally from BC, Canada, now based in LA, California)
• Song: Kerosene (single, released March 28. Punk-rock with a fresh, bold sound)
• Artist: Packers (Pesaro, Italy)
• Song: FTW (single, released March 28. Heavy, catchy, melodic!)
• Artist: Weekend Cigarettes (Alessandria, Italy)
• Song: Malice (taken from the split ‚Weekend Inferno‘, released March 14. Californian style punk-rock from Italy)
• Artist: Faded Polaroids (Hamburg, Germany)
• Song: The Patient Ones (single, released March 28. Old school punk-rock anthem!)
• Artist: Apart From Us (Frankfurt, Germany) feat. Attic Stories (Karlsruhe, Germany)
• Song: Pulling Teeth (single, released March 19. Meeting of two great bands!)
• Artist: The Raging Nathans (Dayton, Ohio)
• Song: The Grudge (single, released March 21. Fast, melodic punk with a raw intensity)
• Artist: Michelle Sanchez (Chicago, Illinois)
• Song: Jealousy (single, released January 28. Captures the raw edge of punk in a catchy tune.)
• Artist: Run The Riot (Tampa Bay, Florida)
• Song: Falling down (debut single, released March 21. Raw punk spirit with a heavier, metal-infused edge)
• Artist: ALL CRÜ (Catalonia)
• Song: Community Goebbels (single, released March 27.Fast, hard, angry!)
• Artist: 30 is Dead (High Point, North Carolina/ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
• Song: Sugar Free Psycho (new song, released February 18. Just about every song by this punk rock band is a banger. Again and again, it's always good stuff!)
• Artist: The Frst (Nashville, Tennessee), feat. Makeout (Providence, Rhode Island)
• Song: kNOw (taken from the album ‚This Never Happened‘, released April 4. Killer.)
• Artist: Dex Fresco (Misery Bay, Australia) and Brent Hood (Cumbria, UK)
• Song: SPIDERHEAD (single, released January 31. Well produced, modern pop-punk)

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If you dig straight-up punk in the vein of Bad Religion and Rise Against, look no further. The catch is, the bands featured here are still somewhat undiscovered, despite releasing unbelievably fantastic music. Here, I'll be spotlighting the absolute best songs of the year monthly, but definitely on a regular basis, and presenting them in dedicated, specially created playlists to give these bands from around the world even more of a platform. It's absolutely worth your time. This playlist with around 30 tracks is like a total knockout, a punk snack designed to leave you hungry for more! Listen in, turn it up loud! Justsomepunksong, unsigned punk, unsigned pop-punk, all new punk, punkrock museum, new punk releases, green day, punkteron.