Hymns and Fiery Dances (Motor Music). Review by Peter Lindblad.

Longtime Ink 19 staff writer Christopher Long spent almost the entire year consuming and writing about new music. Here are his personal Dirty Dozen: the 12 records that made his heart the happiest in 2024.

Over There: Live at the Venue, London - The Complete Concert (Liberation Hall). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Faces to Hide (Independent Project Records). Review by Peter Lindblad.

Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum). Review by Steven Garnett.

Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (Liberation Hall). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

X, the new slasher from A24, delivers on the sex and violence.

The Ghoulies from Perth, Australia look like regular blokes caught out grocery shopping, but the sound they make is an urgent, insistent punk rock howl with a frenetic keyboard bubbling through.

Not unlike fine Swiss clockwork, the duo that calls themselves Yello have been ticking for four decades without missing a beat.

The first wave of UK punk crested and shrank back, but the Mekons are still thrashing and foaming.

Alphabetland (Fat Possum). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Carnage Bargain (Suicide Squeeze). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

I Used to be Pretty (Yep Roc). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

The Westerner (Cool Rock Records / Thirty Tigers). Review by Carl F Gauze.

HWY 62 (Omnivore Recordings). Review by James Mann.

The Kingbees (Omnivore Records / RSO). Review by Carl F. Gauze.

Maxed Out on Distractions (Lolipop Records/Burger Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Cleaver Lever (Shock Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Die-hard fans, May Terry among them, mind-moshed and recalled their early days of musical aggression at Irving Plaza, thanks to legendary punk rockers, X.

A fittingly ambitious film for a fittingly artistic and poetic band.