Knuckle Puck
Knuckle Puck helped define a later wave of pop punk by keeping the genre fast and hook-heavy while pulling more strain from emo and punk. Joe Taylor's vocals often sound pushed to the edge, matched by Nick Casasanto and Kevin Maida's restless guitar parts, Ryan Rumchaks's bass movement, and John Siorek's crisp, driving drums. Early EPs built a following through urgency and emotional directness, and Copacetic turned that tension into a full-album statement with songs that felt crowded, anxious, and cathartic. Shapeshifter, 20/20, and Losing What We Love show a band widening its melodic range without abandoning the tight turns and pressure that made the early material connect. Their lyrics often circle memory, resentment, self-sabotage, and the difficulty of saying the thing plainly, which gives even bright choruses a stressed undertow. Knuckle Puck's sound is polished enough for big rooms but still carries the snap of basement punk, making the songs feel communal without losing their edge.
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Knuckle Puck Shows (13)
Knuckle Puck Discography
5 tracks
- 1 Townsend 3:24
- 2 Give Up 1:21
- 3 Dead Wrong 1:25
- 4 Stuck 2:53
- 5 Woodwork 3:52
6 tracks
- 1 Everything Must Go 2:55
- 2 Your Back Porch 3:07
- 3 Stateside 3:20
- 4 No Good 2:54
- 5 Your Back Porch - Acoustic 3:38
- 6 No Good - Acoustic 4:16
6 tracks
- 1 Transparency 3:23
- 2 Oak Street 2:48
- 3 Alexander PI. 3:01
- 4 But Why Would You Care? 3:57
- 5 In My Room 3:47
- 6 Bedford Falls 3:28
2 tracks
- 1 Oak Street 2:48
- 2 Home Alone 2:15
2 tracks
- 1 Gold Rush 2:55
- 2 Fences 2:06
11 tracks
- 1 Wall to Wall (Depreciation) 2:18
- 2 Disdain 2:44
- 3 Poison Pen Letter 3:39
- 4 Swing 3:43
- 5 Ponder 2:10
- 6 Evergreen 3:28
- 7 True Contrite 4:55
- 8 Stationary 2:05
- 9 In Your Crosshairs 4:42
- 10 Pretense 3:05
- 11 Untitled 7:51
10 tracks
- 1 Nervous Passenger 1:31
- 2 Twist 3:02
- 3 Double Helix 2:50
- 4 Gone 3:05
- 5 Everyone Lies To Me 2:53
- 6 Stuck In Our Ways 3:02
- 7 Want Me Around 3:31
- 8 Conduit 3:33
- 9 Wait 3:27
- 10 Plastic Brains 4:09
1 track
- 1 Double Helix 2:50
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- 1 Gone 3:05
2 tracks
- 1 Calendar Days 2:42
- 2 Indecisive 3:32
5 tracks
- 1 Conduit 2:50
- 2 Twist 3:15
- 3 Nervous Passenger 1:55
- 4 Gone 3:46
- 5 Wait 3:30
1 track
- 1 Nervous Passenger 1:55
1 track
- 1 Twist 3:15
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- 1 Conduit 2:50
11 tracks
- 1 20/20 3:13
- 2 Tune You Out 2:58
- 3 Sidechain 3:05
- 4 Earthquake 3:26
- 5 RSVP 2:53
- 6 Breathe (feat. Derek Sanders) 2:58
- 7 What Took You So Long? 2:38
- 8 Into The Blue 3:16
- 9 Green Eyes (Polarized) 3:05
- 10 True North 3:37
- 11 Miles Away 3:23
1 track
- 1 Groundhog Day 3:37
5 tracks
- 1 Gasoline 2:43
- 2 Levitate 2:59
- 3 In The Bag 3:29
- 4 Lonely Island 3:17
- 5 Here's Your Letter 3:12
11 tracks
- 1 A New Beginning 2:39
- 2 The Tower 3:21
- 3 October 2:49
- 4 You & I 3:34
- 5 Losing What We Love 3:41
- 6 Groundhog Day 3:37
- 7 Act Accordingly 3:34
- 8 Out of Touch 3:27
- 9 Worlds Apart 3:18
- 10 Better Late 3:12
- 11 Fool 3:47
3 tracks
- 1 Losing What We Love 3:41
- 2 The Tower 3:21
- 3 Groundhog Day 3:37
2 tracks
- 1 The Tower 3:21
- 2 Groundhog Day 3:37
3 tracks
- 1 Come Dancing 3:07
- 2 Losing A Whole Year 3:20
- 3 Lithium 4:04
1 track
- 1 On All Cylinders 2:51
3 tracks
- 1 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 3:36
- 2 Stick Season 3:20
- 3 Motivation 2:51
1 track
- 1 Stick Season 3:20
11 tracks
- 1 Wall to Wall (Depreciation) - Remixed/Remastered 2:18
- 2 Disdain - Remixed/Remastered 2:44
- 3 Poison Pen Letter - Remixed/Remastered 3:39
- 4 Swing - Remixed/Remastered 3:43
- 5 Ponder - Remixed/Remastered 2:10
- 6 Evergreen - Remixed/Remastered 3:28
- 7 True Contrite - Remixed/Remastered 4:55
- 8 Stationary - Remixed/Remastered 2:05
- 9 In Your Crosshairs - Remixed/Remastered 4:42
- 10 Pretense - Remixed/Remastered 3:05
- 11 Untitled - Remixed/Remastered 7:51
1 track
- 1 Untitled - Remixed/Remastered 7:51
1 track
- 1 Forgive (feat. Joe Taylor) 3:13
2 tracks
- 1 Nice to Know Ya 2:59
- 2 On All Cylinders 2:51
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