Turned Out A Punk

This episode Damian explains that this podcast will remain a place people can come to unplug from the realities that they have to face the rest of the time in their lives. Then we turn out attention to, not one but, TWO amazing episodes to try and unplug a little with. In celebration of the Bellrays and Slim Cessna's Auto Club tour, there are two Turned Out A Punks out today! First Damian sits down with, one of the greatest vocalists of ALL-TIME, The Bellrays' Lisa Kekaula! Listen in as the two discuss: the pre-Coachella Scooter Rally Raves, Fishbone's awesomeness, why vocalists experience being in a band differently and more! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!

Also, DON'T MISS Slim Cessna's amazing episode!!!!!

Also touched on: 

Hearing X in passing

AM radio

going to see Fishbone for the first time

Samba Hell

Pop Defect

Some much good music

The Proto-Raves that were scooter rallies

“Those are the dudes that run Coachella now.”

Why Ska hit Riverside and Southern California

Meeting Bob

Forming the Rosethorns

“I wish we had kept the name the Rosethorns”

Playing with the Voodoo Glow Skulls

Smokestacks: Sublime before Sublime

White Flag becomes Roadwhore

Fishbone spends year on the road and inspire the Rosethorns the become the Bellrays

I Got A Right is the birth of punk.

AND MORE!!!!!

THANKS VANS!

 

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THIS IS A HUGE ONE! Bassgod Mike Watt joins Damian for a NOT TO BE MISSED conversation about all things punk & hardcore! Listen in as the two discuss Reactionaries, Minutemen, The Stooges & everyone in between. Plus, Damian nerds out about his road map into punk: "Ballhog Or Tugboat" on it's 25th anniversary with the cartographer himself! 

Did we mention this is NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Also Touched On:

We are all on the same team

No Watt No Damian

Readin’ in Creem

Lang Bang’s Cousin Lester

Meeting Nicky Beat

“We didn’t where bell bottoms”

Talking to Joey Shithead and Billy Bragg

The Vaudeville side of punk

“Ig said to Ronnie” being the little brother in the Stooges

Going to see the Stooges at the Whiskey

“I thought New Wave was a film movement in France”

“What’s the Alternative to music? Silence!?!”

“There was no guy on the back of the Circle Jerks record to try to dress up as!”

People LOVED Tull and hated the Stooges

“Ig had a weird gig where Ronny Beat his ass with a whip”

“At first D.Boon wouldn’t make a punk band with me”

“We jammed ‘I Wanna Be You Dog’ for 3 and a half hour”

The Reactionaries 

Playing with The Suburban Lawns

“The Bass King Of Outer Space”

The Minutemen were radical in music and organization

Hey Taxi! Georgies other band

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Let's hear it for gratitude & paying it forward! This episode Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield stops by to talk all things punk.  Listen in as Damian gets to sit down with one of his favourite songwriters only to find out about his own very small role in her punk journey! AGAIN, NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also, check out Waxahatchee's new album "Saint Cloud" coming March 27th on MERGE RECORDS.

Also Touched On: 

The joys of discovery in the Napster era 

Growing up country 

Loving the Velvet Underground and GBV

Bikini Kill 

The Raincoats

Twin Powers

The Birmingham Scene: a story in two parts 

The difficulty finding a way into the punk scene

“Everyone still wishes it was the Ackleys” 

Hardcore message board toxicity 

 

PS Eliot is born from rage

“I’m a feminist because of the Bridge 9 Board”

Sage words from Marley

Fucked Up

Doing it for the other people

Fake Problems get big

“We are going on tour now!”

The end of MySpace

Teenage Cool Kids

Radiator Hospital

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

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Get ready! This week on the show Damian is joined by Spiral Heads & MGMT member, the great SIMON DOOM! Sit in as they discuss coming of age in the not so great era of NY punk & how that set him on the path for the rest of his life. NOT TO BE MISSED.

Also Touched On:

Nirvana as the gateway band

Getting a Sub Pop comp and hearing the Dwarves’ “Drug Store”

Parents meeting in Jessie Michaels’ dad’s class

Bobcat Goldthwait, Chokebore Butthole Suffers and Nirvana 

The loss of Kurt Cobain impacts a young kid

buying bootleg Nirvana tapes off Merle Allin

Drawing Lars’ tattoos on yourself and fooling Merle

reading punk jackets

Making a fake ID to get into CBGB’s

“Are you a spy of something?” - cops find your fake ID

“12 year old boy looking for band members” a personal ad 

Spider sends a picture of him puking

becoming friends with the skinhead goes terribly wrong 

Social Disease

The Murder Junkies were a terrifying gang without a messiah 

Adults beefing with kids

Thulsa Doom

The grimy shityness of punk can be exhausting

if it didn’t have the D-BEAT, i didn’t like it

“This isn’t a metal venue!” Dave It Up and Stuart Schrader’s opinion mattered

going indie

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

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This week on the show Damian reconnects with the godly Kevin Morby! Sit in as the two discuss the pivotal roll punk played in his musical development & the glory days that were the late 2000's Brooklyn DIY scene. 

