AXE TO GRIND PODCAST

While the presidential debate was 'raging' we staged our own. Next time maybe it'll be about if Suicidal Tendencies has more than one good album, but this episode it's about more serious stuff. Also Patrick introduces a new bit in which he doesn't know where any band is from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friend of the podcast and learned man, Sean Doody, came through to talk Dischord Records. From Teen Idles to Trusty, Double-O to Antelope, it's all (mostly) here. Also, what's Yelp's opinion on this public bathroom? This is our nerdiest episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeremy Bolm talks about his band's experience with mega-producer Ross Robinson, putting out other people's records, when an LP isn't in order, Danzig, and Mr Bean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tominator brings you the very best in hardcore, punk, metal, and everything in between. New tracks from DYING WISH, PERFECT WORLD, CRUSH THE DEMONIAC, ZULU, REACHING OUT, SOUL GLO, MODEL PRISONER, RESERVING DIRTNAPS, YOUTH COLLAPSE, and more! The finest mosh available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wake The Dead is a seminal melodic hardcore release for many, but two of us are coming in blind here. The era, the ambition, the sound, and the impact of the record are all explored. If you loved it or hate it or know nothing about it at all, you'll get something out of a podcast talking on it honestly. Then strap in for Live On A2G with the pride of the Capital Region: DRUG CHURCH. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bar shows or community space shows? Underdog or Into Another? HC drama or office Christmas party? PAHC or CTHC? Magnitude or One Step Closer? Harley or JJ? Pizza or bagel? Every important question that can be phrased as a binary choice, ever, is answered today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doing our best to let a little pressure out of the atmosphere. We talk all-over print, stepping in dog shit, work stoppage, Randy Newman, magazines, Kalamazoo, worst hardcore apparel, shorts, survival in a post-apocalypse, aspirational intelligence, California hardcore, Red Hot Chili Peppers, shows we missed, and NBA Jam. Cool out and be easy with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Riley Gale RIP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Antidote and trips to the National Parks; Sick Of It All and literature; Vermin Supreme and voting; pepper spray and making people apologize for accusing you of things you actually did; the Name Game and fun. You'll love this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Entering the dark and murky world of music's near-future. Where we can't be sure shows are happening, if subculture even exists, and if paper money has value anymore. Strap into the last of the V8 Interceptors and fill up on guzzolene, we're taking a trip to the misery farm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A cool hour of the best hardcore and punk from INTIMIDATION, GAG, MOONKISSER, INTERNAL, BITTER BRANCHES, EXCIDE, INITIATE, HELLO MARY, SOOTHING, VILE SPIRIT, GULCH, CORIKY, IMPOTENTIE, SUBDUED, SPY, BULL CULT, HUMANT BLOD, and DAME! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Record Club is in full effect with a close look at the self-titled album from 1.6 Band. One for the post-hardcore heads, but there's something here for everybody: vaccines, Michael Vick, chili dogs, snitching, covid shows, festivals, and the announcement of the next installment of the club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore secretly for super-capable musicians and all that 'talent doesn't matter' stuff is a lie? Was Makeoutclub a dark signal that this is a creep scene? Or was it a nice way for awkward kids to get together? Where were you when you heard Hatebreed? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not everyone is built for this game. But we are. Hours on a year we can't even agree is any good or not. Fastbreak to Brother Inferior to Throwdown and beyond. Hardcore from the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe. Good material, bad material, and a lot to talk about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Year In Hardcore, 1999! A wild year, with the Melissa Worm ravaging the internet, Napster making pirates out of high schoolers, and Stuart Little keeping us in theaters. Also, a ton of hardcore was peaking, dying, or limping along. ALL of it gets explored. And to celebrate a great episode, we welcome WEBBED WING to Live On Axe To Grind! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bliss out on the sounds of new music from Punitive Damage, One Step Closer, Spring Tide, Big Cheese, CHEW, Jab, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kate and Emma join us to talk on callouts, cancellations, accountability, and substantive change in hardcore. Also discussed: wasps. And maybe a little taste of the new UNREAL CITY release if you're good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Hatebreed overrated, underrated, or appropriately rated? What about Dag Nasty? Ekulu? Lotta bands are examined this episode TASTEFULLY AND WITH RESPECT. Also, Chicago Fire, the Dick Wolf extended universe, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quiet moment for a listener. Venues ex nihilo; sad old man storage units; mental health; Cold As Life; political hardcore; making friends online; YDL erasure; region of choice; truly fake news; more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hard talks with relatives and hardcore icons. Can you really reason with either one? Also, is hardcore worth playing/watching in a half-empty room? Also, money-laundering, and treasure-hunting in the Rockies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Facebook news drip, bail reform, Saved By The Bell, gently placing grandma in a dumpster or not, Ice T, Ice Cube, intellectual blindspots, weight training for the oncoming Cop War, and a quick visit from producer/engineer/musician Will Putney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Felt inappropriate doing the normal thing this week. Exercise your rights and be safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every once in a while we like to give everyone a chance to see what goes on in the golden kingdom of the Axe To Grind Patreon. Here’s some clips to tease and tantalize, with the hope that you’ll join our Patreon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last Lights, Fiona Apple, shootouts, guitar solos, Green Day, Lulu, good looks, professional wrestling, The State, piloting a plane without training, Australia, Orange 9mm, college, and A Live On A2G set from the mighty SUNSTROKE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grady and Ryan from Anxious and One Step Closer jump into talk a little bit on getting stuck in Europe at the onset of a pandemic, going to school in the middle of nowhere, and the process of writing full lengths for each band. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Critique, PMA, haters, and the cold hard reality of putting art into the world. Ian from Regional Justice Center joins us for deep talk on what makes a good vocalist, what makes a band a viable touring act, and what justifies physical release. It's nitty gritty and brass tacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Looking Back an underrated classic? A accurately rated piece of the hardcore cannon? Or an overrated pile of shit? With influences that range from melodic hardcore to the devil, this record inspires big opinions from hardcore kids. Let's get to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This one is for the word lovers. Pat Flynn stops by to talk favorite lyricists in hardcore and beyond. Is Shawn Brown an underrated snark god? Do members of Foundation have Minority Report style precognition? Can CRASS cause acid reflux? Is Start Today a Se7en style coded message only a genius could anticipate? All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Swamp life; lean gains; the future of touring; economics of playing music in 2020; drive times; putting out records during a pandemic and/or global depression; drive-in hardcore shows; the importance of venues; cassette releases; Albania; Zoli; rabies; more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to go about showing the best, most interesting, and most personally impactful NYHC to someone new. Also discussed: prodigious journaling, BlackedRaw, ditching religion in a public way, YDL, scooter culture, and what constitutes snotty vocals. All this and Western MA's own MANIAC Live On Axe To Grind! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jay and Mike join us to talk about the new Swingin' Swords, Choppin' Lords 12" EP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anyone can be part of this club. Just go listen to the record we're talking about, come back, compare your thoughts to ours and other listeners, be happy or mad. Today's album: Vision Of Disorder - Imprint Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pat Flynn joins the podcast to talk Zoli muscles, the responsibility bands have to their communities, the best year in hardcore, mysterious guy hardcore, head massages, gun control, Duke basketball, Bold, Bold, and Bold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we opened the door to anonymous questions, these are the bad apples who strutted in wearing leather jackets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Joseph Covid reporting, Karate Kid, looking like a thumb, starting a hardcore band late in life, rerecorded classics, diss tracks, Every Time I Die, Reagan Youth, blind spots, a world without Bad Religion, Bridge 9, and what classics are secretly bunk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lots of hardcore and hardcore adjacentry in this hardcore podcast. Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Breakdown, 108, VOD, Rollins Band, Leatherface, In My Eyes, Kiss It Goodbye, Dischord catalog, Rev catalog, Victory catalog, and on and on! So much goddamn hardcore for the hardcore. And to top it all off, RESTRAINING ORDER Live On A2G! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crossover episode with Worst Possible Timeline. Hardcore is supposed to be NOT discussed, but somehow works its way into conversations about Joe Girardi's traps, Joe Biden's brain failure, American exceptionalism, Tiger King, wrestling without crowds, and more. Hot takes abound! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frequent collaborator Dave joins Bob to debate the most pressing issue of 2020: Where each Black Flag release ranks in the band's discography. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Is Albany, Not Bakersfield. Bob is joined by Overnight Drive's secret coremen Hans and Andrew for a trip into the dark heart of memory lane. Scene clashes, the alienated hardcore kid, 25 Ta Life, Earth Crisis fandom, Louisville, Punk Planet, and more. This is a wild time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever spend a night in Poughkeepsie talking about your ten favorite hardcore records of the 90s? Now is you chance. Nicole and Alex Casey join the crew to talk all things hardcore from the era of MTV Unplugged. Is Only Living Witness on your list? Strife - underrated? Does Supertouch have tracks? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wire. Blacklisted. Best Boston bands. Smart bands vs 'Smart bands'. Marshal's Home Goods and TJ MAX. After Forever by Black Sabbath. After Forever as covered by Shelter. Disneyland. Melodic HC. Facebook Living your death. Orange juice. Petty beefs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ray & Porcell. Where's Your Head At? The dreadlocked whites of Koh Rong. Is doing a GoFundMe cool, lame, or a cause for complete indifference? Prison lockdown. Game Of Thrones cool, lame, or cause for complete indifference? Wild Side. Cambodian copyright laws. Gaslight Anthem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bad Brains discussed in the type of detail a global pandemic allows for. Longtime friend of the podcast and frequent contributor Andy comes through to drop knowledge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Putting in some overtime for all the people who are having to deal with this or that. We tackle the hard topics like how good was that Code Orange stream and can we expect biters? The difficulty of canceling events even under duress. Close it out with some chatter on the top releases from label titans Deathwish and Bridge 9. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some new music talk. Some nontroversy talk about the shirt that scandalized Gilman. Some Damage City talk. Some Escape From Phnom Penh talk. Some size matters or it doesn't talk. It's early 2020 and the world is actin' up. Listen to some hardcore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Indecision episode! Rachel and Justin of Indecision/Most Precious Blood join their lifelong bandmate Tom to remember and misremember the past 25 years. Why do bands make the decisions they do? Does anything you did as a kid make sense even five years later? Victory Records; Magnum condoms; the Mets; hard tours; breakups to makeups; grad school; drone assassination record labels; more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's that time of year again. Festivals aren't just for ravers and Europeans. Wild Rose! BnB! United Blood! Furnace! Much More! Here's a deep(ish) dive on what's on offer this spring/summer. Young! Old! It's all good! Also, don't hide your PV under a basket. Let your light shine. And more Bane (Batman, not band) voice than you can handle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are the hosts of this podcast clinically depressed? Who are they talking to on AIM? Who is doing the dishes in this partnership? How would they say goodbye to a loved one when they're going to be consumed by marauders? What's with butthole sunning? The core only appears in small doses this episode... until KC's finest, SPINE joins us Live On A2G! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NYHC bands ranked! Pre-1990 roster of kings! KILLING TIME; SICK OF IT ALL; BURN; LEEWAY; SHEER TERROR; BREAKDOWN; WARZONE; MURPHY'S LAW; SUPERTOUCH; to just name a few! The gang's all here and we R E S P E C T F U L L Y submit our opinions on what tier of legendary each fall into. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the most mixed of bags, as we expand on our year 2000 exploration. We lend our ear to classics and... not classics, learning a lot about our tolerance for operatic vocals, word salad, and squigel-squigel-dees. It was a year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices