

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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Mar 26, 2021 • 1h 22min
Episode 321 - Georgia Hardstark (My Favorite Murder)
Get siked Murderinos! My Favorite Murder's GEORGIA HARDSTARK is here!! That's right, one half of the true crime podcast juggernaut sits down with Damian to talk about her not always positive experiences in punk. From surviving the wrong crowd as a kid to claiming space & building your own world.
This is NOT TO BE MISSED!
Find My Favorite Murder at your favorite podcast store!
Also Touched On:
Bonding with your brother over Ween
Meeting the Crusties
Hating the OC
Going to the Vandals and seeing a stabbing instead
The downside of the punk utopia
Meeting a metalhead in rehab
Slayer: a middle ground
Moving to LA and meeting Strife
Loving the Wrestling Podcaster just not the wrestling
The Grade/ We Watch Wrestling Connection
a secret zine
the importance of Riot Grrrl
SciFi as a path to sobriety
Meeting Ray Bradbury
a secret Mr.Show live comedy show
Find treasure on TV
Starting My Favorite Murder
A secret zine
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Mar 22, 2021 • 1h 4min
Episode 320 - Liz Phair
LIZ PHAIR IS HERE!!! That's right, the iconic indie rock legend joins Damian on the show to talk punk! Listen in as they talk: making records as an autobiography, the music nerd paradise of Oberlin & how punk drove her to get on stage.
NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss Liz's new album "Soberish" dropping later this year on Chrysalis Records!
Also Touched On:
The importance of tapes
Feeling welcomed by punk
Expression over permission
The Police, Madonna and The “Why Can’t I?” Effect
The dissent in the music
You are human, you are alive, therefore you are qualified
Bowie as a Punk icon
Seeing the punk on a Liz Phair, Alanis, Garbage Tour
Going to the land of the music nerd: Oberlin
Getting into the Cult
Only liking pop with a punk edge
How sexy are the vocals in the Fall?!
Culture of zines
The aesthetic of punk
Flyers and the importance of the Physical world
trying to read Raygun Magazine
Punk driving you to get on stage
The Carnivore 7”
Tae Won Yu and The Girly Sound Tapes
Kicking Giant
taking advance of an audience
Pink Moon and The Modern Lovers are perfect records
Hearing your voice soloed in the studio for the first time
The high of scoring
The medium of emotion
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Mar 18, 2021 • 1h 24min
Episode 319 - Bruce LaBruce (Filmmaker, Zinester, Queercore Icon)
BRUCE LABRUCE is an iconic filmmaker known the world over for his uncompromising approach to cinema… & a legendary zinemaker. Today on the show Damian sits down with one of his most anticipated guests to discuss the conception of Queercore & manifesting the punk you want. Listen in as the two discuss: the Toronto Zine Scene, Gavin & Vice, Nazi violence, Robin Wood’s cultural impact & tons of other stuff!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Growing up in small town Ontario
Seeing a punk with fully charged hair in Toronto for the first time
Into the fashion first
Just Desserts: a place for rich people to eat cake and freaks to work
Meeting Fifth Column and a world opening up
MRR
Partying backstage with Husker Du
Disco and Folk
CKEW out of Detroit
Gucci’s Queercore line
Fanzine: The Ephemeral Art form
Nirvana before the boom
“Queering everything”: Creating Queercore out of reclaimed and found elements of punk
Trying to create a new gay culture
The Mumps
Vaginal Davis and “Fertile Latoya Jackson”
Pat Loud cooking for the punks
The rightwing appropriation of punk atheistic and strategy
The Vice days
DBDTD
The having to deal with Neo-Nazis Skinheads in Toronto
Loving Can-rock
Rough Trade
Will Munro, Vazaleen and making the JDs fiction real
The Gun Club at a boozecan
Zuzu’s Petals
Getting punched while covering the Dead Kennedys
The 1988 Anarchist Unconvention in Toronto
Robin Wood: more radical than the punks
Cineaction
being deprogrammed by punk
Pissing on the Cinema of Transgression
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Mar 13, 2021 • 1h 51min
Episode 318 - Jello Biafra Part 2
JELLO’S BACK! That’s right, one of punk’s original firebrands returns to the show & oh boy, is it ever a good one!! Join Damian as he sits down with a feisty JELLO BIAFRA to discuss punk & politics as only Jello can. Listen in as the two friends talk: watching workout tapes with Zappa, getting cornered by Timothy Leary at Giger’s art show, going to war with Tipper Gore & so much more!!
Not to be missed & don’t miss Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine’s awesome brand new album: “Tea Party Revenge Porn” out now on Alternative Tentacles!!!
Also Touched On:
Jack Chic comics
The Dancing Assholes and the Faith Healers
GG Allin’s hardrock band
Lee Ving’s Psych band
Felt: the pre-Dickies band
Greg Sage’s band with a singin’ Wrestler
Hedge-fund record collectors
The censored acetate of “Too Dunk to *BEEP*”
The Greek DK’s record
The Beach Mutants
Toronto VS Vancouver
Drake
Releasing the Eraserhead soundtrack
The Bad Brains
Working with Bob Last
Going to Australia
The Lime Spiders
Wrong Kind Of Stone-age
The Celibate Rifles
Meeting Hard-Ons after they were attacked by Skinheads
The Government was supposed to be on “Let Them Eat Jellybeans!”
“No Alice Cooper props!”: The surgical gloves
Having to be willing to fail on stage
The Husker Hotel: “Hi, we’re Husker Du and we’re here to stay!”
