Originally Posted by Stavrogin

Bands from the recent years worth listening to that are more or less punk (purity, as if you owe something to scenes that died decades ago, is dull anyway) - in no particular order, though I'm more fond of some of these than others:

White Lung (insane guitar work)
Dawn of Humans ("art punk", somewhat in the vein of Rudimentary Peni IMO)
Pissed Jeans (somewhere in between punk, grunge and bluesy sludge-yet-not-metal)
Destruction Unit (drug-infused and ear-destroying)
Iceage (altho latest album borders well into post-punk)
Retox (first album was great, didn't follow them that closely afterwards)
Creem (more "traditional" HC from NY)
Ex-Cult (real catchy stuff, also check out one of their ex-members' band Nots)