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Monday Oct 04, 2021
Monday Oct 04, 2021
Episode 29 is finally here and boy, is it a doozie!! For this one, we lured in Mr. Bob Noxious (Pig Pen/Chris Barrows Band) to help co-host with us! And if you’re thinking to yourself, “Heeeeyyy, that name sounds familiar.” it’s because he was one of the original co-hosts of Dying Scene Radio many many moons ago! As always, we’re gonna to be jammin’ new tunes from emerging artists that you were probably too lazy to discover and talkin’ about some of the more noteworthy scene news from the last few weeks. But, we’re also going to get reacquainted with Mr. Noxious throughout the episode. So, if you’ve ever wondered about his fingerbanging skills, (and we know you have) you’re definitely gonna wanna listen to this one! All of that and much more in this episode! So, crank it up, fuckers!
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Episode 29 Playlist
Steve Buscemi - “Chicago Real Estate”
Bossman Dave’s SGLotE - Madison Bloodbath - “Icebergs”
#1 Fan Spike’s pick - If I Die First - “Where Needles and Lovers Collide”
Caltrops - “White Boy”
Thumb Between the Middle Fingers - “Truth Pass”
Sarchasm - “Blacklist”
PIG PEN - “The Scene Is Dead”
Debt Neglector - “Cult Cult Cult”
Gay Lips - “The Ballad of Hinksley Road”
Duchamp - “The Art of Defiance”
Fiddlehead - “Million Times”
The Slow Death - “We Aint Even Married/Fuck The Labor Pool (Young Pioneers)”
Listen to these songs along with all of the other songs we've featured on the podcast on our iTunes and Spotify Playlists!
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Franz Nicolay has had a long and winding and frankly vaudevillian journey through the music industry over the two-plus decades since he left our shared home state of New Hampshire. Dying Scene readers from the days of yore no doubt are familiar with the #1 accordion player in punk rock (it's true, Connor checked: https://dyingscene.com/heroes-of-the-punk-accordion-a-tribute-to-squeezebox-rockers/) through solo work or his stints in The Hold Steady and The World/Inferno Friendship Society and Against Me! and perhaps Anti-Social Music and maybe Guignol and probably from collaborations with countless beloved acts like Jeff Rosenstock and The Loved Ones and Frank Turner and Junior Battles and more.
A few years ago, he published a fascinating nonfiction book, "The Humourless Laties of Border Control: Touring The Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar." It's an incredibly detailed and dense look at DIY touring through large chucks of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia and the like. At long last, Nicolay is set to release his debut novel. It's called "Someone Should Pay For Your Pain," and it's finally due out next week (August 24th) through Gibson Press, and let me tell you: it's wonderful. It centers around a character named Rudy Pauver.
Originally from Wisconsin, Pauver finds his way to the DIY punk mecca that was late 90s Gainesville and joins a band and, when they goes belly up for a variety of reasons, he continues to ply his wares as a solo artist/troubadour for the better part of the next two decades. There is a cast of characters that includes former bandmates and former proteges-turned-megastars and crotchedy bartenders and condescending soundguys and a next-generation punk rock niece. If you've been in a band or been even loosely tied to a scene, you know these people and these places and these roads and these dive bar floor tiles and these mattresses in the corner at the local flophouse. It's real and it's relatable and it's a sort of book about what happens after the "coming of age" stuff gets old.
For a musician who dabbles in writing - Franz can craft a hell of a novel.
Purchase "Someone Should Pay For Your Pain" here: https://bookshop.org/books/someone-should-pay-for-your-pain/9781948721134
Visit Franz' website here: https://franznicolay.com/
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Suzi Moon has been an active member of the punk rock scene for well more than half her life, so you might expect that she would have used the free time provided by unplanned COVID-related shutdowns over the last 18 months to pause and catch her breath. You'd be sorely mistaken, however. After years of playing in a band with her sister (Civet, obviously) and taking filmmaking classes and starting a new band, Turbulent Hearts, and playing bass in a new band that flamed out rather unceremoniously last year (L.A. Machina), Moon stepped out on her own for real. She put out an EP, "Call The Shots," earlier this year under her own name with the help of Pirates PRess Records. She self-produced and directed music videos for each of the three songs on "Call The Shots." She's also got another ten songs already recorded for a full-length, and is going back in to the studio in the coming days to record another brand new EP. She's got a full backing band of fellow scene vets (Drew Champion and Sean Peterson of The Split Second on guitar and drums respectively, Patti Bo from River City Rebels on bass) that are slated to play their first shows, including Camp Punksylvania, in a couple of weeks - delta variant be damed. We caught up with Moon to talk about all of that and more. Stay tuned for updates on new material and new videos soon!
Suzi Moon Videos:
"Special Place In Hell" - https://youtu.be/g7ReC6k16UI
"I'm Not A Man" - https://youtu.be/K9NyEBVO6lw
"Nuthin' To Me" - https://youtu.be/5-rwDjyPU94
"Call The Shots" is sold out on vinyl and you can't have mine, but you can get it digitally here: https://suzimoon.bandcamp.com
Intro Music as always: "Hurts To Laugh" by Kali Masi. Find us and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts if you prefer not watching my ugly mug yakking away on screen!
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Greetings, comrades! Now, that Bob's Honeymoon period is over, Episode 28 of Dying Scene Radio is finally ready for consumption! In this installment, we learn that Anarchopunk is nearly illiterate, Bob can't recall simple things like show dates that were provided to him, literally minutes before, and what we're doing to further the #moresaxinpunk cause. All of that plus noteworthy scene news from the last couple of months, as well as some fantastic new music from emerging artists! So, crank up the volume and let your neighbors enjoy too!
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*In a band? Want to be featured on the podcast? Send your shit to dyingsceneradio@dyingscene.com and if it’s good enough, we’ll probably play it! If you send us some swag, it’ll increase your chances… just sayin’!
Episode 28 Playlist
Swayze - “St. Angry”
Bossman Dave’s SGLotE - Forgotten Names - “Punk Rock Priorities”
#1 Fan Spike’s pick - Bitch Queens - “Ignorance is Bliss”
Old City - “Class Act”
Unity TX - “Agony”
The Simulators - “Long Way Home”
The Beaters Band - “Love I can B W You”
Nancy Boi! - “Liquor Store Employee”
One Step Closer - “Pringle Street”
Home Is Where - “Assisted Harakari”
House Boat - “A Song In Which I Try To Convince Myself To Stop Being Such A Fucking Idiot”
Doom Scroll - “When Will I Disappear”
Listen to these songs along with all of the other songs we've featured on the podcast on our iTunes and Spotify Playlists!
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
If you've watched previous episodes of (*both laugh*) or if you've heard me guest on other podcasts or if you know me personally, you know that Pearl Jam has been a huge part of my musical journey. "Ten," which turns thirty years old this time next month, struck at exactly the right time in my formative years. The shockwave is still being felt, to say the least. Pearl Jam were very honestly the band that really ushered in my love of punk rock, in part through their very public love of bands like Dead Kennedys and Bad Religion and Social D and Dead Boys and obviously The Clash and Ramones. As I one-time aspiring bass player, it was Jeff Ament whose style got me to buy my first bass when I was a teenager (an Alvarez Dana bass, if you're interested).
I've not only followed Pearl Jam far and wide over the last three decades, but I've followed Jeff's solo career and side projects (Three Fish, Tres Mts., RNDM, etc) along the way. His songs are always intricate and textured and unique and pull from a variety of influences. Next month, Ament will release a new solo full length. Entitled "I Should Be Outside," it was written and recorded entirely during COVID-related quarantine. But it's also not the only material he's put out during this time, as it follows last year's blistering "American Death Squad" EP and a new project called Deaf Charlie that features Fitz and the Tantrums' John Wicks on drums.
This was immensely entertaining and meaningful for me, and I hope that came across. I was lucky enough to meet Jeff once in passing at an RNDM show on a snowy November night in Boston (there's a picture of that meeting in the intro and over my right shoulder during our chat here) and I thought that was one of the coolest things that had ever happened to me that didn't involve marriage or the birth of my kid. This was cooler. Thanks Jeff. And yes, don't worry Pearl Jam fans...we talked a lot about PJ and songwriting history and all the "how the sausage is made" stuff!
Jeff Ament - "I Hear Ya" video: https://youtu.be/8g0YYt13Ir8
Jeff Ament new solo album pre-order: https://shop.pearljam.com/collections/music/products/2021-ament-i-hear-ya-b-w-bandwidth-7
Montana Pool Service info: https://montanapoolservice.com/
Deaf Charlie (Jeff Ament and John Wick): - "Something Real" video: https://youtu.be/BrKlmL4gNeA
Jeff Ament as American Death Squad: https://youtu.be/jWfzwf2dDyg
Deranged Diction (Jeff's early hardcore band): https://youtu.be/IHmwk3f6n0E
Intro Music as always: "Hurts To Laugh" by Kali Masi.
