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Episode 413 - Bartees Strange
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Don't worry about going to Toronto more often because right here is where you need to be! Today on the show, the amazing BARTEES STRANGE sits down with Damian to talk about punk! Listen in as the two discuss the search for a place to belong & be yourself. From basement shows as religious rites, to the dangers of joining a random skatepark band, to the uniqueness of DC as a musical centre & so much more!!!! This is not to be missed!
Also, don't miss Bartees' fantastic new "Farm To Table" LP, OUT NOW on 4AD! Also, catch Bartees on tour! Also, grab a shirt for this podcast at turnedoutapunk.com Also Touched On: Only want to hear Anarchy In The UK The DISNEY Sex Pistols show
Norma Jean
Tooth And Nail: Christian kids’ way out
Brad from Home Depot’s band
Hating sports but being good at them
the Punk/Football divide
Toronto
New York band issues Making a band for a goal versus as a passion
Different approaches No guitar stores in DC
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!!! |
Jun 29, 2022 |
Episode 412 - Jayson Green (Orchid, Violent Bullshit, Panthers)
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This is why we do this thing! Today on the show Damian is joined by Orchid’s Jayson Green to talk about punk! Listening in as the two friends catch up & dig deep on the journey from CTHC to the dawn of “Meet Me In The Bathroom” New York. From Team Stagedive, to the rise of Hatebreed, to begrudgingly originating a subgenera, to Vice's New York takeover & so much more! This is not to be missed!
Also, check out jaysongreen.org for Jayson’s 24 Hour Video Podcast, music and more!!!
Reluctance to claim your innovations
Glam metal from the cousin in the attic
Finding “YOU CANNOT LISTEN TO THIS!”
Geoff Garlock
Getting into Rev through Quicksand
Minor Threat: “This is too much”
Being really into Shakespeare
Jesus Christ Superska
The Pist
Brutally Familiar stuck in the Ska scene
CT Hammer Dancing: fact or fiction?
Stealing “Vulgar Display”
Metal vs. Hardcore
Jamey Hatebreed booking all the shows
Two By Four
The muscle men in Tyrant Troopers shirts
New Haven: Yale and a mudertown
Switchstance ruled
Cornerstone (the band)
Pat Break
Making yourself like the CroMags
The Youth Of Today Euro Tour
Path Of Resistance
Follow Through
Tenfold shift from Earth Crisis to Youth Crew
Jesse Standhard’s “Team Green” mixtape
Reenactmentcore
All I Ask: Deadguy and Coalesce
Meeting Will Killingsworth
Amendment Records
Clean Plate Records
Acme and Morser
Violent Bullshit
Mark McCoy’s influence
At The Gates and In Flames
Signing to Ebullition Records
“We should do every type of record and then break up”
Los Crudos
The REAL origins of the “Meet Me In The Bathroom” scene
The Strokes are The Stranglers
Giving Steve Aoki his first DJ gig
Touring with TV On The Radio
Having one of the lowest scores ever on Pitchfork
AND TONS OF OTHER FUN!!! |
Jun 24, 2022 |
Episode 411 - Colleen Green
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Get ready for a real cool time! Today on the show, COLLEEN GREEN stops by to talk all things punk. Listen in as she & Damian discuss: poetic & not so poetic ways of hearing about punk, Sublime changing everything, being DIY until she dies & tons more! This is not to be missed!
Also, don't miss Colleen's latest fantastic record: "Cool"! Out now on Hardly Art Records! Also, don't miss Colleen on tour in the UK right NOW! More info and dates HERE Also, grab a shirt for the podcast at turnedoutapunk.com Also Touched On: Green Day as first exposure Learning the lyrics to be cool
Waxing poetic
Loving Sublime
Veruca Salt holding up better than Bush
Rosie Rocks
Daddy’s Music Junkie
Knowing that you were going tp be a singer your whole life
If I knew then what I know now…
Having to do everything yourself
“I’M DIY TIL I DIE”
Explosion rules!
Jeff the Brotherhood rules!
AND SO MUCH OTHER GGODNESS! |
Jun 21, 2022 |
Episode 410 - Scott Vogel (Terror, World Be Free, Buried Alive, Despair, Slugfest) Part 2
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Grab your boots, charge your hair and get ready for a good time; SCOTT VOGEL is making his return to Turned Out A Punk! Listen in as the Buffalo Hardcore God sits down with Damian again to discuss music & why he thinks punk is junk. From making Tony Victory pay the cover to see Snapcase, to a debate about whether or not Group Sex is a hardcore record, to Hatebreed changing everything, to stagediving to protest Fugazi: this is not to be missed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, don't miss Terror's album "Pain To Power", OUT NOW on Pure Noise Records, & don't miss Terror on tour in Europe NOW! Also grab a shirt for the podcast here: turnedoutapunk.com |
Jun 17, 2022 |
Episode 409 - Jason "Wee Man" Acuña (Jackass, Big Brother, WrestleMania)
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While there's no question that someone getting hit in their genitals with a paddle is great entertainment, is it also art? Today on the show Jackass' Jason "Wee Man" Acuña sits down with Damian to discuss: punk, skateboarding and art. From watching stabbings from the top of a skateboard ramp, to skateboarding becoming a sport, to the stunt he wouldn't do, to manifesting Keith Morris: don't miss this one!
Also, don't miss Jackass 4.5 on Netflix! Also, pick up a t-shirt for the podcast here: turnedoutapunk.com Also touched on: Jackass as performance art The different types of punk
The South Bay
Circle Jerks
Stabbings at shows
The Big Brother Magazine Era
Skater culture around for more than just skaters
The advent of the skateboarding parks
Keith Morris Wrestling Sami Zayne AND SO MUCH MORE!!! |
Jun 14, 2022 |
Episode 408 - Al Barile (SSD, Gage)
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How much podcast can you take!?! Well, you better be ready for a whole lot more because AL BARILE from Society System Decontrol is on the show! Join Damian as he sits down with one of the architects of American Hardcore to discuss: where it came from and where it went. “Hating punk”, accidentally causing problems for Ian, who bootlegged "Kids Will Have Their Say", still believing in straight edge, cannabis reluctance & tons more. WE SAY THIS A LOT, BUT THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, stay tuned for a HUGE SSD announcement later on this week! Also, pick up a shirt for this podcast at turnedoutapunk.com Also Touched On: John Taylor from Ontario, Canada: getting a fake ID Seeing Mission Of Burma
Least likely to rock
Cliff Cunningham’s punk records
Bon Scott’s vocal delivery
Hating La Peste and the Real Kids
Magazine in Lynn, Mass
A riot at the Rat
Guitar is work
Work is fun
Being in a band is a team
Still believing is straight edge
Never talking straight edge with Ian
Get them to 30
Missing the Youth Crew thing
No wanting to be the next Pastiche
Cannabis
Getting rejected by Elektra… without ever submitting a demo
Gerard gets the SSD reissue going
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!! |
Jun 07, 2022 |
Episode 407 - Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers)
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Let's drop some acid, burn some bridges & let our freak flag fly because Butthole Surfers' PAUL LEARY is here! Listen in as Damian talks to the Texas guitar god about being in one of punk's wildest bands & beyond. From a former friend smashing Sid Vicious' face, to the Butthole Surfers' obsession with Michael Stipe, to the dangers of shotguns on stage, to Billy Gibbons lunching with Culturcide: this is not to be missed!
Also, don't miss Paul's fantastically strange new solo record on Shimmy Disc: "Born Stupid", OUT NOW! Also, find out more information about the up coming Butthole Surfers' documentary at buttholesurfersmovie.com Also, pick up a shirt for the podcast here: turnedoutapunk.com Also Touched On: The first Sex Pistols show in Dallas Losing a friend over him smashing Sid in the face with a beer
Marching Plague
Stalking REM
The original 9:30 Club
SPK
“We managed to piss some people off without even trying”
Stickmen With Rayguns: the real deal
Don't mess with Bobby Soxx Loving the Vandals
Bands that don’t smoke pot: “Why are you even in music!?”
“We were hungry and they had soup kitchens”: Going to SF
Working with the Meat Puppets Sublime & SO MUCH MORE! |
Jun 03, 2022 |
Washclothdave Ovalpants: A Spongebob Squarepants Review Show - Episode 2
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Following the debut on the end of TOAP Ep 403, the stand alone 2nd episode of "Washclothdave Ovalpants: A Spongebob Squarepants Review Show" is here! Join hosts: Dorian, Camden and Damian, as they dive into the undersea paradise known as Bikini Bottom and discuss the second episode of Spongebob.
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Jun 02, 2022 |
Episode 406 - Tim Kasher (Cursive, The Good Life, Slowdown Virginia, Commander Venus)
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Let's go outside & burn our shirts! Today on the show Cursive's TIM KASHER is here! Listen in as Damian & Tim discuss a lifelong journey in punk. From Grass Records getting Creed-y, to the Dogma '95-esq TRC 112, to the rise of midwest emo: this is not to be missed!
Also, don't miss Tim's fantastic new album: Middling Age, out now on 15 Passenger Records & Thirty Something Records in Europe!!! Also, grab a shirt for this podcast at turnedoutapunk.com Also Touched On: Digital Sex and midwest weirdness Grass Records
The internalized Ian
Wind Up Records and being label mates with Creed
Slowdown Virginia
Alan Meltzer: Indie rock label impresario turned professional poker player
Brian Wilson… of the Beach Boys
TRC-112
Rules Small Brown Bike Cranky Records Are labels still important? & SO MUCH MORE!!!! |
May 31, 2022 |
Episode 405 - Kevin Hegge (Director of TRAMPS! & She Said Boom)
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KEVIN HEGGE is here! Join Damian as he sits down with his friend & the director of the incredible new documentary TRAMPS! to talk about: art, punk, style & growing up in Toronto. From the real history of New Romanticism, to the ups & downs of filming your heroes, to an evolved understanding of the Sex Pistols' cultural influence: this is not to be missed!
Also, don't miss the Inside Out's Centrepiece Gala screening of TRAMPS! on May 31! In-person at the Tiff Lightbox in Toronto or on-line! More info HERE!!! Also, grab a shirt for the podcast at Turnedoutapunk.com Also Touched On: "K2" Growing in NoFX country, Ontario
An evolving understanding of the Sex Pistols
A greater understanding of British Punk
The first Pet Shop Boys show
Meeting Bruce La Bruce
Getting to work at Rotate This Fashion vs. Style Never document your heroes!!! AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!! |
May 27, 2022 |
Episode 404 - Brian McTernan (Ashes, Battery, Be Well, Miltown)
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Does it make you feel big & strong to flex your muscles in between song? Well, for this Turned Out A Punk: don’t sing along because BRIAN MCTERNAN is here!!! Join Damian as he sits down with one of his vocal heroes to talk about punk. From the Ambassador of New Zealand’s skinhead son, to the DCHC/ Dischord Divide, to life on Lost & Found Records plus so much more: don’t miss this one!!!
Also, don’t miss Be Well’s band new “Hello Sun” EP, out now on Revelation Records & go check out Be Well on tour this summer!
Also, grab a shirt for this podcast at turnedoutapunk.com
Also Touched On:
Showing Suburbia at a birthday party
the DK’s “In God We Trust” sounds wrong at both speeds
The Ambassador of New Zealand’s skinhead son
Going to Uniform Choice, Soul Side, Immoral Discipline and the Flaming Lips for a first show
“If you get hurt, mom’s never going to let us back again!”
“Just sing”: joining Battery
Barrett Jones and Dave Grohl’s basement
Quitting… the first time
Ashes: tragedy and triumph
Matt Squire: from Worlds Collide to One Direction
The late 90’s DIY recording boom
Recording Texas Is The Reason
The Dischord Divide
Amanda MacKaye and Swiz as the bridge
The best show ever: Fugazi, Verbal Assault and Soul Side
Learning about your emotions from Rites Of Spring
Gut Instinct
Tim Owens bailing
Operation Ivy
Lost And Found Records
the Youth Crew Revival and mixed feelings
& SO MUCH MORE!
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May 25, 2022 |
Episode 403 - Peaches + A Special Bonus Podcast!
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Today on the show, PEACHES is here to teaches!!! That’s right, listen in as Damian sits down with the Canadian music icon to discuss: punk & the city of Toronto. From seeing Teenage Head at UCC, to the greatness of the New Music, to acting on stage with Steven Page: this is not to be missed!
Also, don't miss Peaches on the Teaches Of Peaches 20th anniversary tour! Check teachesofpeaches.com for more information. Also, stay tuned at the end of the episode for the debut of "The Washclothdave Ovalpants Podcast" Also, pick up a Turned Out A Punk shirt over at turnedoutapunk.com |
May 21, 2022 |
Episode 402 - John Doe (X, The Knitters, The Randoms)
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Who cares that your whole fucking life is a wreck? Today on the show, it’s the return of JOHN DOE! Listen in as Damian reunites with John to continue a decade long conversation about all things punk. From Baltimore being the reason, to the Doors as proto-punk, to Dallas Good being the greatest of all time: don’t miss this podcast!
Also, don’t miss John’s fantastic new Fables in a Foreign Land LP!! Out May 20th on Fat Possum Also, pre-order the new Sadies record now! Also, grab a shirt for this podcast at turnedoutapunk.com Also Touched On: Aging out of Coachella Baltimore is a tough town
The death of the labels being a good thing
The Doors
Working with Ray
Talking Turnstile
Working on Roadside Prophets
The Indie Movie Era
Making movies
The Punks Do Good
Roadhouse
Dallas Good was the greatest
The Sadies continues
Changing approaches to songwriting and production
AND SO MUCH MORE! |
May 17, 2022 |
Episode 401 - Alice Bag (The Bags, Castration Squad, Cholita)
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Don’t let your monotony set in! Today on the show Damian joined by the Bags’ ALICE BAG! Listen in as they discuss the dawn of LA punk & beyond. From dealing with Kim Folwey, to the Weirdos being the most underrated LA band, to the effects of violence on the punk scene, to people fighting cops with street signs: this is not to be missed!
Also, check alicebag.com for more information about all things Alice!
Also, pick up a this for this podcast at turnedoutapunk.com
Also Touched On:
Punk magazine at the corner store
Nickey Beat
Glam but with strict parents
Sharing french fries with Rodney Bingenheimer
Kim Fowley and Venus And Razorblades
The Weirdos are LA’s greatest band
The Zeros
The Screamers
The ups and downs of the Decline
The “100 Punks”
Hardcore invasion
“Punk Is Dead”
The effects of violence on the development of the scene
Fighting Cops with street signs
Castration Squad
leaving punk and coming back
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!
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May 13, 2022 |
EPISODE 400!!!!
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It's episode 400, let's get weird! After having most of the plans for TOAP 400 fall through, Damian is faced with a moment of melancholy & contemplation. Luckily, Countdown To Chaos' Fred Armisen still shows up.... & he has to deal with Damian's shitty mood. Does this sound like a party or what!?!?
If you want a shirt, grab one at turnedoutapunk.com |
May 10, 2022 |
Reassessing Pop-Punk with Tony Molina
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That ain't no pop-punk, you punk. You wanna talk about the real junk? Today on show Damian is joined by, power popping punk torch bearer, Tony Molina to reassess pop-punk! Join them as they wade into this much maligned and misunderstood genre and discuss why some of the best hooky, catchy punk gets overlooked.
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May 03, 2022 |
Damian vs. Max Creeps
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Long before The Fartz, 10 Minute Warning & the Fastbacks: Max Creeps were the kings of Seattle punk. Join Damian as he sits down with both members of this pioneering, albeit completely overlooked, band. From the album decades in the making, to past life meetings, to being stolen from by everyone: Don't Miss This Episode!
Find out more information on Max Creeps, including merch & the brand new video for "The Internet Killed Me": HERE!!!!!!
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Apr 29, 2022 |
Episode 399 - Tom DeLonge (Angels & Airwaves, Blink 182, Box Car Racer)
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Get your thoughts off that Carousel because TOM DELONGE is here! Join Damian as he sits down with one of the most influential people in the last quarter century of rock music to talk all things punk. Listen in as they discuss the journey from being the most hated punk band in San Diego to forever altering the genre around the world. Riots at 7 Seconds shows, the dangers of touring with Unwritten Law, beefs, pranks, O & why Stiff Little Fingers are the worlds greatest band: DON’T MISS THIS ONE!
Also, don't miss Angels & Airwaves' "Lifeforms", in stores now!!!! Also, grab a shirt for this podcast at turnedoutapunk.com Also Touched On: Code Blue is kind of a sick song. Fuck, these guys are fucking fucks
Dinosaur Jr.
“We were assholes.”
Identifying with Guttermouth, The Vandals and NoFX
The owner of Cargo’s bet with his son…
Skinheads and violence
Unwritten Law: someone is getting punched
Riot at the 7 Seconds tour
Don’t go to the basement with GG Allin
The LEGEND of the San Diego God “O”
The first demo
Cruz Records
Almost signing to Epitaph
Going to see the Dead Milkmen
NoFx, Offspring and Face To Face LIVE
The Action Sports’ era of punk
Millencolin and passports
Modest Mouse and Seasick Steve
Stiff Little Fingers rule
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!! |
Apr 22, 2022 |
Checking In With MVP!
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It's the 20th day of the month of April! MVP stops by the show to celebrate the release of his new song and catch up with Damian. Listen in as they talk: his WWE comeback, working with Westside Gunn, Wale and Smoke DZA, his impending hardcore band, what it will take to get Jimmy Lloyd into the Hurt Business and more!
Check out MVP with Smoke DZA and 80 Empire on the brand new track "Legalize It"! Streaming on all platforms now!!!! |
Apr 20, 2022 |
Episode 398 - John Dwyer (Osees [Thee Oh Sees], Coachwhips, Landed)
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Don’t lie awake until you fall asleep because JOHN DWYER is here! On today’s show, Damian sits down with the Castle Face Records impresario to talk about all things punk! From rocking out to Dropdead in Providence, to rocking asses with the Coachwhips in Tokyo, to rocking faces in Toronto with The Hospitals: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don’t miss John & the Osees on their upcoming tour! More information found at: theeohsees.com
Also, grab a shirt from this podcast at turnedoutapunk.com
Also Touched On:
The Misfits
Metal as a gateway
Angel Rot
United Mutation
“SHUT UP! THAT IS NOT HOW YOU PLAY MUSIC! THAT IS WRONG!”
Dropdead: still the best
“Complete discharge”
loving live
getting stuck in a Slayer riot
Anachrusus
Hiding beers on stage
Krang: Lightening Bolt, V For Vendetta and Jon
Spaceboy: post-B’last stoner rock
The man in the bush
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Apr 15, 2022 |
Episode 397 - Steven Page (The Transcanada Highwaymen, Barenaked Ladies)
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The Toronto DIY god STEVEN PAGE, is here! Today on Turned Out A Punk Damian sits down with one of Canada's most iconic songwriters to talk punk! Listen in as they discuss: Throbbing Gristle, The Jam & punk's impotence to outsider kids. From buying the "Business As Usual" compilation, to going platinum with a DIY tape, to prowess being worthless, to lead singers having to "wear it differently": THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Don't miss Steven Page on tour or "Live From Home"! More info here: https://www.stevenpage.com Also, grab a shirt form this podcast here: turnedoutapunk.com Also Touched On: Aware of punk from the press The “Business As Usual” Compilation
Loving the Jam because they also seemed to have missed out on stuff
Social/Sonic Barrier
Prowess is worthless
Suspicions about the Clash
Billy Bragg as inspiration
Violent Femmes Lyrics are important
The Townie, uptight, nature of early 80’s Toronto
Scarborough sucked
Hearing Johnny Cash and hearing him for the first time
Postcard Records
The “Big Gold Dream” documentary
“The Canadian version of…”
The Yellow Tape: The birth of a true alternative music industry
The Canadian Music Mafia and SXSW
“13 Engines can’t make it! Can you guys do it?”
The “Buck Naked” tape
The “Pink Tape”
Dressing like clowns and clowning the industry
Chris Murphy planting a seed of doubt
“The sellout threshold”
Signing to Sire to be a part of it
“Seymour Sign”
Inglenook: Toronto’s Rock and Roll High School
Outsider Angst and band dynamics
The viciousness of the NME
Lead singers have to wear it differently
The Skydiggers
Corky And The Juice Pigs
AND SO MUCH MORE!!! |
Apr 03, 2022 |
Episode 396 - Sulynn Hago (Propagandhi, Career, Ink & Sweat)
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SULYNN HAGO IS On The Show This Week! Join Damian as he sits down with the Propagandhi guitar god to learn the art of shredding metal free! Listen in as they discuss: the power of Adele, punk giving you permission for foolishness, the wild world of Florida punk & tons of other goodness! DON'T MISS IT!!!!!!
Also, check out Propagandhi on tour this May: https://propagandhi.com/shows
Also, pick up a shirt from this podcast: www.turnedoutapunk.com
Also Touched On:
Being away anytime a band comes to town
The punk booms as on-ramps
The changing ways we listen to music
The power of the Adele flex
One Man Army
The No Idea Era
The uniqueness of Florida punk
Touring to Chicago just to go to Chicago
Lights Out (FLA)
The religion of punk
Shredding metal-free
Ink & Sweat
Classical guitars can change your life
Finding Propagandhi
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Mar 29, 2022 |
Episode 395 - Kembra Pfahler (Artist, Icon, The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black)
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Awesome Siblings Week on Turned Out A Punk continues! Today on the show, arguably one of the most important & extreme artists to emerge from punk, the great KEMBRA PFAHLER! Listen in as Damian sits down with one of his artistic heroes to talk about her incredible journey from Southern California surfer kid to New York City art icon. The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black, No Wave, Joe Coleman, the influence of Adam & Jawbreaker, The Screamers, her mom’s reaction to “Sewing Circle”, the importance of surfing & tons more: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
PHOTO BY: Jean Toir
Check out Kembra on instagram: @Kembrapfahler_ !
Also, pick up a shirt for this podcast here: turnedoutapunk.com!
Also Touched On:
sharing process
no hierarchy of influence
Jawbreaker is the world’s greatest band
Blake’s gift of a book
Rodney’s: the good, the bad, the ugly
The impact of growing up on the beach
The Mad
Fred Pfahler: one of the godfathers of California surfing
Surfing as the roots of youth culture
Meditation
Yesterbating: revisiting old work
NY Loft Parties
The Pyramid Club
Samoa
parental support
No Wave
Lydia Lunch
Available-ism
Uncle Joe Coleman
The Steel Tips
& SO MUCH MORE!
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Mar 23, 2022 |
Episode 394 - Adam Pfahler (Jawbreaker, J Church, Whysall Lane)
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Let’s hear it for cool siblings!!! Today on the show, it’s the first of two episodes celebrating two of the coolest kinfolk in punk history: The Pfahler Sibs! First up, it’s Jawbreaker’s ADAM PFAHLER! Listen in as he & Damian discuss the journey from SoCal surfer kid to soundtracking performance art pieces in New York to JAWBREAKER! THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don’t miss the gods Jawbreaker ON TOUR! More info at jawbreakerband.com
Also touched on:
an older sister as a gateway
Visting Kembra in New York
The LES “Drug Buckets”
The first Jawbreaker show soundtracking a performance art piece
listening to the shit out of EVOL
Everyone listened to the Bad Brains
Blake bringing New Day Rising to school, “just in case”
Going to see DEVO
Caffay DeGrand
DOA, Black Flag, Minutemen, Descendents at The Olympic Auditorium
Jawbreaker: the art punk years
not fitting in with anyone
“Do they have your IDs?”: advice from Rollins
Video store culture
J Church forever
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Mar 19, 2022 |
Splits Vol.6 - Chris O'Toole/ George Pettit
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Where's Kehoe!?! 3/4s of B4 reconvene to celebrate: friendship, punk, Keep It Up & the impeding new Alexisonfire record! Listen in as, Alexisonfire's George Pettit & Turned Out A Punk Footnote's co-hosts Chris O'Toole & Damian sit down to have a conversation that's "almost an interview."
Don't miss Alexisonfire's awesome new record "Otherness", out June 24 on Dine Alone! Also, head to turnedoutapunk.com to grab a shirt from this podcast! |
Mar 15, 2022 |
Roll The Dice With D and D - Episode #4
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Here is the audio version of the latest episode of Damian & Danko's new Youtube show (watch it here)! New episodes twice monthly!
What happens when two lead singers get stuck at home with nothing to do but sort their (extensive) record collections? START A YOUTUBE SHOW ABOUT IT OF COURSE! Join Danko Jones & Damian Abraham as they inform each other about some of the more wild, weird and wacky albums lurking in the recesses of their vinyl shelves! |
Mar 11, 2022 |
Episode 393 - Charlie "Chubby" Manning Walker (Chubby & The Gang, The Chisel, Boss)
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How do you find your punk when it was your parent’s music? Today on the show, Damian sits down with Chubby & The Gang’s Charlie Manning Walker to answer this very question! Join them as they discuss: Charlie being born into punk & helping to give it a new chapter as part of the NWOBHC. From: the importance of Knuckledust, to being converted by a Cold World show, to Cashin’ Em In, to who was & who wasn’t there: DON’T MISS THIS EPISODE!
Also, check out the band’s new Chubby & the Gangs’ EP “Labour Of Love”!
Also, check out The Chisel’s latest lp: “Retaliation”
Also, if you want a shirt of this podcast, head to Turnedoutapunk.com
Also Touched On:
The Jonah Falco Fan Club
First Wave Punk Parents
Stumbling into a Justice/ Cold World show
Do people like Oasis in North America?
The importance of Kunckledust and the 12 Bar
the Arrival of NWOBHC
“You weren’t there, mate.”
Touring Europe
Boss
Cash’em In: “who says British people have no culture”
Indebted to Tom Ellis
A punk legend Dad
Skinheads
Teddyboys
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Mar 08, 2022 |
Episode 392 - David Bazan (Pedro The Lion, Headphones, Coolidge)
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Winners never quit! Today on the show, David Bazan & Damian continue a 20 year old backstage conversation about punk! Listen in as they discuss the journey that brought David to forming Pedro The Lion. From sneaking listens to Beatles’ records, to the life changing impact of Fugazi, to the seedy sides of the secular & non-secular music businesses: DON’T MISS THIS ONE!
Also, don’t miss Pedro The Lion’s fantastic new album: “Havasu.” Available on streaming services now & CD/LP/CS on Polyvinyl Records.
Also, grab a shirt for this podcast at turnedoutapunk.com.
Also Touched On:
Crucified
“Are you Dave?” “Are you Damien”: meeting Jurado
Hearing Fugazi for the first time and it changing everything
Drive Like Jehu
True prophetic music
Straight Edge and religion
“Why are you dulling the blade?”
Gods and Gurus: The complex personal relationship with Ian MacKaye
Mike Knott
One Blind Pig
The crossover to the secular scene
The rough first tour
The rise of Tooth And Nail Records
Modest Mouse and Seasick Steve
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Mar 02, 2022 |
Roll The Dice With D and D - Episode #3
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This episode of DnD is dedicated to our friend and record collector's record collector: Dallas Good. He was a peer and a hero, that will never be forgotten. RIP Dallas. Love Forever.
Please, head over to thesadies.net and grab some of the amazing music Dallas made... or a shirt or a "herb" grinder or something else. Here is the audio version of the latest episode of Damian & Danko's new Youtube show (watch it here)! New episodes twice monthly. What happens when two lead singers get stuck at home with nothing to do but sort their (extensive) record collections? START A YOUTUBE SHOW ABOUT IT OF COURSE! Join Danko Jones & Damian Abraham as they inform each other about some of the more wild, weird and wacky albums lurking in the recesses of their vinyl shelves! |
Feb 26, 2022 |
RIP Dallas Good
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Dallas Good was a god amongst us. He was an inspiration but humble enough to be a peer. This is for him. Deepest condolences to the whole Sadies family.
Please, head to thesadies.net and grab some music, a shirt or a "herb" grinder (Dallas would smile) and lend some support. Love forever to Dallas. |
Feb 22, 2022 |
Episode 391 - Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, The Weirdos, Repo Man, Joe Strummer)
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Feelin’ Turned Out A Punk, I'm feelin' Turned Out A Punk. Today on the show we are joined by Repo Man's “Kevin the Nerd” & music virtuoso: ZANDER SCHLOOS! Join Damian as he sits down with the Circle Jerk & Weirdo to discuss his journey from playing in a funk band at the Watts Tower Jazz Festival to being one of (Mike) Watt's favourite guitarists! Mike Nesmith’s casting genius, “Piss Bottle Man” memories, jam sessions with Joe Strummer & so much more: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don’t miss Zander’s fantastic new solo album “Song About Songs”, out March 4th on Blind Owl Records!
Also, don’t miss the Circle Jerks on their 40th anniversary tour, more info at circlejerks.net !
Also, head over to turnedoutapunk.com and grab a shirt for this show!
Also Touched On: Not really liking punk
Hating the punk rock cops
The first Clash record is “ok”
playing the Watt’s Tower Festival with the Juicy Bananas
“like a fucking human hurricane”
“You look like you could use a break”: getting told about the Circle Jerks audition
Running into Suicidal Tendencies’ bass player at 7-11
Meeting Alex Cox while hanging around UCLA
Getting a break on Repo Man from Mike Nesmith
Replacing Chris Penn after he replaced you
Getting hazed by the Circle Jerks
“What are you doing playing bass in the Circle Jerks for?!”: Becoming Joe Strummers’ Guitarist
The highest praise from Watt
The Piss Bottleman video shoot Tapeheads & SO MUCH MORE!!!!! |
Feb 16, 2022 |
Episode 390 - Matt Bettinelli-Olpin (Co-Director of Scream, Link 80, Radio Silence Collective, Delores)
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Do you like scary movies… & punk? Today on the show, Co-Director of the new Scream & former Link 80 guitarist MATT BETTINELLI-OLPIN is here! Join Damian as he sits down with Matt to discuss the journey from Gilman Street to the silver screen & one of horror’s most beloved film franchises. From being kicked in the face at Green Day, to moshing at the first AFI Gilman show, to the high praise of being hated by Ebert: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don’t miss the new Scream in the theatres now!
Also, head to turnedoutapunk.com and pick up a shirt!
Also Touched On:
Getting burns from the monitors at the Dookie release show
The Gilman
Finding the video of getting a black eye
Tim Armstrong’s Rat Patrol
Deep digs into Bay Area punk history
Rancid in the kitchen at Punks With Presses
The first AFI Gilman show went off
Screw 32 is a super underrated band
Sammy and All Bets Off
Jawbreaker and signing to majors
Selling out and other internalized guilt
The Jello Biafra attack
The Ska punk takeover
Wes Craven
Directing the first Alkaline Trio video
Horror Movies
Fan cultures
no love from Ebert
& SO MUCH MORE!!!! |
Feb 11, 2022 |
Roll The Dice With D and D - Episode #2
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Here is the audio version of the latest episode of Damian & Danko's new Youtube show (watch it here)! New episodes twice monthly!
What happens when two lead singers get stuck at home with nothing to do but sort their (extensive) record collections? START A YOUTUBE SHOW ABOUT IT OF COURSE! Join Danko Jones & Damian Abraham as they inform each other about some of the more wild, weird and wacky albums lurking in the recesses of their vinyl shelves! |
Feb 08, 2022 |
Episode 389 - Damon Locks (Black Monuments Ensemble, Trenchmouth, Super ESP)
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Today, we are going to kick your mind & make it move because DAMON LOCKS is on the show! Join Damian as he sits down with the Trenchmouth/ The Eternals' vocalist to discuss the journey to turn punk theory into punk practice. Listen in as they talk: the awesome mystique of Bubba Dupree, the differences between Dischord's DC & Touch&Go's Chicago, Skene Records, musical versions of Eraserhead & tons more!!!
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don't miss the Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble's fantastic new record "Now"; available from International Anthem Recording Company! Also, head over to TUNREDOUTAPUNK.COM and grab a shirt from this podcast! Also Touched On: The DCHC, Chicago Punk, Skene Records Meeting Joe Lally and Pete Cortner
“The Jam! That’s a good name!”
Bodycount DC
Minor Threat and Government Issue
Joe’s Record Paradise
the proposed merger of Potential Disturbance and Faithful Treason Protem: on the weird side of things
Dain Bramage
The Reconstruction Era: The transition from DCHC to Revolution Summer
Husker Du on Zen Arcade
Naked Raygun
Playing in Fred with Fred
Shovel
The multiplicity of the DC punk scene
9353: “The musical version of Eraserhead”
No fitting in Chicago at first
Introducing Tim Kinsella to the downtown kids
Martin and Los Crudos
Chicago in the late 90s was the capital of all things punk
Minneapolis and drugs
The Twin/Tone office space
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Feb 04, 2022 |
TOAP "Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche" Special (Celeste Bell/ Paul Sng)
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"I Am A Cliche" is a fantastic new documentary profiling, one of first wave punk's most iconic voices, Poly Styrene. Join Damian as he sits down with Poly's daughter CELESTE BELL & Co-Director Paul SNG to discuss Poly’s lasting influence on punk & what went into making such an emotionally charged film.
GO HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WHERE YOU CAN SEE IT NEAR YOU: www.polystyrenefilm.net Grab a shirt for the podcast here: www.turnedoutapunk.com |
Feb 02, 2022 |
Episode 388 - Tuna Tardugno (Sweat, Dogteeth, Wrestler, DJ)
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There is power in the Punk/Wrestling Connection!!! Today on the show it’s your favourite wrestling punk’s favourite wrestling punk: Tuna Tardugno! Listen in as Damian sits down with the Sweat (the band) and Dogteeth vocalist to discuss her journey in punk and wrestling. From how shitty venues can change your life to jumping off the Municipal Waste trampoline, to people shitting in inappropriate place at shows, to Hellfest as late 90s hardcore Coachella, to her match with Pricilla Kelly that made Jim Ross have a meltdown: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!
Also, don't miss Sweat's FANTASTIC brand new "Gotta Give It Up" LP, out February 4 on Pirate's Press!!! Also, grab a shirt from this podcast at turnedoutapunk.com Also touched on: A part 2? The Punk/ Wrestling Connection Live
Legit punk flyers at the Hot Topic
Toxic Narcotic
The Buffalo Renaissance
The Goo Goo Dolls
The Control
Earth Crisis
Hellfest: the Hardcore Coachella
Hanging Like A Hex
“Those shitty little venues and those four walls changed my life”
Municipal Waste’s mini-trampoline
The intensity of wrestling fan culture… not always in a good way
The infamous “tampon” incident at Suburban Fight
Amy “Lita” Dumass
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Jan 29, 2022 |
Roll The Dice With D and D - Episode #1
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Here is the audio version of Damian & Danko's new Youtube show (watch it here: https://youtu.be/L4cQZR6_tEA)! Check back for new episodes weekly (hopefully):
What happens when two lead singers get stuck at home with nothing to do but sort their (extensive) record collections? START A YOUTUBE SHOW ABOUT IT OF COURSE! Join Danko Jones & Damian Abraham as they inform each other about some of the more wild, weird and wacky albums lurking in the recesses of their vinyl shelves! |
Jan 24, 2022 |
Episode 387 - Brace Belden (TrueAnon Podcast, @PissPigGranddad, Warkrime, Wild Thing)
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BRACE BELDEN has been many things: a podcaster, a writer, a shit disturber, a florist, a union organizer, a volunteer People’s Protection Units’ soldier; but throughout it all he remained a punk rocker. Join Damian as he sits down with Brace to discuss growing up in punk & why being infamous is a game for the young. From being kidnapped by a work farm/cult, to fistfights at the Gilman, to the origins of “Mysterious Guy Hardcore”, to a heated debated about “Burning Spirits”: this is NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!
Also, don’t miss Brace on the TrueAnon podcast! Get it at the best podcast store you know!
Also, head over to turnedoutapunk.com and grab a shirt for this podcast!
Also Touched On:
Getting into punk in Canada
Danzig pointing at you
A goth babysitter
Rancid: HUGE in the Bay
Max from Warkrime gets his skateboard smashed…
Wearing yellow, tartan bondage pants to the Gilman: big mistake
San Fransisco Drunk Punx
Kidnapped and sent off to a youth work camp cult
Working for Tankcrimes
The younger band scene
Meeting Jonah and Career Suicide
Scotty Karate taking care of the scene
“We were rotten little guys.”
Dave Dictor writing to the principle about your MDC shirt
Psychedelic Horseshit
Clockcleaner
Judd and Sex Vid
Even MRR knows…
The Last Punk
Doing LSD with Total Control
“Skinhead pants!”: Jimmy from Annihilation Time and a bucket of bleach
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Jan 20, 2022 |
Splits Vol.5 - Joe Principe/ Dr. Daryl Wilson
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Welcome to another edition of Splits! This time Damian sits down with two Chicago Punk legends: Joe Principe (Ep. 342) & Daryl Wilson (Ep. 269). Listen in as these three celebrate the greatness of Chicago punk!
Also, check out Daryl & The Bollweevils’ first new music in 6 years, on streaming everywhere now (vinyl on Red Scare Records soon)!
Also, check out Joe & Rise Against’s “Nowhere Generation”, out everywhere now!!! |
Jan 15, 2022 |
Episode 386 - Daniel Makabe (Wrestler, Hanging Hearts, GRIEFWALKER)
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The Punk/ Wrestling Connection is real! Today on the show, punk rocker & “Small Room Wrestling” specialist, Daniel Makabe comes to the show! Join Damian as he sits down with Daniel to discuss having a DIY punk approach to the world of professional wrestling. From a Cuba tour with a band, to the rise of Vancouver’s No Fun & 2000’s hardcore scenes, to the various eras of d.b.s. to the powerful connection between punk & wrestling: this is not to be missed!
Also, find Daniel on twitter & instagram: @danielmakabe
Also, grab a shirt for this podcast at turnedoutapunk.com
Also Touched On: A DIY Hardcore career in wrestling
Much Music being more musically progressive than radio in Canada
The Killjoys
Montreal’s Tricky Woo
Deep talk on d.b.s.
Touring Cuba and leaving the backline
Cuban Punks love Agnostic Front
A & B Sound: the spot for CDs
A friend’s dad loving Savage Garden
The Hole/ Marilyn Manson/ Monster Magnet Tour
Seeing the Clean and the Bats
The Seattle/Vancouver Hardcore boom
Being a “Small Room Wrestler”
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!
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Jan 11, 2022 |
TOAP Footnotes: 2021 Look Back
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With 95 episodes featuring some of the most legendary guests yet, 2021 was by far the biggest year to date for Turned Out A Punk. Join TOAP Footnotes co-host Chris O'Toole and Damian as they talk about the year that was on the show. From hidden gems, to post-scripts, to behind the scene stories, to over-arching themes and narratives: this is your ultimate guide to the last wild year of TOAP!
Also, head over to Turnedoutapunk.com and grab yourself a TOAP shirt! |
Jan 04, 2022 |
Splits Vol. 4 - Jonah Falco/ Mike Haliechuk
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Welcome to another edition of Splits! This time Damian sits down with two of his bandmates in Fucked Up: Jonah Falco (Ep. 104) and Mike Haliechuk (Ep. 180). Listen in as these three try and talk about their new record "Year Of The Horse"... & failing.
Pick up your copy of 'Year Of The Horse", out now on Tankcrimes Records! ; |
Dec 31, 2021 |
Episode 385 - Josh Zucker (F**ked Up, Youngblood, On The Banks Of The Tumid River)
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The self-professed "Rarest member" of Fucked Up, JOSH ZUCKER is here! Join Damian as he sits down with his friend & bandmate to discuss Josh's journey in punk. From how punk is the ultimate societal escape hatch, to having to prove yourself in Toronto record stores, to Damian stealing Josh's job in the band: this is, as always, not to be missed!
Also, don't miss a bunch of records Fucked Up has coming out. More info at fuckedup.cc Also, grab a shirt for this podcast at turnedoutapunk.com BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Dec 27, 2021 |
Episode 384 - The Clean (David Kilgour, Hamish Kilgour, Robert Scott)
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FACTS:
Fact #1: The Clean are one of the best punk bands of all time
Fact #2: All three members - David Kilgour, Hamish Kilgour & Robert Scott, from the classic “Boodle, Boodle, Boodle” EP are on the show today!
Fact #3: These are three of the greatest songwriters ever & the host of the show (Damian) is very excited
Fact #4: The topics discussed range from: What was New Zealand’s Proto-punk to why Chris Knox is a great guide for an acid trip
Fact #5: This is not to be missed!!!!!!
Fact #6: Merge Records has just reissued The Clean’s ESSENTIAL “Boodle, Boodle, Boodle” EP! Get it in stores now!!!!
Fact #7: You can pick up a Turned Out A Punk shirt at turnedoutapunk.com
Other facts talked about on the show:
Seeing punk on TV
The Kiwi that filmed the Sex Pistols at Buckingham Palace
The La De Das
The Space Volts
Never mind Lydon, Here’s The Split Endz
People used to come to NZ in the 60’s
The Mumps Clean name connection
Chris Knox as a guide/ proto-punk DJ on an acid trip
The Enemy: first in Dunedin
Proud Scum
The Suburban Reptiles
The post-pub-rock scene
The Idle Idols
Punks were just hippies with short hair
learning to play bagpipes “for the drone, man!”
“Never been a christian”
Seeing the Buzzcocks
The Toy Love mistake
the hard rocking Aussie scene
The Four Stars ep and Wellington
The Cure were the coolest band
The Bootboys and Bootgirls
Chris Knox
The class division in punk
Seeing Lou Reed live
Mom delivering records
The Jello Biafra VS The Clean: Beef
Patti Smith knocking down Hamish’s art
Jane County rules
& so much more!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Dec 22, 2021 |
Episode 383 - John Kastner (Asexuals, Doughboys, All Systems Go)
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It’s like we're shining this week because The Doughboys & Asexuals’ JOHN KASTNER is here! Join Damian as he sits down with the Canadian music legend to discuss his incredible journey growing up in punk. From touring America at 15, to getting letters from Bob Mould’s mom at the CBC, to GG Allin showing up for a sleepover with a box of Laxatives: this is one for the ages! Do not miss it!
Also, don’t miss the reissue of the essential “Be What You Want” by the Asexuals, coming early 2022!
Fair Warning
No Policy
SCUM
Two clubs in town so lets his the road
Playing CBGB’s matinees
Making connections thru Maximum Rock N Roll
Self-released on “OG Records”
Deja Voodoo opens for the Gun Club and Cramps
the UK Punk influence
being at the Montreal “Another State Of Mind” Youth Brigade show
Psyche Industries
Touring with DOA and Minutemen
D. Boon was the sweetest
Meeting SNFU over a million dollars cash
Toronto: BFGs and art
Adrenaline OD
Reagan Youth
Giving Harley Flanagan a healthcare card
Direct Acton
Genetic Control
Zyklon B
Jerry’s Kids
Meeting Vinny Stigma
Kid bands
the insanity of Florida hardcore
Making friends with the Iron Coffins MC
Boom and The Legion of Doom
A Mac truck driven through the front of the club
Meeting John Peel
Making the NME drive to Stonehenge
90’s Quebec Punk
Bouncers having to start pits in San Diego to stop the gang from coming with chains
GG Allin showing up for a sleepover with a brown paper bag with a box of Ex-Lax
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Dec 15, 2021 |
Episode 382 - Gina Schock (The Go-Go's, House Of Schock, Edith And The Eggs)
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Today on the show we are joined by another legit Hall Of Famer: The Go-Go’s GINA SCHOCK is here! The drummer, author, photographer, hit pop songwriter & 2021 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee joins Damian to talk about her incredible journey through punk. From jamming with Edith Massey the Egg Lady, to taking The Go-Gos to bootcamp, to the Weirdos being LAs best band, to dealing with spitting skinheads in England: AGAIN, this is not to be missed!!!
Also, pick up Gina’s AMAZING new book: MADE IN HOLLYWOOD: ALL ACCESS WITH THE GO-GO’S, out now on Black Dog & Leventhal!!
Also, don’t miss Gina’s fellow Go-Go’s, Jane Wiedlin (episode 314) and Kathy Valentine (episode 322), appearances on the show!
Also, head over to turnedoutapunk.com and grab a shirt for this podcast!
Also Touched On:
The Go-Go's: "We are a punk band"
The melody of punk
the great lost Go-Go’s punk record
The Weirdos and timing
Edith’s Shopping Bag
John Waters: The King Of Baltimore
Violence in LA punk
Vance and the Cold
Friends for life
Send the band the band to boot camp
Meeting Madness
The Screamers
The first tour with the Specials
dealing with Skinheads
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Dec 11, 2021 |
Episode 381 - Jayne County (Punk Icon)
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They don't get too much more important to the history of punk than this guest! Today on the show Damian is joined by the LEGEND & one of the true innovators of punk: JAYNE COUNTY! Listen in as the two discuss why Jayne was a legend long before punk hit. From "wrecking" straight people with the Screaming Queens, to Patti Smith's method acting, to Bowie's jealousy, to being the first to play CBGB's & so much more!!! NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don't miss Jaynes' essential "Wayne County & The Electric Chairs - The Safari Years" 4CD boxset, out now on Cherry Red Records! Also, check out Jayne County & Am Taylors' "I Don't Fit In Anywhere" out now on streaming services everywhere! Also, head over to TurnedOutAPunk.com & pick up a shirt from this podcast! Also Touched On: Bow down to the Original Punk Rocker Being the first to play CBGBs
Getting diarrhea from Healey’s chilli
Getting shot at on stage on Long Island
“Don’t listen to her! Don’t listen to her! She’s the Devil”
The Screaming Queens and “wrecking straight people”
The REAL Queen Elizabeth
Meeting John Lennon Getting possessed on stage
The New York Street Scene
Iron Butterfly
Never liking the Grateful Dead
Jackie Curtis’ genius
Theatre of The Ridiculous
Traveling to London with Andy Warhol’s “Pork”
Doing theatre with Patti Smith
Suicide: Room Emptiers
“I’m not a punk, I’m a rock and roller” - Dee Dee
Getting paid by Malcom Mclaren TWICE
Debuting two weeks after the New York Dolls
New Wave killed punk off
No Wave is too arty
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Dec 08, 2021 |
Episode 380 - Mike Torres (Section H8, Furious Styles, Spitting Teeth)
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Welcome to the dream! Today on the show Damian is joined by Section H8's MIKE "MEXI" TORRES to talk punk! Listen in as they discuss Mexi's incredible journey from being a houseless punk kid, to making records with his childhood heroes. Smuggling a Rancid tape into "Bad kid school", being stranded in Seattle, living with Cold Sweat, Havoc records as hardcore's Sub Pop & so much more: DON'T MISS THIS EPISODE!
Also, don't miss Section H8's fantastic, "Welcome To The Nightmare" out now on Flatspot Records!! Also, head over to turnedoutapunk.com and pick up a shirt for the podcast! Also Touched On: Singles Going Steady, Hits and Misses and Pete Genest Rancid’s “Salvation” video
Dad surprising you with GnR/ Metallica tickets
Seeing John Denver live
Body Count’s Cop Killer: It reeeeeally bothered people
Rancid's work ethic
No music allowed in the “bad kid school”
Smuggling in “Let’s Go” tape
Tim Armstrong
Duff loves Discharge
becoming “a piece shit bar guy” for a while
Getting trapped in Seattle
Spitting Teeth: “We were bad at being in a band”
War Scar Havoc Records Chicago Fest Aus Rotten were a very important thing
Writing songs while guarding weeds shops
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Dec 05, 2021 |
Episode 379 - Tim Heidecker (Tim & Eric, On Cinema At The Cinema, Office Hours)
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Never Mind Tom Goes To The Mayor, Here’s Tim Comes To Turned Out A Punk! Today on the show: On Cinema, Office Hours & Tim and Eric’s TIM HEIDECKER is here to talk hating punk, but it still being his scene. Listen in as Tim & Damian discuss: Minor Threat loving drug dealers, losing band members to Digger, Weston as Allentown’s Pavement, being sketched out by Ink & Dagger, troll culture, and so much more!
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don’t miss Tim and Gregg Turkington’s hilarious “On Cinema At The Cinema” available at www.heinetwork.com
Also, don’t miss Tim’s equally hilarious "Office Hours" available at www.youtube.com/timheidecker
Also, grab one of the Turned Out A Punk Shirts at: www.turnedoutapunk.com
Also Touched On:
The Ramones on rock radio
Billy Idol & Generation X
Loving the scene but hating the music
A hardcore loving drug dealer
Minor Threat in the car on the way to get beer
Liking early Green Day
Weston: Kings Of Scene
Dave Weston is PA’s Stephen Malkmus
Having your band stolen to become Digger
The era when consumer level gear is able to produce at a pro-level
Eric: the one stop cultural shop
Opening (with videos) for the Shins
Getting discovered by Bob Odenkirk
“Keep them out of the writers room!”
The 709 South 6th Street Punk House
The Tim Heidecker Masterpiece
Puss WhIp Bang Gang
The Doors on Beat Club
Cotton Candy: the tape hook up
Rockbitch: wildest band in music
“Wait til you see this!”: discovering Chris Morris' comedy
Faces Of Death
Tom Green
Derrick Beckles and TV Carnage
Smashing the Moog in 12 Tone System
Sola: the best Philly band
Built To Spill: a mutual love affair
Comedy wasn’t cool
Mr Show as a Matador Band
Making “Art”
The Influence of Dr. Demento on culture
Howeird Stern’s Weird Al cash in record
Neil Hamburger and breaking Kayfabe
Cultural curation
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Nov 30, 2021 |
Episode 378 - Ray Ahn (Hard-Ons, Nunchukka Superfly, The Victims)
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What happens when heroes become friends? Find out today as Damian sits down with one of his, The Hard-Ons’ RAY AHN & quickly realises that they are birds of a feather. Listen in as the two discuss their shared passions of punk & record collecting. From AC/DC playing earth shatteringly loud at the local park, to power erasing signed records, to confronting hate with humour, to why Jerry A should have thrown Mick Harvey off that boat & so much more: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don’t miss The Hard-Ons’ latest awesome LP, “I'm Sorry Sir, That Riff's Been Taken” on Cheersquad Records!
Also, check out the latest LP by Ray’s other fantastic band: Nunchukka Superfly’s, “The Aussie Exorcism (Nah Mate, You Can't Punch A Ghost)” on Tym Records!
Also, head over to turnedoutapunk.com & grab a shirt for this podcast!
