AXE TO GRIND PODCAST

A bit of sadness to address, and then onto the core Qs from our dear listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Somewhere, somehow, someone is bringing new tracks to the table. Did we find some for you here now? Maybe so. You decide, idk. Good stuff from HISTAMINE, ANOMALY, PRAISE, CULT MIND, ALLERGIC, NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada; bear markets; monitors; stage dive decorum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spring loaded tracks, no traps. Break into warm weather with some modern classics, new music, and songs to stomp to, including DYNAMITE, PUFFER, GOUGE AWAY, DRY SOCKET, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric Wilson jumps in with the dudes to talk about the magic of punks standing outside shows, Turnstile's Baltimore bash, and the state of hardcore 2025 in general. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You Chillin? We certainly are, AND we've got tracks. We ain't gonna stop. Hear the good stuff from SYMPOS, FAILURE DRILL, RUNNIN HOT, CHARMER, GOD INSTINCT, AUTOMATED EXECUTION and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Long Island on top, feeling good for other people's success, how much should you play your hometown, and celebrity HC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New clothes, new shoes, new slacks, NEW TRACKS. Join the FNA Army and vibe to the beat of a whole slew of new (or new to you) music including SERVICE ANIMAL, DAMBUSTER, TOURIST, CATALYST, LAUNCH CODE and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LDB, RBS, big HC shows, tiny HC tours, building a scene from the ground up, opportunities falling from the sky, and a scorching premiere from Stockholm Sweden's MASTERPIECE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dig deep, watch out for the cat hair. We try and uncover some lost, hidden, or generally under discussed tracks by great bands of all varieties of punk, hardcore, or adjacent - maybe really adjacent. Featuring THE WEIRDOS, TITLE FIGHT, GUT INSTINCT, MENTAL, FATAL RAGE, THE FEELIES and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the passing of Al Barile, we're in our thoughts about greatness and who deserves greater recognition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Something found, something lost, how many hit, how many miss. Tracks by CULTURE SHOCK, COYOTE, IGNITE, CHAIN CULT, BLIND JUSTICE and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Speed at Coachella! Scowl on Colbert! Unconfirmed rumors about the Turnstile rollout! It's all here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Like tumbling down a flight of stairs, here's a bunch of bumps scrapes and bruises but you might enjoy this ride. Tracks from EGG HUNT, FIRST ATTACK, PROSTHETIC, FALSE TRUCE, HOME FRONT, MATTER OF FACT and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Celebrate Al Brarile and SSD with the crew as we're joined by Pat Flynn. Boston Hardcore. And, as a special treat, a new track from SPEEDWAY! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the moshers. For the alt rockers. For the peace punks and anarchoheads. Coming down like a ton of bricks featuring SÖT, JUSTIFY, GANG BUSTERS, SLUMPED, IF IT RAINS, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What gets press? What is Turnstile cooking? Are bands being assembled in underground labs by lizard people? Are city folk missing out on malls? Is Patrick an ugly 62-year-old? Also, a wildly hard premiere from Richmond's own, NAYSAYER! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you finish cleaning the bedrooms? How about the attic? And did you even look in the garage yet? More new music to Spring Clean to, tracks from AGE OF APOCALYPSE, IDENTITY SHOCK, GOSSIP COLLAR, MORAL LAW, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore is too big. Like Skynet, it must be stopped. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New New for the springtime. Lets get fresh and so clean with tracks by SCOPE, BOX, PISSED JEANS, MOTORBIKE, PYREX, MT GREY and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you were given 5min to sell an album you love to someone who has never heard it, do you think you could? We try. Also, we talk Pearl Jam. And we premiere a brand new track from the mighty SUNSTROKE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From HARDSKIN to KILL HOLIDAY, with a healthy dose of new acts like WROUGHT and REJOICE. This one's got it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The nature of gossip, having to turn down nice offers, and iron cross discourse in 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All over the place but do you like music? What about music with guitars? Ok then welcome in, have a seat. Tracks from FLOOR, NO WARNING, FATAL, THE BABIES, GLITTERER and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This or That, wildcard style. What does Infest have to do with Turning Point? Only that you gotta choose one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hits, new and old. POISON RUIN, RITES OF SPRING, COROSSIVES, and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pro-core: Do we see the death of it soon, or are we all playing stadiums this time next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All time smash hits from BORN DEAD ICONS, ABSOLUTION, MENTAL, and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Show of the year; dorm talk such as what's a band even supposed to be maaan, and can you hear yourself accurately; arcane rituals at the SuperBowl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Readers hit Tom with the hard questions, and his cohosts insist he walk us through the lineups of shows from a quarter-century ago. "What was it like playing with Wetnap Hand Grenade??" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Exemplary hardcore from KNELT, INHUMAN NATURE, MORAL END and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Down a host, the remaining forces hunker down to touch all the bases on what We need in hardcore 2025. Can the line between emo and hardcore be delicately thread? What state produced the best straight edge bands? Hardcore life lessons AND beating up children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hits, both certified and future, including LIFE'S HALT, INTO ANOTHER, NERVE AGENTS, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We decided to give 2024 a chance to air out before we inspected it. Now time to put the spotlight on some releases you may've missed. Also, dropping tours, old fella callouts, the return of Hellfest, and more! RIP to a real one RICH HALL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your weekly dose, featuring music from INGROWN, LETHAL, PARANOIAC and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Solid core talk. The surprise of realizing a band has more hype than you thought, to the surprise of realizing a band has lost some of that hype. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Music. Hardcore, music. SPLEEN, JUST US, FREEZE OUT, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Los Angeles on our minds. And because we're damaged, that means Los Angeles hardcore also on our minds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Are we getting worse at hardcore by getting better at music? Also, horseshoe hate. And say it ain't so, Skip! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the end of the year and we celebrate by having a chat about emerging rapcore and democore trends. A sentence I never believed I'd type. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The joys of anonymity, what it means to be a fraud, a lesson in trolling, and our gift to you: half a radio episode where we play some ripping hardcore. Thanks for a good year, fam. Stay safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"What is the charge? Attending a fest? A succulent hardcore fest?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the topics you believe we've neglected. For years. We relented and talk on all of it. And Mr Belvedere's balls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yeah, yeah, we talk about the Kimmel thing. And then field your questions about things you say we don't talk about. Ducking nothing, bring it on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracks on tracks, for the holiday (if you celebrate) and your day off (if you don't). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's the perfect song for working in a laundromat run by a Triad? What's the perfect song for being arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct in Myrtle Beach? What's the perfect song for eating smores on a camping trip to Maine? What's the perfect song for being hunted by wolves through the Yukon wilderness? Answers inside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keep it moving, fam! You wanna talk about a mostly forgotten regional band for an hour? Or save it for another time? What about slam? Snapcase? Which Bad Brains record has the best production? Keep it moving, fam! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our novice coreman strawman, Wilson from Westchester, swings by to tell us about his new venture as a booking agent. Then he asks us for advice on how to do it right. Short-term vs long-term thinking, best practices, and how to stay out of the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices