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BEST OF 2025

Best Of 2025: Punk

MAGNET’s Tim Stegall picks the best punk releases of the year

1) Lambrini Girls Who Let The Dogs Out? (City Slang)
2) Split System Live In Stockholm 2023 (Legless/Wild Wax/Savage)
3) Wesley & The Boys Rock & Roll Ruined My Life (Sweet Time)
4) Thee Headcoats The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm ’N’ Beat Vernacular (Damaged Goods)
5) Thee Headcoatees Man-Trap (Damaged Goods)
6) Split Dogs Here To Destroy (Venn)
7) The Oxys Casting Pearls Before Swine (Cleopatra)
8) Rousers 1979 Sire Session (Left For Dead)
9) Pointed Sticks Perfect Youth (Porterhouse)
10) Stiff Little Fingers The Singles: 1978-1983 (Captain Oi!/Cherry Red)

Tim Stegall’s first book, Anarchy In The Studio: Punk Music 1970-1979—The Rise Of Punk Rock, is out in January via Ruffian Books and features a forward by Laura Jane Grace.