Also Touched On: The various species and sub-species of record collectors
Australian love for hard rock
Getting the SexPistols single from a friend who didn’t like it
“No one bought Tartus
Beautifully instructional The Ramones and the Saints seal the deal
AC/DC playing in the park
The influence of the volume on kids in the 70s
Accidentally erasing Kym Bradshaw’s signature
(I’m) Stranded: the real Australian National Anthem
Record Collections not as places of enjoyment
Having to deal with Racists
Confronting Nazis with humour
The Celibate Rifles
The Slugfuckers
They not-so-good ol’ days
The Asshole Roster System
being in The Victims
Seeing Gauze in ’89
Touring Japan with Snuff and Sean ‘Fat Bob’ Forbes
& TONS MORE GOODNESS BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Nov 26, 2021 |
Episode 377 - Jeff Tweedy (Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Golden Smog)
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Your eyes are not deceiving you: JEFF TWEEDY is here! The songwriter, author, record producer & Wilco frontman stops by the show to talk punk! Join Damian as he sits down with Jeff to discuss: the legend of Max Load, when punk misses the mark completely, arguing with Gerard Cosloy outside of CBGBs about ad copy, audiences waiting for Jimmy Buffet covers & so much more!!
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! Don't miss the reissue of Jeff's "Chelsea Hotel" soundtrack & the deluxe edition of "Love Is The King" coming soon! ALSO, don't forget to subscribe to Jeff's newsletter here: https://jefftweedy.substack.com/subscribe We’re getting down to the last few TURNED OUT A PUNK T-Shirts. Get over to www.turnedoutapunk.com & get one before they’re gone! Also Touched On: Punk on tv in ’77 Local legends Max Load
The bad scary punk dudes
Punk’s most infamous poor taste “joke” band
The Johnny Appleseeds of Punk
A million dollar comic collection
The sketchiness of First Wave Mid-West Punk
Ultraman
Drunks With Guns
“Where do they get these punk clothes?!”
The beauty of the Spanish Swing Scene
Fool Face were a New Wave band
The Stray Cats before the codification
Culture Shock on acid
The Dazzling Kill Men
Producing with Albini
Hooking up with Rockville Records
The internal Dutch East Indie beef
Gerard Cosloy is the real deal
Early tours and having to play with Jimmy Buffet cover bands
Meeting Mamma Stinson
& TONS MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Nov 23, 2021 |
Episode 376 - Toby Morse (H2O, Hazen Street, One Life One Chance Podcast)
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Today we welcome one of the most positive forces in the hardcore universe to the show: TOBY MORSE! The author, podcaster & H20 front person is here to celebrate his lifelong love of punk. Join Damian as he reconnects with his one time tour buddy to discuss: the whiplash between Revolution Summer DC & NYHC, Kevin Seconds as a father figure, Verbal Assault being underrated, Chris Gethard's story from TOAP episode 51 & so much more!
DO NOT MISS IT! Also, don't miss Toby's brand new kids' book "One Life One Chance" OUT NOW on HE Creative or visit H2OMERCH.COM AND if you want one of the new Turned Out A Punk shirts, visit TURNEDOUTAPUNK.COM Also Touched On: 20 years of friendship Going to see Impact Unit
“Never Mind The Bollocks” of 8-track
Verbal Assault RULE
Positive Outlook
The Belly punk connection
The Marginal Man cover
Embrace
Kingface
East Coast surfing
Not liking the “Anarchy and Fuck your parents” vibe
7 Seconds
Meeting Milo and seeing the Descendents
The Chris Gethard story
Moving to DC just in time for Revolution Summer
Going hippies
Moving to New York to hang with Token Entry
Underdog
Hanging with Sick Of It All
Living beside
Living in Alan Cage’s closet
“The Hick from Maryland”
Walter plays the Sugarcubes and Smiths
Rusty and Images
Outcrowd
Violence in NY
The Warped Tour
Generation Records
The amazingness of Kevin Seconds
Recording beside Axel Rose
Not loving “Go”
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Nov 16, 2021 |
Episode 375 - Elgin James (Co-Creator & Showrunner of FX's Mayans M.C., Righteous Jams, 454 Big Block, Wrecking Crew)
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What is the purpose of this podcast if not to help Damian rekindle old friendships? Today on the show, Mayans M.C. co-creator / Showrunner & Righteous Jammer, ELGIN JAMES sits down for one of the most fascinating episodes yet! Listen in as two friends reconnect & discuss Elgin’s harrowing journey from homeless punk, to writing a hit tv show & EVERYTHING in between!
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED AT ALL COSTS! Also, lookout for Mayans M.C. Season 4 coming in 2022 & catch up on past seasons on FX now!
Also Touched On:
Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert
The Billy Squier/ Dead Kennedys connection
The Sex Pistols rule
Catching MRR radio by chance
Molly Shannon: New Waver
The Clash vs. The Pistols
Rainbow and The Scorpions
Adventure Jukebox on WXEI
No Milk On Tuesday
Husker Du
Going to the Anthrax and seeing Mental Abuse
Chronic Disorder
Starting a zine
Following Rollins around on the Lifetime Tour
Rage Of Discipline: the band
“Stay out of prison”: advice from Hank
Believing it and living it
A little boy never learning to be a man
Blackout Bar
Meeting Kira from Black Flag…. kinda
The changing of the guard in Connecticut
Forced Reality
Roger and Agnostic Front: the realest
Getting banned from the Anthrax every other weekend
Skeletal Ambitions
Helping out Jill Heath and DRI
Being a punk rock filmmaker
Julian Temple on Crass
Playing with GG Allin
The skinheads going to see Suckdog
Nancy and Al Barile
Hating Youth Of Today
The lost Boston scene of the late 80’s
Tree
B’zrker
Sam Black Church
Inheriting the Boston VS New York beef
Metal as fantasy
The power of the phrase: “I love you”.
The delicate Art School/ Street Rock ’N’ Roll balance
Fighting onstage during Black Flag
Joey C and Righteous Jams
Gibby and the invention of social media
Everything comes down to sadness
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Nov 12, 2021 |
Episode 374 - Jesse Michaels Part 2 (Operation Ivy, Classics Of Love, Big Rig)
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JESSE MICHAELS is back! That’s right: the legendary singer of Operation Ivy, Big Rig & Classics Of Love returns to the show to talk about punk, hardcore & mental health. Listen in as Jesse & Damian discuss: a lifelong battle with depression, approach to lyrics, Operation Ivy's impact, unease with punk's success, the reason Common Rider was the band it was & loving hardcore punk most of all. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don't miss Classics Of Love's RAGING 2020 ep: "World Of Burning Hate"! Available here: https://classicsoflove.bandcamp.com/ Also Touched On:
Records
Mental health and being a lead singer
the voice
The Neurosis method of writing lyrics
The Feederz
“The Nerdy, Happy thing” was deliberate
HC 86: The negative and the boring
Is it cooler to be in AF or Op Ivy?
The first tour
The Zero Boys
Tim Yo
The dived Bay Area scene
Lovin’ the mid ’00 HC comeback
Born Against
Warped Tour: not my summer camp
Not loving festivals
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Nov 09, 2021 |
TOAP “Architects Of Self-Destruction” Special (John Gentile/ Brad Logan)
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In celebration of the release of “Architects Of Self-Destruction: The Oral History Of Leftöver Crack”, Damian welcome’s his friend, former LÖC guitarist & co-author: BRAD LOGAN (Episode #119) back to the show! Brad brought along his co-author, editor of punknews.org & Damian’s new buddy, JOHN GENTILE for the gab! Join them as they go behind the scenes & talk about the aftermath of making the year’s most compelling & honest music book. OUT NOW on Rare Bird Books now!
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Nov 05, 2021 |
Episode 373 - Jenna Pup (The HIRS Collective, Jenna & The Pups, Get Better Records)
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The triple threat, JENNA PUP is here! Join Damian as he sits down with half of Get Better Records, The Hirs Collectives & all of Jenna & The Pups to talk punk!
Listen in as they discuss: house shows as true punk, color vinyl as proto-NFTs, the wear & tear of hardcore, the overwhelming tide of anyone can do it & tons more! DON’T MISS IT! Also, don’t miss the fanatic new The HIRS Collective double LP “Third 100 Songs” OUT NOW on Get Better Records!
Also Touched On:
A house show as true punk
Holding on desperately to the word
From Christian to Manson
The Family Values tour
Christmas Card records
Merzbow’s record in a car in a museum
The complete Melt Banana discography
THREEONEG keeps it in print
NFT as record collecting
The Faustian deal of being the singer in a hardcore band
The punk generation gap
The overwhelming nature of the reality when everyone can do it
Detroit
Touring with Some Girls
gigging with DJ Assault
Wanting to retire to pop music
The staggering reality of “anyone can do it”
& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!
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Nov 01, 2021 |
Episode 372 - Tommy Stinson (The Replacements, Bash & Pop, Guns N'Roses)
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Tommy Spread is here!!! That's right: the legend TOMMY STINSON stops by TOAP to talk punk! Join Damian as he sits down the with The Replacement's bass wunderkind & Bash &Pop frontman to talk: first wave Twin Cities punk, getting thrown into hardcore, the real reason they got banned from SNL & the mystery of the Tulsa Jacks!
DON'T MISS THIS ONE! Also, don't miss the deluxe edition of The Replacements' classic "Sorry, Ma Forgot To Take Out The Trash" out now on Rhino Records!!! (The Jacks lp containing the infamous Tulsa Jacks recordings is out now on Reminder Records!) Also Touched On: Getting lumped into Hardcore
the welcoming 1st wave
No recollection of the Tulsa Jacks sessions
“The Impersonating A Musician” sessions
What was the original name of the Replacements?
FM covers
Going to see YES
Opening for Plasmatics
Paul evolving into punk
Dave Pirner: not a jock but a Clash lovin’ Hockey player
Working with Tommy Ramone
Perfect Bash & Pop The Clerks Soundtrack & SO MUCH MORE!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Oct 27, 2021 |
Episode 371 - Barry Johnson (Joyce Manor)
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Second time's the charm! Today, thanks to technology failing, Joyce Manor's BARRY JOHNSON sits down with Damian to talk punk for a second time! While the first time might be forever lost to the information superhighway heavens, the redo is here & just as solid as the first! Listen in as Barry & Damian talk: wandering the Warped Tour alone at 11, faux-goth-Star-Wars-loving-pro-Dance-Dance-Revolutionary-Ska-kids, the Torrence Pop-punk connection & so much more! Not to be missed!
Also, pick up the 10th Anniversary edition of Joyce Manor's "Joyce Manor" on Asian Man Records now!!! Also Touched On: Disbelief about the price of the Punk-O-Rama Vol.2 DFL
Humpers
Poison Idea
Deep AFI talk
Korn in Bakersfield
Smashmouth: “Pennywise with a British singer” Guy Fieri: Swaggerjacker
Not a Goth, just a “Return of The Jedi” lovin’ Ska fan
Professional Dance, Dance Revolutionary
The metal band Moral
Ska shows ruled
Getting carried around the Rancid pit with you pants around ankles
Asian Man Records: “Not as much Ska as you think”
The Last Connection Going to Japan & SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Oct 25, 2021 |
Episode 370 - Martin Sorrondeguy (Limp Wrist, Los Crudos, Needles, Canal Irreal)
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MARTIN CRUDO SORRONDEGUY IS HERE!!! Join Damian as he sits down with one of his heroes to talk about his journey to & through punk. From B-boying beside Kurtis Blow on TV, to "being ready" for punk, to the amazingness of the 90's Chicago DIY Hardcore scene, to the lasting impact of Will Munro: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!
Find Martin & his incredible photos on Instagram at @MartinCrudo Check out Los Crudos at loscrudoschicago.bandcamp.com for their ESSENTIAL discography dbl lp. And find, Martin's latest awesome band, Canal Irreal's awesome LP on the great Beach Impediment Records in stores NOW! Also Touched On: Finding punk as KISS fan Watching Don Kirshner’s Rockpile
Seeing Fear on SNL when it happened
The Cramps in “Urgh! It’s A Music War”
Going to see Joan Jett and seeing the punks getting beat
Being a B-Boy
Chicago being a tough town
Growing up on the South Side
Dancing on TV with Kurtis Blow
A City of Codes
“I’m going punk!”
“Fast And Loud” on WNUR
The importance of House Music
Violence at shows
Return to the basement
“What The Fuck?” Fanzine
Violent Tumour
Record collecting talk
Los Crudos: “I wanted something fast and loud”
“It’s so pretty”: 90s Emo
the East/ West Coast Power Violence
Vazaleen
Will Monroe and when Toronto was still cool
Scum Punk and Hell House
Algebra Suicide
Meeting Bruce La Bruce
International Hardcore
Indigesti
Wax Trax vs. Vintage Vinyl
Best people on the mic in hardcore The emotional drain of Los Crudos shows
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Oct 19, 2021 |
Episode 369 - Brian Ritchie (Violent Femmes, Plasticland)
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Turned Out A Punk brings ALL their equipment on the bus! Today on the show, the Violent Femmes’ BRIAN RITCHIE stops in to talk punk! Listen in as Damian sits down, with the founding member of one of his favourite bands to talk about going from being one of the most hated bands in Milwaukee, to touring the world. From the heavy influence of the Modern Lovers, to jamming with the Velvet Underground, to being harassed on the street by Sacred Order: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
Also, don’t miss the brand new 30th anniversary reissue of the Violent Femmes’ “Why Do Birds Sing?” (and the reissue of “Add It Up” on vinyl!) on Craft Recordings, in stores now!
Also Touched On:
Love for the Violent Femmes
Being into proto-punk
The Blue Magoos
Lunch with The Modern Lovers
Lou Reed
Creem
barricading the editor of Rock Scene in a studio
Zines
X-Press Zine: Pre Drivin’ N Cryin’
Going to Yes and loving prog
Finding the Velvet Underground
Recording with The Velvet Underground
Busking out of necessity
“Slash is only label that wanted us.”
Jonathan Richman: “You kinda sound like I sounded when I was your age!”
hardcore
being broke but still being a “sell-out”
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Oct 15, 2021 |
Episode 368 - Dani Miller (Surfbort)
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Explosive on-stage burrito pukes & crushing backstage anxiety: this is the sound of lead singer friendships being born! Join Damian as he sits down with, front person’s front person, Surfbort’s DANI MILLER! Listen in as they discuss: being literally birthed into punk, screaming... again, onstage versus offstage personalities & so much more!!!
As always, THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss Surfbort's awesome new record, "Keep On Truckin'" OUT NOW on Inner Freak Records! Also Touched On: Mom’s love of X
The Blasters
Going to shows at Che Cafe
The Austin 90’s Garage Punk
Shows RULE!
What does Debbie Harry do to handle onstage nerves?
Vocal lessons during the apocalypse
Linda Perry
The Angels giggin’ at recess
the catharsis of screaming
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Oct 13, 2021 |
Splits Vol.3 - Chris Murphy/ Danko Jones
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Welcome to Splits Vol.3! Today Damian invites two of his favourite people in music for the laugh out loud, burn it all down, hang to end all hangs! In addition to being one of the inspirations for the inception of this podcast, DANKO JONES is a world renowned rock music icon. As one quarter of one of Canada’s most respected bands, Sloan’s CHRIS MURPHY has been shaping popular music in this country for 30 years. Listen in as Damian & these two punk rooted frenemies chat it up for one of the most hilarious episodes of this podcast yet!
If you listen to one podcast this year: MAKE IT THIS ONE! & if you buy one new record this year, make it: Danko Jones’ “Power Trio”! Out now on Sonic Unyon!!
& if you attend one virtual concert this year, make it: “Chris Gets High Park” on October 24th!
Tickets available at Sidedooraccess.com!! |
Oct 08, 2021 |
Episode 367 - Mike Herrera (MxPx, Goldfinger, The Cooties)
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Rejoice, MIKE HERRERA from MxPx is here! Anyone that has listened to this show long enough knows that they don't get too much more influential than MxPx. Join Damian as he sits down with Mike to talk: the lights on moment of hearing Op Ivy, the 90s Seattle Music that wasn't grunge, evolving perspectives on religion, the secret history of christian punk & so much more!
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!! Also, don't miss Mike's fantastic podcast "The Mike Herrera Show" wherever you get your podcasts! & check out MxPx.com to hear the brand new song "Say Yes"! Also Touched On: A two theatre New Wave Attack Violent Femmes
A friend that’s into punk with a guitar
Bad Juju: Bad Religion meets Minutemen
losing your drummer to another band
Pre/ post hearing Operation Ivy life
Fight For Change
The Gits
The Ernie Ball Stingray in tribute to All. but really Big Drill Car… or My Name is
“Who’s the?” “It’s MxPx.”
The Stray Cats
The heavy influence of Rollins Band
Micheal Knot: The bad boy of Christian punk
Punk and religion & SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Oct 05, 2021 |
Episode 366 - Tim Kerr (Big Boys, Poison 13, Bad Mutha Goose, Monkeywrench)
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Get ready to smile! Today on the show it's Big Boys' et all's TIM KERR!!! Join Damian as he sits down with his friend & an Austin Music Hall Of Famer to discuss punk & Tim's reluctance to fully embrace the term. From laughing at a Jonathan Richman record, to the Austin Hardcore/ Punk/ New Wave divide, to Poison 13 being the city's most hated band: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!!
Also, don't miss Tim's AWESOME new book "Self Taught" on Don Giovanni Records. OUT NOW!!! Also Touched On: To Vivian Westwood, marriage isn’t punk! Skating and Soul music
Chuck Biscuit’s ever shortening hair
the hilarity of Rockin’ Leprechaun
Going to Raul’s for the Battle of the Bands
Boy Problem and the first wave
flipping a coin with Chris for bass or guitar
The Butthole Surfers’ like of community mindfulness
Bobby Soxx
GG Allin: true performance art but not into it
Darby Allin
Fy Fan Billy Gibbons, Roky Erickson and the Explosions
Lil’ San Francisco
We didn’t make the division: New Wave VS. Hardcore
Going to LA and seeing the future
Austin Stains meet the LA Stains and change their name to MDC
Fear the week before SNL
John Belushi skanking on stage with Steve Martin
The massive importance of DOA and Black Flag
The art world hates sharing
“Minor Threat is the world's greatest band”
“Texas bands stick out like sore thumbs once they leave the state”
BMX vs Skateboarding
“You’ve completely ruined Austin!”: the hippies hate the punks
Cab meets Ian
The Huns: kiss a cop and put Austin on the map
Poison 13: Hated And Proud
& SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Sep 30, 2021 |
Splits Vol. 2 - Joey Keithley/ John Ross Bowie: Hardcore '81
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Welcome to another edition of Splits! In celebration of the 40th anniversary of DOA's HARDCORE '81, JOEY KEITHLEY (ep. 254 & 317) & John Ross Bowie (ep. 207) sit down with Damian to talk practical, pragmatic punk politics & more!
DON’T MISS John's FANTASTIC "Household Faces" podcast wherever you get your podcasts! The 40th Anniversary edition of DOA's foundational "HARDCORE '81" album is UP FOR PRE-ORDER NOW from Sudden Death Records! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Sep 24, 2021 |
Episode 365 - Amyl And The Sniffers (Amy Taylor, Declan Mehrtens & Gus Romer)
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For those about to rock: we podcast for you! Today on the show, Damian sits down with three members of AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS! Listen in as Amy Taylor, Declan Mehrtens & Gus Romer as they talk about their journey’s through punk that brought them together. From the influence of Pissed Jeans, to “Tall Poppy Syndrome”, to Sharpies, to carrying on the legacy of Melbourne Rock & Roll: DON’T MISS IT!
& don’t miss Amyl and the Sniffers’ awesome new album “Comfort To Me” out now on Rough Trade
Also Touched On:
Tony Hawk Pro-Skater
UV-Rays
Cosmic Psychos
Tall Poppy Syndrome
Star Wars is actually a pretty good movie
Drunk Moms
Dumb Punks
The influence of Peter Biddy
Straightjacket Nation
The Separation of Hardcore and Garage
Discovering Sharpie Culture
Why does Australia love Rock & Roll
AC/DC = “Honest representation of the Australian working class”
The influence of Ceremony and Pissed Jeans
Speedfunk sounds stressful
“A house that plays house parties”
& SO MUCH MORE!
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Sep 22, 2021 |
TOAP 80's Toronto Metal Special - "Eve Of Darkness"(Derek Emerson, Chris Turner)
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Turned Out A Punk goes metal as we celebrate the release of the AWESOME NEW BOOK, "EVE OF DARKNESS"! Join Damian as he sits down with returning guest, DEREK EMERSON (see the "TOAP 80's Toronto Hardcore Special" episode) & CHRIS TURNER to discuss the fascinating worlds that made up Toronto Metal in the 80s. The love that went into putting together such an spectacularly authoritative tome, THIS THING IS SO CRAZY, SO GET IT BEFORE IT’S GONE!!!!
"EVE OF DARKNESS", out September 25 on UXB Press! Preorder it here: https://uxbpresscanada.bigcartel.com/ |
Sep 19, 2021 |
Episode 364 - Mac McCaughan (Superchunk, Slushpuppies, Wwax, Portastatic, Merge Records)
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Have you got a minute? Can you fit TOAP into it? Because, Superchunk & Merge Records' MAC MCCAUGHAN is on the show today! Listen in as Damian talks to his label boss & hero about his punk journey. From going to see the Ugly Americans, to making a flyer that pissed off Ian MacKaye, to being A Bat: this is NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
& don't miss Mac's AWESOME new solo record "The Sound Of Yourself" out September 24th on Merge Records! Also Touched On: AC/DC: punk in Australia Molly Hatchet
Point Blank and Loverboy
Todd Barry and The Chant
“No bands are going to come here!”: moving to NC
Finding college radio
Getting used by cool stuff
The Pressure Boys: king of the scene
REM
Ugly Americans
Stillborn Christians
COC
The multitudes of DCHC
Honour Role and the Minutemen
Mac being a Bat
Flying Nun Records
& SO MUCH MORE!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Sep 15, 2021 |
Episode 363 - John Brannon (Negative Approach, Static, Laughing Hyenas, Easy Action)
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CHECK IT OUT: JOHN BRANNON IS HERE!!! Today on the show, one of the most important vocalists of all time stops by to discuss punk! Listen in as Damian sits down with his biggest musical influence to talk: Static vs. Detroit Punk, the Minor Threat shows that bookend Detroit Hardcore, turning Nirvana on to Lead Belly, scaring the shit out of Ryan Gosling & so much more!
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!! & don't miss the first ever release of one of the most storied lost recordings in punk history: Static's "Toothpaste And Pills"! OUT NOW on Thirdman Records! Also Touched On: A dream episode
punk before punk
Alice Cooper
Static: Class Of ’78
A faster Mott The Hoople: Sex Pistols at midnight on the radio
Reading about it in Creem
Being at the Kiss “Alive” gig
The first smell of weed: Rocking out to Judy Collins in ’69 Hearing the Stooges
“Kick Out The Jams” on CKLW
Destroy All Monsters at the Red Carpet
“It was horrible”: Detroit first wave punk
Fallout: John’s first band
Terrorizing Grosse Point
Thurston and the tape
“Everything I’m doing is wrong”: Discovering Hardcore
Ben Blackwell is the reason
Toothpaste and Pills: the stage show
“They all sucked”
The Coronation Tavern in Windsor
“Minor Threat is going to kill Negative Approach”
The Allied
OP and Graham join
The death of a scene
Violence overtakes the scene
metalheads becoming Oi Boys
The Birthday Party changes everything
“We aren’t ready”: opening for Black Flag for the first Hyenas show
“Fake NA”: The third line-up
Laura Lee
“I wanted more violence” where the NA sound would have gone
Hating Evacuate… still
Hangin’ with Belushi
going to Fear on SNL
“New York SUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKS”
Detroit: the Sweden of punk
“We don’t come from the Beach Boys and the Beatles. We like the Stooges”
& SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Sep 10, 2021 |
Episode 362 - Chris "Opie" Moore (Negative Approach, Youth Patrol, Crossed Wire)
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It's Negative Approach Week on Turned Out A Punk! Kicking it off with former Negative Approach & Youth Patroler: CHRIS MOORE! Listen in as Damian sits down with his friend, live at Dinosaur Jr.'s Camp Fuzz II & talks about the birth of Detroit hardcore. From borrowing your aunt's vest for the Devo show, to the punk vs. hardcore divide, to the differences between the early scenes, to the violence that brought it to an end: this is NOT TO BE MISSED!
& don't forget to look for Chris' latest work at cmooremusic.bandcamp.com or crmooreart.com! Also Touched On: Hangin’ at the Skatepark in 1978
W4Play: Finding punk on the radio
The Clash
“It was like getting hit by a train”: seeing Devo
Meeting Jerry Casale
The Minor Threat show that kicked it off
Forming Youth Patrol
Necros sussing people out
“Are they even in the music?”: violence
Joining Negative Approach
The early Detroit scene
Recording the first 7”
Going to NY: “I’m going to live here when I get older!”
Meeting the Misfits
DC's vs Detroit's tastes
Finding The Freezer
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Sep 07, 2021 |
Episode 361 - Steve Caballero (The Faction, Odd Man Out, Bones Brigade, Urethane)
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Get ready to Skate & Destroy! Today on the show, the original Skate Punk, STEVE CABALLERO sits down to talk about both of his legendary career’s. From starting one of the original skate zines, to being inspired by JFA, to the skateboarding/ punk balance: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
& don't miss Steve's new band Urethane's awesome debut album "Chasing Horizons" out on September 24th via Cyber Tracks! Also Touched On: Not growing up with rock music Skate Punk zine
Getting into Black Flag
The DIY nature of early 80s Skateboarding
Inspired by JFA
Skaterock
Black Flag
Kingpin: The Rockabilly Skate Punk Band
Green River
IM Records: a mother and son operation
A Pro-Skater brings the kids in the door
Odd Man Out
“The skinheads are looking for you”
The “Epi-Fat” era
Bodyjar
Signing to Mystic
Lars Frederikesen in the drum set... twice
& SO MUCH MORE!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Sep 05, 2021 |
Episode 360 - Miles Copeland (IRS, Step-Forward, DFC, Illegal, Faulty Product)
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Today on the show, Damian sits down with the "Svengali of punk": MILES COPELAND! Listen in as the two discuss Miles’ role in the early punk scene, the arrival of the New Wave boom & laying the ground work for the alternative explosion!
Don't miss it!! Also, don't miss Miles’ fantastic new book "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back" out now on Jawbone Press. Also Touched On: The first touring festival the Sniffin’ Glue atheistic
A&M’s reaction to punk
Sex Pistols: more of a press operation than band
Tour managing the Sex Pistols
Lux and Stiv: really scary
“It’s about what you have to say”
Passion over virtuosity “Miles, how am I supposed to help this band!? They can’t play!!” The Squeeze: “Not PUNK punk”
The Wasps
Going to the Roxy and finding Menace
The Go-Gos
Lux didn’t trust anyone
The Fall
& SO MUCH MORE!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Sep 01, 2021 |
Splits Vol. 1 - Tony Molina/ Nick Woj
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Welcome to a new TOAP experiment! Each episode of Splits will have Damian sitting down with two past guests of the show to talk about... punk.... & more, but mainly PUNK.
Today on the show, Turned Out A Punk favourites & mutual fans, Nick Woj (ep. 17 & 264) & Tony Molina (ep. 198) meet for the first time & let the good times role! DO NOT MISS THIS!!!! Don't miss Woj's mixtapes on www.soundcloud.com/wOjavelli (yes, that is a zero)!!! Tony said he didn't want to promote anything. |
Aug 30, 2021 |
Episode 359 - Charlie Angus (Grievous Angel, L'Etranger, MP for Timmins/ James Bay)
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It's election time in Canada! To celebrate the process of democracy we welcome, the only punk rocker currently in Canadian Parliament, CHARLIE ANGUS to the show! Join Damian as he sits down with Charlie to discuss the music side of his life. Listen in as they talk the journey from the bands L' Etranger & Grievous Angels to applying his "degree from the school of punk" in the world of federal Canadian politics. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!
& don't miss the Grievous Angels' fantastic album "Summer Before The Storm" on Jimmy Boyle Records now! Also Touched On: Sitting in the back of accounting class hoping for something more
Getting rock mags from a neighbour
“Oh my god! You aren’t going to buy that are you?
The divides in Toronto punk
The music changes the landscape
“Losers like John Tory”
Why was the downtown art scene used to be so good
Tell the Parliamentary Library you graduated from the school of punk rock
Elvis Costello and the radical reinterpretation of what a rockstar was
Touring and building community
Going to the Last Pogo
Going on tour with Goddo
Don’t go upstairs at Larry’s Hidaway
The Cabana Room
“The Jam had a record by 18. We’re are almost 20! We’re failures!”
The Ugly
The ill-fated tour with the Dub Rifles
& SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Aug 27, 2021 |
Episode 358 - Monty Messex (DFL, The Atoms)
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Swear word bands unite! Today on the show, Dead F*ckin' Last's MONTY MESSEX stops by to talk about punk! If being from one legendary band wasn't enough, Monty was also the lead singer of long time Turned Out A Punk obscure favourite: The Atoms! Listen in as they talk about the rocky journey getting from The Atoms to DFL. From the hardcore/ punk divide, to Flea having to come to the rescue at the first show, to The Beastie Boys/ Guns & Roses Connection: DO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE!
And don't miss DFL's awesome new EP YRUDFL out now on SBÄM Records! Also Touched On: Halloween 1979: burnt into your soul going to the Hong Kong Cafe for
Keith Morris in a Spiderman costume singing for Black Flag
The LA HC/ Punk divide
The Germs=Greatness
Going to see the Chiefs and the Gears
Hangin’ at THE Church
Hollywood High
Dangerhouse Records
How Atoms came together
“We Got The Power” zine
Flea to the rescue
Who was Harvey Oscar?
Chris Trent
Finding a bootleg of the of your own band
“Nothing to do but do drugs and have sex with each other.”
Things fall apart
How DFL came together
now vs. then
Fletcher attacks on a Pennywise tour & so much more! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Aug 22, 2021 |
Episode 357 - Nancy Barile (Author, Educator, Former Manager Of Sadistic Exploits)
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Class is in session! This week on the show Damian is joined by the author of the amazing memoir "I'm Not Holding Your Coat" & celebrated teacher: NANCY BARILE! Listen in as the two discuss the formation of the American East Coast hardcore scene. From early Philly New Wave, to the economic realities behind what gets canonized in punk, to why Jackal is the coolest punk & so much more! NOT TO BE MISSED!
Don't miss Nancy's fantastic "I'm Not Holding Your Coat" on Bazillion Points! Available at your favourite bookstore now! Also Touched On: Kenn Kweder The Ramones and Blondie
“Philly never gets its due”
The class differences in the early hardcore scenes
having to sell a school ring to pay for the Sadistic Exploits 7”
The 1981 explosion
Punkfest
SSD The Stick Men
Headcheese
the art/punk divide
Pure Hell are gods
When Jackal hits the scene
Going to New York… somehow
The NY before the HC
Hating DC
The board daylight Boston scene
Bad Brains
“Kill anyone with a beer in their hand”
& SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Aug 17, 2021 |
Episode 356 - Brooke Smith (Grey's Anatomy, Silence Of The Lambs, Big Sky)
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You'll never look at Dr. Erica Hahn on "Grey's Anatomy" the same way again! Today on the show, star of film & TV, BROOKE SMITH stops by to discuss her journey from the New York Hardcore episode of "Donahue" to putting the lotion in the basket in "Silence of The Lambs". Listen in as Brooke & Damian discuss: navigating the LES as a teenager, being the OG Cro-Mags roadie, Jeff Buckley's love of Bad Brains & so much more!!
DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!!! Also, don't miss Brooke in "Big Sky" on ABC! Also, also, don't miss this week's guest booker and TOAP alumni (Episode 207) John Ross Bowie's awesome new podcast: "Household Faces"! Also Touched On: Exploring the LES as a kid in the 80s
Going to shows super young
dying your hair until it falls out
Bad Brains as the best live band ever Cause For Alarm
Straight Ahead
The original Cro-Mags’ LP unused art
the unity of NY Punk
If you are looking for John and Harley: go to the park
memorizing the payphone number
Driving the Cro-Mags around in the family station wagon
The Agnostic Front, Nausea and Warzone Pool Party
Standing WAAAAAAAAY in the back for GG Allin
Jeff Buckley never getting to see Bad Brains
& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Aug 14, 2021 |
Episode 355 - Jason Narducy (Split Single, Bob Mould, Verboten, Superchunk)
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How many 10 year olds have helped shape rock history?! Today on the show, Split Single's JASON NARDCUCY talks about his "influential" elementary school punk band & his incredible career since then. Join Damian as he sits down with his friend to discuss: being a 10 year old punk, Bob Mould being awesome on & off stage, Tim Meadows' love of music & SO MUCH MORE!
Don't miss this one & don't miss the awesome new Split Single album "Amplificado" on Inside Outside Records OUT NOW! Also Touched On: Getting into punk at 8 Rock n Roll High School with Cheap Trick?
Gigging by age 11
Tracy is the COOLEST
being too young to understand the scene
meeting Vic Bondi as an adult
Why Bob Mould rules
The influence of the Germ’s “Panther”
The issue of kids in the punk scene
Meeting a Coachella
Going to parties with grown-ups
Off Broadway
Did DCHC like KISS
Leaving the punk scene at 13
Seeing Sonic Youth in Europe on the Sister tour
put yourself in the sightline
Tim Meadows is super cool
Taking the Dead Kennedys to a country club
& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Aug 11, 2021 |
Episode 354 - Bear Witness and Tim "2oolman" Hill (The Halluci Nation)
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The Halluci Nation is here! Years in the making, Tim “2oolman” Hill and Bear Witness sit down to discuss the separate paths that have led them to working together. Formally know as A Tribe Called Red, The Halluci Nation is one of the most important groups in Canadian music. Join Damian as he sits down with two of his closest friends to discuss: punk, the rude awaking of sleepy Toronto, the differences growing up in Six Nations, the importance of collaboration, why are pool halls always so sketchy and so much more!
DO NOT MISS THIS ONE! And don’t miss The Halluci Nation’s INCREDIBLE new album “One More Saturday Night”!!!
Also discussed:
Pat and Kelly: sword fighting, D’n'D, Warhammer 40k and Punk
Growing up against the norm
The differences growing up in Six Nations
The Basement of HMV
Geography’s relationships to culture
Growing up as sleepy Toronto wakes up
The Untouchables and The Skinhead War
Toronto neighbourhood gangs
Why were pool halls and arcades so sketchy?
The unique division of the labour in The Halluci Nation
collaboration
Breaking Rammer and Left For Dead’s Joel Fisher’s arm
AND SO MUCH MORE
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Jul 29, 2021 |
Episode 353 - Stephen Perkins (Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros, Infectious Grooves, Ballhog or Tugboat)
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Our "Give The Drummer Some Love" weekend wraps up with a doozy: Jane's Addiction's STEPHEN PERKINS is here! Listen in as he & Damian talk about going from an 80's glam metal kid to helping usher in the 90's alternative music takeover. The Bad Brain's influence on Jane's, touring with Tommy Lee & Mike Watt back to back, DC / LA similarities & so much more: do not miss this!!
Also Touched On: The end of the Sunset Strip the late 80’s LA punk scene
Perry wanting to get funky coming out of PsyCom
The influence of Fishbone and Red Hot Chilli Peppers
The Scream Club
Venom
The connection between the Glam and Punk scenes
Opening for Iggy Pop
Love And Rockets
Trying to get bigger
Seeing punk before you hear it
Fear as one of the best bands ever
Jane’s Addiction’s HEAVY Bad Brains influence
Bullet Boys, Guns’N’Roses Fishbone and Jane’s shared practice space
Drummers HANG
Meeting X
Ballhog or Tugboat?
& LOTS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 27, 2021 |
Episode 352 - Greg Gilmore (The Living, 10 Minute Warning, Mother Love Bone)
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It's Give the Drummer Some Love Weekend! Kicking it off with Seattle drum god, GREG GILMORE! Greg played in three of the key bands during three separate eras of Seattle punk. Listen to Greg & Damian talk: partying with the Refuzors, meeting Duff McKagan & joining The Living, 10 Minutes Warning's 10 months of punk fame, nearly joining Guns & Roses, The Freshjive/ Mother Love Bone connection & so much more! Don't miss it!!!!
Also, don't miss the fantastic, recently unearthed, “The Living: 1982” lost recordings OUT NOW on Loosegroove Recordings! Also Touched On: The forgotten 90s' 10 Minute Warning record Meeting The Refuzors
Eno
Prog
Loving live records’ energy
Meeting Duff and forming The Allied
Joining 10 Minute Warning
Going to LA with Duff
Nearly joining Animal Dance
Not joining Guns and Roses
& SO MUCH MORE!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 24, 2021 |
Episode 351 - Paul Mahern (Zero Boys, Dandelion Abortion, Datura Seeds)
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Slam & worm your way over here because this week on the show, it's legendary Zero Boy: PAUL MAHERN! Listen in as Damian & Paul talk about punk, the Zero Boys & being behind the mixing board for some of the greatest records ever! From being too hardcore for Gulcher, to eating homemade deer jerky with Boom & the Legion of Doom, to the Mellencamp/ Gizmos connection:
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! LISTEN TO THE ZERO BOYS!!! Also Touched On: A first time meeting The punk section at the local record store
The Gizmos and Gulture
The Hoosier Hysteria comp changing your life
Going to see Dow Jones and The Industrials for the first time
Dandelion Abortion: being disillusioned with punk
The Dead Kennedys
Hardcore as a gateway
“This is where you come from now”: being introduced to Detroit Rock
Meeting the Gizmos
Being too hardcore for Gulcher
“Its a pop record”: Vicious Circle being passed on by all the labels
The midwest scene: Die Kreuzen in Milwaukee, Toxic Reason in Dayton and Articles Of Faith in Chicago
“not hardcore enough”
The Master Tape
The Gynaecologists (the band)
Malignant Growth
Punk is the Midwest
The Coneheads
The making of Raw Power’s “Screams From The Gutter”
Boom and The Legion Of Doom stories!!!
Stevie Stiletto
Paul’s Ardent Studios demo tape
Meeting the Afghan Wigs
Mass Giorgini
Scenius
John Couger Mellencamp punk connection
& SO MUCH MORE BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 21, 2021 |
Episode 350 - Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)
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We’re going for a drive, not the after dinner kind! Join Damian as he goes for a ride with Bad Religion’s GREG GRAFFIN Ph.D! Listen in as the two discuss: Darby Crash stealing french fries, summers away from punk in Wisconsin & "Becoming Keith Morris". So get in the sedan because this one is NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
& don’t miss Bad Religion on tour this fall with War On Women & Alkaline Trio!
Also Touched On:
Lyrically intimidating
An article in Details
Loving Todd Rundgren
“Darby was not someone to look up to”
Hearing the Germs for the first time
The Gears lp
The importance of the abundance of studios to California hardcore
The relationship with the Circle Jerks
Red Kross and not fitting in with the LA punks
Going to back to Wisconsin and having no interest in local punk
Going to University with Milo but never talking
Working with Noam Chomsky
The “back to the known” show
Not relating to the late 80’s HC kids
Becoming the “Keith Morris”
In defence of “Into The Unknown”
& SO MUCH MORE! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 16, 2021 |
Episode 349 - Ambrose Kenny-Smith (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, The Murlocs, Sambrose Automobile)
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Get ready to celebrate Melbourne music history! This week on the show Damian is joined by a sonic inheritor to the great city's rock and roll lineage: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard & The Murlocs' AMBROSE KENNY-SMITH! Join them as they discuss: the perils of a career in pro-skateboarding, Amyl & The Sniffers being obsessed with his dad, SHARPIES, the greatness of Thee Oh Sees & so much more! DON’T MISS THIS!!!
& don't miss the fantastic new King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's "LW" on Flightless. Also, The Murlocs' "Bittersweet Demons" on ATO Records. GET THEM BOTH NOW! Also Touched On: The Melbourne music history Skateboarding as a gateway
“Corrupted from a young age”: hanging with the older kids
A dead-end lifestyle
Showing the Emerica Team around Melbourne
“Man-Am”: aging out of pro-skateboarding
God (the band)
The Saints soundtracking skateboarding
Hating sports
Sisters’ first words being Bo Diddley
Coloured Balls
Dad dating Lobby Lloyd’s ex
SHARPIES
Carson family ties
Amyl and The Sniffers
“That’s the guy from The Blues Brother”: going to see Ray Charles for a first show
Playing the National Hotel in Julong
The Friendlies
Thee Oh Sees
The Hospitals
Dan Burke
Eddie Current
Frowning Clowns
& SO MUCH MORE!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 15, 2021 |
Episode 348 - Paul Therrio (The Imperial Dogs)
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This ain't the Garden Of Eden, this ain't the summer of love! Join Damian as he sits down with PAUL THERRIO from the proto-punk gods The Imperial Dogs!!! Listen in as the two talk: the real birth of punk in LA, Iggy & Bowie at Rodney's English disco, Ray Bradbury loving Zolar X & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!! Also Touched On: This Ain’t The Summer Of Love Cream Mag
Breaking up before punk came
“I need time to surf and smoke hash!”: A brief Sax career
Meeting Don Waller in the high school band
The Seeds as one of the first punk bands
the Standells
Vom and the early scene
Taj Mahal
Howlin’ Wolf opening for Alice Cooper
Chaka Khan and Iggy at the Whiskey
Coming home and feeling compelled to smash furniture
Getting into the Velvet Underground
“Got any pills?”: meeting Iggy
David Bowie on blow at Rodney’s English Disco
& SO MUCH MORE! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 11, 2021 |
Episode 347 - Dallas Green Part 2 (City And Colour, Alexisonfire, Helicon Blue)
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Mr. City &Colour himself is back! Join Damian as he sits down with his buddy, DALLAS GREEN to reflect on their musical journeys & catch up after 6 long years. From regret & gratitude, to discovering reaction videos, to missing Gord, to Dallas needing to see Phantom Of The Paradise for people in his life: DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!
& check cityandcolour.com for Dallas' upcoming tour dates! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 07, 2021 |
Episode 346 - Edmund McMillen (Super Meat Boy, Binding Of Issac, The End Is Nigh)
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This is one of the most fascinating episodes yet! EDMUND MCMILLEN is a beloved independent video game developer who has helped produce revolutionary & thought provoking games obsessed over by millions of people around the world. Join Damian as he sits down with Edmund to discuss punk & the rise of the indie game. From Jesus Lizard, to changing Nintendo's policy on blasphemy, to the hellish concept of "Rock Stars" in any industry & so much more:
AGAIN, this is NOT TO BE MISSED! Find everything Edmund is up to on twitter: @edmundmcmillen Also Touched On: The depressing reality of videos game eclipsing music finding grunge
DIY comics
Spike and Mikes
Liquid Television
R. Crumb
Troma
The Kinko’s “Drop The Key” Trick The Santa Cruz art scene
not realizing that you were the weirdo art kid
a cool teacher
Mike Diana and “Boiled Angel”
The end of Slamdance
Defending terrible art
The origin of the Indie Game Scene
The E.N. Scene
NeoGeo Fanzine
The fallacy on overnight riches in video games
working animal control
Believing in your art
What goes into making a video game
The personal origins of Binding Of Issac
Getting on to Nintendo
“Steam” changed everything
Sleepytime Gorilla Music
The Fish Masters: The TV show
Selling everything to invest in Super Meat Boy
& TONS MORE!!!!
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Jul 02, 2021 |
Episode 345 - Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast, Author, Little Big League
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The week on the show, we are joined by a true double threat, MICHELLE ZAUNER AKA Japanese Breakfast! Join Damian as he sits down with the musician/author for a revealing conversation about insecurity, success & grief. From the Pacific North West's unique take on indie, traveling through punk while never feeling like you fit in, to creativity learned through grief: DO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE!
Also, don't miss Michelle's fantastic book: "Crying In H-Mart", out now on Penguin/ Random House! & don't miss Japanese Breakfast's new album: "Jubilee", available now on Dead Oceans! Also Touched On: In defence of Avril Levine
“I want to be the kind of person that is into music”
The Pacific Northwest takes up punk differently
Built To Spill
First shows
Post Post
R5 Productions
Philly is a tough town
Will you know the moment your career has peaked?
& So Much More!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jun 29, 2021 |
Episode 344 - Tommy End (Professional Wrestler)
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This week on the show, it’s professional wrestling’s hottest free agent TOMMY END (FKA ALEISTER BLACK)! Listen in as Damian finally gets the answer to the question that has been on every wrestling fan’s mind: What is Tommy’s connection to Jesus And The Gospel F*ckers?!? From Dutch hardcore ties to MMA royalty, to cutting promos for George Pettit, to hard lessons with Robbie Brookside, to touring with Jun "The King Of Comedy" Kasai: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Find Tommy at @tommyend & grab shirts though https://blxckmass.com
Also Touched On:
Cutting a promo for George Petite
Helping bringing the wrestling and music together
Getting set up with Andy Williams
The universality of the drive
The DEEP Dutch MMA/ Punk Connection
Jesus the Gospel F*ckers
Bob Schrijber’s mentorship
Punk and Combat Sports: “Violence within the boundaries of discipline”
Social media, merch and indie wrestling’s ascent
Danhausen and the Rock
Golding Earring
Gang Starr
Defari
Cannibal Ox
Cradle Of Filth
Shinning
Cruel Hand
Trapped Under Ice
Anime
Jun Kasai
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jun 25, 2021 |
Episode 343 - Larry Livermore (The Lookouts, Lookout Records, The Potatomen)
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Hats off to Larry, because he is giving us a monster of an episode! Join Damian as he sits down with Lookout Records, Lookout zine & The Lookouts band impresario: LARRY LIVERMORE!!! From answering John Lennon’s calls at White Panther headquarters, to Lookout’s accidental funding, to how the weed/acid divide led to strife in the scene, to the hippies in SF finding punk:
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don’t miss Larry’s two fantastic books as well as a ton of his music on Don Giovanni Records now!!!!
Also Touched On:
Showing up to talk about Cannabis... not Sasquatch
Trying to burn down your university
living in the Cockettes' old apartment
the origins of Lookout records
Motown Records
The EpiFat Sound VS. The Lookout Sound
The start of Very Small records
Getting to know Sons Of Ishmael
Staying up all night talking about about acid with Ray Cappo at the MRR house
The Gilman Geeks vs. Slapshot
Neurosis
Following the Weakerthans around like they were the Grateful Dead
Seeing the MC5 when they were a mod band
“We play Avon Rock”
Destroy All Monsters
Quitting the White Panthers
Rock and Roll Revolutionaries: Tim Yo and Jon Sinclair
pothead/ acidhead divide
Iggy Pop tearing up your Cream submission
Hanging with Don Vinyl taking shitty LSD and listening to bad Jefferson Starship
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Jun 22, 2021 |
Zach's Back! - Rise Against Week Wrap Up with Zach Blair
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How could we do a Rise Against Week without having sometime co/host & all-time friend of the show, ZACH BLAIR on to do a wrap up?!?
Don't miss Zach & Mike Wiebe's great new podcast "Zach And Mike Make 3"!!!! |
Jun 21, 2021 |
Episode 342 - Joe Principe (Rise Against, 88 Fingers Louie, The Methadones)
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Where else this week will you hear a conversation about the brilliance of “The Fungus Among Us” 7” compilation?! Rise Against week continues as Damian sits down to chat Chicago Punk with JOE PRINCIPE!!! Listen in as Joe & Damian talk about going from learning to silkscreen at the Underdog Warehouse, to touring the world with 88 Fingers Louie & beyond. Friends getting hit by jocks after getting run over by cops, trying to avoid Honest Don’s, not-so-good advice from local legends & so much more: NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
& don’t miss "Nowhere Generation” available everywhere NOW!
Also Touched On:
Watching “Rock’n’Roll High School” over and over again A tape with Suicidal Tendencies, Circles Jerks and Dead Kennedys
Obliteration
Devastation: pre Vindictives
The Plague
The importance of Impulse Manslaughter
“The Fungus Among Us” Comp
The Chicago Punk/ Metal and Hardcore Scenes intersection
Leeway opening for the Bad Brains
OG Screeching Weasel reunion with Sludgeworth, Gore Gore Girls and Contracide
Seeing Fat Mike’s ad in MRR
Kid Dynamite
Rise Against: turned down by everyone at first
Walking the Straight Edge/ Pop-Punk dived
The Fury 66 connection
Dan Vapid
“I don’t want to get bumped to Honest Don’s!”
Hopeless Records
Schlong: “This is the same Dave Mellow, right?”
Q: How do you get on Lookout? A: Don’t be called Spoonless.
Ben Weasel he’s a…
Meeting Martin and Los Crudos
Weedeater
Ivy League
Billingsgate
SHUTDOWN: No punk at the Metro
Underdog Records
Showing Todd from I Spy around Chicago
Playing with Fair Warning in Montreal and Reset (Simple Plan)
Doing data entry for “Book Your Own Fucking Life”
Phallocracy split with 88 Finger Louie
Funeral Oration
Missing the Battery tour
Hi-Standard
& MUCH MUCH MORE!!!
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Jun 18, 2021 |
Episode 341 - Tim Mcllrath (Rise Against, Baxter, The Killing Tree)
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For most of the music world TIM MCILRATH is the front person of Rise Against; one of the biggest bands to come out of punk. But around these parts Tim is also known as the link between the disparate scenes of 90’s Chicago DIY Punk. Join Tim & Damian as they nerd out about one of Chicago’s most important cultural periods. From Los Crudos mixtapes, to Pete Wentz being born to make it, to Victory’s unique place in the ecosystem, to Bill Stevenson’s mentorship, to getting dropped off at DIY shows in Fat Mike’s private limo: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don’t miss Rise Against’s awesome new “Nowhere Generation” out now on Loma Vista! Also Touched On:
Damian’s murder board
90’s Chicago: the Punk capital
A friend’s older sister with amazing taste
Pegboy
Listening to Crudos in 7th grade
Transcending the Divided Scene
Borrowing from Cap’N’Jazz
Following Sidekick Kado like they were the Grateful Dead
“Chicago Pricing”
Rise Against, Alkaline Trio, Fall Out Boy and The Smashing Pumpkins: United by Punk
The Mythical Jim Chamber C.I.T. Mixtape
Tapping VBX
Taking Brandon Barnes to the Integrity show
The Fat Sound
Bill Stevenson
“Did Fat Mike drop you off in his private jet?”
Race Traitor: A needle scratch of a band
Hardcore: a Secondary Education
Victory Records
Signing to Fat and it bumming out your friends & SO MUCH MORE! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jun 15, 2021 |
Episode 340 - Theo Kogan (Lunachicks, Theo and the Skyscrapers)
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The whole house has been excited for this one! This week on the show Damian is joined by his family's favourite: The Lunachicks' THEO KOGAN! Listen in as the two talk growing up punk in New York City! From silent tours with Dinosaur Jr, to finding out you may be a Warzone Woman, to falling in love on a Troma movie set: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
& DON’T MISS the FANTASTIC new Lunachicks' book Fallopian Rhapsody, out now on Hachette! Also Touched On: Changing Lauren and Damian's lives What is Pigfuck music?
Growing up in the Bad Apple
Musical Youth at the Ritz
The Dead Boys Reunion
Lux Interior beating a kid up with a mic stand
Wendy O’Williams and Manowar
NYHC shows
Watching the fights at CBGBs
“Are we Warzone Women now?”
Working with Don Fury
Drea and Theo’s favourite side effect of the violence
Gary Oldman gets beaten down
Ragging Slab
Freak with Howie Pyro
Not hearing Dino Jr. until touring with them
Frightwig: like when Jim ate the hash brownies on Taxi
Todd Phillips directs a Black Light Rainbow video?!
Falling in love on a Troma movie set
& SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jun 11, 2021 |
Episode 339 - Will Sergeant (Echo & The Bunnymen, Electrafixation, Poltergeist)
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THE BUNNYMAN COMETH! Today on the show Damian is joined by THE LEGEND, WILL SERGEANT!!! Listen in as the two discuss the journey from proto to post punk & everything in between. From Status Quo being the English Ramones, to the Pink Fairies being too stoned to play, to the Liverpool punk scene being criminally overlooked, to the influence of Metal Urbain: this is NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don't forget to pre-order your copy of Will's new book "Bunnyman" out July 15th on Little Brown! Also Touched On: Sex Pistols played Liverpool first! Hearing the Sex Pistols for the first time at a Dr. Feelgood gig
They tore down the Cavern: “Where did that band the Beatles used to play
The Liverpool Scene: True underground
The Curbies
Leaving a Pink Fairies show because they were too stoned
Twink
Liverpool Stadium
hearing the Ramones way before hearing about punk
Sharing music, building scenes
“Shut up about Tull and get into ‘em!”
Tubular Bells was a hippy record
“Virgin’s just cashing in on this punk thing.”
Forming Echo And Bunnymen
“A dedication to idleness”
Metal Urbain
Eno
Suicide: Gods in Liverpool
“Hey, Manchester!”
“We all loved the Fall”
A Certain Ratio
Going to Belgium
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jun 07, 2021 |
Episode 338 - Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals, Ffa Coffi Pawb, Emily)
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Ffa Coffi Pawb! The great GRUFF RHYS is here!!!! Join Damian as he sits down with the Super Furry Animal to discuss: his fantastic new book, the incredible history of Welsh Punk & going to Punk University through tour van lectures. From the cultural significance of Llygod Ffyrnig, to accidentally winding up on a punk comp, to the minority language European punk network: this is NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don’t miss Gruff’s amazing new book “Resist Phoney Encores” on Antenne Books and his fantastic new solo record "Seeking New Gods" on Rough Trade!!!
Also Touched On:
A brother and sister getting into punk
Mannequins spray painted to look like puke
Rock’N’Roll as American imperialist propaganda
Parents loving Reggae
Anglo/American Corporations and creation of a Global pop-culture
The effect of Crass
Llygod Ffyrnig
The history of Welsh Language
Musical and political education coming from punk
Anhrefn
Workers Playtime Records
Machlud: a soft rock band on a seminal Welsh Punk comp
Recording at Dave Anderson from Hawkwind’s studio
Pop Positive
Ffa Coffi Pawb
Getting into Psych to wind up old punk rockers
Geo-politics
Becoming a pop star accidentally
Bjork comes to Wales
Trying to give Alan McGee a tape
“Doing For The Kids” Fest
Learning how to make salad dressing from French Ska band: Le Have Nots
Seeing Fucking Up in Texas
Butthole Surfers
European Squat tours
& SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jun 04, 2021 |
Episode 337 - Chris Gethard Part 2
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CHRIS GETHARD is back! Five plus years after Chris' first incredible appearance on the show (Episode 51: one of the best of all-time), he returns to prove that sequels can top the originals. From Chris' Bouncing Souls Curse, to the influence of "Another State of Mind" on his latest comedy road movie, to having to do really "sad" crowd work to no one at Lollapalooza: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
And don't miss Chris' HILARIOUS new "Half My Life" Comedy Special/ Road Movie out on June 1st (& the album dropping on June 4th)!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
May 31, 2021 |
Episode 336 - Danny Elfman (Composer, [The Mystic Knights Of] Oingo Boingo)
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Who hasn't heard a song written by today's guest!?! Join Damian as he sits down with the great DANNY ELFMAN to discuss punk, politics & wanting desperately to blast Buddy Hackett in the face with CO2! From riots in Paris theatres, to walking around Western Africa learning to play Highlife, to "dropping everything to form a ska band": THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
ALSO, don't miss Danny's monster new "Big Mess" dbl lp out June 11th on ANTI! Also Touched On: X, Fear, Wall Of Voodoo: everything fits in
Le Grande Magic Circus
becoming the musical director of a group of street performers
Setting people of fire and putting them out with a rocket ship
“GRAB YOUR VIOLEN!!!”: riots in Paris
The unprecedented time we live in
What the hell has happened?!?
Manson and Trump “Shut up and sing!”
Writing for yourself again
"Chamber Punk"
The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo
Living life like it was the 1930's
Who is this new New Wave artist David Bowie? The "lost" Oingo Boingo 10" Going on the Gong Show & SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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May 28, 2021 |
Episode 335 - Kevin Seconds (7 Seconds, 5’ 10”, Drop Acid)
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If we can walk together, why can't we podcast together?! Today on the show Damian is joined by his hero, from 7 Seconds: the legend KEVIN SECONDS!!! Listen in as the two discuss the formative days of American Hardcore & building a scene from the ground up. From cold calling Iggy Pop's dad for an interview to Lou Barlow's thoughts on "Committed For Life" to the literal Ian MacKaye on his shoulder: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!! & don't miss the absolutely essential reissue of 7 Seconds' "The Crew" on Trust Records Company, PRE-ORDER IT NOW!
Also Touched On: A TV expose on punk Find the X-Ray Spex 7”
Having a cool mom
Not wanting to smoke pot but wanting to hear rock records
The Dolls, KISS and Alice Cooper: The make-up inspiration?
Kevin and Steve calling Iggy Pop’s dad
Interviewing the Chip from Dils, Pat Bag and Joey Shithead on the phone
Starting The Reno Sex Pistols Fan Club to get them played on mainstream radio
Putting flyers up looking for punks
Meeting the 20 other Reno punks in line to see the Ramones opening for Eddie Money
The early punk fan clubs
Foreigner
Jefferson Starship
Basteel: Kevin’s “progressive metal” pre-punk band
Chuck Ruff: Reno Legend
Young Canadians and DOA at house show
Searching for Bellevue: Reno’s first punk band
The Outcast Hour on KSAN
Convincing the biker bar to book 7 Seconds and making the news
The Zeros rule!
Punk party at the A-Frame in Tahoe
Watching MTV all night long hoping to see “Live Wire”
Urban Assault
The Yobs
The Wrecs
DOA, Black Flag and DOA paving the way
Booking Aggression in an apartment
The Plugz
Negative Trend
The Offs
New Youth: One of the original punk collectives
Sneaking into “Up In Smoke” 7 times to see the Dils part
The Saturday Night Pogo compilation
The Misfits, Poison Idea, 7 Seconds show that didn’t happen
“We got to play after fucking Poison Idea?!”
The Feederz
JFA’s Mad Gardens
The Viva Las Vegas
Lou Barlow and Committed For Life
Soul Force Revolution’s influence on NYHC
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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May 24, 2021 |
Episode 334 - Dave Baksh (Sum 41, Brown Brigade, Organ Thieves, 747)
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FACTS: Sum 41 is the biggest selling Canadian Punk band ever & the guitarist, DAVE BAKSH is one of nicest people on earth! Join Damian as he sits down with Dave for an (in too) deep dive into Southern Ontario 90's punk lore & beyond. From firefighter fighting death metal bands to scene consuming high school band beefs to dieting tips from Iggy Pop: this is an all-time episode that is NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don't miss Sum 41's "Order In Decline" on Hopeless Records in stores now! Also Touched On: Years in the making Not By Choice
Strung Out: melody and thrash make sense
Metal being washed in 90s
The Cross-back-over
Breaking Mark from Len’s toilet
Brenden and Broken Social Scene
The Spazz store in Toronto
Small-town Toronto
Dad playing Kung-Fu Fighter every morning
Mom loves the Ventures
Embodiment: FIGHT EVERYBODY
Packing up a show in the middle of brawl
“The Heep! Baksh, you gotta get out of here.”
Metal as a punk Gateway
Much Music
Being scared of Zeppelin at first
Oshawa’s Figure Four stomping Nazi ass
Al from Trigger Happy being awesome
Simon Head tour manager
Mark Belke from SNFU shows up to be guitar tech
Metal Works
The MC Shan/ Snow/ Treble Charger Connect
The REAL In To Deep origin story
Rap lessons in the studio
The DMX cameo
Surviving Death 3x
“WE GOTTA BREAK DEREK OUT OF JAIL!”: A Paris Street Fight
“If I drink red wine, I get a little bit silly”: working with Iggy Pop
& SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
May 20, 2021 |
Episode 333 - Patrick Flynn (Fiddlehead, Have Heart, Clear, Sweet Jesus)
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15 years ago in Germany, Have Heart & F*cked Up played a show - that night would prove to be significant for both of the bands' front people. On today's episode, they've reunited as Fiddlehead & Have Heart's PAT FLYNN sits down to chat with Damian about the 'core! From Warped Tour '99 & not being "it", to studying the calculus of Crass, to trying to re-create Better Than A Thousand, to the Follow Through / Sonic Youth & Terminator 2 / Integrity Connections PLUS so much more! THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! And don't miss Fiddlehead's "Between The Richness" out this Friday!!!
Also Touched On: One night is Germany… Finding a CCs Skate mag
Finding Minor Threat
The NIN/ Clevo connection
Filter and T1000
Word And Music
New Bedford: a world of its own Going to Warped Tour ’99 to take in the culture
A DIY HC shows changes everything
Blink 182: the dividing line
Grey Area
All Chrome: Local Heroes
A HC Fest vs. A Punk Festival Tour
The Epi/Fat crossroads
Crass bands as punk algebra
NoFX as a gateway
The terror of older siblings’ musical tastes
The walls between genres
American Nightmare killing off The Youth Crew Revival
Looking for Better Than A 1000
The Follow Through/ Sonic Youth connection
Booking shows
Where is Big Ed?
Victim 21 and A Poor Excuse
Finding your own replacement for a band
Finding about Intent To Injure from your father’s students’ yearbook
The importance of Atari… to us
The last song on 97A lp RULES
The CT Hardcore through line
& SO MUCH MORE!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
May 17, 2021 |
Punks in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame with Jon Wurster
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Punk researcher Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Mountain Goats, Bob Mould, The Best Show) joins Damian to discuss the abundance of punk connections with this year's Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductees! Follow @jonwurster on IG for all your #RockNRollWeirdness needs.
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May 14, 2021 |
Episode 332 - Steve-O (Jackass, Wildboyz, Steve-O’s Wild Ride!)
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How many artists live their art more than STEVE-O? Today on the show, Damian sits down to chat with the Jackass star & one of the most influential performance artists ever. Listen in as they discuss punk, whether or not documentaries are bullshit, being responsible for Darby Allin, Umaga beating him unconscious, trying to walk away from fame & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss Steve-O's banned new "Gnarly" special available at Steveo.com! Also Touched On: Getting into metal at Woolworth’s Living life trying to party like you are in Motley Crue
Slayer
Skateboarding becoming your identity
Getting into the Misfits
SNFU
loving the Dayglo Abortions
7 Seconds and Youth Brigade Franz: The gateway to straight edge
Getting into Gorilla Biscuits and immediately buzzing your head and X’ing up
Finding a new identity… as a pothead
Seeing the Start Today tour
Verbal Assault
Going to the Safari Club to see Gut Instinct
Outburst
Killing Time
Side By Side
Being scared of Youth Of Today
Bolt Thrower
Needing to get Logical Nonsense for you iPod
The fakeness of documentary
Word Salad
DRI and the passage of time
Blowing a fireball in the seats at a KISS concert
Getting to the video camera through skateboarding
The inception of Jackass
The influences
The similarity between wrestling and jam bands
The Umaga Incident
The Jackass ripoffs
Darby Allin
The Cro-Mags as the soundtrack to failing out of the University Of Miami
Telling Cannibal Corpse that they need make the vocals clearer
Getting old offends people
Bam: the interview is over & SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
May 11, 2021 |
Episode 331 - Nicole Panter Dailey (Former Germ's manager, The Pee Wee Herman Show, Author, Psychiatrist, Professor)
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NICOLE PANTER DAILEY has lived one hell of a life so far! From managing the Germs, to starting an early LA punk label, to helping create The Pee Wee Herman Show & that's just the start! Join Damian as he sits down with Nicole for one of the most compelling episodes ever of this show to date.
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!! Also Touched On: The importance of Queen Fascinated by Glam
The Dogs
“Radio Free Hollywood”: the first punk show
The South Bay taking over by force
“The Adams Family” of weird kids
Backdoor Man zine
The creepy scene at Rodney’s Acting out trauma through punk
Being a true weirdo
First day of teaching: “What’s Darby Crash like?”
Adventure Time
Midsommar
Donnie Rose and sexual abuse in the LA punk scene
The new hippies helping Old Man Spahn
The Manson Effect
The Avengers
“Not Real Punk”: Dealing with VOM
Bob Biggs
El Duce
Renouncing punk in 1980
Slash Records
The story behind the Germs’ LP, logo, album and (GI)
The Weirdos were the best
RIP Lorna Doom
Psychedelics and therapy
The Residents
Pee Wee: The luckiest man in showbiz
The Rap/punk connection
& SO MUCH MORE!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
May 06, 2021 |
Episode 330 - Nate Ruess (fun., The Format)
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What's beef?! Well, today on the show it's what we start off by squashing! Join Damian and Grammy award winner Nate Ruess as they put past disses aside to celebrate a mutual respect and love of punk. Listen in for talk of: fifteen, fun. having no fun on top, fake IDs, ecstasy & pop-punk, nearly being on "Watch The Thrown" and so much more! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!
Also touched on: Squashing the beef Finding ska punk
catching a “Rude Boy” shirt
Cheshire Cat
Nerf Herder
When you best friend books the main punk venue
Talking over the scene
The Fake ID Empire comes crashing down
The Nile Message Board
Everyone in Tucson wanted to be the Locust
Unruh
The importance of Indie pop
Almost siding to Field By Ramen
The Format
Working with Steve McDonald
Getting to the top and it sucking
Quitting all the bullshit music
Playing the Grammy’s being the worst
Writing a song and being told it is a hit
“We Are Young” supposed to be on Watch The Throne
Working with Brian Wilson
AND TONS MORE FUN!!!! Brought to you by VANS |
Apr 29, 2021 |
Episode 329 - Bruce McCulloch (Kids In The Hall, Tallboyz etc.)
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"(INSERT YOUR FAVE 'KIDS IN THE HALL' QUOTE)!" because today on the show the LEGEND BRUCE MCCULLOCH is here! That's right, the shame based, Kid In The Hall comes by for a chat & oh boy, is it awesome! Listen in as Damian sits in awe as Bruce regals him with stories of: finding the Nerves single, fighting redneck cowboys, faking work injuries to hide knife wounds from punk shows & so much f'n more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!!!!!!! Also Touched On: Free from the CBC's restraints Searching for punk before punk
Hawkwind
Finding Milk N Cookies
Sometimes it’s Queen and sometimes it is a Marc Almond
Bob Dylan and Patti Smith’s libraries
The Kids In The Hall impact “The Shadowy Men made us cool”
Lorne Micheals
Sex Pistols
The Modernettes
The Users
The Nerves
The Dils being the favourite
The Damned
Not liking Ian Dury
Picking your favourite songs to be the soundtrack
Want to go Toronto for the music
Vancouver Punk vs. EVERYBODY
Don Pyle sending a ticket for the Damned show
Getting, not one but, two black eyes at the Edge in Toronto
Never being part of the beautiful part of punk
The Parachute Club was taking over
The Modern Minds were a perfect band
The Golden Calgarians… the second wave
The Hot Nasties
Rolling through Edmonton with The Rock N Roll Bitches and Callum Keith Rennie
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Buick McCain
Getting knifed at a Husker Du show
Cowboys beating up the punks
DOA and SNFU had scary shows
Coming to Toronto
Viletones
Pere Ubu
Shorty Petersen
Never watching SNL
Second City: Corny piano music and shitty white lighting
“Everyone that likes Cat Power likes Kids In The Hall”
80s: No cool comedy
“Fuck you, I’m not an entertainer.”
RIP Gord
Junior Brown, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and The Tragically Hip
Riverdale
Withrow Park
The “50 Years in Entertainment” special
Shame Based Man
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Apr 23, 2021 |
Episode 328 - Trever Keith (Face To Face, Icarus/Daedalus)
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This week on the show, Damian goes face to face with the face of Face To Face: TREVER KEITH! Listen in as the two discuss going from being a late bloomer into punk to fronting one of SoCal punk's most iconic bands.
Not to be missed & also don't miss the new Face To Face album "No Way Out But Through" dropping later this year on Fat Wreck Chords Also Touched On: Not getting punk at first Hearing Bad Religion and it clicking at 20
The Descendants and the best band
Not digging the Germs and the Dead Kennedys
The roots of punk and metal being the same
Black Dove: The band that eats glass!!!
The house foundation show scene
Victoria Manor
The other Zero Tolerance
Face To Face forms
Voodoo Glow Skulls
Guttermouth
Violence at shows
a riot at Pigfest
Rhythm Collision
Meeting the Grim
Ill Repute
Signing to Fat and touring with NoFX
Going to Europe with Lagwagon
Working Geza X
Major label headaches
The start of Vagrant Records
& SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Apr 20, 2021 |
Episode 327 - Julien Baker Part 2
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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!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Apr 15, 2021 |
Episode 326 - Ari Katz (Lifetime, Beach Rats, Zero Zero, Enuf)
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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
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Apr 10, 2021 |
Episode 325 - Jeff Gunnells (Cold As Life, H8Inc., Ramallah)
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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! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Apr 07, 2021 |
Episode 324 - Dave Buick (The Go, Lost Kids, Italy Records, Third Man Records)
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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 BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Apr 06, 2021 |
Episode 323 - Loren Molinare (The Dogs, Attack, Little Caesar)
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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 BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Apr 02, 2021 |
Episode 322 - Kathy Valentine (Go-Go's, Textones, The Violators)
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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!!!!! Brought To You By VANS |
Mar 30, 2021 |
Episode 321 - Georgia Hardstark (My Favorite Murder)
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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!!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Mar 26, 2021 |
Episode 320 - Liz Phair
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Mar 22, 2021 |
Episode 319 - Bruce LaBruce (Filmmaker, Zinester, Queercore Icon)
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Mar 18, 2021 |
Episode 318 - Jello Biafra Part 2
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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!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Mar 13, 2021 |
DND Official episode 1!
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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 |
Mar 12, 2021 |
Episode 317 - Joey Keithley Part 2
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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!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Mar 10, 2021 |
Episode 316 - Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains, White Mandingos)
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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!!!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Mar 05, 2021 |
Episode 315 - Jon King (Gang Of Four, King Butcher)
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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 BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Mar 02, 2021 |
Episode 314 - Jane Wiedlin (Go-Go's, Frosted)
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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!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Feb 26, 2021 |
Episode 313 - Todd Kowalski (Propagandhi, I Spy)
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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!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Feb 22, 2021 |
Episode 313 - Shapel Lacey (Comedian, It's Managed Podcast)
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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 BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Feb 17, 2021 |
Episode 312 - Bill Hader (Barry, SNL, Superbad, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs)
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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 BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Feb 12, 2021 |
Episode 311 - Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits, Bored Games, Doublehappys)
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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: Straitjacket Fits, Doublehappys, Shayne Carter+Peter Jefferies, Bored Games, Dimmer, The Weeds etc. (As well as all the other NZ goodness: The Bats, The Chills, The Clean, The Enemy, King Loser, Look Blue Go Purple, Sneaky Feelings, The Stones Toy Love, The Verlaines, Wax Chattels, etc. It will make your life better.)!!!!!!
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Feb 09, 2021 |
Episode 310 - Steve Von Till (Neurosis, Harvestman, Tribes Of Resistance)
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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!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Feb 05, 2021 |
Episode 309 - Joe Manganiello (Justice League, True Blood, Archenemy)
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Feb 03, 2021 |
Episode 308 - Alison Braun (Photographer, IN THE PIT - Photography by Alison Braun 1981-1990 )
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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
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jan 31, 2021 |
Episode 307 - Jason Williamson (Sleaford Mods)
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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!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jan 26, 2021 |
Episode 306 - Fat Mike Burkett Part 2
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jan 22, 2021 |
Episode 305 - Erik "Smelly" Sandin (NoFX, Caustic Cause)
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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!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jan 19, 2021 |
Episode 304 - Steve Diggle (Buzzcocks, Flag Of Convenience)
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jan 16, 2021 |
Episode 303 - Fat Tony Part 2
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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! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jan 12, 2021 |
Episode 302 - Fred Schneider (The B-52’s, The Superions, Fred Schneider & The Shake Society)
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jan 06, 2021 |
TOAP Footnotes Supershow - Wonder Woman's Cro-Mags shirt and Playboi Carti reads Slash
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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/ |
Jan 04, 2021 |
Episode 301 - Otto Buj (Sold Out Fanzine, Filmmaker)
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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!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jan 01, 2021 |
Episode 300 - Part 3 (J Mascis, Chris O'Toole, Danko Jones and Nick Flanagan
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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! |
Dec 24, 2020 |
Episode 300 - Part 2 (Fred Armisen, Danko Jones & Nick Flanagan)
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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. Brought to you by Vans |
Dec 24, 2020 |
Episode 300 - Part 1 (Mother 13's Corey Harris, Danko Jones & Nick Flanagan)
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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! |
Dec 24, 2020 |
Episode 299 - Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos, Better Oblivion Community Center)
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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!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Dec 12, 2020 |
Episode 298 - Sam McPheeters (Author, Born Against, Wrangler Brutes)
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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!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Dec 03, 2020 |
Episode 297 - Penelope Spheeris (LEGEND, The Decline Of Western Civilization, Suburbia, Wayne's World)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Nov 27, 2020 |
Episode 296 - Keith Morris (Circle Jerks, Black Flag, OFF!)
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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!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Nov 22, 2020 |
Episode 295 - Vanessa Briscoe Hay (Pylon, Supercluster, Pylon Reenactment Society)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Nov 15, 2020 |
Episode 294 - Michael Lachowski (Pylon)
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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!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Nov 11, 2020 |
Episode 293 - Dennis Jagard (Scared Straight, Ten Foot Pole)
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Nov 02, 2020 |
Episode 292 - Scott Radinsky (Pulley, MLB Picher & Former LA Dodger, Ten Foot Pole, Scared Straight)
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Oct 26, 2020 |
Episode 291 - Billy Bragg (Riff Raff)
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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!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Oct 21, 2020 |
Episode 290 - Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü, Sugar, World Championship Wrestling)
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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!!!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Oct 17, 2020 |
Episode 289 - Lydia Loveless
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Oct 13, 2020 |
Episode 288 - Joe Wong (The Trap Set, Akarso, Kill-A-Watts)
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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!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Oct 06, 2020 |
Episode 287 - Michael Imperioli (Sopranos, Author, Summer Of Sam, Talking Sopranos)
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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!!!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Oct 01, 2020 |
Episode 286 - Drea de Matteo (Sopranos, Sons Of Anarchy, Gangster Goddess Broad-Cast)
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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!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Sep 25, 2020 |
Episode 285 - Talib Kweli (Black Star, Javotti Media, People’s Party)
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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!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Sep 21, 2020 |
Episode 284 - Robbie Brookside Part 2 (The King of the Punk/Wrestling Connection)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BE VANS |
Sep 18, 2020 |
RIP Wade Allison
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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.
Photo by Corbin Hughes |
Sep 15, 2020 |
Episode 283 - Barney Greenway (Napalm Death, Benediction, Extreme Noise Terror)
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Sep 07, 2020 |
RIP Riley Gale
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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.
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Sep 02, 2020 |
Episode 282 - Derrick Green (Sepultura, Outface, Alpha Jerk)
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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! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Aug 24, 2020 |
Episode 281 - Jehnny Beth (Musician, Actor)
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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!!!! SPONSORED BY VANS |
Aug 19, 2020 |
Episode 280 - Butch Vig (Producer, Garbage, Spooner, Firetown, Smart Studios)
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Aug 10, 2020 |
Episode 279 - Omar Doom (Straight Razor, Inglourious Basterds, Deathproof, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood)
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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!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Aug 04, 2020 |
Episode 278 - Kevin Gill (GCW, Striving For Togetherness Records, JCW)
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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!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Aug 02, 2020 |
Episode 277 - Simon Doom & Dave It Up Reunite!
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 29, 2020 |
Episode 276 - Sacha Jenkins (The 1865, Ego Trip, The Wu Tang Clan's "Of Mics To Men")
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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!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 24, 2020 |
Episode 275 - Honeychild Coleman (The 1865, Sistagrrl Riott Collective, Heavensbee, Badawi)
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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!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 21, 2020 |
Episode 274 - Bubba Dupree (VOID, Hater, Earth 18)
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 18, 2020 |
Episode 273 - Chris Stover (VOID)
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 16, 2020 |
Episode 272 - Moby (Vatican Commandos, AWOL)
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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!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 10, 2020 |
Episode 271 - Jon Ginoli (Pansy Division, The Outnumbered)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 06, 2020 |
Episode 270 - Lydia Lunch (Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Retrovirus, 8 Eyed Spy)
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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:
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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Jun 28, 2020 |
Episode 269 - Daryl Wilson (The Bollweevils, Lando's 45, Rat Patrol)
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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!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jun 22, 2020 |
Episode 268 - Dean Spunt (No Age)
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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
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Jun 19, 2020 |
Episode 267 - Randy Randall (No Age)
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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!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jun 16, 2020 |
Episode 266 - Mark Arm (Mudhoney, Green River, Mr. Epp & The Calculations)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jun 09, 2020 |
Episode 265 - Brian Baker (Bad Religion, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Junkyard, Fake Names etc.)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jun 01, 2020 |
Episode 264 - Nick Woj Part #2
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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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May 29, 2020 |
Episode 263 - Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (The Killers, Attaboy Skip, Fault)
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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!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
May 25, 2020 |
Episode 262 - Katie Harkin (Harkin, Sky Larkin, Sleater Kinney, Wild Beasts Courtney Barnett)
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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!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
May 21, 2020 |
Episode 261 - Jami Morgan (Code Orange)
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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!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
May 11, 2020 |
Footnotes Supershow #6: Pittsburgh Week With Dave Martin
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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.
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May 08, 2020 |
Episode 260 - Jon Daly (Kroll Show, I’m Dying Up Here, Big Mouth, The Betas)
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
May 06, 2020 |
Episode 259 - Zach Blair Part #2 (Technically A Part #5)
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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!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS!!!! |
May 03, 2020 |
Episode 258 - Mike Wiebe (Riverboat Gamblers, Drakulas, High Tension Wires)
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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!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS! |
Apr 29, 2020 |
Episode 257 - Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast)
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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!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Apr 23, 2020 |
Episode 256 - Joe Sib (22 Jacks, Wax, Frontline)
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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!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Apr 20, 2020 |
Episode 255 - Tony Foresta (Municipal Waste, Iron Reagan, James River Scratch)
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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!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Apr 14, 2020 |
Episode 254 - Joey Sh*thead Keithley (DOA, The Skulls, City Councillor For Burnaby, BC)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Apr 09, 2020 |
Episode 253 - Amy Dumas (Wrestling Legend, AKA Lita)
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Apr 05, 2020 |
Episode 251 - Effy (GCW, Freelance Wrestling)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Apr 01, 2020 |
Episode 250 - Dale Crover (Melvins, Altamont, Fecal Matter)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Mar 28, 2020 |
Episode 249 - Anna Calvi
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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!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Mar 25, 2020 |
Episode 248 - Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols, Rich Kids, The Spectres)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Mar 23, 2020 |
Episode 247 - Whitmer Thomas (The Golden One, Glow, The Walking Dead)
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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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Mar 19, 2020 |
Episode 246 - Slim Cessna (Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Blood Flower, The Denver Gentlemen)
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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! |
Mar 15, 2020 |
Episode 245 - Lisa Kekaula (The Bellrays, The Dangers, MC5)
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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 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! |
Mar 15, 2020 |
Episode 244 - Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Society Ills)
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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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Mar 10, 2020 |
Episode 243 - Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee, PS Eliot, The Ackleys)
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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!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Mar 03, 2020 |
Episode 242 - Simon Doom (Spiral Heads, MGMT, Thulsa Doom)
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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!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Feb 21, 2020 |
Episode 241 - Kevin Morby (The Babies, Woods)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Feb 14, 2020 |
Episode 240 - Linda Ramone (Ramones Productions, Johnny Ramone Army)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Feb 07, 2020 |
Footnotes Supershow #5: Celebrating the music of Andy Gill, Josh Pappa, Reed Mullin and Vinny Value
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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.
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Feb 03, 2020 |
Episode 239 - Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional, Further Seems Forever, Vacant Andys)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jan 24, 2020 |
Episode 238 - Mikal Cronin (Party Fowl, Ty Segall Band, Charlie & The Moonhearts)
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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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Jan 15, 2020 |
Episode 237 - Jimmy Jacobs (ROH, TNA, WWE)
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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!!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jan 06, 2020 |
Episode 235 - Heather Gabel (HIDE)
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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!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Nov 28, 2019 |
Episode 234 - Jim Smallman (Progress Wrestling, NXTUK)
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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
Jimmy Havok and the hardest chair shot he ever gave
the uk scene
AND MORE!!!!! |
Nov 18, 2019 |
Episode 233 - Colin McFaull (Cock Sparrer)
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HOT DAMN! In this episode, Damian gets to sit down with one of the best to ever do it: Colin McFaull of the legendary COCK SPARRER!!! Listen in as the two discuss the realness of street rock & roll, the fakeness of punk & everything in between. DON’T MISS THIS ONE!!!
Also Touched On: being on tour with the Small Faces and hearing the Jam not buying into the whole punk thing
“you gotta wear these clothes”
Slaughter and The Dogs, Adam and the Ants and us
Forming Cock Sparrer at 16
informed by Glam
A potentially career ending reel to reel
MC5 didn’t cross the pond
Dr. Feelgood and pub rock
From Motorhead of Mannfred Mann and the Earth Band
Punk was a West London thing first
AC/DC with Bon Scott was the best show EVER
The meeting with Malcolm McLaren
Doc Martins and Jungle Greens
“Some people bring you cupcakes and some people bring you cocaine”
The Sex Pistols and The Clash were boy bands
The second wave is when punk got real
“We weren’t well liked”
The ’92 comeback show
the violence becomes too much
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Nov 11, 2019 |
Episode 232 - Johnny Peebucks Bonnel (Swingin' Utters, The Filthy Thieving Bastards)
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YES!!! In this week’s episode, Damian is joined by one of his favourite vocalists ever: Johnny Peebucks of the Swingin' Utters!!! Listen in as they talk about going from reluctant street punk heroes to Fat Mike's favourite reluctant fight starting live band!
Also Touched On: A cool older sister Trying to nail the Mic Jagar pose
the club culture
getting into shows for free
the first version of the Swingin’ Utters
The Santa Cruz skinhead fanbase
Darius Joins and brings the songs
“Can you play harmonica?”
Going on tour with the Meatmen and Chaos UK
“We aren’t going to play this one tonight, we are too hungover.”
moving to SF
what is street punk? MRR buzzband
"Your fans suck!" "You are right." Fat Mike liked the fights and hated Streets Of San Francisco
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Nov 05, 2019 |
Footnote Supershow #4: Stage Dives & Contact Highs
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Chris & Damian call on the Daves (Akerman & Martin) to come on the show! Talk some Everclear, Kanye & Morrissey, the guy with the initials that plays rock, new music they like & so much more!!
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Oct 28, 2019 |
Episode 231 - Anthony Anzaldo Jr. (Ceremony, Ex Youth)
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Get ready to celebrate friendship because on this week’s episode, Damian invites his long time friend Anthony Anzaldo from Ceremony back to the show! NO WRESTLING TALK THIS TIME AROUND, as the two discuss creative growth, artistic integrity, the limitation of expectations & so much more. There’s just not enough time for everything! THIS ONE IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
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Oct 25, 2019 |
Episode 230 - Brandon Williams (Chastity)
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LET'S CELEBRATE FRIENDSHIP!!!
This week on the show, Damian invites Brandon Williams of Chastity over for dinner & makes him podcast for his supper! Join the two friends as they discuss art, critique, heroes turned villains & of course, PUNK ROCK IN THE SUBURBS. LISTEN TO THIS!!! Also Touched On: liking metal the mystery of the band at the high school up the street
Happy Goes Lucky becomes Protest The Hero
Closet Monster
Bombs Over Providence
A babysitter crosses the street to avoid the punks
The Underground Operations era
Why are there no bands from Kingston?
Bands named after the city are normally terrible
Whitby: 10 Hockey Areas and no all-ages music venues
No Much Music, No Simpsons: Growing up in a religious house
The burnt CD era
Making the skate video in grade 7
Seeing Alexisonfire’s first video on TV and it changing everything
Meeting Dallas Green as a kid
When your childhood heroes tell you to “Quit Your Life”
Creating bands as a home for lyrics
The greatness of MTV Live Canada
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
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Oct 11, 2019 |
Episode 229 - Dennis Lyxzén (Refused, Final Exit, International Noise Conspiracy)
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This week on the show Dennis Lyxzén from Refused talks Swedish punk & so much more with Damian. DON’T MISS IT!
Also Touched On: The continuation of 2001 Quick Fanzine interview Exploited shows up out of nowhere in your record collection
being into NY hardcore when everyone else in UK 77
87 the dead time for punk between the booms
Puszone in Thrasher
“You get it home and it’s mucky pup”
Taller punk
The Join
let’s gather all the freaks in one place
let’s build a scene
isolation and boredom builds the biggest hardcore scene in the world
no sick of it all show in Umea
Doctor and The Crippens
Were you at the Shelter show?
Step Forward: no one is going like this so let’s just go nuts
be the guys that goes off
Refused: “We knew the potential”
The curse of recording LPs
Meshaggah sounding like Anthrax playing to 4t people
Skate punk made
Asta Kasta the link between scenes
Trallpunk
David's death metal influence on Refused
the regions of music
learning about Empire and the Ruts from the gods of DC
This is kinda cool but super sloppy
becoming friends with manny from Race Traitor
Peaking too early
Final Exit
The Path Of Resistance connection
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Oct 04, 2019 |
Episode 228 - Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, The Color Wheel, Golden Exits)
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Lights, Camera, Action! This week on the show we go to the movies as Damian sits down with director, ALEX ROSS PERRY! Listen in as the two discuss how Alex applied what he learned from basement shows to making movies & lamenting the loss of video store culture.
Also Touched On: Video store people unite!!! Green Day as first exposure
becoming a Lookout kid
Big band bringing cool bands on tour Blink opens for Bad Religion and then a few years later the inverse Local H opening for Stone Temple Pilots
Meeting the older kids in the basement a Propagandhi shirt
the secret christian punk scene
if you have played a show for less than 10 people you can make movies Making a soundtrack & MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Sep 30, 2019 |
Episode 227 - Bif Naked (Gorilla Gorilla, Chrome Dog)
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Get Psyched! CANADIAN MUSIC ICON, BIF NAKED IS ON THE SHOW! Join Damian & Bif as they sit down to discuss her crazy journey in music. From giggin' endlessly across Canada with Gorilla Gorilla, to trying to win over Life Of Agony fans in Europe, to ultimately changing the Canadian music landscape forever. DON’T MISS THIS ONE!!!!
Also Touched On: Making My Daddy’s Getting Married DRI plays NOT the Albert
The Punk-Funk of Gorilla Gorilla
Being in a touring band is not for everyone
The double standard of being a woman in the touring punk scene
Hockey Music
Sugar Ray could have been a great punk band
the East Coast VS the West Coast vibe
Personality Crisis
SNFU
Flipping a coin for Toronto or Vancouver
Pot & flannel
Chrome Dog was ahead of its time
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
playing in Bad Religion in both bands
The skater scene vs. the rocker scene
Getting stoked about Jello rejection letter
loving early Screeching Weasel
covering Mastodon
Touring with Chi Pig & The Wrongs
Having to learn to play with no monitors because the music industry sucks
Opening for Life Of Agony & the audience didn't care that her daddy was getting married
meeting Gail from Belly & getting into Straight Edge
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
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Sep 20, 2019 |
Episode 226 - Donita Sparks (L7)
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GET READY!!! This week on the show Damian is joined by a legend: DONITA SPARKS of the godly L7! Listen in as the two discuss not fitting in & having to create your own scene, punk as an attitude. Also, the trials & tribulations of headlining the first Warped Tour.
NOT TO BE MISSED! Also Touched On: Sisters with great taste Hearing the Ramones & finding your band
Not liking bands that buy shit off the rack
Punk or New Wave B-52s were crazier than the Cramps
The Dead were a deal breaker
Going to dance clubs in the Northside of Chicago
Hating hardcore
The LA art punk scene gives rise to L7
Opening for Bad Religion
Redd Kross were true glam
Not being a part of the hip LA scene
Grunge up end rock
Meeting Sub Pop
Writing Shove
Covering Bloodstains & turning it into the Mencies Anthem
The Dick Dale influence
The half-step
Suicidal’s dirge
Everyones is opening for the riot
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
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Sep 10, 2019 |
Episode 225 - Matty Matheson (God of Cookery)
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Rejoice!!! It's finally happened! After losing one episode to the unknown, Matty Matheson comes to the show! Join Damian as he sits down with his buddy to talk about the good & the not so good times that led Matty to become one of the world’s most beloved chefs! Also, how punk & hardcore were paramount to his journey. DO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE!!!!
ALSO, don’t miss the return of Matty Fest with Decedents, Wu Tang and Danny Brown! Saturday September 7th at Echo Beach!!!!!!!!!! |
Sep 05, 2019 |
Episode 224 - Alex Lichtenhauer (Control Top, Get Better Records)
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Weather, technology & scheduling be damned! This week Alex Lichtenauer (Get Better Records and Control Top) is on the show! After months of trying, join Alex & Damian as they discuss scene building & affecting positive change through music. Don't miss this rain soaked all too short conversation!
Also Touched On: A NOFX tape gets passed around The Decline is the peak
Pikesville Teen Center scene
The Baltimore Hardcore scene
Cult Classics
Ramrod
Charm City Art Space and the fall out Moving to New Hampshire and scene building
The Starving Artist
Punk experiences it first
The first decade of Get Better Records
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Sep 02, 2019 |
Episode 223 - Ben Lee (Noise Addict)
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DREAMS COME TRUE! This week Damian welcomes his childhood hero & dream guest to the show, BEN LEE!!! Listen in as the two get caught in the metaphysical weeds discussing moshing at a Hard-Ons show to collaborating with Tom Robbins on musicals. ANOTHER EPISODE THAT CANNOT BE MISSED!!!
Also Touched On: A long time in the making for Damian No one ever came
The Sydney all-ages scene
The Hard-Ons
Hellman
getting caught in the mosh at age 12
Rage: The TV program Lo-Fi is Punk
“I thought it sounded like ‘Appetite For Destruction’”
Tom Robbins as a punk collaborator
Dennis Tek opens for Rollins
Nirvana and the Violent Femmes were the reason
Television Personalities
The Vaselines
K Records
Half A Cow Records
Lemonheads
Smudge
Girling
Fallaheen Records
Not being able to open for Alex Chilton because it was a school night
“Do I get paid for that?”
the Bathing Ape collaboration
artist run labels are a bad idea most of the times
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Aug 29, 2019 |
Episode 222 - Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, The Cramps, The Bad Seeds, The Pink Monkey Birds)
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What is "cool"? Well, around here at Turned Out A Punk we think the very embodiment of the word cool is Kid Congo Powers & this podcast just got a hell of a lot cooler, because he’s on the show this week! Join Damian as he sits down with the former Cramp, Gun Cluber, Bad Seed & Screamers propagandist to talk about how LA glam kids took over the world. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!
Also Touched On: Helping invent punk The Dogs and the Motels
The Glam kids meet the rock kids meet the record collector kids
Seeing Patti Smith and Ramones
Zolar X: hilariously dedicated
The faded glam of LA as an influence
Learning from Rodney
Th Quick: “Our Sparks”
Backdoor Man Magazine was the Bible
The birth of Zine culture
Doing the first Ramones zine
The odd crowd the Ramones attracted
16 and standing beside Dee Dee
Thrift shopping with Blondie
The Nerves, The Pop and the Zippers
“Glad I was there for that”: life with The Screamers
Pat Suzuki and Argento
“You have to see this band the Cramps!”
Took the bus from LA
Going to New York and seeing the Contortions
Befriending Brian Gregory and Nick Knox
The Mumps come to LA
The Student Teachers
The Blessed
“Those people were sick!” No Wave people were no fucking joke
“Yeah I noticed” The shift from punk to hardcore
Opening for the Circle Jerks with the Creeping Ritual
“They Hated Us!”
Here come the angry kids
Going to see the Slits play in the UK
Record shopping in Paris in ’77
Working at Bomp
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Aug 19, 2019 |
Episode 221 - Jay Bentley (Bad Religion, Wasted Youth etc.)
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In honour of Bad Religion playing the Psycho Las Vegas Fest, Jay Bentley from Bad Religion is on the show! Tune in as Jay & Damian discuss finding punk, forming Bad Religion, the birth of Epitaph, leaving before the Unknown & coming back! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? LISTEN!
Also Touched On:
Raw Power Fanzine
DIY? Are you High? What else was there
12,000 kids vs. Jay and Greg
Going to LA to see shows
The Stains and the car through the wall
Mad Society the SUPER little kids
“Well fuck this, we’re going to make our own.” The Circle Jerks like your tape
“We are already on the radio?!?”
Rodney On The ROQ
Buying the Dickies and the Germs record store
Making the first 7”
making the first lp
Smoke 7 comp
Experimenting right into drugs
Joining Wasted Youth
The Clubs stop letting punk happen
Citadel: Proto glam
Do you be in the Circle Jerks? And winding up back in Bad Religion
Into the Unknown and back
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BE VANS |
Aug 15, 2019 |
Episode 220 - Riki Rachtman (Cathouse, Headbanger's Ball, WCW)
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What do MTV, WCW & Darby Crash have in common? This week’s guest is RIKI RACHTMAN!!! Join Damian as he sits down with the former WCW/Headbanger’s Ball & current Cathouse Hollywood Podcast host to talk about The Germs, Black Flag & the Adolescents: OH MY! Not to be missed!!!
Also Touched On:
The greatest Canadians
Wearing Germs shirts on Headbangers Ball
Blink 182 is old school now?
Devo’s first record as gateway
Rodney on ROQ
Bloodstains
Keith Morris rocking a Spiderman costume fronting the Black Flag Fear
Not getting the Germs… at first
X plays every show
Meeting Darby
The Adolescents Blue Album is one of the great albums EVER
Rob and Darby
Knowing more about Black Flag than Black Sabbath
Going to Universal Studios with an Adam And The Ants superfan
Auditions for the Angry Samoans
Forming a hardcore band
“Hey Devo!”
“Hey Meatloaf!”
Meeting Lee Ving in the current day
Metallica meets the Plimsouls
Battery Club could have been Green Day
Trying to record and hang with Pantera
WCW On the road with Scott Steiner & MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Aug 07, 2019 |
Episode 219 - Chris Hannah Part 2 (Propagandhi)
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Because the world demanded it, Damian welcomes back to the show one of his all time favourite lyricists & TOAP Guests: PROPAGANDHI’S CHRIS HANNAH!!!
Get pumped for a pretty bleak discussion! The two reflect on the current state of things, where/when it all started to get much darker & of course, some punk rock talk too! Also Touched On:
The Prophecy Foretold: Chris Hannah Was Right!
1996
The record flopped: YAY!
“Fuck these jokers!”
Traveling with a mini-mall
Greenroom as a bio-pic
The punk and politics
G-7 Records falls apart
Consolidated rule
Hearing Randy for the first time
Todd and Chris go crazy while record Today’s Empires
Wanting to be more Los Crudos, Dropdead and Born Against
Fuck The Border with a rap part as an I Spy song
Jord: the voice of reason
Trying to make everything sound like a sped up cassette tape.
The terrifying prophecy of Propagandhi lyrics
the moment we could have saved the world
9/11 changes everything
You don’t own your cellphone
Falling-out with Fat Mike
Changing views on Punk Voter
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
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Jul 28, 2019 |
Episode 218 - Dan Panic (Screeching Weasel, Groovie Ghoulies, Pansy Division, Squirtgun, Ivy League)
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Some 23 years ago a much younger Damian met Dan Panic at a show in Toronto & the positive impact on was immense. Now, two plus decades later, Damian gets to sit down & thank Dan the only way he knows how: by punishing him with questions about his musical past! Join D & D as they sit down to discuss playing drums in some of the most iconic pop punk bands.
Also Touched On: Damian meets Dan and it sets a standard
Blondie as a gateway
The Feds’ (pre-Smashing Pumpkins/ pre-Poster Children) fake tour booklet
Ivy League forms in 10 minutes
Weedeater (pre Charles Bronson) and the new scene in the Western Suburbs
The evolution of the Chicago scene
The Los Crudos Screeching Weasel Connection
An apology to Cedric
The Riverdales VS Weasel
Tony Molina RULES
Listening to Mars Volta
Playing with At The Drive-In
Joe does not like weed smoke from future rock gods
Playing with Sons Of Ishmael
Opening for the first “last” Screeching Weasel show
The influence of Ringo
The nuns forcing you to write with your right hand
Melody over everything
The funny side of Born Against
Quitting music for five years
Touring with Pansy Division
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Jul 23, 2019 |
Episode 217 - Jon Wurster Part 2 [or 4] (Superchunk, Bob Mould, The Best Show, Mountain Goats)
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Whether you call it his second or his fourth time on the show, one of the greatest guests ever, JON WURSTER RETURNS! Either in the world of drumming or comedy, Jon truly is a GOAT! So sit back listen in as Damian & Jon go deep before he takes the stage with Bob Mould… Who also says one word on the show… So do we call that his Part 1? YOU DECIDE!
Also Touched On: Going to Ohio to learn to record
Missing Husker Du by one day
Circle Of Shit
The scum influence on Philadelphia music
Jon’s connection to Serial Killers
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds has to follow Green Day… with the singer of Serial Killer
John Drewbaker: So punk the local magazine did an article on him titled The Punk
The best show Superchunk ever played
Not loving the cross-over thing… except COC
the cool frats in Philly
Joining Jack Wenberg
Is there a drummer in the house?: Mike Joyce no shows the Buzzcocks
Brad from Finger plays with Keith Urbane
going solo to see MDC on a Monday night in a college town when school out in 2019
The weirdness of Texas punk
The weirdness of Philly punk
The greatness of YDI live
The best of the metal records
Void rules ok!
Going Country
Why punk endures
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
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Jul 13, 2019 |
Episode 216 - Rachel Goswell (Slowdive, Mojave 3, Minor Victories)
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Tune in & gaze down because this week on the show RACHEL GOSWELL (Slowdive) joins Damian for a chat!!! Listen along as the two discuss going from being a first wave goth kid to finding out you accidentally created a genre!! Plus hear Damian fan out... Again.
Also Touched On: Punk through a brother Siouxie and The Banshees as inspiration
Tinderbox
who invented goth?
in the gig straight down to the front
photos at gigs
Christian Death
Ghost Dance
Neil is a prefect at school
not into Indieschmindie stuff
My Bloody Valentine unites them all
meeting Alan Magee
Meeting the goths in College
Being broke on Creation
Falling-out with Creation
The Sony deal
Getting asked to take Oasis on tour and saying no
Never touring Pygmalion
Getting dropped
the fourth Slowdive album becomes the first Mojave 3
signing to 4AD
A starting afresh
Shoegaze as a genre: “Wot on earth?!”
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jul 07, 2019 |
Episode 215 - Wicca Phase Springs Eternal (Goth Boi Clique, Tigers Jaw)
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Punk will never die! As if to illustrate this, founding member of Goth Boi Clique, Wicca Phase is on the show this week! Join Damian as he sits down with the former member of Tigers Jaw to talk about Emotrap being yet another mutation of punk & how they were brought together by wrestling podcasts. NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also Touched On: Getting into Blink 182 but it not counting Tom from the Menzingers wins the talent show with a Rancid cover
Typing Punk into napster
AFI & Anti-Flag & IN
Calling into Hot 97 & getting put on air at 8 years old
Going along to a Backstreet Boys show
More a Frontyard Dancer than a Backyard Wrestler
Then Amazingness of Crimpshrine
Scranton’s hot ska scene
Leftover Crack & the Beach Boys over everything
An invite only message board of obsessive music collectors
Borrowing CDs from the library & finding the Smiths & Mount Eerie
Forming bands that were derivative of the Microphones & Conor Oberts
Test Pattern
Forming Tigers Jaw
Title Fight
Hating the pop-punk scene
Shout out to the Aarons! Lil Peep on wrestling & SO MUCH MORE!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jun 24, 2019 |
Episode 214 - Billy Duffy (The Cult, Death Cult, The Nosebleeds)
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Well, somethings in life are worth waiting for & this here is one of those things! BILLY DUFFY IS ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK! Listen in as the two start from the beginning & we learn just how this legendary guitarist found his way through punk to the metal explosion of the 80’s. YOU CANT MISS THIS ONE!!! CATCH BILLY ON TOUR WITH THE CULT THIS SUMMER! Check listings
Also Touched On: Coming of age in the summer of a punk Billy & Johnny: Best haircuts in town
The better guitarists in the neighbourhood
Football or Rock and Roll as the only ways out
Free & Thin Lizzy
Slaughter And The Dogs: Bowie freaks go punk
How amazing the Buzzcocks were
Seeing the Pistols for the first time at the 2nd Manchester gig
Five school friends enter & three leave
“All the heads were there”
Guitar hers
Raw Power was a massive band in Wigan
Filling Vini Reilly’s shoes
Bringing along Morrissey
Opening for The Magazines
Throwing out candy to the crowd
The Nosebleeds
“The only reason they kept me around was because I was good at table tennis”
“She actually sang on a Johnny Thunder’s record?!?” The Lonesome No More
Getting into gretch guitars
rockabilly arrives
nothing would have happened without punk
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Jun 17, 2019 |
Episode 212 - Darby Allin (The Wrestlers, All Elite Wrestling, Evolve)
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IT'S HERE!!!! Tonight, May 22nd on Viceland (in the US) at 10:00pm EST, Damian's show "The Wrestlers" premiers!!! What better way to celebrate than by having one of the stars of the first episode on the show: DARBY ALLIN!!! Listen in as Darby scares the crap out of Damian with stories that prove that everyone that said Jackass was bad for kids was right. *WARNING* THIS EPISODE IS INTENSE.
Please check out The Wrestlers for more intensity!!!!! Also Touched On: Going to see the Circle Jerks & a world opening up Seeing Turbonegro because of Jackass and Skate videos
being drawn to darkside of humanity
dropping out of amateur wrestling to be into punk
A very old school definition of punk
the jock before punk rock
“If I could grow up and get paid to be an asshole..”
The Jackass influence
being obsessed with punk documentary
Loving The Nuns
Seeing Subhumans
Loving Leftover Crack
Booking the band that ways brings pig guts
Moshing in the streets with Shane West
Getting into straight edge through H2O and Minor Threat
Preferring GG’s early stuff.
The Murder Junkies were supposed to perform at the wedding
Minister Dino
Torturing DJZ as a thank you for DJing the wedding
Going to film school in Arizona
John Waters is real
Liking things that aren’t fake
finding wrestling
Making movies
Fighting in dog shit
The awesomeness of Ethan Page
CM Punk draws you back
being on Ridiculousness
There is no winner when Darby wants to do something nuts
“I’m in the mood to do something stupid”
Working with Wicca Phase and Fury
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May 22, 2019 |
Episode 211 - Milo Aukerman (Descendents)
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SURPRISE EPISODE!!!! Scratch another one off the bucket list because, thanks to our friend’s at Punk Rock Bowling, MILO AUKERMAN OF THE DESCENDENTS IS ON THE SHOW!!!! Join Damian as he talks to one of his heroe’s to find out about going from a new wave lovin' nerd to one of the most iconic vocalists ever! YOU’VE GOTTA TO HEAR THIS!!!! Go see the Descendents play Punk Rock Bowling next weekend (with Damian) too! Also Touched On: X opens for Devo Getting into LA punk Accidentally seeing Black Flag’s infamous park gig Listening to Rodney Dangerhouse Records Ramones are more standard “I was a frickin’ nerd” Dressing new wave Bill Stevenson selling you a Decendents record The 60’s influence on the first 7” The Allycats influence Singing in musicals ripping off Dez Watching Black Flag practice The Last connection Joining the new wave club at school and the meeting getting invaded by the punkers The Blasters The Chiefs New Wave kids that liked a punk don’t turn around in the pit! The Germs show: people had gotten in with weapons The Minutemen Playing with Minor Threat The SST fans New Alliance Records Hearing “Milo Goes To College” for the first time… in college Bill joins Black Flag but that was the end of it. Ray Cooper takes over vocals Bill’s congratulations card to Milo in the form of an album The albatross of the Milo head going to shows in San Diego TSOL Battalion Of Saints Singing on Loose Nut Seeing the Misfits on the last tour The drawbacks of a double life & MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
May 17, 2019 |
Episode 210 - Shawn & Mark Stern (Youth Brigade, Extremes, BYO Records)
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Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival is but a week away! To celebrate, we have festival founders & Youth Brigadiers, Shawn & Mark Stern on the show for ONE OF THE BEST EPISODES EVER OF TOAP!!! Join Damian in his glee as the Sterns talk about all his favourite topics: From AA Records to Zolar X! OH, MY GAWD!
Also Touched On:
Going to see the Dickies for a first show
A disagreement about Vom
Tampon eating scares of some stoner buddies
Robert Trower
Getting into Devo
Going to back to Toronto and catching the B-52s and the Beat People
Saskatoon Temp-hair dye disaster
100 Punk to rule the world: The Masque and the Canterbury
The Go-Gos
A different perspective on the invading beach punks
Test Tube Records & Greg Heston
Skinhead Manor
Skin Swing Brigade
Someone Gonna Get Their Head Kicked
Matt Groening loves the comp
getting Doug Moody into punk
Bringing Aggression around to meet Doug Moody for a shakedown and it getting them signed
Nearly winding up on the People’s Court
AA Records
French Oi
Eskorbuto
Pure Hell & the Dead Boys
Brendan Mullen’s ear
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!
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May 16, 2019 |
Episode 209 - John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats, The Extra Glenns)
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Years in the making & two attempts at recording have been worth it!!! The King of the Mountain, G.O.A.T. John Darinelle is on the show this week! Listen along as John & Damian discuss going from getting messed with by members of Bad Religion & Christian Death, to finally understanding why Nick Cave would hate the bathroom being in the front of the club, but don't worry, there is lots of Ajax Records talk for all you teeny boppers out there! The Mountain Goats have an AWESOME new record out on MERGE called “In League With Dragons” Check it out now!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Some awesome music talk
seen it in the LA times
Mom ordered Never Mind The Bollocks to the library
When DIY came to punk
Early college rock
The Normal
TVOD
Being scared of punk
Jay from Bad Religion and Rozz from Christian Death trying to mess with you in the neighbourhood
The bully that chases you toward guitar, literally
Charlie Chase and the Folk Music centre
Running into your tormentors at Buttonhole Surfers shows
“Finding someone that like The Velvet Underground was like a Wizard!”
Man Is The Bastard on streaming services
The Extra Glens
Mighty Joe Young
AntiSeen, Eyehategod and Obsessed
Being a parent and trying to leave the house for a show
Nick Cave just trying to use the bathroom
Doing security for Fugazi
Ian MacKaye makes a nice cup of tea
Peter and Ajax Records
“I can have an advance?!?”
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May 10, 2019 |
Episode 208 - George Pettit Part 2 (Dead Tired, Alexisonfire, Bergenfield Four)
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GEORGE IS BACK BABY! Once again TOAP shows up to prove that a sequel can equal or even top the original. George Pettit was one of the original guests on this podcast way back when & now he finally makes his triumphant return to the show! Join Damian as he sits down with his good friend to catch up & bullshit about music, culture & how punk can micro change the world. NOT TO BE MISSED! George's band Dead Tired has an awesome new album, "Full Vol." His other band, Alexisonfire also put out some amazing new music as well.
Also Touched On:
A long time coming making this thing
George tells Damian Alexisonfire is getting back together
“What am I going to do now?” the post band question
Wade gets it done
Young Chris O’Toole working at the record store
Niagara Falls: ghost town
Sex Pistols Wax Figures
shows that no one came to
The kind of out of touch having a kid makes you
kid run vs. the old people scene
The end of alternative culture
The brilliance of CityTV
No New Bomb Turks on Much Music
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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May 03, 2019 |
Episode 207 - John Ross Bowie (Four Chords And A Gun, Big Bang Theory, Egghead)
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Pick Up The Pieces!!! This week on the show, Damian sits down with John Ross Bowie! The Big Bang Theory star & author of the new play, FOUR CHORDS AND A GUN has an INSANE story to tell. You guys are gonna love this one! SO, HEY HO... Oh, forget it Also Touched On: A dance routine to Rockaway beach The String theory of cool NOW, I want to sniff some glue Buying Ramones records The Spin mags 10 year anniversary of punk issue The dramatic aspects of growing up in 80’s NY Spring 84 seeing The Go-Gos Putting an ad looking for a penpal A friend in Kitchener Asexuals Doughboys The Nunfuckers rule! Going to CBGB’s to see Breakdown The two different audiences for New York hardcore bands and cali punk in NY Murphy’s Law and the Dickies on halloween A group of comedy people at Matador 21 Musical theatre meets punk The Mumps World Inferno Friendship Society Liking Let’s Wreck This Party Bad Religion’s Into The Unknown Greg Graffin coming to DJ on your radio show Bob Dylan for jocks Bugout Society are crazy underrated Crucial Youth trolling MRR readers Damian’s dad loves Toy Dolls understanding why your parent feared punk when hardcore get reeeeaaallllyyyy hard Mutant Pop rocks!!! Sicko BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Apr 23, 2019 |
Episode 206 - Johnny Marr (The Smiths, The Cribs, Modest Mouse)
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Here's Johnny!!! This week on the show Damian is joined by one of the greatest guitarists in the history of British Rock & Roll: JOHNNY MARR!!! Johnny has an amazing new album, “Call The Comet” & has played in some of the most LEGENDARY bands ever but, as is par for the course with this show, the two spent most of the time talking about a band that only ever released one song on a compilation. CHECK THIS ONE OUT & don't forget THE TOAP PATREON!
👨🎨: Gray Abraham
Also Touched On:
The Sex Pistols’ legendary Lesser Free Trade Hall
Billy Duffy changes the next day
Going to see Slaughter & The Dogs at age 12
Stooges, The Dolls & Dr Feelgood
The glory days of working class rock & roll
The first single
Playing guitar
The GODLY Sister Ray!
A freak show of a band
A scary group of dudes
A drummer with dreads in South Manchester in the late 70’s
In a band with adults at age 14
Steven & Isaac got nothing on Clive.
Clive says “If you are a intros band, you are going to need this…”
Pete Shelley: the true radical for the time
The differences between the london punks & the punks around the country that took up the flag
The importance of Jon Savage’s book
The importance of Magazine
Bowiefreaks
The Suffragette City is the template for punk
The Robert Alman Punk Salon
The White Dice
Paris Valentino’s riff becomes Handsome Devils
The Only Ones are gods!
“Peter Perret is my Sid Barrett”
Seeing Nick Lowe from the knees down
The FBeat audition
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Apr 14, 2019 |
Footnote Supershow #3 - Youtube Party Tonight!
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The Turned Out A Punk Patreon is live! Head to patron.com/turnedoutapunk and check it out! Also, check out Chris, Dave It Up, Dave Martin and Damian as they talk about the best live bands they never saw, youtube clips and Dave It Up not liking the Cramps(!?!?!?!?!).
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Apr 11, 2019 |
Episode 205 - Jennifer Herrema (Royal Trux, Black Bananas)
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When Damian sat down with Jennifer Herrema (Half of the legendary duo Royal Trux), he had no clue they would spend the whole time talking about first wave DC hardcore, but this is a perfect example of the power of punk & ultimately the point of this show. Join Damian in his stunned joy as they discuss how the noise & chaos of hardcore informed Jennifer’s musical sensibility & life in general. NOT TO BE MISSED!!!! Check out Royal Trux's godly new album, White Stuff on Fat Possum now!
Also Touched On:
Shout Out To Tony Reitmen
Hanging with Iron Cross at the age of 12
Olson’s Books and Records with Sab and Tesco Vee working the door
Wandering through George Town and looking at fliers
Anna and Cynthia Connolly
Hanging out with Void
Pussy Galore
Always against straight edge
Dante and Sab were wild!
Ian stands in his own truth
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Royal Trux starts in DC
The results of an acid trip
Moby and Neil as college buddies
Going to Skynyrd for Kid Rock
Gerard Cosloy is responsible for all of this
Listening to GBH trying to figure it out
The influence of Discharge
Mike Fellows
Chis Bald
AND MORE!!!!!
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Apr 08, 2019 |
Episode 204 - Mary Timony (EX HEX, Helium, Wild Flag)
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This week on the show, one of the coolest (& one of the first performers your host Damian ever saw live), MARY TIMONY of the band EX HEX sits down for a chat. Listen in as the two talk about Mary going from a DC hardcore kid who didn't feel like she fit in, to finding a home in Boston Indie Rock, to touring world wide with the godly HELIUM. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED (ALSO, don't miss EX HEX’s FANTASTIC new album "It's Real” on Merge Records)!!!
Also touched on:
Damian’s first show
Growing up down the road from the MacKayes
Mary’s folks: “Have you heard of Ian’s band Minor Threat?”
Alec’s leopard print hair
Watching Friday Night Videos and finding New Wave
Feeling different
Learning to play guitar to stop dressing weird
Seeing Rites Of Spring for a first show
The positivity of the DC hardcore scene
Revolution Summer and the changes begin
“DON’T MOSH!!!”
Combo sport team/ street gang
Fire Party
Christian Billotte
Jamming Joe Satriani
HazMat becomes Autoclave
A Rush loving drummer
Autoclave
Slant 6
Swiz
Kingface
Soulside
Ignition
Fugazi in the basement of St. Stephen’s (pre-Guy)
The friend with the Bongos
Moving to Indie Rock loving Boston
The difference between DC and Boston
“Way to DC for that!”: Major label find no one answering when they come knocking
Signing to Matador
Opening for Liz Phair at CBGB’s
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!
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Apr 01, 2019 |
Episode 203 - Laura Ballance (Superchunk, Merge Records)
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How often do you get to talk to the boss of your record label, bass player in one of your favourite bands & one of the first people to ever hire you in the music biz? Well, this once in a lifetime confluence happens to Damian this week when he welcomes LAURA BALLANCE OF MERGE RECORDS / SUPERCHUNK on to the show show!!! Listen in as the two discuss Laura’s journey, why MERGE gets it in a way some other label can't & the night in London twenty years ago when Damian had to work the merch table for Superchunk.
Also Touched On:
Big Sister’s record collection as a gateway
Adam Ant on late night tv and a sexual awaking
Was it Prince & The Revolution on Purple Rain OR Bad Brains & Neon Christ for the first show?
ATL Alternative Culture Unity
The difference between Raleigh and Atlanta’s punk scenes
the uniqueness of the various hardcore scenes in NC
Learning to overcome stage fright
Starting Merge
Gerard’s stamp of approval
Not being proud of the early stuff
You can’t be discerning if you’re going to be prolific
Erectus Monotone: pre- Double Negative
not liking the bands that signed to major labels
Jon Wurster: the punkest motherfucker you ever did see
AND MORE!!!!!!
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Mar 25, 2019 |
Footnotes Supershow #2 - Timelife's History Of RnR ep 9
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The odd couple of punk podcasting are back! This time, Chris & Damian invite Damian's brother / show producer, Tristan on the show to discuss stuff he felt Damian & Jonah may have overlooked on Episode 200\. Before getting to that that, they discuss Johnny Rotten vs. Marky Ramone, the new Punk doc series, getting starstruck as an adult, why Robbie Brookside is the ultimate vehicle to discuss the history of punk & so much more!!!!
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Mar 21, 2019 |
Episode 202 - Jake Duzsik (HEALTH)
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Almost 8 years ago, Damian, host of this show, & Jake Duzsik, of the awesome band HEALTH, had a hang so epic it left both men changed. Now, they are finally reunited & it was glorious! Listen in as the two discuss skateboarding, wrestling, success & how it all comes together: PUNK!
Also Touched On:
An Epic Hang A Couple A Few Years Back
Hesher
Going With You Dad To See Nirvana At Age 11
Pearl Jam Being Amazing But Not Being That Into Them
Butthole Surfers Go Mainstream
Come As You Are & Our Band Could Be Your Life
Dad Works With Kim Thayil
Getting into peace punk and becoming snobbie
East Bay Ray can play!
Not starting a band until your 20s
Seeing Submission Hold
How tiny DIY punk and hardcore ws in the 90s
The Artier free jazz side of Crass
Being the outliers of the Smell Scene
Noise in Brooklyn vs. Noise in LA in the early 2000’s
Not liking the Decendents
The emotional playing of the Dead Milkmen
loving the guitars first
Listen to only Frankenchrist for a whole summer
Jake Goes to College
NOFX takes over
Driving in cars with snowboarders singing Bro-Hymn
The Punk side of skateboarding
The Punk side of wrestling
Wrestings VS Skateboarding: battle for punk
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!
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Mar 17, 2019 |
Episode 201 - Greg Attonito (Bouncing Souls)
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WHAT AN INSANE WEEK!?!?!? This time on the show punk legend & Bouncing Souls frontperson, Greg Attonito stops by for a chat! Join Damian as he sits down with one of his heroe’s to talk about how punk would change his life, the importance of an anthemic chorus & why you never stop when you are opening for Green Day in Europe.
Also Touched On:
Getting Into Punk Though Your Sister
Meeting Brian & Going To Shows
The Real Cool Guys
Sis goes to the Smiths
Seeing Bruce Springsteen in a stadium
trying to be the ultimate sing along band
“Man, we haven’t written anything close to Hungry Heart
Playing together for 30 years
Seeing the Kinks play on the pier
Seeing The Red Hot Chilli Peppers in NY on Halloween vs. an off night in NJ
Ramones
Fishbone
Seeing Ween’s first show
They Might Be Giants
AOD
Sticks and Stones
Getting on stage for the first time
learning to be a vocalist
Braindead: the very first Bouncing Souls song
slinging your 7”s on the street
“We’d just hang out and stuff would happen”
Always being the weird band
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Mar 08, 2019 |
Episode 200 - Damian Abraham (Fucked Up) + Special Guests!!!!
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OH CRAP, WE MADE IT!!! Episode 200 is here & what better way to celebrate than by turning the tables on Damian & putting him into the hot seat. Who better to serve as the interviewer, but the rhythm to Damian's heart, former guest, Jonah Falco (Career Suicide/ Fucked Up/ Game)! Listen in as Jonah forces Damian to answer the question: "How did you get into punk?"
BUT, because this is a party, we have some other guests that have acted as influencers to do this podcast, including: Legendary "The Best Show" caller and music historian Charles R. Martin, "Post Wrestling"'s John Pollock & Wai Ting and "Heat Vision & Jack"'s & maybe Bad-Religion-show-goer Jack Black!!!!!!
This is the a MONSTER of a 200th episode!!!
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR SUPPORTING THE SHOW FOR THE PREVIOUS 199 EPISODES!!!
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Feb 28, 2019 |
Footnotes Supershow #1
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This is the start of the new era for Turned Out A Punk! Footnotes Supershow is Chris & Damian hanging out & talking all things punk, wherever the conversation goes. What a better way to kick off the show than having not one, but TWO of Daves we know (we know, these are the Daves we know): Dave It Up & Dave Martin!
Sit back & listen as they ask important questions like:
-Have you ever actually heard Chinese Democracy?
-Tragedy's "Vengeance" setting a bar.
-The international record condition exchange rate.
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Feb 23, 2019 |
Footnote 198 & 199: Tony Molina and Better Oblivion Community Center
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Cheree Cheree, Oh Nerdy. This week on the show Chris and Damian catch up about Damian's tour, get lost in a magazine and discuss Phoebe, Conor and Tony. What a great time?!?!
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Feb 09, 2019 |
Episode 199 - Conor Oberst & Phoebe Bridgers (Better Oblivion Community Center)
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This week on Turned Out A Punk, it is a celebration as PHOEBE BRIDGERS & CONOR OBERST come on to celebrate the release of Better Oblivion Community Center! So sit back as Damian gets two different perspectives on a punk journey that ultimately led to the recording of this record. Can You Believe it? ONE FOR THE AGES!!!
Also Touched On:
Pick A Number Between 1 & 10
Clash Loving Big Brother As First Exposure
Uncle Tupelo
Woody Guthrie
From Avril To X
“It’s Not Punk To Call Yourself PUNK”
Conor: PA For hire
Doing Sound For Brainiac
The Reason That The Omaha Sound Has No Sound
Growing Up & Smelling The Smell
Sloppy Jane: From Punk To Cave Core
Girl Pusher: The Most Appropriate Named Band Ever
Commander Venus
Grass Records
The Crap Shoot Of All Ages Bills
Hating Piano
Neil Young Is So Punk
Nirvana Fan: Me But Greasy
Feeling Like You Have To Sign To Other Labels
Digital Sex Rules!!!
Cursive Signs To Crank!
Mousetrap
311 Leaves Town To Get Back
You Have To Get The Music Out Of Omaha
The Pressure Of Being A Super Young Musician In LA
Phoebe & The He-Men
Einstein’s Dirty Secret
The Topanga Canyon
The Fixie Era
A Band Stays At Your Parents
“Is This Chicken vegan?”
Hearing About Emo For The First Time
The Sunny Day Sound
Pax Am
“It’s Like Sheryl Crow!”
Corporate Piggy
“You Know What Would Be Good For Your Image…”
Playing For The Violent Femme’s Fans: Not Fun
“We Should Form A Band That Sounds Like The Replacements!”
& MUCH MUCH MORE!!!
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Jan 27, 2019 |
Episode 198 - Tony Molina (Ovens, Healer, Dystrophy)
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What was your favourite record from last year? Well Damians was Tony Molina's "Kill The Lights" and this week he has Tony on the show! So get ready as the two old friends dive into the wonderland that is Bay Area Punk and Hardcore. The hot takes are a flying! This may very well be the longest and funnest episode yet!
Damian’s album of the Year
Listening to rap
The Chronic
Bay Area Rap
Beau from Oven walks in and is like: I listen to rock music now.
Weekend Warrior Metal
Doobie Brothers and other rockers turned ops
Dads with good taste in rock music
Nirvana as entry to Fang and MDC
Green Day explodes
Mom does does not fuck with White boy rock
Sublime VS Bloodhound Gang
Phish VS Greatful Dead
Riverdale VS Screeching Weasel
Pansy Division dressed as the Donnas and nailing a Slayer cover
Angus the Movie
Seeing Tower Of Power for your first show
TOP, WAR and the Melvins
Deftones cover the Bad Brains
Negative Tom
AFI
Getting the Year in 7”s
Goin to the Gilman for the first time
Skarhead at the Gilman
All Bets Off
RIP Sammy
Being more 625
Groovie Ghoulies
“You have you heard VOID?”
What Happens Next and bandana thrash bring back the fun.
The Sex Kittens: Ramones and Donnas Worship
Friends with Supercharger
“You gotta get with Greg!”
Going to Greg Lowry’s House
Getting feedback from a garage legend
Having to go to “real” punk school
Fiesta Comes Alive vs Forever Changes
Renting Gummo because Spazz is on soundtrack
Trve Power Violence
Why is the Infest cover art is so bad!?!?!
Off The Disk
The Jocks
Sharp Knife
seeing dbs at Mission Records
Operation Makeout
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Jan 24, 2019 |
Footnote 197 - Julien Baker
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Nerds run the streets tonight! This week on the show Chris and Damian talk MRR cancelling print, Lorna Doom's legacy AND the awesome Julien Baker episode!
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Jan 19, 2019 |
Episode 197 - Julien Baker (boygenius)
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The good times never stop here at TOAP… Wait, did we say “good”? Well, we should have said AMAZING because this week on the show, Damian is joined by, one of his favourite song writers & one third of the supergroup boygenius, JULIEN BAKER!!! Listen in as the two discuss using christian punk as a way to escape, the similarities between punk vs. religion & Pezz (TN) ruling! DO NOT MISS THIS!!!! Also Touched On: Punk still runs deep The burden of punk Taking a stand against hotels Betraying your genre Romanticizing punk Memphis is a unique Seeing Green Day on TV Someones playing guitar on tv and he looks vaguely effeminate and he disagrees with the president! When you get dissed by the Casualties fans and saved by a violent Santa Going to a show at the Skate park Poison the Well Silverstien Job For A Cowboy Bands stop going to Memphis Resource scarcity breed cooperation out of necessity The frat dude’s Led Zep band can play too even! Fifteen rule Wicker from Memphis, an anti-band Growing up with religion and find Using Christian hardcore as an escape to secular punk The double edge sword of faith based music Punk as religion Jawbreaker going to your first house show Hot Topic bands Truest of true punks Turnstile live is next level PEZ RULES!!!! & MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jan 15, 2019 |
Footnote 196 - Danger Ehren (Jackass, Photographer)
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Yes, yes Nerds are here again, but they didn't come to see your band! This week on the show, Chris & Damian talk more Danger Erhen! Also, grapple with the argument: What is art?
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Jan 14, 2019 |
Episode 196 - “Danger Ehren” McGhehey (Jackass, Photographer)
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THIS IS LEGIT, ONE OF THE BEST EPISODES OF TURNED OUT A PUNK YET! Damian is joined by Jackass star Danger Ehren for one of the funniest, most honest & dare we say it, touching episodes. Not to be missed!!! THEN, TOAP Footnotes co-host, Chris O’Toole joins him to talk favourites of 2018! Also Touched On: Ehren who? Just a real dude Sleep opening for Neurosis getting into punk through Skateboarding and Snowboarding Videos Punk becoming the meaning of everything Going on snowmobile vacations Picking up bodies on the ways home from vacation the origins of snowboarding Jocks VS Punks Too much information Jackass as forebarer to the Doing something to be remembered Jackass Changing culture Content over quality Jackass for Youtube What porn was to the internet… Jackass as art How the band got together doing stupid shit in isolation the stuff that was too extreme doing Jackass shit before the world had seen Jackass Joined by being weird Performance art Knowing the Melvins for 20 years AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS |
Jan 07, 2019 |
TOAP 2018 Year End Wrap Up: "The Punk/Wrestling Connection Is Real!"
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2018 wasn’t so hot for a ton of reasons, but there were some shining moments in a year of otherwise dark times. One such beacon, The Punk/Wrestling Connection!!! This year, the bonds of Wrestling & Punk continued to grow stronger. Nowhere was this connection better illustrated than at Turned Out A Punk’s first ever, “The Punk/Wrestling Connection Gathering”. Join Damian as he gathers UK wrestling God Robbie Brookside, Turnstile’s Pat McCrory, Punk God Lars Frederiksen, Power Trip’s Riley Gale, Ceremony’s Anthony Anzaldo, WWE/TNA/NJPW Champion MVP, Best Coast’s Bob Bruno & DJ/Vocalist/Wrestler Tuna Tardugno! The Punk/Wrestling Connection Is More Real Than Ever Going Into 2019!
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Jan 01, 2019 |
Turned Out A Punk FOOTNOTE Holiday Party
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Chris & Damian throw the annual TOAP HOLIDAY STAFF PARTY w/ Dave Martin & Dave It Up. Listen in as the four hang out, open mail & TALK PUNK! Nevermind Talking To The Family, It's The Holidays!
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Dec 25, 2018 |
Footnote 195 - Mark McCoy & Barry Henssler
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Are you hanging up the nerds on your wall? Are you hoping that the snow will start to fall? This week on the show, Chris & Damian talk two of the greatest, legendary smart-ass singers of all time! They also lay out the plans for the Footnotes holiday take over.
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Dec 21, 2018 |
Episode 195 - Barry Henssler (Necros, Big Chief, Motorbooty)
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Alright, Alright, Alright! This week on the show, Damian gets to sit down with a hardcore legend & ZINE GOD: BARRY HENSSLER!!! A vocalist hero & Co-creator of one of the most expensive hardcore 7"s ever. Listen in as the two discuss Barry going from being a four year old seeing the Grateful Dead on their first tour, to being part of the first wave of hardcore punk in the godly NECROS. NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
Also Touched On:
Alice Cooper as first exposure
Sonic Youth loving Love It To Death
Stooges
hearing MC5 from a friend's older brother and the older sibling cool music connection
The Vertigo Records New Wave comp
Seeing Pink Floyd on the first tour post Syd at age 7
Seeing the Grateful Dead at age 4 in a backyard
Alice Cooper and ZZ Top
Starting a band without guidance
Stooges
Trying to cover the Clash’s 1977
buying Spiral Scratch, The Cramps, Suicide and Electric Eels
Getting your licence and driving to Drome Records
Pere Abu
Pagens
The Making of Smega Journals
The reason the Necros have never been reissued
Seeing the Ramones and Johnny had beard
Joe Jackson
Undertones blow David Johansen
PIL in Detroit
The Spys and The Dry Heaves
Getting the Solger 7”
Meeting the DC kids
Seeing Minor Threat for the first time
befriending the Circle Jerks
seeing Black Flag for the first time
The story of Sex Drive
The Ohio music debate
Negative App
Devo
Starvation Army
Guided By Voices
The early east coast hardcore scene
Joey Shithead unconventional touring style
Minor Threat solo
Kings Of Punk is the last hardcore record
Haram
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
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Dec 18, 2018 |
Episode 194 - Mark McCoy (Charles Bronson, Youth Attack, Das Oath, Absolute Power etc.)
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Break out the diet root beer & get ready to prank call the Bulldog Store, cause this week on the show, Charles Bronson’s vocalist turned Youth Attack tastemaker, MARK MCCOY!!! Join Damian as he sits down with a major influence of his & a 90's Chicago Hardcore Legend to talk about making art with a thesis. Also, the narrow atheistic boundaries within punk, records as artifacts & DAMN, so much more!!!!
Also Touched On:
Charles Bronson As A Huge Influence
Growing Up Near A Naval Base
“Yes, Very Fucking Hard!”
Studying Hardcore
Looking For A Third Minor Threat Tape
“There Were So Many Fucking All Tapes”
“What Is This Hardcore Thing? It Isn’t Sex Is It?
NoFX
Skate Videos A Document Of A Progressing Culture
“Like Does Screeching Weasel Actually Fit Into Infest?”
Going To Wax Trax
Amazing Sleuthing To Track Done Todd Pre-FYP
“Get SSD, But Not The Later SSD It Sucks”
Meeting Dan From SPAZZ By Randomly Calling Sheep Squeeze
Deep Wound & Siege To Infest & Crossed Out
The Rejected: “Do You Guys Like Skacore?”
Being On A Comp With 88 Fingers Louie
Hearing Napalm Death & Laughing
The Neos “This Is The Real Shit”
We Weren’t Good Enough To Play It
Going To See 7 Seconds & Tony Victory’s Only The Strong
Seeing Crudos For The First Time
Mk-Ultra
Making Enemies Because It Was Funny
Collecting Records As The Next Step From Cards & Comics
Ebro’s Agressive Record Collecting Style
Asshole Parade
The Tour The Couldn’t Happen
Playing Fiesta Grande… Badly
Worshipping Despise You
“We Were These Spoiled Brats.”
When Eric Wood Says To Make A 20 Song LP You Make A 20 Song LP
A Neighbour Is Going To Kick In Your Window
Breaking Up Is Easy To Do
Not Getting Something Going In NY
Always Trying To Be Void
United Mutations
City Hunter
Devoid Of Faith
Das Oath’s Unknowing Alice Cooper Tribute
Drawing The Faith Logo
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
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Dec 04, 2018 |
Footnote 193 - John "Jughead" Pierson (Screeching Weasel) PLUS TOAP LIVE w/ Craig Setari (Sick Of It All), Fletcher Dragge (Pennywise)
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"You're Holding Onto Something We Can't Have, But Hands Still Circle You're Still Getting Old..." The week Chris & Damian breakdown the John Jughead Episode & the craziness that was TOAP LIVE w/ Craig & Fletcher.
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Dec 02, 2018 |
Episode 193 - John "Jughead" Pierson (Screeching Weasel) PLUS TOAP LIVE w/ Craig Setari (Sick Of It All), Fletcher Dragge (Pennywise)
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THIS ONE'S A MONSTER!!! First, founding member of one of Damian’s all time favourite bands, Screeching Weasel. JOHN "JUGHEAD" PIERSON is on the show!!! Listen in as the two discuss how a band that never really fit in anywhere would go on to become one of punk's most influential bands. ALSO, AS A BONUS - TOAP LIVE AT HOUSE OF VANS w/ FLETCHER DRAGGE from Pennywise & CRAIG SETARI from Sick Of It All. Check out some of THE WILDEST stories you have ever heard on the show WITH a cameo from JOHN JOSEPH!!! WHAT AN EPISODE!?!?!?!?!?
Also Touched On:
Hearing Should I Stay Or Should I Go On The Radio While Crafting
Going To See Repo Man & The Shit Hitting The Fan
Angry Samones
AOD
Meeting Ben Weasel
The Ramones
The Decendents
Finding Melody
The Ozzfish Spilt That Never Happened
Signing To What Goes On Records
Touring With Spongetunnel
Getting Out Of Chicago Early
Naked Raygun
Driving To Berkeley For A Gig
Meeting Jesse Michaels & Crimpshrine
Sloppy Seconds & “I Want To Be A Homosexual”
When “My Brain Hurts” Comes Out & Everything Changed
The Mr. T Experience
The AMAZING Roadkill Records
Recording Punk House
Brian Vermin’s Importance To The Band
“We Got’Em”: Convincing Lookout To Sign You
Watching Green Day EXPLODE
Being Involved In Theatre
Leaving Screeching Weasel
& GOD, SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Nov 27, 2018 |
Footnote 192 - Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth, Ecstatic Peace Library, Thurston Moore Band, Even Worse etc.)
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THAT’S MY NERD FREE PRIDE! This week on the show Chris & Damian TALK, TALK & TALK about what they both agree was one of the best episodes yet, THURSTON MOORE!
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Nov 24, 2018 |
Episode 192 - Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth, Ecstatic Peace Library, Thurston Moore Band, Even Worse etc.)
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This one is well worth the wait, cause this week Damian finally gets THURSTON MOORE on the show & it's a MONSTER!!! Kickback & listen in as the two talk about Thurston being at the ground zero of punk when his journey began. You may have heard other Thurston Moore interviews over the years, but NOTHING like this. All in celebration of the launch of Thurston’s Ecstatic Peace Library imprint with Omnibus Press. GET READY!!!!!
Also Touched On:
It's All For You Thurston
Always Being A Punk
Louie Louie
Rock Mags
Seeing Iggy Standing On Hands & Heads
Trying To Turn Your 10-Year-Old Friend's Onto The Stooges
Raunchy Rock
The Fast Rule!
“Patti Smith Is Playing, Let’s Go!”
Talking Heads
The Ramones With Johnny On Vocals & Joey On Drums
“You’re Too Good To Hang Out With Us At The Friendly’s Now?!”
Cutlers In New Haven To Buy X-Offender
Buying Slaughter & The Dogs
The Damned
The Buzzcocks “Spiral Scratch”
Seeing The Fast, The Planets & Suicide At Max’s
Joey Was The Guy: Everything Cool About Punk Always
CBGB’s Is Nirvana
Richard Hell Licking His Stamp To Transfer It To Your Hand
Blondie & The Mumps
CB’s Burgers
The Living Doll Bass Player
Milk & Cookies
When The Dead Boys Came To Town…
The Stimulators
The Blessed & The Younger Scene
Student Teachers
Connecting With Lee & Kim Through Art
Going To Rat Cage
The Early DC 7”s
Darby’s Death
Going To LA To See Kim’s Parents
Never Seeing The Misfits
NY’s Early More Rock Influenced Hardcore
DC Comes In Like Buzzsaws
Heart Attack
Wanting To Be More Of A Hardcore Band
Jesse Malin: “I Heard You Saw The Dead Boys?”
Meeting The Singer Of Kaaos
& Much, Much More!!!!
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Nov 19, 2018 |
Footnote 191 - Jesse Brown & Chris Dodge
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And Nerds looking for a Future, worlds their aim. This week on the show, Chris & Damian tackle not one, but two episodes talkin' Canadaland’s Jesse Brown & Power-Violence’s Chris Dodge!
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Nov 18, 2018 |
Episode 191 - Chris Dodge (Slap-A-Ham Records, SPAZZ, No Use For A Name, INFEST, Despise You etc.)
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If Turned Out A Punk were a galaxy, then this week's guest may very well be the sun: CHRIS DODGE! Not only as a member of "the Beastie Boys of the Underground" (Damian’s clunky analogy), Spazz, but also as the founder of the hugely important Slap-A-Ham Records! Chris has had a massive, indelible influence on hardcore & punk. Though Chis Dodge’s legendary run in underground music, we can connect: No Use For A Name, Melvins, Spazz, Infest, Faction, Kool Keith, The Gilman Scene, Fu Manchu, Sunn, etc. Sit back & relax as Chris & Damian connect the dots. ONE FOR THE AGES!!!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Chris Dodge Is The Sun At The Centre Of The Turned Out A Punk Universe
Fat Day As Repressed Memory
Loving Hard Rock At The Age Of 22
Steve Papusos’ Older Sister Marries A Punk & Gets the records
“No Way, No Band Is Better Than KISS!”
The Cramps’ “Songs the Lord Has Taught Us” As First Exposure
The Dickies Are The Fastest Band Ever!
Listening To The Weirdos Over & Over Again
Finding College Radio
Hearing About Maximum Rocknroll and getting a postcard from Tim
Dead Kennedys
Missing Hardcore By 84
Forming Legion Of Doom
Transitioning From The South Bay Scene To The Gilman Scene
Youth Of Today, MDC, The Lookouts At The Gilman
Scared Straight With A Performance Artist Opening
The Gilman Scene Provided The Full Spectrum Of Punk Styles
The Feederz Bum Everyone Out
AOD Have To Go On After The Feederz Cover The Stage In Dead Animals
Rabid Lassie
Moshing To Performance Art
Off The Disc Is Godly
Slap-A-Ham Is Godly
Getting Into Metal
Putting Out Records That No One Else Would
Neanderthal Was Supposed To Be A Picture Disc
Putting Out Burning Witch
9/11 Ended Slap-A-Ham
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
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Nov 10, 2018 |
Episode 190 - Jesse Brown (Journalist, Canadaland)
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When your fearless host, Damian was young his counter cultural imagination was ignited by a small, short-lived, rebel, Toronto punk student newspaper called, Punch. Imagine Damian’s amazement when he found out the editor of said magazine was none other than, the venerable media powerhouse, Canadaland's founder, JESSE BROWN!!! Sit back as Damian hears all about the journey that brought Jesse from being a teenage journalist wunderkind, burnt out by success to fulfilling the promise of Punch all these years later.
Also Touched On:
Damian’s Inspiration
Liking Old Music
Robert Johnston
Sonic Youth
Bad Brains
Making Your First Real Friends
Pearl Jam
“Where Can I Get A Mudhoney Shirt?”
Fishbone
Living Color Is Part Of It
Getting Into Hate & Eightball
Rollin’s As Inspiration By Being... Not Good
Getting Into Re//Search & Pranks
Reading About Howard Stern, but Not Being Able To Hear It
Creating A Column To Take The Piss Out Of The Whole High School
Starting The Legendary Punch (CA)
Not Wanting To Just: “Make Noise In The Basement.”
Winning The Toronto Star Young Journalism Award
The Fine Art Of Being A Disrupter… Or Just A Shit Disturber
Getting Celebrated In The Real Media
Burning Out On News
Running Away To Montreal To Become an Artist
Working At VICE...
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Nov 01, 2018 |
Footnote 189 - Mike Haliechuk & Jerry A Part #2
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Listen Nerds! Never Again! This week on the show, Chris & Damian have two huge episodes to discuss, but that doesn’t stop them from having a 20 minutes conversation about veggie burgers at now defunct fast food chains.
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Oct 28, 2018 |
Episode 189 - Jerry A Part #2
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The greatest hardcore record of all time, Poison Idea’s Feel The Darkness, is getting reissued!!! To celebrate, the King of Punk himself, JERRY A returns to the show! In keeping with the tradition of Aliens & The GodFather Part II, this sequel may be better than the original?!?!? So listen in as Damian gets to sit down with one of his heroes AGAIN & punish him about everything he forgot to ask the first time!
Also Touched On:
Part #2 Hard To Make Happen
Ramones As Universal Language
Music: If It’s Good, It’s Great
MRR Reviews Everything
Inept Music Is PERFECT
Jerry Loves Finnish Tom Loves Dutch
Buying GISM & Not Getting It
United Mutation
The Beef With DC
“It’s Time To Turn Up The Heat On Ian Again.”
Tom Hates Henry
What Is A "Superbeer"?
A 1/5 Of Jim Bean & Touring With The Hard-Ons
Drinking Where Belushi Did
Making “Feel The Darkness”
Writing Taken By Surprise For The Sub Pop Single
Making Sub Pop Pay Up
Pig’s Last Stand As Payback
Alice In Chains Find Grunge
Wanting To Go Out On A Good Note
Metal Bands
Getting Goth & Performance Art As Openers
Punk Love Cow Brains
I’m In A Hard Rock Band
How Pantera Heard About Poison Idea…
Having A Song On The Crow Soundtrack
Being On Punk-O-Rama
Never Getting A Statement From Epitaph
The Unreleased Poison Idea
Loving YDI
Poison Idea Was Its Own World
Record Collecting
Touring Australia With The Hard-Ons
Iggy Pop
Sonic Youth
Beasts Of Bourbon
Helmet
Mudhoney
Mick Harvey Almost Becomes Shark Bait
& Much, Much MORE!!!
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Oct 22, 2018 |
Episode 188 - Mike Haliechuk (Fucked Up, Ruination, Smartboys, Walls Around Us, Where It Ends)
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This week on the show, in celebration of the NEW FUCKED UP LP "DOSE YOUR DREAMS”, Damian is joined by one of the most requested guests ever on the show, MIKE HALIECHUK!!! Yes, it finally happened! AAAAAANNNNNDDDD Jonah Falco makes a cameo too!!!!! This is one they'll be talking about around the water cooler tomorrow!
Also Touched On:
Mike Finally Makes An Appearances
Buying A Melvins, Sex Pistols & Maybe An L7 Tape
TV Over Radio
A Tie Dye Sex Pistols Shirts
Green Day Or The Offspring: You Must Choose
Mike & Damian Meet For The First Time At The Circle Jerks Opera House Show
“Stay Out Of Riverdale” / “East End Kids Are Poseurs”
Freaking Out About Meeting Chris Colohan
Jay Hammer’s Shows
Hardcore Is About Freedom: Ordering Pizza’s To Shows
The Last Hockey Teeth Show… & Missing Hockey Teeth
Random Killing
The HMV Vinyl Section
The Confine Release Show
Daragh Hayes Is The NICEST!
The Peter Pan Scene Of Toronto
The AFI Riot
Ignite Cancels On Toronto A Million Times
How Where It Ends Formed…
Booking The Jewish Community Centre
Fastbreak Save The Day & 5 Knuckle Chuckle
Mike Forms Ruination & Damian Gets Jealous
Europe Breaks Mike
How Fucked Up Forms
Recording 7”s
Making Hidden World
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
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Oct 17, 2018 |
Footnote 187 - Matt Murphy, TOAP 80's Toronto Hardcore Special, Aimee Interrupter & Kevin Bivona
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Your Mindless Propaganda Be It Right Or Be It Wrong It's Just A Cheap Attempt To Prey On My Nerd Fears!!! This Week, Damian & Chris sit down & breakdown the last 3 episodes. It's what these guys do.
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Oct 11, 2018 |
Episode 187 - Aimee Interrupter & Kevin Bivona (The Interrupters, Transplants)
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This week on the show, not one, but TWO amazing guests - THE INTERRUPTERS' Aimee & Kevin!!! Two people who couldn't have had more different paths that led them to the same band. THIS IS A GOOD ONE!!! Kickback & listen how Aimee had to go through the wringer from getting yelled at as a kid in smoke filled bars to then being thrown quickly into the majors before meeting Kevin, who was raised in punk. Together, they both realized their childhood dream's by forming THE INTERRUPTERS! IT PLAYS LIKE A MOVIE!!!
Also Touched On:
Kevin Getting Into The Late 90’s Ska Boom
Alvin & Punkamunk
Less Than Jake & The Aquabats
Amy Gets A Bleach
Hearing …And Out Come The Wolves & Feeling Less Alone.
Bad Religion & NoFX
AFI, Pennywise & The Warped Tour Era
Joan Jett Punk From Before The Germs, To Bikini Kill, To Present Day
Boys II Men
Kevin Hears “Here Comes The Hot Stepper” As The First Exposure
Snow - “Informer”
Amy Finds Music Through Mom
Kevin’s Grandfathers’ Music
Frank Sinatra’s “One for My Baby One For The Road”
Kevin For The Void
The Cheap Punk CD Comp
Green Day
Save Farris & The Specials Go To Montana
Government Cheese Opens For Strung Out
Kill Radio
Aimee Gets Into Jam Bands
Kevin & His Brother Form The Telecasters
Meeting On A Sugar Ray Tour
Getting The Dream Gig In Transplants
Meeting Tim Armstrong
Touring With The Dropkick Murphy’s
Touring With 7 Seconds
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
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Oct 08, 2018 |
TOAP 80's Toronto Hardcore Special (Fran Grasso, Derek Emerson, Shawn Chirrey, Simon Harvey)
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This week on the show we bring you a very special episode in celebration of the release of the incredible 80’s TOHC chronicle, Tomorrow Is Too Late! Damian is joined by the nucleus of the book's creation: Derek, Fran, Shawn & the often referenced on Turned Out A Punk: Simon Harvey! Sit back & enjoy a deep delving conversation about the under documented, but all the same amazing - 80’s Toronto Hardcore Punk scene. GET THIS BOOK!!!
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Oct 02, 2018 |
Episode 186 - Matt Murphy (Super Friendz, Black Pool, TUNS etc.) + LTRANTAS + TOAP LIVE WITH DINOSAUR JR!!!!
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BOY, THIS IS ONE JAMMED PACKED EPISODE! First off, it’s an interview Damian has been trying to make happen for years, MATT MURPHY of the godly Super Friendz & TUNS is on the show! Hear about Matt growing up in Halifax & watching it quickly become the Canadian “next Seattle”. THEN, enjoy the debut of LISTEN TO RECORDS AND NEVER THINK ABOUT STOPPING (LTRANTAS), a brand new podcast featuring Damian & The Kids! They listen to & discus Damian's record collection. FINALLY, check out the birthday spectacular that was TOAP LIVE WITH DINOSAUR JR!!!
WHAT A WEEK?!?!?!?!?
Also Touched On:
Long Time Friends
Working Together At VICE… Kinda
Dressing Up As “PUNKS” To Go To The Mall
The Let Down Of “The Great Rock & Roll Swindle”
Hanging With Jay From Sloan At Old Dan’s Record Store
“There Would Be No Scene Without Greg Clark”
Nobody’s Heroes: Halifax’s Top Punk
October Game: Sarah McLaughlin New Wave band
Trashcanz Inspiration For The “Z” In Super Friendz
Aggro: Hard New Wave
Matt Form’s The Ink Stains… With A Kazoo Player
Bo Diddley Plays Halifax
Sneaking Into Zappa
Not Liking Neil Young’s “Live Rust”
Black Pool: Pre-Sloan & Super Friendz
Dinosaur Jr.
Bubblegum Pop
Killed By Death
Fugazi
Deep Wound
Minor Threat
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
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Sep 27, 2018 |
Footnote 185 - Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Foss, Antemasque, Anywhere, De Facto etc.)
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Support can be a selfish thing. For nerds, I think it’s this way. Today on the show Chris & Damian sit down to talk about the incomparable Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Also, the importance of drummers.
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Sep 24, 2018 |
Episode 185 - Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Foss, Antemasque, Anywhere, De Facto etc.)
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On anyone's list of all-time greatest front people in music, they would have to include this week's guest. CEDRIC BIXLER-ZAVALA HAS FINALLY COME ON THE SHOW!!! Join Damian as he gets to sit down with one of his favourite's to ever wield the microphone & talk about going from a gang affiliated drummer, to trashing the Jools Holland show!
Also Touched On:
One Of The Best To Ever Do It
The Power Of Night Flight
Watching Another State of Mind With Your Family
The Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist Is The Key Record
Uglord One Of The Wildest Bands Ever
Ed Ivy From The Rhythm Pigs Starts Throwing Shows
Omar & Sonny Meet Lux & Ivy
Seeing Punk On TV & Putting Punk On TV
The Misfits: A Lot To Love & Love Again
The Jools Holland Show & What Went Wrong
Reenactment Scene In Punk
Distorted Silence: The First Band
Joining Phantasma Gloria: The Bad Kid Band
The Respect & The Hate That Comes From Being Feared
Playing With Christ On A Crutch
When Your Two Favourite Local Bands Have Beef
Being A Cheerleader
A One-Man-Pit In Your Parents House
Bad Mothergoose & Sprawl & The Texas Funk Scene
Everyone Wanted To Be Red Hot Chilli Peppers & Jane’s Addiction
Joining the Three Blind Bats, The House Band For The North East Death Squad Gang
The Spermbirds’ Influence On El Paso
Scratch Acid, Butthole Surfers, Big Boys: Texas Punk
Cherbs, Ed Hall & Trance Syndicate Records
When Your New Band Beats Up Your Old Band
The Acid Years
The Dregtones: Trying To Do Something Really Uncool
Meeting Foss & Beto
Pretending To Be Rain Sanction
Booking No Empathy
The Grunge Hangover
Touring With FEIST
Trench Mouth Looks Like A CULT!
“No One Was Interested At All.”
Dreaming Of Ebullition Records
Getting On Flipside
Face To Face Was Pissed!
Dodging Full Cans Of Coke Whipped At Your Head
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Sep 19, 2018 |
Footnote 184 - Shawna Potter (War On Women, Avec, Fair Verona)
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Nerds’ my thing, I keep on a hook. This week on the show Chris & Damian talk about the greatness of the Shawna Potter episode! Also, they gear up for the TOAP TORONTO LIVE SHOW WITH DINO JR!
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Sep 18, 2018 |
Episode 184 - Shawna Potter (War On Women, Avec, Fair Verona)
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Get ready everyone! This week on the show, one of the best doing it today, War On Women’s, Shawna Potter! Join Damian as he gets to sit done & chat with another one of his favourite front-people! Shawna discusses going from being signed to a crooked indie label at age 16 to touring with Black Flag!
Also Touched On:
Was It The Sex Pistols Or Bikini Kill As First Exposure?
Sonic Youth Is PUNK
The Two People In North America That Never Got Into Fugazi
The Washington DC/ Washington State Connection
Growing Up With MTV
The Judds Rocked
NOT ALL WOMEN PLAYING PUNK ARE IN RIOT GRRL BANDS (Those Bands Rule Too Though)
Forming Avec
Helium Is AMAZING!!!!
Playing In Fair Verona For 6 Years Is A Lifetime When You're In High School
Getting Put Through The Record Industry Wringer As A Teenager
Moving To Baltimore
Playing To Black Flag Fans
Touring, But No One Caring
Jim Ward Is The NICEST Person In Music
Brooks, Beto & The Fate Of The Free World
RIP John Stabb
Wizard Of Oz Connection
Theatre Kids Make The Best Vocalists
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
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Sep 12, 2018 |
Footnote 183 - Phil Matarese & Mike Luciano (HBO's ANIMALS)
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NERDS! Here's another episode of Footnotes featuring Chris & Damian talkin' non-stop music & TV...& the Animals Episode
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Sep 10, 2018 |
Episode 183 - Phil Matarese & Mike Luciano (HBO's ANIMALS)
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