AXE TO GRIND PODCAST

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 mo...

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/adchoi...

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.f...

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

Year In HC: 2000! Back in the day, before the Patriot Act, before stringent TSA screenings, there was a collision of traditional hardcore and metalcore. There was bizarre, best-forgotten, genre tangents like bandana thrashcore. It was an era where some sounds were slowing down and others were just ramping up. People were trying things and failing, and that makes it all the more interesting. Learn...

New England. A frigid hellscape in which nothing grows. A white aeon-dead world. Welcome. This is a very specific sorta Listening Party. A comp album straight through. This time, it's Every Winter Is Cold featuring PUMMEL, RESTRAINING ORDER, HOLY HANDS, BURDEN, KIND, CORRODE, VANTAGE POINT, JINX, BOILING POINT, DROPDEAD, PEACE TEST, SPRING TIDE, FREE, DARKLANDS, WOUNDMAN, ANTAGONIZE, ANXIOUS, and...

NY visitor's guide; west coast 00s HC; 3rd-rate-and-not-that-great of the 90s; corndogs; premeditated murder; highlight reel; HC videos; Cursed; AF v NA; french fries; more! And Live On A2G: REGIONAL JUSTICE CENTER! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The results of the A2G Hardcore Census are in and they are equal parts intuitive and mind-blowing. How many of you are attending shows? How many are spending your college tuition on hardcore? Are zines a dead medium or are they thriving? What percentage of you are pivoting to rap? How many are sneaking off to country? Has the edge gone dull? Are you destroying the machines? It's all here. Informat...

World's on fire, let's talk hardcore. New music from TRUE FORM, PIG CITY, DIVISION OF MIND, THERAPY, AGNOSTIC FRONT, RAW HEX, THE ANNIHILATED, GEORGIA MAQ, CHOICE TO MAKE, THE WARRIORS, SECTION H8, WORLD PEACE, STAND ALONE, SYSTEM 74, and THE ACACIA STRAIN! Also discussed: odd crust; eras of Hatebreed; food delivery; bachelor parties; stalkers, wedgies; Travolta; Bjork; and more. And on-location r...

Bring in 2020 with a conference call full of split releases, Hatebreed vs moshcore, the surprising possibly alarming return of Furnace Fest, undercover nice people, is Youth Of Today a better band without Ray, and nostalgia to death. Also, Acacia Strain shirt collection. And yes, there is a rattlesnake in the wires. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2019 has been fun. Some really good music. Everyone should be bullish on hardcore right now. Celebrate good times. But... what came out this year that has lasting value? What'll get spins in five years? Ten years? What'll be listened to by the post-humans who crawl from the caves after the water wars? This episode is all about having TRACKS. Who got'm? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

A special episode. Noncore - for those with an unhealthy appetite for Star Wars. A deep dive into The Last Jedi and whether it’s good, sucks, or Really sucks. Rank your favorite movies along and hear two deeply passionate guests, Guy and Sean, as they debate the merits of the force. *No Rise Of Skywalker Spoilers* Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's the state of hardcore in 2019? How would you know? Your circle? What you see online? Let's collect some data and crunch the numbers. Hardcore Census time! Also Acme, Backtrack farewell, Boysetsfire, H8000, Anxious, Carmelo Anthony, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, San Antonio, Gilman St, Che Cafe, ABC No Rio, and a brand new Live On Axe To Grind set from MAGNITUDE! Learn more about your ad c...