Turned Out A Punk

Episode 310:

On this episode Damian is joined by one of his favourite voices in music, STEVE VON TILL from the godly NEUROSIS! Listen in as they talk: Transgressor, hearing GISM for the first time, "Word As Law" not being a band favourite, gigs with Green Day & so much more! 

NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss Steve Von Till's AMAZING new solo album: 'No Wilderness Deep Enough'. ALSO, check out his new book of poetry & lyrics: "Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems and Collected Lyrics", both are out now on Neurot Records!!

Also Touched On:

THE MRR COMPS

An influence on everyone

Born in 69

Hearing Los Angelas by X for the first time

Discharge changes everything

San Jose

Kill ‘Em All: “You need this”

The Peace comp

The MRR comps

What the hell is going on in Japan?!?: the first time you hear GISM

international hardcore

Transgressor 

the mix bag early Gilman St. shows

Playing with Green Day, NoFX and the Offspring

Tribes Of Resistance

wanting to do all the things

Kamala hooking up the numbers for the first Neurosis tour

the Alchemy scene

RKL’s psychedelic light show

Clown Ally 

“Punk rock, and we can’t even drink outside?!? That’s bullshit!”

“Six hours of the Misfits”

Coil, Throbbing Gristle, etc

College Radio: It’s not all REM

Holiday dinner at Chris Dodge’s with Buzz and Dale

Burning Witch: True Doom

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!

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Episode 309:

Grab your 20 sided dice! Today on the show we are joined by, the bard with a 31 charisma, actor/director/producer/writer/DM: JOE MANGANIELLO!!! Join Joe & Damian on his journey from a Rollins worshipping, DnD obsessed, metalhead kid, to a Rollins worshipping, DnD obsessed, metalhead adult... Who is also Deathstroke & Alcide the Werewolf. 

NOT TO BE MISSED & ALSO, don't miss Joe's "Shoplifters Of The World" out wherever you see new movies March 26!

Also Touched On:

Damian’s whole family is excited for this one!

Metallica turning people on to the Misfits and Discharge

The power of the cover

Get In the Van: “Have you ever read this?”

Being obsessed and getting to meet Henry Rollins

“Crossover stars”

Shepard Fairly setting you straight 

Parents hate D’n’D

Trying to keep Role Playing games punk

It’s a war-game

The dream of working in the industry… the gaming industry

Ian MacKaye’s birthday fucking up the booking plans for a live reading of Major League

What’s the purpose of us anymore?

Being the roadie for Goldfinger

Nerds of the world unite

Metal going high fashion is teenage validation 

Vince Vaughn, Big Show, and Tom Against The Machine: the ultimate DnD party

Going to see Social Distortion and losing your camera with Macho Man photos

DnD Alignments

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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Episode 308:

Mouse is in the house!!! One of the original documentarians of Souther California Hardcore is here: ALISON “MOUSE” BRAUN! Join Damian as he sits down with the legendary photographic contributor to MRR, Flipside, We Got The Power & more! From why she didn’t shoot Black Flag, to introducing El Duce to her dad, to why it took her years to finally get a usable shot of the Bad Brains, to moving to Seattle just before the explosion & so much more!

NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don’t miss Alison’s AMAZING NEW BOOK available at alisonbraun.com!!!!!!!!!!

Also Touched On:

Having to judge a book by it’s cover

Record stores

the loss of cover art

Kiss and Cheap Trick

Shady has the tickets!

The Go-Go’s and the X and the Whisky 

Submitting to Flipside

The Keith Morris versus Jello Biafra stage vibe

Black Flag’s asshole roadie

Police against punks under Daryl Gates

Working for Mystic Records

Doug Moody

Shooting Battalion Of Saints

“Your dad’s over there talking to El Duce”

Seattle: the boring calm before the storm

Never getting to shoot Nirvana

B’last being the best band to shoot

Not shooting Minor Threat 

Trying to get a still shot of the Bad Brains

Stains

Submitting punk photo for high school assignment 

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS

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Episode 307:

On this episode Damian sits down with the outspoken vocalist of Sleaford Mods, JASON WILLIAMSON! Listen in as the two discuss: the Sex Pistols still being able to shock, Public Enemy, class, music & MORE! ALSO, check out “Spare Ribs” out now on Rough Trade.

Also Touched On:

A step brother as an entryway 

The Sex Pistols: still able to offend 

Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Eric B and Rakim as a first show

The class divide in music

Rap in England

British Rap

The non-influence of John Cooper Clark and Mark E. Smith

The Old Blue Last

& MORE!!!

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Episode 306:

NoFX week continues & FAT MIKE is back! 5 years after his first legendary appearance on the show, Mike returns to: berate Damian's tastes in music, drink WATER & talk punk. NOT TO BE MISSED!!! And don't miss Single Album in stores February 26!

Also Touched On:

Back together again

Mike loves the Melvins

a penny scraping against concrete

Rattus

Agnostic Front 

MRR

BDSM and being elite

Punk means I’m better than you

The unreleased Johnny Ramone chapter of “Please Kill Me”

Damian has terrible taste in punk 

Mike not getting why people love the Big Boys and the Minutemen

Why do people hate me?

Fat’s best year

“No one says Punk in Drublic is our best record anymore.”

Bands that went to majors

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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Episode 305:

IT'S NoFX WEEK ON TURNED OUT A PUNK! In celebration of the newly announced "Single Album", here is the first of two episodes!!! Kicking it off with a bang, Damian sits down to talk with the LEGEND ERIK SANDIN! An interview almost a quarter century in the making as Damian interviews Erik for the first time since 1996! Listen is as they discuss: NoFX making him a worse drummer, worshiping at the RKL alter, punk gangs, the "Mystic Records Puppy Mill" & so much more! Not to be missed & don't miss "Single Album" out on Fat Wreck Chords February 26!

Also Touched On:

The nicest band member

Buttrock: here comes punk

Caustic Cause: 30 year old shredders 

Don Bolles

America’s Hardcore

Drew Bernstien 

Lip service

Scared Straight 

The LA Straight Edge Scene

Playing with 7 Seconds

Becoming a worse drummer after joining NoFX

“Raymond” and the art for Liberal Animation

RKL thought the years

Mystic studios: A puppy mill for teenage punk bands

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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Episode 304:

There's no boredom around here! On this episode, Damian is joined the LEGEND: STEVE DIGGLE from the godly Buzzcocks! Listen in as the two discuss the birth of punk in the UK, Krautrock, Gorilla Biscuits, touring with Nirvana & tons of other goodness! From "A conscientious objector to work" to punk icon: NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also, grab that ESSENTIAL Buzzcocks singles boxset out now on Domino Records!

Also Touched On: 

Influencing everybody

Sick of Yes

The Pistols and the Ramones

Forming two days before the Clash

The R and B influence of Pub rock

The slowness of everything in 70’s music

the Kraut rock influence 

Thrift store punks

Malcolm McLaren’s mistake completes the Buzzcocks

Promises was a political song

pre-Buzzcocks’ Buzzcocks demos

The Buzzcocks’ practice space becomes Joy Division’s  

Jamming for the first album in a rehab centre

Autonomy: An English person trying to sound like a German person singing English

“The riff of Manchester”

“I love those weird little bits you do in those songs!” - Joey Ramone

“We aren’t entertainers!”

Getting paid not to play a biker bar

the 100 club

the Screen on the Green

the kids in Slaughter and the Dogs

Morrissey cribbing notes

Hearing the Gorilla Biscuits’ cover for the first time

Flag Of Convenience

Meeting with Seymour Stein and saying you wanna sound like the Stooges 

reforming the band

Touring with Nirvana

AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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Episode 303:

REJOICE! In a rare Part 2, FAT TONY makes his mighty return to the show! Tony made one of Damian's favourite records of last year & it has been a while since they last spoke. Listen in as they catch up & talk: the process of writing his fantastic "Exotica" album, working with Bun B, Tony's favourite TOAP episodes & so much more! NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don't miss "Exotica" out now on Carpark Records!

Also Touched On:

Liking ALL types of punk 

discovering music independently: free from anyones else’s baggage

Like Pop Punk and Hardcore and Houston Rap and Bay Area Rap

at least you could turn off the message board

getting back into music during quarantine 

Research, details and collaboration: a new approach 

The Gamble of making music

The honesty of writing as a character

Writing a record to be consumed as an album

working with Bun B

reaching back

YouTube comments as music history

Loving punk but never wanting to make it because it isn’t your true sound

Thing the Ergs to a Houston rap party

Getting into Ska Punk History

Favorite TOAP moments 

& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!

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Episode 302:

You demanded it, we got it! On this episode, Damian sits down with one of the most iconic front people to ever pick up a microphone: the B-52s' FRED SCHNEIDER!!! Listen in as the two discuss: accidentally inventing a new approach to music, the Cramps getting it, what the Sex Pistols were like live & so much more! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!

Also Touched On:

The Velvets, The Stooges and The Ramones

mom never bringing the 7th kid to a show

Records at the A and P

Going to Athens

West Coast Surf > East Coast Surf

Not wanting to be a dance band but loving to dance

the Fans

Ort’s Oldies

Going to the first US Sex Pistols show in Atlanta

house party shows

Jamming in an unheated room at a mortuary

Meeting Lux and Ivy from Cramps at Max’s

CB’s was a dump

“If you can do we can too!” meeting Pylon

Suicide

The modestly of Athens

Steve Albini is a lovely person

Don Pyle rules!

Biker wars

& SO MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!

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With Wonder Women 1984's Cro-Mags shirt & the Slash Mag referencing cover of the Playboi Carti's Red, Punk references have popped up in chart toping mainstream culture & people are pissed! Damian has called upon Nick Woj & Chris O'toole to help him deal with the Crisis On Punk Planet.

check out Woj''s latest mixtapes at: https://soundcloud.com/w0javelli/

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