Nickel City Soundtrack Podcast

This is our 1 year anniversary episode so we decided to bring back Daryl Taberski from snapcase who brought along Dennis Merrick from Earth Crisis. We talked about the California Takeover Past present and future. We also talked about Dennis' new/old project and Dennis gave us a great tour story which is why the episode is named what it is. Thanks for listening! The intro/outro music is the 1993 De...

In this episode we drafted our favorite hardcore releases from the 1990's The crew was joined By Larry from Bleachmouth Postscript , Jay Jancetic from Plagued with Rage and Kelly from Kenmore as we talked about our favorite 90's hardcore releases. The rules were simple, once a release is picked no one else is allowed to pick that release. On top of that if a release was picked in one of our previo...

In this episode we interview Ruben Lipkind. Ruben has been around the Buffalo Scene for a very long time and has been in bands including Chosen Ones, Face The Panic, Infamous amongst others. We talked to Ruben about some of his projects and we also talked to him about the Punk Rock Bowling festival which went down last month. Co-Host Chris also attended so the guys broke down thier experience in V...

On this episode we interviewed recording engineer John Angelo. John has been in many bands in the area includein Canary In A Coal Mine, Human Touch and Bestower. He curernetly recording bands, doing sound and he's in the live band of Science Man. Check out this conversation that Derek and I had with him last week. The Track at the end of the episode is "The Question Nobody's Asking" by Bestower.'...

On this edition of NCS we interviewed Brian Foyster who has been mentioned in many of our interviews. Brian was at the center of the late 80's Buffalo Hardcore scene through bringing many of the great shows during that time period. We talked to Brian about his entry into hardcore , doinf shows and what hes been up to lately. We will probably have hoim back on at some point. Until then enjoy this t...

In this Episode of the NCS Podcast we interviewed Bailey and Mike from the new Buffalo Hardcore Band Smash N Grab. Check it Out they are new and good! https://open.spotify.com/artist/31yYZ21PsQkJC5WZy56u8C?si=D7JWHWM5SB2K38kYKb1dQg&dl_branch=1

In this episode we remixed an interview I did for my other podcast (HMNI fanzine Podcast) with the Buffalo grindcore band Anthropic. I interviewed Anthropic along with Greg Dipasquale (Sons of Azrael). As some of you may or may not know we lost Brian Pattison the guitar player of Anthopic tragically last year. Anthropic have managed to push on but I thought it would be a cool idea to post this int...

On this episode we were joined by Greg (Where it Went Podcast) anfriend of the podcast Kula to pick our favorite equal vision records releases. It was doen in a draft style so if someone picked a record you liked it was off the board and you had to pick something else. Everything was up for grabs but we picked mostly things leaning on the hardcore side of things. The song at the end of the episode...

In this episode we talked to Chris Ring and Donnie Walker of the band The Budgets. We talked about thier band and we talked about thier distro and history of putting on some of the best shows this area has seen and continues to see.  It was a great discussion and we hope you enjoy!

Part II of last weeks discussion! We talked about our favorite releases post 1999. Another fun discussion that cited some curious records as favorites post '99 and some that were pretty obvious. Enjoy the discussion!  Thanks to Scott from north Buffalo for coming up with this concept!

In this Episode the crew got together with Scott from North Buffalo his brother Jay and Kelly Kenmore. We talked about our favorite hardcore LP's 80-99 and 2000-present. Scott drew the names out of a hat and we picked in that order. The only rule was that you couldnt pick a record that was already picked. It was a fun discussion and was the inspiration for our #CoreTalk segments on the podcast. Th...

In this Episode of our "Core Talk" Series we discussed New Age Records. We "drafted" our favorite releases on the label and had label founder, Mike Hartsfield along for the ride. We also had Larry from the Bleachmouth Poscript Podcast on along for the ride. It was a great discussion and we hope that you enjoy and check out some of the stuff that we drafted as well as New Age in general.  http...

