Episodes

May 12, 2020

A2G120 - Lyrical Bikini Party

This one is for the word lovers. Pat Flynn stops by to talk favorite lyricists in hardcore and beyond. Is Shawn Brown an underrated snark god? Do members of Foundation have Minority Report style precognition? Can CRASS cause…
May 5, 2020

A2G119 - Will Life Ever Be Sane Again?

Swamp life; lean gains; the future of touring; economics of playing music in 2020; drive times; putting out records during a pandemic and/or global depression; drive-in hardcore shows; the importance of venues; cassette rele…
April 28, 2020

A2G118 - Making a NYHC Mixtape For Your Crush

How to go about showing the best, most interesting, and most personally impactful NYHC to someone new. Also discussed: prodigious journaling, BlackedRaw, ditching religion in a public way, YDL, scooter culture, and what cons…
April 27, 2020

A2G Overtime - 09 - MINDFORCE

Jay and Mike join us to talk about the new Swingin' Swords, Choppin' Lords 12" EP.
April 23, 2020

A2G Overtime 08 - Record Club: VOD Imprint

Anyone can be part of this club. Just go listen to the record we're talking about, come back, compare your thoughts to ours and other listeners, be happy or mad. Today's album: Vision Of Disorder - Imprint
April 21, 2020

A2G117 - Exciting Career Opportunities In Youth Crew

Pat Flynn joins the podcast to talk Zoli muscles, the responsibility bands have to their communities, the best year in hardcore, mysterious guy hardcore, head massages, gun control, Duke basketball, Bold, Bold, and Bold.
April 17, 2020

A2G Overtime 07 - Chunky Habanero Salsa HOT Takes

When we opened the door to anonymous questions, these are the bad apples who strutted in wearing leather jackets.
April 14, 2020

A2G116 - Medium Tostitos Salsa Takes

John Joseph Covid reporting, Karate Kid, looking like a thumb, starting a hardcore band late in life, rerecorded classics, diss tracks, Every Time I Die, Reagan Youth, blind spots, a world without Bad Religion, Bridge 9, and…
April 7, 2020

A2G115 - Let's All Get On The Same Page

Lots of hardcore and hardcore adjacentry in this hardcore podcast. Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Breakdown, 108, VOD, Rollins Band, Leatherface, In My Eyes, Kiss It Goodbye, Dischord catalog, Rev catalog, Victory catalog, and on…
March 31, 2020

A2G114 - Worst Possible Tomline

Crossover episode with Worst Possible Timeline. Hardcore is supposed to be NOT discussed, but somehow works its way into conversations about Joe Girardi's traps, Joe Biden's brain failure, American exceptionalism, Tiger King…
March 30, 2020

A2G Overtime 06 - Black Flag Rank'm

Frequent collaborator Dave joins Bob to debate the most pressing issue of 2020: Where each Black Flag release ranks in the band's discography.
March 27, 2020

A2G Overtime 05 - Drive & Grind

This Is Albany, Not Bakersfield. Bob is joined by Overnight Drive's secret coremen Hans and Andrew for a trip into the dark heart of memory lane. Scene clashes, the alienated hardcore kid, 25 Ta Life, Earth Crisis fandom, Lo…
March 26, 2020

A2G Overtime 04 - Caseys Go Nineties

Ever spend a night in Poughkeepsie talking about your ten favorite hardcore records of the 90s? Now is you chance. Nicole and Alex Casey join the crew to talk all things hardcore from the era of MTV Unplugged. Is Only Living…
March 24, 2020

A2G113 - Everything Is Closed, Listen To Hardcore

Wire. Blacklisted. Best Boston bands. Smart bands vs 'Smart bands'. Marshal's Home Goods and TJ MAX. After Forever by Black Sabbath. After Forever as covered by Shelter. Disneyland. Melodic HC. Facebook Living your death. Or…
March 23, 2020

A2G Overtime 03 - Comfort Oreos

Ray & Porcell. Where's Your Head At? The dreadlocked whites of Koh Rong. Is doing a GoFundMe cool, lame, or a cause for complete indifference? Prison lockdown. Game Of Thrones cool, lame, or cause for complete indifference? …
March 20, 2020

A2G Overtime 02 - Rankin' Round Jah Throne

Bad Brains discussed in the type of detail a global pandemic allows for. Longtime friend of the podcast and frequent contributor Andy comes through to drop knowledge.
March 18, 2020

A2G Overtime 01 - Quarantined Musings

Putting in some overtime for all the people who are having to deal with this or that. We tackle the hard topics like how good was that Code Orange stream and can we expect biters? The difficulty of canceling events even unde…
March 17, 2020

A2G112 - Dangerous Shirts

Some new music talk. Some nontroversy talk about the shirt that scandalized Gilman. Some Damage City talk. Some Escape From Phnom Penh talk. Some size matters or it doesn't talk. It's early 2020 and the world is actin' up. L…
March 10, 2020

A2G111 - Sometimes Friends Fight

The Indecision episode! Rachel and Justin of Indecision/Most Precious Blood join their lifelong bandmate Tom to remember and misremember the past 25 years. Why do bands make the decisions they do? Does anything you did as a …
March 3, 2020

A2G110 - Big Fest Energy

It's that time of year again. Festivals aren't just for ravers and Europeans. Wild Rose! BnB! United Blood! Furnace! Much More! Here's a deep(ish) dive on what's on offer this spring/summer. Young! Old! It's all good! Also, …
Feb. 25, 2020

A2G109 - Poste Apokylips

Are the hosts of this podcast clinically depressed? Who are they talking to on AIM? Who is doing the dishes in this partnership? How would they say goodbye to a loved one when they're going to be consumed by marauders? What'…
Feb. 18, 2020

A2G108 - Blood Sweat and Some Tiers

NYHC bands ranked! Pre-1990 roster of kings! KILLING TIME; SICK OF IT ALL; BURN; LEEWAY; SHEER TERROR; BREAKDOWN; WARZONE; MURPHY'S LAW; SUPERTOUCH; to just name a few! The gang's all here and we R E S P E C T F U L L Y subm…
Feb. 11, 2020

A2G107 - Year 2000 Listening Party, God Help Us

It's the most mixed of bags, as we expand on our year 2000 exploration. We lend our ear to classics and... not classics, learning a lot about our tolerance for operatic vocals, word salad, and squigel-squigel-dees. It was a …
Feb. 4, 2020

A2G106 - Y2K Bug Armageddon Revisited

Year In HC: 2000! Back in the day, before the Patriot Act, before stringent TSA screenings, there was a collision of traditional hardcore and metalcore. There was bizarre, best-forgotten, genre tangents like bandana thrashco…