Turned Out A Punk

Episode 301:

This week on the show Damian is joined by filmmaker & former Sold Out fanzine publisher, OTTO BUJ!!! Otto has just made a fantastic documentary about the formative days of Detroit hardcore & is here to talk all about the history of punk in Rock City. Listen in as the two talk: being too late for the glory days, the dividing line between hardcore & punk, why punk in Detroit was different & so much more! Not to be missed & DON’T MISS Otto’s new film: “Dope, Hookers and Pavement: The Real and Imagined History of Detroit Hardcore”! Available here NOW: detroithardcoremovie.com

Also Touched On:

A Detroit punk nerd-out

Finding hardcore from your older brothers

The 84-85 jumping off point

out growing the box: Laughing Hyenas, Husker Du and Fugazi

Punk versus Hardcore

The genius of Brannon

10 months that changed hardcore

Ian MacKay is not a huge Tremor Records collector

The Flesh Columns 

The Spys and the Dry Heaves 

The Windsor Connection

Band grow out their hair and start to solo

Being too late for the hardcore you were looking for

Samhain

Youth of Today, Henry Rollins, Boom And The Legion Of Doom and a dead dear skull

Depression Records and the true weirdos of Detroit 

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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THE EPIC FINALLY OF EPISODE 300!!!!!

For the epic conclusion: J Mascis returns to talk GG and Degrassi, Footnotes host Chris O'Toole joins Damian for some reminiscing, all while D'N'D laugh at each other.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE FOR THIS MILESTONE!

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EPISODE 300 CONTINUES!!! 

On this one: Fred Armisen returns to the show to compare and contrast 80's NYHC, 90's Chicago DIY and Dischord's DC. While Danko, Nick and Damian discuss and lament their various beefs in music over the years.

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WE DID IT!!!! Episode 300 is here and, oh boy, it's an epic THREE PARTER! Listen in as Damian is joined by his long suffering wife Lauren and a few other returning friends for this marathon of a celebration.

First up: Mother 13's Corey Harris tries to bum rush the show and then D'N'D  (Danko, Nick and Damian) finally formalize their trio.

DON'T MISS PARTS 2 AND 3!

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Who says part two’s never happen?!?! Join Damian as he sits down with the returning CONOR OBERST for a much requested part two! ...Or one & half? Listen in as the two discuss, the good, bad, ugly of emo, trying to navigate success, PUNK & so much other goodness. NOT TO BE MISSED!!! 

Also, don't miss the FANTASTIC new Bright Eye's album "Down In The Weeds, Where the World Once Was" out now on Dead Oceans!

Also Touched On:

Back for the whole punishment spotlight

the connection to the Athens' scene

Sunbrain

Commander Venus meets the music biz 

Mousetrap

Dischord and Merge

Rilo Kiley

Digital Sex

Grass Records

Dropping out of College fo music… reluctantly

Tiger’s Jaw

Wicca Phase

Why most emo sucks

Ben Lee and Ben Kweller

The Cap 'N' Jazz 

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Turned Out A Punk is dead... with excitement! On this episode, Damian is joined by the LEGEND SAM MCPHEETERS! Listen in as the two talk Sam's AWESOME new book, MUTATIONS, Born Against's record buying habits, kinda caring about bad reputations, Clevo, Power Violence, the Albany New Wave vocal style, Ginsberg opening for Underdog being Utopia & so much more! This & Sam's AMAZING new book, MUTATIONS are NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Also Touched On:

in your image 

Watching Fear play SNL

Postcard punks

A presentation on the Dead Kennedys

Laurie Anderson and her "Tapeheads" violin

By ’84, Hardcore is everywhere

Combined Effort

Albany Style

The Verge are awesome

Capitol the band as the inspiration for antagonization 

Not liking being around drunk people

The unnamed style of New Wave with over exaggerated vocals

Most know fo being a victim of violent crime than being a singer in a New Wave band

There is no Koro in Albany

Trying to see the Beastie Boys and Murphy’s Law at Irvine Plaza

No fights in Albany: Going to Chucky Cheese after shows

Booking Nomeansno with Breakdown

Temper tantrums in Hardcore

Underdog playing Alan Ginsberg: The 6 months of NY unity

Inspiration on “The Fear Of Smell” comp.

Making ABC No Rio no welcoming to people that sought to destroy it by its nature

Life’s Blood remaking you in their image

Boycotting the first Life’s Blood show

Why would you go to someone else’s band practice?!?

Livin’ it up Rollins’ style in Room 666 at the 30th St. YMCA

Born Against on Rev?

Reading Wizard Of Oz, Leaf-blowers and other artistic failures

“We are called Bad Attitude”: lying to your parents about your band

“If 20 year old self came in the room right now I’d be a dead man”

Integrity and Ringworm

Power Violence 

& OTHER GOODNESS!!!!!!

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Attention! Please be advised that today on the show we are joined by the legendary filmmaker of The Decline of Western Civilization: PENELOPE SPHEERIS!!! Listen in as Penelope & Damian discuss going from thinking music was dead, to being at the heart of the LA punk explosion, to becoming a "big time" Hollywood director & hating every second of it. Penelope is one of the the greatest to ever do it! 

I KNOW IT’S BEEN SAID BEFORE, BUT THIS ONE IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!

Also Touched On:

“Have you heard of the Sex Pistols?”

LA Psych

music as an escape

Going to Rodney's because that was the thing to do

Blue Cheer

Zolar X

Punk changes everything

The Masque and places “where normal people don’t go”

Wish you shot the Weirdos, The Zeros, The Screamers and The Plugz

Showing Foghat the Sunset Strip

How to filming music

Manson changes everything

The Runaways

Art: Bob Biggs, a stripper and a cow on a leash

Where does it start?

Punk could see the future

Punk > Hollywood

Between The “Michael Moore” and the “Hand Of God”  style of documentary filmmaking

We Sold Our Souls

Guns And Roses not being in Decline 2

too glam not enough hardcore

“I don’t know the east coast”

Hardcore was born in Hermosa Beach 

Pollywog park

Violence and gangs

Bay Area Trash Violence

X not liking their parts in Decline.

The Maus Maus

“Hollywood can blow me!”

The horror of working with Weinstein brothers driving the making of the Decline 3

“El Duce was an asshole”

Bikers On Acid

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Episode 296 -

We're going wild in the streets on this episode because Damian is joined by his buddy & a goddamn LEGEND: KEITH MORRIS! Listen in as the two discuss the LA punk explosion, & what led up to it, from the most first hand of perspectives. From going with Greg Ginn to see the Dogs in a music wasteland to watching West Coast hardcore take over the globe a few years later. This is NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss the brand new jammed packed reissue of Group Sex (one of the best records ever!) out now on Trust Records. 

Also Touched On:

Not heroes, friends

Great bass players

LA versus NY punk

A nice thick red face and zucchini noodles

Talking Heads, Blondie and most of the early CBs scene wasn’t really punk

The Dickies and X are the only bands to get signed

Zolar X 

The Imperial Dogs

The Dogs from Detroit: Ginn and Keith’s favourite band

The Last kick it off in the South Bay

Lucky Leher gives out his number on Group Sex and regrets it

Jeff trades Keith a song in exchange for a new band name

Hollywood vs the Beach communities

The effect of growing up in the “Hey Devo!” era

Don’t stand around trying to figure stuff out, jump in: Beach Jocks

Circles Jerks and Fear to 5000 people at the Olympic Auditorium 

The Stooges on their last legs

The effects of Charles Manson on you Culture

Vom were… fun

Fear forming to mock punk

The Extremes to Youth Brigade

The Atoms: pre-DFL and GnR

The first tour

Fanzines

Making sure you were playing with the good band in each town

Borrowing riffs

four month long tours

no merch

& SO MUCH MORE!!!

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PYLON WEEK CONTINUES!! On this episode Damian gets to sit down & talk with one of his favourite vocalists ever: VANESSA BRISCOE HAY! Listen in as the two talk about her journey into punk & fronting the legendary Pylon. From meeting the Ramones to changing the landscape of Athens through music, THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don't miss the awesome new Pylon Boxset out now on New West Records!

Also Touched On:

The ’76-77 dividing line in music

Prog

Roxy Music as a precursor to punk

The impact of the Sex Pistols’ show on the Athens scene

.38 Special opening for the Ramones

The B-52s and “New Music”

Almost meeting Anne Wilson from Heart 

“Our” music

Robert Croker directing The Fans with playing cards

Skinny tie bands

Blondie, The Kinks and some metal band

Everyone is scared of the Restraints

“Its the newest dance! It’s called the West Coast Shove”

The Shag and the North Carolina Surf Music scene

Figuring out DIY touring 

“Parties at our house!”

Pylon as healing music

Georgia hospitality in LA

Screaming to be heard

Gang Of Four, Pylon and Mission To Burma

The negative space left in the music

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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IT’S PYLON WEEK ON TOAP! In celebration of the amazing  new Pylon boxset, we have back to back episodes of PYLON greatness! Starting with MICHAEL LACHOWSKI sitting down to discuss his journey into punk & Pylon's impact on music. From houseshows with the B-52s to getting banned in Atlanta for repainting the greenroom, this is NOT TO BE MISSED. 

Also, you don’t want to miss the awesome new Pylon boxset on New West Records out now!

Also Touched On:

 Loving the Vibrators 

“Michael, theses guys are a punk band!?”

It all felt a little manufactured

Televison

Not loving Van Halen

Being turned off by the media circus around the Sex Pistols

The B-52s and the arrival of House shows

The Side Effects and Ok Go

The Fans and the Brains in Atlanta

The Tones Tones and the Method Actors

The New Wave take over of Athens

Where punk takes hold

The expansion of the Art Department of the University Of 

Georgia 

Going to NY

Lene Lovich or Gang Of Four?

Touring Canada

Beer for breakfast in the UK

Atlanta vs Athens

& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!

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