AXE TO GRIND PODCAST

Some albums have unfairly slipped from the culture's consciousness. They could probably benefit from the reissue treatment. But what makes for a good reissue and how much demand does there need to be? Also, war on Ebay. Also, Slipknot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yesterday we failed to include the SENTINEL debut. That has been rectified and the responsible parties have been terminated with cause. And blackballed from further employment in the field. For those of you who got the version without Sentinel, you now have Sentinel. And it rips. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are innovations valuable or corrosive to the fabric of hardcore? What would HC ‘81 think of HC ‘23? Metalcore today versus a few years ago. The merit of Earth A.D. and the concept of a new Fugazi LP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Assembling a tour package is like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle on top of a Jenga tower. We pull out the blocks and watch it tumble on this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We put our minds to defining every half-decade of hardcore by choosing emblematic albums. We struggle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

World travelers over here. US bands touring overseas and international bands touring the US. The joys, the headaches, and the potential. Also, what happens if someone's head breaks at a show? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For our 300th episode, we accidentally talk about whatever BS is going around HC internet. Furry mosh, guns, Grammys, and taking your merch person's money. It won't age well! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you more excited for what's new, or what you already know you like? Is it time for some acts to just get outta the damn way? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The punk police have called in the helicopters. Get to a tunnel until the heat passes. Also, AI hardcore shows, LiveNation, offensive booking agent slime, ultra-casuals, and playing covers with a bad voice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our clueless but well-intentioned friend Wilson from Westchester joins us to discuss the difference between punk and hardcore (assuming there is one), the proper syntax of the phrase 'straight edge', who the biggest bands in this moment, hc bands on TikTok, and the pros and cons of an edgy band name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are there people who love hardcore who should just avoid each other? Crowds that should not be in the same room? Or can we walk together and rock together? Also, how many 'whoops, forgot to make hardcore' LPs do you put up with from a band? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can the younger bands help legacy acts to gain new fans? Should they? Can the legacy acts play below younger acts without feeling some type of way? How can we best help each other out here? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who gets to commodify hardcore? You? Me? Raytheon Technologies? Wayne Corporation? Dave Ackerman joins us to discuss. Rest in peace to hardcore attorney and all-around mensch Dave Stein, laidback fella Jimmy Buffet, and Shrek enthusiast Steve Harwell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our quest for certainty continues, with questions from listeners and clarifications made! Has politics completely left hardcore? Is Gel getting the proper amount of love? Is a traveling fest viable or is that the talk of a lunatic? How much credit does Title Fight deserve? Is violence fun and interesting? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bathing in listener questions. Gel or Spy? What's your 2023 dream tour? Was 2001 lit? How much pop-punk can you handle in your hardcore? Is hardcore best consumed in small bites? Did H2O have a moment? And on and on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does hardcore have industry plants? Maybe. Does it have jealous haters? Definitely. Let's have fun with it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some updates from the streets of Saigon where they're booping everyone, a discussion about what bands, venues, and experiences we may be taking for granted, and a forensic investigation of Travis Barker at Sound & Fury. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore shirt wars, Indecision Records Fest recap, Sound & Fury FOMO, the resurrection of Twitching Tongues, the Magnitude-Mouthpiece connection, losing your toes, and Pregnant Sonic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Sound & Fury this week, we play word association with the lineup. What happens when you clear your mind and just let the strange collection of words roll over the grey matter inside your skull? Also, is there too many festivals? And have you talked to your doctor about Provasic? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A bonus episode for the heads! A talk with the people behind essential Brooklyn venue SAINT VITUS on what makes a great space, a great moment, and a great legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

80s Mosh Madness breaks from brackets for a minute to address the 800lb gorillas. This is all the undeniable monster albums. Classics from 7 Seconds, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Gorilla Biscuits, Negative Approach, and Bad Brains. The hardcore staples. All that and a song debut from California's STATESIDE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How varied were your tastes as a young core aficionado? How varied are they now? Then we play the Bobko game, where we try to find the sonic parents of specific bands. AND we've got a song debut from Triple-B's own MISSING LINK! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some new HC talk. What's poppin and what may pop soon. Also should Fall Out Boy go to prison forever? And big premiere of a new rippin hardcore track from Portland's own ALIENATOR! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are we really all just playing alternative metal? What deals are forbidden? What deals would you say no to? Is Josh Trustkill having an episode of some type? Do we owe Biohazard an apology for all the hardcore that's lifted from them the past twenty-five years? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Breaking through the hardcore ceiling without looking like a fool. And is there any excuse to drop a stage-diver? Throwing your camera in the ocean. All this and a song premiere from NY's own PAIN OF TRUTH! And while we're in a NY state of mind, how about a new track from MAAFA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where will you be when the vibe changes? Did you lose touch when the stuff you don't like was poppin? And are we track-deficient or are we missing hidden heat? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is there still a space for genre elitists in hardcore 2023? Regardless if there is or there isn't, they're here! Also, is the Drain hype real? And did we all get taken to church when TUI played Tied Down Fest? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The boys are one short but do their best to hit a grip of questions from the audience. What does Black Flag mean to the under 30 age group? Never Ending Game. Initiating bad behavior from the stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore bands are getting rare opportunities, but are they all they're cracked up to be? Investigate the topic and enjoy the digressions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes you and the homies go different ways on a bands and genres. Can the house stand or will it escalate to a college football style chasm? Also a premiere from Tennessee's own GUMM! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reunion record talk concludes, but somehow we detour into the Presidents of the United States of America extended universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reunion records as an idea and what makes a good one, a noteworthy one, and a depressing one. This episode is about highlighting the good. Welcome back, whoever. Good to see you. Also, remember Ashlee Simpson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We took a time-machine to the vaunted early 00s, when hardcore was poppin... but chasms between genres were widening. We jump on one side of that fence for a podcast to pick apart Saturday of HELLFEST 2002. A time capsule event, for good and bad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore 2023 rips, but is there something missing? Underrepresented genres? Vibes that can't be found? Dive into the weird, sailor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A solemn goodbye to Rich Jacovina of Silent Majority and then some talk about the bands that are defining the moment. There's a lotta great bands, but which are emblematic of WHAT'S POPPIN? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do some bands do so well in streaming while others are better at filling rooms and some excel at selling vinyl? The Mystery Mobile pulled up and tried to sort it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jay from Mindforce joins us to discuss how easily things can be taken in the wrong spirit. Also, when will youth crew be YOUTH crew again? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Auction-style draft to create the perfect festival! You've got some imaginary money, now build the perfect experience! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The title says it all. New bands, tours, and label announcements. Also, gossip (as a concept). And a cameo from Dookie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The fine (dying) art of the cover song. When's the last time you heard a great one? Also a track from the upcoming CONFUSION discography! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part two of the Wikipedia-led discussion on post-hardcore. You know how college won't let you cite Wikipedia? There's good reason for that. But we still manage to talk some good post-hardcore talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunt for gold in the arbitrary and sometimes nonsensical subgenres of wikipedia's hardcore knowledge. Do you Nintendocore? Madball and Agnostic Front. Whats the line between PV and Grind? Where in the world is Patrick San Diego? Plus, a hot premiere from Denver's PUBLIC OPINION! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Putting together a post-hardcore playlist using the epicenter of ignorance: Wikipedia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Turnstile on the red carpet, Helmet in the dunking booth, and Wilson From Westchester is back to ask us Certified New Guy Questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Was Biohazard the first uncanny valley HC band? TUI still great. Shows shows shows! Can a band go from the wild boys to the mild boys and still rule? How band legacies are revised and refurbished. AND SOME SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore internet was alight with rumors of COMMERCIAL VIABILITY! So we went in. Then we made time for a name game. Do you know your hardcore musicians, or is it all "that guy with the funny hairline?" we took the test. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the hot-button hc topics, like "are shows better with the lights on?" and "should you sit in the center of the stage?" Also, FYA recap, Tied Down preview, and a brand new track from Philly's own DRILL SERGEANT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens next? [not the band, but the sincere question] Listeners hit us with their predictions for the near future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Year-end lists of things we listened to. Really just an excuse to talk hardcore. Also, Janet Jackson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friend of the podcast Eric joins us for: Bands with bits; defending your hater side; this or that; Bob Seger; No Warning; maintaining good posture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices