Will an economic downturn lead to the rise of LOCAL HARDCORE? Are some bands that aren't hardcore at all given a pass because 'hardcore dudes?' What's an appropriate amount of money to spend at Sheetz? Will the course of the election be determined by Tom and Patrick arguing about it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topics are delivered fast and addressed expeditiously. Are we hard enough? Are we looking backwards too much or just the right amount? Is it time to pile in the Griswold Family Tuckster and get to FYA? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some on-the-ground reporting from festivals, discourse on the state of hating, and the art of stopping friendships before they begin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We finalize(?) this definitive 90s hardcore list that got some of you so worked up. And, yes, we read your email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to muscle up and get the job done: a definitive guide to 90s HC. No favorites. No personal picks. Just the facts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our very own Jigsaw puts us through a battery of hellish challenges. What bands will end up trapdoored into the alligator pit? Will we have the strength to be honest about some band's weakest material? And what's the proper etiquette of an Ebay bidding war? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HC has been riding high for a few years. Is this good? If it is, is there anything we can do to keep it rolling? Good for business/ Bad for business. Also, when did the Metallica love end and the Pantera love rise to the fore? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What are some songs that stir specific emotions in you? Ok, now hardcore songs. How much variety is there in those feelings? Are we a one-note culture or fully realized people with a spectrum of emotions? Also, 70s arena rock and (mercy) killing grandma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore self-regulating and occasionally self-immolating. The FYA venue change. The effort to understand each other. Firsts and most recent. Why would ChatGPT lie about a Blood For Blood show? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mainstay Brooklyn venue St. Vitus has closed its doors for good. From our archives, out of reverence and in memoriam, we offer this recording of A2G Live from St. Vitus. Thanks for the good times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FYA; regional kings and queens; genres vs lifestyles; isn't it all woofwoofwoof music; Palm Springs music; getting beat in Erewhon; best/worst reasons to do reunions; more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A long time is spent on 00s shock-rockers. And some attention is given to the correct way to handle grievances with total strangers. And some time is devoted to Dave Navarro's vest and why the Live reunion didn't happen. But mostly we talk hardcore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin from PUBLIC OPINION joins us to discuss the limits of DIY. Also, how big does a band have to be to be of help to another? Have we made touring too hard? Is there still juice in the fruit of 'hardcore adjacent?' And the power of small-city hardcore scenes for the touring bands of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore is pretty ripping in 2024, and we have the receipts to prove it. Talking about our time at Sound & Fury, the Have Heart shows, and more. Also, behind-the-scenes on who should headline what. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before next week's Sound & Fury on-the-ground reporting, we bring you a cautionary episode about being the local workhorse band, saying dumb things, being TOO present in listeners' minds, and taking the Gaga money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Would you like to play a game? Bob plays the role of Jigsaw from the Saw movies and subjects Tom and Patrick to a mental blood sport. Will they make it out of this house of horrors? Tons of music, new and old, is recommended for your ears. Also, MTV VJs in retirement, and the appeal of listening to two grown men bicker. Do a kindness for a guy who has given a lot to hardcore music. Sean McCann could use your support right now. https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sean-mccanns-battle-with-als Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom on a solo mission while Pat and Bob are on assignment in Europe. Tom is joined by Bob Wilson (FYA, Philly SXE, a lot of bands) and Greg Falchetto (Manalapan SXE, lots of bands, NJHC shows) to discuss all things booking. Played some "Keep One, Lose One", how to start out booking shows and, most crucially, the importance of bringing cash to shows. This was a lot of fun, thank you to Bob and Greg for taking part. For more information, follow: Bob - @fyafest, @rebirthrecords_ Greg - @newjerseyhardcore, @takedownrecs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who is gonna pop this summer? Can European metal push a man into the arms of Youth Crew? Are hardcore bands getting paid less than they should be relative to their non-hc contemporaries? Seattle or San Diego? Boston or DC? Los Angeles or the Bay? And a premiere from Gothenburg's SIDESTEP! That's in Sweden, you ignoramuses! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should hardcore bands have a 'team' and, if so, should they ever use the word 'team' for any reason, ever? Also, bands taking stances, and all that comes with it. And what do musicians do AFTER? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does a band OWE you? A good performance? Songs you recognize? Fun? And what happens if they don't deliver? Also, is it time you bought a bearded lizard? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob returns from New Detroit to spin yarns about the mythic Tied Down Fest, while Tom reports from the center of a Knocked Loose pit, and Patrick broadcasts from a chicken coop. Topics include big touring slowing down; getting out while the gettin is good; hating J. Mascis; how we report on ourselves; women's basketball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Settling beefs through Esports; wandering into other people's problems; and are you being gatekept from the good shows and tours... hard to know. PLUS a PREMIERE from Chicago's own PORCUPINE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Questions that will rock you to your CORE. Also, being loud online: the pros and cons. And is the 80s perverted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will main character mosh ever stop? Are skins sketchy in 2024? Does this era have its iconic intro yet? Listener questions come at us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore better when it's smaller? Are we do for a contraction? Do you only say that because you want people to fail and not have things? That's not nice. Also, Sound & Fury Fest: how many bands are pandemic babies? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Static-X or Fury? Powerman 5000 or Incendiary? Patrick goes undercover at Sick New World to report how hardcore represented itself. And is Sunglass Hut the new video store? All this and a premiere from Little Rock's finest TERMINAL NATION. Let's go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eddie Sutton's passing, Leeway's influence then and now, sorting everything out before it's time to go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bands born at the wrong time; bands who break up too early; bands that break up too late; pariah bands no one wants to take on tour. Bands on bands on bands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What are some genres that just should not cross paths? Nu Youth? Also, how to kill a whole castle with insects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom and Patrick ride this one as a duo and do their best to stay on topic. Being completely washed; being too far down a hardcore hole to acknowledge other types of music; getting married; being wrong about everything; the hedonic treadmill of marginal music success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is there only one right way to do things? Is it every acceptable to walk out during a Hatebreed set? Is looking at your phone a death sentence similar to the movie The Ring? Are backpacks lit? Gout? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Having definite opinions about settled hc science, the bands you're expected to know in 2024, and a red hot premiere from CT powerviolence KIDNAPPED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore 'white-coded' as an internet weirdo claims? Professionalism in hardcore. Inheriting a rave complex. Not doing things you don't wanna do as a standing policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Free style through the news of the day. How much Madball is Not Enough Madball? Can cover songs save your soul? Small town shows can. The In My Eyes demo. The Modern Hardcore origin point. Hard topics that are obvious and difficult at the same time.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What rooms are too big? Are barriers ever ok? Do you qualify for financial compensation from the 2024 Escuela Grind controversy? The space between metalcore and dusty old man metalcore. All that and a debut from NYC's finest current post-hardcore act, HUSBANDRY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tyler from Inclination LDB joins the guys to talk on the importance of Mindforce, the neighborhoods of Lousiville, the power of Midwest connections, and the dangers of smartphones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quick jaunt around former conflict zones; mental breakdowns; ignorance; why are some bands put to death early; bummer news about glass; more! Happy Hardcore Tuesday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric saves the day by remotely jumping in the pit with the guys. It’s all on the table including Jacksonville v. Florida. Does post hardcore need a revival? 20 year old records. Format preferences. All that and a premiere from DOMAIN! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listener questions! The 25 Ta Life renaissance; Code Orange; is oi the next adjacent; krshna consciousness; why are you still buying records; TUI tour when; Taco Bell Hardcore; more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kids are throwing swine craniums, Triple-B is at war with the internet, tour budgets need balancing, part-time bands are doing their thing, and Alien Ant Farm is top of mind in 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We steal a Twitter user's list of the week's hardcore and metal news/gossip/BS. Including lights, ladder mosh, battle jackets, nepotism, f-word (the other one) debate, and unhinged glam metalcore beefs. Tom and Patrick are hearing each other on a delay, so they are extra at each other's throats. It's a party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the subject of the recent past and immediate future. What defined HC in 2023? What were some prevailing trends? And what does 2024 hold? Is the Summer of Love over? Is it time for the Winter of Hard Mosh? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Going breezy on 2023 lists and misses. How hard is selling through 6 vinyl pressings? How many Delilah's do you have on your next record? In: Touring. Out: New Taco Bell Pricing. Missed a justification to talk about 311. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our Best Of 2023, in no particular order with definite oversights we'll be kicking ourselves for later. Thanks for listening to us this year, fam. Let's go into 2024 strong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For your gift this year, here's a full plate of normally paywalled content. Don't gorge yourself. Take it slow and enjoy the meal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We go to shows both old and young, discuss rare rodents, and extol the virtues of touring. Additionally, we get skin fades and use utility knives. Also, what's a UTE, mate? TICKET GIVEAWAY EMAIL: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Getting money or not. Exploiting or being exploited. Bringing the hardcore reality to Wimbley Stadium or playing the Cohoes VFW. Mike Thorn of Razorblades And Aspirin joins us to have some dorm room talk about what is or isn't hardcore (for us). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HC's evolutionary branches. Should defunct bands continue to sell merch? Big labels coming for the hardcore. Making your booking agent despondent. How does "I suppose" come across in an email? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some albums have unfairly slipped from the culture's consciousness. They could probably benefit from the reissue treatment. But what makes for a good reissue and how much demand does there need to be? Also, war on Ebay. Also, Slipknot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yesterday we failed to include the SENTINEL debut. That has been rectified and the responsible parties have been terminated with cause. And blackballed from further employment in the field. For those of you who got the version without Sentinel, you now have Sentinel. And it rips. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are innovations valuable or corrosive to the fabric of hardcore? What would HC ‘81 think of HC ‘23? Metalcore today versus a few years ago. The merit of Earth A.D. and the concept of a new Fugazi LP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Assembling a tour package is like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle on top of a Jenga tower. We pull out the blocks and watch it tumble on this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We put our minds to defining every half-decade of hardcore by choosing emblematic albums. We struggle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

World travelers over here. US bands touring overseas and international bands touring the US. The joys, the headaches, and the potential. Also, what happens if someone's head breaks at a show? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For our 300th episode, we accidentally talk about whatever BS is going around HC internet. Furry mosh, guns, Grammys, and taking your merch person's money. It won't age well! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you more excited for what's new, or what you already know you like? Is it time for some acts to just get outta the damn way? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The punk police have called in the helicopters. Get to a tunnel until the heat passes. Also, AI hardcore shows, LiveNation, offensive booking agent slime, ultra-casuals, and playing covers with a bad voice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our clueless but well-intentioned friend Wilson from Westchester joins us to discuss the difference between punk and hardcore (assuming there is one), the proper syntax of the phrase 'straight edge', who the biggest bands in this moment, hc bands on TikTok, and the pros and cons of an edgy band name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are there people who love hardcore who should just avoid each other? Crowds that should not be in the same room? Or can we walk together and rock together? Also, how many 'whoops, forgot to make hardcore' LPs do you put up with from a band? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can the younger bands help legacy acts to gain new fans? Should they? Can the legacy acts play below younger acts without feeling some type of way? How can we best help each other out here? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who gets to commodify hardcore? You? Me? Raytheon Technologies? Wayne Corporation? Dave Ackerman joins us to discuss. Rest in peace to hardcore attorney and all-around mensch Dave Stein, laidback fella Jimmy Buffet, and Shrek enthusiast Steve Harwell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our quest for certainty continues, with questions from listeners and clarifications made! Has politics completely left hardcore? Is Gel getting the proper amount of love? Is a traveling fest viable or is that the talk of a lunatic? How much credit does Title Fight deserve? Is violence fun and interesting? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bathing in listener questions. Gel or Spy? What's your 2023 dream tour? Was 2001 lit? How much pop-punk can you handle in your hardcore? Is hardcore best consumed in small bites? Did H2O have a moment? And on and on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does hardcore have industry plants? Maybe. Does it have jealous haters? Definitely. Let's have fun with it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some updates from the streets of Saigon where they're booping everyone, a discussion about what bands, venues, and experiences we may be taking for granted, and a forensic investigation of Travis Barker at Sound & Fury. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore shirt wars, Indecision Records Fest recap, Sound & Fury FOMO, the resurrection of Twitching Tongues, the Magnitude-Mouthpiece connection, losing your toes, and Pregnant Sonic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Sound & Fury this week, we play word association with the lineup. What happens when you clear your mind and just let the strange collection of words roll over the grey matter inside your skull? Also, is there too many festivals? And have you talked to your doctor about Provasic? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A bonus episode for the heads! A talk with the people behind essential Brooklyn venue SAINT VITUS on what makes a great space, a great moment, and a great legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

80s Mosh Madness breaks from brackets for a minute to address the 800lb gorillas. This is all the undeniable monster albums. Classics from 7 Seconds, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Gorilla Biscuits, Negative Approach, and Bad Brains. The hardcore staples. All that and a song debut from California's STATESIDE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How varied were your tastes as a young core aficionado? How varied are they now? Then we play the Bobko game, where we try to find the sonic parents of specific bands. AND we've got a song debut from Triple-B's own MISSING LINK! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some new HC talk. What's poppin and what may pop soon. Also should Fall Out Boy go to prison forever? And big premiere of a new rippin hardcore track from Portland's own ALIENATOR! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are we really all just playing alternative metal? What deals are forbidden? What deals would you say no to? Is Josh Trustkill having an episode of some type? Do we owe Biohazard an apology for all the hardcore that's lifted from them the past twenty-five years? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Breaking through the hardcore ceiling without looking like a fool. And is there any excuse to drop a stage-diver? Throwing your camera in the ocean. All this and a song premiere from NY's own PAIN OF TRUTH! And while we're in a NY state of mind, how about a new track from MAAFA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where will you be when the vibe changes? Did you lose touch when the stuff you don't like was poppin? And are we track-deficient or are we missing hidden heat? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is there still a space for genre elitists in hardcore 2023? Regardless if there is or there isn't, they're here! Also, is the Drain hype real? And did we all get taken to church when TUI played Tied Down Fest? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The boys are one short but do their best to hit a grip of questions from the audience. What does Black Flag mean to the under 30 age group? Never Ending Game. Initiating bad behavior from the stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore bands are getting rare opportunities, but are they all they're cracked up to be? Investigate the topic and enjoy the digressions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes you and the homies go different ways on a bands and genres. Can the house stand or will it escalate to a college football style chasm? Also a premiere from Tennessee's own GUMM! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reunion record talk concludes, but somehow we detour into the Presidents of the United States of America extended universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reunion records as an idea and what makes a good one, a noteworthy one, and a depressing one. This episode is about highlighting the good. Welcome back, whoever. Good to see you. Also, remember Ashlee Simpson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We took a time-machine to the vaunted early 00s, when hardcore was poppin... but chasms between genres were widening. We jump on one side of that fence for a podcast to pick apart Saturday of HELLFEST 2002. A time capsule event, for good and bad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore 2023 rips, but is there something missing? Underrepresented genres? Vibes that can't be found? Dive into the weird, sailor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A solemn goodbye to Rich Jacovina of Silent Majority and then some talk about the bands that are defining the moment. There's a lotta great bands, but which are emblematic of WHAT'S POPPIN? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do some bands do so well in streaming while others are better at filling rooms and some excel at selling vinyl? The Mystery Mobile pulled up and tried to sort it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jay from Mindforce joins us to discuss how easily things can be taken in the wrong spirit. Also, when will youth crew be YOUTH crew again? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Auction-style draft to create the perfect festival! You've got some imaginary money, now build the perfect experience! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The title says it all. New bands, tours, and label announcements. Also, gossip (as a concept). And a cameo from Dookie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The fine (dying) art of the cover song. When's the last time you heard a great one? Also a track from the upcoming CONFUSION discography! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part two of the Wikipedia-led discussion on post-hardcore. You know how college won't let you cite Wikipedia? There's good reason for that. But we still manage to talk some good post-hardcore talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunt for gold in the arbitrary and sometimes nonsensical subgenres of wikipedia's hardcore knowledge. Do you Nintendocore? Madball and Agnostic Front. Whats the line between PV and Grind? Where in the world is Patrick San Diego? Plus, a hot premiere from Denver's PUBLIC OPINION! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Putting together a post-hardcore playlist using the epicenter of ignorance: Wikipedia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Turnstile on the red carpet, Helmet in the dunking booth, and Wilson From Westchester is back to ask us Certified New Guy Questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Was Biohazard the first uncanny valley HC band? TUI still great. Shows shows shows! Can a band go from the wild boys to the mild boys and still rule? How band legacies are revised and refurbished. AND SOME SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore internet was alight with rumors of COMMERCIAL VIABILITY! So we went in. Then we made time for a name game. Do you know your hardcore musicians, or is it all "that guy with the funny hairline?" we took the test. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the hot-button hc topics, like "are shows better with the lights on?" and "should you sit in the center of the stage?" Also, FYA recap, Tied Down preview, and a brand new track from Philly's own DRILL SERGEANT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens next? [not the band, but the sincere question] Listeners hit us with their predictions for the near future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Year-end lists of things we listened to. Really just an excuse to talk hardcore. Also, Janet Jackson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friend of the podcast Eric joins us for: Bands with bits; defending your hater side; this or that; Bob Seger; No Warning; maintaining good posture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First, some opinions about a guy who, as it turns out, has health concerns. Sorry, Al. Later, we inadvertently low-rate a guy who happened to die 10hrs later. Sorry, Terry Hall. And in-between that, we talk about the difference between a great band and a great HC band. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the Children 2022; venue choice; alt-revival; guitar music in the toilet; getting ushered outta venues like you're some kind of vagrant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Summers could use your help for for his medical bills: https://www.gofundme.com/f/matt-summers?utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined&fbclid=PAAaYlaGLRdOkW93uxDWdS3dDbxvg3j4ndzyFxoRslDdP2LGAeYx5dXJF4Vt8 Blake Fowler's loved ones could use your help with his funeral expenses: https://www.gofundme.com/f/blake-fowler?utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer This week's episode: LDB lineup and the art of putting together a lineup that feels natural. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seeing something you never thought you would, where's the Holy Terror today, DIY scenes ruined by pettiness, making interpersonal problems career problems, and linking disparate bands in less than five steps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined for a casual convo with Dwid Hellion of Integrity, Psywarfare, and much more. We discuss friction in art, genre, and interpersonal relationships. A great talk with a fascinating dude. And to kick off the episode, a blazing hot premiere from the fast and heavy COMPASSION. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can scenes survive with only corporate-owned professional venues? Prolly not. Can corporate-owned professional venues ever truly stop enterprising basement brains? Definitely not. Back this one for Patrick: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackmask/dont-avert-your-eyes-a-theres-nothing-there-comic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Redesigning merch by force, defining records, when you're hot you're hot, Spotify pocket watching, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BIG BOYS v JERRY'S KIDS! CORROSION OF CONFORMITY v MURPHY'S LAW! It's 80s Mosh Madness lunacy as the bracket offers something for everyone! Fast! Not fast! Fun! Serious! Familiar! Odd! It's all here, folks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

True or false: "What one man can do, another can do!" Congrats if you get that reference. How big can hardcore get and how big do you want it to get? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore in the good place right now? Has it been better in recent memory? Bands who’ve gone from good to great. Tom and Bob dive into the growing pool of excellent current hc bands while Patrick does his hair in the bathroom of a Super 8. Allegedly.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our live studio audience taping of A2G from Brain Dead Studios, as part of Sound & Fury 2022. Thanks to all who came and all involved. We let the Patreon get a crack at this months ago, but it was time to share it on main. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catching up after a week of shows played and attended. Voice of the streets over here. Also, is HC TikTok an inhumane horror? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore party games and the choice is yours. Pick your poison and get loose. Also, possibly cuddle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another monster MOSH MADNESS 80s EDITION! AGGRESSION v BLACK FLAG! CIRCLE JERKS v DIE KREUZEN! All this and where's the hottest lyrical sauce coming from in 2022? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part two of what you might need on a desert island in terms of punk and hardcore. You only get what fits in this boat, and the boat is small. A lotta hard choices. Now make those choices! Also a hot premiere from Jacksonville's finest: SUNTOUCH HOUSE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Desert island. If you could only bring one album per letter of the alphabet, how hard would the choices be? Not the time to pose, fella. These decisions are serious. Plus, a red hot premiere from EXCIDE! RIP Kevone. RIP John Rivera. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hard-hitting questions about bad album art, two-stepping to death metal, hard scenes, hard moshing, and things other than blood your heart can pump. Also, equally hard-hitting: is the beatdown wiki unreliable?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore too backwards facing? Is hating a professional sport or just a hobby some people are passionate about? Is Long Island beautiful? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are no dumb questions, especially from someone who really wants to learn. Our favorite ignorant youth rolls through to challenge our basic assumptions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

California wrap-up and Sound & Fury post-game. Fun in the California sun recounted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A tease episode before we all land back at home and can get back to business. Quick Sound & Fury recap with Bob and friend of the podcast, Eric. Thanks for the memories, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's that time of year when everyone makes a pilgrimage to Los Angeles to experience one of the best HC fests going, Sound & Fury. Interesting lineup this year and we dig into every crevice of it. New acts, established acts, even a reunion or two. Also, we talk about Alien Ant Farm and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. NEW MUSIC FROM GEL AND COLD BRATS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There was a time when California was just as powerful a HC machine as it is today... but some of us didn't know it! We're talking on some of the bands we slept on or feel other people slept on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do hardcore kids miss the punk boat and is there any way to get on it once you've started sailing the HC seas? Some humble recommendations. Also, is John Brannon a sex symbol? Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some big announcements, and loving recap of recent events including the biggest HC fest of all time. A lot going on, from shows to live podcasts to a killer premiere by Boise's own REJECTION PACT. Get it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A little breather to reflect on 80s Mosh Madness up to this point. Have we learned anything? Also, how to use the bathroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric drops in to play a little THIS OR THAT, a simple game with deadly consequences. Sheer Terror or Merauder, which makes you mosh the drywall? Have Heart or Bane, which makes you donate your time to a local charity? Indie rock or pop punk, which traps you in amber as an adult? More deadly inquiries! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Questions from all angles. Is it worth doing a band as an old person? How do you tell a story people may care about? Is corniness inevitable? Is promotion annoying? What constitutes a DM slide? How do you approach an old head in the wild? So much knowledge in one convenient audio log! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patrick prattles about disc golf until the hook takes him off-stage and then we dive into BL'AST “Its In My Blood” vs FU’s “My America” and VERBAL ABUSE “Just an American Band” vs MDC “Millions of Dead Cops”. It's a ripper. [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Production; taking the bait; Tears For Fears; being too heavy; End It hosts the Playa Haters' Ball; running a record store in Portugal under a fake name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The bracket is fierce: CRUMBSUCKERS; D.R.I.; VISION; WARZONE. Also, naked moshing, senility, and being wrong for multiple decades. [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bands supporting bands, or at least not hatin. The case for Limp Bizkit. The celeb cosign in 2022. Being a celeb in your own head. Are we witnessing the Turnstile effect already? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

News of the world, and then straight into a 80s Mosh Madness bracket for the ages: Adolescents; Neurosis; Youth of Today; YDI. Something for everyone here. Truly delish! [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Festival season approaches! Compulsive gambling. Outburst. Staged live photos. Bookbag vs backpack sectarianism. Also, you're balding. It's all here, folks. [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How sharp is your hardcore brain? Could you compete in the terrordome of intellectual athletics that A2G designed? Is Tom cheating at these games of honor again? Change.org for Blues Traveler. Australian grocers. And [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travel; on-stage meltdowns; human moments; Rollins Band; do you gotta be great to be vulnerable; more! [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore changing? Obviously. But are these shifts temporary or is this a new direction for the genre? We won't know for sure for a decade, but we're here to speculate today! Also, getting vulnerable on main. [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Weinraub Recovery fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/dan-weinraub-recovery-fund Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What to expect (or not) as a HC band. How niche is niche? Do you deserve a microphone that doesn't give you tetanus? Is sweat equity real or is it all a roulette wheel? Zing a dong bone, let's go. [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We get a visit from HC HR. Time for our yearly training. Also, Super Mario 44. Pit reports agogo. Davey Havok TMZ. Dubstep. And are you jealous of Turnstile? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How would you explain some very basic hardcore ideas to someone who just doesn't know yet? Could you do it without sounding insane? Also, a debut from the newly remastered FASTBREAK release, a Touche Amore ticket giveaway, and more talk about Dog Eat Dog than you'd expect. Stacked episode. As always, send your pit reports to [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

80s Mosh Madness rolls on! INFEST vs INSTED; DESCENDENTS vs TOKEN ENTRY. Some big hitters and some dark horses. Also, train people, dope hair, and is Sepultura cool? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Middle-parts are back on the heads of young people, everyone dresses like they're going to a Shelter show in 1996, and the rising tide of Turnstile is raising all our ships. 2022 is wild. The good, the bad, and the perplexing. The state of things. Plus track debuts from COMBUST, RAW BREED, and VIDEO PRICK. Send us a pit report [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How well do you know your hardcore geography? Ok then, what's the best HC band from Wisconsin? Quick! Clock is running! *NUHH* Also, Barry Bond's head. Send us a pit report [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The lads are back on the Jersey Shore. It's 80s Mosh Madness and we've got SICK OF IT ALL, DYS, UNDERDOG, and THE FAITH. Who's solid... and who has TRACKS? All this and white reggae too! Send us a pit report [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOLD; CRUCIFIX; RITES OF SPRING; NEGATIVE FX. Who survives to compete in the next round? Also, sports betting is dumb and Kevin Smith's hockey jersey. Send your show report to: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bands breaking up, United Blood, the winds of change, trains, digital streaming platform wars, ignorance, experts, and who killed reunions? Also, a new track from PEACE TEST! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin drops in to talk FYA, then we go in on Every Time I Die breakup, nostalgia fest confusion, and 80s Mosh Madness (The Bubble): Battalion of Saints, Carnivore, No For an Answer, TSOL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Long Island fixture and friend of the podcast, Christian, joins us to talk the risks and rewards of being a promoter. Who shouldn't you step to? Was LI the new Seattle? And would that make Neglect the Mother Love Bone of Nassau County? Also, are musicians jerks? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shows getting cancelled; true crime; bands we don't talk about; extended hardcore vacations; Evan Seinfeld's dating life; crust chat; and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friend of the pod, Pat, stops by to talk Stay Gold; chiropractic mythbusting; best HC drug songs; Turmoil; Tobey McGuire; history in hardcore; ruptured tendons; Sbarro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the year dies, we talk on what we liked and loved from 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracks, vibe, art, and the intangibles. What goes into a 'complete' record? What records are perfect exemplars of their own energy? We go deep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Antidote in some shit; when to ditch a song; museum hardcore. And then we're into the Cro-Mags. The good, the bad, and the muscley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The upside potential of having fun on stage; PAHC; coming home with money or not; the beauty of small fests; the south; and lard! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Carnivore Question explored. 2021 v 2020: how has the hardcore temperature changed? Van thefts left and right, what you gonna do? Also, who watches game shows? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Annual sampler of podcasts we like to help you get through the holiday. Whether this is a time with family for you or a protest thereof, you could use something to listen to. And new music from SUNSTROKE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the topics that can be expressed in brief, punchy, news items. Length of shows, zero-clout labels, what's coming up in the next couple months, putting too much on strangers, and De Moines! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mosh Madness of the 80s starts here. Jump in the hot tub as we suss out our feelings on which records to include. Zero Boys or Big Boys? How much X-Claim Records can you take? Who’s the Insted fan of the crew? Lots to listen (or relisten) to for the next few months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore to post-hardcore continuity. The future of Hatebreed. Cover records. The Fear SNL moment. Time travel. More! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Things discussed in vans, from getting covid, to deciding what's THE album from a band, to twerking on a boat. Plus new tracks from EYE FLYS and AGE OF APOCALYPSE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A very New York episode, from all-time classic albums to brand new Facebook beef. Eric joins to bring the Queens Perspective. Plus... RAIN OF SALVATION Live on Axe To Grind! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The A2G hardcore union tries to take a unique swing at personal favorite records of the 90s. Who doesn’t care about Integrity? Redemption 87. Ink and Dagger were sent here from the future. Locality matters. Big swings on the Hardcore Pride EP. Why doesn’t Breakdown get the love for their 90s material? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Go deep as the dudes go 12 deep on their favorite Midwest HC and adjacent acts. Is Negative Approach universal? Chicago’s contribution to the classic table. Pick your flavor of Cleveland. Pull up a chair and take the next exit off I-90. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What it means to do a quality record reissue; why we respect records from dormant bands but not reunion bands, covid on tour, and what this moment is adding up to. It's a topic party, and you're invited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2009 had some good, some bad, but mostly just a lot of a lot. The Year In Hardcore 2009 continues! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miracle on the Hudson; Obama redux; ponzi schemes; Michael Jackson dead at 50. And hardcore. Lots of hardcore. Was it good? was it bad? Was it maybe time to hurry up and change? 2009, let's do it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever just fail to check out a band you're 'supposed' to? Is it too late? From The Mob to Supertouch to At The Gates to Dropkick Murphys and beyond. We ask each other. We commiserate on SpiritAir; what's ACTUALLY being listened to during the pandemic; firestorming a festival trying to be funny; and an act of bravery in the metal scene that deserves some respect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WHO WENT POO ON THAT TURNSTILE STAGE? your Facebook friends are getting a sitter for the night to see Hatebreed on a Tuesday; what bands are big; Randy Newman; naught punk words; putting cover songs on your LP; breakfast potatoes; Morrissey's shirts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A barrage of quick hit news items, including the latest cover from Code Orange, Nirvana baby kid, Patrick chasing licensing money, and Abolishing White Hardcore. Then... the sleepover begins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the topics that aren't getting the talk that (maybe) they deserve! From influences left on the table, bands that just rule, genres that aren't getting shine, and more! Also, how many epochs has youth crew been through? Promo photos as torture. And Patrick gets in his vegan bag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave A. joins us to tie up loose ends. People wanna know if there's still axes, have we become recording snobs, what musicians have killer batting averages, where Handsome falls in the post-hardcore tier ranking, and the dark side of Brian Baker. Also what it's like being the difficult one. And a new track from MILITARIE GUN! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're familiar with the long-running television gameshow, JEOPARDY? Well, this is like that without the budget and exclusively about hardcore. Also, what to do about these pressing plant delays? And finally, wild speculation on Matt Skiba's t-shirt collection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes, after a long day you just want some comfort food hardcore. The HC version of mom's home cooking. Also, krishna cooking. And a debut from LI's own BECOME ONE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Record Club episode in which we listen to and talk about 'The Decline' by NOFX. How did this happen? What are the possible outcomes? Also discussed, Avril Lavigne's TikTok, Cokie the Clown, and gambling on tennis. All this and a debut from COSMIC JOKE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quick primer on keeping the party polite as we ease back into shows. How not to be a dick. What shows blew our socks off recently. And just how many AF shirts does one need? All that and a song debut from THE LAST STAND. It's a gold episode. RIP RED BARON Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the more dynamic acts of their era, The Hope Conspiracy crossed a few aisles and won converts among different veins of hardcore. But not everyone got it. And what's the band's legacy today? Strap in, it's a Hope Con deep dive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Take a time machine to a few weeks back when we still hadn't heard the Turnstile record and hardcore TikTok was a going concern. While we're there, how about a conversation about what's real, what's illusion, and what's none of our business? Hardcore credibility, in focus. And don't miss a new track from WILD RED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave from the Brooklyn venue St Vitus joins us to talk about how to get Nirvana to play your 300 cap room, how to walk the middle course and feel no anger at your critics, and how to be zen about your livelihood going away in a day. Also, listen close because he's got a heads up exclusive for A2G listeners. And don't go anywhere because we've got Long Island's KOYO Live on Axe To Grind! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chatting hardcore on new EKULU, ANGEL DU$T, C4, WRISTMEETRAZOR, CHUBBY & THE GANG, and much more! Also, whatever happened to the VJs of old? And how to become a weird youtube couple that rides trains all year. All that and a new track from STAND STILL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everyone's had the 'best X band of Y era" conversations. But flip the numbers around a bit and it's possible you've never even thought about it. Best NYHC band of the 00s? Best OC band of the 90s? Most embarrassing look of the 80s? We get the conversation started. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some premises, hypotheses, and wild claims about hardcore's past, present, and future. Are these notions true facts, utter falsehoods, or even slanderous lies? Find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do you listen to at work? What does a roadcrew worker listen to? What about a transplant surgeon? A barber? How about a photographer? Call center operator? From the oil fields to the pizza parlor, we take a guess. Guest mic by Eric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Test presses; Tony Soprano as daddy; getting paid or not; Gotcha Hats; finding a friend with mass; attending a show in the post-apocalypse; tour offers; dogshit album art; your record can sound sound good or sound bad- what do you choose? Answer quick! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We answer listener questions about the nature of memory; Warzone; the two weeks after 9/11; District 9; uncanny valley; eye surgery; working for free; 7" EPs; No Idea Records; Choke's Instagram; more! And a killer song debut from PERFECT WORLD! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Of the genres adjacent to hardcore, few have higher highs and lower lows than 90s emo. We took that rollercoaster ride and invite you to join in as we listen to the good, the bad, and the regrettable of the era. Bop along. And while you're here, soak in new music from TIME AND PRESSURE and MILITARIE GUN! Big show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recorded prior to last week's hullabaloo, this one is a chit-chattin' palate cleanser. Cargo shorts, Godzilla, tucker hats of the 00s, fast hardcore, musicality, venues that will talk to you now, 40 years in a biscuit factory, Fall Out Boy's hotdogs, and a premiere of new music from NJ's own DEAD TORCHES! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We got your emails. Thank you. Yes. A show happened. Some people love that it happened. Other people don't care for it at all. We talk about it, doing our best to see where you're all coming from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Best listeners in the world hit us with the best questions in the world. Talk of Soul Search, Helmet, Sick Of It All, Rollins Band, Die Kreuzen, Cro-Mags, Botch, Be All End All, 7"s, long songs, Deranged Records, Jesus Lizard, and the maximum stage capacity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slowly, slowly, the world returns to normal. Like a blossoming flower after the frost. And with it, shows, tours, good promoters, bad promoters, college students gambling their campus recreation budgets, and kids in basements risking their leases. Plus, new music from BLVD OF DEATH! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

90s chatter of all stripes: the bands, the labels, the vibe, the locals, the nonsense. Also, turning down a million dollars, that house on the American Football album, and Chet Hanks. New music from COLONIAL WOUND. RIP Rob Vitale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rerecorded songs; JNCo Vs Diesel; Mike Dirnt's marital status; Ebullition Records; calling in a Descendents lifeline; best Bridge Nine era; the casual disrespect of rating your friends' bands; $700 coats; 8Chan; clean vocals; murdering DRI; just good ol core talk this week. And... SOUL BLIND Live on Axe To Grind! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hummus, generator shows, vaccines, universal hate for DeBlasio, nachos, the mayor from Jaws, what constitutes a tired HC influence, Carmelo Anthony, pulp heroes, and Bullshit Detector Two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Music is in a holding pattern at the moment, but we're looking to the future. When the safe-travel doors swing open, there might be a whole new class of bands getting us pumped. We draft them for our Future Teams. Also, a premiere from FIDDLEHEAD and new music from TRAPPIST! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Walter Schreifels joins us for talk about primates, motor vehicles, colloids consisting of fine granular material, and life in the big city. His best interview, confirmed. Also, xclusive track premieres from CELL ROT and DRILL SERGEANT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We gave the Infinity Gems of Hardcore to one random kid. Who would he erase? What would be the cost? What he did with that power shocked and terrified all that stood in his way. Shoutout Oneonta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Finance Punx. The Wookipedia to Joe Rogan pipeline. How much would you pay for the body you want? Would you rather be punched in the head or sneered at by someone who can't bench their own body weight? Generational wealth through Doge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part two of the Rise and Fall story. From Into Oblivion to the end. Frustrating creative processes. How a spider bite extended the band’s existence. The difference a new band member can make. A decided end.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Breaking guitars, covid shows, hijacked by politics, best Terror era, the Aquabats, six-degrees of Leeway, the absolute genre peak that is Quicksand Slip, and in the second-half of the podcast we're joined by Chris of On The Might of Princes/Gracer/more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carly, Erica, and Danielle of To The Front join us for a talk about doing it yourself, doing it yourself during covid, cultivating interests, photography, nostalgia, and connecting with like-minded people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new recurring format. Bjorn, Cedric, and Vince from Rise and Fall join us for a narrative journey of their band. This first episode explores their formation, the importance of driving to practice together, the power of local scenes, small unsafe vehicles, and growing into the finest Belgian export since fries.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Outsider music and outsider trading. We field questions that have been itching in your brains. Can we remember Limp Bizkit lyrics? Memorable split release moments. Album tropes we love. How to break into the touring circuit. The most sampled movie clips. Do The Beatles suck? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remember the part in Goodfellas where Paulie is using a razor to slice garlic into ultra-thin slivers? We do that for metallic hardcore, hardcore with metal influences, and metalcore. Joining us in this maddening exercise is Issac of such bands as Knocked Loose and Inclination. And as a special treat, we're premiering tracks from COLOSSUS and REGIONAL JUSTICE CENTER! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore is punk and punk is political, right? Well, maybe. Or maybe not. What counts as politics? Is everything politics? Who are some of the best to do it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the best place to start with a subgenre? Is it the most important albums? The most popular? The most representative of that sound? We attempt to answer the question and give our picks for genres, labels, and eras. From Revelation to powerviolence to metalcore and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Joseph as an old dude athlete. Bootleg shirts, good and bad. Fliers, good and bad. Releasing records when you can't tour. Touring coming back. Pileup on the new release highway. A rotten game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know what it is. It's the end of the year and we talk about how it was for hardcore. A wild year in some respects and a muted one in other ways. What's the final verdict? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bosnia and Oklahoma City. Aum Shinrikyo and Bill Clinton. Wild year for the world and a pioneering year for hardcore. Good, bad, interesting, and otherwise- we cover it all this episode. YEAR IN HARDCORE 1995. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Airing of Grievances! Hardcore for the holidays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even the best LP could do for a little editing for length. We put on our Unsolicited Producer headsets and chop some songs off classic and sleeper LPs. INTEGRITY to AGNOSTIC FRONT to TRAPPED UNDER ICE and everything in between. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where did the metalcore go? Are we post-revival or does revival never die? The atom-splitting superpower that was the Gorilla Biscuits reunion tour. Jake Paul is the new Mike Tyson. And we're blessed to have RULE THEM ALL Live On Axe To Grind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Annual tradition of sharing our favorite podcasts continues. We've got a taste of music, art, culture, and nonsense podcasts for you to try. Our way of saying thank you to our fellow podcasters and to you. Have a good holiday, if you celebrate it or not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Weird year. Which bands feel like they're still in the front of our minds, even without shows to see them on? Which bands are we excited to see for the first time? Some thoughts about which acts 'matter' now, and which will matter 'soon.' Plus, what frenemy is feeding you protein bars? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bobby Roxx returns! New music from BROKEN VOW, STONE FLEET, ZIPPER, GRIDIRON, DROWSE, FORGIVE/FORGET, SCALP, PORTRAYAL OF GUILT, SPEEDWAY, LANDOWNER, PARIIAH, STUCK, PAIN OF TRUTH, LAWFUL KILLING, MAGIC GHRELIN, CHAIN REACTION, FIRESTARTER, and SPICE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every band has a skull logo at some point in their careers. Which are the best? Ever thought you'd listen to that debate in bracket-seeded tournament format? Welcome to 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New guy in the White House; same quality hardcore podcasting you've come to expect. Hype crust, new iconic shirts, best skulls in hardcore, Beatles comparisons, washing your hands after you pee, careers as a train conductor, being popular but disliked, and the punk-hardcore divide. Check out Everyplate.com to get a discount on three weeks of meals with promo code AXETOGRIND3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether you're standing in line to vote or furiously posting on /r/anarcho-capitalism, today might be a stressful one. Here's the first three WA2G radio format episodes all in one place. Enjoy and stay safe. Hit Everyplate.com with the promo code: AXETOGRIND3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For all of you who say "you should talk about _______ more" and "why don't you ever talk about ________?" this episode is for you. We talk about every band ever since the beginning of recorded music all the way to the world's end. EVERYPLATE.COM threw us some bucks, so why don't you help out by throwing them a look. Pomo code AXETOGRIND3 for the good stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quick round of the Name Game with a special guest before launching into talk about Drain, Touche Amore, Hatebreed, Seed of Pain, and Spice! The world may've shut down, but music hasn't completely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another round of the Name Game featuring friend of the podcast, Brian Murray. An unexpected guest crashes the podcast to tell us how all these hardcore icons are affording private flights. E.Town Concrete v Downset. Then listeners tell us what we haven't been talking about enough for them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While the presidential debate was 'raging' we staged our own. Next time maybe it'll be about if Suicidal Tendencies has more than one good album, but this episode it's about more serious stuff. Also Patrick introduces a new bit in which he doesn't know where any band is from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friend of the podcast and learned man, Sean Doody, came through to talk Dischord Records. From Teen Idles to Trusty, Double-O to Antelope, it's all (mostly) here. Also, what's Yelp's opinion on this public bathroom? This is our nerdiest episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeremy Bolm talks about his band's experience with mega-producer Ross Robinson, putting out other people's records, when an LP isn't in order, Danzig, and Mr Bean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tominator brings you the very best in hardcore, punk, metal, and everything in between. New tracks from DYING WISH, PERFECT WORLD, CRUSH THE DEMONIAC, ZULU, REACHING OUT, SOUL GLO, MODEL PRISONER, RESERVING DIRTNAPS, YOUTH COLLAPSE, and more! The finest mosh available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wake The Dead is a seminal melodic hardcore release for many, but two of us are coming in blind here. The era, the ambition, the sound, and the impact of the record are all explored. If you loved it or hate it or know nothing about it at all, you'll get something out of a podcast talking on it honestly. Then strap in for Live On A2G with the pride of the Capital Region: DRUG CHURCH. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bar shows or community space shows? Underdog or Into Another? HC drama or office Christmas party? PAHC or CTHC? Magnitude or One Step Closer? Harley or JJ? Pizza or bagel? Every important question that can be phrased as a binary choice, ever, is answered today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doing our best to let a little pressure out of the atmosphere. We talk all-over print, stepping in dog shit, work stoppage, Randy Newman, magazines, Kalamazoo, worst hardcore apparel, shorts, survival in a post-apocalypse, aspirational intelligence, California hardcore, Red Hot Chili Peppers, shows we missed, and NBA Jam. Cool out and be easy with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Riley Gale RIP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Antidote and trips to the National Parks; Sick Of It All and literature; Vermin Supreme and voting; pepper spray and making people apologize for accusing you of things you actually did; the Name Game and fun. You'll love this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Entering the dark and murky world of music's near-future. Where we can't be sure shows are happening, if subculture even exists, and if paper money has value anymore. Strap into the last of the V8 Interceptors and fill up on guzzolene, we're taking a trip to the misery farm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A cool hour of the best hardcore and punk from INTIMIDATION, GAG, MOONKISSER, INTERNAL, BITTER BRANCHES, EXCIDE, INITIATE, HELLO MARY, SOOTHING, VILE SPIRIT, GULCH, CORIKY, IMPOTENTIE, SUBDUED, SPY, BULL CULT, HUMANT BLOD, and DAME! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Record Club is in full effect with a close look at the self-titled album from 1.6 Band. One for the post-hardcore heads, but there's something here for everybody: vaccines, Michael Vick, chili dogs, snitching, covid shows, festivals, and the announcement of the next installment of the club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore secretly for super-capable musicians and all that 'talent doesn't matter' stuff is a lie? Was Makeoutclub a dark signal that this is a creep scene? Or was it a nice way for awkward kids to get together? Where were you when you heard Hatebreed? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not everyone is built for this game. But we are. Hours on a year we can't even agree is any good or not. Fastbreak to Brother Inferior to Throwdown and beyond. Hardcore from the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe. Good material, bad material, and a lot to talk about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Year In Hardcore, 1999! A wild year, with the Melissa Worm ravaging the internet, Napster making pirates out of high schoolers, and Stuart Little keeping us in theaters. Also, a ton of hardcore was peaking, dying, or limping along. ALL of it gets explored. And to celebrate a great episode, we welcome WEBBED WING to Live On Axe To Grind! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bliss out on the sounds of new music from Punitive Damage, One Step Closer, Spring Tide, Big Cheese, CHEW, Jab, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kate and Emma join us to talk on callouts, cancellations, accountability, and substantive change in hardcore. Also discussed: wasps. And maybe a little taste of the new UNREAL CITY release if you're good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Hatebreed overrated, underrated, or appropriately rated? What about Dag Nasty? Ekulu? Lotta bands are examined this episode TASTEFULLY AND WITH RESPECT. Also, Chicago Fire, the Dick Wolf extended universe, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quiet moment for a listener. Venues ex nihilo; sad old man storage units; mental health; Cold As Life; political hardcore; making friends online; YDL erasure; region of choice; truly fake news; more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hard talks with relatives and hardcore icons. Can you really reason with either one? Also, is hardcore worth playing/watching in a half-empty room? Also, money-laundering, and treasure-hunting in the Rockies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Facebook news drip, bail reform, Saved By The Bell, gently placing grandma in a dumpster or not, Ice T, Ice Cube, intellectual blindspots, weight training for the oncoming Cop War, and a quick visit from producer/engineer/musician Will Putney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Felt inappropriate doing the normal thing this week. Exercise your rights and be safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every once in a while we like to give everyone a chance to see what goes on in the golden kingdom of the Axe To Grind Patreon. Here’s some clips to tease and tantalize, with the hope that you’ll join our Patreon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last Lights, Fiona Apple, shootouts, guitar solos, Green Day, Lulu, good looks, professional wrestling, The State, piloting a plane without training, Australia, Orange 9mm, college, and A Live On A2G set from the mighty SUNSTROKE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grady and Ryan from Anxious and One Step Closer jump into talk a little bit on getting stuck in Europe at the onset of a pandemic, going to school in the middle of nowhere, and the process of writing full lengths for each band. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Critique, PMA, haters, and the cold hard reality of putting art into the world. Ian from Regional Justice Center joins us for deep talk on what makes a good vocalist, what makes a band a viable touring act, and what justifies physical release. It's nitty gritty and brass tacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Looking Back an underrated classic? A accurately rated piece of the hardcore cannon? Or an overrated pile of shit? With influences that range from melodic hardcore to the devil, this record inspires big opinions from hardcore kids. Let's get to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This one is for the word lovers. Pat Flynn stops by to talk favorite lyricists in hardcore and beyond. Is Shawn Brown an underrated snark god? Do members of Foundation have Minority Report style precognition? Can CRASS cause acid reflux? Is Start Today a Se7en style coded message only a genius could anticipate? All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Swamp life; lean gains; the future of touring; economics of playing music in 2020; drive times; putting out records during a pandemic and/or global depression; drive-in hardcore shows; the importance of venues; cassette releases; Albania; Zoli; rabies; more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to go about showing the best, most interesting, and most personally impactful NYHC to someone new. Also discussed: prodigious journaling, BlackedRaw, ditching religion in a public way, YDL, scooter culture, and what constitutes snotty vocals. All this and Western MA's own MANIAC Live On Axe To Grind! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jay and Mike join us to talk about the new Swingin' Swords, Choppin' Lords 12" EP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anyone can be part of this club. Just go listen to the record we're talking about, come back, compare your thoughts to ours and other listeners, be happy or mad. Today's album: Vision Of Disorder - Imprint Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pat Flynn joins the podcast to talk Zoli muscles, the responsibility bands have to their communities, the best year in hardcore, mysterious guy hardcore, head massages, gun control, Duke basketball, Bold, Bold, and Bold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we opened the door to anonymous questions, these are the bad apples who strutted in wearing leather jackets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Joseph Covid reporting, Karate Kid, looking like a thumb, starting a hardcore band late in life, rerecorded classics, diss tracks, Every Time I Die, Reagan Youth, blind spots, a world without Bad Religion, Bridge 9, and what classics are secretly bunk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lots of hardcore and hardcore adjacentry in this hardcore podcast. Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Breakdown, 108, VOD, Rollins Band, Leatherface, In My Eyes, Kiss It Goodbye, Dischord catalog, Rev catalog, Victory catalog, and on and on! So much goddamn hardcore for the hardcore. And to top it all off, RESTRAINING ORDER Live On A2G! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crossover episode with Worst Possible Timeline. Hardcore is supposed to be NOT discussed, but somehow works its way into conversations about Joe Girardi's traps, Joe Biden's brain failure, American exceptionalism, Tiger King, wrestling without crowds, and more. Hot takes abound! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frequent collaborator Dave joins Bob to debate the most pressing issue of 2020: Where each Black Flag release ranks in the band's discography. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Is Albany, Not Bakersfield. Bob is joined by Overnight Drive's secret coremen Hans and Andrew for a trip into the dark heart of memory lane. Scene clashes, the alienated hardcore kid, 25 Ta Life, Earth Crisis fandom, Louisville, Punk Planet, and more. This is a wild time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever spend a night in Poughkeepsie talking about your ten favorite hardcore records of the 90s? Now is you chance. Nicole and Alex Casey join the crew to talk all things hardcore from the era of MTV Unplugged. Is Only Living Witness on your list? Strife - underrated? Does Supertouch have tracks? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wire. Blacklisted. Best Boston bands. Smart bands vs 'Smart bands'. Marshal's Home Goods and TJ MAX. After Forever by Black Sabbath. After Forever as covered by Shelter. Disneyland. Melodic HC. Facebook Living your death. Orange juice. Petty beefs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ray & Porcell. Where's Your Head At? The dreadlocked whites of Koh Rong. Is doing a GoFundMe cool, lame, or a cause for complete indifference? Prison lockdown. Game Of Thrones cool, lame, or cause for complete indifference? Wild Side. Cambodian copyright laws. Gaslight Anthem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bad Brains discussed in the type of detail a global pandemic allows for. Longtime friend of the podcast and frequent contributor Andy comes through to drop knowledge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Putting in some overtime for all the people who are having to deal with this or that. We tackle the hard topics like how good was that Code Orange stream and can we expect biters? The difficulty of canceling events even under duress. Close it out with some chatter on the top releases from label titans Deathwish and Bridge 9. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some new music talk. Some nontroversy talk about the shirt that scandalized Gilman. Some Damage City talk. Some Escape From Phnom Penh talk. Some size matters or it doesn't talk. It's early 2020 and the world is actin' up. Listen to some hardcore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Indecision episode! Rachel and Justin of Indecision/Most Precious Blood join their lifelong bandmate Tom to remember and misremember the past 25 years. Why do bands make the decisions they do? Does anything you did as a kid make sense even five years later? Victory Records; Magnum condoms; the Mets; hard tours; breakups to makeups; grad school; drone assassination record labels; more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's that time of year again. Festivals aren't just for ravers and Europeans. Wild Rose! BnB! United Blood! Furnace! Much More! Here's a deep(ish) dive on what's on offer this spring/summer. Young! Old! It's all good! Also, don't hide your PV under a basket. Let your light shine. And more Bane (Batman, not band) voice than you can handle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are the hosts of this podcast clinically depressed? Who are they talking to on AIM? Who is doing the dishes in this partnership? How would they say goodbye to a loved one when they're going to be consumed by marauders? What's with butthole sunning? The core only appears in small doses this episode... until KC's finest, SPINE joins us Live On A2G! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NYHC bands ranked! Pre-1990 roster of kings! KILLING TIME; SICK OF IT ALL; BURN; LEEWAY; SHEER TERROR; BREAKDOWN; WARZONE; MURPHY'S LAW; SUPERTOUCH; to just name a few! The gang's all here and we R E S P E C T F U L L Y submit our opinions on what tier of legendary each fall into. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the most mixed of bags, as we expand on our year 2000 exploration. We lend our ear to classics and... not classics, learning a lot about our tolerance for operatic vocals, word salad, and squigel-squigel-dees. It was a year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Year In HC: 2000! Back in the day, before the Patriot Act, before stringent TSA screenings, there was a collision of traditional hardcore and metalcore. There was bizarre, best-forgotten, genre tangents like bandana thrashcore. It was an era where some sounds were slowing down and others were just ramping up. People were trying things and failing, and that makes it all the more interesting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New England. A frigid hellscape in which nothing grows. A white aeon-dead world. Welcome. This is a very specific sorta Listening Party. A comp album straight through. This time, it's Every Winter Is Cold featuring PUMMEL, RESTRAINING ORDER, HOLY HANDS, BURDEN, KIND, CORRODE, VANTAGE POINT, JINX, BOILING POINT, DROPDEAD, PEACE TEST, SPRING TIDE, FREE, DARKLANDS, WOUNDMAN, ANTAGONIZE, ANXIOUS, and BROTHER. And if that somehow wasn't enough, we lead the ep with a premiere from SEED OF PAIN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NY visitor's guide; west coast 00s HC; 3rd-rate-and-not-that-great of the 90s; corndogs; premeditated murder; highlight reel; HC videos; Cursed; AF v NA; french fries; more! And Live On A2G: REGIONAL JUSTICE CENTER! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The results of the A2G Hardcore Census are in and they are equal parts intuitive and mind-blowing. How many of you are attending shows? How many are spending your college tuition on hardcore? Are zines a dead medium or are they thriving? What percentage of you are pivoting to rap? How many are sneaking off to country? Has the edge gone dull? Are you destroying the machines? It's all here. Information overload. Systems overloaded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