NOT TO BE MISSED & Check out Kevin's latest album, "Oh My God", on Dead Oceans. 

Also Touched On:

Having to battle Blink 182 to get Green Day

Matt Skiba joining Blink 182 and a 6 grade dream comes true

Nirvana not being your gateway band

And thus begins: “The Reality Era” of MTV

Asian Man Records setting you on path

No Music in the house

No punks in the suburbs of Kansas City

Dropping out of school

Moving to New York

Going to be a opening scene from Law And Order

the 3rd wave of The BK Indie boom

the Vivian Girls!!!

The greatness of Cause Co-Motion: the Jonathan Fire Eater of the 3rd Wave NY 2000'S DIY

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Twenty-plus year ago, Damian had dinner with Linda & Johnny Ramone. It set the course for the rest of his life. Now, all these years later he is reunited with Linda Ramone to talk about growing up before punk in New York, her late husband & the traveling the world with the greatest band of all-time: 

THE RAMONES!!!

Also Touched On:

A brother that loved rock

Black Sabbath

Black Oak Arkansa 

“I found a band for you”

Dreaming of going to the city

Heavenly and Starlet going to see the Dolls

Seeing Grand Funk at Madison Square Gardens

going to CBGBs every weekend

Johnny little black books

Fun with Vincent Gallo

AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

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After a tragic week of losses from the world of punk and hardcore, Chris O'toole, Dave It Up, Dave Martin and Damian discuss the musical impact of four people on the world of music.

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Tonight we are doin' it for friendship & the scene, because on this episode Damian is joined by his new buddy, CHRIS CARRABBA AKA Dashboard Confessional! Listen in as the two discuss: Florida's isolation causing a music boom, coming to terms with being labeled "emo", playing on CNN in the middle of a news report & more! 

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!! Don't miss Dashboard Confessional's "Best Of The Best Ones", a career spanning compilation of Dashboard's greatest hits dropping on January 31 2020!

Also Touched On:

Moving to Florida

Cars rides as punk school

120 Minutes

Archers Of Loaf

Pixies

Dino Jr over everything

Finding Post-Hardcore before punk

Buzzcocks over the Pistols

Liking Green Day they were Green Day

Vacant Andy’s inspired by Jawbreaker

Crimpshrine

Jawbox

The gap between Youth Of Today and Hatebreed

NO ONE CAME TO SOUTH FLORIDA!

Seeing Hot Water Music and falling instantly in love

Building a scene

Jon Riely from Morning Again

Trevor from Fact To Face: “word if getting out”

Fiddler Records

No Idea

Fueled By Ramen

HWM and Less Than Jake pulling the south FLA bands north

Hubble: favourite band that never recorded

Being made to sing

Chad from New Found Glory’s voice in Shai Hulud

coming to terms with the term emo

Reason To Believe rule

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Get ready to set sail! In this episode, Damian is joined by his former shipmate on the Bruise Cruise & one of his favourite songwriters: Mikal Cronin! Join the two as they discuss: all ages shows, the Toronto connection, the joy of getting your OWN record & so much more!!!!

Also Touched On:

Growing up in a non-rock house

Hearing Nirvana in a cool babysitter’s car

When mom’s harp explodes…

Pop-punk as a gateway

the Warped Tour as a first show

NoFX 

Floggin’ Molly

AFI 

getting a full beer dumped down your cast

So-Cal Record stores

Finding the Smell

the possibility of starting a band

The concept of the Sensitive Side 7” blowing your mind

Meeting Ty Segall 

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

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Bow down because wrestling’s Zombie Princess is here! This week on the show Damian sits down with one of his favourite wrestlers: Jimmy Jacobs! Listen in as the two discuss his journey through the unpredictable world of wrestling & how it all comes back to PUNK!

NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also Touched On:

Damian is a fan of SCUM

It never hurts when someone is a fan

Jimmy hears the Misfits…

“All rock is the same!”

Rocking a devil lock in the 8th grade

going by yourself to see Prince in the mid-90s

Is the person or the character what came first?

Shedding the conservatism you were raised with

Cream Cheese And Bagels

The second Undertaker reveal turning you off of wrestling

“Here I am 20 years later, all because Stone Cold got popular”

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!

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