In this episode in loo of an interview we talked about Victory Records.  We did a "draft" of our favorite/most important victory releases . So check it out and see if you agree. SPOLIER ALERT: Im sure you dont. Anyway check it out and enjoy. More core talk about other labels coming soon!

In this episode we interviewed Jay Jancetic & Mark Miller from the band Black X. As you may know Mark was in the band Black X so he was one of the interviewees and not the interviewer in this episode. We talked about the history of Black X how it came about some cool shows it played and the end of Black X. Enjoy. If anyone needs a record or demo get at us! https://blackx.bandcamp.com/

In this episode we did a round table discussion about some current and classic hardore topics including. Shows being back in Buffalo, The (Not In) California Takeover shows coming up this fall, New records we like,  Our favorite Rev records in the "classic" era and a whole lot more!  We bookended the episode with "Buffalo Hardcore" by Smash N Grab. Check em out they are a great new band!...

We interviewed the brand new Buffalo/Long Island Hardcore band pinned on the podcast. We talked to Julie White and Nick Green about the band what pandemic life has been like and a host of other things. Enjoy the convo and enjoy the return of shows! https://pinnedhc.bandcamp.com/

In this episode Alex & Chris talked to Allison & Mike from the band Velvet Bethany. They talked about the bands history and what they are up to. The also talked Cults....Check it out! https://velvetbethany.bandcamp.com/

in this episode we are interviewing Robby Takac bass player off the Goo Goo Dolls. Chris and I sat down with Robbie and talked about the early days of the band. We talked about thier start and rise in Buffalo. We pretty much went up to album Jed and stopped there as far as the timeline we can save the other stuff for the future! We did touch a little on Music is Art as well which is a free music f...

This Episode was our first proper Nickel City Soundtrack Live on Youtube and Facebook.  We got together every last member of Union together for a reunion of sorts live on the internet. We sat down and talked about the bands history and what everyone has been up to. One of the reasons we did it live is because its hard to keep track of who is who on a podcast with 10 people is hard so if you d...

Usually when people interview Garret Klahn its about Texas Is The Reason. We did something a little differerent! We interviewed him about his early days in Buffalo and we talked about some his early bands includeing Evergreen, Support and Blend. Listen up and hear about a side of Garrett earely seen!

In this episode we are talking to Jeff Musial of Nickel City Reptiles and Exotics https://www.nickelcityreptilesandexotics.com/ http://www.jeffmusial.tv/ While Nickel City Reptiles and Exotics is what Jeff does now in the past he did a hardcore band called Pride. We talked to him about the bands history and then we talked to him about what hes currently doing with Nickel City Reptiles. We talked a...

In this epsiode the crew talked to three of the members of Lockjaw Bill Page (singer) Sweeper (Guitar) & Beerwolf (Guitar). We talked about the history of this Buffalo Hardcore band. We've always felt these guys were always a bit underated but they are some of the best dudes this scene has ever produced. Enjoy this look back at the history of this band.

In this episode we interviewed Michael and Gerald from the band Hourglass. We talked about the band not being typical of the "buffalo style" and the kissues that arose frrom that that. We also talked about thier reformation and what plans the reformed band have for the future.  Sit back relax and enjoy. Pat and Sean from immigrant Sun joined the interview at the end but we are saving them for...

In this episode we interviewed Michael and Gerald from the band Hourglass. We talked about the band not being typical of the "buffalo style" and the kissues that arose frrom that that. We also talked about thier reformation and what plans the reformed band have for the future. At the end we were joined breifly by Pat Knight from Immigrant Sun records. Sit back relax and enjoy.

In this episode Chris recruited a couple of friends to talk to Alex Webster from Cannibal Corpse. He tapped Mark "Psycho" Abramson & Thorns Capricorn. They talked to the Alex about the now Florida bands beginnings in Buffalo, NY. They also chatted about the bands latest release "Violence Unimagined". Sit back relax and enjoy this conversation with a Buffalo Legend