Turned Out A Punk

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Episode 345 - Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast, Author, Little Big League Jun 29, 2021

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The week on the show, we are joined by a true double threat, MICHELLE ZAUNER AKA Japanese Breakfast! Join Damian as he sits down with the musician/author for a revealing conversation about insecurity, success & grief. From the Pacific North West's unique take on indie, traveling through punk while never feeling like you fit in, to creativity learned through grief: DO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE!

Also, don't miss Michelle's fantastic book: "Crying In H-Mart", out now on Penguin/ Random House!

& don't miss Japanese Breakfast's new album: "Jubilee", available now on Dead Oceans!

Also Touched On:

In defence of Avril Levine

“I want to be the kind of person that is into music”

The Pacific Northwest takes up punk differently

Built To Spill

First shows

Post Post

R5 Productions

Philly is a tough town

Will you know the moment your career has peaked?

& So Much More!!!

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Episode 344 - Tommy End (Professional Wrestler) Jun 25, 2021

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This week on the show, it’s professional wrestling’s hottest free agent TOMMY END (FKA ALEISTER BLACK)! Listen in as Damian finally gets the answer to the question that has been on every wrestling fan’s mind: What is Tommy’s connection to Jesus And The Gospel F*ckers?!? From Dutch hardcore ties to MMA royalty, to cutting promos for George Pettit, to hard lessons with Robbie Brookside, to touring with Jun "The King Of Comedy" Kasai: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Find Tommy at @tommyend & grab shirts though https://blxckmass.com
Also Touched On:
Cutting a promo for George Petite
Helping bringing the wrestling and music together
Getting set up with Andy Williams
The universality of the drive
The DEEP Dutch MMA/ Punk Connection
Jesus the Gospel F*ckers
Bob Schrijber’s mentorship
Punk and Combat Sports: “Violence within the boundaries of discipline”
Social media, merch and indie wrestling’s ascent
Danhausen and the Rock
Golding Earring
Gang Starr
Defari
Cannibal Ox
Cradle Of Filth
Shinning
Cruel Hand
Trapped Under Ice
Anime
Jun Kasai
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 343 - Larry Livermore (The Lookouts, Lookout Records, The Potatomen) Jun 22, 2021

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Hats off to Larry, because he is giving us a monster of an episode! Join Damian as he sits down with Lookout Records, Lookout zine & The Lookouts band impresario: LARRY LIVERMORE!!! From answering John Lennon’s calls at White Panther headquarters, to Lookout’s accidental funding, to how the weed/acid divide led to strife in the scene, to the hippies in SF finding punk:
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don’t miss Larry’s two fantastic books as well as a ton of his music on Don Giovanni Records now!!!!
Also Touched On:
Showing up to talk about Cannabis... not Sasquatch
Trying to burn down your university
living in the Cockettes' old apartment
the origins of Lookout records
Motown Records
The EpiFat Sound VS. The Lookout Sound
The start of Very Small records
Getting to know Sons Of Ishmael
Staying up all night talking about about acid with Ray Cappo at the MRR house
The Gilman Geeks vs. Slapshot
Neurosis
Following the Weakerthans around like they were the Grateful Dead
Seeing the MC5 when they were a mod band
“We play Avon Rock”
Destroy All Monsters
Quitting the White Panthers
Rock and Roll Revolutionaries: Tim Yo and Jon Sinclair
pothead/ acidhead divide
Iggy Pop tearing up your Cream submission
Hanging with Don Vinyl taking shitty LSD and listening to bad Jefferson Starship
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Zach's Back! - Rise Against Week Wrap Up with Zach Blair Jun 21, 2021

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How could we do a Rise Against Week without having sometime co/host & all-time friend of the show, ZACH BLAIR on to do a wrap up?!?
Don't miss Zach & Mike Wiebe's great new podcast "Zach And Mike Make 3"!!!!
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Episode 342 - Joe Principe (Rise Against, 88 Fingers Louie, The Methadones) Jun 18, 2021

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Where else this week will you hear a conversation about the brilliance of “The Fungus Among Us” 7” compilation?! Rise Against week continues as Damian sits down to chat Chicago Punk with JOE PRINCIPE!!! Listen in as Joe & Damian talk about going from learning to silkscreen at the Underdog Warehouse, to touring the world with 88 Fingers Louie & beyond. Friends getting hit by jocks after getting run over by cops, trying to avoid Honest Don’s, not-so-good advice from local legends & so much more: NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
& don’t miss "Nowhere Generation” available everywhere NOW!
Also Touched On:
Watching “Rock’n’Roll High School” over and over again
A tape with Suicidal Tendencies, Circles Jerks and Dead Kennedys
Obliteration
Devastation: pre Vindictives
The Plague
The importance of Impulse Manslaughter
“The Fungus Among Us” Comp
The Chicago Punk/ Metal and Hardcore Scenes intersection
Leeway opening for the Bad Brains
OG Screeching Weasel reunion with Sludgeworth, Gore Gore Girls and Contracide
Seeing Fat Mike’s ad in MRR
Kid Dynamite
Rise Against: turned down by everyone at first
Walking the Straight Edge/ Pop-Punk dived
The Fury 66 connection
Dan Vapid
“I don’t want to get bumped to Honest Don’s!”
Hopeless Records
Schlong: “This is the same Dave Mellow, right?”
Q: How do you get on Lookout? A: Don’t be called Spoonless.
Ben Weasel he’s a…
Meeting Martin and Los Crudos
Weedeater
Ivy League
Billingsgate
SHUTDOWN: No punk at the Metro
Underdog Records
Showing Todd from I Spy around Chicago
Playing with Fair Warning in Montreal and Reset (Simple Plan)
Doing data entry for “Book Your Own Fucking Life”
Phallocracy split with 88 Finger Louie
Funeral Oration
Missing the Battery tour
Hi-Standard
& MUCH MUCH MORE!!!
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Episode 341 - Tim Mcllrath (Rise Against, Baxter, The Killing Tree) Jun 15, 2021

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For most of the music world TIM MCILRATH is the front person of Rise Against; one of the biggest bands to come out of punk. But around these parts Tim is also known as the link between the disparate scenes of 90’s Chicago DIY Punk. Join Tim & Damian as they nerd out about one of Chicago’s most important cultural periods. From Los Crudos mixtapes, to Pete Wentz being born to make it, to Victory’s unique place in the ecosystem, to Bill Stevenson’s mentorship, to getting dropped off at DIY shows in Fat Mike’s private limo: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don’t miss Rise Against’s awesome new “Nowhere Generation” out now on Loma Vista!
Also Touched On:
Damian’s murder board
90’s Chicago: the Punk capital
A friend’s older sister with amazing taste
Pegboy
Listening to Crudos in 7th grade
Transcending the Divided Scene
Borrowing from Cap’N’Jazz
Following Sidekick Kado like they were the Grateful Dead
“Chicago Pricing”
Rise Against, Alkaline Trio, Fall Out Boy and The Smashing Pumpkins: United by Punk
The Mythical Jim Chamber C.I.T. Mixtape
Tapping VBX
Taking Brandon Barnes to the Integrity show
The Fat Sound
Bill Stevenson
“Did Fat Mike drop you off in his private jet?”
Race Traitor: A needle scratch of a band
Hardcore: a Secondary Education
Victory Records
Signing to Fat and it bumming out your friends
& SO MUCH MORE!
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Episode 340 - Theo Kogan (Lunachicks, Theo and the Skyscrapers) Jun 11, 2021

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The whole house has been excited for this one! This week on the show Damian is joined by his family's favourite: The Lunachicks' THEO KOGAN! Listen in as the two talk growing up punk in New York City! From silent tours with Dinosaur Jr, to finding out you may be a Warzone Woman, to falling in love on a Troma movie set: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
& DON’T MISS the FANTASTIC new Lunachicks' book Fallopian Rhapsody, out now on Hachette!
Also Touched On:
Changing Lauren and Damian's lives
What is Pigfuck music?
Growing up in the Bad Apple
Musical Youth at the Ritz
The Dead Boys Reunion
Lux Interior beating a kid up with a mic stand
Wendy O’Williams and Manowar
NYHC shows
Watching the fights at CBGBs
“Are we Warzone Women now?”
Working with Don Fury
Drea and Theo’s favourite side effect of the violence
Gary Oldman gets beaten down
Ragging Slab
Freak with Howie Pyro
Not hearing Dino Jr. until touring with them
Frightwig: like when Jim ate the hash brownies on Taxi
Todd Phillips directs a Black Light Rainbow video?!
Falling in love on a Troma movie set
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 339 - Will Sergeant (Echo & The Bunnymen, Electrafixation, Poltergeist) Jun 07, 2021

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THE BUNNYMAN COMETH! Today on the show Damian is joined by THE LEGEND, WILL SERGEANT!!! Listen in as the two discuss the journey from proto to post punk & everything in between. From Status Quo being the English Ramones, to the Pink Fairies being too stoned to play, to the Liverpool punk scene being criminally overlooked, to the influence of Metal Urbain: this is NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don't forget to pre-order your copy of Will's new book "Bunnyman" out July 15th on Little Brown!
Also Touched On:
Sex Pistols played Liverpool first!
Hearing the Sex Pistols for the first time at a Dr. Feelgood gig
They tore down the Cavern: “Where did that band the Beatles used to play
The Liverpool Scene: True underground
The Curbies
Leaving a Pink Fairies show because they were too stoned
Twink
Liverpool Stadium
hearing the Ramones way before hearing about punk
Sharing music, building scenes
“Shut up about Tull and get into ‘em!”
Tubular Bells was a hippy record
“Virgin’s just cashing in on this punk thing.”
Forming Echo And Bunnymen
“A dedication to idleness”
Metal Urbain
Eno
Suicide: Gods in Liverpool
“Hey, Manchester!”
“We all loved the Fall”
A Certain Ratio
Going to Belgium
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
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Episode 338 - Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals, Ffa Coffi Pawb, Emily) Jun 04, 2021

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Ffa Coffi Pawb! The great GRUFF RHYS is here!!!! Join Damian as he sits down with the Super Furry Animal to discuss: his fantastic new book, the incredible history of Welsh Punk & going to Punk University through tour van lectures. From the cultural significance of Llygod Ffyrnig, to accidentally winding up on a punk comp, to the minority language European punk network: this is NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don’t miss Gruff’s amazing new book “Resist Phoney Encores” on Antenne Books and his fantastic new solo record "Seeking New Gods" on Rough Trade!!!
Also Touched On:
A brother and sister getting into punk
Mannequins spray painted to look like puke
Rock’N’Roll as American imperialist propaganda
Parents loving Reggae
Anglo/American Corporations and creation of a Global pop-culture
The effect of Crass
Llygod Ffyrnig
The history of Welsh Language
Musical and political education coming from punk
Anhrefn
Workers Playtime Records
Machlud: a soft rock band on a seminal Welsh Punk comp
Recording at Dave Anderson from Hawkwind’s studio
Pop Positive
Ffa Coffi Pawb
Getting into Psych to wind up old punk rockers
Geo-politics
Becoming a pop star accidentally
Bjork comes to Wales
Trying to give Alan McGee a tape
“Doing For The Kids” Fest
Learning how to make salad dressing from French Ska band: Le Have Nots
Seeing Fucking Up in Texas
Butthole Surfers
European Squat tours
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Episode 337 - Chris Gethard Part 2 May 31, 2021

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CHRIS GETHARD is back! Five plus years after Chris' first incredible appearance on the show (Episode 51: one of the best of all-time), he returns to prove that sequels can top the originals. From Chris' Bouncing Souls Curse, to the influence of "Another State of Mind" on his latest comedy road movie, to having to do really "sad" crowd work to no one at Lollapalooza: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
And don't miss Chris' HILARIOUS new "Half My Life" Comedy Special/ Road Movie out on June 1st (& the album dropping on June 4th)!!!
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