Trois-Rivières isn't exactly punk rock's ancestral home, but Jim Giguère and his band of scarred romantics have spent a decade proving that geography means nothing when the songs are honest enough. *A New Frame of Mind* arrives not as a victory lap but as a confession booth with a Marshall stack bolted to the door, and it's the finest thing this outfit has committed to tape.

Thirty-five years is a long time to carry a song around before it finally claws its way out of you, and you can hear every one of those years bleeding through the grooves of "Addict." Cody Carlyle and Travis Jordan arrive not as newcomers chasing a sound but as survivors settling an old score, and the distinction matters. This is music forged in sheds and on pavement, not in a marketing meeting.

Garage punk has never been a particularly subtle art form, and St. Divine have spent the better part of their career making absolutely certain it stays that way. "30 Dolls," their latest self-released single, arrives timed to coincide with another No Kings protest day — a piece of scheduling that is either masterful agitprop or the most gloriously obvious move in the band's history. Possibly both. Probably both. The beauty of St. Divine is that they've never much cared which.

Rock music has always had a complicated relationship with prophecy. From the Clash's breathless urgency to the Libertines' romantically doomed manifestos, the great British and European rock tradition has never been shy about announcing that something — anything — is coming. TOTAL REVERENDS, that grimy, gloriously unfashionable collision of vintage rock instinct and garage punk nerve, have thrown their own proclamation into the ring with *The Revolution Is Inevitable*, and the remarkable thing is: they almost make you believe it.

There's something gloriously unvarnished about Mukka & the Wizard Sleeves' debut single "Born2graft" that immediately places it in the lineage of Britain's finest agit-punk provocateurs. Emerging from Burton On Trent—a town better known for its brewing heritage than its revolutionary musical exports—this six-piece collective have crafted an anthem that spits venom at the machinery of late capitalism with the kind of bile-flecked fury that hasn't been heard with such conviction since the heyday of politically charged British punk.

There's a particular breed of British protest music that refuses to die quietly, despite every attempt by algorithms and streaming platforms to suffocate it with playlists and bite-sized consumption. Steve White & The Protest Family's *Evidence-Based Punk Rock* belongs to this stubborn lineage, standing defiantly at the crossroads where Billy Bragg's righteous fury meets the Manic Street Preachers' conceptual ambition.

The Bare Minimum have never been a band to take themselves too seriously, and their latest mini-album *Doomed City* doubles down on that commitment with a ferocity that borders on the gleefully nihilistic. Following their Nicolas Cage-worshipping EP *UNCAGED*, this four-track offering strips away the conceptual scaffolding to reveal a band operating at their most raw and immediate—though whether this represents artistic evolution or creative exhaustion remains tantalizingly ambiguous.

The Chicago punk rock band The Raspberry Jams was formed in 2023 by two like-minded teenagers who sought to create their own music and promote their own values.

Releases from The Cunning Linguists are always emotional and insightful, the band is not afraid to touch on political and social topics in their work, and their frank message reaches many who disagree with the modern elites and magnates.

'Passion/Bliss' is a new EP from the German punk rock band Coma Beach. The release of this mini-album took place on January 9 and presented 5 tracks. Among these songs we have the opportunity to get acquainted with the single versions and radio edits of the well-known tracks.