Crash Bang Boom Podcast!

Drummer Chris Enriquez is the rock foundation of Shoegazy Ethereal Doom trio Spotlights, Long Island Hardcore band Primitive Weapons, and formerly with Noise rockers Hann! We delve into playing in punk rock karaoke bands, equipment meltdowns, bathroom breaks in front of big crowds, touring with Spotlights and opening for the Melvins and Deftones, some back stories on Primitive Weapons and Haan, hi...

AP Gonzalez is my guest for today's continuation of the CBBP New Orleans Drummers Series!!! AP is one of the rare drummers who bridges punk/jazz& funk & was an absolute idol of mine while playing in his band Lump in the early-mid-90’s. We get into his original band Black Problem, being an oddball band in the late 80’s in New Orleans, going out to LA during the 92’ riots to record with...

Evan Diprima's blend of power and musicality is at the center of Atlanta's psych-indie-stoner quartet Royal Thunder!! We get into sleeping on floors and marathon writing sessions, all kinds of tech geekery including custom drum sets, tuning bigger dimension drums, recording drums solo to click tracks as well as other aspects of studio recording, the complex task of describing Royal Thund...

Multifaceted drummer extraordinaire Pej Mon of Secret Chiefs 3, Girth, & Satya Sena is our guest today! We get into fractured backs, Frank Zappa & Mr Bungle, The encyclopedic cross-genre melding of mastermind Trey Spruance, studying traditional Indian music and the benefits of learning that vocabulary, rebelling from academia and pursuing extreme forms of music, Dave Grohl & John Bonha...

Drum-Wiz Brann Dailor has been ripping, grooving, filling and generally shredding the last 20 years with Mastodon, formerly Today is the Day and more recently with his new synth project Arcadea. As a rare drummer who possess the natural ability to blend proggy fills with metal grooves and agile hand patters I knew it'd be a great convo'! We get into Chris Farley, David Letterman, sitting...

Today’s guest was one of my favorite drummers growing up and an absolute character in Mike Ogden who's fusion of proggy weirdness & punk bombast with his 90's band NUT was both a revelation and a monumental influence for me. *We get into wild acid stories, trailer park tramp stamps, favorite New Orleans shows growing up, titi bars, mushrooms and Jimi Hendrix, getting weird out in cam...

Kicking off today’s continuation of the New Orleans Drummer series is an incredible drummer in Dan Caro, who is a real inspiration not only in the drumming world but in life. Dan is a burn survivor who at just the age of two was involved in an accident resulting in 3rd & 4th degree burns over 80% of his body. This required over 80 surgeries by the age of 18 and caused the loss of his hands. De...

Drummer Michael Dalstrum of Sweden's God Mother is today's guest!! After a scorching set at St Vitus where they ripped/blasted/grooved and destroyed various tracks off their last two records and we caught up to talk about G.M. opening for The Dillinger Escape Plan on one of their three final shows, signing with Party Smasher Inc., blast beats, bus wrecks, first time visiting NYC , his am...

Drummer Des Kinsel is one third of the high-octane, pummeling, viking-stoner- doom, power-trio; High on Fire. We get into spinal fusions, shoulder surgeries, make-up sex, the importance of stretching, 20 years of HOF, The Melvins and Unsane as influences, cassette walkmans, guitar solos, tribal beats, earthquakes, touring advice, German critiques, plus working with Kurt Ballou on the last two reco...

Tony is the drum-looping- FX sandwich-eating drummer of now duo and former trio Drums & Tuba. Tony toured, recorded and ripped it up with the band for a decade playing upwards of 260 gigs a year and opening for such acts as Primus, Oysterhead, Ani Difranco, Space Head, Galactic and more. We get into how he first became enamored with the drums, killer shows he saw growing up, moving from Austin...

Not only is Brendan Canty the uber dynamic, dub pocket, punk rockin' , bell blastin' drummer of such monumental bands as Rites of Spring, and Fugazi he also does soundtrack/film scoring work. We get into his new band with Fugazi bassist Joe Lally; The Messthetics, the evolution of Fugazi’s records and the tough task of acknowledging your back catalogue without repeating it, his love for...

Chris Metcalf of The Life and Times dynamic ability to balance groove, chops and bombast were on full display when I caught up with them at St Vitus Bar touring in support of their new self titled record. We get into Sonic fingerprints, marching drums, the rich music history of Kansas City and talk about some of our favorite drummers from that area, as well as nerding out on our favorite 90’s band...

Drummer Michael Kadnar splits his time between Downfall of Gaia, The Number Twelve Looks Like You and Black Table as well as teaching when not on tour/recording. We get into touring with The Dillinger Escape Plan /getting his mind blown every night by them, how he got the call to do both DFOG and #12LLU, as well as early stories about playing in concert band as a kid, navigating the ever changing...

For a quarter century drummer Cheshire Agusta has been the driving force behind Philly punk/jazz trio Stinking Lizaveta!! We get into pit-bull security officers, touring in the mid 90's vs now, camping out, communal living, playing in a band with two brothers and transitioning from classic piano to drums and finding both a greater physical connection and ultimately a greater creative pursuit....

When faced with the task of slamming home some serious punk rock bombast, blasting & grinding or just laying down straight grooves- Brad Fickeisen of Trap Them is on it!!! *I caught up with Brad amidst T.T.’s final run of shows before calling it quits after 15 years where we got into his formative years in marching band, what he’s enjoyed the most about drumming in Trap Them, OCD, his love for...

Andreas Neuderth aka; "Neudi" has lead a wildly cyclical life in playing drums with not one but TWO bands that he grew up listening to: Manilla Road and Trance. We caught up at Manilla Road's 40th anniversary tour were we talked about German beer, Czech Lot Lizards, autobahns, obsessing over Manilla Road as an 11 year old, playing a historic kit for the tour, C.C.R. , casino's,...

Drummer Phil SanGiacomo of Brooklyn's own Somnuri stops by to talk about drummer docking, lot lizards, palm rudiments, searching Craigslist for sex and/or band auditions, strange bills/gigs, hair loss, grandma slices, forming Somnuri and what the hell the band name means,plus the drummers important roll in the band and learning to mix your own recordings! Let the drawez' fly!https://somn...

Nathaniel Shannon might not be a drummer but he's certainly taken killer photo's of sick drummers over the last decade in NY! We get into the real origin of Aids, who really killed Kurt Cobain, sex changes, handcuffed rednecks on metal cruises, how to piss off a Boston crowd, Crazy Eyehategod/Dillinger Escape Plan stories, gnarly back pieces, our "inner juggalo" plus spit valve...

Matt Couto is the drummer of Massachusetts proggy-epic-stoner groove rockers- Elder. Presently on the road for 2017's Reflections of a Floating World the band played a killer set at @stvitusbar in NYC where I was able to catch up with Matt and talk about his favorite shows of all time, early years of playing, the work flow of a band geographically spread out, getting lost in long songs, Ronni...

Zack is the speed-demon kit-thrasher with New Orleans blackened-thrash band Goatwhore. He joined the band at 17 years old and has grown up on the road traveling everywhere from the US, to Europe to Tasmania, Australia and more. We get into his upbringing in Arizona, biking for exercise, pre-gig rules, favorite towns, having supportive parents, demoing ideas in the 21 century, plus dealing with dow...

Ryan Smith is the drummer/vocalist of Brooklyn based Thera Roya as well as guitarists/vocalist in Crusasis. We touch on Dad's and stolen snare drums, inheriting drum-kits from your deceased friends, playing weird gigs in the woods and in strange bars in the South, wheelchairs and mushrooms, chopping wood and writing songs in a cabin! Get 'er done!https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/09/2...

Jason Spence is the drum pounding, beat blasting, rhythm gorilla of Brooklyn’s own Prostitution. We talk about their new record entitled "Egyptian Blue" due out 10.10.18 and subsequent release show 10.15.17, plus pit-bulls, Juggalo’s, vampires at Coney Island, crazy Gwar concerts, boarded-up windows at hardcore shows, Bruce Lee, & white supremacists.. It's all in there kids!!!ww...

* Whether laying the rhythmic foundation plus lead/backing vocals for Brooklyn psych rock outfit The Golden Grass or his southern boogie band Rattlesnake, Adam Kriney is equally at home no matter where it goes! We get into acclimating to singing while drumming, crazy European gigs on beaches, drum sets finding their owners, pot brownies, psych rock, improvising, and the badassness of Captain Beyon...

While Lev might be best known for his techy-blast-bea(s)t work in Brooklyn Black Metal outfit Krallice, he is certainly not at a loss for an array of gigs. We get into his many projects, Indiana Jones themed thrash bands, children books, legal weed and the great North West, playing drums in a Manhattan apartment, shredding long-form blast beats, Metallica’s “’And Justice For All”, his blind piano...

Drummer/guitarist Jimmy Bower has been the New Orleans go-to player for heavy music since the 80’s and has worked with Down, Crowbar, Corrosion of Conformity, EHG, SuperJoint, Mystick Krewe of Clearlight, Shell Shock, Slugs, Blatant Frustration and more! We get into opening for Pantera, strange gigs with fat, masks, & glass, touring Japan, the origins of EHG & Crowbar, The New Orleans musi...