Everybody loves Rusty! It's impossible not to. The H2O guitarist has lived a life of adventure and we get a chance to talk about a lot it here - from the early days, building a halfpipe in the band house and possibly inspiring Fugazi?, barely surviving getting shot to touring the world with his heroes, this episode goes off track in all the right ways.

Everybody loves Rusty! It's impossible not to. The H2O guitarist has lived a life of adventure and we get a chance to talk about a lot it here - from the early days, building a halfpipe in the band house and possibly inspiring Fugazi?, barely surviving getting shot to touring the world with his heroes, this episode goes off track in all the right ways.

Rusty Pistachio

Rancid drummer and The Used founder Branden Steineckert grew up in Utah between a steel plant and a prison — chased by cops for skateboarding  and then later having to call them to his home for domestic abuse. (They were useless.) Now he gets to play drums in one of the world's best punk bands! This is a deep, fun, upbeat conversation with one of music's most resilient dudes.

Rancid drummer and The Used founder Branden Steineckert grew up in Utah between a steel plant and a prison — chased by cops for skateboarding and then later having to call them to his home for domestic abuse. (They were useless.) Now he gets to play drums in one of the world's best punk bands! This is a deep, fun, upbeat conversation with one of music's most resilient dudes.

Rancid drummer and The Used founder Branden Steineckert grew up in Utah between a steel plant and a prison — chased by cops for skateboarding &nbsp;and then later having to call them to his home for domestic abuse. (They were useless.) Now he gets to play drums in one of the world's best punk bands! This is a deep, fun, upbeat conversation with one of music's most resilient dudes.

Branden Steineckert

This week’s guest is Johnny Whitney, frontman of the all-star band <a href='https://www.instagram.com/evil.island.band'>Evil Island</a>, whose members come from Johnny’s former band The Blood Brothers, as well as Glassjaw and …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. Johnny tells us how he got Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto to appear on their new record—and what an incredible experience that was. He also talks about growing up in Seattle just as Nirvana was breaking through, and how that moment shaped his own interest in music.

This week’s guest is Johnny Whitney, frontman of the all-star band Evil Island, whose members come from Johnny’s former band The Blood Brothers, as well as Glassjaw and …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. Johnny tells us how he got Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto to appear on their new record—and what an incredible experience that was. He also talks about growing up in Seattle just as Nirvana was breaking through, and how that moment shaped his own interest in music.

This week’s guest is Johnny Whitney, frontman of the all-star band <a href="https://www.instagram.com/evil.island.band" rel="noopener noreferrer">Evil Island</a>, whose members come from Johnny’s former band The Blood Brothers, as well as Glassjaw and …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. Johnny tells us how he got Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto to appear on their new record—and what an incredible experience that was. He also talks about growing up in Seattle just as Nirvana was breaking through, and how that moment shaped his own interest in music.

Johnny Whitney

Ensign frontman, Tim Shaw tells us tales of learning the ropes with Sick of It All, getting his ass kicked at a Discharge show and being healed of road-douchery by Rancid. Of course he and Benny also get into a lot of reminiscing about CBGB and the New Jersey scene.

Ensign frontman, Tim Shaw tells us tales of learning the ropes with Sick of It All, getting his ass kicked at a Discharge show and being healed of road-douchery by Rancid. Of course he and Benny also get into a lot of reminiscing about CBGB and the New Jersey scene.

Tim Shaw

The duo discuss how they started making children's music as StevenSteven, Burns' death hoax and the infamous Flaming Lips/Candlebox tour.

StevenSteven

Josh Bayer discusses pursuing comics as a career, his time as a fake psychic and meeting Henry Rollins.

Josh Bayer

Silverstein members discuss how the music industry has evolved, why touring karma is important and Shane Told's own podcast "Lead Singer Syndrome."

Silverstein

Rosenstock discusses performing in Tijuana, the making of his latest album "Worry" and staying DIY as his popularity increases.

Jeff Rosenstock

Flanagan discusses his memoir "Hard-Core: Life Of My Own," growing up on the Lower East Side and why he's always written from his own experiences.

Harley Flanagan

Nielsen talks about mental illness and the importance of LGBT issues, rallying against ignorance and getting off on people hating Senses Fail.

Buddy Nielsen

Scharff talks about landing late night TV's dream gig, why navigating the music industry is even worse than dating and the joys of Jeff Beck.

Jared Scharff

Hutchinson discusses his creative process, the true nature of happiness and why the dark nature of his band's music doesn't mean he's a downer offstage. If anything, it's quite the opposite.

Scott Hutchinson

Russian Circles discuss their first bands, the reasoning behind not having any microphones onstage and why they take their music seriously instead of themselves.

Russian Circles

The leader of seminal band, Bad Religion, wows us with science and punk rock - two things he knows A LOT about.

Greg Graffin

Going Off Track is a weekly, interview show hosted by Benny Horowitz (The Gaslight Anthem) and producer Brad Worrell. The guest list leans musical but with plenty of other interesting folks thrown in.

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