Turned Out A Punk
810 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 958 ratingsDamian Abraham has been many things... the singer of a critically acclaimed band, a failed VJ and food network host, one of the minds behind TV's "The Wrestlers", parent of 3... and undeniably, a punk music obsessive.
Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978... PUNK!
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Episodes
Episode 61 - Suroosh Alvi (Co-Founder of Vice)
January 06, 2016 13:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBWhat is success? Well in the Turned Out A Punk universe it is having the founder of the self-professed “punkzine" that became a multi-billion dollar media juggernaut, Vice Co-Founder Suroosh Alvi! Sit back as Damian talks to his friend about going from Husker Du shows, to Man’s Ruin Records distros to owning and running a major news outlet. Also touched on -Spaceshits -Matty Matheson -Cancer Bats -Husker Du -High School in Minneapolis -Replacements -Rifle Sport -Working at Big M...
Episode 60 - Freddie Pompeii (Viletones, Secrets)
December 30, 2015 09:42 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBThis week on Turned out A Punk, it is legit legends week as we welcome, guitarist of the legendary Viletones, Freddie Pompeii the show for a legendary episode. Hear stories of acid fuelled Velvet Underground experiences to laying the foundation of Punk and being in arguably the most important Canadian punk band ever. -The Abridge Version: 60’s Garage “Punk” -Bubble: Dot Records Recording Artists -Going to Mariposa Music Festival -Beating the The Draft -A band with Dan’s brother Peter...
Episode 59 - Neko Case (Maow, New Pornographers)
December 23, 2015 19:42 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBIt is a Turned Out A Punk Holiday spectacular! This week we are joined by the amazing Neko Case! Having been a fan for a long time, Damian is beside himself excited to talk to the former Maow drum hitter turned music icon; about growing up a Seattle punk. Also, there is a holiday Robot Of All Robots at the end of the program!!!! Also Discussed: -Never been to Newfoundland. -Rudy loves the Ramones. -The non-cultural mecca of Vancouver Washington. -Loving the Go-Go’s. -Going to a punk f...
Episode 58 - Brian Gorsegner (Night Birds, Splitting Headache, Forward To Death)
December 16, 2015 07:22 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBHello dear listener! This week on the show Damian sits down with Brian Gorsegner from the Night Birds! Listen in as the two talk going from Team Street Punk to NJ hardcore. Brain and Damian make the most of the limited time. This week it is a jammed packed episode! AND ROBOT OF ALL ROBOTS IS BACK!!!!!!!! Also covered: -Owning your own mic. -The terror of lending gear. -“Just a loser not good at anything.” -Kids are ASSHOLES: The terrors of high school. -Back to the Flea Market. -The Punk Car...
Episode 57 - Scott Thompson (Kids InThe Hall / Mouth Congress)
December 10, 2015 02:00 - 1 hour - 71 MBBoy, oh, boy! Are you in for an episode of Turned Out A Punk today! This week Damian is joined by Mouth Congress vocalist and Kids In The Hall, comedy legend, Scott Thompson! Sit back as Scott talks about everything form the Viletones, to homophobia in entertainment, to coming full circle with Johnny Rotten. This is one for the ages! Also covered: -Damian’s opening monolog to Scott about the importance of Kid’s In The Hall. -Hearing the Ramones in the Philippines for the first time. ...
Episode 56 - Joe Casey (Protomartyr)
December 03, 2015 04:25 - 1 hour - 105 MBHello, and welcome to a super packed show!!!! First and foremost Joe Casey of the incredible Protomartyr sits down to discuss getting a late start in performing, the hope given by the Fall and buying your way into a band. Listen in as the two go deep into Joe’s journey. If that wasn’t enough, also stick around at the end of the episode for the first episode of TurnedOutAPunkFootNotes!!!! A new show where Damian and fellow Punk/Hardcore obsessive Chris O’Toole discuss and dissect a previous ep...
