JULIEN BAKER IS BACK! That's right, Julien returns to the show & we'll be damned if it’s not one of the best episodes ever! Listen in as the two discuss: Nirvana by algorithm, Punk/ Religious guilt, smashing guitars, the loneliness of playing solo & so much more!!! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Also, don't miss Julien Baker's AWESOME "Little Oblivions" out NOW Matador!

Also Touched On: 

The concession to pop culture

The audacity of a phone call

The writer/performer distinction 

Playing with a band again for the first time

The co-operative nature of performance

How thrilling will it be to be at a show again?!?

The intensity of the spotlight

Hayley from Paramore

Chumbawamba career moves

Zach Against The Machine 

“I’m sus of everything”: being weary of promotion

The freedom success allows

Mitigating the punk rock guilt

What would have happens if the meeting with Sean 6131 did't happen?

Punk as religion: redux

Computers as DJs

Pheobe and Lucy as inspiration 

Religion, punk and dogmas

Questioning straight edge and finding Sobriety

& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!!!


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Well, we didn’t miss your birthday this year! Today on the show, Damian is joined by Lifetime’s legendary singer, ARI KATZ!! Damian is beside himself with joy as he talks with one of his favourite vocalists. Listen in as the two discuss: eating Taco Bell Hot Sauce for sustenance on tour, realizing people are trying to sing like you, having to walk away from music & so much more! 
This is NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also Touched On:  

Hearing the Dead Kennedy on a non-punk mixtape

“Do you have any punk records?”

Buying Group Sex

Husker Du for a first show

Meeting AJ on the edge of the pit

Joining Enuf

Christmas (the band)

“WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!”: hearing Youth Of Today for the first time

Going to CBGBs for the first time

learning how to play drums

The violence at shows

Getting haircuts with Walter and Civ

People doing interesting things with mosh parts and fast parts

Jawbreaker at ABC No Rio

Loving the Fastbacks

Eating Taco Bell hot sauce on a two month and half tour with Up Front

Touring with Unit Pride and Insted during the summer of Youth Crew

getting kicked out of Up Front and Courage

Running into Rob Fish with a flyer from Dan Yemin in his pocket

Trying to sound like Mark Ryan

Hearing people doing their own version of your vocal

When pop-punk kids took notice

Joining Resurrection 

Not being built for it

Signing to New Age

Flowers over baseball bats

The influence of Superchunk

“No, no, no. Don’t say that.”: The AFI Riot

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS

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Few legends loom larger in punk than that of Detroit's COLD AS LIFE. Today on the show, Cold As Life's guitarist turned vocalist, JEFF GUNNELLS sits down with Damian to talk about the reality behind the infamy. From open warfare with the bouncers at Blondies, to checking Insane Clown Posse's egos at their first show and so much more; this is NOT TO BE MISSED. 
Pick up a copy of the Cold As Life's CLASSIC "Born To Land Hard", the record that redefined what is was to be "hardcore", out on the great A389 Recordings now!.

Also Touched On:

Finding Discharge

Going to record stores

Day-glo Abortions, Ugly But Proud, Gore, Necros at the Greystone’s

Shifting from punk to a harder sound

Oi

DIY out of necessity

Death all around

Having to hide out

Documenting a city in decline 

Writing reality

Drugs and corruption

SBLC

Getting in where you fit in: Making connections with other scenes

“We were a little wolf pack”: Blondies and war with the bouncers

Attracting the right 

Meeting Agnostic Front 

Carrying on without Rawn

Taking over vocals

Living by the sword and the tragedy of dying by it

Rest in Peace: Tim Mycek Jr., Jake Loch and Johnny Myers

Feisty Cadavers: RIP Steve Crass

The lost Las Vegas sessions for the 2nd lp

H8INC

XTyrantX: Real deal

ICP’s first show opening for Cold As Life… it didn’t go well

Earthmover and +/- Records

Going to Europe

Detroit Heresy 

The greatness of Pittbull

& SO MUCH MORE!


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Detroit week continues on TOAP! Today on the show, the great DAVE BUICK of The Go & Italy Records comes to talk about the Garage side of the Rock City! Listen in as Dave & Damian discuss: collecting Touch & Go Records, the precursors to the White Stripes explosions, releasing one of the most valuable 7"s ever & so much more! 

Don't miss it!!! 

Also Touched On:

 The greatness of 80’s pop music

Side two of the tape with U2 on the side one

Dead Kennedys telling kids to steal mail

Dorks United

On ramp periods of music

Finding the cool people working at the record store

Volbeats

The lost period of Detroit rock and roll awareness 

trying to tape song of the radio

Iggy opening for the Pretenders

learning about Touch and Go from a friends sister

“We have a show Wednesday”: learning to play bass and Joining the Go in the same day

The Gories

Adult

Wolf Eyes

making a home Ugly But Proud pocket tee

Starting Italy Records

Putting out The Dirtys record out of a sense of civic pride

The story of one of the most valuable 7”s of all time

& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS


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Get ready for the greatest Rock & Roll story never told! Today on the show, Damian is joined by LOREN MOLINARE from The Dogs! Famous amongst punk collectors for their obscure & awesome records, The Dogs’ career is far more interesting & storied than any of the more well known counter parts. Listen in as Damian discusses one of the most fascinating careers in music with the guy who lived it. From playing with the likes of the MC5, Kiss & Van Halen to drinking with Bon Scott to clowning Sid Vicious on stage to teaching the Ramones how to dress to inspiring Black Flag to play: THIS IS ONE NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!

Also Touched On: 

The Dogs: born in ’69

Mary walks into the basement and makes the band real

Hearing I Wanna Be Your Dog for the first time

 Dick Wagner from the Frost

Opening for the MC5 and getting to witness them live for the first time

The effect of the The Who coming to Ann Arbor 

playing  

Getting beaten and dragged to jail in from of 9000 people for refusing to play after Bob Seger

Getting banned from the Mid-West

Opening from Ted Nugent at the first solo show

After one thing but before another: Going to New York in ’73

finding the voice

Raw Power over Fun House and S/T

Finally seeing The Stooges

influencing Black Flag

The Motels

The Pop

“Radio Free Hollywood”

The Masques and the punks

Drinking and playing with AC/DC at their first US gig

“Let’s fuck him up!”: Sid Vicious looking like a fool on stage

Australia gets it

“Thank god for bootleggers!”

Killed By Death saved everything

Opening for Kiss

Playing with the Pre-Blondie Stilettos

Going belly up in London

Seeing the Ramones before the Ramones at shows

& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS


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You're going to go-go Go-Go's crazy for this episode! Today on the show, Damian is joined by the Go-Go's legend KATHY VALENTINE! As if being from a Hall Of Fame nominated band wasn't enough, Kathy is also: a Chiswick recording artist, an almost member of England's Girlschool & the founder of Austin, TX's first punk band The Violators!? Listen in as they discuss all of that & so much more! 

NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss Kathy's FANTASTIC new book "All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'N' Roll Memoir"!!!

Also Touched On:

Being a rocker

Born too late for Psych

No proto-punk in Texas… except for ZZ Top

Go-Go’s as a gateway for kids

The power of the songs getting over looked

Learning from Charlotte and Belinda

The punk influence on Can’t Stop The World

New Wave vs. Punk

The diversity of the LA sound

The Weirdos: LA’s Damned

The effect of Manson

Having no time for Kim Fowley

The Violators

Dr. Feelgood

Going to England and seeing the Pub Rock

Going to see the Sex Pistols in San Antonio

The Next

Project Terror

The Nerves

The Capitol Records Swap-Meet 

The Plugz 

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!!!

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Get siked Murderinos! My Favorite Murder's GEORGIA HARDSTARK is here!! That's right, one half of the true crime podcast juggernaut sits down with Damian to talk about her not always positive experiences in punk. From surviving the wrong crowd as a kid to claiming space & building your own world. 
This is NOT TO BE MISSED! 
Find My Favorite Murder at your favorite podcast store!

Also Touched On:

 Bonding with your brother over Ween

Meeting the Crusties

Hating the OC

Going to the Vandals and seeing a stabbing instead

The downside of the punk utopia 

Meeting a metalhead in rehab

Slayer: a middle ground

Moving to LA and meeting Strife

Loving the Wrestling Podcaster just not the wrestling

The Grade/ We Watch Wrestling Connection

a secret zine

the importance of Riot Grrrl

SciFi as a path to sobriety

Meeting Ray Bradbury

 

a secret Mr.Show live comedy show

Find treasure on TV

Starting My Favorite Murder 

A secret zine

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!


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LIZ PHAIR IS HERE!!! That's right, the iconic indie rock legend joins Damian on the show to talk punk! Listen in as they talk: making records as an autobiography, the music nerd paradise of Oberlin & how punk drove her to get on stage. 

NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss Liz's new album "Soberish" dropping later this year on Chrysalis Records!

Also Touched On:

The importance of tapes

Feeling welcomed by punk

Expression over permission

The Police, Madonna and The “Why Can’t I?” Effect

The dissent in the music

You are human, you are alive, therefore you are qualified

Bowie as a Punk icon

Seeing the punk on a Liz Phair, Alanis, Garbage Tour

Going to the land of the music nerd: Oberlin

Getting into the Cult

 Only liking pop with a punk edge

How sexy are the vocals in the Fall?!

Culture of zines

The aesthetic of punk 

Flyers and the importance of the Physical world 

trying to read Raygun Magazine 

Punk driving you to get on stage

 

The Carnivore 7”

Tae Won Yu and  The Girly Sound Tapes

Kicking Giant

taking advance of an audience 

Pink Moon and The Modern Lovers are perfect records

Hearing your voice soloed in the studio for the first time

The high of scoring

The medium of emotion

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!


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BRUCE LABRUCE is an iconic filmmaker known the world over for his uncompromising approach to cinema… & a legendary zinemaker. Today on the show Damian sits down with one of his most anticipated guests to discuss the conception of Queercore & manifesting the punk you want. Listen in as the two discuss: the Toronto Zine Scene, Gavin & Vice, Nazi violence, Robin Wood’s cultural impact & tons of other stuff! 
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!!!!

Also Touched On: 

Growing up in small town Ontario

Seeing a punk with fully charged hair in Toronto for the first time

Into the fashion first

Just Desserts: a place for rich people to eat cake and freaks to work

Meeting Fifth Column and a world opening up

MRR

Partying backstage with Husker Du

Disco and Folk

CKEW out of Detroit

Gucci’s Queercore line

Fanzine: The Ephemeral Art form

Nirvana before the boom

“Queering everything”: Creating Queercore out of reclaimed and found elements of punk

Trying to create a new gay culture

The Mumps

Vaginal Davis and “Fertile Latoya Jackson”

Pat Loud cooking for the punks

The rightwing appropriation of punk atheistic and strategy 

The Vice days

DBDTD

The having to deal with Neo-Nazis Skinheads in Toronto

Loving Can-rock

Rough Trade

Will Munro, Vazaleen and making the JDs fiction real

The Gun Club at a boozecan 

Zuzu’s Petals

Getting punched while covering the Dead Kennedys

The 1988 Anarchist Unconvention in Toronto

Robin Wood: more radical than the punks

Cineaction

being deprogrammed by punk

Pissing on the Cinema of Transgression

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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JELLO’S BACK! That’s right, one of punk’s original firebrands returns to the show & oh boy, is it ever a good one!! Join Damian as he sits down with a feisty JELLO BIAFRA to discuss punk & politics as only Jello can. Listen in as the two friends talk: watching workout tapes with Zappa, getting cornered by Timothy Leary at Giger’s art show, going to war with Tipper Gore & so much more!! 

Not to be missed & don’t miss Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine’s awesome brand new album: “Tea Party Revenge Porn” out now on Alternative Tentacles!!! 

Also Touched On:

Jack Chic comics

The Dancing Assholes and the Faith Healers

GG Allin’s hardrock band

Lee Ving’s Psych band

Felt: the pre-Dickies band

Greg Sage’s band with a singin’ Wrestler

Hedge-fund record collectors

The censored acetate of “Too Dunk to *BEEP*”

The Greek DK’s record

The Beach Mutants

Toronto VS Vancouver 

Drake

Releasing the Eraserhead soundtrack

The Bad Brains

Working with Bob Last

Going to Australia

The Lime Spiders

Wrong Kind Of Stone-age

The Celibate Rifles

Meeting Hard-Ons after they were attacked by Skinheads

The Government was supposed to be on “Let Them Eat Jellybeans!”

“No Alice Cooper props!”: The surgical gloves

Having to be willing to fail on stage

The Husker Hotel: “Hi, we’re Husker Du and we’re here to stay!”

The Fartz 

Pushing potted plants in people’s faces

Debating the definition of punk

Ian and Henry shaving heads on the side of the stage

Mosh vs. Thrash and Slam

The Mudd Club sucking

The origin of “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”

The night the British Movement attacked the Dead Kennedys and MDC in Lester

UK Mayhem 

Denver catches up

“This is war!”: the PMRC

“You are the victim”: meeting Zappa

Timothy Leary trying to get Jello to help with Al Jorgenson at a Giger exhibit 

Gwar shows up to save the day

& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!!!

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DANKO JONES ARE DOING THEIR FIRST EVER LIVESTREAM TONIGHT (and tomorrow)! To celebrate the event, The DND (Danko Jones [the person], Nick and Damian) got together for more good times and self-reflection. Listen in as they discuss a bunch of topic including whether or not they should even bother putting this episode up!

Get tickets for Danko's livestream here: https://linktr.ee/dankojones

And Nick can be found here on Twitter: @nickflanweakly

JOEY SH*THEAD’S BACK!!! One of Canada's most iconic musicians, DOA's Joey Keithley returns to the show! From teaching the punk world how to tour, to running for political office; Joey's life is worthy of a movie & soon, it will be! Keep an eye out for Scott ("Salad Days" & "Creem" documentaries) Crawford's highly anticipated documentary on Joey: "Something Better Change" coming soon! 

Until then, listen to Joey & Damian talk: lost Mystic Recording sessions, the Yippies' roll in the early hardcore scene, RCMP surveillance in the wake of the arrest of the Squamish 5 & so much more! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!! 

Also Touched On:

The sonic range of small town Vancouver

The reason for the creative explosion

Vancouver: weird mix of people

Why not Toronto and Montreal?

SCUM in Montreal

The Nils

The BC and Quebec connection

Lee Kendall: the original singer of The Skulls

Art Bergman’s first band: Schmorg

The coming together of the suburban groups with completely different idea of what punk was

The Ramones show up and teach everyone how it’s done

Studying Black Flag

Playing one of the first Husker Du shows

Grant Hart 

Playing with the Bad Brains in 1979

The all-time great line-ups

No rules

Going to China

the lost Mystic Session

Label Issues: drugs and the music business 

CD Characters and the “Cocksucker Blues” connection

Anti-Canada Day

The Squamish 5: “Anyone heard from Gerry lately?”

RCMP Surveillance  

Playing hockey against Negazione 

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!!

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DARRYL JENIFER IS HERE!!! Join Damian as he sits down with the BAD BRAINS' LEGEND to discuss his journey in punk. From kicking Cars' records off of turntables, to the Bad Brains' early "James Chance" era, to the real story behind the Clash Bond Street show: 
DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!! 

Also Touched On:

Growing up with Soul, GoGo and Motown

Discovering the Damned, Sex Pistols and The Ramones

Some nights, it’s Wow! Some nights, it’s Why?

Brothers before Bad Brains

RIP Sid McCray: too punk for a band

The influence of a Budgie

Loving No New York Comp 

Mindpower

The James Chance inspired first line up of the Bad Brains

“Five people clap for you and now you’ve sold out”

From one song to Black Dots in a few months

Playing with on back of flatbed  the Mall in DC

Seeing Jame Brown at the Howard Theatre in ’64

“Why is the bass too loud?”: The first time seeing Bob Marley 

The Swimming Pool Q’s

The Urban Verb

the year 1979

The Happening

Playing Berlin when the Wall fell

The art of writing a setlist

Kicking a Cars record off the turntable: “Why are they playing this shit?!”

“Biker Music”: Hearing the Viletones’ Screamin’ Fist for the first time

A “19 year old young Peter Tosh” had no love for Basquiat 

Ian MacKaye: Very Washingtonian 

The Old New York

CBGBs: always cool

The Bloodless Pharaoh’s Brian Setzer goes swing

Red Hot Chilli Peppers : “How the hell did this band get on the bill?”

The Beastie Boys going rap

Screamin’ Mad George is making shit again: living with The Mad

“Stay Close To Me is a Clash influenced song and Pay To Come is a Ramones influenced song”

Meeting Jerry Williams and Th’Cigaretz 

“The Ramones are dope but I am The Damned“

The Clash and The Ramones are sore losers

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!



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No need to wonder what to do for pleasure this week because, JON KING from the legendary Gang Of Four comes to Turned Out A Punk! Listen in as he & Damian talk about: cinematic influence, the Dadaist nature of punk, psychedelic Hawkwind shows & fighting Nazis at the Fenton! 

NOT TO BE MISSED! & don't miss the new Gang Of Four "77-81" Boxset on Matador Records!!

Also Touched On:

The influence on the present day

trying to never be in a genre

Dr. Feelgood: UK proto-punk

the disappointment of the Clash

toilet reverb: “it sounded shit”

being sampled by Run The Jewels’

“We were pretty good at being difficult”

Refusing to compromise for Top Of The Pops

A friend’s dad with a crack and peel Velvet Underground

Marc Almond getting whipped as an opener

Having to deal with the first wave of Nazi punks

The Mekons

Sham 69

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS


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Cancel that vacation because today on the show, the LEGEND JANE WIEDLIN FROM THE GO-GO’s is here to talk punk! Listen in as Damian sits down with one of his dream guests to talk about the good, the bad & the disturbingly violent of the LA punk scene that the Go-Go's fought their way out of. From the reality behind the Germs legend, dealing with Nazi's at Ska shows, the LAPD's war on punks & so much more!  

NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss the amazing new Go-Go's documentary and their brand new song "Club Zero"!!

& also VOTE FOR THEM INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME BECAUSE THE GO-GO’S RULE!!!

Also Touched On:

Frosted is super underrated

The pre-punk LA Glam scene

making punk clothes

Meeting Pleasant

Rodney’s English Disco

Zolar X

Silverhead

New York Dolls

Tales From Canterbury

The origin of the song Blades

The darkness of the early LA scene 

Drug and alcohol 

being too punk for power pop

the AM radio influence

The Weirdos and the Screamers: too good to get signed

X

Castration Squad

The St. Daddy’s Day Massacre

Beef with Elvis Costello

the real side of the Germs legend

& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!!


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Today on the show, Damian is joined by a legit triple threat: Propagandhi bassist, I Spy vocalist & visual artist TODD KOWALSKI!!! Listen in as they talk finding metal/punk/hardcore in Regina, Unlawful Assembly is Saskatchewan's greatest band, The Besnard Lakes' connection & so much more! 

Not to be missed!!!! 

Also Touched On:

Loving Metal

Accused 

Possessed

a friend from the ally with Razor and Celtic Frost records

Trying to comprehend Slayer

Insight: Regina’s answer to SNFU

Unlawful Assembly: The best unrecorded Regina bend ever

The greatness of Beyond Possession 

The Chris Todd Kenton Warriors: first band

Imaginary metal bands

Government Issue playing to 15 people

Doing the best stage dive of your life for No Means No

Needing to hear what death metal sounded like

The Killer Dwarfs playing at the bar at the mall

Records On Wheels

GG Allin in Flipside: “I’m going to be banned from life if I’m caught with this!”

Drummer of Ditchpig

The Besnard Lakes/ Propagandhi connection

Going to a Fugazi and hoping for Minor Threat

Loving Youth Of Today

Seeing Tankhog on the best possible day

Bonehog did not age well

Death Sentence dancers

Seeing Sloan on the very first tour

Seeing the Small

interviewing Propagandhi

There is always a market for dark punk

The influence of the Melvins, Helmet and Coffin Break

The effect of hearing Ebullition records stuff

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!

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Start doing back flips! Today on the show Damian sits down with the hilarious SHAPEL LACEY (AKA The only person in comedy with a DS-13 tattoo)!!! Listen in as the two discuss: how finding punk gave a voice to an anger inside, the various strengths of different Black Flag singers, why hardcore is the most integral of all the punk mutations, the power of the mosh, Oasis: the anti-Nirvana & so much more! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Also Touched On:

"Wanna join a Ska punk band?"

The power of a logo 

the various strengths of the various Black Flag singers

Henry Rollins: the greatest front person 

No one can touch Keith On Nervous Breakdown

Hearing "Mississippi Queen" for the first time

Never loving 80’s metal

From Queens Of The Stone Age to GBH

The blues in Grunge

Loving Oasis 

The chilling effect of Kurt Cobain’s death

Loving GBH

from crust to hipsters

Most people don’t have what it takes to be in a band like Black Flag

Deranged Records

DS-13

ETA

& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS


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Yes, that’s right!! On this episode Damian sits down & chats with, Emmy Award winning star/ co-creator/ director/ writer of HBO’s Barry, BILL HADER!!! Thanks to their mutual friend, Jon “King of Beats/Comedy” Wurster, these two anxious nerds are brought together for the longest episode of TOAP ever! Listen in as they discuss: panic attacks while making SNL, Barry as an autobiography, Bad Brains being the best ever, why can’t people just like instrumental Zappa & SO MUCH MORE! DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also Touched On:

Mutual love

The Wheelman

Can you make the guns sound like they do in Heat?

Dad hated Dylan and loved Zappa

An uncle flipping out about Minor Threat’s cover of “Stepping Stone”

"Something Brains and something Kennedys?"

Monster Movies and punk: a deadly combination

The Misfits are targeted marketing at work

watching movies like TV

Getting wasted in front of Rush

Trying to school Geddy Lee on Mike Watt

Proudly punishing Spielberg

Cults and music

The Bad Brains

“Your Uncle John’s a Devo”

“Fartface”: Bill, Will Forte and Josh Brolin go down swinging on SNL

Not always enjoying it 

Directing Barry: “I can do this”

Horror movies

Evil Dead is punk rock

creative process

SCTV and Kids in The Hall

Iron Chef... America

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS


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On this episode, Damian sits down with one of the greatest songwriters EVER: SHAYNE CARTER!!! Shayne is a bonafide New Zealand music icon that has released some of Damian's favourite records in his various bands. Listen in as the two discuss how punk inspired Shayne & his compatriots in the Dunedin music scene to create some of the best music ever recorded. 
NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss ANY of Shayne's genius! Check out his amazing autobiography "Dead People I Have Known", as well as the music of:

The Sex Pistols were good even on the reunion... shockingly

The Stooges, Al Green and Leonard Cohen: perfect til the end 

Like in wrestling: doing more with less

“That’s the guitar sound from ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’!"

Chris Knox: true punk

Martin from the Chills setting up chairs outside of gigs

the power of distance 

The guy and the record store setting you straight after calling Jimi Hendrix a hippie

There is no golden egg to chase in Dunedin

1 in 10 000 people are signed to a US label

“Very white, very violent” Dunedin in the late 70s

Car Boys VS. Punks: being willing to die for your art

“Scarfie bashing”

Doublehappys: a form of social revenge

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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On this episode Damian is joined by one of his favourite voices in music, STEVE VON TILL from the godly NEUROSIS! Listen in as they talk: Transgressor, hearing GISM for the first time, "Word As Law" not being a band favourite, gigs with Green Day & so much more! 
NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss Steve Von Till's AMAZING new solo album: 'No Wilderness Deep Enough'. ALSO, check out his new book of poetry & lyrics: "Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems and Collected Lyrics", both are out now on Neurot Records!!

Also Touched On:

THE MRR COMPS

An influence on everyone

Born in 69

Hearing Los Angelas by X for the first time

Discharge changes everything

San Jose

Kill ‘Em All: “You need this”

The Peace comp

The MRR comps

What the hell is going on in Japan?!?: the first time you hear GISM

international hardcore

Transgressor 

the mix bag early Gilman St. shows

Playing with Green Day, NoFX and the Offspring

Tribes Of Resistance

wanting to do all the things

Kamala hooking up the numbers for the first Neurosis tour

the Alchemy scene

RKL’s psychedelic light show

Clown Ally 

“Punk rock, and we can’t even drink outside?!? That’s bullshit!”

“Six hours of the Misfits”

Coil, Throbbing Gristle, etc

College Radio: It’s not all REM

Holiday dinner at Chris Dodge’s with Buzz and Dale

Burning Witch: True Doom

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!


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Grab your 20 sided dice! Today on the show we are joined by, the bard with a 31 charisma, actor/director/producer/writer/DM: JOE MANGANIELLO!!! Join Joe & Damian on his journey from a Rollins worshipping, DnD obsessed, metalhead kid, to a Rollins worshipping, DnD obsessed, metalhead adult... Who is also Deathstroke & Alcide the Werewolf. 
NOT TO BE MISSED & ALSO, don't miss Joe's "Shoplifters Of The World" out wherever you see new movies March 26!

Also Touched On:

Damian’s whole family is excited for this one!

Metallica turning people on to the Misfits and Discharge

The power of the cover

Get In the Van: “Have you ever read this?”

Being obsessed and getting to meet Henry Rollins

“Crossover stars”

Shepard Fairly setting you straight 

Parents hate D’n’D

Trying to keep Role Playing games punk

It’s a war-game

The dream of working in the industry… the gaming industry

Ian MacKaye’s birthday fucking up the booking plans for a live reading of Major League

What’s the purpose of us anymore?

