AXE TO GRIND PODCAST

Can scenes survive with only corporate-owned professional venues? Prolly not. Can corporate-owned professional venues ever truly stop enterprising basement brains? Definitely not. Back this one for Patrick: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackmask/dont-avert-your-eyes-a-theres-nothing-there-comic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Redesigning merch by force, defining records, when you're hot you're hot, Spotify pocket watching, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BIG BOYS v JERRY'S KIDS! CORROSION OF CONFORMITY v MURPHY'S LAW! It's 80s Mosh Madness lunacy as the bracket offers something for everyone! Fast! Not fast! Fun! Serious! Familiar! Odd! It's all here, folks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

True or false: "What one man can do, another can do!" Congrats if you get that reference. How big can hardcore get and how big do you want it to get? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore in the good place right now? Has it been better in recent memory? Bands who’ve gone from good to great. Tom and Bob dive into the growing pool of excellent current hc bands while Patrick does his hair in the bathroom of a Super 8. Allegedly.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our live studio audience taping of A2G from Brain Dead Studios, as part of Sound & Fury 2022. Thanks to all who came and all involved. We let the Patreon get a crack at this months ago, but it was time to share it on main. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catching up after a week of shows played and attended. Voice of the streets over here. Also, is HC TikTok an inhumane horror? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore party games and the choice is yours. Pick your poison and get loose. Also, possibly cuddle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another monster MOSH MADNESS 80s EDITION! AGGRESSION v BLACK FLAG! CIRCLE JERKS v DIE KREUZEN! All this and where's the hottest lyrical sauce coming from in 2022? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part two of what you might need on a desert island in terms of punk and hardcore. You only get what fits in this boat, and the boat is small. A lotta hard choices. Now make those choices! Also a hot premiere from Jacksonville's finest: SUNTOUCH HOUSE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Desert island. If you could only bring one album per letter of the alphabet, how hard would the choices be? Not the time to pose, fella. These decisions are serious. Plus, a red hot premiere from EXCIDE! RIP Kevone. RIP John Rivera. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hard-hitting questions about bad album art, two-stepping to death metal, hard scenes, hard moshing, and things other than blood your heart can pump. Also, equally hard-hitting: is the beatdown wiki unreliable?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore too backwards facing? Is hating a professional sport or just a hobby some people are passionate about? Is Long Island beautiful? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are no dumb questions, especially from someone who really wants to learn. Our favorite ignorant youth rolls through to challenge our basic assumptions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

California wrap-up and Sound & Fury post-game. Fun in the California sun recounted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A tease episode before we all land back at home and can get back to business. Quick Sound & Fury recap with Bob and friend of the podcast, Eric. Thanks for the memories, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's that time of year when everyone makes a pilgrimage to Los Angeles to experience one of the best HC fests going, Sound & Fury. Interesting lineup this year and we dig into every crevice of it. New acts, established acts, even a reunion or two. Also, we talk about Alien Ant Farm and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. NEW MUSIC FROM GEL AND COLD BRATS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

There was a time when California was just as powerful a HC machine as it is today... but some of us didn't know it! We're talking on some of the bands we slept on or feel other people slept on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do hardcore kids miss the punk boat and is there any way to get on it once you've started sailing the HC seas? Some humble recommendations. Also, is John Brannon a sex symbol? Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some big announcements, and loving recap of recent events including the biggest HC fest of all time. A lot going on, from shows to live podcasts to a killer premiere by Boise's own REJECTION PACT. Get it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A little breather to reflect on 80s Mosh Madness up to this point. Have we learned anything? Also, how to use the bathroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric drops in to play a little THIS OR THAT, a simple game with deadly consequences. Sheer Terror or Merauder, which makes you mosh the drywall? Have Heart or Bane, which makes you donate your time to a local charity? Indie rock or pop punk, which traps you in amber as an adult? More deadly inquiries! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Questions from all angles. Is it worth doing a band as an old person? How do you tell a story people may care about? Is corniness inevitable? Is promotion annoying? What constitutes a DM slide? How do you approach an old head in the wild? So much knowledge in one convenient audio log! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patrick prattles about disc golf until the hook takes him off-stage and then we dive into BL'AST “Its In My Blood” vs FU’s “My America” and VERBAL ABUSE “Just an American Band” vs MDC “Millions of Dead Cops”. It's a ripper. a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Production; taking the bait; Tears For Fears; being too heavy; End It hosts the Playa Haters' Ball; running a record store in Portugal under a fake name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices