CHECK IT OUT: JOHN BRANNON IS HERE!!! Today on the show, one of the most important vocalists of all time stops by to discuss punk! Listen in as Damian sits down with his biggest musical influence to talk: Static vs. Detroit Punk, the Minor Threat shows that bookend Detroit Hardcore, turning Nirvana on to Lead Belly, scaring the shit out of Ryan Gosling & so much more! 

THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!

& don't miss the first ever release of one of the most storied lost recordings in punk history: Static's "Toothpaste And Pills"! OUT NOW on Thirdman Records!

Also Touched On:

A dream episode 

punk before punk

Alice Cooper

Static: Class Of ’78

A faster Mott The Hoople: Sex Pistols at midnight on the radio

Reading about it in Creem

Being at the Kiss “Alive” gig

The first smell of weed: Rocking out to Judy Collins in ’69

Hearing the Stooges 

“Kick Out The Jams” on CKLW

Destroy All Monsters at the Red Carpet 

“It was horrible”: Detroit first wave punk

Fallout: John’s first band

Terrorizing Grosse Point

Thurston and the tape

“Everything I’m doing is wrong”: Discovering Hardcore

Ben Blackwell is the reason

Toothpaste and Pills: the stage show

“They all sucked”

The Coronation Tavern in Windsor

“Minor Threat is going to kill Negative Approach” 

The Allied

OP and Graham join

The death of a scene

Violence overtakes the scene

metalheads becoming Oi Boys

The Birthday Party changes everything

“We aren’t ready”: opening for Black Flag for the first Hyenas show

“Fake NA”: The third line-up

Laura Lee

“I wanted more violence” where the NA sound would have gone

Hating Evacuate… still

Hangin’ with Belushi

going to Fear on SNL

“New York SUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKS”

Detroit: the Sweden of punk

“We don’t come from the Beach Boys and the Beatles. We like the Stooges”

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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