Being the roadie for Goldfinger

Nerds of the world unite

Metal going high fashion is teenage validation 

Vince Vaughn, Big Show, and Tom Against The Machine: the ultimate DnD party

Going to see Social Distortion and losing your camera with Macho Man photos

DnD Alignments

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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Mouse is in the house!!! One of the original documentarians of Souther California Hardcore is here: ALISON “MOUSE” BRAUN! Join Damian as he sits down with the legendary photographic contributor to MRR, Flipside, We Got The Power & more! From why she didn’t shoot Black Flag, to introducing El Duce to her dad, to why it took her years to finally get a usable shot of the Bad Brains, to moving to Seattle just before the explosion & so much more!

NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don’t miss Alison’s AMAZING NEW BOOK available at alisonbraun.com!!!!!!!!!!

Also Touched On:

Having to judge a book by it’s cover

Record stores

the loss of cover art

Kiss and Cheap Trick

Shady has the tickets!

The Go-Go’s and the X and the Whisky 

Submitting to Flipside

The Keith Morris versus Jello Biafra stage vibe

Black Flag’s asshole roadie

Police against punks under Daryl Gates

Working for Mystic Records

Doug Moody

Shooting Battalion Of Saints

“Your dad’s over there talking to El Duce”

Seattle: the boring calm before the storm

Never getting to shoot Nirvana

B’last being the best band to shoot

Not shooting Minor Threat 

Trying to get a still shot of the Bad Brains

Stains

Submitting punk photo for high school assignment 

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS


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On this episode Damian sits down with the outspoken vocalist of Sleaford Mods, JASON WILLIAMSON! Listen in as the two discuss: the Sex Pistols still being able to shock, Public Enemy, class, music & MORE! ALSO, check out “Spare Ribs” out now on Rough Trade.

Also Touched On:

A step brother as an entryway 

The Sex Pistols: still able to offend 

Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Eric B and Rakim as a first show

The class divide in music

Rap in England

British Rap

The non-influence of John Cooper Clark and Mark E. Smith

The Old Blue Last

& MORE!!!

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NoFX week continues & FAT MIKE is back! 5 years after his first legendary appearance on the show, Mike returns to: berate Damian's tastes in music, drink WATER & talk punk. NOT TO BE MISSED!!! And don't miss Single Album in stores February 26!

Also Touched On:

Back together again

Mike loves the Melvins

a penny scraping against concrete

Rattus

Agnostic Front 

MRR

BDSM and being elite

Punk means I’m better than you

The unreleased Johnny Ramone chapter of “Please Kill Me”

Damian has terrible taste in punk 

Mike not getting why people love the Big Boys and the Minutemen

Why do people hate me?

Fat’s best year

“No one says Punk in Drublic is our best record anymore.”

Bands that went to majors

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!


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IT'S NoFX WEEK ON TURNED OUT A PUNK! In celebration of the newly announced "Single Album", here is the first of two episodes!!! Kicking it off with a bang, Damian sits down to talk with the LEGEND ERIK SANDIN! An interview almost a quarter century in the making as Damian interviews Erik for the first time since 1996! Listen is as they discuss: NoFX making him a worse drummer, worshiping at the RKL alter, punk gangs, the "Mystic Records Puppy Mill" & so much more! Not to be missed & don't miss "Single Album" out on Fat Wreck Chords February 26!

Also Touched On:

The nicest band member

Buttrock: here comes punk

Caustic Cause: 30 year old shredders 

Don Bolles

America’s Hardcore

Drew Bernstien 

Lip service

Scared Straight 

The LA Straight Edge Scene

Playing with 7 Seconds

Becoming a worse drummer after joining NoFX

“Raymond” and the art for Liberal Animation

RKL thought the years

Mystic studios: A puppy mill for teenage punk bands

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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There's no boredom around here! On this episode, Damian is joined the LEGEND: STEVE DIGGLE from the godly Buzzcocks! Listen in as the two discuss the birth of punk in the UK, Krautrock, Gorilla Biscuits, touring with Nirvana & tons of other goodness! From "A conscientious objector to work" to punk icon: NOT TO BE MISSED! 
Also, grab that ESSENTIAL Buzzcocks singles boxset out now on Domino Records!

Also Touched On: 

Influencing everybody

Sick of Yes

The Pistols and the Ramones

Forming two days before the Clash

The R and B influence of Pub rock

The slowness of everything in 70’s music

the Kraut rock influence 

Thrift store punks

Malcolm McLaren’s mistake completes the Buzzcocks

Promises was a political song

pre-Buzzcocks’ Buzzcocks demos

The Buzzcocks’ practice space becomes Joy Division’s  

Jamming for the first album in a rehab centre

Autonomy: An English person trying to sound like a German person singing English

“The riff of Manchester”

“I love those weird little bits you do in those songs!” - Joey Ramone

“We aren’t entertainers!”

Getting paid not to play a biker bar

the 100 club

the Screen on the Green

the kids in Slaughter and the Dogs

Morrissey cribbing notes

Hearing the Gorilla Biscuits’ cover for the first time

Flag Of Convenience

Meeting with Seymour Stein and saying you wanna sound like the Stooges 

reforming the band

Touring with Nirvana

AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!


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REJOICE! In a rare Part 2, FAT TONY makes his mighty return to the show! Tony made one of Damian's favourite records of last year & it has been a while since they last spoke. Listen in as they catch up & talk: the process of writing his fantastic "Exotica" album, working with Bun B, Tony's favourite TOAP episodes & so much more! NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don't miss "Exotica" out now on Carpark Records!

Also Touched On:

Liking ALL types of punk 

discovering music independently: free from anyones else’s baggage

Like Pop Punk and Hardcore and Houston Rap and Bay Area Rap

at least you could turn off the message board

getting back into music during quarantine 

Research, details and collaboration: a new approach 

The Gamble of making music

The honesty of writing as a character

Writing a record to be consumed as an album

working with Bun B

reaching back

YouTube comments as music history

Loving punk but never wanting to make it because it isn’t your true sound

Thing the Ergs to a Houston rap party

Getting into Ska Punk History

Favorite TOAP moments 

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!


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You demanded it, we got it! On this episode, Damian sits down with one of the most iconic front people to ever pick up a microphone: the B-52s' FRED SCHNEIDER!!! Listen in as the two discuss: accidentally inventing a new approach to music, the Cramps getting it, what the Sex Pistols were like live & so much more! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!

Also Touched On:

The Velvets, The Stooges and The Ramones

mom never bringing the 7th kid to a show

Records at the A and P

Going to Athens

West Coast Surf > East Coast Surf

Not wanting to be a dance band but loving to dance

the Fans

Ort’s Oldies

Going to the first US Sex Pistols show in Atlanta

house party shows

Jamming in an unheated room at a mortuary

Meeting Lux and Ivy from Cramps at Max’s

CB’s was a dump

“If you can do we can too!” meeting Pylon

Suicide

The modestly of Athens

Steve Albini is a lovely person

Don Pyle rules!

Biker wars

& SO MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!

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With Wonder Women 1984's Cro-Mags shirt & the Slash Mag referencing cover of the Playboi Carti's Red, Punk references have popped up in chart toping mainstream culture & people are pissed! Damian has called upon Nick Woj & Chris O'toole to help him deal with the Crisis On Punk Planet.

check out Woj''s latest mixtapes at: https://soundcloud.com/w0javelli/

This week on the show Damian is joined by filmmaker & former Sold Out fanzine publisher, OTTO BUJ!!! Otto has just made a fantastic documentary about the formative days of Detroit hardcore & is here to talk all about the history of punk in Rock City. Listen in as the two talk: being too late for the glory days, the dividing line between hardcore & punk, why punk in Detroit was different & so much more! Not to be missed & DON’T MISS Otto’s new film: “Dope, Hookers and Pavement: The Real and Imagined History of Detroit Hardcore”! Available here NOW: detroithardcoremovie.com

Also Touched On:

A Detroit punk nerd-out

Finding hardcore from your older brothers

The 84-85 jumping off point

out growing the box: Laughing Hyenas, Husker Du and Fugazi

Punk versus Hardcore

The genius of Brannon

10 months that changed hardcore

Ian MacKay is not a huge Tremor Records collector

The Flesh Columns 

The Spys and the Dry Heaves 

The Windsor Connection

Band grow out their hair and start to solo

Being too late for the hardcore you were looking for

Samhain

Youth of Today, Henry Rollins, Boom And The Legion Of Doom and a dead dear skull

Depression Records and the true weirdos of Detroit 

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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THE EPIC FINALLY OF EPISODE 300!!!!!

For the epic conclusion: J Mascis returns to talk GG and Degrassi, Footnotes host Chris O'Toole joins Damian for some reminiscing, all while D'N'D laugh at each other.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE FOR THIS MILESTONE!

EPISODE 300 CONTINUES!!! 

On this one: Fred Armisen returns to the show to compare and contrast 80's NYHC, 90's Chicago DIY and Dischord's DC. While Danko, Nick and Damian discuss and lament their various beefs in music over the years.



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WE DID IT!!!! Episode 300 is here and, oh boy, it's an epic THREE PARTER! Listen in as Damian is joined by his long suffering wife Lauren and a few other returning friends for this marathon of a celebration.

First up: Mother 13's Corey Harris tries to bum rush the show and then D'N'D  (Danko, Nick and Damian) finally formalize their trio.

DON'T MISS PARTS 2 AND 3!

Who says part two’s never happen?!?! Join Damian as he sits down with the returning CONOR OBERST for a much requested part two! ...Or one & half? Listen in as the two discuss, the good, bad, ugly of emo, trying to navigate success, PUNK & so much other goodness. NOT TO BE MISSED!!! 

Also, don't miss the FANTASTIC new Bright Eye's album "Down In The Weeds, Where the World Once Was" out now on Dead Oceans!

Also Touched On:

Back for the whole punishment spotlight

the connection to the Athens' scene

Sunbrain

Commander Venus meets the music biz 

Mousetrap

Dischord and Merge

Rilo Kiley

Digital Sex

Grass Records

Dropping out of College fo music… reluctantly

Tiger’s Jaw

Wicca Phase

Why most emo sucks

Ben Lee and Ben Kweller

The Cap 'N' Jazz 

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Turned Out A Punk is dead... with excitement! On this episode, Damian is joined by the LEGEND SAM MCPHEETERS! Listen in as the two talk Sam's AWESOME new book, MUTATIONS, Born Against's record buying habits, kinda caring about bad reputations, Clevo, Power Violence, the Albany New Wave vocal style, Ginsberg opening for Underdog being Utopia & so much more! This & Sam's AMAZING new book, MUTATIONS are NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Also Touched On:

in your image 

Watching Fear play SNL

Postcard punks

A presentation on the Dead Kennedys

Laurie Anderson and her "Tapeheads" violin

By ’84, Hardcore is everywhere

Combined Effort

Albany Style

The Verge are awesome

Capitol the band as the inspiration for antagonization 

Not liking being around drunk people

The unnamed style of New Wave with over exaggerated vocals

Most know fo being a victim of violent crime than being a singer in a New Wave band

There is no Koro in Albany

Trying to see the Beastie Boys and Murphy’s Law at Irvine Plaza

No fights in Albany: Going to Chucky Cheese after shows

Booking Nomeansno with Breakdown

Temper tantrums in Hardcore

Underdog playing Alan Ginsberg: The 6 months of NY unity

Inspiration on “The Fear Of Smell” comp.

Making ABC No Rio no welcoming to people that sought to destroy it by its nature

Life’s Blood remaking you in their image

Boycotting the first Life’s Blood show

Why would you go to someone else’s band practice?!?

Livin’ it up Rollins’ style in Room 666 at the 30th St. YMCA

Born Against on Rev?

Reading Wizard Of Oz, Leaf-blowers and other artistic failures

“We are called Bad Attitude”: lying to your parents about your band

“If 20 year old self came in the room right now I’d be a dead man”

Integrity and Ringworm

Power Violence 

& OTHER GOODNESS!!!!!!



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Attention! Please be advised that today on the show we are joined by the legendary filmmaker of The Decline of Western Civilization: PENELOPE SPHEERIS!!! Listen in as Penelope & Damian discuss going from thinking music was dead, to being at the heart of the LA punk explosion, to becoming a "big time" Hollywood director & hating every second of it. Penelope is one of the the greatest to ever do it! 

I KNOW IT’S BEEN SAID BEFORE, BUT THIS ONE IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!

Also Touched On:

“Have you heard of the Sex Pistols?”

LA Psych

music as an escape

Going to Rodney's because that was the thing to do

Blue Cheer

Zolar X

Punk changes everything

The Masque and places “where normal people don’t go”

Wish you shot the Weirdos, The Zeros, The Screamers and The Plugz

Showing Foghat the Sunset Strip

How to filming music

Manson changes everything

The Runaways

Art: Bob Biggs, a stripper and a cow on a leash

Where does it start?

Punk could see the future

Punk > Hollywood

Between The “Michael Moore” and the “Hand Of God”  style of documentary filmmaking

We Sold Our Souls

Guns And Roses not being in Decline 2

too glam not enough hardcore

“I don’t know the east coast”

Hardcore was born in Hermosa Beach 

Pollywog park

Violence and gangs

Bay Area Trash Violence

X not liking their parts in Decline.

The Maus Maus

“Hollywood can blow me!”

The horror of working with Weinstein brothers driving the making of the Decline 3

“El Duce was an asshole”

Bikers On Acid

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!


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We're going wild in the streets on this episode because Damian is joined by his buddy & a goddamn LEGEND: KEITH MORRIS! Listen in as the two discuss the LA punk explosion, & what led up to it, from the most first hand of perspectives. From going with Greg Ginn to see the Dogs in a music wasteland to watching West Coast hardcore take over the globe a few years later. This is NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss the brand new jammed packed reissue of Group Sex (one of the best records ever!) out now on Trust Records. 

Also Touched On:

Not heroes, friends

Great bass players

LA versus NY punk

A nice thick red face and zucchini noodles

Talking Heads, Blondie and most of the early CBs scene wasn’t really punk

The Dickies and X are the only bands to get signed

Zolar X 

The Imperial Dogs

The Dogs from Detroit: Ginn and Keith’s favourite band

The Last kick it off in the South Bay

Lucky Leher gives out his number on Group Sex and regrets it

Jeff trades Keith a song in exchange for a new band name

Hollywood vs the Beach communities

The effect of growing up in the “Hey Devo!” era

Don’t stand around trying to figure stuff out, jump in: Beach Jocks

Circles Jerks and Fear to 5000 people at the Olympic Auditorium 

The Stooges on their last legs

The effects of Charles Manson on you Culture

Vom were… fun

Fear forming to mock punk

The Extremes to Youth Brigade

The Atoms: pre-DFL and GnR

The first tour

Fanzines

Making sure you were playing with the good band in each town

Borrowing riffs

four month long tours

no merch

& SO MUCH MORE!!!


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PYLON WEEK CONTINUES!! On this episode Damian gets to sit down & talk with one of his favourite vocalists ever: VANESSA BRISCOE HAY! Listen in as the two talk about her journey into punk & fronting the legendary Pylon. From meeting the Ramones to changing the landscape of Athens through music, THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don't miss the awesome new Pylon Boxset out now on New West Records!

Also Touched On:

The ’76-77 dividing line in music

Prog

Roxy Music as a precursor to punk

The impact of the Sex Pistols’ show on the Athens scene

.38 Special opening for the Ramones

The B-52s and “New Music”

Almost meeting Anne Wilson from Heart 

“Our” music

Robert Croker directing The Fans with playing cards

Skinny tie bands

Blondie, The Kinks and some metal band

Everyone is scared of the Restraints

“Its the newest dance! It’s called the West Coast Shove”

The Shag and the North Carolina Surf Music scene

Figuring out DIY touring 

“Parties at our house!”

Pylon as healing music

Georgia hospitality in LA

Screaming to be heard

Gang Of Four, Pylon and Mission To Burma

The negative space left in the music

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!


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IT’S PYLON WEEK ON TOAP! In celebration of the amazing  new Pylon boxset, we have back to back episodes of PYLON greatness! Starting with MICHAEL LACHOWSKI sitting down to discuss his journey into punk & Pylon's impact on music. From houseshows with the B-52s to getting banned in Atlanta for repainting the greenroom, this is NOT TO BE MISSED. 
Also, you don’t want to miss the awesome new Pylon boxset on New West Records out now!

Also Touched On:

 Loving the Vibrators 

“Michael, theses guys are a punk band!?”

It all felt a little manufactured

Televison

Not loving Van Halen

Being turned off by the media circus around the Sex Pistols

The B-52s and the arrival of House shows

The Side Effects and Ok Go

The Fans and the Brains in Atlanta

The Tones Tones and the Method Actors

The New Wave take over of Athens

Where punk takes hold

The expansion of the Art Department of the University Of 

Georgia 

Going to NY

Lene Lovich or Gang Of Four?

Touring Canada

Beer for breakfast in the UK

Atlanta vs Athens

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!


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On the latest episode, we're keeping the Scared Straight energy going as Damian sits down with Ten Foot Pole frontperson, DENNIS JAGARD! Listen in as the two have a revealing conversation about the risk that comes with pursuing your dream. Topics  ranging from: cleaning up after the Cramps to fighting nazi's at the Gilman, to ignoring Prince's career advice & other goodness are all covered. 

Not to be missed!

Also Touched On:

“Big fan”

Dennis’ dog and workout partner

Dad trying to take the stage from under Black Flag

Missing Minor Threat by a week

Brian Walsby bringing over records

Mike Thompson: the original singer of Scared Straight

The Cramp’s Show Aftermath: Cow Tongues and 7”s 

breaking up in Pittsburgh 

Invest in your art and the risks involved 

Not taking Prince’s career advice

“Punishing” Jimmy Eat World fans and them not loving his shoes

Switchblade held to the throat 

Touring Texas with NoFX during their worst line up

Slamming for cardio for Ill Repute 

Fighting Skinheads at the Gilman

The Longest Line and the great leap forward

AND MORE!!!!


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IT'S WORLD SERIES TIME! What better way could TOAP celebrate than by having the only Major Leaguer/Punk Musician ever (A former LA Dodger at that!), on the show?!? Join Damian as he sits down with SCOTT RADINSKY to talk about playing punk shows & playing baseball at the highest level AT THE SAME TIME. Listen in as the two also go deep on: Mystic Records, RKL, other secret MLB Punx & tons of other goodness! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Also Touched On:

Chilling at the abandoned Country Club pool in 6th grade

 

The skater kids

Fear and Circle One

Minor Threat, Suicidal Tendencies and America’s Hardcore

Violence at shows

Scared Straight

The new scene

In defence of Mystic

Never breaking up

the late 80s lean years for LA punk

Juggling baseball and punk

Shows before and after baseball

The Punk Baseball Connection

Never being a “Jock”

Were there any other punks in baseball?

The bad kid and the good kids in school

It’s just a game

Ian as a god

RKL are gods

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!



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The Bard Of Barking comes to the Turned Out A Punk Kingdom! On this episode Damian sits down with one of England’s greatest song writers: BILLY BRAGG. Listen as Damian & Billy go deep on the greatness: Riff Raff, Chiswick Records’ pub rock, never listening to the Clash’s “Sandinista” on principle & SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS. 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!

Also Touched On: 

Sounds

A Damned reel to reel as first exposure

it’s gotta be recorded wrong speed?

Sceptical of the art school quality of it

The Jam are the first band to have an impact

Dr.Feelgood are the British Ramones

Do up your top button lest you look like a Bee Gee

The Clash live blowing your mind

Forming Riff Raff

Recording I Wanna Be A Cosmonaut and being reborn

getting high on recording

Snatching a cup of “Sex and Drug and Rock And Roll” badges from your future manager

Albion Records

The unreleased Riff Raff movie

Throwing matinee gigs in Clopton 

The Now’s “Development Corporation”

Jon Savage’s end of Punk was just the start

The power and sway on being big city rockers in a small town

Getting East German Punks Stoned for the first time

Lil’ Kevin joins the band

Punk splitting into Oi and The New Romantic

Never listening to Sandinista by the Clash

Blanking on The Levellers

“They weren’t in the Clash Wars!”

Lesson learned from Patrick Fitzgerald’s failure

Life’s A Riot

proto-Britpop 

The Housemartins 

& SO MUCH MORE!!!


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IT FINALLY HAPPENED: BOB MOULD HAS COME ON TOAP! One of the most requested guests for the podcast, as well as one of Damian's biggest inspirations, is here to talk Punk & it is spectacular. From Jesse "The Body" Ventura coming to hardcore shows to the infamous Tulsa Jack demo, this one is a trip. Also, don't miss Bob's UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING new album "Blue Hearts"!

Also Touched On:

CHOM-FM

Seeing punk before you heard it

School bus trips to see concerts in Montreal

Rush at their peak versus Aerosmith at their worst

Cheap Trick blowing KISS of the stage

Ramones opening for Iggy

Suicide Commandos in Rock Scene

Blank Records records in Burlington Vermont

Where did punk start?

Divergent evolution

The Suburbs

Taking lesson from Chris Osgood just to hang out

How different would alternative music have been if Husker Du had kept Charlie?

Final Conflict and Willful Neglect

Ken Lester with the hook up

Ron Reyes coming through with ribs and the strawberries

Making Duff McKagan leave the TV so Husker Du can watch wrestling

The story of the Tulsa Jacks demo

Breaking into the Biz

Diamond Jim: Husker Du’s Tour manager

Working at WCW

The Misfits

Vampiro

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!


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What a week!! Today on the show Damian is joined by the awesome Lydia Loveless! Listen in as they discuss going from being forced to play bass in the family band to self releasing her fantastic new album, "Daughter". As always,  not to be missed!!!

Also Touched On:

Mommy loved the Clash

Dad jamming New Wave records

The Romantics are Punk

Being forced to play bass

Playing weird gigs

joining Carson Drew

The Columbus buzzed about punk scene of the mid-00s

Opening fo the Carbonas

Going solo

Everyone ends up with a country side project

 Finally getting somewhere! 

seeing a noise artist for the first time: “When is he going to start the show?”

Touring with the Supersuckers

A family fest

& So Much More!!!!


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Give the drummer some! This week on the show Damian sits down & chats punk with the man who holds down the beat for the podcasting world: The Trap Set's JOE WONG! Listen in as the two discuss basement shows, Dischord's DC, scoring TV shows/movies & even playing bass in the Kill-A-Watts. Not to be missed & also don't miss Joe's AWESOME new solo record, Nite Creatures out on now Decca Records!

Also Touched On:

Dream Guest!

Finding the Descendents at camp 

The Violent Femmes

Not liking Green Day because they were on a major

Gravity records

The third wave Dischord scene

Ian MacKaye kept EVERYTHING

Forgetting that you were in The Kill-A-Watts

Forming Akarso

Seeing Fugazi

Booking Modest Mouse in your basement

Seeing your old punkhouse on Hoarders

cheap gas and Taco Bell Bean burritos was the full of the 90s’ DIY scene

Touring to Austin

Music City Washington DC

Comedy Drummers: what gives?

The Yes Men

& SO MUCH MORE!!

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Turned Out A Punk's Sopranos Week concludes in dramatic fashion! On this episode Damian is joined by the legendary MICHAEL IMPERIOLI to talk late blooming into punk! Listen in as the two discuss going from being scared of the New York Dolls at 8 years old to becoming completely obsessed with the era they helped usher Punk in. DON’T MISS THIS EPISODE & also, don't miss Michael & Steve Schirripa’s Podcast, Talking Sopranos!

Also Touched On:

Hearing the New York Dolls at 9 years old and not getting it

being a late bloomer with music

loving classic rock before it was classic

Jethro Tull in Concert

Going to school with adults as a teenager

Echo And The Bunnymen

The Smiths and going back from there

the 11 year old punk the smoked pot and blew up cats in your grade 4 class

Grace Jones live

early REM

Miracle Legion

No Wave

Navigating the real New York

The obsession with late 70’s Manhattan 

 

The power of New York

The disappointment of making Basketball Diaries

Writing Summer Of Sam

Meeting Honeychild

Playing in bands

Galaxie 500

the Nu-York revival

Green Day and the Sopranos

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!


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It's Sopranos' Week on the show with TWO amazing episodes! Kicking it off, the GOD Drea de Matteo stops by the show! Twenty years ago, Damian read a rumour on the internet that Drea used to go to Punk shows in New York. Today, he finds out whether or not you can believe what you read on the web. Was Drea de Matteo a punk rocker? Tune in & find out! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!! 

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Hello everybody! Recorded live from somewhere (Ohio), we have the LEGEND TALIB KWELI stopping by the show! Listen in as Damian gets to sit down with one of his heroes as they discuss the deep connections between punk & hip hop. They talk: writing Operation Ivy lyrics on the wall, why Dante Ross isn't a super scrub, what led to Tupac & Biggie hanging out with Kurt Cobain & so much more! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!! 

Also Touched On:

The Deadhead/White dreadlock dude hybrid

The hardcore kids being the ones that tried to really understand rap. 

