Turned Out A Punk

This week on Turned Out A Punk, it is a celebration as PHOEBE BRIDGERS & CONOR OBERST come on to celebrate the release of Better Oblivion Community Center! So sit back as Damian gets two different perspectives on a punk journey that ultimately led to the recording of this record. Can You Believe it? ONE FOR THE AGES!!!

Also Touched On:

Pick A Number Between 1 & 10

Clash Loving Big Brother As First Exposure

Uncle Tupelo

Woody Guthrie

From Avril To X

“It’s Not Punk To Call Yourself PUNK”

Conor: PA For hire

Doing Sound For Brainiac

The Reason That The Omaha Sound Has No Sound

Growing Up & Smelling The Smell

Sloppy Jane: From Punk To Cave Core

Girl Pusher: The Most Appropriate Named Band Ever

Commander Venus

Grass Records

The Crap Shoot Of All Ages Bills

Hating Piano

Neil Young Is So Punk

Nirvana Fan: Me But Greasy

Feeling Like You Have To Sign To Other Labels

Digital Sex Rules!!!

Cursive Signs To Crank!

Mousetrap

311 Leaves Town To Get Back

You Have To Get The Music Out Of Omaha

The Pressure Of Being A Super Young Musician In LA

Phoebe & The He-Men

Einstein’s Dirty Secret

The Topanga Canyon

The Fixie Era

A Band Stays At Your Parents

“Is This Chicken vegan?”

Hearing About Emo For The First Time

The Sunny Day Sound

Pax Am

“It’s Like Sheryl Crow!”

Corporate Piggy

“You Know What Would Be Good For Your Image…”

Playing For The Violent Femme’s Fans: Not Fun

“We Should Form A Band That Sounds Like The Replacements!”

& MUCH MUCH MORE!!!

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What was your favourite record from last year? Well Damians was Tony Molina's "Kill The Lights" and this week he has Tony on the show! So get ready as the two old friends dive into the wonderland that is Bay Area Punk and Hardcore. The hot takes are a flying! This may very well be the longest and funnest episode yet!

 Damian’s album of the Year

Listening to rap

The Chronic 

Bay Area Rap

Beau from Oven walks in and is like: I listen to rock music now.

Weekend Warrior Metal

Doobie Brothers and other rockers turned ops

Dads with good taste in rock music

Nirvana as entry to Fang and MDC

Green Day explodes

Mom does does not fuck with White boy rock

Sublime VS Bloodhound Gang

Phish VS Greatful Dead

Riverdale VS Screeching Weasel

Pansy Division dressed as the Donnas and nailing a Slayer cover

Angus the Movie

Seeing Tower Of Power for your first show

TOP, WAR and the Melvins

Deftones cover the Bad Brains

Negative Tom

AFI

Getting the Year in 7”s

Goin to the Gilman for the first time

Skarhead at the Gilman

All Bets Off

RIP Sammy

Being more 625

Groovie Ghoulies

“You have you heard VOID?”

What Happens Next and bandana thrash bring back the fun. 

The Sex Kittens: Ramones and Donnas Worship

Friends with Supercharger

“You gotta get with Greg!”

Going to Greg Lowry’s House

Getting feedback from a garage legend

Having to go to “real” punk school

Fiesta Comes Alive vs Forever Changes

Renting Gummo because Spazz is on soundtrack

Trve Power Violence

Why is the Infest cover art is so bad!?!?!

Off The Disk

The Jocks

Sharp Knife

seeing dbs at Mission Records

Operation Makeout

AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

Nerds run the streets tonight! This week on the show Chris and Damian talk MRR cancelling print, Lorna Doom's legacy AND the awesome Julien Baker episode!

Episode 197: 

The good times never stop here at TOAP… Wait, did we say “good”? Well, we should have said AMAZING because this week on the show, Damian is joined by, one of his favourite song writers & one third of the supergroup boygenius, JULIEN BAKER!!! Listen in as the two discuss using christian punk as a way to escape, the similarities between punk vs. religion & Pezz (TN) ruling! DO NOT MISS THIS!!!! 

Also Touched On:

Punk still runs deep

The burden of punk

Taking a stand against hotels

Betraying your genre

Romanticizing punk

Memphis is a unique

Seeing Green Day on TV

Someones playing guitar on tv and he looks vaguely effeminate and he disagrees with the president!

When you get dissed by the Casualties fans and saved by a violent Santa

Going to a show at the Skate park

Poison the Well

Silverstien

Job For A Cowboy

Bands stop going to Memphis

Resource scarcity breed cooperation out of necessity

The frat dude’s Led Zep band can play too even!

Fifteen rule

Wicker from Memphis, an anti-band

Growing up with religion and find

Using Christian hardcore as an escape to secular punk

The double edge sword of faith based music

Punk as religion

Jawbreaker

going to your first house show

Hot Topic bands

Truest of true punks

Turnstile live is next level

PEZ RULES!!!!

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

Yes, yes Nerds are here again, but they didn't come to see your band! This week on the show, Chris & Damian talk more Danger Erhen! Also, grapple with the argument: What is art?

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THIS IS LEGIT, ONE OF THE BEST EPISODES OF TURNED OUT A PUNK YET! Damian is joined by Jackass star Danger Ehren for one of the funniest, most honest & dare we say it, touching episodes. Not to be missed!!! THEN, TOAP Footnotes co-host, Chris O’Toole joins him to talk favourites of 2018! 

Also Touched On:

Ehren who?

Just a real dude

Sleep opening for Neurosis

getting into punk through Skateboarding and Snowboarding Videos

Punk becoming the meaning of everything

Going on snowmobile vacations

Picking up bodies on the ways home from vacation

the origins of snowboarding

Jocks VS Punks

Too much information

Jackass as forebarer to the

Doing something to be remembered

Jackass Changing culture

Content over quality

Jackass for Youtube

What porn was to the internet…

Jackass as art

How the band got together

doing stupid shit in isolation

the stuff that was too extreme

doing Jackass shit before the world had seen Jackass

Joined by being weird

Performance art

Knowing the Melvins for 20 years

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

2018 wasn’t so hot for a ton of reasons, but there were some shining moments in a year of otherwise dark times. One such beacon, The Punk/Wrestling Connection!!! This year, the bonds of Wrestling & Punk continued to grow stronger. Nowhere was this connection better illustrated than at Turned Out A Punk’s first ever, “The Punk/Wrestling Connection Gathering”. Join Damian as he gathers UK wrestling God Robbie Brookside, Turnstile’s Pat McCrory, Punk God Lars Frederiksen, Power Trip’s Riley Gale, Ceremony’s Anthony Anzaldo, WWE/TNA/NJPW Champion MVP, Best Coast’s Bob Bruno & DJ/Vocalist/Wrestler Tuna Tardugno! The Punk/Wrestling Connection Is More Real Than Ever Going Into 2019!

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Chris & Damian throw the annual TOAP HOLIDAY STAFF PARTY w/ Dave Martin & Dave It Up. Listen in as the four hang out, open mail & TALK PUNK! Nevermind Talking To The Family, It's The Holidays!

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Are you hanging up the nerds on your wall? Are you hoping that the snow will start to fall? This week on the show, Chris & Damian talk two of the greatest, legendary smart-ass singers of all time! They also lay out the plans for the Footnotes holiday take over.

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Alright, Alright, Alright! This week on the show, Damian gets to sit down with a hardcore legend & ZINE GOD: BARRY HENSSLER!!! A vocalist hero & Co-creator of one of the most expensive hardcore 7"s ever. Listen in as the two discuss Barry going from being a four year old seeing the Grateful Dead on their first tour, to being part of the first wave of hardcore punk in the godly NECROS. NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Also Touched On:

Alice Cooper as first exposure

Sonic Youth loving Love It To Death

Stooges

hearing MC5 from a friend's older brother and the older sibling cool music connection

The Vertigo Records New Wave comp

Seeing Pink Floyd on the first tour post Syd at age 7

Seeing the Grateful Dead at age 4 in a backyard

Alice Cooper and ZZ Top

Starting a band without guidance

Stooges

Trying to cover the Clash’s 1977

buying Spiral Scratch, The Cramps, Suicide and Electric Eels

Getting your licence and driving to Drome Records

Pere Abu

Pagens

The Making of Smega Journals

The reason the Necros have never been reissued

Seeing the Ramones and Johnny had beard

Joe Jackson

Undertones blow David Johansen

PIL in Detroit

The Spys and The Dry Heaves

Getting the Solger 7”

Meeting the DC kids

Seeing Minor Threat for the first time

befriending the Circle Jerks

seeing Black Flag for the first time

The story of Sex Drive

The Ohio music debate

Negative App

Devo

Starvation Army

Guided By Voices

The early east coast hardcore scene

Joey Shithead unconventional touring style

Minor Threat solo

Kings Of Punk is the last hardcore record

Haram

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

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