Episode 55 - Part 2 : Nate Newtown & Jacob Bannon ( Converge )
November 26, 2015 02:54 - 50 minutes - 46 MBThis week on the show, not only do we have the first Part 2 with Nate Newton form Converge BUT joining him for the first time on the show is Jacob Bannon from Converge! Listen in as the three talk the shared love of punk. Sit back and enjoy the best threeway dance since Daniels, Styles, and Joe! AND stay tuned later in the week for the debut of “Turned Out A Punk Footnotes”, going deeper into some of the topics brought up in this conversation! Also talked about in this episode: -The Realit...
Episode 54 - Ryan Penagos ( Marvel Comic's Agent M )
November 18, 2015 13:00 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBTOAP FANS ASSEMBLE! This week on the show Marvel’s Agent M aka Ryan Penagos has Damian deep in to the recesses of Marvel’s New York Office for a crossover spectacular! Hear talk of wrestling, comics, and punk; and see how they all connect! This is a Marvel Team-Up Event, so subscribe to Marvel’s Podcast to hear the other half …‘Nuff Said!… Also covered: -The Punk/ Comic connection -The Awesome Artie Philie -Headbanger’s Ball and glimpses of Hardcore -Roadrunner, Madball and Sick Of ...
Episode 53 - Brian Venable ( LUCERO )
November 11, 2015 14:14 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBBrian Venable from Lucero is certainly not the first name you think of when you think of the militant Hardline movement. But before he was playing to a diehard fanbase all over the world, he was Bald Bry singing back ups on the Raid 7”. Needless to say, Damian is pretty stoked to be recording this one. Listen as the two talk about Brian’s Punk journey through Hardline and just how frighteningly real it almost got. Also covered: -Fear of reunions -The Bata Shoe Museum -Sobering Conséquenc...
Episode 52 - 1st Year Anniversary Special With Sandy Miranda (Fucked Up)
November 04, 2015 13:00 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBHappy Anniversary!!!! This week on the show, Damian is joined by a very special guest for his One Year Anniversary... Sandy Miranda of the band Fucked Up, which is also the band Damian plays in!!! More than that Sandy and Damian grew up in the same punk scene so hear about their first bands, the radio show they were on together, and how the band came to be. Also discussed is Sandy’s uphill battle to live out her teenage dream, and how she has been the glue the held Fucked Up together. This e...
Episode 51 - Chris Gethard (Actor, Writer, Comedian)
October 28, 2015 12:30 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBIf you love comedy then you probably are as excited as Damian is for this episode with Chris Gethard! Listen in as Chris argues his rationality for fearing hardcore, nearly dying at an ECW event, and the relationship between Morrissey and depression. Also touched on: -Two non-jewish guys figuring out Yiddish -The benefits of a nerdy older brother -Marsha the zine: The Marsha Brady fanzine -Outsider music -The IMMENSE impact of One Nature and Felix Frump -“Why are you going to see Ear...
Episode 50 - Joey Cape (Lagwagon )
October 21, 2015 17:58 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBHurry listeners! For this week we have a brief but packed episode with Joey Cape From Lagwagon! Hear Damian’s amazement as Joey talks about being abducted in to Punk at 12 and nearly not surviving only to wind up having it continue to shape his life 30 plus years later. Also discussed: -GG Allin poops was too much -“Great” Punk Custodian -The records you could find without a mentor -The Dead Kennedys as entry point -Getting kidnapped by Matt Davis from Ratpack while in jr. high -The...
Episode 49 - Jason Hamacher (Frodus, Battery )
October 16, 2015 05:52 - 1 hour - 98.4 MBJason Hamacher has spent the years documenting vanishing culture of Armenian Christians of Aleppo Syria. He is full of fascinating stories about a very interesting subject that is especially important given the current situation in Syria and he also played drums in the bands Battery and Frodus. In this episode of Turned Out A Punk, guess what Damian spends the time talking to him about? Listen in as the two discuss calling Ian MacKaye and an unreleased Ray Cappo Rap song. (For more info on Ja...
Episode 48 - Anthony Bourdain
October 07, 2015 04:15 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBThis week on Turned Out A Punk, hailing from Parts Unknown, it’s the most electrifying man in culinary entertainment: Anthony Bourdain! Listen in as Tony takes Damian to Punk’s not always so glorious incubator of late 70’s New York and exposes the underside of the scene that produced so much unreliable music in it’s wake. Also covered: -Growing up in a musical family -Buying the Question Mark & the Mysterians -Seeing Hendrix and Joplin at 12 -The problem of your friends discovering Gram Pa...