The HipHop/Punk Connection

Self referential genres 

Minor Threat

Bodycount

the similarity between hip hop and hardcore fashion 

the importance of the year 1988

Writing Operation Ivy and Dead Kennedy’s lyrics on the wall

Nirvana and Hip Hop

the importance of the Video for Smells Like Teen Spriit

Hanging out with Tupac and Biggie

Lyricist Lounge and DIY

The importance of El-P

the effect of NWA getting cool on MTV

Dr. Dre and punk’s: “offensive shit over familiar melodies” formula

Frontline and the SD-50s 

The reason Dante Ross talks so much shit to Talib

Sneaker Culture in Punk

Cold World

Pickle Rick golf shirt ain't all bad

The importance of black artists to punk

A band called Death

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!!!!

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The King is back! Legendary wrestler & punk historian beyond reproach, ,Robbie Brookside makes his return to the show! Listen in as Damian sits down to further establish the power of the punk/ wrestling connection! Listen in as they discuss: Crass & Cave-In coming to the matches, hiding the Shitlickers 7" from the OG Black Tiger, being the old longhair at the Cock Sparer reunion & so much other goodness! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!! One of our longest episodes ever!!!!

Also Touched On:

Mom throwing out the Zine

A squat gig to see AYS with Pete Stahl from Scream

“BASH HIS HEAD IN!!!”: Crass hitting you up for wrestling tickets

Music to scare your sister with

Trying to put on a DIRT show

Corpus, Society’s Problems and Clockwork destruction

Hearing the Siege demo for the first time

The legendary Planet X venue’s punk roots

Anti Cimix and Toxic Reasons hanging in Liverpool

bringing younger kids

Deathmatches are the 7 Minutes of Nausea of wrestling

Paco and Clint Chapman 

Mike Clark and MCR UK

This is the best life: Seeing Jawbreaker in a German Squat

Two long hair and 800 men with no hair on the boarder : going to see Cock Sparrer  

The Punk Wrestling connection: Cal from Discharge going to school with Klondyke Kate

Defend Grind Core (from skinheads)

The Fits staying at your parents place

“He’s an animal!”: meeting Dave Grohl

Wool: “Mainstream Scream”

Cave In, the NME and Pro-Wrestling

Hiding the Shitlickers 7” from Rollerball Rocco Roc

“That’s just American bullshit this” Green Day infamous Christmas gig

“Are you Larry Livermore?”

Penpals with Green Day

Funaki putting the whole looker room to sleep

and so much more!!!!!


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Wade Allison was a father, a friend & a legend. We will miss him forever. This is for Wade. So much love going to the Allison, Metz & Iron Age families.

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Today, we rip the punk right out of metal with one of the greatest to ever do it: Napalm Death's Barney Greenway! Join Damian as he sits down with the vocal god to discuss, the difference between extreme music in America and the UK, Motorhead being the ultimate punk band, why do Italians do it (hardcore) better & tons of other goodness! Not to be missed!!! Also, don't miss Napalm Death's AWESOME new "Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism" OUT SEPTEMBER 18th!!!

Also Touched On:

The Ruts

GBH are the greatest

Discharge

The Mermaid

Birmingham football hooligans showing up for Sham 69

The formative power of Ungovernable Force

Dad loved the hard rock!

Motorhead: Trve Pvnk

Vocal heroes from Genesis to Gang Of Four

“Oi could be tricky”

not 100% fitting in with metal

Tape trading

Raw Power

the American influence on UK Hardcore

Burning Spirits 

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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Riley Gale was family. We will love & miss him forever. This is for him. Our deepest condolences to Power Trip & everyone else that loved Riley.

METAL IS PUNK! This week on the show we celebrate punk's influence on metal with two of the greatest to ever do it! First off, Sepultura's DERRICK GREEN stops by the show. Join Damian as he sits down with one of his dream guest’s to talk about what lead him to his twenty plus year career fronting one of the worlds most important metal bands. Listen in as the two discuss: teenage jams with Jeff Buckley's future drummer, the early days of Integrity, going on the road with Quicksand and Inside Out, the legend of the Overfiend DEMO & more! 
NOT TO BE MISSED!  
Check out Sepultura's new Quadra album out on Nuclear Blast NOW!

Also Touched On:

Still being friends with all the kids that got you into it

Cleveland’s lineage

getting in to rock music

Matt Johnson had cable, a drum set  and wound up playing with Jeff Buckley

False Hope

Knifedance

Starvation Army

Growing up with Dwid

Integrity

Hyper As Hell

Face Value

The division between Scat/St. Valentines scene and the hardcore scene

the influence of the Faction, Stalag 13, Decendents and Dag Nasty on Outface

Falling into singing

The East and West side of Cleveland gathering at shows

Connecting with Walter Schreifels

Going on the Inside Out, Quicksand, Shelter tour

The grunge era of Outface

Going to Europe

Opening fo Sheer Terror 

Keelhaul being the favourite Cleveland band

Alpha Jerk

Moving to New York and forming Overfiend

New York Hardest Vol.2 

Toybox Records

Mike Gitter and XXX

Davide from Orange 9mm chooses a studio

Auditioning for Sepultura

Taking a book out from the library and trying to learn about Brazil

Shooting crossbows in Brazil

The origins of Integrity

The Hostile Amish

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!

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Jehnny Beth is one of the best front people in music as well as an accomplished actor. As such, Damian is beyond stoked to get to chat with Jehnny again for the first time in 7 years! Listen in as the two catch up & discuss: cars as instruments, the beauty & horror of mainstream alternative music in France, getting turned away from the post office, living for art & tons of other stuff! 
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!! 
Also, don't miss Jehnny's brand new amazing album: To Live Is To Love!!!

Also Touched On: 

Reconnecting after 7 years

Is “I Put A Spell On You” the first punk song?

Fugazi, Cassavettes and Art and Lifestyle being one 

Film with stakes

Learning about Jazz from a piano teacher

Seeing Kim Gordon with a DJ

Blonde Redhead Rule

The glam band on the side of the road

Microfilm

Forming the Motels

meeting Johnny

playing the car in a grindcore band

The Stinky Toys rule

the controversy around Noir Desire

Meeting Johnny

The Luminaire: a venue and a home

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!


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Get ready to hear some melody drawn out of the noise because today on the show, Damian sits down with producer extraordinaire BUTCH VIG!!! Listen in as the two discuss: the greatness of Mecht Mensch's Zombie, Kurt trying to Sabbath-up the Nevermind mix nearly making Spooner miss a show, trying to capture the Laughing Hyenas & how meeting Garbage impacted a young Damian! That's just the tip of the iceberg! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also Touched On:

Garbage being super cool to Damian and his friend in the 90’s

WORT

the inspiration of punk

mom being a music teacher that loving Led Zeppelin and the Beatles 

Merlin's 

The Eclipse rehearsal tapes

The University of Madison

Spooner

the Nerves

Mentored by Gary from The Shoes

Self-taught by punk

Raspberries and Tom Petty covers

 “Here’s a song by the Beatles”

Playing with Spooner during the mixing of “Nevermind”

pulling hooks out of noise

The godly Appliances

Playing in a Polka band

Starting Boat Records

 

Touring with Steve Earl

Flying home to work on Killdozer

Feedtime

Cosmic Psychos

Swamp Thing

The Fluid should have been stars!

Genetic by Sonic Youth RULES!

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!


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How could Damian have known that when, actor, DJ & Inglourious Basterd, Omar Doom came on show that they were going to wind up talking GG Allin & Breakdown? Listen in as the two discuss: opening for Biohazard & Killing Time, rolling with the Murder Junkies, being rechristened by Tarantino & lots of other goodness! This is why we do this thing!
 
Also Touched On:

Having a lot of half pipes in your backyard

Seeing the Ramones in a bar in PA 

Driving in cars listing to the Dead Kennedys

Repo Man

Seeing G’N’R open for Aerosmith

Metallica 

The other Ordeal

playing drums

No one in school length Misfits cover band

The Wear-A-Ramones-Shirt Gang

Following the Ramones around like the Dead

The Cro-Mags 

Violence at shows

Biohazard

Moving to NY

Down with the Murder Junkies' Gang

The Bosstone of GG shit

Joe Coleman at a party

& So Much More!!!

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The Juggalo/ Punk Connection is real! As we continue our journey into early 90's New York punk, today on the show Damian sits down with his friend, the connector of the hardcore, wrestling & Juggalo worlds: KEVIN GILL!!! Listen in as the two discuss: learning that NY hardcore was about respect & courtesy early on, doing wrestling commentary with Lars from Rancid, getting into Insane Clown Posse's insular world & holy moly, so much more!!!

Also Touched On:

A long time in the works

The punk wrestling connection

Jackson Heights

Trying to get Jimmy Gestapo to watch ECW

Discipline 

Beer in the air conditioner

Going to see Sick Of It All

hearing Gorilla Biscuits and a world opening up

Public Enemy and Murphy’s Law

No Redeeming Social Values talking in quotes

Sheer Terror with Paul Barer in a thong

Being scared of Agnostic Front at first

Famous riot videos

Striving for Togetherness

Madball

Bond Street

The Insane Clown Posse Connection

A wrestling promotion with Lars Frederiksen 

JCW

& Tons Of Other Stuff!!!

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It's 90's New York Week on the show with, not one but, THREE episodes! Starting it all off with the reunion of Turned Out A Punk contributor & NJ punk legend Dave "It Up" Ackerman & returning guest, Simon "Doom" O'Connor! Join Damian as these two friends reunite & relive the heady days of early 90's New York street punk. This is one of the the funniest episodes ever! 
DO NOT MISS IT!!!!

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As we continue with the celebration of the band The 1865, Damian gets to sit down with one of his heroes! Writer, director, producer, editor, musician & all around cultural force, Sacha Jenkins is on the show! Listen in as they talk everything from watching Bugout Society waste White Castle burgers, to dealing with Nazis while roadieing for Burn, to having to explain to Eminem that the joke wasn't on him & everything in between! THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also Touched On:

The importance of Ego Trip to this podcast

The influence of the New Breed Comp booklet

Meeting Chaka

Going to school with one of NY Hoods

playing Leeway in tackle football

Meeting Johnny Waste in class

Quincy punk

Lismore Lounge with Absolution, Pressure Release and Bugout Society

the drug of the pit

The class distinction in NYHC

Meeting Lord Ezec in gym class

on the road with Burn

Dealing with Nazis

The shift in the NY scene

Cane River

Sons and daughters of artists

Identity and punk

starting a zine

PHASE 2 and IGT

Soho Zat

 

Henry Chalfant’s apartment as a graffiti hub

Meeting Daryl Jennifer

White Mandingos

Ego Trip as Black Flag ’81 to ’83

casting the White Rapper Show

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!


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The 1865 are one of the best bands going & this week on the show we celebrate their awesomeness with, not one, but two guests from the band! First, the incomparable lead singer, HONEYCHILD COLEMAN joins Damian to talk punk. Listen in as the two discuss going from seeing anti-Sex Pistols ads in the Bible Belt, to helping start the Sistagrrl Riott Collective, to forming The 1865 & writing the amazing "Don't Tread On We!". 

NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also Touched On: 

Reading the paper and discovering punk

loving Surf and Classic rock

Getting Blondie records from the bookmobile

growing up around showbands

Prince

Green On Red at the Peppermint Lounge

Seeing RuPaul’s punk band

Basquiat: the DJ

The difference between NY and every other scene

Pre-celebrity culture

Sonic Youth, Dadaism and inspiration

Moving to the Bay

Performing in the subway as a job

Sista Grrrl Riots

Roir Records and Tapes

Re-meeting Sacha in the Subway

forming The 1865

Chuck Treece

& SO MUCH MORE!!!


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VOID WEEK CONTINUES!  On this episode Damian is joined by guitar god: BUBBA DUPREE! Listen in as the two discuss Bubba's journey into punk & hardcore. From developing the sound that changed hardcore to his criminally underrated 90's band Earth 18, this one is nuts!

Also Touched On: 

The Sex Pistols in Esquire Magazine 

Buying “Never Mind the Bollocks” on 8-Track at K-Mart

Being young in San Francisco 

Seeing the Jackson 5 at the Cow Palace 

Brian James is the greatest punk guitarist

Looking for something trippier than Discharge

Joining Void

Where does Bubba’s guitar sound come from?

Ian McKaye in the studio

the story behind the unreleased “Potion For Bad Dreams” 

liking Rites Of Spring

forming a band Johnny Reese from the Obsessed 

Earth 18 with Graham from Negative Approach

the Void logo transcends the band

Kim and Ben from Soundgarden are Void fans

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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This week on the the show, we're going to live by our rules! IT’S VOID WEEK ON TURNED OUT A PUNK & we're celebrating one of DCHC's greatest bands with two awesome episodes! First join Damian as he sits down with Void bassist Chris Stover as they talk: Ian & Henry regulating the Clash pit, how VOID came to be, DCHC vs. a bunch of Rednecks, getting grounded from going to see Fear on SNL & tons of other goodness! 
NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also Touched On:

DCHC starting the pit at the Clash show

Skateboarder Magazine and Action Now

The Bollocks

Seeing the Teen Idles and everything changing

getting tapes from Bert from the Untouchables

Going to see Devo

Law And Order

The Unheard Music Festival

Wino and the Obsessed

how Void came together

“KILL THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!” Void’s second show 

Almost missing Fear on SNL because of a grounding

Getting caught eating catering by Eddie Murphy and Garrett Morris

Belushi hangin out with Ian McKaye: what the hell did they talk about?

