Gut Feeling

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Theo Goutzinakis, co-founding guitarist-vocalist for B.C. punk icons Gob. We’ve got a Halloween season episode on deck where Theo gets into the gooey and goofy origins of the band’s “I Hear You Calling” video, where the group square off against a zombie soccer team.

Throughout the talk, Theo touches on: his love of b-movie horror; a proposed alternate sci-fi video treatment; the Toronto Argonauts’ undead cheerleading squad; decapitating a goalkeeper and getting zombie gunk in his mouth; scary pranks; Gob’s Halloween plans; and more

We kinda inside baseball this soccer talk, so it must be noted that Josh Levy directed this horror-comedy classic. For clarity, Theo’s story about cramming leatherjackets into his mouth was for the end of the “Soda” video, an auspicious start to the highlight reel of “bugs and bananas” spilling out of his gob.

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is a conversation with Jesse Gander, acclaimed producer/engineer at Vancouver’s Rain City Recorders and onetime vocalist for Lynn Valley punk teens d.b.s., who just had a pair of albums from the Nineties pressed onto vinyl for the very first time.

Throughout the talk, Jesse touches on: a recent recording project in Quebec’s cabin wilderness; learning engineering tricks from producer Cecil English (D.O.A., SNFU); crafting teenage punk songs about love, politics and the price of cheese; re-upping the represses with new art, lost recordings and drastic cuts; early shows and dangerous highway drives; d.b.s.’ famed striped t-shirts and Jesse’s stinky pair of cargo shorts; Much Music coverage, and the time one of them crashed into a skateboard bowl on national TV; reconnecting with his old bandmates for the reissue project; an upcoming live LP; how his recording career is still rooted in the punk friendships he made on tour; and more!

1995’s Tales from the Crib and 1999’s Some Boys Got It Most Men Don’t vinyl reissues are out now via Dine Alone Records. The full d.b.s. catalogue is streaming now via Boat Dreams From the Hill.

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is a conversation with Mark Palm, guitarist and vocalist for Seattle power-pop institution Supercrush, and onetime vocalist and songwriter for Vancouver-to-Seattle-based heavy rock outlet Devotion.

Throughout the talk, Mark hits on: new Supercrush singles and covers coming out in 2026; the band losing their HMS Studio space in the SODO district, and the grungy history of the old building; the demolition of North Vancouver’s Seylynn Hall; Devotion’s pipeline from detuned hardcore to sludging metallic groove; naming your album Bastard Son of Affluence Blues, and what your parents might think about that; obscure Canadian amps; getting someone to work your wah pedal for you; communicating solitude; neon-glow nocturnality; early work with drummer Aaron O’Neil (Lights Out, Supercrush), guitar soloist Graeme “Smokestack” Honeyman (Go It Alone, September), lead guitarist Sean Meyer (Supercrush); and more.

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is a conversation with Marc and Brent Belke, brothers and co-founding guitarists of Edmonton, Alberta-formed and later Vancouver, BC-based hardcore icons SNFU.

Throughout the talk, Muc and Bunt hit on: the new Come With Me, I’m On My Way horror comic featuring four gruesome tales inspired by classic SNFU songs; Trust Records’ upcoming 40th anniversary project behind debut album ...And No One Else Wanted to Play; Edmonton’s early ‘80s punk and skateboarding scenes; the absurdist and sometimes misunderstood lyrics of late frontman Mr. Chi Pig; the making of 1995’s The One Voted Most Likely to Succeed; the ‘90s punk boom, and touring with Green Day and Bad Religion; gear and guitar solos; Strain bassist and SNFU roadie Eric "Flexyourhead" Thorkelson’s very bad day; Brent’s current film score work; and more!

3Press Comics’ Come With Me comic is out now, along with an SNFU tribute 7-inch from Dad Religion; Trust Records’ Play repress out soon; and a repress of Voted is out in November via La Agonia De Vivir.

You can also read a 2020 feature I’d written around some of the most poignant, poetic and occasionally profane lyrics Mr. Chi Pig brought to the mic over at Exclaim!

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is with Shira Blustein, the Calgary-born, Vancouver-based restauranteur behind celebrated vegetarian spot the Acorn and the newly launched Lila.

Shira has also been a part of punk and indie music for the past 30 years, including time spent with Mediaucracy, Chupacabra, Blood Meridian, Hard Drugs, the Choir Practice, A Pale Blue, Ashley Shadow, and more.

Throughout our talk, Shira touches on: meeting her Lila partner at a band photoshoot in 2010; Calgarian crust punk; who barfed at her first punk show; signing to V2 Records; film industry sound design; connections to Black Mountain, the Black Keys, Destroyer, Kylesa, Thor and more; and her new Cure cover band, Strawberries and Cream.

Hello! It's nearing the end of 2023, and per tradition I've invited Adam Mitchell onto the podcast to get into some of his favourite records of the year — this time including music from Guided By Voices, Park Hye Jin, Home Front, and People's Temple.

Adam also weighs in on traveling to Mexico to record a 7-inch as a member of punk outfit Pura Mania; upcoming projects from both Spectres and Madness Cartel; and dialing into third-wave ska classics in happenstantial fashion.

That's it until 2024!

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Tom Thacker, the Fraser Valley, BC-raised founding guitarist of pop-punkers Gob, and longtime member of Sum 41.

Throughout the talk, Tom touches on: getting Gob off the ground with co-founder Theo Goutzinakis; bringing punk rock shows to suburban Langley, BC in the '90s, and possibly dusting their Punk Strikes Back concert series off in 2024; record store jobs; the sonic influence of Vancouver hardcore; running away from a bull on his way to a bush party; and whether or not original Gob drummer Wolfman Pat was in fact Andy Dixon from d.b.s.'s dad.

Gob's recent round of vinyl reissues are out now through Dine Alone Records, while Tom's also bracing himself for a mega-tour supporting Sum 41's upcoming final album, Heaven :x: Hell.

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Jordan Blilie, the onetime co-vocalist for surrealistic hardcore outfit The Blood Brothers. The band recently delivered a deluxe anniversary reissue behind 2003's Burn, Piano Island, Burn, which is out now via Epitaph.

Throughout the talk, Jordan touches on: the dynamic, daring, and essential tandem he maintained with co-vocalist Johnny Whitney; the difference between vocal confidence and vocal competence; going into "survival mode" in the studio; working with Ross Robinson (Korn, Limp Bizkit); making a truly bizarre major label debut; and plying one's trade as a "grotesque mess."

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Vanessa Heins, a Toronto-based photographer who has worked with artists in the worlds of punk, folk, pop, hip-hop, and so much more for more than 20 years.

Throughout the talk, Vanessa touches on: growing up in Vancouver; getting her start behind the lens in high school while taking photos of her friends' punk bands (including future members of Said the Whale); setting a scene comfortably; an upcoming tour with City and Colour; and memories of shoots with the likes of Alexisonfire, Beastie Boys, Carly Rae Jepsen, U.S. Girls' Meg Remy, John Prine, Sister Ray, and more!

You can find Vanessa's work over on Instagram.

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is with Jack Duckworth, the Vancouver Island-born, Glasgow based musician currently crafting darkwave odysseys as Soft Riot. The synth-heavy solo project's snarky, urgent and playful new No album comes out August 11 through Jack's own Possession Records and the Netherlands' Wave Tension Records.

Throughout the talk, Jack gets into: Soft Riot's latest collection; finding his way back to guitar; cosmic coincidences; Vancouver Island punk in the early '90s; playing his first-ever show with an Acid casualty fill-in singer; hitchhiking; the quaintness of early internet culture; and his time in bands including The Forgotten, Anthony Monday, Slough of Despond, The Measure, and Radio Berlin.