Episode 47 - Laura Jane Grace ( Against Me! )
September 30, 2015 20:27 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBOn this Turned Out A Punk, Damian gets a chance to finally have a conversation with Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace! Damian talks to Laura about the journey of a small town Florida DIY Punk band who became one of the most significant Punk bands of the last 20 years... and the violent reaction it could sometimes elicit. Also covered: -The parallel paths of Against Me and Fucked Up -Hearing the Sex Pistols for the first time -The conversation about fighting back -Green Day, Rancid and ...
Episode 46 - Andy Capper ( Vice, Dead Wrong)
September 24, 2015 02:55 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBWithout this week’s guest Andy Capper, Turned Out A Punk host, Damian’s life would look vastly different. In addition to changing the lives of people, Andy is also the Executive Producer of Vice Magazine and has been the producer of some of the most memorable Vice videos (Chiraq, Reincarnated, The Vice Guide To Liberia) over the years. Before all that though, he was making zines and playing in Dead Wrong. Join these two old friends as they sit down and do what they have done for years: talk a...
Episode 45 - Fred Armisen ( Portlandia, SNL, Trenchmouth)
September 16, 2015 19:21 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBThis week on the show Damian welcomes star of stage and screen Fred Armisen! Damian goes to the Portlandia set and takes the former drummer of Trenchmouth/ current Documentary Now star’s lunch hour away to talk NYHC. Listen in as Fred chats about going from learning about punk on Saturday Night Live to being on the show working Hardcore references in to sketches -The history we tell ourselves versus the history we lived -Seeing the B-52s on SNL -The Ramones not as perfect pivotal records...
Episode 44 - Brian Walsby (Ten Foot Pole, Superchunk, Ryan Adam, The Melvins, more)
September 09, 2015 19:59 - 1 hour - 94.7 MBAt risk of over stating it, Brian Walsby is the Rosette Stone of indie/ alternative music. It is through him that we are given greater understanding of how the various seemingly disconnected scenes are interconnected. Today on the show, Damian discuss with Brian the various bands he has been involved in as a drummer and links between Ten Foot Pole, Superchunk, Ryan Adam, The Melvins, and COC emerge. Also discussed: - Friendships - Not being interviewed much - Starting to draw at 3 year...
Episode 43 - Scott Kelly (Neurosis)
September 02, 2015 14:13 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBTo say this is a big one for Damian would be an understatement…This week on the show, dear listener, is aggressive music legend Scott Kelly from Neurosis! Listen in as Damian talks to Scott about how he found punk and would wind up influencing just about every hardcore musician they dared to dream beyond the loud, fast, rules doctrine. Also discussed -Kiss and Nugent but faster and without the guitar leads -A mixtape that would changed the face of modern aggressive music (Damian’s Words...
Episode 42 - Fat Mike ( NoFX , Fat Wreck Chords)
August 26, 2015 05:07 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBWell dear listeners, the demands were heard and this week on the show Damian is joined by lead singer/bass player of NoFX and Fat Wreck Chords' co-owner, Fat Mike Burkett. Sit down and listen as the two discuss how the man who claims his job is to keep punk elite found the genre that provided the vocation... and how Damian has no taste. Also on the show: -Drug talk -Backstage Passport 2 talk -Camp Councilor Joe Escalante -Jack Grisham: a frightening human -Taping the sound of Rocky Horror ...
Episode 41 - Erin Kelly-Burkett (Fat Wreck Chords' Boss)
August 19, 2015 21:01 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBThis week on Turned Out A Punk, Damian is joined by Fat Wreck Chords’ boss Erin Kelly-Burkett. Listen in as Erin talks getting into punk and forming a DIY punk label empire in the wake. Also touched on: -No punk in this small town -Jean from Amsterdam moves to town and hated by everyone but you -Bad Religion -Seeing 7 Seconds -The Faction -Running away from home to live in a squat -The radness of Kevin Seconds -No one will buy -Anticipating the Dischord -Older sister as Punk/Pare...
