It's that time of year when everyone makes a pilgrimage to Los Angeles to experience one of the best HC fests going, Sound & Fury. Interesting lineup this year and we dig into every crevice of it. New acts, established acts, even a reunion or two. Also, we talk about Alien Ant Farm and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. NEW MUSIC FROM GEL AND COLD BRATS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There was a time when California was just as powerful a HC machine as it is today... but some of us didn't know it! We're talking on some of the bands we slept on or feel other people slept on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Do hardcore kids miss the punk boat and is there any way to get on it once you've started sailing the HC seas? Some humble recommendations. Also, is John Brannon a sex symbol? Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Some big announcements, and loving recap of recent events including the biggest HC fest of all time. A lot going on, from shows to live podcasts to a killer premiere by Boise's own REJECTION PACT. Get it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A little breather to reflect on 80s Mosh Madness up to this point. Have we learned anything? Also, how to use the bathroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eric drops in to play a little THIS OR THAT, a simple game with deadly consequences. Sheer Terror or Merauder, which makes you mosh the drywall? Have Heart or Bane, which makes you donate your time to a local charity? Indie rock or pop punk, which traps you in amber as an adult? More deadly inquiries! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Questions from all angles. Is it worth doing a band as an old person? How do you tell a story people may care about? Is corniness inevitable? Is promotion annoying? What constitutes a DM slide? How do you approach an old head in the wild? So much knowledge in one convenient audio log! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Patrick prattles about disc golf until the hook takes him off-stage and then we dive into BL'AST “Its In My Blood” vs FU’s “My America” and VERBAL ABUSE “Just an American Band” vs MDC “Millions of Dead Cops”. It's a ripper. a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Production; taking the bait; Tears For Fears; being too heavy; End It hosts the Playa Haters' Ball; running a record store in Portugal under a fake name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The bracket is fierce: CRUMBSUCKERS; D.R.I.; VISION; WARZONE. Also, naked moshing, senility, and being wrong for multiple decades. a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bands supporting bands, or at least not hatin. The case for Limp Bizkit. The celeb cosign in 2022. Being a celeb in your own head. Are we witnessing the Turnstile effect already? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
News of the world, and then straight into a 80s Mosh Madness bracket for the ages: Adolescents; Neurosis; Youth of Today; YDI. Something for everyone here. Truly delish! a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Festival season approaches! Compulsive gambling. Outburst. Staged live photos. Bookbag vs backpack sectarianism. Also, you're balding. It's all here, folks. a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How sharp is your hardcore brain? Could you compete in the terrordome of intellectual athletics that A2G designed? Is Tom cheating at these games of honor again? Change.org for Blues Traveler. Australian grocers. And a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Travel; on-stage meltdowns; human moments; Rollins Band; do you gotta be great to be vulnerable; more! a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is hardcore changing? Obviously. But are these shifts temporary or is this a new direction for the genre? We won't know for sure for a decade, but we're here to speculate today! Also, getting vulnerable on main. a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dan Weinraub Recovery fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/dan-weinraub-recovery-fund Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What to expect (or not) as a HC band. How niche is niche? Do you deserve a microphone that doesn't give you tetanus? Is sweat equity real or is it all a roulette wheel? Zing a dong bone, let's go. a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We get a visit from HC HR. Time for our yearly training. Also, Super Mario 44. Pit reports agogo. Davey Havok TMZ. Dubstep. And are you jealous of Turnstile? a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How would you explain some very basic hardcore ideas to someone who just doesn't know yet? Could you do it without sounding insane? Also, a debut from the newly remastered FASTBREAK release, a Touche Amore ticket giveaway, and more talk about Dog Eat Dog than you'd expect. Stacked episode. As always, send your pit reports to a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
80s Mosh Madness rolls on! INFEST vs INSTED; DESCENDENTS vs TOKEN ENTRY. Some big hitters and some dark horses. Also, train people, dope hair, and is Sepultura cool? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Middle-parts are back on the heads of young people, everyone dresses like they're going to a Shelter show in 1996, and the rising tide of Turnstile is raising all our ships. 2022 is wild. The good, the bad, and the perplexing. The state of things. Plus track debuts from COMBUST, RAW BREED, and VIDEO PRICK. Send us a pit report a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How well do you know your hardcore geography? Ok then, what's the best HC band from Wisconsin? Quick! Clock is running! *NUHH* Also, Barry Bond's head. Send us a pit report a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The lads are back on the Jersey Shore. It's 80s Mosh Madness and we've got SICK OF IT ALL, DYS, UNDERDOG, and THE FAITH. Who's solid... and who has TRACKS? All this and white reggae too! Send us a pit report a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOLD; CRUCIFIX; RITES OF SPRING; NEGATIVE FX. Who survives to compete in the next round? Also, sports betting is dumb and Kevin Smith's hockey jersey. Send your show report to: a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bands breaking up, United Blood, the winds of change, trains, digital streaming platform wars, ignorance, experts, and who killed reunions? Also, a new track from PEACE TEST! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kevin drops in to talk FYA, then we go in on Every Time I Die breakup, nostalgia fest confusion, and 80s Mosh Madness (The Bubble): Battalion of Saints, Carnivore, No For an Answer, TSOL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Long Island fixture and friend of the podcast, Christian, joins us to talk the risks and rewards of being a promoter. Who shouldn't you step to? Was LI the new Seattle? And would that make Neglect the Mother Love Bone of Nassau County? Also, are musicians jerks? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Shows getting cancelled; true crime; bands we don't talk about; extended hardcore vacations; Evan Seinfeld's dating life; crust chat; and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Friend of the pod, Pat, stops by to talk Stay Gold; chiropractic mythbusting; best HC drug songs; Turmoil; Tobey McGuire; history in hardcore; ruptured tendons; Sbarro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
