Axe To Grind Podcast

Moon Knight, Krust, Wildside, label promotion in hardcore and self-promotion in hardcore and accidental promotion in hardcore, more Wildside, Candy, colorism in the NBA, The lawfirm of Misfits Misfits & Misfits, riding mowers, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's 75 episodes in, so time to go SUPER OFF-BRAND and talk about Horse the Band, Biohazard, Seadoos, beets, the Christian god, Shockwave, cake donuts, prison, Glassjaw, John Elway, Yuppicide, and horse farms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest hosts Dave Ackerman and Andy Scarpulla join the fray to discuss their favorite records of the early 2000s. Marvel at how different the opinions can be from one mouth to the next. Was American Nightmare universally universal? Should everyone hear the Striking Distance lp? Is the Rival Schools lp mandatory in elementary alt music education yet? Where were you when the early aughts trends started to split... and exactly how expensive were your jeans? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NEW MUSIC FROM ABUSE OF POWER! Toby and the cops vs Instagram Police; Cro-Mags vs Cro-Mags; bootleggers vs wallets; headliners vs support; mastering engineers vs musician ignorance; reasonable adults vs Brooklyn rent; bunk beds vs romantic partners; more! Also Back To School Jam details! And a LIVE ON A2G SET FROM **BLIND JUSTICE!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's summer and things are poppin'. Time to play beach volleyball with Backtrack on their final tour. Maybe meet Drake on the floor of the Scotiabank Arena. Or walk around Vegas until you die of sun exposure. OH AND ATTEND ANY OF THE SICK SHOWS TAKING PLACE. Don't know where/what they are? We got you, fam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Medication that makes you husky! Soup! Bowling! Fake chicken salad! 7 Seconds! Corrosion of Conformity! Youth of Today! Rites Of Spring! Government Issue! DRI! Husker Du! The Descendents! SNFU! SOD! Bad Religion! And much much more! It's 1985 and hardcore is over... OR IS IT?! WE DIVE DEEP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Angel Du$t getting talk; Soulfly as a conversation in 2019; performance enhancing drugs in hardcore; cancelled is as cancelled does; no shirts lots of chest workouts; Robert Kraft's erection; hypebeasts; more! Heavy What Ifs about Hatebreed, Title Fight, Foundation, the kid from Fallout Boy, Madball's power set and galactic ambitions; more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The five records that define every five years since 1980. There's some hot takes buried among the regular heat takes. Also of note: how to wash kale; having no friends; is Hot Water Music hardcore; records you've blanked on for a decade; the cult of Snapcase; Norma Jean as Cro-Mags; vegan delis; probably a mention of Stuck Mojo in there somewhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LSD, CTHC, SONY, EVERYBODY BLEEDS NOW, DMT, TIK TOK, dropping Seth Putnam, and more with the mindful mogul, Jay Reason. Also, can birds fly backwards? Fighting hair loss with Discharge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a LISTENING PARTY, fam! New(ish) music from Combust, Outskirts, Payback, Drain, Rotting Out, and MORE. Also, nothing mechanical works. Everything but the computer breaks during this recording, so there's a lotta vamping while the repairman fixes things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After some hyper-local talk about the New York Metro Area and dating prospects in NJ, the real discussion begins: What was missed, overlooked, and strangely forgotten in our Mosh Madness Tourney. Why are some releases not en vogue? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How serious is too serious? How many snakes did Jake go through? Does your president skateboard? Are covers lame? Digital-only EPs dope or wack? Are melodic metalcore reunions the new bitcoin? Does your spouse hate Earth Crisis? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to detect food has gone bad; enjoying the flu; disappeared NBA players; AND THE FINAL RESULTS OF MOSH MADNESS! THE TOURNAMENT IS AT AN END AND IT IS TIME TO CELEBRATE OR CRY. HAVE YOUR BRACKET SHEET BESIDE YOU AS YOU LISTEN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Insider info on putting together the biggest hardcore show in 30 years in the form of the Have Heart reunion; Fresno real estate; relocating to Cambodia; driving your student loans off a bridge; and more! oh yeah, also AN EXCLUSIVE AXE TO GRIND LIVE SET FROM TRIPLE B RECORDING ARTISTS ~ANXIOUS~ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some loopy chat in this one. Three men who've listened to hella records do their best to stay on topic. Wokeness was lacking in 1989; heavy as an idea; Hoobastank; Paramore; wait that's the same thing; Puck from the Real World; Van Nuys HC; pornography; TURNSTILE; NO WARNING; KING NINE; SOUL SEARCH; GOD'S HATE; WEEKEND NACHOS; FREEDOM; XIBALBA; and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Straight edge discussion of regional beers, how many years pass before something is hella old, Jersey Mikes italian subs, impending homelessness, NAILS, FOUNDATION, IMPALERS, REGULATE, BANE, TURNSTILE, CRUEL HAND, ROTTING OUT, and mucho mas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg Bennick, vocalist of Trial, documentarian, activist, and speaker, acts as 4th mic for a talk on beach life, Lulu Lemon, gatekeeping, classic era Revelation, Ginsburg, Harley, Jorge, bands with Xs in their name, Trump fan overlap, skilled guitarists versus bum guitarists, and Hootie & the Blowfish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The contest of champions continues! We're in the wild days of Mosh Madness, where acts are playing for keeps and no prisoners are taken. Topics discussed include tech bros, offloading merch to Southeast Asia, celebs, and more. Also, weirdly, Mest. CEREMONY, NEW LOWS, TURNSTILE, UNIFIED RIGHT, RIVAL MOB, INCLINATION, HARMS WAY, and MINUS are in competition! If this episode sounds thin, it's because a transformer blew and we had to record it on a battery powered My First Sony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's true. There's a HAVE HEART reunion coming this summer, and we've got Pat Flynn on the pod to talk about it, reunions as a phenomenon, history of hardcore and otherwise, science fair hardcore, exercising to eat more subs, connecting with listeners on that heavy tip, crying, agency, self-ownership, melodic hardcore's boom and bust, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mosh Madness is in full swing. We're talking hotdogs, big dogs, night mode, font size, rebates, TRAPPED UNDER ICE, CODE ORANGE, TITLE FIGHT, BLACKLISTED, TAKE OFFENSE, CONCEALED BLADE, BLISTERED, and COLD WORLD. This is the contest of champions, people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices