Joey Steel

Maddie Ruthless of the Brooklyn reggae band The Far East gets down to talk about their incredible music. On the other side of the episode we talk a ton of shit about the elections. And this week Antonio Rodriguez brings us the first piece produced by the brand new Dispatches from the Underground Collective. 

Jeff Kaplan is back to talk about glory of science and the tunes that move him. Hail Science!  

Dan “Brukky” Klein of The Frightnrs and so much more gets down to talk about his incredible music, his recent diagnosis of A.L.S., and the struggle of living with that disease.

Chris of (A)Truth, Shirime, and EastRev Records gets down to talk about the new label, the new band, and then we talk some fucking non-sense about Zika Virus. 

Dave Perry from Gözer is back on this, our special 300th episode! First Lemmy, then Bowie, then Abe Vigoda, and now . . . rock and roll? We talk about the death of rock and roll, and then we get neck deep into trying to sort out the elections in the empire. 

Danielle and Jesse from Out of System Transfer get down to talk about the band and we pick apart the new Star Wars film 

Barry from Joyce Manor gets down to talk about the band, stage diving, and the struggle and reflection that surrounded the band’s decision to speak out against people getting injured at their shows. 

In honor of their HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS annual show, this week Bryan Kienlen of The Bouncing Souls and George Rebelo of BS and Hot Water Music get down to talk about their music, their bands, some past gems of the NY scene, and the amazing punk community they have forged through the years. 

Filthy Phill of World War IX returns to Dispatches from the Underground to talk about the trials and tribulations of punk tours with a bunch of stories from All Torn Up and WWIX’s recent tours

Meagan, Whitney, and Jesse from Houston’s Thrashgrass queens and kings Days N Daze  get down at the end of Cracktoberfest 2015 in Miami to talk about tour, life, and their next steps in world domination. Plus we have some special guest appearances from Stza of Leftöver Crack and some other folks in All Torn Up, My Pizza My World, and Escape the Zoo. 

Roger from Knucklehead is back to talk about the creative process collectively in terms of writing tunes and in terms of personal self expression.

Steve Morton from Zero Rights celebrates Halloween with us, and then we talk about the plight of our times, borders.

Maca is back to talk rats, and loving that which this society has deemed unlovable. Then we talk about bringing compassion into a scene that value aggression.

Roger Walsh of Knucklehead is back. We talk about how the Pope’s visit to NYC is fucking up all our lives in every way possible, and Roger praises and breaks down the new film “Roger Waters The Wall” despite Joey’s protests. 

Lemon Cookie of NYC’s Runny is back to talk about great front men & women, tells us a legendary shitty story, and then we talk about the deep seeded ignorance hidden behind future phones

Aj from the band Namatay Sa Ingay gets down to talk about their music and their country, the Philippines. We talk about the the struggles the Filipino people endure. Also, in our attempt to combat this new wave of populist ignorance and xenophobia we get into what immigrants actually and courageously struggle through when they move to a new country by talking about Aj’s experiences. 

Animal Liberation activist, Maca, comes on the show to talk about the struggle for animal rights and what it takes to bring our actions in line with our ideas, and then we talk about the media storm around Cecil the Lion and what was really going on behind the coverage of this atrocity.  

Roger from the NYC punk band Knucklehead is back to talk about being sober in a profoundly un-sober world, and the recent tumult around fracking

Prince Lion Sound, NYC Reggae artist, gets down to talk about his tunes and his faith. We talk about PLS’s music, and then we get into some of the contoversies around Rastafarianism. 

Conor Gallagher, Co-Author of ‘Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980’ gets down to talk about the book and this most recent string of racist attacks against Black churches

Roger Walsh gets down to talk about his band Knucklehead, Punk Island, horse abuse, and tell a little story about how he met Joey. 

Antonio gets down to talk about Punk Island, his stage there (Gilligan Stage), and the age of podcasts

Photographer Colleen Lidz gets down to talk about the struggle for affordable housing and doing Bike and Build this summer

Creature gets down to talk about his band, Rebelmatic and Baltimore’s brave rebels

Todd “The Rod” from Propagandhi gets down to talk about how Propagandhi comes up with the songs they come up with – from writing riffs to how they come up with their lyrical content, then Todd and Joey talk about the Middle East, from Palestine to Syria. 

Scott Sturgeon of Leftover Crack, SFH, & Choking Victim gets down to talk about staying principled in an unprincipled world, and keeping your sense of humor in an unfunny world, oh, and we talk about Old Dirty Bastard too.