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Punk Music in Atlanta
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About Atlanta’s Punk Scene
Atlanta’s punk scene is gritty, loud, and proudly independent. From longstanding DIY venues and house shows to local legends and new hardcore acts, punk lives in the margins — and on some of the city’s most storied stages. Whether you’re seeking out political punk, hardcore, or something raw and genre-defiant, Atlanta’s punk community continues to thrive on authenticity, rebellion, and cathartic noise.
Critic’s Picks for Upcoming Punk Shows
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Upcoming Punk Shows in Atlanta
See the full concert and live music listings on our Punk Music Events Calendar
Cartel
10/25/2025 7:00 PM
The Masquerade
Breaking out in the mid-aughts, CARTEL artfully threaded the space between the turn-of-the-millennium pop-punk tidal wave and the widespread virality ...
Viagra Boys - The Infinite Anxiety Tour of 2025
11/08/2025 8:00 PM
The Eastern
Viagra Boys are a band that weaponizes absurdity—tossing firecrackers into the middle of the room and standing around to see the reaction.
Gbh
11/11/2025 7:00 PM
The Masquerade
GBH Embark on US “City Babys” 40th Anniversary Tour Punk rock legends celebrate their classic albums “City Baby Attacked by Rats” (1982) and “City Bab...
Hot Mulligan - The Sound A Body Makes When It'S Still Tour
11/11/2025 7:00 PM
Tabernacle
Emo/pop-punk band Hot Mulligan perform 'The Sound, A Body' Tour in Atlanta.
As It Is at The Masquerade
11/14/2025 6:30 PM
The Masquerade
The transatlantic pop-punk quintet hails from Brighton, UK consisting of Patty Walters (vocals), Benjamin Biss (vocals, guitar), Andy Westhead (guitar...
Koyo
11/14/2025 7:00 PM
The Masquerade
Since forming in 2020, every single second of music recorded by Koyo has been completely and utterly genuine. Formed in Long Island, New York by five ...
Local Punk Bands
For the full Atlanta directory, see the band and musician directory.
Tiger! Tiger!
Tiger! Tiger! plays confidant, sage-like garage rock that instills a healthy amount of fear into your heart. This show is the LP release party for the...
Harmacy
From CL's 2018 Best New Punk Band - Scaling the walls of Atlanta’s punk, hardcore, and DIY scenes, the paranoid chant that everyone is talking about t...
the Hanging Judge
We're a punk rock band from Atlanta, GA, formed in 2017. Featuring members of The Queers, Anti-Heros, Antagonizers ATL, Patriot and more. We just rele...
Mercyland
Legendary Athens, GA post-punk trio Mercyland has announced the upcoming release of their long-overdue final album, We Never Lost a Single Game, arriv...
Upchuck
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While reliving memories from some of the more brash and hedonistic shows that have come to define Upchuck's meteoric rise through Atlanta's indi...
Buzzard Cult
Buzzard Cult is a three-piece Southern Grunge/Punk band based north of Atlanta, Georgia. They draw on a variety of genres ranging from Grunge, Punk, ...
Antagonizers ATL
Never losing sight of goals, and pressing onward amidst countless obstacles, Antagonizers ATL have delivered an unbelievable follow up to their debut ...
Seal Pup
Dabbling with a range of instrument and playing in multiple bands, Jake Cook wanted to start his solo career. In 2004, he recorded a punk-metal album ...
Buice
Buice is an alternative rock band from Atlanta. Inspired by noise rock, no wave, post punk, and post hardcore bands, Hayden Locke brings the energy an...
NAG
"Nag's entrance to the Atlanta punk scene was largely unheralded despite a savage debut EP released last May. Yet if the cassette flew under the radar...
Horrible Idea
We're a band that mixes the genres of metal, punk, jam, funk, ska and all the rest to a certain degree. We've been playing in and around Atlanta since...
Blammo
"Blammo began as a simple idea between friends hanging outside a Lumpy show. With a mutual love for cool contemporaries like Palberta and Grass Widow,...
Avant Blonde
Alternative / Indie rock band from Atlanta
Looking for a bass player and drummer to play live shows
Psychic Death
Psychic Death is an Atlanta-based band that blends elements of death rock, post-punk, and darkwave, creating a sound that’s intense, dark, yet energet...
Punk-Friendly Venues
For our full music venue directory see our list of music venues
529 Bar
In the central East Atlanta spot formerly occupied by retro soul bar the Village, you'll find 529 — a tiny, smoky space that oozes cool. Despite being...
Drunken Unicorn
The literally underground club features plenty of figuratively underground punk, electro, and hip-hop acts. Although connected to MJQ Concourse, it ha...
The Bakery
website: The Bakery is a collective of creative thinkers aligned around social justice principles, environmental concerns, and the belief that art is ...
The EARL
East Atlanta staple for local and up-and-coming rock bands, as well as nationally established indie acts, and grub for the hipster-PBR set.
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