Rogue Frequencies

After 2 years, over 20 conversations, and 10 episodes recorded, one rad-ass graphic and one riot jingle created - season one is done. And before we move forward to season two, we look back on the 9 episodes behind us. Olivia and Matt dig into their biggest takeaways from a season spent contemplating punk as a lens for human growth. Matt pulls from the I-You-Thou framework and what punk taught him...

NOFX built something that lasted 40 years by breaking most, maybe all, of the rules about how you're “supposed” to do it. No major label. No radio play. No apologies. This episode is where Rogue Frequencies started. We go deep on the band that kicked off this whole project, using NOFX’s story to look at what it actually takes to stay committed, to yourself and to the people around you, over the lo...

The modern punk scene has a question it's actively trying to answer: can you build something that holds all of it - every identity, every ability - without flattening any of it? The Denver, Co Punk scene are working that out in real time. This episode centers Cheap Perfume and Team Nonexistent (among many others, such as the, Potato Pirates and Dead Pioneers) and traces the lineage, from The Slits...

The Riot Grrrl movement didn't ask for a seat at the table. It built its own and that's the point. This episode we digging into feminist punk, its origins, and what it actually tells us about how change gets made, both in a scene and in a life. Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Amyl and the Sniffers, Cheap Perfume. These aren't just bands. They're case studies in what happens when we use our voices to...

We are calling this genre we explore today as “Crackcore.” We admit, Crackcore is genuinely fun to listen to. They're also a mess of contradictions. We look at the complex human that is Scott Sturgeon aka. Stza Crack. We use this artist, these bands, and genre to pull on a real tension: what happens when transgression becomes the whole identity? When the asshole stops being a tool and starts being...

The Ramones and the Misfits both came out of the same collapsed, scrappy New York moment. One became a blueprint. One fell apart. This episode we use these two foundational bands to dig into what actually drives growth when the conditions are hard and the path isn't clear. How do you build something real when you don't yet know what you're building? And what does it mean to succeed at something yo...

Punk is not just noise. It’s a response, a diagnosis, a dare. In this episode, we use a few bands that intentionally embody “the personal is political” to live and model what it actually means to be authentic, not as a brand, but as a living, evolving person. Matt traces the lineage that gets us to how these two bands Crass and the Dropkick Murphys put their politics on the stage and meant it. And...

Olivia and Matt dig into two bands that have to be in any honest conversation about punk - The Clash and Rancid. We explore what their wildly different trajectories can teach us about staying true to yourself when the world wants something else from you. From the streets of 1976 London to the blue-collar swamps of Berkeley, these bands share DNA, but their stories diverge in ways that matter. One...

What happens when a city is burning and nobody's coming to save you? You build something from the wreckage. In this episode, Olivia and Matt dig into the New York hardcore scene - its raw origins in the economic decay of late 70s/early 80s NYC - and what it has to teach us about growth, grit, and becoming. They explore how bands like Agnostic Front, the Cro-Mags, and Bad Brains didn't just make no...

Welcome to the first episode of Rogue Frequencies! Rogue Frequencies is a podcast where we mash up punk music with human growth and development. Hosts Olivia and Matt kick things off in this our very first episode by sharing how this adventure came to life, their personal backgrounds, and what punk means to them. This episode sets the stage for Season 1, where we'll dig into punk music, sub-genres...