Turned Out A Punk

WHO'D OF THUNK IT, Turned Out A Punk Meets Iron & Wine!?! That's right, this week Damian sits down with South Carolina's own, Sam Beam. Listen in as Sam tells of his journey from humble skateboarder to indie rock superhero. This one is full of surprises, SO GET READY!

Also Touched On:

Where Your Music Ends Up

Getting Into Punk Through Skateboarding

Trading Tapes

COC

Getting Into The Ramones

Fugazi Plays Richmond & The City Shuts Down

REM Claimed As Local Heroes

Hüsker Dü

Nirvana

Pixes

Sex Pistols Playing South Carolina

Singing About Reagan

The Infotainment Era

EYEHATEGOD Lays Waste!

Being Roommates With Erik From Avail

Opening For Unsane

Forming A Band With People From Cavity

Sam’s Great Sludge Record Waiting To Come Out

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

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Yesterday I needed Punk, today I need some hate, but I know who was always there, now baby it's too late! Chris & Damian are back to breakdown this week's Thomas Anselmi Episode! News, Analysis & a little MAILBAG for good measure. IT'S ALL IN HERE!!!

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WHAT A WEEK!!! Damian gets to sit down with Canadian Alternative music legend, Slow’s Thomas Anselmi! Listen in as the two discuss Vancouver’s punk scene from all sides: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of it. Also, interesting discussion on the role of singers, the importance of the the barrier between the audience & the band. 

Also Touched On:

The Sex Pistols Vomit In The Airport & An Otherwise Progressive Stepdad Is Aghast

Going To Quintessence Records

The Greatness Of The Early Vancouver Scene

Slow Mixing The Music That Got You Beat Up With The Music Of Those Doing The Beating

The Idea That Community Ruined Punk

Subhumans Play Your High School

The Squamish 5

A Scene Divided

Starting A Band: Psychotic Dick Bites

East Van Halen: The Band That Invented Grunge 

The Effect Of Clifford Olson On The Young Punks

No Exit

Auditioning For Black Flag, In The Middle Of Their Show, Unbeknownst To Them

Nick Moves To LA, Forms Painted Willie & Tries To Break Into Show Biz With An Island On His Head

DOA Kinda Invented DIY Hardcore

Organizing A Field Trip At Boarding School To See 

The Subhumans & X

Forming Slow

The Making Of A Confrontational Front Person

Drugs In The Vancouver Punk Scene

Why Singing In A Band Sucks

Expo Hurts Everyone

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!

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Indie sucks, Hardline sucks, Emo sucks, Nerds sucks! This week Chris & Damian have to call in some backup for an episode of this magnitude, so Pittsburgh's favourite son Dave Martin joins the show. Laugh & learn along as the power trio discuss the Jesse Michaels Episode, the mailbag & more!!!!

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THIS IS WHY WE DO THIS THING! This week on the show, we are joined by the legendary JESSE MICHAELS of Operation Ivy & Common Rider fame! Sit back & listen as Damian gets to talk to one of the most influential punk vocalist ever! From the Bay to the Burgh & back again, THIS EPISODE IS NOT TO BE MISSED!

Also Touched On:

June 1978 As First Contact In Via Mad Magazines

Looking In NYC Bookstores While On Vacation With Dad

Finding A Punk Textbook

From Comics & Horror Movies

Colombo Style Interrogating Your Dad’s Students About Punk

B-52’s Rule!!!!

Re-meeting Aaron Cometbus

Hearing The Sex Pistols For The First Time

The Older Brother Plug

Decline Of Western Civilization

Going On Punk Missions With Aaron

Meeting Dave From Neurosis & Noah From Christ On Parade On One Of Those Punk Missions

Going To The Infamous Eastern Front With DOA, FLIPPER, LEWD, SICK PLEASURE, 7 Seconds, HUSKER DU, THE FIX

Negative Approach

Never Seeing Black Flag

Seeing One Or Two Songs By A Band Before You Had To Go Home

Who Threw A Bottle At Wasted Youth?

Reading Flipside Cover To Cover

Gilman brings the bands together

Seeing Minor Threat With DRI & MDC

Moving to Pittsburg

Half-Life Would Play Every Show

Seeing Agnostic Front

Liking SSD How We Rock

The Notorious Fuck-Ups

The All-Girl DMR Gang

Aaron & Jesse Form A Flipper Worship Band

“If We Couldn’t Find A Punk Kid, We Would Make One”

Jeff Ott & A Different Journey Shirt For Everyday Of The Week

Meeting Spike In Pittsburg

Playing In Out Lash

Necropolis (Pittsburg)

Aggressor: Acid, Black Sabbath & Riff For Neurosis & Christ On Parade

Venom: They Are Like Punk, But Really Really Creepy

Slayer

Metallica

Loving Filth

Seeing Dance Craze & Hearing Ska For The First Time

Being The Crimpshrine Groupie

Trve Cvlt Pvnk

Soup: Pre-Samiam & Sweet Baby

New Method

Crucifix

Tripping On Acid & Writing On Walls

Mid-Tempo Melodic Punk ONLY

The Adverts

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

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Cramping styles is the plan, Nerds got up in the palm of their baby hands. This week on the show, it’s records & bullshit records & more bullshit. Chris & Damian go further on the topic of the PI’s Record Collectors & nerd out. They also dive in the RAD Jasmine episode & of course grapple with the MAILBAG!!!!!!

