This Is Hardcore Podcast

Episode 108 Riding The Wave Of Popularity Continuing on the topics of the day and going into the backstory behind Musicians' rights, the formation of Musicians Unions and very briefly how it all applies to twitter gripes of the modern times. Opening Track of the Episode Pagan Babies "Making Up For Lost Time" first on Immaculate Conception later re-released on Lost

Episode 107 Clemo & Stuckey of Fool's Game In keeping up with the modern times and trying to keep Fool's Game name on everyone's minds, I wanted to bring the 2 masterminds, if you could call them that.. on the show to shoot the shit and see how things are going for the Fool's Game gang. www.instagram.com/foolsgamehc www.twitter.com/foolsgamehc Opening Track of the Episode Freight Train "Beyond Und...

Episode 106 A Roundtable Discussion With some looming events worth discussing, I brought the team together to put some thoughts together for your listening enjoyment. Richie Krutch, Bob Wilson and Greg Falchetto all in their own rights have alot of good feedback and information and experience to lean on and we have a lot of fun going back and forth on the issues at hand. Support Rebirth Records ww...

Episode 105 Lots to discuss, so little time to do so. Lots of small talk. The Matt Summers Bowl, too much talk about money in hardcore. Some random questions I've been meaning to answer and more. www.gofundme.com/f/matt-summers Opening Track of the Episode Year of the Knife " Dust To Dust " off new 3 song EP Dust To Dust on Pure Noise. www.instagram.com/xyotkx/

Episode 104 LiveNation vs the US Senate Thanks to Sunny and www.hate5six.com for converting video to audio for this episode. You can find the hearing I sampled at www.youtu.be/BsOHB4_pHa4 I give some sporadic thoughts on the current Senate hearings on the monopoly LiveNation and Ticketmaster have on the ticket and concert promotion industry. Opening Track of the Episode Roman Candle "Mad Girl's Lo...

Episode 103 The More Things Change... On the eve of the Fool's Game Record Release show I felt like diving into the cesspool discussion of the commercial viability of hardcore presented on altpress.com. This is a short episode and more of a rant than anything. Opening Track of the Episode Fool's Game " Not Like Me" off of Trials of Life, courtesy of TakeDown Records

Episode 102 FYA Fest 9 with Bob Wilson We're back talking FYA Fest.. What an awesome way to start off any year but specifically this lineup and this year with FYA Organizer Bob Wilson. Don't miss this weekend and if you're at home and can't make it.. take some notes on some of these bands. www.instagram.com/FYAfest www.twitter.com/FYAfest Opening Track of the Episode Statement of Pride "Out of The...

Episode 101 We Are Ready- The Return of Fury of Five With the debut of the first song from Fury of Five since their reunion earlier this spring, it seemed like a good time to have a quick about the current day Fury of Five with Jay Fury, guitarist of FoV and longtime friend. Their new Video "W.A.R - We Are Ready" just debuted on No Echo Dot Net. They will have a New EP out on Upstate Records - "Ha...

A Short Cast for the Holiday I had a short amount of functioning time to make a podcast before I traveled across country and back, so I got a few words in about Keystone Jam and the best Local Band Fool's Game. I hope you all have a great holiday and I look forward to future episodes due to the kindness of Bob Wilson and the rest of the group who gifted me a new laptop which will make all the podc...

Episode 100 Freight Train with Diego & Slave IX. There is no better way to celebrate 100 episodes than with 2 of my oldest and closest friends. Diego and Slave from the infamous Freight Train. They've reformed and with a crazy stacked lineup of killers. They shot a video for Throwdown and they are getting ready to get back on the tracks. Freight Train Links. https://linktr.ee/freighttrainix Record...

Episode 99 Keystone Holiday Jam 2022 Greg Falchetto (Hold My Own / Mongoloids) joins me to discuss the upcoming Lineup for Keystone Hardcore Jam 2022. Lots of laughs and some analysis and predictions on the upcoming Holiday show. www.instagram.com/keystonehcjam Opening Track of the Episode Pain Clinic - Going Into Business For Yourself courtesy of Ty Dawson and From Within Records Matt Summers Go...

Episode 98 Mike Ryan of Missing Link. I had a great conversation with Mike who fronts that absolutely ferocious newer NYHC band Missing Link. So much of his story is rooted in the far out woods of Upstate NY that it was awesome to hear about the scene there and his story goes further. In promoting the new track for his band, I was able to connect with him and get a deeper background and hear some...

Episode 97. Returning from the Road Hey, sorry for the silence. Back from the Shattered Realm Florida dates with some thoughts on playing shows and touring etc. Opening Track of the Episode Carried By Six " Truth" (bulldoze cover" Courtesy of Never Ran, Never Will Records www.instagram.com/neverranneverwillrecords.com

Episode 96 Another Discourse On Recent Events If you don't have the social medias, you're in luck because I once again go over some ideas kickstarted from some online hee hawing. Opening Track of the Episode Crime 84 " Hate Cops" check em out https://rebirthrecords.bigcartel.com/product/crime-84-demo

Episode 95. Where and What to Say... What Keeps You Safe From The Internet. Sorry for a lack of content. Listen to episode. Forgive me in a week or so. Stream of thought aimed at usual topics and some updates on upcoming shows etc. Opening Track of the Episode Cinderblock " Sundial" Record available via War Records Early November 2022 Members of snapcase, Buried Alive, Earth Crisis, Terror, and mo...

Episode 94 Sunny Singh. Round 3. Nearly 2 years ago, Sunny appeared on Episode #2. I've had him back on episode 32 and in this most recent conversation we talk about achieving a bucket list goal or two with his filming of the Rage Against The Machine tour and his recent actions in the philadelphia area. Topics : www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bottom,_Philadelphia www.savetheuctownhomes.com www.ha...

Episode 93 Labors Of Love A discussion on hardcore and the work put into it. The motivation, the blood, sweat, tears or the potential fiscal rewards... In Memory of Kevin Cea (KevONE Bulldoze) Go Fund Me www.gofund.me/090a04ed Opening Track of the Episode Bloodclot " Souls" new track.. Upcoming release out on www.upstaterecordsny.com/

Episode 92. TWO Years of TIHC Podcast- The looking back episode... I take a look back on 91 previous episodes and talk about the early days and fuck ups of the podcast and more. Opening Track of Episode "Remember Who's Strong" Bulldoze from the Ep, later on Final Beatdown. Rest In Peace to Kevin Cea of Bulldoze.

Episode 91 . the New Breed. Ben Stuckey + Reaching Out + Killing Me + Garrote. The Philly Area has seen an amazing spike in younger faces at shows for the last few years. The new bands are full of kids barely or just recently out of High School. Such amazing kids with great outlooks on hardcore today and yesterday. They are the future of Hardcore and we are blessed to have them on the show. Openin...

Episode 90. Falling Apart. A Few Things on the Dark Side of Fests. Some current thoughts on the failing of Festivals and more. I did some online snooping and get into Tour and Festival buy ins and talk shit about people stupid enough to see this a viable way to build an underground name. Opening Track "Morbid Vision" by Whispers www.thecomingstriferecords.bandcamp.com/album/tcs-041-narok-bon-din w...

Episode 89. DIY = Making Things That You Want -Happen. Sorry for being off last week. I go over the idea that DIY - Do It Yourself includes making shit happen in the way that you want to see things happen. I go over some thoughts on social media crap, but ultimately if you want to see cool things in Hardcore Punk happen, you have the ability and can make them happen. Don't wait for people to do it...

Episode 88 A Discussion on the PRO CORE movement. Ace Stallings from Richmond VA, frontman of Mutually Assured Destruction, Promoter etc brought up some thoughts on twitter early this week about the drive in younger bands towards going full professional aka PROCORE and I invited him on the show to discuss the pitfalls of these decisions and how a DIY underground mindset is being sidestepped for an...

Episode 87 Wyatt Oberholzer. Recording Wizard. Fixation / Chemical Fix Soon after Wyatt arrived in the city of Philadelphia to begin his recording engineer career by studying at Drexel University, he would abandon college and do the damn thing on his own. So many records have come from his hard work and nose to the grind and DIY approach. On top of being the most prolific recording engineer in Phi...

Episode 86 . Meditations on TIHC 2022. New and unreleased song, only can hear it on the TIHC podcast by 'Hold My Own' titled 'Nothin' Left' off the upcoming Self Titled EP out on August 5th, Pre orders available now through Retribute Records and Coreruption Records. Split with Carried by Six in the works on Never Ran, Never Will Records. www.linktr.ee/holdmyownhardcore

Episode 85. A Week Away from TIHC 2022. Thoughts on why we do what we do, and what they mean. Opening Track of the Episode" Fixation "Lachrymose" from their upcoming LP, The Secrets We Keep, out July 22nd on WAR Records. Preorders are available now at war-rec.com