My favorite albums of 2018
- Fatty Cakes And The Puff Pastries – S/T (Emotional Response)
- Rik and the Pigs – A Child’s Gator (Total Punk)
- Ricky Hell & The Voidboys – S/T (Quality Time Records)
- Shark Toys – Labyrinths (In The Red)
- Mark Sultan – Let Me Out (Modern Sky USA)
- Liquids – Hot Liqs Revenge (Neck Chop Records)
- Little Ugly Girls – S/T (Chapter Music)
- France Has The Bomb – …But We Must Cultivate Our Garden (Diminished Arc)
- Kitten Forever – Semi-Permanent (Rat Queen)
- BB Eye – Headcheese Heartthrob (Fish)
- Alice Bag – Blueprint (Don Giovanni)
- The Cavemen – Nuke Earth (Slovenly)
- Gino And The Goons – Rip It Up (Sunwray)
- Archie and the Bunkers – Songs From The Lodge (Dirty Water)
- David Nance – Doug Sahm and Band (Tall Texan)
My favorite EPs of 2018
- Teeange Cavegirl – “They’re Gonna Get You” (S/R)
- Alien Nosejob – Death Of The Vinyl Boom (S/R)
- Wonder Bread – Complete Solid Gold Hits (Digital Regress)
- The Proletariat – “Death Of Alton Sterling” (Bridge Nine)
- Amyl and The Sniffers – “Some Mutts (Can’t Be Muzzled)” (Flightless)
- Ruler – “Tiger” (Secret Mission)
- Kid Chrome – “I’ve Had It” (Neck Chop)
- PMS – “Cocaine Cunt” (Danger Records)
- Heavy Metal – Too OZ 4 I.T. (Total Punk)
- Erik Nervous/ Neo Neos – split (Goodbye Boozy)
- Gallery Night – “Watching Black And White” (Dusty Medical)
- Dark Blue – “Fight To Love” (12XU)
- ISS – “I Wanna Be Dated” (Sorry State)
- Counter Intuits – “Vietnamese Lighter” (Total Punk)
- Puppy and The Hand Jobs – “I Eat Abortions” (Slovenly)
- Smokers – Falling Backwards (Mouth Magazine)
My favorite reissues of 2018
- Plastic EP and The Records – “Well You Want To Make A Record” and Best Of (Xerox Music)
- F.U.K. – “Road Kill” (Hozac Archival)
- Vendetta – “Modern Rockers” (Supreme Echo)
- Friction – “Death Cult 911” (Blank Recording Co)
- V/A – The Sore Losers – Original Soundtrack (Goner Records)
- Trash Monkeys – “Trash Monkey Universe” (Almost Ready)
- Vector Command – S/T (Hozac)
- Chandra – Transportation EPs (Telephone Explosion)
- Real Kids – The Kids 1974 Demos/ 1977-78 Demos/Live (Crypt)
- Bad Times – Streets Of Iron (Goner)
- Firestarter – First Album and Livin On The Heat (Secret Mission)
- Teenage Depression – Skank Or Die (ReRun)
- Great Plains – The Mark, Don & Mel EP + Four (ReRun)
- V/A – I’ve Got the Bible Belt Around My Throat: A One-Sided History of Punk Rock and Hardcore From Alabama 1981–2003 (Foreign Legion)
My favorite films of 2018
- Here To Be Heard: The Story of The Slits
- Dead On Arrival: The Punk Documentary That Almost Never Was
- Sorry To Bother You
- The Outhouse The Film 1985-1997
- Descent Into The Maelstrom
- The Public Image Is Rotten
- They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
- Juliette, Naked
- Ex-Libris: The New York Public Library
- Icepick To The Moon