It's time to muscle up and get the job done: a definitive guide to 90s HC. No favorites. No personal picks. Just the facts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

Our very own Jigsaw puts us through a battery of hellish challenges. What bands will end up trapdoored into the alligator pit? Will we have the strength to be honest about some band's weakest material? And what's the proper etiquette of an Ebay bidding war? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

HC has been riding high for a few years. Is this good? If it is, is there anything we can do to keep it rolling? Good for business/ Bad for business. Also, when did the Metallica love end and the Pantera love rise to the fore? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

What are some songs that stir specific emotions in you? Ok, now hardcore songs. How much variety is there in those feelings? Are we a one-note culture or fully realized people with a spectrum of emotions? Also, 70s arena rock and (mercy) killing grandma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Hardcore self-regulating and occasionally self-immolating. The FYA venue change. The effort to understand each other. Firsts and most recent. Why would ChatGPT lie about a Blood For Blood show? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

Mainstay Brooklyn venue St. Vitus has closed its doors for good. From our archives, out of reverence and in memoriam, we offer this recording of A2G Live from St. Vitus. Thanks for the good times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

FYA; regional kings and queens; genres vs lifestyles; isn't it all woofwoofwoof music; Palm Springs music; getting beat in Erewhon; best/worst reasons to do reunions; more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

A long time is spent on 00s shock-rockers. And some attention is given to the correct way to handle grievances with total strangers. And some time is devoted to Dave Navarro's vest and why the Live reunion didn't happen. But mostly we talk hardcore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Kevin from PUBLIC OPINION joins us to discuss the limits of DIY. Also, how big does a band have to be to be of help to another? Have we made touring too hard? Is there still juice in the fruit of 'hardcore adjacent?' And the power of small-city hardcore scenes for the touring bands of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/…

Hardcore is pretty ripping in 2024, and we have the receipts to prove it. Talking about our time at Sound & Fury, the Have Heart shows, and more. Also, behind-the-scenes on who should headline what. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

Before next week's Sound & Fury on-the-ground reporting, we bring you a cautionary episode about being the local workhorse band, saying dumb things, being TOO present in listeners' minds, and taking the Gaga money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

Would you like to play a game? Bob plays the role of Jigsaw from the Saw movies and subjects Tom and Patrick to a mental blood sport. Will they make it out of this house of horrors? Tons of music, new and old, is recommended for your ears. Also, MTV VJs in retirement, and the appeal of listening to two grown men bicker. Do a kindness for a guy who …

Tom on a solo mission while Pat and Bob are on assignment in Europe. Tom is joined by Bob Wilson (FYA, Philly SXE, a lot of bands) and Greg Falchetto (Manalapan SXE, lots of bands, NJHC shows) to discuss all things booking. Played some "Keep One, Lose One", how to start out booking shows and, most crucially, the importance of bringing cash to shows…

Who is gonna pop this summer? Can European metal push a man into the arms of Youth Crew? Are hardcore bands getting paid less than they should be relative to their non-hc contemporaries? Seattle or San Diego? Boston or DC? Los Angeles or the Bay? And a premiere from Gothenburg's SIDESTEP! That's in Sweden, you ignoramuses! Learn more about your ad …

Should hardcore bands have a 'team' and, if so, should they ever use the word 'team' for any reason, ever? Also, bands taking stances, and all that comes with it. And what do musicians do AFTER? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

What does a band OWE you? A good performance? Songs you recognize? Fun? And what happens if they don't deliver? Also, is it time you bought a bearded lizard? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

Bob returns from New Detroit to spin yarns about the mythic Tied Down Fest, while Tom reports from the center of a Knocked Loose pit, and Patrick broadcasts from a chicken coop. Topics include big touring slowing down; getting out while the gettin is good; hating J. Mascis; how we report on ourselves; women's basketball. Learn more about your ad ch…

Settling beefs through Esports; wandering into other people's problems; and are you being gatekept from the good shows and tours... hard to know. PLUS a PREMIERE from Chicago's own PORCUPINE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

Questions that will rock you to your CORE. Also, being loud online: the pros and cons. And is the 80s perverted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

Will main character mosh ever stop? Are skins sketchy in 2024? Does this era have its iconic intro yet? Listener questions come at us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

Is hardcore better when it's smaller? Are we do for a contraction? Do you only say that because you want people to fail and not have things? That's not nice. Also, Sound & Fury Fest: how many bands are pandemic babies? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

Static-X or Fury? Powerman 5000 or Incendiary? Patrick goes undercover at Sick New World to report how hardcore represented itself. And is Sunglass Hut the new video store? All this and a premiere from Little Rock's finest TERMINAL NATION. Let's go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Eddie Sutton's passing, Leeway's influence then and now, sorting everything out before it's time to go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

Bands born at the wrong time; bands who break up too early; bands that break up too late; pariah bands no one wants to take on tour. Bands on bands on bands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media

What are some genres that just should not cross paths? Nu Youth? Also, how to kill a whole castle with insects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBởi AXE TO GRIND PODCAST & Sound Talent Media