

Turned Out A Punk
Turned Out A Punk
Damian Abraham has been many things... the singer of a critically acclaimed band, a failed VJ and food network host, one of the minds behind TV's "The Wrestlers", parent of 3... and undeniably, a punk music obsessive. Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978... PUNK!
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Jul 15, 2021 • 49min
Episode 349 - Ambrose Kenny-Smith (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, The Murlocs, Sambrose Automobile)
Get ready to celebrate Melbourne music history! This week on the show Damian is joined by a sonic inheritor to the great city's rock and roll lineage: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard & The Murlocs' AMBROSE KENNY-SMITH! Join them as they discuss: the perils of a career in pro-skateboarding, Amyl & The Sniffers being obsessed with his dad, SHARPIES, the greatness of Thee Oh Sees & so much more! DON’T MISS THIS!!!
& don't miss the fantastic new King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's "LW" on Flightless. Also, The Murlocs' "Bittersweet Demons" on ATO Records. GET THEM BOTH NOW!
Also Touched On:
The Melbourne music history
Skateboarding as a gateway
“Corrupted from a young age”: hanging with the older kids
A dead-end lifestyle
Showing the Emerica Team around Melbourne
“Man-Am”: aging out of pro-skateboarding
God (the band)
The Saints soundtracking skateboarding
Hating sports
Sisters’ first words being Bo Diddley
Coloured Balls
Dad dating Lobby Lloyd’s ex
SHARPIES
Carson family ties
Amyl and The Sniffers
“That’s the guy from The Blues Brother”: going to see Ray Charles for a first show
Playing the National Hotel in Julong
The Friendlies
Thee Oh Sees
The Hospitals
Dan Burke
Eddie Current
Frowning Clowns
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jul 11, 2021 • 50min
Episode 348 - Paul Therrio (The Imperial Dogs)
This ain't the Garden Of Eden, this ain't the summer of love! Join Damian as he sits down with PAUL THERRIO from the proto-punk gods The Imperial Dogs!!! Listen in as the two talk: the real birth of punk in LA, Iggy & Bowie at Rodney's English disco, Ray Bradbury loving Zolar X & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!
Also Touched On:
This Ain’t The Summer Of Love
Cream Mag
Breaking up before punk came
“I need time to surf and smoke hash!”: A brief Sax career
Meeting Don Waller in the high school band
The Seeds as one of the first punk bands
the Standells
Vom and the early scene
Taj Mahal
Howlin’ Wolf opening for Alice Cooper
Chaka Khan and Iggy at the Whiskey
Coming home and feeling compelled to smash furniture
Getting into the Velvet Underground
“Got any pills?”: meeting Iggy
David Bowie on blow at Rodney’s English Disco
& SO MUCH MORE!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jul 7, 2021 • 1h 14min
Episode 347 - Dallas Green Part 2 (City And Colour, Alexisonfire, Helicon Blue)
Mr. City &Colour himself is back! Join Damian as he sits down with his buddy, DALLAS GREEN to reflect on their musical journeys & catch up after 6 long years. From regret & gratitude, to discovering reaction videos, to missing Gord, to Dallas needing to see Phantom Of The Paradise for people in his life: DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!
& check cityandcolour.com for Dallas' upcoming tour dates!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jul 2, 2021 • 2h 24min
Episode 346 - Edmund McMillen (Super Meat Boy, Binding Of Issac, The End Is Nigh)
This is one of the most fascinating episodes yet! EDMUND MCMILLEN is a beloved independent video game developer who has helped produce revolutionary & thought provoking games obsessed over by millions of people around the world. Join Damian as he sits down with Edmund to discuss punk & the rise of the indie game. From Jesus Lizard, to changing Nintendo's policy on blasphemy, to the hellish concept of "Rock Stars" in any industry & so much more:
AGAIN, this is NOT TO BE MISSED!
Find everything Edmund is up to on twitter: @edmundmcmillen
Also Touched On:
The depressing reality of videos game eclipsing music
finding grunge
DIY comics
Spike and Mikes
Liquid Television
R. Crumb
Troma
The Kinko’s “Drop The Key” Trick
The Santa Cruz art scene
not realizing that you were the weirdo art kid
a cool teacher
Mike Diana and “Boiled Angel”
The end of Slamdance
Defending terrible art
The origin of the Indie Game Scene
The E.N. Scene
NeoGeo Fanzine
The fallacy on overnight riches in video games
working animal control
Believing in your art
What goes into making a video game
The personal origins of Binding Of Issac
Getting on to Nintendo
“Steam” changed everything
Sleepytime Gorilla Music
The Fish Masters: The TV show
Selling everything to invest in Super Meat Boy
& TONS MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jun 29, 2021 • 58min
Episode 345 - Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast, Author, Little Big League
The week on the show, we are joined by a true double threat, MICHELLE ZAUNER AKA Japanese Breakfast! Join Damian as he sits down with the musician/author for a revealing conversation about insecurity, success & grief. From the Pacific North West's unique take on indie, traveling through punk while never feeling like you fit in, to creativity learned through grief: DO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE!
Also, don't miss Michelle's fantastic book: "Crying In H-Mart", out now on Penguin/ Random House!
& don't miss Japanese Breakfast's new album: "Jubilee", available now on Dead Oceans!
Also Touched On:
In defence of Avril Levine
“I want to be the kind of person that is into music”
The Pacific Northwest takes up punk differently
Built To Spill
First shows
Post Post
R5 Productions
Philly is a tough town
Will you know the moment your career has peaked?
& So Much More!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jun 25, 2021 • 1h 13min
Episode 344 - Tommy End (Professional Wrestler)
This week on the show, it’s professional wrestling’s hottest free agent TOMMY END (FKA ALEISTER BLACK)! Listen in as Damian finally gets the answer to the question that has been on every wrestling fan’s mind: What is Tommy’s connection to Jesus And The Gospel F*ckers?!? From Dutch hardcore ties to MMA royalty, to cutting promos for George Pettit, to hard lessons with Robbie Brookside, to touring with Jun "The King Of Comedy" Kasai: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Find Tommy at @tommyend & grab shirts though https://blxckmass.com
Also Touched On:
Cutting a promo for George Petite
Helping bringing the wrestling and music together
Getting set up with Andy Williams
The universality of the drive
The DEEP Dutch MMA/ Punk Connection
Jesus the Gospel F*ckers
Bob Schrijber’s mentorship
Punk and Combat Sports: “Violence within the boundaries of discipline”
Social media, merch and indie wrestling’s ascent
Danhausen and the Rock
Golding Earring
Gang Starr
Defari
Cannibal Ox
Cradle Of Filth
Shinning
Cruel Hand
Trapped Under Ice
Anime
Jun Kasai
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jun 22, 2021 • 1h 56min
Episode 343 - Larry Livermore (The Lookouts, Lookout Records, The Potatomen)
Hats off to Larry, because he is giving us a monster of an episode! Join Damian as he sits down with Lookout Records, Lookout zine & The Lookouts band impresario: LARRY LIVERMORE!!! From answering John Lennon’s calls at White Panther headquarters, to Lookout’s accidental funding, to how the weed/acid divide led to strife in the scene, to the hippies in SF finding punk:
THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don’t miss Larry’s two fantastic books as well as a ton of his music on Don Giovanni Records now!!!!
Also Touched On:
Showing up to talk about Cannabis... not Sasquatch
Trying to burn down your university
living in the Cockettes' old apartment
the origins of Lookout records
Motown Records
The EpiFat Sound VS. The Lookout Sound
The start of Very Small records
Getting to know Sons Of Ishmael
Staying up all night talking about about acid with Ray Cappo at the MRR house
The Gilman Geeks vs. Slapshot
Neurosis
Following the Weakerthans around like they were the Grateful Dead
Seeing the MC5 when they were a mod band
“We play Avon Rock”
Destroy All Monsters
Quitting the White Panthers
Rock and Roll Revolutionaries: Tim Yo and Jon Sinclair
pothead/ acidhead divide
Iggy Pop tearing up your Cream submission
Hanging with Don Vinyl taking shitty LSD and listening to bad Jefferson Starship
& SO MUCH MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jun 21, 2021 • 34min
Zach's Back! - Rise Against Week Wrap Up with Zach Blair
How could we do a Rise Against Week without having sometime co/host & all-time friend of the show, ZACH BLAIR on to do a wrap up?!?
Don't miss Zach & Mike Wiebe's great new podcast "Zach And Mike Make 3"!!!!
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Jun 18, 2021 • 1h 40min
Episode 342 - Joe Principe (Rise Against, 88 Fingers Louie, The Methadones)
Where else this week will you hear a conversation about the brilliance of “The Fungus Among Us” 7” compilation?! Rise Against week continues as Damian sits down to chat Chicago Punk with JOE PRINCIPE!!! Listen in as Joe & Damian talk about going from learning to silkscreen at the Underdog Warehouse, to touring the world with 88 Fingers Louie & beyond. Friends getting hit by jocks after getting run over by cops, trying to avoid Honest Don’s, not-so-good advice from local legends & so much more: NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
& don’t miss "Nowhere Generation” available everywhere NOW!
Also Touched On:
Watching “Rock’n’Roll High School” over and over again
A tape with Suicidal Tendencies, Circles Jerks and Dead Kennedys
Obliteration
Devastation: pre Vindictives
The Plague
The importance of Impulse Manslaughter
“The Fungus Among Us” Comp
The Chicago Punk/ Metal and Hardcore Scenes intersection
Leeway opening for the Bad Brains
OG Screeching Weasel reunion with Sludgeworth, Gore Gore Girls and Contracide
Seeing Fat Mike’s ad in MRR
Kid Dynamite
Rise Against: turned down by everyone at first
Walking the Straight Edge/ Pop-Punk dived
The Fury 66 connection
Dan Vapid
“I don’t want to get bumped to Honest Don’s!”
Hopeless Records
Schlong: “This is the same Dave Mellow, right?”
Q: How do you get on Lookout? A: Don’t be called Spoonless.
Ben Weasel he’s a…
Meeting Martin and Los Crudos
Weedeater
Ivy League
Billingsgate
SHUTDOWN: No punk at the Metro
Underdog Records
Showing Todd from I Spy around Chicago
Playing with Fair Warning in Montreal and Reset (Simple Plan)
Doing data entry for “Book Your Own Fucking Life”
Phallocracy split with 88 Finger Louie
Funeral Oration
Missing the Battery tour
Hi-Standard
& MUCH MUCH MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jun 15, 2021 • 1h 28min
Episode 341 - Tim Mcllrath (Rise Against, Baxter, The Killing Tree)
For most of the music world TIM MCILRATH is the front person of Rise Against; one of the biggest bands to come out of punk. But around these parts Tim is also known as the link between the disparate scenes of 90’s Chicago DIY Punk. Join Tim & Damian as they nerd out about one of Chicago’s most important cultural periods. From Los Crudos mixtapes, to Pete Wentz being born to make it, to Victory’s unique place in the ecosystem, to Bill Stevenson’s mentorship, to getting dropped off at DIY shows in Fat Mike’s private limo: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also, don’t miss Rise Against’s awesome new “Nowhere Generation” out now on Loma Vista!
Also Touched On:
Damian’s murder board
90’s Chicago: the Punk capital
A friend’s older sister with amazing taste
Pegboy
Listening to Crudos in 7th grade
Transcending the Divided Scene
Borrowing from Cap’N’Jazz
Following Sidekick Kado like they were the Grateful Dead
“Chicago Pricing”
Rise Against, Alkaline Trio, Fall Out Boy and The Smashing Pumpkins: United by Punk
The Mythical Jim Chamber C.I.T. Mixtape
Tapping VBX
Taking Brandon Barnes to the Integrity show
The Fat Sound
Bill Stevenson
“Did Fat Mike drop you off in his private jet?”
Race Traitor: A needle scratch of a band
Hardcore: a Secondary Education
Victory Records
Signing to Fat and it bumming out your friends
& SO MUCH MORE!
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