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!


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Here we are now going to the punk side! This week on the show Damian sits down with the legend & one time live collaborator, MOBY to talk punk! Listen in as the two discuss: the legitimate fear at a FEAR show, Rick Rubin borrowing his amp, punk & stardom not mixing along loads more! Not to be missed & don’t miss Moby’s brand new, All Visible Objects record out on Mute Records now! 

Also Touched On:

Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video

Sid Vicious’ My Way

being conceived to Coltrane… maybe

liking Led Zeppelin out of a need to fit in only

Watching SNL at Brian Holstein’s house

buying records at Johnny’s

seeing Yes at MSG

Seeing Fear at the Mud Club

The birth of the Connecticut hardcore scene

Moby on a moped 

Rick Rubin needs to borrow and amp

The Rob Zombie Connection

Cro-Mags and Murphy’s Law as the last show

AWOL

The little Ian MacKaye on your shoulder

regrets

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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Again, this is why we do this thing! On this episode Damian is joined by one of his heroes: JON GINOLI of the LEGENDARY Pansy Division! Listen in as they not only discuss Pansy Division, but also Jon's AMAZING other band, The Outnumbered, his first wave punk zine and the risky business of putting on a Replacements show. Like always, 
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!  

Also Touched On:

Wondering if the Ramones were supposed to be funny at first?

Seeing an ad for the Pistols in Trouser Press

Raw Power being too raw

Getting into the British bands first

Pere Ubu being a little weird

Hearing Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith

Starting a zine

“Ugly bands are the next big thing!”

meeting the Ramones at a burger joint

Gizmos and Gulcher

Writing to Bomp

going to college for the radio station

Booking the Replacements

Not wanting to do another band unless it was a “gay band”

having nothing to lose

writing about stuff you had never heard in song before

working with Donna Dresch 

Tribe 8 

Parkdale and the Mission

Phone calls to Fat Bob from Hard Skin

touring with Green Day

signing to Lookout

The Angus Soundtrack

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!


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This is what we live for! On this episode, Damian is joined by THE LEGEND LYDIA LUNCH to talk punk! Although Lydia doesn't identify or even really like punk, she certainly influenced a lot of it. Listen in to this NOT TO BE MISSED episode as Lydia talks about the difference between No Wave & Punk, working with Rowland S. Howard, collaborating with (the) Weirdos, Cinema Of Transgression & everything in between!  
Did we mention it is not to be missed?

Find  her podcast The Lydian Spin here:

and find her on Facebook here:

https://www.facebook.com/LydiaLunch/

Also Touched On:

No Wave, not punk

clubs with “pillowrooms”

the island of found souls

Meeting Stiv Bators in ’73

Sonic Reducer

Running away for the New York Dolls

Rock Magazines

the House of Guitars proto-punk

Loving drugs and not going to sleep

Goth when everybody was Glam

dreaming of Rollerderby

The rise of rap, punk and Trump

being over Iggy and Bowie

The Ramones being silly

going to Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ first show

Mink DeVille

Union Carbine

Suicide did not fit in

Joe Coleman and the Steel Tips

Mars was the first No Wave band

having to go to Europe

Playing with Generation X

13:13

Cinema Of Transgression and  No Wave: one movement

& SO MUCH MORE!!!



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The doctor is in! This episode The Bollweevil's Dr. Daryl Wilson stops by to chat with massive fan Damian. Listen in as the two discuss the greatness of 90's Chicago Punk,  the problem of being a lead singer looking for a new band, playing "normal" shows vs. punk shows & so much more! 
Not to be missed!!!! 

Also Touched On:

Achtung Chicago

Sitting in a carport hearing Lexicon Devil

Moving to Chicago

Watching punk versus playing in a punk band

Naked Raygun inspiring you to play music 

Being made angry by having to leave Michigan 

going to St. Andrew’a Hall for shows

the change in physical perspective that comes with age

Don Giovani

going to see Prince

Boys On Skates: Bootleg Faction

the massiveness of the Chicago DIY punk scene

88 Fingers Louie, Smokin’ Popes, Oblivion, Apocalypse Hoboken, Los Crudos, Vindictives, Screeching Weasel

Naked Raygun, Effigies,  Articles Of Faith

Scene Unity to Scene Break-up

growing and having some regrets

Slapstick, Tricky Dick

the sounds of the factions

Writing a letter to Naked Raygun and getting a first show opening for them

the problem being a singer starting a new band

Milo is the influence

Bad Religion

Darby Crash

Lando’s 45

The Foundation All-Stars

Rat Patrol 

“Get off the stage man, we’re here to see the Bollweevils!"

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!

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The fun continues!!! This time Damian is joined by his friend & the other half of No Age, Dean Spunt! Listen in as they talk straight edge, building a scene versus joining a scene, the gods CHOPPING BLOCK & so much more!! Not to be missed!!! Also check out "Goons Be Gone on Drag City now, IT RIPS!

Also Touched On:

Following in Dean’s footsteps

Getting, borrowing or stealing a Ramones tape

DJ Quick

NWA

Dead Kennedys 

A sketchy looking tape

“The Adolf Cents?”

Luther Van Dross and Markie Mark at 6 Flags

The Natural Fudge Cafe

Guns and Spent Idols

The Smell as an extension of the JabberJaw

No Hardcore at the Smell after a while

joining a scene vs building a scene

booking Amps For Christ and Bastard Noise… together. 

The Dystopia Riot

Shows at Dean and Randy’s house!

The No Age Chopping Block 7”

Infest

Teen Creeps

Riverdales over Screeching Weasel
 
& MORE!!!!!

In celebration of their fantastic new album "Goons Be Gone", it's a two part Turned Out A Punk/ No Age special! First, Damian sits down with his friend Randy Randall to find out how skateboarding & resisting mainstream punk led him to No Age. Come back tomorrow for Dean Spunt's side of the tale & in the meantime, check out No Age's Goons Be Gone on Drag City now! 
NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also Touched On:

Lamar pedestrian bridge

the wildest show ever

A difficult history with punk

fuck the skull band shirt

liking the noisy stuff

Punk as Southern California Jock Rock

Did the Count even have songs?

Finding the Smell

the older scarier scene

Mika Miko

Jim Smith's dedication

having to surrender punk to the next generation

& Much Much More!!!

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This episode is so hot it shines! Again, one of the greatest front people of all time, MARK ARM stops by the show to talk punk! Listen in as Mark & Damian talk going from thinking Devo is a joke to Green River playing with Samhain to his lack of recollection of the Jerry A./Mick Harvey Beef & everything in between.

Also Touched On:

Pictures on my walls

See the freaky people on TV on a Saturday night

The Damned: “Like a faster, better KISS”

non-radio rock

Getting sucked into Rush

the Sweet record is a rager!

A joke Devo record gift stops being  funny and starts being amazing

The Forming of Mr. Epp And The Calculations

A west coast Deep Wound

Bob 1 smacking you on the head for touching his guitar

Gang or 4 

999

Fartz, Husker Du and the Dead Kennedys

Blaine goes to Motorhead and makes it back in time for thew set

That Fastbacks, The Living and the Silly Killers jamming to Van Halen and punk

First hearing about Iggy Pop and being grossed out

The Telepaths  

The Tupperwares

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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“I Can’t Keep Up! I Can’t Keep Up! I Can’t Keep Up!” This week, we bring you one of the most requested guests in TOAP history. BRIAN BAKER is on the show! Listen in as Damian has his mind blown with stories from the genesis of DC hardcore from a guy who lived it! After all these years, THIS ONE DOES NOT DISAPPOINT. 

Here’s to a little escape

Also Touched On:

Mutual respect

Going to elementary school with Guy Picciotto & Micheal Hampton

Moving to Detroit

Moving home & everyone is punk!

Everyone was into the Damned, Clash & the Viletones

The importance of Skip - Yesterday & Today 

Discharge & Crass

Empire, Lime Spiders, Hoodoo Gurus & the Church inform a sonic change

Either Teen Idles & The Cramps or The Extorts on top of a record store

Pussy Galore elementary school connection

“I could have been seeing Doc Watson play a deli two times a month but I was too busy putting bandanas on my boots, hangin’ outside of 7-11 drinking cokes”

Going to see Stiff Little Fingers with fake IDs & pencil shavings rubbed on your face

The BAD BRAINS

The early Minor Threat shows

not really understanding the name

The Violence

No more fights

The difference between DCHC & NYHC

Getting a Canadian SIN Card

Choosing SNL over playing at the GI

DOA at Woodlawn High School

Forming a Meatmen

Forming Doggy Rock: “just a shit show”

Dag Nasty: The California years

“The Great Minor Threat Escape”

Forming Samhain

“We don’t need this MacKaye character, let’s get Glen!”

Missing out on Bad Religion until “Recipe For Hate”

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

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GET READY for a hardcore scientist masterclass! On this episode, Damian is joined by returning buddy, Cold World’s Nick Woj! Listen in as the two discuss, theorize, debate & philosophize on a variety of punk related topics including: the differences between east & west coast power violence, why the punk connection was more present in UK rave, why Jason Mewes got sober, how Toronto has altered rap & hardcore, the revisionist history behind modern Deadheads & other pressing topics. 
NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also Touched On:  

Beastie Boys, Spazz and Cold World

the massive coastal difference in Power Violence fans

Independent Wrestling and DIY Hardcore

Burial Ground

DJng in the back of Home Base

The Wrestling/ Posi-Numbers connection

Acid House and Post-Punk connection

the motivation for forming Herman’s Hermits and Fugazi are probably pretty similar

Normies 

the 90’s

Hardline

Scott Biben 

Chef G

UK Drill

Is the Lincoln/ Hoover split on iTunes?

Portraits of the Past  

Rap/ Hardcore: Toronto changes everything

The Blood For Blood effect on Boston

Right Brigade Demo

Magnus: Where are they now?

Why Jason Mewes got clean?

The tragic Bane/ Only Crime show

Deadheads: the real story

& Much, Much More!!!

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"Somebody told me that you had a punk past". This week on the show Damian is joined by The Killers' Ronnie Vannucci for a deep dive into the early 90's Las Vegas punk scene. Join the two as they discuss going from NoFX shows in the desert to being in one of the biggest bands in the world. NOT TO BE MISSED! Also check out The Killers' "Imploding The Mirage" coming later in 2020.

Also Touched On:

Moving to Northern California from Vegas

Parent’s friend Emily gives you a DK and a COC tape

Seeing the Minutemen in skate videos

Getting “Head on the Door” by the Cure

Dad’s bitching van

Going to see the Cadillac Tramps at the Huntrage Theatre 

The Summer of Shows

Vermin From Venus connection

The Double Down Saloon… or Double Door?

Sneaking into shows

Meeting older kids at the heath food store

John Castro and A Lesser Dog

Seeing NoFX playing in the desert

How did a desert show work?

Fugazi: Vegas Style

House of Blues changes the game

Purple Dirt with Vegas’ Dave Navarro

Meeting Elephant Stone and forming Attaboy Skip

Fault

Tennis Court shows

When no one comes to the show, might as well play ska/punk?

How the Killer came to be 

& SO MUCH MORE!!!



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Get ready! This week on the show, Damian is joined by the god Katie Harkin! Listen in as the two discuss: the post industrial collectivism of Yorkshire punk, free hats from MF Doom, the damage done to a generation of rock dudes by the success of the Arctic Monkeys & so much more! 

Don't miss it & don't miss Katie's new solo album Harkin!!!!

Also Touched On:

Growing up in Leeds

A trip to Cyprus

the influence of the Smashing Pumpkins

Leeds over Reading!

Feeling bad for MF Doom after his set and trying to offer him a kind word 

Post Industrial Collectivism 

the Arctic Monkeys change everything

forming a band to get a 7” in Jumbo Records

Getting thrown out of a band for suggesting not doing covers

The Gossip blowing up in England

The London music biz

Wichita rules!

“Would you want to be the next Lilly Allen?”

Why is non-mainstream music more mainstream in the UK?

Sleater Kinney

Saturday Night Live

& MUCH MUCH MORE!!!

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ARE YOU READY, cause we've got a KILLER one for you tonight! JAMI MORGAN of Code Orange is on the show! Listen in as Damian & Jami finally get a chance to catch up & talk everything from family ties to Dillinger Four to calling in the Heyman Hustle at the WWE. THIS EPISODE HAS EVERYTHING!

Again, NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also Touched On:

Punk adjacent parents

Dad went to school with Billingsgate 

the secret family rap history

booking the first Code Orange show at 14

Grade 7 pop punk WAS HUGE!

Selling tickets for your own shows

Never being shown the ropes of genre

The Ska demo that isn’t ska

playing with Menzingers ad a house party at 14

Becoming a bitter ass band… at 15

The Pittsburgh goes apart

The first tour

Anti-Flag

Finding your scene

Booking a Circle Takes the Square tour and then asking them to hang

The four way split and where it went

Converge

Touring with Bane

“You guys fuck with ska?”

Scott Vogal: people’s champ

The Wicca Phase Wrestling Connection

The WWE

Jamming for just Triple H

Paul Heyman, bootleg samples and the making the theme for Bray Wyatt

& Much, Much More!!!

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In further celebration of Pittsburgh Week, Chris and Damian invite Pittsburgh rocker Dave Martin to nerd out about Pittsburgh and get lost in the weeds along the way.

It's Pittsburgh week on Turned Out A Punk! Often on this podcast, we hear about older punk siblings being a gateway for their younger counterparts ... but not this time. Today on the show, Damian sits down with the hilarious JON DALY to discuss how having punk older brothers drove him away from the genre  for many years. Listen in as the two discuss the fear caused by Danzig videos, having to sneak around with Jimmy Buffet records & so much more! 
NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also Touched On:

Mutual love

Austin charges his hair, forms Cryptic Alliance and freaks poor little Jon out!

punk spreads to the middle brother Matt

Liking the Circle Jerks but not liking the name and also not understanding it

Being into Jimmy Buffett

Loving the Dead Milkmen

Hard On Gang jamming in the basement

Matt forms Hurl

Parent’s with no other choice

Becoming a Jock

Being on the scene and getting into indie rock

being 15 and getting drunk with Don Caballero 

Connecting to the guys in Metallica 

Pixes 

Polvo

Dub Narcotic 

Not being able to skate

Fuck Rusted Root!

Andy Warhol was not a chill hang

Degrassi

Why is canadian TV so awesomely bad

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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Drakulas’ week continues & Zach is back for another attack! That's right, Damian's good buddy (& one-time co-host) Zach Blair returns to the show for the fifth time in celebration of the brand new Drakulas' record Terminal Amusements, to finally record an actual Part #2! Join the two friends as they catch up & dive further into Zach's wild career in music. From Government Flu to Hagfish to Gwar to Only Crime to Rise Against to the Drakulas & everything in between!!!

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What makes a great front person? Well, on this episode Damian sits down with one of the best to ever do it, The Drakulas' Mike Wiebe! Find out what brought him to the microphone & listen in as the two discuss how the local Denton scene has kept producing so many amazing bands & the fight they had to go through to be seen.  Also, don't forget to check out the amazing new Drakulas' album "Terminal Amuesments" OUT NOW!

Also Touched On:

ChiPs and Quincy Punks

a tape with the Dead Milkmen and the Misfits

the silly version of punk being in your DNA

Class Of 1984

Tough Turf

Ramones in a Budweiser Ad

Thrasher 

Brutal Juice and the Denton Scene

The Toadies blow up

Craig Welch was terrifying 

The Skeleton Kids

The Reds become the Marked Men

Parquet Courts continue the tradition

The Dallas Scene vs. Denton

The power of the Weekly in the before internet time

Listening to Iron Maiden and being overtaken by the power of Neil Diamond

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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In celebration of the fantastic new Best Coast record "Always Tomorrow": When Damian first started this podcast five years ago, he asked his buddy Bethany Cosentino from Best Coast to be a guest, but sometimes good things can take a while to happen. On this episode, Beth & Damian finally sit down to talk punk. Listen in as as the two chat: turning hymns into pop-punk anthems, the amazingness of The Smell, forming Best Coast & everything in between!  
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!

Also Touched On:

podcasts: a way to catch up with friends

being obsessed with the dude with the dyed black hair and Social D shirt

You can wear a Strung Out shirt to church?!?

“This is the best shit ever!”: Discovering Hanson

Mom drops you off at the Vandals and goes and gets a tattoo

Youth group and Tooth And Nail

Turning hymns into pop punk songs

punk rock camouflage 

the Omaha connection

Trying to get hidden from the weed smoke at the 311 show

Operation Ivy as the inspiration

the brilliance of true pop-punk

meeting Mika Miko

Hello Operator: A Smell supergroup

Lagwagon, the Ataris and Tony Hawk soundtrack

Saddle Creek

being confused  by Yellowcard

The Locust and THREEONEG

the Infamous Dystopia show

Crowdsurfing through the kitchen at Dean and Randy’s

going noise but not liking it

Forming Beth Coast

media bullshit

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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This is the type of episode this show was made for! SideOneDummy Records co-founder & Frontline/ Wax/ 22 Jacks vocalist, Joe Sib joins Damian & winds up connecting the dots between: Rancid, Swingin' Utters, America's Hardcore, The Faction, The Necros, Jackass & Weezer. 

NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also Touched On:

The brilliance of the Frontline 12”

The thermals and shorts vibe

The Sex Pistols on TV

Dad finds a skate park, has to convince you to go and it changes your life

Steve Caballero and the united punk entourage 

Donald goes full punk

Black Flag speaking to you

Going to school before Johnny and Kevin from the Swingin’ Utters

A group of friends “sharing” a Clash tape

learning punk lyrics for catholic school

Being the Factions’ Road Dawg

Everyone had a band

Minor Threat

America’s Hardcore

Forming Frontline

Operation Ivy

Signing to Caroline Records and them hating you

having to play CMJ at CB’s at 3am

Starting SideOneDummy

Meeting Spike Jonze and getting him stitches 

Loomis and the first Jackass stunt

Johnny before Knoxville

Metal dudes discover Wax and become Weezer

MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

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Get stoked!!!! On the show today, one of the all-time most sought after guests, Municipal Waste's Tony Foresta stops by for a chat! Listen in as Damian celebrates all that is awesome with the thrash/ metal/ hardcore/ punk god. From Avail to AmRep to Power Violence & Phobia, all the bases are covered! Shout out Scotty Tankcrimes!!!! 
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!

Also Touched On:

This took a long time to happen

loving the Beastie Boys

Sneaking out to see DRI

Danzig and Sacred Reich

Pink Lincolns at the Blues Chair

Reading MRR

Beavis and Butt-head

Christian punk and metal

Seeing the first show on the Check Your Head tour

Forming James River Scratch

Jamming at the AMC theatre smoking weed and telling off the cops

Beers with Face To Face

MxPx 90s Beef

Moving to LA and loosing a friend with to Phobia

talking to Ryan about forming the Waste at a DRI show

Touring with Jerome’s Dream and Tragedy

“DRI’s playing tonight! Let’s just go there and play it!”

“I remember Gord!”

No one was doing it like this

STABBED IN THE EYE 

Scotty Tankcrimes

& MUCH, MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!!

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We don't care what you say! This week on the show we have the OG road warrior of punk: DOA's JOEY KEITHLEY!!! Listen in as Damian sits down with a hero & one of the true pioneers of HARDCORE to talk punk, touring & cutting the trail that bands still follow to this day! 

SERIOUSLY, NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!

Also Touched On:

Thank you Joey from every band that hopped in a van ever.

Seeing the Damned’s literally Smash It Up on TV

Going to see the Ramones at a free show

The bikers hated the Lewd

Winning over the toughest of crowds

Captain Maniac, Buzz Constantly and Sparkling Apples

Punk: freak magnet

Moving to Toronto

The origins of the “Fuck Bands”

Nearly getting signed by Nash The Slash

Making videos in Vancouver

Disco sucks is a hit! (kinda)

“Are all Canadians this stupid?”

Pissing off the side of the stage and a legend is born

Chuck jamming on the bongos

the first “tour”

the infamous DC high school tout

getting the Dezerter lp out 

Touring China

Hearing the term “Hardcore” for the first time

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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THIS IS WHY WE DO THIS THING! Wrestling Week concludes with one hell of a main event: Damian is joined by WWE Hall Of Famer & wrestling legend AMY DUMAS! Listen along as Amy talks going from 7 Seconds shows, dumpster dived donuts & playing in Fugazi side projects, to wrestling in front of millions of people on TV as LITA! The Punk/Wrestling Connection is real! 

AGAIN, NOT TO BE MISSED!!

Also Touched On:

This took a long time to happen

getting a mixtape from the girl at the bus stop

7 Seconds

going to see the Circle Jerks and 7 Seconds at the Metroplex

MRR

Moving to DC

loving Lookout Records

Bay area bands’ scrappiness as inspiration for getting into wrestling

wishing you knew other punk wrestling fans

“I just need to listen to my people” - going emergency record shopping

communicating with Robbie Brookside through record pressing info

on the road with 15

robbing leftovers from Denny’s

Moving to DC

Dumpster divin’ for donuts

playing in a Fugazi and Slant 6 side project

“Did you hear I’m going to be a wrestler?” 

going to Mexico and wandering around Mexico City looking for Lucha

Kid Power!

going to the WWE

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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It's (Supposed to be) ManiaWeek! In celebration of what is usually the biggest week in wrestling, we will be releasing three episodes highlighting the most powerful force in the world: The Punk/Wrestling Connection! On this episode, Damian gets to sit down with one of the most dynamic personalities in independent wrestling: Effy! Listen in as the two discuss going from sneaking secular music into the house, to helping revolutionize pro-wrestling. Also, Effy teaches Damian about the Christian Gwar! 

Also Touched On:

Meeting 2 and a half years ago in Florida

Growing up in a religious household

Sneaking secular CDs from the library

Grandson of a Grammy Award winner

Raised by the kids of preachers

Sending dad out t get the System Of The Down CD and him thinking he is bring Satan into the house. 

The computer generation’s parents had no clue what we were up to?

“Hey, this is not it. Is ti?” straying from the flock in youth group.

Going to see the Christian Carmen

Going Atlanta for a show with mom

getting wrecked at the Warped Tour

Getting sober and stopping music

Church arena tours

Grave Robber: the Christian Gwar

Wrestling is for everybody

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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IT’S EPISODE 250!!! Why not celebrate with Damian as he sits down with one of his hero's, DALE CROVER?! Listen in as Dale & Damian discuss going from being a Kiss loving kid, to a Melvin, to becoming a Rock N Roll icon. 
AGAIN, NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!

Also Touched On:

Everybody loves Dale

Seeing Rock and Roll High school

Growing up with Metal Church and the Lewd

Kiss being people’s Beatles

Seeing the Melvins for the first time

Dale’s band’s accidental extreme on TV set

Popular kid Krist Novoselic plays matchmaker

“Nice Mentors’ shirt”

“Special Forces” the heavy metal two piece

The Facal Matter demo

Meeting Kurt Cobain

Going on tour with RKL but they don’t make it

Recording the 1st 7”

Alchemy Records: “he was our Andy Warhol”

“You take Sunday Morning by the Velvet Underground and that is what Olympia sounds like”

Finding Dave Grohl a band

Nirvana on Red Kross “Why are these guys so happy?!”

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

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On this episode Damian is joined by one of his favourite artists, ANNA CALVI to talk punk! Listen in as the two discuss a punk influence that goes beyond sonics & Anna's fight to create her own music. NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also Touched On:

Patti Smith’s Horses

Grunge loving teen

Lemonheads

Dad teaching some Shadows songs on guitars

Reading the music papers

The lack of space for anyone that wasn't a white male in 90's UK music

Forming Cheap Hotel

The quest to get music when you had to buy it

Manager making you watch tape of your show

being forced to try a write a hit

breaking free

The Domino/Punk connection

& MUCH, MUCH  MORE!!!!

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Right Now HaHaHaHa! On this episodes, Damian sits down & chats with one of THE ARCHITECTS of this whole damn movement: GLEN MATLOCK!!! Listen in as the two discuss the Sex Pistols, the Rich Kids & how a loose collection of ideas coalesced into PUNK ROCK! Don't miss it!

Also Touched On:

learning the word "punk" from a James Cagney movie

The Nuggets compilations

 John Inman and Caroline Coon brand the Sex Pistols

Malcom goes to America and meets Sylvain Sylvain

Getting a mixtape from Nick Kent

going to east London with Bernard Rhodes to see Teenage Rebel 

The pub rock scene

Going to see the Faces at some fancy club and seeing the original line-up of the Dolls opening

The Small Faces influence

Duff notices the Motown sound on the bass

getting records from the “White Goods Store”

Jethro Tull’s “Living In the Past” is like Take Five with words 

Midge Urge turns down the Pistols but sings for the Rich Kids

Martin and Coulter

 

Slick

The Rich Kids’ influence on Spandau Ballert and Duran Duran

Cock Sparrer in the discos in Spain 

The Spectres

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

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WATCH WHITMER THOMAS' "THE GOLDEN ONE"! This HBO comedy special has quickly become one of Damian's favourite movies (EVER)!  Listen in as Damian & Whit discuss his journey from listening to Bro-Hymn in the car with his mom & brother to performing Dammit with Mark Hoppus as well as agonizing over Fugazi jokes. 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!