Episode 40 - Chris Cresswell (The Flatliners)
August 12, 2015 05:22 - 1 hour - 94.5 MBThis week on the show Damian sits down with someone living out his teenage fantasy. Damian is joined by Chris Cresswell of the Flatliners, a punk band signed to Fat Wreck Chords. Listen in as the two discuss how Chris went from being a kid getting into punk through Fat Wreck to a veteran artist on the label. Also covered: -Sneaky Dee’s: Toronto institution -Pizza GiGi’s special mushroom pizza -Trying to get into punk through an older sibling -Ramones’ Merry Christmas I Don’t Want to ...
Episode 39 - Ben Blackwell (Dirtbombs, Thirdman Records, Vinyl Record Collector)
August 05, 2015 16:38 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBBoy is this one ever jam packed! Get comfortable as Damian goes deep with record collector icon Ben Blackwell. In addition to collecting records Ben also plays drums in the Dirtbombs and helps run the fantastical Thirdman Records! Among some of the other topics touched upon: -Ben Blackwell: Record collector’s Record Collector -Nickelodeon Top 10: Gateway to Punk -Nirvana -Car City Records: A treasure trove -Labels building scenes -Tremor Records -Foo Fighters at the State Theatre...
Episode 38 - Mish Way (White Lung)
July 29, 2015 04:40 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBThis week on the show Damian is joined by one of the most dynamic front people in music today; White Lung’s Mish Way. Listen in as the two talk about Mish’s journey from finding the lone feminist punker in high school, to being a writer/lead singer touring the world… and the trolls that that come with the trip. Also covered: -Damian copying Nardwaur on everything including the mispronouncing Mish’s name -Fear of reading in public -Meeting the one cool feminist punk girl in high school ...
Episode 37 - Michael Alago (NYC Music Legend, A&R, Talent Buyer)
July 22, 2015 05:35 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBTo say an episode sums up the entire ethos of this show would be a bold claim, but this would be that episode. Get set as Damian sits down with Michael Alago; founder of the original Dead Boys' Fan Club, booker at the Ritz, and A & R guy (who signed Tracy Chapman, Metallica, and White Zombie). Listen in as we discuss parties with John Belushi, the power of the CroMags, needing to know what Rollins smelt like, and so much more!!!! Other subjects hit upon: -Loving Soul Train and American B...
Episode 36 - The Melvins (Dale, Buzz and Jeff)
July 15, 2015 05:47 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBRules are made to be broken and thus this week on the show Damian breaks his “one-on-one” interview rule but for good reason; The Melvins! Join in on the fun as Damian sits down with all three members of the Melvins to talk about how punk saved them from a life of drudgery. Also discussed: -Damian heaping praise on Melvins -The Garage rock sound: a speaker not working -Jeff: Running away from home at 15 -Jeff: Joining and touring for three years with the Butthole Surfers at 17 -Jef...
Episode 35 - Dallas Green (City and Colour, Alexisonfire)
July 08, 2015 05:18 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBThis week on the show Damian is joined by his long time friend; Alexisonfire member, Mister City and Colour himself, Dallas Green! Sit in as the two go through Dallas’ journey from Canadian independent music loving kid into Canadian music industry icon (no joke, he won an award saying as much the night before). Also covered: -This being long time coming -The nature of friendship when you play in a band -First exposure coming from a cool older sister -Getting caught up in the Grunge e...
Episode 34 - Vinnie Fiorello (Less Than Jake)
July 01, 2015 13:06 - 1 hour - 99 MBWelcome back! This week on the show Damian is joined by Vinnie from the legendary, Less Than Jake. Sit back as the two discuss the almost 30 year history of the band as well as Vinnie’s other career as head of Fuelled By Ramen Records and Paper And Plastic Records. Also chewed over: -A brief history of Riverdale -Amnesia Rockfest -Getting into punk through a New Wave older brother -Lamors in Brooklyn -Cro Mags -“I like DRI, is there anything else?” -The importance of Record Stores...
Episode 33 - Jon Spencer (Pussy Galore)
June 24, 2015 05:08 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBAre you excited? Because Damian sure is, as this week he gets to meet his guest, the legendary Jon Spencer, for the first time! Sit back as Jon talks about his journey from good kid to ultra negative Pussy Galore front man to a Rock and Roll celebrating music icon Also touched on: -Not listening to Rock and Roll as kid -Hearing about Punk -Wining a subscription to Heavy Metal magazine through and Art prize and discovering the Residents -Night Flight, MTV and New Wave videos -Being a ...
Episode 32 - Billy Hamilton (Silverstein)
June 17, 2015 05:29 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBAre you nerdy about records? Well, if you are... We have a treat for you! Sit back and enjoy Damian and his guest, Billy from Silverstein talking about their sweet vinyl addiction. Plus, Billy’s journey through suburban hail shows to American Idol (sort of)! Also covered: -Records as life -Getting punk as almost as a handy-me down from older siblings -Nirvana -Jerk Circus: Pre-Silverstien -Pre-Alexisonfre: Burlington’s Hoodrat -BMXing with Greg from Jersey and Grade -Bane playin...
Episode 31 - J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr / Deep Wound /etc.)
June 10, 2015 05:21 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBNo one is more excited than J Mascis to finally get to sit down with Damian for an episode of Turned Out A Punk. Listen along as J ; gleefully, earnestly, and passionately recounts his journey from Deep Wound drummer to Guitar God. Topics also hit on: -The similarities between doing WTF and TOAP -Being unable to make it through the Gerard Cooly’s episode because it was “too nerdy” -Finding Punk through hearing about the Ramones at record stores -Starting to take the “Joke Music” serio...
Episode 30 - Bryony Beynon (Good Throb)
June 03, 2015 16:42 - 1 hour - 84 MBThis week on Turned Out A Punk, Damian is joined by a good bud and a member of one of his current favorite bands, Good Throb. Welcome on Bryony Beynon. Sit back as the two discuss BB’s journey through punk and the quest to find fellow "communist girls that listen to Madball.” Also talked about: -Activation and creating visual maps -Take That and UK fandom -Blur vs. Oasis not being your war -Tony Hawk Pro-Boarder -Meeting Belinda: A 14 into the Fall and the Sonics -HOMEGROWN!!!! -Th...
Episode 29 - Nick Flanagan (Teen Crud Combo & Brutal Knights)
May 27, 2015 03:43 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBCome and sit in as your host Damian invites in his friend and lead singer hero Nick Flanagan. Sit back and learn about how Nick went form being a zine writing indie kid to fronting Teen Crud Combo and Brutal Knights. Also covered: -Writing for kid shows -Finding punk through SCTV and The Queen Haters -The Young Lions -Hilarious House Of Frightenstien: Like a Psychedelic Punk Dream -You Can’t Do That On Television -Meeting Andrew from the Deadly Snakes (and a Starkweather cover band...
Episode 28 - Chris Hannah (Propagandhi)
May 20, 2015 05:14 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBSome interviews come and go, while others are 20 some odd years in the making. This, dear listener, is the latter. Chris Hannah of Propagandhi is someone Damian first hoped to interview for his (never released) zine in 1996, but alas he was too chicken shit and thus waited until now to do so. Sit back and enjoy one of the few things in life that was worth the wait (to Damian at least) and have your faith in Punk rejuvenated. Also touched on: -“I had heard punk bands, but I hadn’t heard ...
Episode 27 - Chris Slorach (Metz)
May 13, 2015 04:54 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBThis week Damian is joined by his practice space roomie, Chris Slorach of Metz. Grab a seat on a combo amp and listen in as the two talk about Chris’ journey from reluctant zinester to being in one of Canada’s greatest power trios. Also covered: - Punk and dentists - Being neighbors with Toronto punk/ hardcore/ metal legend Al Biddle - Eric’s Trip and The Doughboys at the Palladium - Project 9 and Grasshopper - Meeting Headcleaner: the pre-Deadly Snakes and Teen Crud Combo band -D...
Episode 26 - Jordan Posner (Terror and No Warning)
May 06, 2015 12:54 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBDo you like exhaustive looks at 90’s pop-punk? Well you’re in luck! This week on the show Damian is joined by his friend and sometime bandmate Jordan from Terror and No Warning. Get comfortable because the two go deep on Jordon’s (and Damian’s) journey into punk in the 90’s. Also covered : -A computer crash costing the world the world least informed At The Drive-In conversation -Bryan Adams and “Everything I Do” -Going to see Metallica/ Danzig/ Suicidal Tendencies show at 12 -Hunger S...
