Axe To Grind

Snaccidents Will Happen

9/11, the white house, SXE Dad, the pursuit of fame, getting hit at shows and coming back for more (the behavior of enthusiastic teens? Or lunatics?) and more! 

Punks Is Hippies (but are they hardcore)

Genres, cut micro-thin. Also, burger science. 

Nightmare Before Christmas Full Sleeves

The annoyances of being a public-facing person; jokes that aren't jokes; do you have enough homies; how many great records of the 80s are their really; more!

Return To Itchycoo Park

Practice? Bible references. Don't touch my stuff. Hellfest lineups. What's up with that second CIV record and where is Itchycoo Park? Who was the king of Victory Record's Big Three? The first Ipod was owned by Josh Trustkill. Fribbles. Bad Luck 13. More. 

Brutal Hairdo

Winner-take-all endurance trials at 10-band bills. Pressing plant insanity. New Turnstile. Fans on cocaine. House fees on merch and other crimes against humanity. 

Rust Belt Takeover

The California Takeover, then and now. How to construct a good setlist [spoiler: play the songs people like]. Slumlords. Turnstile doing their thing. And when hardcore legends rap... 

Neck Appears On 297 Comps

Compilations that are as meaningless as existence, bands we never talk about, and how to make things matter. 

Deep Diving 15 Minutes of V Important HC

Put on your bikinis or board shorts and jump in the deep end with us as we go an hour deep on Inside Out and their phenomenal ep, "No Spiritual Surrender." We wander through the questions we all are asking; would Zach 108 have been... great? To what level did Inside Out influence 90's hardcore (spoiler: A LOT) and what does metalcore owe to Vic and Co? We love this record and probably so do a lot of you. 

Mike Pence Is Asking For Guestlist Again

A serious note, then onto the goofiness. New Turnstile; slowpunk; do we stick by Ashlee Simpson through her SNL debacle (yeah); new Descendants tracks; being a heavy-set or balding pop-punker; California nazis; tempting shows; and threatening the president via email in 1994. 

SHOW ME SOME GODDAMN RESPECT

How to balance a bill, a tour, a festival so that you're not shitting on anyone but also being realistic. Who plays when and for how much money? No old dudes in the pool or is it free-swim? Are we doing favors or is it all biz? Let's figure it out. 

Zing a Dong Bone

7 Seconds and Red Hot Chili Peppers and Killing Time and Nickleback. We contain multitudes. 

Nice Ticklers

Does sauerkraut prevent illness? We defer to the real scientists/NYHC frontmen on matters of such importance, but we discuss taking a bit too much from musicians. 

HC Bracket Tournament? What A Clever Idea

Congratulations to Bridge Nine Records on having enough releases to do a full bracket tourney. We honor this achievement by playing it out and seeing who wins the prize of the top band ever work with the label. 

Walking In the Spider Webs

Classic ExC talk, Helmet, Into Another, Walter recap, Warped Tour, and a ton of No Doubt. It's a feel-good weekend, everyone. Enjoy your lives. 

Finpunks Unite And Take Over

If Toby needs bus fare, we got him. The juggalo-skramz pipeline. The first three songs on an LP. Growing up adjacent to the sickest shit and never actually engaging. Does Soul Side have tracks? How many tracks off the Judgement Night soundtrack can you name?

Never Go Full Bono

The glory of musical theatre; Fucked Up addendum; who is in your DMs; Wrangler Brutes; working a straight job; stealing bulk candy; vacation homes; The Cramps suck; more! 

Age, Race, Microwave Chik'n Nuggets

Answering the most probing questions from you, our listeners (and possibly a few burner accounts). What classic NYHC releases has Harley taken a pass on? Is there an age limit on stage dives? Does Eulogy have classics? Don't fight who loves you. 

Tongue Is Too Big

Proper pronunciation and probing questions. How to make friends. Layne Staley RIP. 

The Season of Grievance Continues

Finishing up our Festivus messages of grievance and ire. 

Until You Pin Me, Festivus Is NOT Over

The best Festivus ever. Could Vegan Pizza Hut be good? Deep dive on pizza like food. The secret origin of The Killers. Behind the Mystery Box. Chris from Keane, New Hampshire. The decline of aging NYHC frontmen online. Everyone's favorite conversation, the best shirt brands. Washing your hands in separate bathrooms in your own home. Sneak guest appearance by Los Angevangelist, Eric Wilson. 

Land of Confusion

Band name confusion, Citizen App vigilantes,  a what-if about Inside Out, parsing great EPs from good LPs including Don't Forget the Struggle Don't Forget the Streets, what a final GB LP woulda been, and -somehow- gun control. 

Where Were YOU When Kid Rock Took the Stage

Rap beef violence, more classic rock/hardcore analogs, Woodstock 99, Elvis Costello dinner theatre and why some of your favorite musicians can come off a bit aloof. 

When People Are Cool

A few minutes of RESPECTFUL and MEASURED disagreement over politics before talking about the lasting rewards of being nice to people in hardcore. Experiences with hardcore notables, food co-ops, hardcore in non-hardcore places, and more! 

But like, WHAT IF, man...

We take our DeLorean to the past and alter major events to witness the impact on our modern world. Among these experiments, the complete erasure of Earth Crisis, Cult Ritual, Black Flag, TUI, Converge, Tragedy, and more. What remains when the lynchpins are pulled?

The song 'Just Look Around' in podcast form

Some Patron questions answered, and some larger questions addressed. Homelessness to TUI. It's all here. 

Dangerous Minds Starring Coolio

Part two of Patron questions. What's the best hardcore act to tastefully swing to something else? Cancer Bats? Is there perks to being in a notable hardcore band or is it just poverty without glory? Where did Patrick see Lungfish in 2003 and is his brain now full of holes? Where do you buy knives by weight? What's Iceage? What is the guy from 18 Visions' favorite baseball team? Is the jock v punk dynamic completely made up? Batman's dick?

You Have Such Curious Minds

Patrons sent us probing questions and we allowed ourselves to be probed. International hardcore, Sheer Terror, Life of Agony, Freddy Madball's shoulders, great work in comic books, Springa's forearms, how to parse discographies for streaming platforms, Cheers, taking lyrics out of context, are there any reunions left, are we in the Bootleg Era, the Boston look, and Hot Topic as your local record store. 

Creating In the Void

Originally intended as a bonus for the main feed, this episode was cut short by sad news you're all aware of now. Before that moment: some really good talk about staying productive in the covid void, putting bands together without a potential show in sight, rocking liberty spikes at your state job, and the off-chance that this year is better in music than last year. 

Hey! Doing a Patreon exclusive question episode.... What do you got?

The FOLLOW UP record pt2

Having deconstructed our own sophomore records, it's time to (mostly) respectfully take that critical lens to hardcore et large! How did Turmoil pop out of obscurity with one of the best metalcore albums of all time? How long should a Murphy's Law set go? Is Converge's album You Fail Me a curveball or a changeup? This episode takes a sports analogy and applies it to everything from Bad Brains to Throwdown. Can't go wrong.