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(*both laugh*) Episode 59: The Venomous Pinks!
Episode 59 of (*both laugh*) brings us another full band episode! This time, we’re joined by Drea Doll, Gaby Kaos and Cassie Jalilie, collectively known as the kick-ass Arizona punk rock trio The Venomous Pinks! 2022 marks their tenth year as a band, a…
(*both laugh*) Episode 58: Brian McTernan on the new Be Well album ”Hello Sun,” reuniting with Hot Water Music, and more!
(*both laugh*) is somehow up to 58 episodes, but we’re still having fun and some of y’all seem to still enjoy it, so we’ll keep rolling! This episode finds us catching up with the great Brian McTernan again. McTernan was the guest on Episode 15 a coupl…
(*both laugh*) Episode 57: The Return of Dave Hause!
At long last (longer than it should have been because…well because time is a social construct really) Dave Hause returns for his second appearance on (*both laugh*)! When last we spoke (Episode 25 if you’re keeping score at home), Dave had just self-…
(*both laugh*) Episode 56: Proper. (the full band!) on their ground-breaking new album, The Great American Novel
Every now and then you come across an album that becomes a benchmark moment for you; like, life existed before that album and then the world shifted and things weren’t the same after that. My own personal list includes the likes of: Vs. Recipe For Hat…
Episode 55 of (*both laugh*): Jason Black on the new Hot Water Music album Feel The Void, and the band’s legacy
I don’t think it’s overstating things to call Hot Water Music not only one of the most influential and respected bands in the last three decades of this scene, but one of the most genre-defining bands as well. For the second time in this show’s history…
(*both laugh*) Episode 54: Kristen from Mable Syndrome on our Women’s History Month crossover!
It’s March 1st, so that means it’s officially the kickoff to Women’s History Month. As such, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Mable Syndrome for a pretty fun feature. If you check out our Instagram pages (@mable.syndrome and @dyingscene obviously), …
(*both laugh*) Episode 53: Frank Turner on his #1 album, FTHC!
Well, I guess this is growing up. On Marmite and Boudica and Red Dwarf and The Van Pelt and the best punk rock album of the year.
Earlier this month, Frank Turner released his ninth studio album. Entitled FTHC, it is by far his most “punk rock” album t…
(*both laugh*) Episode 52: Tuna Tardugno of Sweat on the band’s debut LP
If you’ve read any of the press that came out surrounding LA hardcore band Sweat’s debut LP, “Gotta Give It Up,” you’ve probably noticed that the common theme throughout is that Sweat aren’t a typical hardcore band. They’ve got a sound and a style and …
(*both laugh*) Episode 51: Sarah Shook!!
This is an episode that I’ve been looking forward to since before (*both laugh*) was even an idea for a show. I was introduced to Sarah Shook’s music when their debut album, Sidelong, was rereleased by Bloodshot Records back in 2017 (it had initially b…
(*both laugh*) Episode 50: Hushdrops’ John San Juan!!
Back in early 2020, Hushdrops, the long-running Chicago-based power trio (John San Juan on guitar and vocals, Joe Camarillo on drums, Jim Shapiro on bass) were slated to go into the studio to finish work on what would become their third full-length rec…
(*both laugh*) Episode 49: Josh Freese on his new solo record and SO MUCH MORE
This particular episode was a long time coming, for a variety of reasons. Josh Freese has had the type of career – and has the type of personality – that has made me want to interview him for a lot longer than I’ve had the capacity to actually conduct …
(*both laugh*) Episode 48: The Return of Josh Caterer (Smoking Popes)
The good ship (*both laugh*) keeps sailing along with our 48th episode, and it features one of our only repeat guests to date. He’s the owner of one of my favorite voices in the pantheon of punk rock, and he’s also one of my favorite songwriters and on…
(*both laugh*) Episode 47: Jesse Ahern!
Boston-area Americana-punk troubadour Jesse Ahern has shared stages with everyone from Dropkick Murphys to Rancid to Frank Turner to Lenny Lashley and countless others both across the US and across Europe. At long last, he finally sits down with us for…
(*both laugh*) Episode 46: Lars Frederiksen on his debut solo record, ”To Victory”!
Despite having a career that has consisted of more than three decades of writing and recording and playing music professionally in bands like Rancid and the Old Firm Casuals and Stomper 98 and Last Resort and Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and Oxley…
(*both laugh*) Episode 45: Weakened Friends‘ Sonia Sturino on the band‘s new album, Quitter!
Welcome back, (*both laugh*) fans! We took a little hiatus there for a few but we’re back in action.
For episode 45, we caught up with Sonia Sturino of the kick ass trio known as Weakened Friends. They’re due to put out their sophomore full-length, “Qu…
(*both laugh*) Episode 44: Franz Nicolay on his debut novel, “Someone Should Pay For Your Pain”
Franz Nicolay has had a long and winding and frankly vaudevillian journey through the music industry over the two-plus decades since he left our shared home state of New Hampshire. Dying Scene readers from the days of yore no doubt are familiar with th…
(*both laugh*) Episode 43: Suzi Moon!!
Suzi Moon has been an active member of the punk rock scene for well more than half her life, so you might expect that she would have used the free time provided by unplanned COVID-related shutdowns over the last 18 months to pause and catch her breath….
(*both laugh*) Episode 42: Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) on his new solo album, “I Should Be Outside”
If you’ve watched previous episodes of (*both laugh*) or if you’ve heard me guest on other podcasts or if you know me personally, you know that Pearl Jam has been a huge part of my musical journey. “Ten,” which turns thirty years old this time next mon…
(*both laugh*) Episode 41: Nate Cook from The Yawpers!
For Episode 41 of (*both laugh*), we caught up with Nate Cook from The Yawpers for a quick hitter about his upcoming bike ride from New York to Los Angeles. Yes, you read that right…beginning on the 4th of July, Nate Cook from The Yawpers (whose 2019…
(*both laugh*) Episode 40: Chachy from Round Eye! (Shanghai freak-punk)
For episode 40 of (*both laugh*), we went international again, this time catching up with Chachy Englund from Shanghai-based freak punk band Round Eye. The present incarnation of the band features ex-pats from three different countries (the US, Italy a…
(*both laugh*) Episode 39: Max Collins from Eve 6!!
tl/dr: we asked Max Collins from Eve 6 if he wanted to chat and he said sure!
This episode is going live on May 27, which coincidentally marks the 21st anniversary of the first time I saw Eve 6. It was the 2000 WBCN (r.i.p.) River Rave and it took plac…
(*both laugh*) Episode 38: Punk Rock Saves Lives founder Rob “Rover” Rushing
In case you weren’t aware by now, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. That’s a cause that’s pretty near and dear to my heart, and for Episode 38, I finally got a chance to promote it! If you’ve been to Warped Tour or the Flogging Molly Salty Dog Crui…
(*both laugh*) Episode 37: Scott Radinsky (Pulley, ex-Ten Foot Pole, 11 year MLB vet)
To say that I’ve been looking forward to finally catching up with Scott Radinsky for a long time is an understatement. Radinsky has spent more than three decades carving out a career in not one, but two of my lifelong passions: baseball and punk rock. …
(*both laugh*) Episode 36: Stefan Beham on graphic art, SBAM Records and finding punk in 1990s Austria
If you’ve been a fan of punk rock over the last decade especially, you probably know Stefan Beham…only, you probably don’t realize that you know Stefan Beham. The Austria-based graphic artist has designed tour posters and album covers and the like fo…
(*both laugh*) Episode 35: Kali Masi (full band chat)
Just before the world shut down last year, Chicago’s Kali Masi drove to suburban Massachusetts to hole up at Jay Maas’s Getaway Recording Studio to get to work on the full-length follow-up to their 2017 debut, Wind Instrument (Take This To Heart Record…
(*both laugh*) Episode 34: Half Past Two’s Max Beckman!
When we started doing this “show” (is it okay to call it a show? It feels weird…), the initial point was to talk to bands and people in the music scene who had their plans for 2020 put on indefinite hold and who, somehow, used the time of uncertainty…
(*both laugh*) Episode 33: Nat and Rob Rufus from Blacklist Royals
Blacklist Royals were one of the very first bands I got turned on to when I first started with Dying Scene more than a decade ago. Their debut full-length, Semper Liberi, was released back in 2010 on Paper + Plastick Records, and was filled with straig…
(*both laugh*) Episode 32: Chris Wollard and Chad Darby (Ship Thieves)
tl/dr: Ship Thieves have a new album out on Chunksaah and it rules and we talked to Chris Wollard and Chad Darby for a couple hours and it was super fun and important and memorable.
To say that I’m a big fan of both of these guests is to vastly underst…
(*both laugh*) Episode 31: Tobias Nathaniel (The Red Step, Black Heart Procession)
Chances are, if you’re familiar with Tobias Nathaniel, it’s through the decades he spent primarily behind the keyboard as one-half of the duo at the core of San Diego’s Black Heart Procession. (Okay, so maybe you know him from Three Mile Pilot. Or, sur…
(*both laugh*) Episode 30: Josh Caterer (Smoking Popes)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Yes, I know the audio says it’s Episode 29, but I recorded a couple out of order, so it’s technically Episode 30. Glad we cleared that up.
What do you do if you’re stuck in pandemic-related shutdown and your band has to put plans on hold…
(*both laugh*) Episode 29: Matt Hock and Dave Walsh from Space Cadet
Dave Walsh & Matt Hock from The Explosion have a new project, Space Cadet. Their debut album, Lion On A Leash, is out March 26th on Wiretap Records. It shows heavy Brit-pop and post-rock influences. We spoke at length about the new project, the impact …