Episode 25 - Wade MacNeil (Gallows and Alexisonfire)
April 29, 2015 05:11 - 1 hour - 52.3 MBHurry in dear listener and grab a seat as Damian welcomes to the show his friend Wade from Gallows and Alexisonfire. Listen in as the two discuss Wade going from a Misfits obsessed teen, to forming a band that changed the face of mainstream music in Canada. Also hit on: -Getting a good guitar teacher with good taste as first exposure -Hearing the Misfits Earth A.D. and shaping your high school world -Southern Ontario Nazi Boneheads loving the second Misfits show in Toronto -Razor Eate...
Episode 24 - Nate Newton (Converge)
April 22, 2015 05:50 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBThis week on the show, Damian heads out to a show to talk to Converge’s Nate Newton. Listen as the two talk about buying a Skaterock tape at 11 led, as well as Nate joining Converge. Also covered: -Why Nate’s face is burnt into Damian’s memory -Ordering Thrasher Skate Rock Volume 1 at 11 -Nate and Damian unable to think of name of Beyond Possession -Thrasher Magazine -Stonehenge: Virginia Beach’s record/ probable front -Graven Image -Candy Snatchers -At War -Going to a Agnostic...
Episode 23 - Jesse Gander (d.b.s vocalist)
April 15, 2015 12:49 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBThis week on the show, Damian is joined by, former d.b.s. vocalist and producer of tons of amazing bands, Jesse Gander. Sit back as Damian gusts to the person who inspired him (and many other his age) to start a punk band. -Punk-loving non-punk parents -Hanoi Rocks -Getting into it through the metal bands covering punk -The offensive amazingness of the Sex Pistols -Being 12 and going an inter-school-collective fanzine meeting -Playing your first show at activist Trish Kelly’s 16 birth...
Episode 22 - Part 2/2 : Anthony Pappalardo (Ten Yard Fight, In My Eyes)
April 08, 2015 04:43 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBThis week on Turned Out A Punk we give you part 2 of the conversation with Anthony Pappalardo. Listen as Damian and Anthony discuss the formation of In My Eyes all the way to their last tour with the Cro-Mags (that ends with an incredible Harley story). Also touched on: -Turning your back on the Back On Track era of Ten Yard Fight -Sweet Pete needing to be in a band already -Having no business skills and thinking that’s the way it should be -Getting courted by labels -Being the New Balance ...
Episode 21 - Part 1/2 : Anthony Pappalardo (Ten Yard Fight, In My Eyes)
April 01, 2015 13:15 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBThis week on Turned Out A Punk, Damian unveils the first half of his interview with Anthony Pappalardo, former guitarist of In My Eyes and Ten Yard Fight, as well as author of the books Radio Silence and Live… Suburbia. Listen in to an episode so great, it needed two weeks!!!! Some of the topics covered in part one: -Growing up with nothing to do -Led Zeppelin being too wimpy for your Dad -MTV 24/7 -Tracking down punk heroes and calling them -Anthrax -Outburst -Raw Deal -Breakdown...
Episode 20 - Dallas Good (The Sadies)
March 25, 2015 06:35 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBThis week on Turned Out A Punk, Damian chats with his “bud” Dallas Good of the legendary Toronto band The Sadies. Listen as they discuss everything from opening for the Bunchofuckingoofs at the age fourteen, to getting to play music with everyone from John Doe to Neil Young. Also covered in this episode: -The Jolly Tambourine Man Connection -Guilt Parade -Living Proof -Youth Youth Youth -Direct Action -Getting to join Sudden Impact at 17 -The 1st Police Picnic -Going to buy New Va...
Episode 19 - Nick Diener (The Swellers)
March 18, 2015 05:46 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBThis week, join Damian as he sits down with The Swellers' Nick Diener in a hotel room in Brisbane, Australia. Listen as the two discuss being on the Swellers’ final tour, and journey that brought him here. Also discussed -The 48 hour birthday -MEATLOAF IS COOL -Not liking Blink 182 until “after” -Goldfinger -Growing up just pre-Napster -The Angus Soundtrack -Green Day -Weezer -Riverdales -Pansy Division -Learning to play piano to learn the Undertakers' theme -Millencolin: he...