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
For Episode 41 of (*both laugh*), we caught up with Nate Cook from The Yawpers for a quick hitter about his upcoming bike ride from New York to Los Angeles. Yes, you read that right...beginning on the 4th of July, Nate Cook from The Yawpers (whose 2019 Bloodshot Records release Human Question is still in heavy rotation in this house) is cycling from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
Cook took up cycling early in the pandemic, and last summer he embarked on a 700-mile ride from Denver to Tulsa as a fundraiser for the Sweet Relief Musician's Fund. For this year's ride, dubbed Go West, Aging Man (or GxAx for short), Cook decided to go bigger, since he figures he'll be on tour every summer going forward. Two months. NY to LA. A few shows along the way. All on a bicycle, and all for Sweet Relief again.
As an added bonus, GxAx has added another rider this year. Badass singer/drummer Liliana Urbain is going west to east via a more northern route; she left Washington State a couple weeks ago and is presently in Montana with her sights set on Portland, Maine! As a semi-avid road cyclist, I cannot even comprehend how hard that is (particularly given the all-time high temps lately).
Find out more about Nate's ride here: https://gxaxride.com/
Help fund the ride here: https://gxaxride.com/gxax-store
Follow along with Liliana Urbain here: https://www.instagram.com/lilurbain/
Follow along with Nate here: https://www.instagram.com/theyawpers/
Find out more about Sweet Relief here: https://www.sweetrelief.org/
New (*both laughs*) theme song is an excerpt from [laughs] track "Hurts To Laugh." © KALI MASI 2021 ℗ Take This To Heart Records 2021
Friday Jun 25, 2021
Friday Jun 25, 2021
For episode 40 of (*both laugh*), we went international again, this time catching up with Chachy Englund from Shanghai-based freak punk band Round Eye. The present incarnation of the band features ex-pats from three different countries (the US, Italy and Ireland), and are slated to officially release the physical version of their latest album, Culture Shock Treatment, via Sudden Death Records post haste (the digital release was handled last year by Paper + Plastick). And if you order the album (check the link below), there's a very realistic chance that it'll be in your grubby little paws WAY before anyone from the band actually sees it themselves.
Such is the way of the world when you're doing the punk rock thing under the watchful eye of the CCP. We covered a lot of ground with Chachy - literally and figuratively, and he's got a fascinating first-hand perspective on the COVID outbreak (and subsequent mismanagement), making a record with the iconic Mike Watt (and having it mixed by the equally iconic Bill Stevenson), the state of international touring, and the rigors of touring mainland China as a band of outsiders...and trying to return once you've toured outside the motherland. It's a fascinating chat if I do say so myself. Wonder if Chachy and his bandmates will actually get to watch it!
Listen to "Culture Shock Treatment" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAUJEO_cvLImm5GjmVH_BJg
View the videos:
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJlHXa8Bi8
Smokestack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l945vbCN64
Red Crimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZEoffVO0w
New (*both laughs*) theme song is an excerpt from [laughs] track "Hurts To Laugh." © KALI MASI 2021 ℗ Take This To Heart Records 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
tl/dr: we asked Max Collins from Eve 6 if he wanted to chat and he said sure!
This episode is going live on May 27, which coincidentally marks the 21st anniversary of the first time I saw Eve 6. It was the 2000 WBCN (r.i.p.) River Rave and it took place at the old Foxboro Stadium and it featured bands like Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Everclear and Godsmack (lol) and Stone Temple Pilots and Static-X and Powerman 5000 and Cypress Hill. The turn of the century was a time, man...
ANYWAY, Eve 6, in my opinion, got a little unfairly lumped in with a couple of scenes that, stylistically, they weren't really a part of. Their self-titled debut album, written while the band's members (Max Collins, Jon Siebel, Tony Fagenson) were essentially still in high school, debuted at a time in music that was probably just a bit too late for the punk revival of the mid-90s and just before the nu-metal/butt rock wave of the early 2000s. Stylistically, the band probably had more in common with Alkaline Trio (whose own debut full-length came out six months after "Eve 6) than with the likes of either Third Eye Blind or Sugar Ray or Staind or whoever they got paired with along the way. The lead single, "Inside Out," (aka "The Heart In A Blender Song") blew up and the album sold almost two million copies and so school buses turned into tour buses before very long and, well, here's the 25-cent version of what happened next: sophomore album, Horrorscope, spawned an unlikely hit ("Here's To The Night") which was probably your prom and/or graduation song if you're of a certain age, touring with Bon Jovi, third album didn't spawn a likely/unlikely "hit", band got dropped by RCA and essentially broke up, Max got sober, band reconnected, new album in 2012, bunch of 90s-band style tours, pandemic.
The last year or so have found Collins and Siebel and new drummer Ben Hilzinger started working on new material, the result of which is a five-song EP, "grim value," which is due out next month (see links to the first couple videos below). It's also seen Collins reach a new level of sorta-fame via Twitter, where he's maintained the band's official feed as a mix of 90s-band shit-posting and progressive realist light-in-the-darkness (Much of it is aligned with the dance-pop self-help spiritual guru Chevy Mustang that Collins created that is, if you haven't checked it out yet, completely brilliant.) We talked about all of this and more (Jawbreaker, sobriety, touring with Bon Jovi, etc) over the course of this chat and it was super fun and I still find it amazing that he agreed to do it.
Pre-order "grim value" here: http://grimvalue.com/
New video "black nova" here: https://youtu.be/9nLJ4Y9t98c
Newer Juggalo-rific video "Can We Combine" here: https://youtu.be/9nLJ4Y9t98c
Chevy Mustang - "I Don't Care" video here: https://youtu.be/cu0x8_kN81I
Intro song, as always: "Hurts To Laugh" by Kali Masi
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
In case you weren't aware by now, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. That's a cause that's pretty near and dear to my heart, and for Episode 38, I finally got a chance to promote it! If you've been to Warped Tour or the Flogging Molly Salty Dog Cruise or any number of other punk shows/festivals over the last decade, you've probably run into Rob "Rover" Rushing. For many years, he was the on-the-ground face of the Love Hope Strength Foundation, a non-profit that was co-founded by The Alarm's Mike Peters and that aimed to sign people up for the International Bone Marrow Registry. When LHS moved on from their street team a couple of years ago, Rushing and his wife Tina took the opportunity to create a non-profit of their own, and thus Punk Rock Saves Lives was born! Though it's still in a stage of relative infancy, PRSL has hit the ground running. Focusing on equal rights, human rights and health campaigns, PRSL has shown itself to be a versatile organization, helping to raise money and awareness for mental health campaigns, women's health and reproductive rights campaigns, and much more. The charity was founded in November 2019 and had some big plans for its first full year, but then COVID happened and, like most of us, they were forced to pivot. Now that things are opening up ever-so-suddenly, it seems, more good things are on the horizon. Check out the list of links below to get involved!
PRSL Homepage: https://www.punkrocksaveslives.org/ PRSL Mental Health Resources (blogs and PMA Sessions and virtual groups, etc): https://www.punkrocksaveslives.org/prsl-s-mental-health
PRSL Compilation: https://www.imrecordsstore.com/product/punk-rock-saves-lives-the-album-volume-one-vinyl-only-preorder-expected-late-may-early-june-/
PRSL Fundraising Campaign: https://www.classy.org/campaign/punk-rock-saves-lives/c337992
Punk Rover Saves Lives children's book pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/Punk-Rover-Saves-Lives-Fulsty/dp/B094VR4P4X/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=punk+rock+saves+lives&qid=1621785638&sr=8-6
Amazon Smile: https://m.facebook.com/pg/PRSLUSA/photos/photos_by_others/
PRSL "I Am A Badass" Campaign: https://www.punkrocksaveslives.org/i-am-a-badass
Monday May 17, 2021
Monday May 17, 2021
To say that I've been looking forward to finally catching up with Scott Radinsky for a long time is an understatement. Radinsky has spent more than three decades carving out a career in not one, but two of my lifelong passions: baseball and punk rock. If you're watching this as a long-time Dying Scene follower, you no doubt know Radinsky as the trademark voice behind a couple supremely influential - if underrated - California punk rock bands: Scared Straight, who were vital in getting the "nardcore" scene on the map before reconfiguring as Ten Foot Pole, and, for the last quarter-century, Pulley. At this point, you're also no doubt aware of Radinsky's successful career as a quality left-handed relief pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, LA Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals and, finally, Cleveland Indians (you can Google his stats if you want, but he finished with a solid career record of 42-25 with 52 saves and a 3.45 ERA over the course of 11 years. Trust me: that's rock solid.) His career was also interrupted by a bout with Hodgkins Disease, and his comeback won him the 1995 Tony Conigliaro Award. As a lifelong Boston-area guy, also trust me...that's a big deal. We finally caught up with Radinsky recently to talk about how the COVID shutdown has impacted both of his beloved professions, and how they both had to pivot in different ways. Pulley, obviously, had to cancel some overseas tour plans, but the lockdown allowed them the opportunity to work on some brand new material in different and more focused ways than they have in years. It also found them playing a handful of acoustic sessions , which spawned a series of releases containing stripped down renditions of a few songs from each of the band's revved up studio albums to date. The first of those releases, Different Strings, is due out this month on SBAM Records - a label that should sound familiar as its founder, Stefan Beham, was our guest for Episode 36. Find Pulley on Bandcamp here: https://pulley.bandcamp.com/ Pre-order "Different Strings" here: https://shop.sbam.rocks/blogs/news/pulley-different-strings Watch the Pulley "Monsters Of Rock" Livestream we were referencing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQgl11nTNJg&ab_channel=PulleyTV