A2G123 - A Rare Serious Moment
Felt inappropriate doing the normal thing this week. Exercise your rights and be safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 03, 2020•59 min
AXE TO GRIND PODCAST
THEE Hardcore Podcast, hosted by Tom, Bob, and Patrick.
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A2G- Patreon Sampler
Every once in a while we like to give everyone a chance to see what goes on in the golden kingdom of the Axe To Grind Patreon. Here’s some clips to tease and tantalize, with the hope that you’ll join our Patreon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 29, 2020•1 hr 32 min
A2G122 - Gluten Free Means I Can't Have Gluten
Last Lights, Fiona Apple, shootouts, guitar solos, Green Day, Lulu, good looks, professional wrestling, The State, piloting a plane without training, Australia, Orange 9mm, college, and A Live On A2G set from the mighty SUNSTROKE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 26, 2020•2 hr 27 min
A2G Overtime 11 - Next Step Up
Grady and Ryan from Anxious and One Step Closer jump into talk a little bit on getting stuck in Europe at the onset of a pandemic, going to school in the middle of nowhere, and the process of writing full lengths for each band. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 22, 2020•59 min
A2G121 - Unfriended
Critique, PMA, haters, and the cold hard reality of putting art into the world. Ian from Regional Justice Center joins us for deep talk on what makes a good vocalist, what makes a band a viable touring act, and what justifies physical release. It's nitty gritty and brass tacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 19, 2020•2 hr 16 min
A2G Overtime 10 - BOLD Looking Back
Is Looking Back an underrated classic? A accurately rated piece of the hardcore cannon? Or an overrated pile of shit? With influences that range from melodic hardcore to the devil, this record inspires big opinions from hardcore kids. Let's get to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 14, 2020•1 hr 53 min
A2G120 - Lyrical Bikini Party
This one is for the word lovers. Pat Flynn stops by to talk favorite lyricists in hardcore and beyond. Is Shawn Brown an underrated snark god? Do members of Foundation have Minority Report style precognition? Can CRASS cause acid reflux? Is Start Today a Se7en style coded message only a genius could anticipate? All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 12, 2020•3 hr
A2G119 - Will Life Ever Be Sane Again?
Swamp life; lean gains; the future of touring; economics of playing music in 2020; drive times; putting out records during a pandemic and/or global depression; drive-in hardcore shows; the importance of venues; cassette releases; Albania; Zoli; rabies; more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 05, 2020•2 hr 14 min
A2G118 - Making a NYHC Mixtape For Your Crush
How to go about showing the best, most interesting, and most personally impactful NYHC to someone new. Also discussed: prodigious journaling, BlackedRaw, ditching religion in a public way, YDL, scooter culture, and what constitutes snotty vocals. All this and Western MA's own MANIAC Live On Axe To Grind! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 28, 2020•2 hr 29 min
A2G Overtime - 09 - MINDFORCE
Jay and Mike join us to talk about the new Swingin' Swords, Choppin' Lords 12" EP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 5 min
A2G Overtime 08 - Record Club: VOD Imprint
Anyone can be part of this club. Just go listen to the record we're talking about, come back, compare your thoughts to ours and other listeners, be happy or mad. Today's album: Vision Of Disorder - Imprint Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 23, 2020•1 hr 15 min
A2G117 - Exciting Career Opportunities In Youth Crew
Pat Flynn joins the podcast to talk Zoli muscles, the responsibility bands have to their communities, the best year in hardcore, mysterious guy hardcore, head massages, gun control, Duke basketball, Bold, Bold, and Bold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 21, 2020•2 hr 29 min
A2G Overtime 07 - Chunky Habanero Salsa HOT Takes
When we opened the door to anonymous questions, these are the bad apples who strutted in wearing leather jackets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 17, 2020•1 hr 42 min
A2G116 - Medium Tostitos Salsa Takes
John Joseph Covid reporting, Karate Kid, looking like a thumb, starting a hardcore band late in life, rerecorded classics, diss tracks, Every Time I Die, Reagan Youth, blind spots, a world without Bad Religion, Bridge 9, and what classics are secretly bunk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 56 min
A2G115 - Let's All Get On The Same Page
Lots of hardcore and hardcore adjacentry in this hardcore podcast. Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Breakdown, 108, VOD, Rollins Band, Leatherface, In My Eyes, Kiss It Goodbye, Dischord catalog, Rev catalog, Victory catalog, and on and on! So much goddamn hardcore for the hardcore. And to top it all off, RESTRAINING ORDER Live On A2G! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 07, 2020•2 hr 21 min
A2G114 - Worst Possible Tomline
Crossover episode with Worst Possible Timeline. Hardcore is supposed to be NOT discussed, but somehow works its way into conversations about Joe Girardi's traps, Joe Biden's brain failure, American exceptionalism, Tiger King, wrestling without crowds, and more. Hot takes abound! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 31, 2020•1 hr 34 min