Episode 18 - Colin Brunton (Director of The Last Pogo / Producer of Highway 61 and Roadkill)
March 11, 2015 04:00 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBWelcome dear listener(s) to another edition of Turned Out A Punk. This week Damian sits down with the director of seminal Toronto punk film the Last Pogo (and more recently The Last Pogo Jumps Again) to talk about the onset of Punk in Toronto, and his life after that. Find out how a need to document the Nazi Dogs suicide show led to a life in film and TV. Also touched on: -Nash The Slash the punk before Punk in Toronto -Blank Generation: the movie that made you want to build a stage -T...
Episode 17 - Nick Woj (Cold World)
March 04, 2015 06:34 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBThis week on Turned Out A Punk, join Damian as he talks to Cold World's drummer/mastermind Nicholas Wojciechowski about the ascetic battle of rap, and aggressive music that led him to having never been able to read a review of his band that doesn’t mention Rap Metal. Also touched on in this episode: -Getting catalogs -The blue grass roots of Cold World -Solo-Straight-Edge-Raving -The independent study time afforded to only-children -Seeing Ill Repute for your first show… the “Big Ru...
Episode 16 - Chris Colohan
February 25, 2015 08:33 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBOn the show this week, join Damian as he interviews Chris Colohan. Listen as the two discuss Chris’ journey through punk, and the amazing music that it has yielded. Not to mention, the important a role Chris played in Damian’s life (and MANY others). Also covered: -Damian winning tickets to see Left For Dead’s first show on the radio -Hearing Boomtown Rats on radio as first contact -High School Circle Pits a school dances: running around until a jock pushes you down. -Think about “the...
Episode 15 - "Kickball Katy" Goodman (Vivian Girls)
February 18, 2015 14:04 - 1 hour - 54.7 MBOn this episode of Turned Out A Punk, Damian gets to chat to Le Sera's Katy Goodman about going from watching New Brunswick basement hardcore shows, to playing at Coachella in the Vivian Girls. Listen in as two discuss touring together, the low points of riding high on the indie hype bubble, and punk. Also touched on in this episode: -Trying to get into NoFX and accidentally getting into the Germs -Seeing shows at Ridgewood Lodge -Fletcher And the Sticky Wickets: the pre-Real Estate Cric...
Episode 14 - Don Pyle (Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet)
February 11, 2015 04:43 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBTurned Out A Punk welcomes Don Pyle this week! Join in as Damian and Don discuss being there for the start of punk in Toronto and how it stayed with him throughout his amazing career in Crash Kills Five, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, and Phono Comb. Plus, Damian almost makes it the whole episode without bringing up the Kids In The Hall theme song! Also discussed on this episode: - The pre-punk history of the word “Punk” - The Modern Lovers as the descendants of The Archies - Sex Pis...
Episode 13 - Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed)
February 04, 2015 06:42 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBThis week Damian is joined by hardcore legend Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed. Jamey also had his own podcast ‘The Jasta Show’ and various other projects, including former owner of xmulletx.com. Listen in as the two talk about Jamey’s rise from throwing park shows in Connecticut Commons, to being in one of the most popular aggressive bands in the world. For the first part of the conversation check out https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-jasta-show/id905155742?mt=2 Episode 55. Also discussed ...
Episode 12 - Chris Murphy (Sloan)
January 28, 2015 05:25 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBThis week on Turned Out A Punk, Damian is joined by Chris Murphy from Sloan for an episode 20 years in the making! Listen as the two discuss the impact hardcore punk had on Chris’s outlook and career in music; as he became a Canadian rock icon (Damian’s words not his). Also chewed on: - First contact with the Sex Pistols at a lunchtime grade 7 school dance. - NEVER DRESS LIKE A PUNK TO IMPRESS THE PUNKS ON THE A SCHOOL SPONSORED “DRESS LIKE A PUNK DAY”. - Liking U2 being a subversive a...