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There are few voices in punk rock and Americana as instantly recognizable as that of Brian Fallon. For nearly two decades, Fallon has occupied a unique space in our world, equal parts street poet, barroom philosopher, and working-class storyteller. While countless bands spent the last fifteen years trying to recreate the flannel-and-whiskey magic of early orgcore, Fallon quietly kept evolving. And now, he's back. After five years without a proper solo release, Fallon has anno

Si Short didn't set out to stand at the microphone. He just had songs that needed writing. Si Short is not entirely sure how any of this happened. One minute he was writing songs alone in a studio apartment in Hawaii because he needed to, and the next he's routing a European tour, co-managing a record label, and trying to explain to people why The Jack Knives are important to him. He still finds that last part slightly absurd. "I had no intention of ever having a full touring

SOCIAL DISTORTION — Born to Kill (Epitaph Records, May 8, 2026) ★★★★ / 5 Fifteen years is a long time to make people wait. Then again, Mike Ness has never operated on anyone else's schedule, and after everything, the false starts, the relentless touring that ate up a decade of writing time, and a tonsil cancer diagnosis that put a hard stop to sessions midway through recording, the fact that Born to Kill exists at all feels like a minor miracle. That it's genuinely great feel

I Am the Avalanche - The Horror Show (Equal Vision Records) ★★★★☆ There's a version of this review where I tell you to just go listen to the record. That version is probably the correct one. But here we are, so let me try to explain why The Horror Show hit me the way it did, which is to say: hard, and somewhere in the chest, and more than once on a Tuesday morning when I had no business feeling anything at all. Twenty-two years in. Think about that. Vinnie Caruana has been do