World's on fire, let's talk hardcore. New music from TRUE FORM, PIG CITY, DIVISION OF MIND, THERAPY, AGNOSTIC FRONT, RAW HEX, THE ANNIHILATED, GEORGIA MAQ, CHOICE TO MAKE, THE WARRIORS, SECTION H8, WORLD PEACE, STAND ALONE, SYSTEM 74, and THE ACACIA STRAIN! Also discussed: odd crust; eras of Hatebreed; food delivery; bachelor parties; stalkers, wedgies; Travolta; Bjork; and more. And on-location reporting from FYA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bring in 2020 with a conference call full of split releases, Hatebreed vs moshcore, the surprising possibly alarming return of Furnace Fest, undercover nice people, is Youth Of Today a better band without Ray, and nostalgia to death. Also, Acacia Strain shirt collection. And yes, there is a rattlesnake in the wires. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2019 has been fun. Some really good music. Everyone should be bullish on hardcore right now. Celebrate good times. But... what came out this year that has lasting value? What'll get spins in five years? Ten years? What'll be listened to by the post-humans who crawl from the caves after the water wars? This episode is all about having TRACKS. Who got'm? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A special episode. Noncore - for those with an unhealthy appetite for Star Wars. A deep dive into The Last Jedi and whether it’s good, sucks, or Really sucks. Rank your favorite movies along and hear two deeply passionate guests, Guy and Sean, as they debate the merits of the force. *No Rise Of Skywalker Spoilers* Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's the state of hardcore in 2019? How would you know? Your circle? What you see online? Let's collect some data and crunch the numbers. Hardcore Census time! Also Acme, Backtrack farewell, Boysetsfire, H8000, Anxious, Carmelo Anthony, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, San Antonio, Gilman St, Che Cafe, ABC No Rio, and a brand new Live On Axe To Grind set from MAGNITUDE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An early Christmas gift to the true music lovers... a wild Listening Party that spans the gamut from power-alt to mario-metal. BIG CHEESE; DARE; GRACE; DOWNPRESSER; AMERICAN NIGHTMARE; COLONIAL WOUND; RED DEATH; VATICAN; PUMMEL; WEBBED WING; GEL; ANKLE MONITOR; LIVING IN FEAR; UNREAL CITY; SCHEMATIC; SWEET SOUL; CHARITY! Also, how many bridges does your city need? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine a weekly hardcore matinee featuring the most popping bands as headliners. Which acts would get that call? Inspired by that idea, what are the 52 bands that everyone should hear as we head into 2020? This episode lays down the rules for why bands are getting talked about, because this isn't a competition- it's a fun mission. Joined by Kara, of New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For all of you with long drives this holiday weekend, a sampling from podcasts we consider friends. From wrestling, to videogames, to career management, to film, to drive-time morning radio shock-jockery. It's everything, all in one place: your ears. Merry holiday, or happy abstaining from it. Whichever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Classic albums that aren't classic albums that are. Records that mean the world to a select group of people who aren't the world. Songs that would've made a greater impact if they'd been heard by more people. Why some things spend more time in the shadow then they should. A pure and loving episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This winter is packed fulla shows. Final shows, reunions; album plays; festivals, record releases, prolly some regular shows too. Why some shows are more appealing than others and why hardcore still rules. Also, how to be an accountant with no training and a bit of Cambodian history. And an epic Live On Axe To Grind set from the mighty STILLSUIT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A big ol' Listening Party. Lots of discussion about fictional animals, overhead lighting, mom fights, rent stoppage, the effect of weather on mosh, and MIL-SPEC, BURNT DECAY, POWER TRIP, RESTRAINING ORDER, SUNSET, CHAIN WHIP, IMPOSTER, STAGES IN FAITH, OUTNUMBERED, GREET DEATH, LIFE SUPPORT, NO RIGHT, VAMACHARA, KOTHI TUHOA, POWER, STALEMATE, and TAKE OFFENSE. Alex HV drops in to talk some current HC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Negative Approach v Black Flag; indie band ethics or lack thereof; NOLA HC; Taylor Swift on a horse; Israel tour; vinyl variants; one-table Chinese takeout spots; hey I'm vegan; Wolverine hardcore; knowing too much; hatin' on Refused; sleeping on the floor; the affordability of having sports mascots marry you; AND MORE ON THIS VERY INTERNATIONAL EPISODE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

User groups; eating garbage; that city between New York and Baltimore; sympathy for the CD industry; types of snot; leather cowboy hats; bands without children; and a very fun Album-To-Album examination of the mighty Ink & Dagger! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Deepest of Deep Dives, this episode goes all the way into THE SUICIDE FILE. Underrated or well-loved? Punk or hardcore? Rock or roll? This band was a critical part of the hardcore landscape for many kids, despite only being active a few years. The band's place in the ecosystem is discussed by dudes not in the band, before singer Dave Weinberg gets on the horn and tells it straight from the horse's mouth. An episode for fans and the uninitated alike! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two shows tonight, Jerome's Dream and Unit Pride, which gets your money? Are LP jackets a viable clothing item? Are scab lineups a bad thing or just a thing? Does liking someone's tweet make you their tight homie? Is it cool to see hardcore in film and television? Is Twitter killing your band? What's going on with children's garden? Sounds creepy. Are HC cruises the next wave? Oh, ALSO, one of hardcore's tightest, MINDFORCE performs Live On A2G! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A timely and timeless episode that takes a snapshot of HC in 2019. Hardcore fests are packed, there's a wild variety of styles being embraced, and kids are open to older bands. It's all pretty dope, so let's enjoy it before we're cooked alive. Of interest: Is Florida a top 3 state? Do hot springs give you brain diseases? Do the hardest kids still have Hawaiian shirts in their closets? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is HC moving faster than listeners can keep up with? Is there a right way to enjoy this? Does career trajectory of a band matter to fans or is that for absolute nerds? What role do GAINS have in making a thin man delusional? Is going viral a boon or a total nightmare? Do people say 'going viral' anymore? And the big question of the day: whose definition of a thing wins history? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's 1989. Satanic Verses inspires a fatwa, the Exxon Valdez destroys a coastline, the US sneak-invades Panama, Chinese students are fed up, and the Berlin wall falls. Also, possibly the single best year in hardcore music occurs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A wildly varied Listening Party, featuring ENVISION, REDBAIT, THE ANSWER, SECT, DYING WISH, POINT OF CONTACT, FUCK IT I QUIT, INVOKE, MH CHAOS, HESITATION WOUNDS, SANCTION, CONSTANT ELEVATION, FINAL RITE, IMPLIED RISK, SUNSTROKE, and LURK! Who owns crust? Is Neglect on the lips of every kid? Are we on the cusp of a Panteraissance? Is it time for more Prayer For Cleansing? All this and special 25 Ta Life correspondent, Worst Possible Eric! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is an Album to Album look at the American Nightmare LPs Background Music and We're Down Til We're Underground! Also: prison slashings; Europeans demanding value for their money; Louisville pizza; the lifting of balls; breakup music; where does AN exist on the Hellfest / Posi Numbers axis; songs about your breakup; marquee album designers; and LIVE ON A2G: GULCH! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is more music contained in these 3hrs than in any single piece of media in human history. It's a LISTENING PARTY! Andy joins us to give THREAT 2 SOCIETY, ANTAGONIZE, DOLLHOUSE, GATECREEPER, DOMINANT FORCE, REGIONAL JUSTICE CENTER, SUNAMI, LIFE'S QUESTION, RESULT OF CHOICE, BROTHER, LOVE & TRUST, BRAIN TOURNIQUET, THE BERRIES, SHEER MAG, EYES OF THE LORD, MOURNING, TOMB MOLD, HEAVY DISCIPLINE, and OBEDIENCE some attention! Then we're joined by DRAIN for a LIVE ON A2G session, who proceed to rip. It's more than most can handle, but faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Would you rather watch a show from the comfort of your $300 gamer chair than actually attend one in the flesh? Is there a reason to catalog the scene from top to bottom? What space belongs to a band and what space belongs to the audience? Are you bad at guessing? Possibly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Album 2 Album: Secrets of the World v Big Kiss Goodnight. Which will you bequeath to family in your will and which will you be buried with? Best NYHC that is NOT from NY? Is this world split into honest souls and jealous MFers? Can these disparate partisans ever collaborate for a greater good? And don't miss LIVE ON A2G: Bogota Colombia's RAW BRIGADE performing a full set! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a listening party! New music from RENOUNCED, GLITTERER, HANGMAN, THE FIGHT, PINOCCHIO, SEEYOUSPACECOWBOY, MAD, CEREMONY, NINTH CIRCLE, PORTRAYAL OF GUILT, TIME AND PRESSURE, OUTSIDER, END OF YOUR ROPE, YOUNG GUV, BE ALL END ALL, HUSBANDRY, BEAR NO SHAME, GEL, and STEEL CAGE. Also discussed: Nuclear holocaust as it applies to dogs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Photogate rocks the HC Twitterverse; what's good in hardcore; will our homie ever come back from the war; is noncore the bridge to heaven or the tunnel to hell; how many people can fit on a stage legally; doing it for the gram; shadow people; vehicles; and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dust off your opinion shoes, we pulled out THIS or THAT to answer your burning binary questions. Joined by Andy Scarpulla (Tear It Up, Forward To Death, Staring Problem) we take on the world’s biggest quandaries such as: Agnostic Front or Madball? Death Row or Bad Boy? Fruity or Cocoa Pebbles? SST or Dischord? Yankees or Mets? Much more... and a disturbing revelation about Guy Fieri in the first of our ongoing series “Missing Guy Fieri.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So international. Is the Have Heart reunion the logical limit of reunions? Could you skip college and just study the Lungfish discography? Is the Whopper disgusting? Is Quake the best game? Should you torch your dorm room? Where are the RZL DZL shirts? HOW GREAT IS THIS LIVE ON A2G SET FROM **WORN**? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moon Knight, Krust, Wildside, label promotion in hardcore and self-promotion in hardcore and accidental promotion in hardcore, more Wildside, Candy, colorism in the NBA, The lawfirm of Misfits Misfits & Misfits, riding mowers, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's 75 episodes in, so time to go SUPER OFF-BRAND and talk about Horse the Band, Biohazard, Seadoos, beets, the Christian god, Shockwave, cake donuts, prison, Glassjaw, John Elway, Yuppicide, and horse farms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest hosts Dave Ackerman and Andy Scarpulla join the fray to discuss their favorite records of the early 2000s. Marvel at how different the opinions can be from one mouth to the next. Was American Nightmare universally universal? Should everyone hear the Striking Distance lp? Is the Rival Schools lp mandatory in elementary alt music education yet? Where were you when the early aughts trends started to split... and exactly how expensive were your jeans? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NEW MUSIC FROM ABUSE OF POWER! Toby and the cops vs Instagram Police; Cro-Mags vs Cro-Mags; bootleggers vs wallets; headliners vs support; mastering engineers vs musician ignorance; reasonable adults vs Brooklyn rent; bunk beds vs romantic partners; more! Also Back To School Jam details! And a LIVE ON A2G SET FROM **BLIND JUSTICE!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's summer and things are poppin'. Time to play beach volleyball with Backtrack on their final tour. Maybe meet Drake on the floor of the Scotiabank Arena. Or walk around Vegas until you die of sun exposure. OH AND ATTEND ANY OF THE SICK SHOWS TAKING PLACE. Don't know where/what they are? We got you, fam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Medication that makes you husky! Soup! Bowling! Fake chicken salad! 7 Seconds! Corrosion of Conformity! Youth of Today! Rites Of Spring! Government Issue! DRI! Husker Du! The Descendents! SNFU! SOD! Bad Religion! And much much more! It's 1985 and hardcore is over... OR IS IT?! WE DIVE DEEP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Angel Du$t getting talk; Soulfly as a conversation in 2019; performance enhancing drugs in hardcore; cancelled is as cancelled does; no shirts lots of chest workouts; Robert Kraft's erection; hypebeasts; more! Heavy What Ifs about Hatebreed, Title Fight, Foundation, the kid from Fallout Boy, Madball's power set and galactic ambitions; more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The five records that define every five years since 1980. There's some hot takes buried among the regular heat takes. Also of note: how to wash kale; having no friends; is Hot Water Music hardcore; records you've blanked on for a decade; the cult of Snapcase; Norma Jean as Cro-Mags; vegan delis; probably a mention of Stuck Mojo in there somewhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LSD, CTHC, SONY, EVERYBODY BLEEDS NOW, DMT, TIK TOK, dropping Seth Putnam, and more with the mindful mogul, Jay Reason. Also, can birds fly backwards? Fighting hair loss with Discharge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a LISTENING PARTY, fam! New(ish) music from Combust, Outskirts, Payback, Drain, Rotting Out, and MORE. Also, nothing mechanical works. Everything but the computer breaks during this recording, so there's a lotta vamping while the repairman fixes things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After some hyper-local talk about the New York Metro Area and dating prospects in NJ, the real discussion begins: What was missed, overlooked, and strangely forgotten in our Mosh Madness Tourney. Why are some releases not en vogue? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How serious is too serious? How many snakes did Jake go through? Does your president skateboard? Are covers lame? Digital-only EPs dope or wack? Are melodic metalcore reunions the new bitcoin? Does your spouse hate Earth Crisis? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to detect food has gone bad; enjoying the flu; disappeared NBA players; AND THE FINAL RESULTS OF MOSH MADNESS! THE TOURNAMENT IS AT AN END AND IT IS TIME TO CELEBRATE OR CRY. HAVE YOUR BRACKET SHEET BESIDE YOU AS YOU LISTEN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Insider info on putting together the biggest hardcore show in 30 years in the form of the Have Heart reunion; Fresno real estate; relocating to Cambodia; driving your student loans off a bridge; and more! oh yeah, also AN EXCLUSIVE AXE TO GRIND LIVE SET FROM TRIPLE B RECORDING ARTISTS ~ANXIOUS~ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some loopy chat in this one. Three men who've listened to hella records do their best to stay on topic. Wokeness was lacking in 1989; heavy as an idea; Hoobastank; Paramore; wait that's the same thing; Puck from the Real World; Van Nuys HC; pornography; TURNSTILE; NO WARNING; KING NINE; SOUL SEARCH; GOD'S HATE; WEEKEND NACHOS; FREEDOM; XIBALBA; and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Straight edge discussion of regional beers, how many years pass before something is hella old, Jersey Mikes italian subs, impending homelessness, NAILS, FOUNDATION, IMPALERS, REGULATE, BANE, TURNSTILE, CRUEL HAND, ROTTING OUT, and mucho mas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg Bennick, vocalist of Trial, documentarian, activist, and speaker, acts as 4th mic for a talk on beach life, Lulu Lemon, gatekeeping, classic era Revelation, Ginsburg, Harley, Jorge, bands with Xs in their name, Trump fan overlap, skilled guitarists versus bum guitarists, and Hootie & the Blowfish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The contest of champions continues! We're in the wild days of Mosh Madness, where acts are playing for keeps and no prisoners are taken. Topics discussed include tech bros, offloading merch to Southeast Asia, celebs, and more. Also, weirdly, Mest. CEREMONY, NEW LOWS, TURNSTILE, UNIFIED RIGHT, RIVAL MOB, INCLINATION, HARMS WAY, and MINUS are in competition! If this episode sounds thin, it's because a transformer blew and we had to record it on a battery powered My First Sony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's true. There's a HAVE HEART reunion coming this summer, and we've got Pat Flynn on the pod to talk about it, reunions as a phenomenon, history of hardcore and otherwise, science fair hardcore, exercising to eat more subs, connecting with listeners on that heavy tip, crying, agency, self-ownership, melodic hardcore's boom and bust, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mosh Madness is in full swing. We're talking hotdogs, big dogs, night mode, font size, rebates, TRAPPED UNDER ICE, CODE ORANGE, TITLE FIGHT, BLACKLISTED, TAKE OFFENSE, CONCEALED BLADE, BLISTERED, and COLD WORLD. This is the contest of champions, people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know what it is. Mosh Madness is in full swing and you're gonna get sucked into the adventure. RIVAL MOB, TOUCHE AMORE, XREPENTANCEX, RUDE AWAKENING, CANDY, FIDDLEHEAD, POWER TRIP, and TERROR are discussed in the gory details you expect and demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ghost of George HW Bush haunts the studio as cookies are discussed in depth, as are the positives and negatives of community, some now-very-dated talk about the government furlough, breaking into amphitheater shows at the cost of your life, and then you're treated to a very special live-in-the-studio recording from VA's BREAK AWAY courtesy of Axe To Grind Live! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MOSH MADNESS won't stop. This episode we're talking INCENDIARY, BITTER END, DOWNPRESSER, NO TOLERANCE, CODE ORANGE, DETAIN, CRIMINAL INSTINCT, and ANGEL DU$T! Also some comic book talk, and lots of sports references that are lost on one host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mosh Madness continues! These brackets have us talking FOUNDATION, NAYSAYER, POWER TRIP, BACKTRACK, VEIN, MIZERY, NAILS, FIRE & ICE, also what makes your pee smell weird, and how handsome is Julian Casablancas? So handsome! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Staying current this episode with talk about the No Echo piece '"Female-Fronted" Is Not a Fucking Genre' from Madison Watkins, and can you be mad on the internet without being labeled BIG MAD, and Todd Jones' grievance with Metal Sucks. Not a ton of HOT TAKES, but a few HOT TOPICS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MOSH MADNESS Round 1, Part 1. We go IN on releases from FURY, RENOUNCED, WAR HUNGRY, BITTER END, TWITCHING TONGUES, CODE ORANGE, MINDSET, and BOSTON STRANGLER. You selected the field, we're just playing in it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Self-starting, using your background to better your future, and not getting ripped off by poser brands are all part of our conversation with designer Jon Contino. In the process, we talk about Queens and LI HC, not being held up at gunpoint, six-figure debt, and the Keebler Elf's government name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Year; New You; New Hardcore Rules. Justin of Dead Heat joins us to talk FYA, what we should all be checking out, touring, and CALIFORNIA. This MFers voice is silky as hell. This episode premieres a brand new DEAD HEAT joint off their upcoming record. Circle pit your New Years brunch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was a good year for hardcore, and here's some lists of our favorite releases to prove it. And some hard numbers for the statistician listeners. Also, where are the big room screamo bands now? And a BIG thank you to y'all. RIP Penny Marshall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The gang's all here and ready to talk hardcore, noncore, and cosplay. Losing teeth on tour. Are onesies back? Are shoes requisite? Should we move to Long Beach? Is sasscore simulacra or simulation? Is all hardcore simulation? Are we in the matrix? Agnostic Front doc on Showtime. Is Laserdisc the future? Albany is closed for business, sorry. Joined by the ghost of Dale Earnhardt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We fill Patrick’s spot with three guests- Nicole, Alex, and Eric. Get back in the saddle as we discuss some recent gigs, Spotify Top Songs of the year, and we break down Nicole and Alex’s year end lists. We also answer the question - what do you do when friends release bad music? That and much more as we dig in and start clearing out our Santa Sack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life sends us in all sorts of directions, and sometimes people fall off radars. The life path of Jules of Side By Side and Alone In A Crowd has been the subject of speculation for almost 30 years. With AIAC doing a benefit reunion, Jules is about to be step on a stage and back into the public eye. We've got questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before Mosh Madness brackets can be finalized, the bubble releases need to be slotted! And to give you an idea of how stiff competition in the tournament will be, there's potential classics even among the records on the bubble. We listened HARD to releases from Code Orange; Bitter End; Praise; Day By Day; and more! Also talk way too much about Poison the Well for some reason. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many of you are on long drives or just wanna hear something other than your family's holiday beefs. So here's a sample of our Patreon episodes AND samples of other podcasts we think you should listen to. Hopefully this gets you through the holiday weekend. Good luck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

'One hit wonder' sounds like a dig, but you band people need to put your pull-up diapers on and ready yourselves for the attack. We confirm some acts as having legitimate hits, and debunk more than a few listener suggestions. From Converge to Antidote and dozens more. Who has HITS? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jay from Mindforce joins us to talk Poughkeepsie as a municipality and lifestyle; David Koresh Hardcore; driving through New Paltz in a bikini; the expanding boundaries of New York City, CharlieBo fandom; arborist hc; being an educator; Rosevelt sniffing socks; grapes; disappearing promoters; THE NEW MINDFORCE RECORD! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Written out, forced in, misremembered, enshrined, and buried. Demystifying the current narratives of Ensign, Texas Is the Reason, VOD, Kid Dynamite, and Carry On. What's real? What's imagined? Plus Goo Goo Dolls, Ojai pride, Pearl Jam, and nipple rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is there scum in every room? Would you lend them gear? Is moshing with a cardboard uzi cool? Do you remember CrimeThinc? If so, do you know what a donut hole is? Is Gloss remembered? JNCO made sneakers? Can you listen to the band of a man who made a sex tape on your bed? Midwest Correspondent Patrick From Louisville calls to set us straight on what region of the US his city is in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How many bands is too many bands on a package tour?; the Youth Attack Effect; Justice's acting debut; Who Edges the Edgelords?; Simpsons did it first; and more. Then down to the Winning Streaks. Which bands have three consecutive banger albums? The list is short, but we celebrate some great ones this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quick look at Flyover Fest, then right down to the music: We're listening to new tracks from Mindforce; Silk, Berzerker Boyz; Super Unison; Night Birds; Antagonize; Seed Of Pain; Pig Destroyer; Fucked Up; C.H.E.W. Also, some talk on Peekskill Salvation Army, the Texarkana of Appalachia, and lawless regions of Southeast Asia. And does Candy's merch suck or nah? Having problems with your rig? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How many original members do you require in a touring band? What cities would we hit with a nuke? Is Fred Durst marked for death? Do 20-year-olds like Nirvana? Or just the shirts? What's wrong with San Diego? Is it wrong to have normal human being interests? All this, the sound of a car alarm, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the news of the day! Including metalcore head wounds, stolen trailers, and -for some reason- Kanye West. Big release week with new Gouge Away, Terror, and Candy. Also, are corporate-funded gigs good or bad for hardcore? Or neutral because nothing matters anyway? In addition, we talk detective work, vigilantism, and ska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cheddar from the band Candy joins us as the flow touches on their new record “Good To Feel”, Karl Buechner posters, making friends with venue staff, and the question everyone has been thinking about, Twizzlers or Red Vines? Strap in for show booking 101, including an informational back and forth on proper Reunion Band™️ etiquette. Who plays where, for what, for who, and all that jazz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On location recording from Back To School Jam. The topic of legacy is discussed. Is it worth more than a hill of beans? Or is it the fool's prize we all die struggling to maintain? Are we trapped in a veil of maya? Where's our dude Krishna to extricate us from that illusion? Speaking of which, we get specific on the legacy of the Cro-Mags. Also, Pat Flynn stops by. And would you listen to a new Judge record in 2019? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave Ackerman (Tear It Up; Dead Nation) joins us as the fourth wiseman to look into a crystal ball and answer eternal questions such as "Is Ohio a Bottom 10 State?" and "What's the worst show you've played?" and "what's the problem with 10" records?" and "pancake or waffle?" and "do you need a cool band to cosign you before anyone gives an s?" and many more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SO much new music, you may never need another playlist. We talk Prospect, Gouge Away, Ekulu, Bracewar, Krust, Jesus Piece, Stigmatism, Diztort, Culture Abuse, Hangman, Perfect World, Fencecutter, and a ton more. Dave Ackerman drops in for the second half. It's social gathering in your ear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Jersey native Swank joins the podcast to get so local that only the guy getting a soft pretzel from Wawa is more provincial. The important issues are tackled in the form of seemingly stream-of-consciousness questions like "Gorilla Biscuits or YoT?' and "is Age of Quarrel a crossover record?" and "are drumming gloves cool y/n?" At some point the podcast swings into wildly heavy material, then swings back just in time to talk about Clutch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recognized as one of NYHC's most creative minds, Gavin Van Vlack's resume includes BURN, Absolution, Die 116, and his new band Canonized. You might also know him from his role in Physical Culture Collective. He's a Renaissance man working in the mediums of stringed instruments and fists. Dude is a primo storyteller, so there's something for everyone in this episode wether your thing is muay thai, noise rock, drag shows, beating nazis, or classic hardcore. It's best not to talk over a guy who could bend you into a pretzel, so we mostly stood out of the way and let Gavin go off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Split label releases; Jesus Piece; the Port Authority bathroom; stop calling everything skramz; moments that make our hair stand on end; playing the classics vs playing the new stuff nobody cares about yet; LOTS of topics. Strap a brick of drugs to your leg and hop on the Greyhound, because you're in for a ride. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where were you in 2006? Because hardcore was in a wild place. LOTS of classics, some near classics, and obviously a ton of forgettable nonsense. Bust out the Activia Probiotic yogurt (the biggest food trend of 2006) and lets do this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mac Miller (not that one) joins us to talk touring, Bad Religion as a CA radio staple, touring as a lifestyle, ska punk, Freddy Kruger, Back To School Jam, self stimulation, injury, The Mongo Orchestra, Fat Mike's stay in punk prison, creative payments for bands, McVengers, and the best SoCal punk records of all time. Do some good: - https://www.gofundme.com/bob-otis-medical-expense-amp-recovery - https://www.gofundme.com/helpJimmyG - https://www.gofundme.com/drippydrake1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sound & Fury recap. Fake beefs. Is it ok to laugh at ourselves? Is it ok for Barstool Sports to laugh at us? Coolest show photos. Can Patrick land a plane? Is Wicca Phase the new Void? Entirely too much rap talk courtesy of our guests Kara and Ace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the death(?) of the B9Board and (possibly?) forums in general, it feels like the perfect time to talk the evolution of hardcore kids online. From newsgroups and BBS to the present and beyond. Eric Wilson joins us midway for a very fun, occasionally dark, retrospective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sound & Fury Festival 2018 psych up! Get pumped! We're joined by Chris from (central) Massachusetts to talk about karaoke, the beach, and 50 or so hardcore acts playing this year's festival. Grab a veggie burger from IN n OUT, drop it in an acai bowel, and let's do this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RIP Steve Soto. New music talk. Mil-Spec; Code Orange; Converge; lots more. How much fanbase overlap is there between Drake and Trail of Lies? Do you need a cosign from someone 'cool' to succeed? Could anyone understand Soundcloud rap less than the hosts of this show? Text beef. Physical reality beef. Tangent city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While editing a new Patreon episode, it occurred to us we should give the non-supporters a taste of what they're missing. If you've been supporting, you've heard this material before, but we got an exclusive coming your way next week. If you haven't, here's a few minutes from a few episodes. Hope it turns y'all on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where were you in 1992? Watching Jordan in the finals? Voting for something? Rioting? Well, if you were too busy for Biohazard, Heroin, Bikini Kill, Shelter, Yuppicide, and about two dozen other releases- don't worry. We got you covered. DEEP DIVE 1992! GO! *deal with the fan noise; it was 90 degrees in the spot* Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The mental poverty of broken phone screens. Skrewdriver guilt. Is it worth a band's time to chase cool? Is Post Malone the new Killing Time? Is playing fests for pure radio rock crowds worth it for a subculture band? DIY promoters vs The Fatcats. Revelation vs Victory... which has more Ws? Which carries more Ls? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New (and newish) music from A TON of bands. We land on mostly good material, though a couple bunk recordings. Democore proves to be alive and well(?). Break out the Tostitos. It's a listening party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Axe To Grind goes on a field trip to see what a dorm room looks like in 2018. Not entirely different from the 90’s. While in room 1605 at Warren Towers, we discuss body image issues, assault in all forms, straight edge, group think, and a bunch of other esoteric stuff. We even touch on some music at the very end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Casazza of Run For Cover fame joins us to talk about WHAT'S NEXT FOR HARDCORE. Has heavy hardcore reached its tipping point? Is there enough labels in hardcore right now or are we all super doomed? Quick aside: does anyone care about Fugazi? Also... Pearl Jam. Bonus: Deathcore Patrick emerges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this, the first installment of our Yearbook series, we explore the good the bad and the ugly of 2010. A weird transition year with a lot thriving and some stuff dying. Provided: (hot?) takes and some indisputable realities. Also covered: New Age Anniversary Fest, the state of Alaska, Spotify, and guns. We're accidentally joined by Mike Abrusci of https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-little-time/id1230730210?mt=2 and (in the form of an off-mic yelling) Eric Wilson of https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wrestling-cinema/id1245858726?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One normal host and two guest hosts. What could possibly go wrong? Bob is joined for a lovely afternoon by Riley from Power Trip and Andrew from Police Line / Overnight Drive to discuss screenprinting shops, Texas, Queensrÿche, bandwagons and some other nonsense. Patrick was in Alaska and Tom has something called “a job.” Check out Overnight Drive Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/overnight-drive/id586028564?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Integrity is discussed in frighteningly deep detail. The importance of band names. Favorite DFJ bands. How often do vocalists say the worst possible thing? Fashioncore. How to not discuss moshing. Eye injury. Christian HC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Labels. How do those work? But before all that, we talk Hatebreed on a boat, touring with rappers, bands that no kids care about but managers back hard, Sixpence None the Richer, Hardcore Tinder, clickbait, and we answer the question "is Patrick too masculine?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk new music. Ecostrike; Krimewatch; Day By Day; Fiddlehead; Hirs Collective; Trail of Lies. Everybody's got records coming out and none of them can make Patrick happy. Tom and Bob were in better moods and found a lot to like. Also discussed were the Sound & Fury lineup, that NPR piece on ICE, and Tom's war on emojis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recorded while the world was at United Blood, we anticipated a short episode. Instead we went deep on Bodied Girl, TIHC, BnB Bowl, the window on reunions, a night at L'Amour, Patrick calls the Taste Police on Paramore, Tom details his love affair with Life of Agony, and we wax on live shows that got us off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quick episode (well, an hour) with a purpose. We talk a bit about how you can support us, then we get sucked into responding to the NME 'Greatest HC Albums' nonsense. Is Dead Swans better than Hatebreed? An intern at NME Magazine would like you to believe he believes that. Check out Axe To Grind on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/axetogrindpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bryan and Issac of Knocked Loose stop by to answer why they are so HOT BUTTON a topic on this podcast. The discussion includes coasts vs the midwest experience, bartender hardcore, vans without radios, Nicole Dollanganger, the role of early influences, and how to process hate from someone whose work you admire. We also get an enthusiastic earful on Louisville HC past and present. Oh, and the 'arf arf' song gets explained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The United Blood Fest deep dive, with Hudson Valley renaissance man, Alex Casey. Also, Take Offense, Life Of Agony, Deathwish Inc, Blacklisted, Sick of It All, Knocked Loose, the tricky waters of touring as a legacy act, being a second generation hardcore kid, wondering why you can't all rock together. *THIS RECORDING TAKES PLACE BEFORE A2G12, WHICH WAS POSTED LAST WEEK FOR REASONS* Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 11 is in the shop getting a tune up, so you get an Easter miracle in the form of episode 12 featuring Sam from Triple-B Records. We run through the Damaged City lineup, talk label workings, try to figure out what's up with Boston, and explore the magic of Orlando. We thought we'd throw Sam a curveball by talking metalcore, but it turns out he can hang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the big one. We spend a long time wheeling and dealing to create our perf hc fests. Find the draft list on our twitter and follow along at home. Basically an excuse to talk about a TON of bands. Let's get it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More listener questions, with special guest Chris Morgado. Best hc lyricists. God Free Youth. Tim Singer. Troycore, again. Why can't we be more like rap? AND THE MOST CRUCIAL QUESTION EVER: WHICH CLASSIC HC RECORDS DO WE NOT ACTUALLY LOVE AT ALL? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A pure mailbag episode where we answer your questions with the help of Chris Morgado. Should you still be angry at No Warning for something that happened in a Warped Tour signing booth in 2004? Is Richmond still poppin? Is Patrick joining a white power band for giggles? Should old people die immediately to make space on this planet for the young? Look for part 2 coming later this week (we went long, man.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our friend Ivy was in town so she became an impromptu guest / women's issues correspondent. We talk the past, present, and future of creepo behavior. We touch on the Hardcore Predators IG account as well. We start the podcast raving about dishonest reviews, so we end on the most honest: what does your face say about what you're hearing? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After getting heavy about the mental health of HC's most ludicrous luminary, we get to our real topic: Rewritten history. Acts that were bigger than you remember -if you remember them at all- that were handed off to other scenes or completely erased from the hc canon. Then we get heavy again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Turnstile! New AN! New Harm's Way! New albums and old beefs. Bob thinks we talk too much about the bands that don't need us to talk about them. Patrick loads his blunderbuss and goes poser hunting. We all become art critics. Lotta petty grievances aired out in this one. We recorded it in a submarine. Deal with it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part one of our Dear Fests series. We talk about the flavor of FYA, TIHC, S&F, Damage City, UxB, Midwest Blood, and more. We're joined by John Scanlon, who in addition to having put on fests of his own has attended every fest in human history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We chop it up with Brian Audley of Incendiary and try to squeeze the secret of being a successful band that doesn't tour out of him. We also talk admiration vs inspiration vs worship. Patrick issues a fatwa on booking agents that send bands through ice conditions. And we give our Hardcore Power Rankings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Exactly like the episode title says, we give a track-by-track review of the newest America's Hardcore Comp. We love some of it, hate some of it, and shrug at a few tracks too. We also talk about comps and why they matter or don't and what goes into them. Shoutout to the bands on this one, and Triple-B for OKing this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Trail of Lies the new hotness? Will Twitching Tongues exit the doghouse with this new record? Is Youngblood a relevant label? Do people care about F*cked Up? Can we swear in this description box? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ending the year and kicking off the podcast in style, we're joined by Sebastian from the NYC/LI band Regulate. Everyone gives their Best Ofs and we talk about what we expect from some of our favorite acts in 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices