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This week we have Justin Pearson from Three One G, The Locust, Some Girls, Head Wound City, Retox, etc on the pod to talk about the debut self titled album from Drive Like Jehu. This is an extremely special opportunity to discuss the band and their impact on music due to the passing of Rick Froberg. In this episode we discuss: needs no introduction, San Diego, Kasher in Tinseltown, Roskilde Festival scene report, strange hardcore, touring Japan, Melt Banana, Jungle Rules Live, Misunderstood, Septic Death, John Waters, Danzig, will Justin give Mike Patton the shirt?, love the USA or gtfo, the Drive Like Jehu origin, RFTC, tension in San Diego, Swing Kids, Fugazi, the Deftones cover, The Locust tone, what does Jehu mean, percussive guitars, Some Girls, and so much more.

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This week we have Tim Kasher of Cursive and The Good Life on to talk about the debut self titled album by the Violent Femmes. We also talk about: the writers strike, the Good Life tour announcement, catching up from the covid era, lightning in a bottle bands, the Cure scene report, Tim Kinsella, Starland Ballroom, saddle creek rd, touring as an adult. Domestica reissue, Novena on a Nocturn, Dan describes a meme (posted on our Instagram), writing sad songs, “the safest sex”, html as a lyric, First Ave, The Violent Femmes origin story, busking, selling out to Wendy’s, and so much more. 

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This week we talk about the 1988 Siouxsie and the Banshees album Peepshow with Rainer Maria’s Caithlin De Marrais. We also discuss: whatchu drinkin, Rainer Maria heads, First Unitarian Church, reliving your 20’s, Madison WI, we own Viceland, syncs, Caithlin’s newest record, spotify, awards, The Cure, whatchu watchin, having kids, Mike Kinsella, Siouxsie is everywhere, what makes Peepshow so significant, horror films, Blonde Redhead, our favorite songs on the record, Christian Death, Siouxsie origin story, choosing songs for a record, and so much more. 

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This week we circle back to the debut record from The Killers, Hot Fuss. We discuss: Andrew ruins the intro, cumming at the opera, bad pods, Instagram live dating, papa's whips, we bask in the approval of others, meeting your idols (good), POZ breaks news, Fall Out Boy, Skate and Surf 2012(?) scene report, meme chats, Dupree Sister drama, Max Bemis (sucks), Andrew gets called a scumbag, Scottish pronouncing Hoot Foos, "the murder trilogy," generational hit Mr. Brightside, Ceremony (band), Darby Crash, festival plays, so many singles on this record, horrifically front loaded, Kind of Like Spitting, bad synths and bad drums, and so much more

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This week we have Matt Miller (GDP, George Douglas Peterson, Orange Crystal, The Post Office Gals) on to talk about the Local H album As Good As Dead. We also discuss: shoutout legacy photo, motorcycles in Vietnam, the vistas, Wicca Phase, townie funeral home parties, Chris Gethard, Fury of Five, the salesforce holiday party, Justin Pearson (again), Electro Grindcore, Incendiary, Discordance Axis, emo boys kissing, the hardcore masculinity pendulum, AI, Andrew attacks Dan's creativity, two piece bands, diss tracks, connecting with music, 2 drummers, band names, parking domain names, clownfupa.com, a real 2 girls 1 cup day, and so much more.

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This week we have DC hardcore veteran and former DC Comics alum Ian Sattler on to talk about the 311 album Transistor. We also discuss: no help with Q and not U, the 9:30 club, Brian McTernan, Adjacent Fest scene report, music photography, knowing your role in the local scene, LLC's, the merch game, for profit college, the comic world, Scott Ian, Crossed, the MCU, Dark Horse comics, talking to normies about punk, Fucked Up, Succession, Wrestling, 311 is from Omaha, From Chaos, some Transistor puns, the AV Club review, Kid A (lol), divided on Hexum songwriting, the 311 DVD (again), George Clanton, bad lyrics, and so much more.

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This week we have the host of the After The Deluge podcast Justin Cox on to talk about the divisive Bright Eyes record "Lifted or The Story is in the Soil so Keep Your Ear to the Ground". In this episode we also discuss: can I get a goddamn timpani roll?, Jackson Browne is not Van Morrison, podcast origins, anti-vaxxers, Paul Simon, The Offspring discography, Orcas Island, Killer Whales against capitalism, facebook fan groups, your art saved my life, Tim Kasher, The Hard Times, Todd Fink, skipping opening tracks, one sided 7”s, Dead Oceans and the Saddle Creek split, Ted Stevens, the kissy bitch drama (again), Evan Dando, Jawbreaker, Flea, W, and so much more.

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This week we have writer and founder of Rose Books Chelsea Hodson on to chat about Nothing’s 2018 release Dance on the Blacktop. We also discuss: our happy family, Rickly’s romance novel, Tyrant Books, Rose Books origin story, there’s no one like Chris (Norris), the editing process, our reading habits, indie press identity, Tucson Arizona (great place), javelina, tumblr projects, Maria Abramovic, album cover modeling, poetic lyrics, Horror Show, Lana Del Rey, real darkness, Christie’s Auction scene report, Death of Lovers, and so so much more.

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This week we have artist and musician (PsyWarfare, Integrity) Dwid Hellion on to talk about the 1971 Funkadelic classic Maggot Brain. In this episode we discuss: Dan nails the intro, where open mic and improv meet, Black Flag, Mike Vallely, what's up in Belgium, the Dwid backstory, the problem with positivity, childhood cassette tape loops, White House and early industrial, Metallica at the grocery store, the process church, Integrity, PsyWarfare (and actual psychological warfare), This Is Hell split, sound cannons, the Maggot Brain solo story, the satanic panic, local zines, being too tall for motown, drugs do some good for musicians, outsider art, Henry Darger, and so much more.

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This week we have artist Steak Mtn AKA Christopher Norris also of combatwoundedveteran, and Reversal of Man on to talk about the landmark Assuck record Misery Index. We also discuss: submitting to the bit, Hunchback 88, Atom And His Package, Jud Jud, getting into horror, writing screenplays, Rose Books, Holy Day, favorite NYC theaters, we start a film podcast, The Holy Mountain, local boys Assuck history, Reversal of Man lineups, the bridge from metal to punk, classing up grindcore, spa music, Earache records, final Reversal tour, Gary Panter and so much more. 

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