Also Touched On:

Whit using Fucked Up as entrance music

A mutual debt paid

Mom teaching you to play Bro-Hymn

The true emotion of Pennywise’s 1998 version of “Bro-Hymn”

Mom loved new wave

Finding demos with two different takes on growing up in the South  

Alabama had no punk

Going to Pensacola to see shows

Seeing Against Me before they had real dreams

This Bike Is Pipe Bomb

“Pray to play”: Pretending to be Christian to get shows

Quitting the band and ruining an adult’s life

The Tooks can't make it in LA

The impenetrable cool of the Smell

The SF-Psych Revival

The Fugazi joke

 Fixing Danzig’s iMac in 2019

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!

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This episode Damian explains that this podcast will remain a place people can come to unplug from the realities that they have to face the rest of the time in their lives. Then we turn out attention to, not one but, TWO amazing episodes to try and unplug a little with. In celebration Slim Cessna's Auto Club and the Bellrays tour. there are two Turned Out A Punks out today! First we take a trip to the the dark side of the Rocky Mountain State as Damian is joined by, Denver Gentlemen, Slim Cessna. Listen in as the two talk where this true gothic-occult-cult bend to Denver and surrounding cities punk may have come from and if this is what makes Denver punk so special. Not to be missed!!! 

Also, DON'T MISS Lisa Kekaula's amazing episode!!!!!

Also touched on:

Devo on Saturday Night Live

Taking the bus to Denver

The Fluid

The Frantix invented grunge

the Junior T 

Soul Merchants 

The goth side of Colorado - religion meets subculture

Your Funeral’s Jeri Rossi becomes a serial killer art dealer

Moving to the Boston

Feeding Frenzy

Human Sexual Response/Auto Club Connection

Verbal Assault: “That dude went to prom with my ex-wife”

Psychic TV: Huge in Denver

AND MORE!!!!

THANKS VANS!

This episode Damian explains that this podcast will remain a place people can come to unplug from the realities that they have to face the rest of the time in their lives. Then we turn out attention to, not one but, TWO amazing episodes to try and unplug a little with. In celebration of the Bellrays and Slim Cessna's Auto Club tour, there are two Turned Out A Punks out today! First Damian sits down with, one of the greatest vocalists of ALL-TIME, The Bellrays' Lisa Kekaula! Listen in as the two discuss: the pre-Coachella Scooter Rally Raves, Fishbone's awesomeness, why vocalists experience being in a band differently and more! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!

Also, DON'T MISS Slim Cessna's amazing episode!!!!!

Also touched on: 

Hearing X in passing

AM radio

going to see Fishbone for the first time

Samba Hell

Pop Defect

Some much good music

The Proto-Raves that were scooter rallies

“Those are the dudes that run Coachella now.”

Why Ska hit Riverside and Southern California

Meeting Bob

Forming the Rosethorns

“I wish we had kept the name the Rosethorns”

Playing with the Voodoo Glow Skulls

Smokestacks: Sublime before Sublime

White Flag becomes Roadwhore

Fishbone spends year on the road and inspire the Rosethorns the become the Bellrays

I Got A Right is the birth of punk.

AND MORE!!!!!


THANKS VANS!

 

THIS IS A HUGE ONE! Bassgod Mike Watt joins Damian for a NOT TO BE MISSED conversation about all things punk & hardcore! Listen in as the two discuss Reactionaries, Minutemen, The Stooges & everyone in between. Plus, Damian nerds out about his road map into punk: "Ballhog Or Tugboat" on it's 25th anniversary with the cartographer himself! 
Did we mention this is NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Also Touched On:

We are all on the same team

No Watt No Damian

Readin’ in Creem

Lang Bang’s Cousin Lester

Meeting Nicky Beat

“We didn’t where bell bottoms”

Talking to Joey Shithead and Billy Bragg

The Vaudeville side of punk

“Ig said to Ronnie” being the little brother in the Stooges

Going to see the Stooges at the Whiskey

“I thought New Wave was a film movement in France”

“What’s the Alternative to music? Silence!?!”

“There was no guy on the back of the Circle Jerks record to try to dress up as!”

People LOVED Tull and hated the Stooges

“Ig had a weird gig where Ronny Beat his ass with a whip”

“At first D.Boon wouldn’t make a punk band with me”

“We jammed ‘I Wanna Be You Dog’ for 3 and a half hour”

The Reactionaries 

Playing with The Suburban Lawns

“The Bass King Of Outer Space”

The Minutemen were radical in music and organization

Hey Taxi! Georgies other band

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Let's hear it for gratitude & paying it forward! This episode Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield stops by to talk all things punk.  Listen in as Damian gets to sit down with one of his favourite songwriters only to find out about his own very small role in her punk journey! AGAIN, NOT TO BE MISSED! 
Also, check out Waxahatchee's new album "Saint Cloud" coming March 27th on MERGE RECORDS.

Also Touched On: 

The joys of discovery in the Napster era 

Growing up country 

Loving the Velvet Underground and GBV

Bikini Kill 

The Raincoats

Twin Powers

The Birmingham Scene: a story in two parts 

The difficulty finding a way into the punk scene

“Everyone still wishes it was the Ackleys” 

Hardcore message board toxicity 

 

PS Eliot is born from rage

“I’m a feminist because of the Bridge 9 Board”

Sage words from Marley

Fucked Up

Doing it for the other people

Fake Problems get big

“We are going on tour now!”

The end of MySpace

Teenage Cool Kids

Radiator Hospital

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

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Get ready! This week on the show Damian is joined by Spiral Heads & MGMT member, the great SIMON DOOM! Sit in as they discuss coming of age in the not so great era of NY punk & how that set him on the path for the rest of his life. NOT TO BE MISSED.

Also Touched On:

Nirvana as the gateway band

Getting a Sub Pop comp and hearing the Dwarves’ “Drug Store”

Parents meeting in Jessie Michaels’ dad’s class

Bobcat Goldthwait, Chokebore Butthole Suffers and Nirvana 

The loss of Kurt Cobain impacts a young kid

buying bootleg Nirvana tapes off Merle Allin

Drawing Lars’ tattoos on yourself and fooling Merle

reading punk jackets

Making a fake ID to get into CBGB’s

“Are you a spy of something?” - cops find your fake ID

“12 year old boy looking for band members” a personal ad 

Spider sends a picture of him puking

becoming friends with the skinhead goes terribly wrong 

Social Disease

The Murder Junkies were a terrifying gang without a messiah 

Adults beefing with kids

Thulsa Doom

The grimy shityness of punk can be exhausting

if it didn’t have the D-BEAT, i didn’t like it

“This isn’t a metal venue!” Dave It Up and Stuart Schrader’s opinion mattered

going indie

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

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This week on the show Damian reconnects with the godly Kevin Morby! Sit in as the two discuss the pivotal roll punk played in his musical development & the glory days that were the late 2000's Brooklyn DIY scene. 
NOT TO BE MISSED & Check out Kevin's latest album, "Oh My God", on Dead Oceans. 

Also Touched On:

Having to battle Blink 182 to get Green Day

Matt Skiba joining Blink 182 and a 6 grade dream comes true

Nirvana not being your gateway band

And thus begins: “The Reality Era” of MTV

Asian Man Records setting you on path

No Music in the house

No punks in the suburbs of Kansas City

Dropping out of school

Moving to New York

Going to be a opening scene from Law And Order

the 3rd wave of The BK Indie boom

the Vivian Girls!!!

The greatness of Cause Co-Motion: the Jonathan Fire Eater of the 3rd Wave NY 2000'S DIY

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Twenty-plus year ago, Damian had dinner with Linda & Johnny Ramone. It set the course for the rest of his life. Now, all these years later he is reunited with Linda Ramone to talk about growing up before punk in New York, her late husband & the traveling the world with the greatest band of all-time: 
THE RAMONES!!!

Also Touched On:

A brother that loved rock

Black Sabbath

Black Oak Arkansa 

“I found a band for you”

Dreaming of going to the city

Heavenly and Starlet going to see the Dolls

Seeing Grand Funk at Madison Square Gardens

going to CBGBs every weekend

Johnny little black books

Fun with Vincent Gallo

AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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After a tragic week of losses from the world of punk and hardcore, Chris O'toole, Dave It Up, Dave Martin and Damian discuss the musical impact of four people on the world of music.

Tonight we are doin' it for friendship & the scene, because on this episode Damian is joined by his new buddy, CHRIS CARRABBA AKA Dashboard Confessional! Listen in as the two discuss: Florida's isolation causing a music boom, coming to terms with being labeled "emo", playing on CNN in the middle of a news report & more! 
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!! Don't miss Dashboard Confessional's "Best Of The Best Ones", a career spanning compilation of Dashboard's greatest hits dropping on January 31 2020!

Also Touched On:

Moving to Florida

Cars rides as punk school

120 Minutes

Archers Of Loaf

Pixies

Dino Jr over everything

Finding Post-Hardcore before punk

Buzzcocks over the Pistols

Liking Green Day they were Green Day

Vacant Andy’s inspired by Jawbreaker

Crimpshrine

Jawbox

The gap between Youth Of Today and Hatebreed

NO ONE CAME TO SOUTH FLORIDA!

Seeing Hot Water Music and falling instantly in love

Building a scene

Jon Riely from Morning Again

Trevor from Fact To Face: “word if getting out”

Fiddler Records

No Idea

Fueled By Ramen

HWM and Less Than Jake pulling the south FLA bands north

Hubble: favourite band that never recorded

Being made to sing

Chad from New Found Glory’s voice in Shai Hulud

coming to terms with the term emo

Reason To Believe rule

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Get ready to set sail! In this episode, Damian is joined by his former shipmate on the Bruise Cruise & one of his favourite songwriters: Mikal Cronin! Join the two as they discuss: all ages shows, the Toronto connection, the joy of getting your OWN record & so much more!!!!

Also Touched On:

Growing up in a non-rock house

Hearing Nirvana in a cool babysitter’s car

When mom’s harp explodes…

Pop-punk as a gateway

the Warped Tour as a first show

NoFX 

Floggin’ Molly

AFI 

getting a full beer dumped down your cast

So-Cal Record stores

Finding the Smell

the possibility of starting a band

The concept of the Sensitive Side 7” blowing your mind

Meeting Ty Segall 

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

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Bow down because wrestling’s Zombie Princess is here! This week on the show Damian sits down with one of his favourite wrestlers: Jimmy Jacobs! Listen in as the two discuss his journey through the unpredictable world of wrestling & how it all comes back to PUNK!
NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also Touched On:

Damian is a fan of SCUM

It never hurts when someone is a fan

Jimmy hears the Misfits…

“All rock is the same!”

Rocking a devil lock in the 8th grade

going by yourself to see Prince in the mid-90s

Is the person or the character what came first?

Shedding the conservatism you were raised with

Cream Cheese And Bagels

The second Undertaker reveal turning you off of wrestling

“Here I am 20 years later, all because Stone Cold got popular”

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!

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If you want scream, scream with us! This episode, Damian sits down with one of his current favourite vocalists: HIDE's Heather Gabel. Listen in as the two discuss finding a late start through performing & the ongoing journey of punk. DON’T MISS IT!!!

Also Touched On:

“Punk” music

NoFX

Green Day

a tape with Crass

“How can all these bands be the same genre?” 

ECONOCHRIST!!!!!

Born Against

Sam McPheeters is always on the list!

Covering “well fed fuck”

Finding a Rudimentary Peni

Seeing Rancid before Lars was in the band

Your boyfriend refusing to stand beside you at a Jawbreaker show

Going to see the Cure and it being transformative

I can’t believe that many people had heard of them!

Hanging out with Robert Smith and it being the best ever

Eric Z’s Grounds Coffee Shop

Making patches for the Suicide Machines

Going to see ICP

Jax

Ink and Dagger RULES!!!!

being able to see Los Crudos whenever you want!

living at the Underdog loft

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Let's talk about the role of punk played in the resurrection of UK wrestling as Damian sits down with the founder of Progress Wrestling Jim Smallman! Listen in as the two discuss the how and the why of rebirth of UK wrestling and Jim's journey from punk loving stand-up comic to wrestling booker. Also touched on:

Daddy was a Northern Soul DJ?

The Clash: “I’m not hacking you listen to music like that.”

Standstill: a terrible cover band

The Sex Pistols/ Clash divide

Straight edge

“Just Don’t Be A Dick”

The formation of Progress: the anti-super indie