1. Against Me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWB_b480-9c Against Me! is a punk band from Florida fronted by Laura Jane Grace. Their albums are short bursts of ridiculously anthemic songs that contain darkly humorous lyrics referencing both the personal and the political. The accessibility of the band's anger harkens back to some of the most iconic names in punk. After a public coming out in 2012, followed by the resignation of several of her bandmates (for unrelated reasons), Laura Jane Grace became something of a poster child for the trans* movement (albeit not its spokesperson, to heave the entirety of a movement on a single person or several people is ignorant as all heck). Her deeply personal songs about gender identity on 2014's Transgender Dysphoria Blues provided for the band's most impassioned effort to date. And this perceptiveness stretches through the band's entire discography. Songs like "Thrash Unreal" and "White People for Peace" off of the band's 2007 album New Wave display Laura Jane Grace's capacity for barnstorming energy. Against Me! is one of the premier punk groups of the past ten years and only shows signs of improving. Recommended albums: As the Eternal Cowboy, New Wave, and Transgender Dysphoria Blues