AXE TO GRIND PODCAST

Sometimes you need that old fuzzy, familiar blanket. AND SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO GO BUY A NEW BLANKET. New tunes for the new you, it's 2026, find something new to love. Featuring IRON CRUSADERS, TAR, ONIONIZM, STRAGGLER, WEDNESDAY, POISON RUIN, ELIMINATORS, HEAVENLY BLUE, CHANCERS, YANKEE BASTARD, THE DOGS, ATTRITION. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barbershop talk about who is fastest, hardest, and heaviest. Plus, a premiere from a fresh LAMENT reissue! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Has it been a long week or a short week? When is there ever a regular week? Can we get a regular week maybe? What we DO have is your weekly dose of dope songs, including ZERO MOB, BAD SPORTS, xGAARGOYLEx, GUNNER, DIMENSION, OVERHAND, and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore questions come fast and furious, from the basics "YoT or Judge?" to the heady "does this sh*t have a future?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How many songs on this episode are you interested in? Should I start letting AI write these intros? Do you need a quantitative number to make something great? Songs from MANIK, FLESH COMMODITY, WORLD I HATE, HITMEN, PERRO MUNDO, REASON WHY, STAND TALL, FIXED GAME, B.O.R.N. and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The most brilliant minds in hardcore show promotion join Tom for a roundtable of wisdom and whimsy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maybe 80% less wiley talk but still 100% tracks on tracks. New music and hopefully some new to you from acts including LOOSE LEASH, CRUSH YOUR SOUL, ENKASED, KILLING PACE, THE MASTER'S CALL, SEE IT THROUGH and 6 more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk Converge. In depth. And detail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I stay on, I stay on, where do I get off? Well not here, not this week, we got tracks to farm. From this week's yield we got STARING CONTEST, REJECT MODERNITY, FAR AWAY, HEAD CRACK, EN LA MUERTE, GLORY, BLOCKADE, and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An oldhead stops by with some questions. What's a Grammy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just a lot of good music, is that enough? IT IS. So let's get it with tracks from SPIKEPIT, NIGHTFEEDER, GYLT, RITUAL DISORDER, LOSE SIGHT, GALLOP, FINAL GASP, INFILTRATORS and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A lot going on in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We go in a lot of directions but that's how you grow in a lot of directions, right? Hear something new, something old, something stage dive, something chill with this batch, which includes VIOLENT PROTEST, THE CONSEQUENCE, DAISY CHAIN, CARTOON, SPY, BAD BREEDING, RIFLE, LAST ORDER, KNUMEARS, ALL 4 ALL and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Impromptu GB vs CIV debate; are we doing old guy bands dirty with the venues we put them in; when to tell someone a boring story they don't care about Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It never really dies. Plus, showing up to a 100 cap room in a bus. And how are we all seeing the world so differently? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NEW YEAR NEW EPISODES SAME GREAT TASTE. We've got the greatest and latest in hc punk adjacent and everything in between, including MESS, BULLS SHITT, NEGATIVE FORCE, REDS, TAKE STEPS, CRUELSTER, EN LOVE, COLOSSAL MAN, UTILITY and more. 2026, Let's Go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do we expect in 2026? Join us for some irresponsible speculation on the immediate future of hardcore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2025: Was it lit? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Proceed to the music station of your choice; plug in, sit with ample space for comfort and focus, while maintaining a healthy heart rate and strong posture. Enjoy this weeks' music, including CARE FREE, ALIENATOR, LIMIT OF DESTRUCTION, RED SUN, MASHAAL, END STATE, TERRITORY and more. Let's go Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why some releases GO and other's are PASSED OVER. Are we literate? Why you want union welders in your band. Why the 1995 NBA draft matters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're at the tracks store and strolling the NEW ITEMS aisle. Catch some new heat that includes SPLEEN, FADING FAST, DEFY YOU, DEADBOLT, FLORIDA MAN, PUBLIC SHAME, GAMMA, NYLON, RURAL HATE, NUCLEAR MAN, and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That's SIR Elton John to you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The year is winding down, the cold weather is locking in, but the hot tracks won't stop. Music for the mindful, the mindless, and the unminded, including ARESI, DRAFT DODGERS, PRICE OF REDEMPTION, FREEZE OUT, PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE, TU LA LLEVAS, ANTENNA and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New hardcore discussed in obsessive detail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We might have gotten weird, or we were just a bit wired, but who can say. There's tracks, I stand by it. Stand by with songs new and old (mostly new) from NEOLITHIC, FEELS LIKE HEAVEN, ANGEL DU$T, REMEMBER SPORTS, TOTAL FLESH, EXCIDE and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quick round of this or that to connect with our fill-in legend, Tyler Short. Talk on live shows, new core, old core, Flyover Fest, For The Children, and LDB. All that and a debut from Milwaukee’s ENERVATE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Usually we're back on the map, this week we're all over it. New bands? Check. Modern classics? Yup. Stone cold 90s banger? You got it - all that and more. Featuring IDENTITY SHOCK, ATARI, WMD, GNOSTICS, DEAD AND GONE, 411, G.A.Z.E. and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A little bonus for the Holiday. Listen now before it gets copyright claimed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It takes strength to be gentle and kind, but the internet isn't about that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're out here on the corner like a newsie flingin' tracks at you, the least you can do is drop some change in the hat. Or at least, go buy one of the records by any of these excellent bands, including CROSS, WILL TO SPEAK, SAVIOUR COMPLEX, LAUGHING CORPSE, RECOLLECTION, SNOCAPS, SIEGE COLUMN, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are SONGS hard to come by these days? Has metalcore been a pernicious influence on hardcore? Also, LDB; Brandon Boyd; and the torturous nature of album plays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Celebrate young and old because it's getting COLD. Can't put these tracks in the fireplace, but if you've got a soul, they'll keep you warm. Featuring NO TIME, REPEAT OFFENDER, WICCANS, CEMENTO, MODERN MAN, PLACID, REARRANGED FACE and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been 12,638 days since Judge released new music. What are you doing about this? And what's your breaking point on the cost of shows? AND a premiere from PRIVATE HELL! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We get in, we get out, no questions asked. This is a getaway mission episode where we come for the jewels and leave only tracks behind - including MEMORY WARD, HOT LOAD, FEDERAL CHARGE, IMPACT DRIVER, GOLDEN APPLES, FUSS, DUEL and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When did everyone start loving your favorite band? Is that allowed? We're checking IDs at the door. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Touch bases, touch grass, tune into the highest level of tunes. Tracks from MIRRORLESS, UTILITY, CYCLOPS, TWISTED TEENS, RANCOR, MERCY RUIN, MOPAR STARS, CAMOUFLAGE and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever manufacture a reason to not check something out? Our listeners are guilty and they confess their BS reasons to us. Also, playing shows still fun. Going to shows still fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You ever drive a car? With the windows down, and the system UP? How about on a crisp, Autumn morning? WHAT A RUSH. Join the FNA crew to listen to songs from FERRIDAY, DIVISION-ONE, WRETCHED RITE, FALSE SALVATION, COLD KISS, FENTANYL, SLOW MASS, DEEP COVER, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bad merch ideas of yesteryear. Cancelling tours, right or wrong. How to put together a setlist that doesn't burn out the people who like you. Ride into the mind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does music actually make you lose control? Well maybe don't listen, we don't want any liability for outlandish behavior. But if music only metaphorically makes you lose control, then jump in and discover something new with songs from PLUTO'S KISS, THE BERSERK, KNUMEARS, KONG KONG, TV CULT, DEAD HEAT, INDIAN SUMMER and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We opened the window of listener questions and a flock of Haywire fans flew in. Lots of energy around a touring band, beautiful. Also some other questions. And pipin' hot premieres from Denver's DESTINY BOND and the UK's CANNONBALL! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is it appropriate to eat pancakes at midnight? Or 3 pm? What about a formal dinner? Let's digest these thoughts while we rock to SPITE HOUSE, SETBACK, FATAL REALM, SWEET TALKER, EZ8, PHANTOM PIKE, VIOLENCIA, SECLUSION, DRY SOCKET, SPEED, ORAGE D'ACIER and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old and young, fests and small shows, politics and interpersonal relationships! All this and a world premiere from FACE THE PAIN! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Print the headline, it reads 'Tracks Inside.' User discretion, check your labels, make your moves, do your dance. Hardcore's finest and then some with HOME FRONT, URBAN SPRAWL, GUMM, SOUL ON FIRE, FAIRYTALE, WEAK SPOT, VAMPIRE, WASTED LIFE, UNIFORMED SERVICE, DRINK DEEP, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Looking backwards and asking favors, is there a time and place for either? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Found in the seat cushions and under that one chair, we've got tracks galore. Songs from C4, FROTHING MAD, FREEZERBURN, SCRUTINY, RIGOROUS INSTITUTION, END IT, PLANET ON A CHAIN, SPIRITUAL CRAMP and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything is bigger now, and we can't tell if we're seeing a cycle or a black swan event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some hits, no misses, so let's call 'em all hits. Don't stop the rock with HITMAN, CAPE FADE, MERCY, ENDLESS JOY, FANTASTIC PLANET, MERC, BELGRADO, CRITICAL DAMAGE and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's not about the money. It's about the shredded squash sliders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New music is coming fast and furious - is it too fast? We know it's not too furious. So Vin Diesel through the weekend with us and tracks by WEIGHT CLASS, GLEAN, NEGATIVE CHARGE, LURK, BRAINWASHED, SECRET WORLD, RETIREMENT and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices