Conan Neutron’s Protonic Reversal

First episode of 2020 is up! Matt Cronk of Qui and Cunts speaks to Conan about all things rock!

-Quite a bit of talk about midwest vs. L.A.

-Cunts origin story

-AmRep/Touch and Go style or Hardcore Band?

-The name, reactions or non-reactions thereof. “If you’re offender by it, it’s probably not for you… and that’s fine”

-Being in a band that is getting a little bit of attention while being a musician approaching middle age.

-“While they argue about riffs, I can look at girls on tinder”

-Qui… and Anything Goes!

-Genre vs. Emotional Response.

-Qui on recharge status

-Covering “Goin’ Out West”

-Hardcore bands lack of originality.

-“I just want to listen to Captain Beefheart and REM

-David Yow joining Qui

-Qui recording Ashtry Heart with Buzz Osborne, Dale Drover, Trevor Dunn and Kevin Rutmanis

-Ramones vs. Eric Dolphy: respect to both, different skill sets.

Conan talks to Donna about the Djunah full length Ex-Voto. Going over on a song by song basis, as well as the VERY BUSY YEAR that the band has had.

There is talk of Donna’s previous band Beat Drun Juel as well… and gosh darn it, it’s just a great talk.

It’s long overdue! But Greg Saunier of the mighty Deerhoof is finally on Protonic Reversal!

-Blueberry tea.

-San Francisco then vs. now and various tech stories.

-Music scenes where everybody participates

-Deerhoof finding it’s audience, an audience that likes to be surprised.

-Corporations consolidating music together.

-Greg and Conan talk about the early beginnings of Deerhoof.

-Halfbird

-Major label sell outs being an anachronism.

-George Horn and mastering the crazy first Deerhoof 7″ for Kill Rock Stars

-Satomi joining the band after only being in America a few weeks.

-Brief forays into politics.

-The complete lack of “development” in music now, and it’s vitality to Deerhoof becoming it’s thing.

-tourin’ tourin’ tourin’, at medium sized places around the world.

-Spotify and the gross insustainability of things that “seem like the future” but benefit everybody but the artist.

-Underground and independent spaces worldwide!

-Ed and John.

-John’s pickup soccer games.

-Political stances in 2019.

Also be sure to check out part 2 and part 3!

Many people only know Mark as “the guy with the Hat”, but he was not only the bassplayer for the Melvins in their high profile “Atlantic” period in the 90s weird rock “gold rush”, he also has a long history of interesting bands before, during and after Melvins. This is an in-depth discussion of ALL of that, solo albums/Bellringer and a lot more. Far reaching stuff!

It’s Gaz! Tropical Fuck Storm is on a US tour, Gaz takes a little time to talk about dicks in album artwork, conspiracy fantasy as songwriting prompt, cover songs (fugazi!), hitting a weird zeitgeist, some talk of The Drones and lots more. Dig in.

The mighty Bill Barbot! Guitar player for Jawbox, singer and guitar player for Foxhall Stacks, Bassist for Burning Airlines and thorn in the side of Brett Kavanaugh comes on the mighty Protonic Reversal to talk about Jawbox reunion shows, work/life balance, living punk rock vs. just playing it, his new power-pop/glam band’s cassette and so much more. Come on in!

Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal