Turned Out A Punk

This is one of the most fascinating episodes yet! EDMUND MCMILLEN is a beloved independent video game developer who has helped produce revolutionary & thought provoking games obsessed over by millions of people around the world. Join Damian as he sits down with Edmund to discuss punk & the rise of the indie game. From Jesus Lizard, to changing Nintendo's policy on blasphemy, to the hellish concept of "Rock Stars" in any industry & so much more: 

AGAIN, this is NOT TO BE MISSED!

Find everything Edmund is up to on twitter: @edmundmcmillen

Also Touched On:

The depressing reality of videos game eclipsing music

finding grunge

DIY comics

Spike and Mikes

Liquid Television

R. Crumb

Troma

 The Kinko’s “Drop The Key” Trick

The Santa Cruz art scene

not realizing that you were the weirdo art kid

a cool teacher

Mike Diana and “Boiled Angel”

The end of Slamdance  

Defending terrible art

The origin of the Indie Game Scene

The E.N. Scene

NeoGeo Fanzine

The fallacy on overnight riches in video games

working animal control

Believing in your art

What goes into making a video game

The personal origins of Binding Of Issac

Getting on to Nintendo

“Steam” changed everything

Sleepytime Gorilla Music

The Fish Masters: The TV show

Selling everything to invest in Super Meat Boy

& TONS MORE!!!!

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The week on the show, we are joined by a true double threat, MICHELLE ZAUNER AKA Japanese Breakfast! Join Damian as he sits down with the musician/author for a revealing conversation about insecurity, success & grief. From the Pacific North West's unique take on indie, traveling through punk while never feeling like you fit in, to creativity learned through grief: DO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE!

Also, don't miss Michelle's fantastic book: "Crying In H-Mart", out now on Penguin/ Random House! 

& don't miss Japanese Breakfast's new album: "Jubilee", available now on Dead Oceans!

Also Touched On:   

In defence of Avril Levine

“I want to be the kind of person that is into music”

The Pacific Northwest takes up punk differently 

Built To Spill

First shows

Post Post

R5 Productions

Philly is a tough town

Will you know the moment your career has peaked?

& So Much More!!!

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This week on the show, it’s professional wrestling’s hottest free agent TOMMY END (FKA ALEISTER BLACK)! Listen in as Damian finally gets the answer to the question that has been on every wrestling fan’s mind: What is Tommy’s connection to Jesus And The Gospel F*ckers?!? From Dutch hardcore ties to MMA royalty, to cutting promos for George Pettit, to hard lessons with Robbie Brookside, to touring with Jun "The King Of Comedy" Kasai: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Find Tommy at @tommyend & grab shirts though https://blxckmass.com

Also Touched On:

Cutting a promo for George Petite

Helping bringing the wrestling and music together

Getting set up with Andy Williams

The universality of the drive

The DEEP Dutch MMA/ Punk Connection

Jesus the Gospel F*ckers

Bob Schrijber’s mentorship

Punk and Combat Sports: “Violence within the boundaries of discipline” 

Social media, merch and indie wrestling’s ascent 

Danhausen and the Rock

Golding Earring 

Gang Starr

Defari 

Cannibal Ox

Cradle Of Filth 

Shinning 

Cruel Hand

Trapped Under Ice

Anime

Jun Kasai 

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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Hats off to Larry, because he is giving us a monster of an episode! Join Damian as he sits down with Lookout Records, Lookout zine & The Lookouts band impresario: LARRY LIVERMORE!!! From answering John Lennon’s calls at White Panther headquarters, to Lookout’s accidental funding, to how the weed/acid divide led to strife in the scene, to the hippies in SF finding punk: 

THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also, don’t miss Larry’s two fantastic books as well as a ton of his music on Don Giovanni Records now!!!!

Also Touched On:

Showing up to talk about Cannabis... not Sasquatch 

Trying to burn down your university

living in the Cockettes' old apartment

the origins of Lookout records

Motown Records

The EpiFat Sound VS. The Lookout Sound

The start of Very Small records

Getting to know Sons Of Ishmael

Staying up all night talking about about acid with Ray Cappo at the MRR house 

The Gilman Geeks vs. Slapshot

Neurosis

Following the Weakerthans around like they were the Grateful Dead

Seeing the MC5 when they were a mod band

“We play Avon Rock”

Destroy All Monsters

Quitting the White Panthers

Rock and Roll Revolutionaries: Tim Yo and Jon Sinclair 

pothead/ acidhead divide

Iggy Pop tearing up your Cream submission

Hanging with Don Vinyl taking shitty LSD and listening to bad Jefferson Starship

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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How could we do a Rise Against Week without having sometime co/host & all-time friend of the show, ZACH BLAIR on to do a wrap up?!?

Don't miss Zach & Mike Wiebe's great new podcast "Zach And Mike Make 3"!!!!

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Where else this week will you hear a conversation about the brilliance of “The Fungus Among Us” 7” compilation?! Rise Against week continues as Damian sits down to chat Chicago Punk with JOE PRINCIPE!!! Listen in as Joe & Damian talk about going from learning to silkscreen at the Underdog Warehouse, to touring the world with 88 Fingers Louie & beyond. Friends getting hit by jocks after getting run over by cops, trying to avoid Honest Don’s, not-so-good advice from local legends & so much more: NOT TO BE MISSED!!! 

& don’t miss "Nowhere Generation” available everywhere NOW! 

Also Touched On:

Watching “Rock’n’Roll High School” over and over again

A tape with Suicidal Tendencies, Circles Jerks and Dead Kennedys

Obliteration

Devastation: pre Vindictives 

The Plague

The importance of Impulse Manslaughter 

“The Fungus Among Us” Comp

The Chicago Punk/ Metal and Hardcore Scenes intersection 

Leeway opening for the Bad Brains

OG Screeching Weasel reunion with Sludgeworth, Gore Gore Girls and Contracide

Seeing Fat Mike’s ad in MRR

Kid Dynamite 

Rise Against: turned down by everyone at first

Walking the Straight Edge/ Pop-Punk dived

The Fury 66 connection

Dan Vapid

“I don’t want to get bumped to Honest Don’s!”

Hopeless Records

Schlong: “This is the same Dave Mellow, right?”

Q: How do you get on Lookout? A: Don’t be called Spoonless.

Ben Weasel he’s a… 

Meeting Martin and Los Crudos

Weedeater

Ivy League

Billingsgate 

SHUTDOWN: No punk at the Metro

Underdog Records

Showing Todd from I Spy around Chicago

Playing with Fair Warning in Montreal and Reset (Simple Plan)

Doing data entry for “Book Your Own Fucking Life”

Phallocracy split with 88 Finger Louie

Funeral Oration

Missing the Battery tour

Hi-Standard

& MUCH MUCH MORE!!!

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For most of the music world TIM MCILRATH is the front person of Rise Against; one of the biggest bands to come out of punk. But around these parts Tim is also known as the link between the disparate scenes of 90’s Chicago DIY Punk. Join Tim & Damian as they nerd out about one of Chicago’s most important cultural periods. From Los Crudos mixtapes, to Pete Wentz being born to make it, to Victory’s unique place in the ecosystem, to Bill Stevenson’s mentorship, to getting dropped off at DIY shows in Fat Mike’s private limo: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!  

Also, don’t miss Rise Against’s awesome new “Nowhere Generation” out now on Loma Vista! 

Also Touched On:

Damian’s murder board

90’s Chicago: the Punk capital

A friend’s older sister with amazing taste

Pegboy

Listening to Crudos in 7th grade

Transcending the Divided Scene

Borrowing from Cap’N’Jazz

Following Sidekick Kado like they were the Grateful Dead

“Chicago Pricing”

Rise Against, Alkaline Trio, Fall Out Boy and The Smashing Pumpkins: United by Punk

The Mythical Jim Chamber C.I.T. Mixtape

Tapping VBX

Taking Brandon Barnes to the Integrity show

The Fat Sound

Bill Stevenson

“Did Fat Mike drop you off in his private jet?”

Race Traitor: A needle scratch of a band

Hardcore: a Secondary Education 

Victory Records

Signing to Fat and it bumming out your friends

& SO MUCH MORE!

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The whole house has been excited for this one! This week on the show Damian is joined by his family's favourite: The Lunachicks' THEO KOGAN! Listen in as the two talk growing up punk in New York City! From silent tours with Dinosaur Jr, to finding out you may be a Warzone Woman, to falling in love on a Troma movie set: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!

& DON’T MISS the FANTASTIC new Lunachicks' book Fallopian Rhapsody, out now on Hachette!

Also Touched On:

Changing Lauren and Damian's lives

What is Pigfuck music?

Growing up in the Bad Apple

Musical Youth at the Ritz

The Dead Boys Reunion

Lux Interior beating a kid up with a mic stand

Wendy O’Williams and Manowar

NYHC shows

Watching the fights at CBGBs

“Are we Warzone Women now?”

Working with Don Fury

Drea and Theo’s favourite side effect of the violence

Gary Oldman gets beaten down  

Ragging Slab

Freak with Howie Pyro

Not hearing Dino Jr. until touring with them

Frightwig: like when Jim ate the hash brownies on Taxi

Todd Phillips directs a Black Light Rainbow video?!

Falling in love on a Troma movie set

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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THE BUNNYMAN COMETH! Today on the show Damian is joined by THE LEGEND, WILL SERGEANT!!! Listen in as the two discuss the journey from proto to post punk & everything in between. From Status Quo being the English Ramones, to the Pink Fairies being too stoned to play, to the Liverpool punk scene being criminally overlooked, to the influence of Metal Urbain: this is NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also, don't forget to pre-order your copy of Will's new book "Bunnyman" out July 15th on Little Brown!

Also Touched On:

Sex Pistols played Liverpool first!

Hearing the Sex Pistols for the first time at a Dr. Feelgood gig

They tore down the Cavern: “Where did that band the Beatles used to play

The Liverpool Scene: True underground

The Curbies

Leaving a Pink Fairies show because they were too stoned

Twink

Liverpool Stadium

hearing the Ramones way before hearing about punk

Sharing music, building scenes

“Shut up about Tull and get into ‘em!”

Tubular Bells was a hippy record

“Virgin’s just cashing in on this punk thing.”

Forming Echo And Bunnymen

“A dedication to idleness”

Metal Urbain 

Eno

Suicide: Gods in Liverpool

“Hey, Manchester!”

“We all loved the Fall”

A Certain Ratio

Going to Belgium 

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Ffa Coffi Pawb! The great GRUFF RHYS is here!!!! Join Damian as he sits down with the Super Furry Animal to discuss: his fantastic new book, the incredible history of Welsh Punk & going to Punk University through tour van lectures. From the cultural significance of Llygod Ffyrnig, to accidentally winding up on a punk comp, to the minority language European punk network: this is NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don’t miss Gruff’s amazing new book “Resist Phoney Encores” on Antenne Books and his fantastic new solo record "Seeking New Gods" on Rough Trade!!!

Also Touched On:

A brother and sister getting into punk 

Mannequins spray painted to look like puke

Rock’N’Roll as American imperialist propaganda

Parents loving Reggae

Anglo/American Corporations and creation of a Global pop-culture

The effect of Crass

Llygod Ffyrnig

The history of Welsh Language 

Musical and political education coming from punk

Anhrefn

Workers Playtime Records

Machlud: a soft rock band on a seminal Welsh Punk comp

Recording at Dave Anderson from Hawkwind’s studio

Pop Positive

Ffa Coffi Pawb

Getting into Psych to wind up old punk rockers

Geo-politics

Becoming a pop star accidentally

Bjork comes to Wales

Trying to give Alan McGee a tape

“Doing For The Kids” Fest

Learning how to make salad dressing from French Ska band: Le Have Nots

Seeing Fucking Up in Texas

Butthole Surfers

European Squat tours

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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