Join us with our special guest, John Russell of the bands Gnawing and Alright. This week we discuss the year 1983. Our album for this episode is the hardcore beginnings of Hüsker Dü on their album Everything Falls Apart. For our EP, we talk about SS Decontrol's second release, Get It Away.

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Songs featured in this episode:

Hüsker Dü - Everything Falls Apart

Hüsker Dü - Sunshine Superman

Hüsker Dü - Gravity

SS Decontrol - Forced Down Your Throat

SS Decontrol - Under the Influence

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We return to the year 1976 to discuss the godmother of punk, Patti Smith and her second album, Radio Ethiopia. We also talk about art punk band MX-80 Sound and their debut EP, Big Hits (Hard Pop from the Hoosiers). Will we like this one or will it be Flipper all over again?

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Songs featured in this episode:

Patti Smith Group - Ask the Angels

Patti Smith Group - Poppies

Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia

MX-80 Sound - Train to Loveland

MX-80 Sound - Myonga Von Bontee

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This week we talk about the sneaky good year of 2010. We discuss the album Hoop Dreams from the criminally underrated Oakland punks, Big Kids, as well as the time we booked them. For our EP, we take a look at at the split by Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) and Into It. Over It. All this and Justin's recent mission of removing white supremacists from Instagram.

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Songs featured in this episode:

Jawbox - Jackpot Plus

Big Kids - Parents Are Still a Handful

Big Kids - Slam Dunkin' the Living Room

Big Kids - 3,000 Hi-Fives

Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - If We Had Found You Any Later, You Would Have Drowned

Into It. Over It. - Brenham, TX

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Join us this week as we discuss the year 1994, a pretty major year for punk rock. Our album for this episode is from spirit filled hardcore originators, Focused, and it's their debut full length, Bow. For our EP, we discuss the Believe In 7" from enigmatic screamo originators, Shotmaker.

Songs featured on this episode:

Jawbox - Jackpot Plus

Focused - Walk Beside Me

Focused - Blinded

Focused - Bow

Focused - Forever

Focused - Forward

Shotmaker - Rope and Pulley

Shotmaker - Add and Subtract

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Join us this week as we break down the year 2004. We discuss the Minnesota metalcore masters, Martyr AD and their second album, On Earth As It Is in Hell. We also talk about the debut demo from Philly hardcore stalwarts, Blacklisted. Justin recaps seeing Jawbreaker, and we look at some of The Fest announcements.

Songs featured in this episode:

Jawbox - Jackpot Plus

Martyr AD - Bring Out Your Dead

Martyr AD - American Hollow

Martyr AD - The Serpent and the Flower

Blacklisted - Left Alone

Blacklisted - Who I Am

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This week we take a look at the strange year of 1987 and figure out what was actually good. Our album for this week is the Portland post punk powerhouse, Wipers fifth record, Follow Blind. We also talk about one of the most bizarre moments in Henry Rollin's musical career and discuss Henrietta Collins & The Wifebeating Childhater's Drive By Shooting EP. Henry what are you doiiin'?

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Songs featured on this episode:

The English Beat - Jackpot

The English Beat - Ranking Full Stop

Wipers - Losers Town

Wipers - Any Time You Find

Wipers - No Doubt About It

Henrietta Collins & the Wifebeating Childhaters - Drive By Shooting

Henrietta Collins & the Wifebeating Childhaters - Ex-Lion Tamer

Henrietta Collins & the Wifebeating Childhaters - Hey Henrietta

Henrietta Collins & the Wifebeating Childhaters - Can You Speak This?

Henrietta Collins & the Wifebeating Childhaters - I Have Come to Kill You

Henrietta Collins & the Wifebeating Childhaters - Men Are Pigs

We return to the year 1979, and for our second run through it's much better...or is it? We discuss the Buzzcocks last album before breaking up in 1981, A Different Kind of Tension. We also talk about a little known Berkeley band, Sudden Fun, and their self-titled EP. Justin also recaps his recent trip to see Teenage Fanclub live.

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Songs featured in this episode:

Jawbox - Jackpot Plus

Buzzcocks - Paradise

Buzzcocks - Mad Mad Judy

Buzzcocks - You Say You Don't Love Me

Sudden Fun - Sudden Fun

Sudden Fun - Writing on the Wall

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This week we discuss the distant year of 2017. Not a good year for a number of reasons. Our albums for this episode are Hot Water Music's Light it Up, and Balance and Composure's Slow Heart. Record shopping and band updates, along with multiple fishing references. Also, Ernest goes to Fest. Knowutimean Vern?

Songs featured on this episode:

Jawbox - Jackpot Plus

Hot Water Music - Rabbit Key

Hot Water Music - Light It Up

Hot Water Music - Never Going Back

Balance and Composure - Body Language

Balance and Composure - Revelation

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For this weeks episode we welcome our special guest, Grant McCracken from Bitter Melody Records. We discuss the surprisingly good year of 2003; Our Lady of Annihilation by New York metalcore titans, Most Precious Blood; and underrated screamo gems, Wolves and their EP, Simulation.Transparency.Alienation.

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This week we discuss the year 1991, and probably the worst album we've ever covered on this show; One Bad Pig - I Scream Sunday. We also talk about New Jersey legends Lifetime and their kind of boring debut EP, Dwell.

Songs featured on this episode:

Jawbox - Jackpot Plus

One Bad Pig - Take a Look at Yourself

One Bad Pig - I Scream Sunday

One Bad Pig - Man in Black

Lifetime - Find

Lifetime - Dwell

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