Turned Out A Punk

You'll never look at Dr. Erica Hahn on "Grey's Anatomy" the same way again! Today on the show, star of film & TV, BROOKE SMITH stops by to discuss her journey from the New York Hardcore episode of "Donahue" to putting the lotion in the basket in "Silence of The Lambs". Listen in as Brooke & Damian discuss: navigating the LES as a teenager, being the OG Cro-Mags roadie, Jeff Buckley's love of Bad Brains & so much more!! 

DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!!!

Also, don't miss Brooke in "Big Sky" on ABC!

Also, also, don't miss this week's guest booker and TOAP alumni (Episode 207) John Ross Bowie's awesome new podcast: "Household Faces"!

Also Touched On:

Exploring the LES as a kid in the 80s

Going to shows super young

dying your hair until it falls out

Bad Brains as the best live band ever

Cause For Alarm

Straight Ahead

The original Cro-Mags’ LP unused art

the unity of NY Punk

If you are looking for John and Harley: go to the park

memorizing the payphone number

Driving the Cro-Mags around in the family station wagon 

The Agnostic Front, Nausea and Warzone Pool Party

Standing WAAAAAAAAY in the back for GG Allin

Jeff Buckley never getting to see Bad Brains

& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!!!

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Episode 355 - 

How many 10 year olds have helped shape rock history?! Today on the show, Split Single's JASON NARDCUCY talks about his "influential" elementary school punk band & his incredible career since then. Join Damian as he sits down with his friend to discuss: being a 10 year old punk, Bob Mould being awesome on & off stage, Tim Meadows' love of music & SO MUCH MORE!

Don't miss this one & don't miss the awesome new Split Single album "Amplificado" on Inside Outside Records OUT NOW!

Also Touched On:

Getting into punk at 8

Rock n Roll High School with Cheap Trick?

Gigging by age 11

Tracy is the COOLEST

being too young to understand the scene

meeting Vic Bondi as an adult

Why Bob Mould rules

The influence of the Germ’s “Panther”

The issue of kids in the punk scene

Meeting a Coachella

Going to parties with grown-ups

Off Broadway

Did DCHC like KISS

Leaving the punk scene at 13

Seeing Sonic Youth in Europe on the Sister tour

put yourself in the sightline

Tim Meadows is super cool

Taking the Dead Kennedys to a country club

& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!

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The Halluci Nation is here! Years in the making, Tim “2oolman” Hill and Bear Witness sit down to discuss the separate paths that have led them to working together. Formally know as A Tribe Called Red, The Halluci Nation is one of the most important groups in Canadian music. Join Damian as he sits down with two of his closest friends to discuss: punk, the rude awaking of sleepy Toronto, the differences growing up in Six Nations, the importance of collaboration, why are pool halls always so sketchy and so much more!

DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!

And don’t miss The Halluci Nation’s INCREDIBLE new album “One More Saturday Night”!!!

Also discussed: 

Pat and Kelly: sword fighting, D’n'D, Warhammer 40k and Punk

Growing up against the norm

The differences growing up in Six Nations

The Basement of HMV 

Geography’s relationships to culture

Growing up as sleepy Toronto wakes up

The Untouchables and The Skinhead War

Toronto neighbourhood gangs

Why were pool halls and arcades so sketchy?

The unique division of the labour in The Halluci Nation

collaboration 

Breaking Rammer and Left For Dead’s Joel Fisher’s arm

AND SO MUCH MORE

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Our "Give The Drummer Some Love" weekend wraps up with a doozy: Jane's Addiction's STEPHEN PERKINS is here! Listen in as he & Damian talk about going from an 80's glam metal kid to helping usher in the 90's alternative music takeover. The Bad Brain's influence on Jane's, touring with Tommy Lee & Mike Watt back to back, DC / LA similarities & so much more: do not miss this!!

Also Touched On: 

The end of the Sunset Strip

the late 80’s LA punk scene

Perry wanting to get funky coming out of PsyCom

The influence of Fishbone and Red Hot Chilli Peppers 

The Scream Club 

Venom

The connection between the Glam and Punk scenes

Opening for Iggy Pop

Love And Rockets

Trying to get bigger

Seeing punk before you hear it 

Fear as one of the best bands ever

Jane’s Addiction’s HEAVY Bad Brains influence

Bullet Boys, Guns’N’Roses Fishbone and Jane’s shared practice space

Drummers HANG

Meeting X

Ballhog or Tugboat?

& LOTS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!!

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It's Give the Drummer Some Love Weekend! Kicking it off with Seattle drum god, GREG GILMORE! Greg played in three of the key bands during three separate eras of Seattle punk. Listen to Greg & Damian talk: partying with the Refuzors, meeting Duff McKagan & joining The Living, 10 Minutes Warning's 10 months of punk fame, nearly joining Guns & Roses, The Freshjive/ Mother Love Bone connection & so much more! Don't miss it!!!!

Also, don't miss the fantastic, recently unearthed, “The Living: 1982” lost recordings OUT NOW on Loosegroove Recordings! 

Also Touched On:

The forgotten 90s' 10 Minute Warning record  

Meeting The Refuzors 

Eno 

Prog

Loving live records’ energy

Meeting Duff and forming The Allied

Joining 10 Minute Warning

Going to LA with Duff

Nearly joining Animal Dance

Not joining Guns and Roses

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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Slam & worm your way over here because this week on the show, it's legendary Zero Boy: PAUL MAHERN! Listen in as Damian & Paul talk about punk, the Zero Boys & being behind the mixing board for some of the greatest records ever! From being too hardcore for Gulcher, to eating homemade deer jerky with Boom & the Legion of Doom, to the Mellencamp/ Gizmos connection: 

THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!

LISTEN TO THE ZERO BOYS!!!

Also Touched On:

A first time meeting

The punk section at the local record store

The Gizmos and Gulture

The Hoosier Hysteria comp changing your life

Going to see Dow Jones and The Industrials for the first time

Dandelion Abortion: being disillusioned with punk

The Dead Kennedys

Hardcore as a gateway

“This is where you come from now”: being introduced to Detroit Rock

Meeting the Gizmos 

Being too hardcore for Gulcher

“Its a pop record”: Vicious Circle being passed on by all the labels

The midwest scene: Die Kreuzen in Milwaukee, Toxic Reason in Dayton and Articles Of Faith in Chicago 

“not hardcore enough”

The Master Tape

The Gynaecologists (the band)

Malignant Growth

Punk is the Midwest 

The Coneheads

The making of Raw Power’s “Screams From The Gutter”

Boom and The Legion Of Doom stories!!!

Stevie Stiletto

Paul’s Ardent Studios demo tape

Meeting the Afghan Wigs

Mass Giorgini

Scenius

John Couger Mellencamp punk connection

& SO MUCH MORE

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Episode 350:

We’re going for a drive, not the after dinner kind! Join Damian as he goes for a ride with Bad Religion’s GREG GRAFFIN Ph.D! Listen in as the two discuss: Darby Crash stealing french fries, summers away from punk in Wisconsin & "Becoming Keith Morris". So get in the sedan because this one is NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

& don’t miss Bad Religion on tour this fall with War On Women & Alkaline Trio!

Also Touched On:

Lyrically intimidating 

An article in Details

Loving Todd Rundgren 

“Darby was not someone to look up to”

Hearing the Germs for the first time

The Gears lp

The importance of the abundance of studios to California hardcore

The relationship with the Circle Jerks

Red Kross and not fitting in with the LA punks

Going to back to Wisconsin and having no interest in local punk

Going to University with Milo but never talking

Working with Noam Chomsky

The “back to the known” show

Not relating to the late 80’s HC kids

Becoming the “Keith Morris”

In defence of “Into The Unknown”

& SO MUCH MORE!

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Get ready to celebrate Melbourne music history! This week on the show Damian is joined by a sonic inheritor to the great city's rock and roll lineage: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard & The Murlocs' AMBROSE KENNY-SMITH! Join them as they discuss: the perils of a career in pro-skateboarding, Amyl & The Sniffers being obsessed with his dad, SHARPIES, the greatness of Thee Oh Sees & so much more! DON’T MISS THIS!!! 

& don't miss the fantastic new King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's "LW" on Flightless. Also,  The Murlocs' "Bittersweet Demons" on ATO Records. GET THEM BOTH NOW!

Also Touched On:

The Melbourne music history 

Skateboarding as a gateway

“Corrupted from a young age”: hanging with the older kids

A dead-end lifestyle

Showing the Emerica Team around Melbourne

“Man-Am”: aging out of pro-skateboarding

God (the band)

The Saints soundtracking skateboarding

Hating sports

Sisters’ first words being Bo Diddley

Coloured Balls

Dad dating Lobby Lloyd’s ex

SHARPIES 

Carson family ties

Amyl and The Sniffers

“That’s the guy from The Blues Brother”: going to see Ray Charles for a first show

Playing the National Hotel in Julong

The Friendlies 

Thee Oh Sees

The Hospitals

Dan Burke

Eddie Current

Frowning Clowns

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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This ain't the Garden Of Eden, this ain't the summer of love! Join Damian as he sits down with PAUL THERRIO from the proto-punk gods The Imperial Dogs!!! Listen in as the two talk: the real birth of punk in LA, Iggy & Bowie at Rodney's English disco, Ray Bradbury loving Zolar X & so much more! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!

Also Touched On:

This Ain’t The Summer Of Love

Cream Mag

Breaking up before punk came

“I need time to surf and smoke hash!”: A brief Sax career

Meeting Don Waller in the high school band 

The Seeds as one of the first punk bands

the Standells

Vom and the early scene

Taj Mahal 

Howlin’ Wolf opening for Alice Cooper

Chaka Khan and Iggy at the Whiskey

Coming home and feeling compelled to smash furniture

Getting into the Velvet Underground

“Got any pills?”: meeting Iggy

David Bowie on blow at Rodney’s English Disco

& SO MUCH MORE!

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Mr. City &Colour himself is back! Join Damian as he sits down with his buddy, DALLAS GREEN to reflect on their musical journeys & catch up after 6 long years. From regret & gratitude, to discovering reaction videos, to missing Gord, to Dallas needing to see Phantom Of The Paradise for people in his life: DO NOT MISS THIS ONE! 

& check cityandcolour.com for Dallas' upcoming tour dates!

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