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It’s a family thing this week on Turned Out A Punk! Damian welcomes his good bud & modern indie rock god Jasamine White-Gluz on the show who’s band No Joy formerly featured Damian’s Cousin on drums. This episode also marks the first appearance by a sibling on TOAP! Sit back & enjoy as the two discuss going from the folly of renting a van from a band sending random emails about tours to working with your heroes all while cutting your own path.

Also Touched On:

Jasmine, Around The World & Into The Dingiest Backstage

The Legendary Horseshoe

L7 & Babes In Toyland

Civ, Vandals, No Doubt As A First Show

Cool Parents!

First Siblings On The Show

Ramones Records Laying Around

The Muscle Memory Of Turning To Music Channels

Montreal Rock Radio: Prog & Nu-Metal

When The Hometown Hero Joins Hole

Glueleg, Age of Electric, Limblifter

Sloan Is The Best Band Of The Era

Starting A Fake Blog To Get To Shows For Free

Interviewing My Chemical Romance In A Bathroom

Braid

Blink 182’s Picks: Get Up Kids, Jimmy Eats World & Fugazi

Walter From Quicksand Is The BEST!!!!

A Girl, Guitar & A Four-track In A See Of Completely Unhelpful Sea Of Dudes

Opening For Onelinedrawing

Bad Flirt Starts

Going To Springbreak & Booking A Tour Of It

DON’T BY A VAN!!!!

Being Named Laura Lloyd’s Legal Guardian For Touring Purposes

DON’T SHARE A VAN WITH A BAND YOU DON’T KNOW!

Alone In LA Gives No Joy

Opening For Grant Hart

The Smell: Best Coast, Miko Miko, Abe Vigoda and No Age

With Age Comes Understanding How The Music Business

Damian’s Cousin Garland: The Real Musical Talent In The Family

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!

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Nerds want it, nerds need it, nerds steal it, ALRIGHT! This week Chris & Damian are in good moods: they get to talk about the GODLY JERRY A & the hometown sports team, The Leafs Lost!!! HAPPY DAYS! Also discussed, a mailbag & of course tons of other bullshit & party!!

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He has listened to him forever, covered him, collected him, emulated him & eventually even played with him, but only now does he FINALLY get the chance to interview him! That's right, This week Damian sits down with one of his biggest inspirations, JERRY A from the godly POISON IDEA!!! Listen in as Damian & Jerry talk about his path from seeing Journey to being Kurt Cobain’s art critic and yes, also forming the GREATEST HARDCORE BAND EVER along the way! THIS ONE IS INSANE!!!

Also Touched On:

Damian Meets His Sinatra

Ramones As First Contact

Seeing Three Dog Night For His First Show

Alice Cooper Is The First One That Connects

Kiss Rock & Roll Forever &… It’s Over

Picking The Ramones Over Everything

Ramones: Children Can Relate To That Stuff

The Melvins Getting You Back Into It

Reading About Negative Trend In Rockscene

Losing Friends Overnight

Journey In The Fill In Band

ZZ Top, BOC, BTO & ELO

Seeing Parliament

Venus & The Razorblades: “This Is Horrible”

Seeing The Very First Wipers With Ice 9

Punk Is Clique Too

Covering The Yardbirds & Punks Don’t Get It

The Germs Could Actually Play

Portland Fix

Joe Carducci (From SST) Plays The Hits & Has A Store That Just A Box Of Records In An Office

Selling Your Leather Jacket In 79'

The Pre-Neo Boys Band Covers The Germs

Hardcore Changes Everything

Always Expecting Fred Cole To Be There

Beauregarde

Bull Ramos Smokes Weed

Forming An Industrial Band With A Stolen Bass

Trying To Join Smegma With A Crass Song For An Audition

Canadian Subhumans vs. English Subhumans

Merging Bands With Imperialist Pigs

PI Cover Circle Jerks & Gacy’s Place

The Mentors Were REALLY Bad When They Were In Seattle

Money Changes Everything

Red Tape With Darby’s lyrics & Motorhead’s Power

Japanese Hardcore

The Stalin

State Children Flexi

Pig Champion Going To Find The Fix Single As It Came Out

The Smiths Cause A Divide In Poison Idea

Kurt & The Melvins Like Shitty KISS

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!!!

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Took Nerds sometime to understand the man. He is a fist in the back of my brain! This week on the show, Chris and Damian get down to it & talk Damian’s appearance on the Opposition, more weird theoretical BYO splits & of course the AWESOME Chris #2. & 

M……a…….i……l…..b…..a…..g!!!