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Turnstile’s ‘Never Enough’: Two Cent Review for The Line of Best Fit’s Best Albums of 2025

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags on 12/08/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Turnstile are the standalone, undisputed pillars of the hardcore resurgence that sparked in 2021 thanks to this very band’s last album Glow On. The record rose so rapidly that many assumed it would fall just as fast, and we’d be left looking like idiots, holding a pan with a proverbial flash in it. Four years later, nothing could be further from the truth: Their staying power is proving to be as reliable as the assertion that tomorrow will deliver us a day that ends with a Y. Read my full review of their 2025 masterpiece, Never Enough, part of The Line of Best Fit‘s best albums of the year feature.

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The Bad Penny’s Top 50 Best LPs of 2025, Pt. 1: Sharon Van Etten, Spy, Turnstile, Swans, Cloakroom

Posted in Album Reviews, Lists, Reviews with tags , , , , , , , , , on 11/23/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

A lot of fucked-up up shit happened in the U.S. this year. Way, way too much of it. For many of us Americans who actually carry values in our hearts instead of bloviating about them or slapping bumper stickers on our monster trucks, it was almost too much to bear.

Fortunately, 2025 also saw the release of a staggering number of stellar records, which made the year a little more … well, bearable. Hence, for the first time ever, The Bad Penny is deviating from its usual annual tradition of limiting out favorite listens to just 10 and breaking them into a five-part series containing 10 records per installment.

What follows is the first batch.

41. Sharon Van Etten – & the Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar)

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On Tyranny: Off-Duty Cop Reportedly Pepper-Sprays Teen at Turnstile Concert

Posted in Features, News, On Tyranny, On Tyranny with tags , , , , , on 10/24/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

This will come as no surprise for those of us who have already reckoned with the fact that the U.S. is now controlled by an authoritarian regime, but an apparent deputy recently pepper-sprayed an attendee at a Turnstile concert in Richmond, Virginia.

The alleged incident, captured on body-cam footage, shows an off-duty deputy from the Richmond Sheriff’s Office pepper-spraying a teen, according to The Richmonder. The individual apparently jumped onto the concert stage at Turnstile’s encouragement during the last song of their set.

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Turnstile’s ‘Never Enough’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags on 06/06/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Turnstile makes it evident on every track that the heroes of modern-day hardcore are striving for Never Enough to gain as massive a cultural impact as Glow On—one of the best rock records of the past 20 years—did. Read my review of the record on Treble.

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