A2G Overtime 06 - Black Flag Rank'm
Frequent collaborator Dave joins Bob to debate the most pressing issue of 2020: Where each Black Flag release ranks in the band's discography. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 30, 2020•2 hr 4 min
A2G Overtime 05 - Drive & Grind
This Is Albany, Not Bakersfield. Bob is joined by Overnight Drive's secret coremen Hans and Andrew for a trip into the dark heart of memory lane. Scene clashes, the alienated hardcore kid, 25 Ta Life, Earth Crisis fandom, Louisville, Punk Planet, and more. This is a wild time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 27, 2020•2 hr 41 min
A2G Overtime 04 - Caseys Go Nineties
Ever spend a night in Poughkeepsie talking about your ten favorite hardcore records of the 90s? Now is you chance. Nicole and Alex Casey join the crew to talk all things hardcore from the era of MTV Unplugged. Is Only Living Witness on your list? Strife - underrated? Does Supertouch have tracks? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 26, 2020•1 hr 48 min
A2G113 - Everything Is Closed, Listen To Hardcore
Wire. Blacklisted. Best Boston bands. Smart bands vs 'Smart bands'. Marshal's Home Goods and TJ MAX. After Forever by Black Sabbath. After Forever as covered by Shelter. Disneyland. Melodic HC. Facebook Living your death. Orange juice. Petty beefs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 24, 2020•2 hr 30 min
A2G Overtime 03 - Comfort Oreos
Ray & Porcell. Where's Your Head At? The dreadlocked whites of Koh Rong. Is doing a GoFundMe cool, lame, or a cause for complete indifference? Prison lockdown. Game Of Thrones cool, lame, or cause for complete indifference? Wild Side. Cambodian copyright laws. Gaslight Anthem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 23 min
A2G Overtime 02 - Rankin' Round Jah Throne
Bad Brains discussed in the type of detail a global pandemic allows for. Longtime friend of the podcast and frequent contributor Andy comes through to drop knowledge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 20, 2020•1 hr 31 min
A2G Overtime 01 - Quarantined Musings
Putting in some overtime for all the people who are having to deal with this or that. We tackle the hard topics like how good was that Code Orange stream and can we expect biters? The difficulty of canceling events even under duress. Close it out with some chatter on the top releases from label titans Deathwish and Bridge 9. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 18, 2020•1 hr 24 min
A2G112 - Dangerous Shirts
Some new music talk. Some nontroversy talk about the shirt that scandalized Gilman. Some Damage City talk. Some Escape From Phnom Penh talk. Some size matters or it doesn't talk. It's early 2020 and the world is actin' up. Listen to some hardcore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 17, 2020•1 hr 31 min
A2G111 - Sometimes Friends Fight
The Indecision episode! Rachel and Justin of Indecision/Most Precious Blood join their lifelong bandmate Tom to remember and misremember the past 25 years. Why do bands make the decisions they do? Does anything you did as a kid make sense even five years later? Victory Records; Magnum condoms; the Mets; hard tours; breakups to makeups; grad school; drone assassination record labels; more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 10, 2020•1 hr 59 min
A2G110 - Big Fest Energy
It's that time of year again. Festivals aren't just for ravers and Europeans. Wild Rose! BnB! United Blood! Furnace! Much More! Here's a deep(ish) dive on what's on offer this spring/summer. Young! Old! It's all good! Also, don't hide your PV under a basket. Let your light shine. And more Bane (Batman, not band) voice than you can handle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 03, 2020•1 hr 40 min
A2G109 - Poste Apokylips
Are the hosts of this podcast clinically depressed? Who are they talking to on AIM? Who is doing the dishes in this partnership? How would they say goodbye to a loved one when they're going to be consumed by marauders? What's with butthole sunning? The core only appears in small doses this episode... until KC's finest, SPINE joins us Live On A2G! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 25, 2020•1 hr 45 min
A2G108 - Blood Sweat and Some Tiers
NYHC bands ranked! Pre-1990 roster of kings! KILLING TIME; SICK OF IT ALL; BURN; LEEWAY; SHEER TERROR; BREAKDOWN; WARZONE; MURPHY'S LAW; SUPERTOUCH; to just name a few! The gang's all here and we R E S P E C T F U L L Y submit our opinions on what tier of legendary each fall into. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 18, 2020•1 hr 36 min
A2G107 - Year 2000 Listening Party, God Help Us
It's the most mixed of bags, as we expand on our year 2000 exploration. We lend our ear to classics and... not classics, learning a lot about our tolerance for operatic vocals, word salad, and squigel-squigel-dees. It was a year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 11, 2020•1 hr 31 min
A2G106 - Y2K Bug Armageddon Revisited
Year In HC: 2000! Back in the day, before the Patriot Act, before stringent TSA screenings, there was a collision of traditional hardcore and metalcore. There was bizarre, best-forgotten, genre tangents like bandana thrashcore. It was an era where some sounds were slowing down and others were just ramping up. People were trying things and failing, and that makes it all the more interesting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 04, 2020•2 hr 37 min
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