Booking a compelling music festival is tough.  You need the right venue, a good range of bands and your headliner is crucial to the events financial success.  So, if you had to curate your own Punk Rock fest with a ten band lineup and a limited budget, how would you go about it?  Would you focus on more affordable, up and coming acts or would you lean into legacy bands that tug on the nostalgia of an audience with deeper pockets?  Our philosophies differ but the results offer three interesting fantasy options for the 2023 festival goer.    LINK TO EPISODE IN BIO   RIP Bob Nalbandian   Contact us at:  [email protected] Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill

Most people would identify “Ace of Spades” as Motörhead’s classic LP and they’re not wrong.  In fact, the band released six classics in a row starting with their self-titled 1977 debut but it’s really “Overkill” that honed the sound that would unite Metalheads and Punks and influence thousands of bands from every possible subgenre.  From Discharge to Metallica, extreme music would simply not sound the same without Lemmy, “Fast" Eddie Clarke and “Filthy” Phil (The Animal) Taylor and there’s no more sonic proof than their sophomore LP.    RIP Lemmy RIP Fast Eddie Clarke RIP Phil Taylor  RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    EP134:  Motörhead Ace of Spades  https://huntsmanhill.com/2020/08/17/ep134-motorhead-ace-of-spades-soundtrack-to-the-apocalypse-vol-20/    Another Perfect Day https://open.spotify.com/album/4N2sRhYs4t7bZTqoiggDRC?si=qbzwDNxhRhqoRbZgHWbpSw   1916 https://open.spotify.com/album/6mvrfjdgSvwcDXhxyVjWTx?si=vfuZ66qxR2uE7Dh87Lnkkg   Inferno https://open.spotify.com/album/7jGmwdQeJQ7kZ8LN7uN4lD?si=MYiVfk_cTSCSQwk7t5xKwA   Doom Regulator  https://open.spotify.com/artist/5KIqdI4DIdPdiS5JVWQVxj?si=xRbQQKHFRrW9_yngMMp-mA   Requiem Metal Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/2V20sO3i7d2E763sdnxF3G?si=4812c8eb8abe4254   Contact us at:  [email protected] Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill

X always had elements of Americana and Country on the edges of their music but never as straight forward or overt as when they swapped their legendary guitar player Billy Zoom for another LA legend (Dave Alvin of the Blasters) and changed their name to the Knitters.  Half of the songs on their debut are covers but they fit so neatly alongside the John Doe / Exene Cervenka originals that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it was recorded.  It’s a timeless sound for sure, but how does it hold up on 2023?   RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    Marty & Elayne  https://www.thedresden.com/event/marty-elayne/   Serge Gainsbourg Aux Armes Et Caetera  https://open.spotify.com/album/20iIOE0SiJEVa8LpkMfN3B?si=BuburO_dQiWH-IjdrzRpkg   Contact us at:  [email protected] Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill

With a battle cry go forth, which is "Give the people what they want"; and what the people want could only be the senseless slaughter of the gutter-slime that litters this nation for cash and prizes. Yes, this is the show where people bet their lives to win something big. Cause when your life is shit, then you haven't got much to lose on: The Huntsman Hill Polanco Podcast!     RIP Dave Brockie  RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    Pinback Blue Screen Life https://open.spotify.com/album/3qMXTPf0ofiBHm4D5chujy?si=juET9BNCQhim4wsCrnmq0g   Movies & TV This is Gwar https://www.shudder.com/movies/watch/this-is-gwar/563e4d6d26ca5253   Holliston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy5ktm9hBEw   GWAR on Joan Rivers  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8wwxYrMOvE   Contact us at:  [email protected] Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill

Dark Angel’s second LP was released in 1986, the zenith of Thrash Metal and the same year as “Master of Puppets,” “Reign in Blood,” “Peace Sells..” and dozens of other classics of the genre.  It didn’t leave the same scars that many of those other LPs did at the time but how does this cacophony of Slayer inspired riffage hold up in 2023?  Pretty damn well actually.   

RIP Jim Durkin RIP Donald Runyon  RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    We Have Arrived https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpRpNQJGvL4   Academy O.C. Our Own Disaster  https://open.spotify.com/album/0tFStv5vbtMWNHulzagilr?si=Ij00FXlRQXmrFnn_cvjzsA   HHPP EP50:  The Best Music of 1986 https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/01/30/ep50-the-best-music-of-1986/   HHPP EP78:  VoiVod Killing Technology  https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/09/30/ep78-voivod-killing-technology/   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

Despite its party vibe, “1965” was the Afghan Whigs breakup album.  The move to a new record label (Columbia), lackluster sales and a less than spectacular tour with Aerosmith that would culminate in a coma inducing 2x4 to the head in an Austin Texas bar bathroom would prove too much for the band.  Though they would emerge triumphant to reunite in in 2006, “1965” for a time was their final salvo and what a gloriously debaucherous time it was.  #solopod!        RIP Bob Nalbandian    Recommended Listening:   EP185AW:  The Afghan Whigs Black Love https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/07/31/ep185aw-the-afghan-whigs-black-love/   Live At the Howlin’ Wolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUFDfpVvXzU   Moon Maan  https://open.spotify.com/album/0pUyXByJ9TjelPxVD9OBy5?si=8EQr3lOhTxO6wXWXb2SwIA   huntsmanhill.com #huntsmanhill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c

Is the sum greater than (or ever equal to) the parts?  In this case, Fake Names is the sum and the parts are Refused, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Embrace, One Last Wish, Soulside, Girls Against Boys and Fugazi.  It’s a tall order to be sure and the supergroup pulls from some varied influences, some more expected than others.  How close do they get to their lineage.  We discuss (without surprisingly little debate).         RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening    Killer Be Killed  https://open.spotify.com/artist/4JNF6YOUi69O4zAdwQVGLY?si=YxnUITtMS6ijnOA2N7pLcQ   Minor Victories  https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ZDbs6Ag5GT53kdeY1ciTx?si=x1u7DduaSUOsFyC6JJSG_A   Bloc Party Silent Alarm https://open.spotify.com/album/0urhQCsjpczjC8zbTMtd8t?si=l6pXhj9LTQyPaFB4jqRHgA   One Last Wish 1986 https://open.spotify.com/album/3mITKV283MWEgyQz7p242N?si=01uHQ2e3R8WGhfV6N5h-kA   Ghost “Square Hammer” https://open.spotify.com/track/2XgTw2co6xv95TmKpMcL70?si=b02e46f2fe27498a   manhuntsman “Glass Hammer” https://open.spotify.com/track/1mi2OklQgMDEbRACWf2pTA?si=5eb00bc073da4071   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

Part two of our Reevaluation Series where we review an album that we loved in our youth and turned violently against as we became mature music snobs to ask:  Is This Album Actually Great?  This time its Ratt’s 1984 debut “Out of the Cellar.”  The answer might surprise you, unless of course you’ve heard this album before (then the answer is obvious).    RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening    EP140:  Reevaluation - W.A.S.P. - Is this album actually great? https://huntsmanhill.com/2020/10/12/ep140-re-evaluation-w-a-s-p-is-this-album-actually-g-r-e-a-t/   EP93:  Mötley Crüe Too Fast For Love https://huntsmanhill.com/2019/03/10/ep93-motley-crue-too-fast-for-love/   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill   Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

Agnostic Front’s second album divided their Hardcore following due to its obvious Metal leanings but these inclinations brought in the Metal kids as the two crowds increasingly began to blend.  Before long “Cause For Alarm” would be heralded as a classic in their catalog and along with releases by SOD, DRI, COC and Suicidal Tendencies would come to define the Crossover genre.  Today it sounds distinctly of a time and that time kicked ass.     RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening    Live At CBGB https://open.spotify.com/album/2p0TGP7SKEKa5n8PkzY12A?si=HYYBBgshS-a4R-x7ZYPpng   Movie The Godfathers of Hardcore http://thegodfathersofhardcore.com   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ

We spent last episode Shoegazing and this week we’re tripping in our bucket hats all the way to Madchester to talk about The Charlatans 1990 debut.   Known in the States for the bands lone radio hit,  “The Only One I Know,” the band was a smash in their native England where a full blown scene of drug taking, baggy clothes wearing, dancing to the break of dawn Brits was sweeping the nation.  The Charlatans, along with with The Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, The Happy Mondays & 808 State were the soundtrack.  But how does this stuff hold up today?  Pretty damn well actually.       Recommended Listening    Inspiral Carpets  https://open.spotify.com/artist/66GWpx9iLxrvvfhDsG9STP?si=MLlUJKyVQpmXOv2qWpi49w   808 State “Cubik" https://open.spotify.com/track/5BxETnZ8Dzm86jcuFAozOa?si=6fb3e5628aa1484c   Happy Monday Bummed  https://open.spotify.com/album/6e6DI3muL90IC1LESBo7wK?si=WmKkVMnSTpGcx7P5YANJOw   Ned’s Atomic Dustbin God fodder https://open.spotify.com/album/3jkqrE3ycfEY8088IZXcZZ?si=hOvoDFPYQHiotJMt8Qf9bA   Northside https://open.spotify.com/artist/2gv2g5svhtzsUQhtNZW7Xr?si=Y1HWeS5hTp-HOjWGNh9HrA   Spirea X https://open.spotify.com/artist/05x3cffNhKts722Xv2WQWb?si=8bhCvp54SYCGqm_VjYED0A   huntsmanhill.com [email protected] instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ   RIP Bob Nalbandian