AXE TO GRIND PODCAST

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

Questions about how to hardcore, from those who hardcore to those who hardcore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We know the big hitters of the era, but what albums are being unfairly overlooked? We're retroactively creating hype. Get in the Delorean. We're headed to 2010-2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will an economic downturn lead to the rise of LOCAL HARDCORE? Are some bands that aren't hardcore at all given a pass because 'hardcore dudes?' What's an appropriate amount of money to spend at Sheetz? Will the course of the election be determined by Tom and Patrick arguing about it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topics are delivered fast and addressed expeditiously. Are we hard enough? Are we looking backwards too much or just the right amount? Is it time to pile in the Griswold Family Tuckster and get to FYA? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some on-the-ground reporting from festivals, discourse on the state of hating, and the art of stopping friendships before they begin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We finalize(?) this definitive 90s hardcore list that got some of you so worked up. And, yes, we read your email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to muscle up and get the job done: a definitive guide to 90s HC. No favorites. No personal picks. Just the facts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our very own Jigsaw puts us through a battery of hellish challenges. What bands will end up trapdoored into the alligator pit? Will we have the strength to be honest about some band's weakest material? And what's the proper etiquette of an Ebay bidding war? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HC has been riding high for a few years. Is this good? If it is, is there anything we can do to keep it rolling? Good for business/ Bad for business. Also, when did the Metallica love end and the Pantera love rise to the fore? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What are some songs that stir specific emotions in you? Ok, now hardcore songs. How much variety is there in those feelings? Are we a one-note culture or fully realized people with a spectrum of emotions? Also, 70s arena rock and (mercy) killing grandma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore self-regulating and occasionally self-immolating. The FYA venue change. The effort to understand each other. Firsts and most recent. Why would ChatGPT lie about a Blood For Blood show? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mainstay Brooklyn venue St. Vitus has closed its doors for good. From our archives, out of reverence and in memoriam, we offer this recording of A2G Live from St. Vitus. Thanks for the good times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FYA; regional kings and queens; genres vs lifestyles; isn't it all woofwoofwoof music; Palm Springs music; getting beat in Erewhon; best/worst reasons to do reunions; more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A long time is spent on 00s shock-rockers. And some attention is given to the correct way to handle grievances with total strangers. And some time is devoted to Dave Navarro's vest and why the Live reunion didn't happen. But mostly we talk hardcore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin from PUBLIC OPINION joins us to discuss the limits of DIY. Also, how big does a band have to be to be of help to another? Have we made touring too hard? Is there still juice in the fruit of 'hardcore adjacent?' And the power of small-city hardcore scenes for the touring bands of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore is pretty ripping in 2024, and we have the receipts to prove it. Talking about our time at Sound & Fury, the Have Heart shows, and more. Also, behind-the-scenes on who should headline what. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before next week's Sound & Fury on-the-ground reporting, we bring you a cautionary episode about being the local workhorse band, saying dumb things, being TOO present in listeners' minds, and taking the Gaga money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Would you like to play a game? Bob plays the role of Jigsaw from the Saw movies and subjects Tom and Patrick to a mental blood sport. Will they make it out of this house of horrors? Tons of music, new and old, is recommended for your ears. Also, MTV VJs in retirement, and the appeal of listening to two grown men bicker. Do a kindness for a guy who has given a lot to hardcore music. Sean McCann could use your support right now. https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sean-mccanns-battle-with-als Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom on a solo mission while Pat and Bob are on assignment in Europe. Tom is joined by Bob Wilson (FYA, Philly SXE, a lot of bands) and Greg Falchetto (Manalapan SXE, lots of bands, NJHC shows) to discuss all things booking. Played some "Keep One, Lose One", how to start out booking shows and, most crucially, the importance of bringing cash to shows. This was a lot of fun, thank you to Bob and Greg for taking part. For more information, follow: Bob - @fyafest, @rebirthrecords_ Greg - @newjerseyhardcore, @takedownrecs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who is gonna pop this summer? Can European metal push a man into the arms of Youth Crew? Are hardcore bands getting paid less than they should be relative to their non-hc contemporaries? Seattle or San Diego? Boston or DC? Los Angeles or the Bay? And a premiere from Gothenburg's SIDESTEP! That's in Sweden, you ignoramuses! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices