This week on the show Damian is joined by his long time friend; Alexisonfire member, Mister City and Colour himself, Dallas Green! Sit in as the two go through Dallas’ journey from Canadian independent music loving kid into Canadian music industry icon (no joke, he won an award saying as much the night before).

Also covered:

-This being long time coming

-The nature of friendship when you play in a band

-First exposure coming from a cool older sister

-Getting caught up in the Grunge explosion

-The first Warped Tour

-Seeing Quicksand’s Slip video late at night and it changing your life.

-Last night a Walter Schreifels saved my life

-Danko Jones working heel and turning baby face

-Job hopping at the mall

-Joel and Dine Alone records

-“Scott Vogal mosh calling Jimmy Eat World kids”

-Hardship Post’s ”Hack” ep being one of the greatest eps ever

-The great post-Nirvana generation of Canada’s indie explosion

-The Sick Boys: benevolent kings of the scene

-Dallas’ first band: Needle Park

-Mogwai (the band)

-“Are you guy’s a Black Crows cover band?”

-Helicon Blue: trying for Hum and Swervedriver

-Seeing Moneen and being inspired

-Being Much Music’s metal VJ Dan Gallagher’s cousin

-Join a band and barley see the world

-Elliott

-The Alexisonfire formation from Dallas POV

-Helping change the perception of heavy music for the Canadian Music Industry

-The lack support for 90’s Canadian Punk/HC/Metal bands

-Alexisonfire/ Billy Talent/ DFA 1979

-Going from Canadian to US Tours, from the highest heights to the lowest low

-Dealing the Toronto Hardcore backlash

-The early 2000’s Message Board Hate Culture

-Hating the band not the members

-Being grateful for the things that kept you humble

-“They would hate me if they knew me in Canada”

-Having to be pressured in to releasing a solo record

-PCP with D and D

-The Melvins' episode preview

Welcome back! This week on the show Damian is joined by Vinnie from the legendary, Less Than Jake. Sit back as the two discuss the almost 30 year history of the band as well as Vinnie’s other career as head of Fuelled By Ramen Records and Paper And Plastic Records.

Also chewed over:

-A brief history of Riverdale

-Amnesia Rockfest

-Getting into punk through a New Wave older brother

-Lamors in Brooklyn

-Cro Mags

-“I like DRI, is there anything else?”

-The importance of Record Stores

-NJ, “where punks, were punks”.

-No Fraud

-Skater and Surfers versus Skinheads at the Accused And GBH show in Florida

-Needless Guilt, the pre Less Than Jake band the thrash Crimpshrine.

-Lookout Records

-Fuel the blueprint of the Florida sound

-Leatherface’s Mush: Social conscious and personally speaking that you keep turning back

-Var and No Idea Records: first the zine and then a label that built the Gainesville Punk Mecca

-Moving to the Blue Dot in the Red Sea

-Bands Disappearing: The transient nature of University Town Punk Bands

-Good Grief begets Less Than Jake

-Toybox Records and Sean Bonner

-Jon Resh of Spoke: One of the embracing guys in a hardened scene.

-The punk explosion in Florida in the early 90’s

-“Can we go on tour?”

-Facing resistance on both sides: being a ska-punk band

-Book Your Own Fucking Life and schoolbreaks: the birth of a touring band

-Slapstick: Pre Tuesdays, Broadways, Alkaline Trio and Lawrence Arms

-Hearing Propagandhi’s How To Clean Everything?

-Snuff: the main influence on Less than Jake

-Suicide Machines

-Jersey

-Meet the majors: Capitol Records

-The power of soundtracks

-Collaborating on the Goodburger Theme

-Getting a form letter rejection from Fat Records for Pezzcore… and then signing there

-Starting Fuelled By Ramen to put out bands

-Working with Jimmy Eat World

-The J4 comp: the other side of Fuelled By Ramen

-Alison Discount transformation into Alison Kills

-Working with Billy Bragg… twice

-Toy Collecting and Less Than Jake

-Leaving Fuelled By Ramen

-Stereo: The band that could of been

-Pushead

-Junior Battles

-The Rise of Toy Micro-manufacturing

-Touring with Bon Jovi

Are you nerdy about records? Well, if you are... We have a treat for you! Sit back and enjoy Damian and his guest, Billy from Silverstein talking about their sweet vinyl addiction. Plus, Billy’s journey through suburban hail shows to American Idol (sort of)!

Also covered:

-Records as life

-Getting punk as almost as a handy-me down from older siblings

-Nirvana

-Jerk Circus: Pre-Silverstien

-Pre-Alexisonfre: Burlington’s Hoodrat

-BMXing with Greg from Jersey and Grade

-Bane playing Burlington BEFORE Toronto

-The Harshest of Harsh: The many Message Boards on Southern Ontario

-Having a personal dis launch the 905 board

-Falling off the stage at your first Silverstein show

-The Music Gym

-Skipping school to tour the east coast of Canada

-The Silverstein/ Arcade Fire/ Death From Above 1979 connection

-Taking photos

-The coolest job on Earth: Working at The Oakville Lick’s

-The literal Fireworks of Moneen

-Three Gut Records

-Being an unabashed Colofan

-The No Warning accent

-Pre-internet hardcore rumor mill

-From playing with One Line Drawing to Fife Dobson to Subb to Dillinger Escape Plan in a few weeks

-Alexisonfire having to borrow a bass amp… and never living it down

-Getting a call from Tony Victory

-Getting to organize the No Idea Records Vault and cleaning up in the process

-SOME DEEP RECORD COLLECTOR SHIT

-Touring Japan opening for Avril Levine for three weeks

-Beer collecting? and more record collecting shit

-Having to buy your own record from Victory

-Having your song used as American Idol audition song

-Pre and Post Alexisonfire Canadian music

-The Hambone Manor

-What the Warped Tour is like now versus then.

-“Scene-Building”

Are you nerdy about records? Well, if you are... We have a treat for you! Sit back and enjoy Damian and his guest, Billy from Silverstein talking about their sweet vinyl addiction. Plus, Billy’s journey through suburban hail shows to American Idol (sort of)!

Also covered:

-Records as life

-Getting punk as almost as a handy-me down from older siblings

-Nirvana

-Jerk Circus: Pre-Silverstien

-Pre-Alexisonfre: Burlington’s Hoodrat

-BMXing with Greg from Jersey and Grade

-Bane playing Burlington BEFORE Toronto

-The Harshest of Harsh: The many Message Boards on Southern Ontario

-Having a personal dis launch the 905 board

-Falling off the stage at your first Silverstein show

-The Music Gym

-Skipping school to tour the east coast of Canada

-The Silverstein/ Arcade Fire/ Death From Above 1979 connection

-Taking photos

-The coolest job on Earth: Working at The Oakville Lick’s

-The literal Fireworks of Moneen

-Three Gut Records

-Being an unabashed Colofan

-The No Warning accent

-Pre-internet hardcore rumor mill

-From playing with One Line Drawing to Fife Dobson to Subb to Dillinger Escape Plan in a few weeks

-Alexisonfire having to borrow a bass amp… and never living it down

-Getting a call from Tony Victory

-Getting to organize the No Idea Records Vault and cleaning up in the process

-SOME DEEP RECORD COLLECTOR SHIT

-Touring Japan opening for Avril Levine for three weeks

-Beer collecting? and more record collecting shit

-Having to buy your own record from Victory

-Having your song used as American Idol audition song

-Pre and Post Alexisonfire Canadian music

-The Hambone Manor

-What the Warped Tour is like now versus then.

-“Scene-Building”

This week on Turned Out A Punk, Damian is joined by a good bud and a member of one of his current favorite bands, Good Throb. Welcome on Bryony Beynon. Sit back as the two discuss BB’s journey through punk and the quest to find fellow "communist girls that listen to Madball.”

Also talked about:

-Activation and creating visual maps

-Take That and UK fandom

-Blur vs. Oasis not being your war

-Tony Hawk Pro-Boarder

-Meeting Belinda: A 14 into the Fall and the Sonics

-HOMEGROWN!!!!

-The un-pretentiousness of Wales Scene

-Damian not being able to pronounce anything

-Going to Brighton

-Count On Form

-“I Just Want To Mosh!”

-How to bring good music to good politics?

-Learning collective politics at Cowley Club

-Abandon Ship

-Mia Victoria: A Force Of Nature

-Back Stabbath

-First show with 108

-Unbroken fandom

-How British pop is taken up in North America

-Hangin’ in pubs talkin’ records

-Modern Hate Vibe the zine

-The amazingness of Murder Contest zine

-Forming the Sceptres

-Integrity and liking band you don’t agree with

-I am the third Melnick

-“it’s kinda expensive and kinda of hard, so maybe do it?”

-Trying to pull of and justify liking sketchy bands

-Running Dire Records

-Touring with the Shitty Limits

-Forming Good Throb

-How did Crisis become Death In June?

-“I just want to find Communist girls that listen to Madball.”

This week on Turned Out A Punk, Damian is joined by a good bud and a member of one of his current favorite bands, Good Throb. Welcome on Bryony Beynon. Sit back as the two discuss BB’s journey through punk and the quest to find fellow "communist girls that listen to Madball.”

Also talked about:

-Activation and creating visual maps

-Take That and UK fandom

-Blur vs. Oasis not being your war

-Tony Hawk Pro-Boarder

-Meeting Belinda: A 14 into the Fall and the Sonics

-HOMEGROWN!!!!

-The un-pretentiousness of Wales Scene

-Damian not being able to pronounce anything

-Going to Brighton

-Count On Form

-“I Just Want To Mosh!”

-How to bring good music to good politics?

-Learning collective politics at Cowley Club

-Abandon Ship

-Mia Victoria: A Force Of Nature

-Back Stabbath

-First show with 108

-Unbroken fandom

-How British pop is taken up in North America

-Hangin’ in pubs talkin’ records

-Modern Hate Vibe the zine

-The amazingness of Murder Contest zine

-Forming the Sceptres

-Integrity and liking band you don’t agree with

-I am the third Melnick

-“it’s kinda expensive and kinda of hard, so maybe do it?”

-Trying to pull of and justify liking sketchy bands

-Running Dire Records

-Touring with the Shitty Limits

-Forming Good Throb

-How did Crisis become Death In June?

-“I just want to find Communist girls that listen to Madball.”

Come and sit in as your host Damian invites in his friend and lead singer hero Nick Flanagan. Sit back and learn about how Nick went form being a zine writing indie kid to fronting Teen Crud Combo and Brutal Knights.

Also covered:

-Writing for kid shows

-Finding punk through SCTV and The Queen Haters

-The Young Lions

-Hilarious House Of Frightenstien: Like a Psychedelic Punk Dream

-You Can’t Do That On Television

-Meeting Andrew from the Deadly Snakes (and a Starkweather cover band)

-The Grunge Stole Christmas and a list of bands that sounds like a Best Show call

-Borrowing a record from your neighbor

-Writing to Nardwuar

-Damian’s Punk origin story

-DnD Raves

-Having to ditch your friends

-CFNY on Bloor Street: so sick

-Submachine

-Will the geographical layout of record stores in Toronto ever be relevant to anyone?

-How the band NC-17 shaped the face of modern music.

-Armed And Hammer, Repeat Offender, Hockey Teeth, Random Killing and the lost Toronto punk scene

-Suckerpunch

-Leather Uppers

-Walking around Toronto

-Nick the 9th Grade Goth

-The 90’s: When everyone was a dick

-Dave from Rammer: Headcleaners's Hypeman

-Doing the first ever Toronto Nardwuar and the Evaporators show at 14

-Being threatened by the Market Punks

-Nick form the Deadly Snakes: the indie kid

-Making friends with the Shuttlecocks

-Jamie Towns: ONE OF THE BEST PEOPLE EVER!!!!

-Allison Baker: The coolest

-Befriending Spaceshits (pre King Kahn and BBQ and Red Mass)

-The Anti-Flag, Spaceshits, Deadly Snakes and (maybe) Planet Smashers slumber party in Drake’s old Neighborhood

-Golden showers from King Kahn

-The weird disparate Montreal 90’s scene

-Getting groomed by Allison to be the singer of Teen Crud Combo

-Staining the soul as a teenager

-The Deadly Snakes, Toxic Holocaust, Rammer, Teen Crud Combo connections

-The Killer Elite

-MONDO-GRUNGE

-Full Blast Rock

-Shows at the back of Rotate This

-Damian and Nick debate strain differentials in cannabis

-Not being able to deal with pop-punk vocals for a while

-Nick Resets The Rap

-The hoser-pseudo-hip-hop way of downtown Toronto speaking

-The Dwarves influence

-Greg Dick and the Dreamdates

-The origins of the Teen Crud Combo vs. Deadly Snakes beef

-The continual rediscovery of the Stooges

-The Robin Black beef

-Fifth Column are amazing!!!!

Come and sit in as your host Damian invites in his friend and lead singer hero Nick Flanagan. Sit back and learn about how Nick went form being a zine writing indie kid to fronting Teen Crud Combo and Brutal Knights.

Also covered:

-Writing for kid shows

-Finding punk through SCTV and The Queen Haters

-The Young Lions

-Hilarious House Of Frightenstien: Like a Psychedelic Punk Dream

-You Can’t Do That On Television

-Meeting Andrew from the Deadly Snakes (and a Starkweather cover band)

-The Grunge Stole Christmas and a list of bands that sounds like a Best Show call

-Borrowing a record from your neighbor

-Writing to Nardwuar

-Damian’s Punk origin story

-DnD Raves

-Having to ditch your friends

-CFNY on Bloor Street: so sick

-Submachine

-Will the geographical layout of record stores in Toronto ever be relevant to anyone?

-How the band NC-17 shaped the face of modern music.

-Armed And Hammer, Repeat Offender, Hockey Teeth, Random Killing and the lost Toronto punk scene

-Suckerpunch

-Leather Uppers

-Walking around Toronto

-Nick the 9th Grade Goth

-The 90’s: When everyone was a dick

-Dave from Rammer: Headcleaners's Hypeman

-Doing the first ever Toronto Nardwuar and the Evaporators show at 14

-Being threatened by the Market Punks

-Nick form the Deadly Snakes: the indie kid

-Making friends with the Shuttlecocks

-Jamie Towns: ONE OF THE BEST PEOPLE EVER!!!!

-Allison Baker: The coolest

-Befriending Spaceshits (pre King Kahn and BBQ and Red Mass)

-The Anti-Flag, Spaceshits, Deadly Snakes and (maybe) Planet Smashers slumber party in Drake’s old Neighborhood

-Golden showers from King Kahn

-The weird disparate Montreal 90’s scene

-Getting groomed by Allison to be the singer of Teen Crud Combo

-Staining the soul as a teenager

-The Deadly Snakes, Toxic Holocaust, Rammer, Teen Crud Combo connections

-The Killer Elite

-MONDO-GRUNGE

-Full Blast Rock

-Shows at the back of Rotate This

-Damian and Nick debate strain differentials in cannabis

-Not being able to deal with pop-punk vocals for a while

-Nick Resets The Rap

-The hoser-pseudo-hip-hop way of downtown Toronto speaking

-The Dwarves influence

-Greg Dick and the Dreamdates

-The origins of the Teen Crud Combo vs. Deadly Snakes beef

-The continual rediscovery of the Stooges

-The Robin Black beef

-Fifth Column are amazing!!!!

Some interviews come and go, while others are 20 some odd years in the making. This, dear listener, is the latter. Chris Hannah of Propagandhi is someone Damian first hoped to interview for his (never released) zine in 1996, but alas he was too chicken shit and thus waited until now to do so. Sit back and enjoy one of the few things in life that was worth the wait (to Damian at least) and have your faith in Punk rejuvenated.

Also touched on:

-“I had heard punk bands, but I hadn’t heard Million Of Dead Cops”

-Turning from a potential military weirdo into a different sort of weirdo

-Busy Fingers: Portage Le Praires’ one stop Sewing and Speed Metal Records shop

-Cops liking MDC

-Ramones not having enough rage.

-Cross-Over: Crumbsuckers, DRI, COC

-Punk just feeling different

-Missing the Cro Mags Bootleg at Wellingtons recording show by one day

-Corpus Vile test press buddies!!!!!!!

-Your mom refusing to drive you to see Venom and Slayer

-Stretch Marks

-Canadian Punk ROCK

-Crown Of Thorns: The Ex-LOWLIFE band that could have been Winnipeg's Metallica

-Dangerously Americanized Canadians

-Article Life

-Global Genocide “Facts Of War” tape is amazing!

-Beach Mutants rule!!!

-Damian putting Chris in his place about the release date of their first demo

-Ten Tepes O’Conner Records

-Punk nicknames

-Crawl and Ditch Pigs: Pre Propagandhi

-Apologies for the double 7”

-The influence of Bad Religion

-Looking to Guilt Parade, “Canada’s Dead Kennedys" as inspiration

-Still being a work in progress ideologically

-Staying at the Royal Albert

-First Propagandhi show with Immortal Possession

-Ground/Top Floor Fugazi fandom

-Propagandhi/Sockeye connection

-The BFGs and the origins of Ska Sucks

-Feeling horribly let down by Bad Brains and Don’t Blow No Bubbles

-Playing with NoFX

-TONY’ ERBA!!!!!!!

-Playing with Jawbreaker

-Not getting Fat Mike’s role as producer: “what the fuck are you doing in here

-The greatness of Crate Amps

-Bad Religion: Ramones meets Motorhead

-NoFX: same formula as Bad Religion but with a little RKL

-Being far more excited by basement hardcore scene then the Skate/ Snowboarder video scene

-Going to see Fail-safe in Toronto in 1986

-“More Rock, Less Talk” still being a statement of intent

-Hating the vocals on How To Clean A Everything

-The Left For Dead beef

-So Much More!

Some interviews come and go, while others are 20 some odd years in the making. This, dear listener, is the latter. Chris Hannah of Propagandhi is someone Damian first hoped to interview for his (never released) zine in 1996, but alas he was too chicken shit and thus waited until now to do so. Sit back and enjoy one of the few things in life that was worth the wait (to Damian at least) and have your faith in Punk rejuvenated.

Also touched on:

-“I had heard punk bands, but I hadn’t heard Million Of Dead Cops”

-Turning from a potential military weirdo into a different sort of weirdo

-Busy Fingers: Portage Le Praires’ one stop Sewing and Speed Metal Records shop

-Cops liking MDC

-Ramones not having enough rage.

-Cross-Over: Crumbsuckers, DRI, COC

-Punk just feeling different

-Missing the Cro Mags Bootleg at Wellingtons recording show by one day

-Corpus Vile test press buddies!!!!!!!

-Your mom refusing to drive you to see Venom and Slayer

-Stretch Marks

-Canadian Punk ROCK

-Crown Of Thorns: The Ex-LOWLIFE band that could have been Winnipeg's Metallica

-Dangerously Americanized Canadians

-Article Life

-Global Genocide “Facts Of War” tape is amazing!

-Beach Mutants rule!!!

-Damian putting Chris in his place about the release date of their first demo

-Ten Tepes O’Conner Records

-Punk nicknames

-Crawl and Ditch Pigs: Pre Propagandhi

-Apologies for the double 7”

-The influence of Bad Religion

-Looking to Guilt Parade, “Canada’s Dead Kennedys" as inspiration

-Still being a work in progress ideologically

-Staying at the Royal Albert

-First Propagandhi show with Immortal Possession

-Ground/Top Floor Fugazi fandom

-Propagandhi/Sockeye connection

-The BFGs and the origins of Ska Sucks

-Feeling horribly let down by Bad Brains and Don’t Blow No Bubbles

-Playing with NoFX

-TONY’ ERBA!!!!!!!

-Playing with Jawbreaker

-Not getting Fat Mike’s role as producer: “what the fuck are you doing in here

-The greatness of Crate Amps

-Bad Religion: Ramones meets Motorhead

-NoFX: same formula as Bad Religion but with a little RKL

-Being far more excited by basement hardcore scene then the Skate/ Snowboarder video scene

-Going to see Fail-safe in Toronto in 1986

-“More Rock, Less Talk” still being a statement of intent

-Hating the vocals on How To Clean A Everything

-The Left For Dead beef

-So Much More!