Twisted Teens

Two peripatetic self-governing punks whose work rips and gloriously reorders pages from rock’s past, Twisted Teens were already one of 2026’s coolest stories when they had released only two great LPs. And now here they are with an even better third, Holy Cross Tigers - the New Orleans duo’s first album for Sub Pop and a ripe stash of strangely reassuring anthems for shouting down a hurt heart. These songs are transmissions from the frontline of despair, then, from the woozy and magnetic blues of remember-how-good-we-had-it rocker “When We First Met” to the slurred barroom bust-up “I Spend My Time Crying.” There is a song against snitching (“Lock and Key”), a song about wasted flirtation and seeping wounds of the soul (“Stalks”), and a song about being shamed right out of love (“I Bring”). Don’t miss Twisted teens live at Flow Stage, July 1!