Turned Out A Punk

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Joe Manganiello from Justice League, True Blood and Archenemy Feb 03, 2021

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Episode 309:
Grab your 20 sided dice! Today on the show we are joined by, the bard with a 31 charisma, actor/director/producer/writer/DM: JOE MANGANIELLO!!! Join Joe & Damian on his journey from a Rollins worshipping, DnD obsessed, metalhead kid, to a Rollins worshipping, DnD obsessed, metalhead adult... Who is also Deathstroke & Alcide the Werewolf.
NOT TO BE MISSED & ALSO, don't miss Joe's "Shoplifters Of The World" out wherever you see new movies March 26!
Also Touched On:
Damian’s whole family is excited for this one!
Metallica turning people on to the Misfits and Discharge
The power of the cover
Get In the Van: “Have you ever read this?”
Being obsessed and getting to meet Henry Rollins
“Crossover stars”
Shepard Fairly setting you straight
Parents hate D’n’D
Trying to keep Role Playing games punk
It’s a war-game
The dream of working in the industry… the gaming industry
Ian MacKaye’s birthday fucking up the booking plans for a live reading of Major League
What’s the purpose of us anymore?
Being the roadie for Goldfinger
Nerds of the world unite
Metal going high fashion is teenage validation
Vince Vaughn, Big Show, and Tom Against The Machine: the ultimate DnD party
Going to see Social Distortion and losing your camera with Macho Man photos
DnD Alignments
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Alison Braun: Photographer and author of IN THE PIT Jan 31, 2021

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Episode 308:
Mouse is in the house!!! One of the original documentarians of Souther California Hardcore is here: ALISON “MOUSE” BRAUN! Join Damian as he sits down with the legendary photographic contributor to MRR, Flipside, We Got The Power & more! From why she didn’t shoot Black Flag, to introducing El Duce to her dad, to why it took her years to finally get a usable shot of the Bad Brains, to moving to Seattle just before the explosion & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don’t miss Alison’s AMAZING NEW BOOK available at alisonbraun.com!!!!!!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Having to judge a book by it’s cover
Record stores
the loss of cover art
Kiss and Cheap Trick
Shady has the tickets!
The Go-Go’s and the X and the Whisky
Submitting to Flipside
The Keith Morris versus Jello Biafra stage vibe
Black Flag’s asshole roadie
Police against punks under Daryl Gates
Working for Mystic Records
Doug Moody
Shooting Battalion Of Saints
“Your dad’s over there talking to El Duce”
Seattle: the boring calm before the storm
Never getting to shoot Nirvana
B’last being the best band to shoot
Not shooting Minor Threat
Trying to get a still shot of the Bad Brains
Stains
Submitting punk photo for high school assignment
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS
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Jason Williamson from Sleaford Mods Jan 26, 2021

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Episode 307:
On this episode Damian sits down with the outspoken vocalist of Sleaford Mods, JASON WILLIAMSON! Listen in as the two discuss: the Sex Pistols still being able to shock, Public Enemy, class, music & MORE! ALSO, check out “Spare Ribs” out now on Rough Trade.
Also Touched On:
A step brother as an entryway
The Sex Pistols: still able to offend
Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Eric B and Rakim as a first show
The class divide in music
Rap in England
British Rap
The non-influence of John Cooper Clark and Mark E. Smith
The Old Blue Last
& MORE!!!
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Fat Mike Burkett from NoFX Is Back! Jan 22, 2021

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Episode 306:
NoFX week continues & FAT MIKE is back! 5 years after his first legendary appearance on the show, Mike returns to: berate Damian's tastes in music, drink WATER & talk punk. NOT TO BE MISSED!!! And don't miss Single Album in stores February 26!
Also Touched On:
Back together again
Mike loves the Melvins
a penny scraping against concrete
Rattus
Agnostic Front
MRR
BDSM and being elite
Punk means I’m better than you
The unreleased Johnny Ramone chapter of “Please Kill Me”
Damian has terrible taste in punk
Mike not getting why people love the Big Boys and the Minutemen
Why do people hate me?
Fat’s best year
“No one says Punk in Drublic is our best record anymore.”
Bands that went to majors
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Erik "Smelly" Sandin from NoFX and Caustic Cause Jan 19, 2021

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Episode 305:
IT'S NoFX WEEK ON TURNED OUT A PUNK! In celebration of the newly announced "Single Album", here is the first of two episodes!!! Kicking it off with a bang, Damian sits down to talk with the LEGEND ERIK SANDIN! An interview almost a quarter century in the making as Damian interviews Erik for the first time since 1996! Listen is as they discuss: NoFX making him a worse drummer, worshiping at the RKL alter, punk gangs, the "Mystic Records Puppy Mill" & so much more! Not to be missed & don't miss "Single Album" out on Fat Wreck Chords February 26!
Also Touched On:
The nicest band member
Buttrock: here comes punk
Caustic Cause: 30 year old shredders
Don Bolles
America’s Hardcore
Drew Bernstien
Lip service
Scared Straight
The LA Straight Edge Scene
Playing with 7 Seconds
Becoming a worse drummer after joining NoFX
“Raymond” and the art for Liberal Animation
RKL thought the years
Mystic studios: A puppy mill for teenage punk bands
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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Steve Diggle from the Buzzcocks and Flag Of Convenience Jan 16, 2021

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Episode 304:
There's no boredom around here! On this episode, Damian is joined the LEGEND: STEVE DIGGLE from the godly Buzzcocks! Listen in as the two discuss the birth of punk in the UK, Krautrock, Gorilla Biscuits, touring with Nirvana & tons of other goodness! From "A conscientious objector to work" to punk icon: NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, grab that ESSENTIAL Buzzcocks singles boxset out now on Domino Records!
Also Touched On:
Influencing everybody
Sick of Yes
The Pistols and the Ramones
Forming two days before the Clash
The R and B influence of Pub rock
The slowness of everything in 70’s music
the Kraut rock influence
Thrift store punks
Malcolm McLaren’s mistake completes the Buzzcocks
Promises was a political song
pre-Buzzcocks’ Buzzcocks demos
The Buzzcocks’ practice space becomes Joy Division’s
Jamming for the first album in a rehab centre
Autonomy: An English person trying to sound like a German person singing English
“The riff of Manchester”
“I love those weird little bits you do in those songs!” - Joey Ramone
“We aren’t entertainers!”
Getting paid not to play a biker bar
the 100 club
the Screen on the Green
the kids in Slaughter and the Dogs
Morrissey cribbing notes
Hearing the Gorilla Biscuits’ cover for the first time
Flag Of Convenience
Meeting with Seymour Stein and saying you wanna sound like the Stooges
reforming the band
Touring with Nirvana
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!
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Fat Tony Is Back! Jan 12, 2021

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Episode 303:
REJOICE! In a rare Part 2, FAT TONY makes his mighty return to the show! Tony made one of Damian's favourite records of last year & it has been a while since they last spoke. Listen in as they catch up & talk: the process of writing his fantastic "Exotica" album, working with Bun B, Tony's favourite TOAP episodes & so much more! NOT TO BE MISSED! Also, don't miss "Exotica" out now on Carpark Records!
Also Touched On:
Liking ALL types of punk
discovering music independently: free from anyones else’s baggage
Like Pop Punk and Hardcore and Houston Rap and Bay Area Rap
at least you could turn off the message board
getting back into music during quarantine
Research, details and collaboration: a new approach
The Gamble of making music
The honesty of writing as a character
Writing a record to be consumed as an album
working with Bun B
reaching back
YouTube comments as music history
Loving punk but never wanting to make it because it isn’t your true sound
Thing the Ergs to a Houston rap party
Getting into Ska Punk History
Favorite TOAP moments
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!
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Fred Schneider from The B-52’s, The Superions and Fred Schneider & The Shake Society Jan 06, 2021

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Episode 302:
You demanded it, we got it! On this episode, Damian sits down with one of the most iconic front people to ever pick up a microphone: the B-52s' FRED SCHNEIDER!!! Listen in as the two discuss: accidentally inventing a new approach to music, the Cramps getting it, what the Sex Pistols were like live & so much more! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!
Also Touched On:
The Velvets, The Stooges and The Ramones
mom never bringing the 7th kid to a show
Records at the A and P
Going to Athens
West Coast Surf > East Coast Surf
Not wanting to be a dance band but loving to dance
the Fans
Ort’s Oldies
Going to the first US Sex Pistols show in Atlanta
house party shows
Jamming in an unheated room at a mortuary
Meeting Lux and Ivy from Cramps at Max’s
CB’s was a dump
“If you can do we can too!” meeting Pylon
Suicide
The modestly of Athens
Steve Albini is a lovely person
Don Pyle rules!
Biker wars
& SO MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!
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TOAP Footnotes Supershow - Wonder Woman's Cro-Mags shirt and Playboi Carti reads Slash Jan 04, 2021

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With Wonder Women 1984's Cro-Mags shirt & the Slash Mag referencing cover of the Playboi Carti's Red, Punk references have popped up in chart toping mainstream culture & people are pissed! Damian has called upon Nick Woj & Chris O'toole to help him deal with the Crisis On Punk Planet.
check out Woj''s latest mixtapes at: https://soundcloud.com/w0javelli/
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Otto Buj (Sold Out Fanzine, Filmmaker) Jan 01, 2021

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Episode 301:
This week on the show Damian is joined by filmmaker & former Sold Out fanzine publisher, OTTO BUJ!!! Otto has just made a fantastic documentary about the formative days of Detroit hardcore & is here to talk all about the history of punk in Rock City. Listen in as the two talk: being too late for the glory days, the dividing line between hardcore & punk, why punk in Detroit was different & so much more! Not to be missed & DON’T MISS Otto’s new film: “Dope, Hookers and Pavement: The Real and Imagined History of Detroit Hardcore”! Available here NOW: detroithardcoremovie.com
Also Touched On:
A Detroit punk nerd-out
Finding hardcore from your older brothers
The 84-85 jumping off point
out growing the box: Laughing Hyenas, Husker Du and Fugazi
Punk versus Hardcore
The genius of Brannon
10 months that changed hardcore
Ian MacKay is not a huge Tremor Records collector
The Flesh Columns
The Spys and the Dry Heaves
The Windsor Connection
Band grow out their hair and start to solo
Being too late for the hardcore you were looking for
Samhain
Youth of Today, Henry Rollins, Boom And The Legion Of Doom and a dead dear skull
Depression Records and the true weirdos of Detroit
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
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