The Fartz
Pushing potted plants in people’s faces
Debating the definition of punk
Ian and Henry shaving heads on the side of the stage
Mosh vs. Thrash and Slam
The Mudd Club sucking
The origin of “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”
The night the British Movement attacked the Dead Kennedys and MDC in Lester
UK Mayhem
Denver catches up
“This is war!”: the PMRC
“You are the victim”: meeting Zappa
Timothy Leary trying to get Jello to help with Al Jorgenson at a Giger exhibit
Gwar shows up to save the day
& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Mar 12, 2021 • 53min
DND Official episode 1!
DANKO JONES ARE DOING THEIR FIRST EVER LIVESTREAM TONIGHT (and tomorrow)! To celebrate the event, The DND (Danko Jones [the person], Nick and Damian) got together for more good times and self-reflection. Listen in as they discuss a bunch of topic including whether or not they should even bother putting this episode up!
Get tickets for Danko's livestream here: https://linktr.ee/dankojones
And Nick can be found here on Twitter: @nickflanweakly
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Mar 10, 2021 • 1h 23min
Episode 317 - Joey Keithley Part 2
JOEY SH*THEAD’S BACK!!! One of Canada's most iconic musicians, DOA's Joey Keithley returns to the show! From teaching the punk world how to tour, to running for political office; Joey's life is worthy of a movie & soon, it will be! Keep an eye out for Scott ("Salad Days" & "Creem" documentaries) Crawford's highly anticipated documentary on Joey: "Something Better Change" coming soon!
Until then, listen to Joey & Damian talk: lost Mystic Recording sessions, the Yippies' roll in the early hardcore scene, RCMP surveillance in the wake of the arrest of the Squamish 5 & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
Also Touched On:
The sonic range of small town Vancouver
The reason for the creative explosion
Vancouver: weird mix of people
Why not Toronto and Montreal?
SCUM in Montreal
The Nils
The BC and Quebec connection
Lee Kendall: the original singer of The Skulls
Art Bergman’s first band: Schmorg
The coming together of the suburban groups with completely different idea of what punk was
The Ramones show up and teach everyone how it’s done
Studying Black Flag
Playing one of the first Husker Du shows
Grant Hart
Playing with the Bad Brains in 1979
The all-time great line-ups
No rules
Going to China
the lost Mystic Session
Label Issues: drugs and the music business
CD Characters and the “Cocksucker Blues” connection
Anti-Canada Day
The Squamish 5: “Anyone heard from Gerry lately?”
RCMP Surveillance
Playing hockey against Negazione
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Mar 5, 2021 • 1h 22min
Episode 316 - Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains, White Mandingos)
DARRYL JENIFER IS HERE!!! Join Damian as he sits down with the BAD BRAINS' LEGEND to discuss his journey in punk. From kicking Cars' records off of turntables, to the Bad Brains' early "James Chance" era, to the real story behind the Clash Bond Street show:
DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!!
Also Touched On:
Growing up with Soul, GoGo and Motown
Discovering the Damned, Sex Pistols and The Ramones
Some nights, it’s Wow! Some nights, it’s Why?
Brothers before Bad Brains
RIP Sid McCray: too punk for a band
The influence of a Budgie
Loving No New York Comp
Mindpower
The James Chance inspired first line up of the Bad Brains
“Five people clap for you and now you’ve sold out”
From one song to Black Dots in a few months
Playing with on back of flatbed the Mall in DC
Seeing Jame Brown at the Howard Theatre in ’64
“Why is the bass too loud?”: The first time seeing Bob Marley
The Swimming Pool Q’s
The Urban Verb
the year 1979
The Happening
Playing Berlin when the Wall fell
The art of writing a setlist
Kicking a Cars record off the turntable: “Why are they playing this shit?!”
“Biker Music”: Hearing the Viletones’ Screamin’ Fist for the first time
A “19 year old young Peter Tosh” had no love for Basquiat
Ian MacKaye: Very Washingtonian
The Old New York
CBGBs: always cool
The Bloodless Pharaoh’s Brian Setzer goes swing
Red Hot Chilli Peppers : “How the hell did this band get on the bill?”
The Beastie Boys going rap
Screamin’ Mad George is making shit again: living with The Mad
“Stay Close To Me is a Clash influenced song and Pay To Come is a Ramones influenced song”
Meeting Jerry Williams and Th’Cigaretz
“The Ramones are dope but I am The Damned“
The Clash and The Ramones are sore losers
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Mar 2, 2021 • 1h 12min
Episode 315 - Jon King (Gang Of Four, King Butcher)
No need to wonder what to do for pleasure this week because, JON KING from the legendary Gang Of Four comes to Turned Out A Punk! Listen in as he & Damian talk about: cinematic influence, the Dadaist nature of punk, psychedelic Hawkwind shows & fighting Nazis at the Fenton!
NOT TO BE MISSED! & don't miss the new Gang Of Four "77-81" Boxset on Matador Records!!
Also Touched On:
The influence on the present day
trying to never be in a genre
Dr. Feelgood: UK proto-punk
the disappointment of the Clash
toilet reverb: “it sounded shit”
being sampled by Run The Jewels’
“We were pretty good at being difficult”
Refusing to compromise for Top Of The Pops
A friend’s dad with a crack and peel Velvet Underground
Marc Almond getting whipped as an opener
Having to deal with the first wave of Nazi punks
The Mekons
Sham 69
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Feb 26, 2021 • 54min
Jane Wiedlin from the Go-Go's and Frosted
Episode 314:
Cancel that vacation because today on the show, the LEGEND JANE WIEDLIN FROM THE GO-GO’s is here to talk punk! Listen in as Damian sits down with one of his dream guests to talk about the good, the bad & the disturbingly violent of the LA punk scene that the Go-Go's fought their way out of. From the reality behind the Germs legend, dealing with Nazi's at Ska shows, the LAPD's war on punks & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss the amazing new Go-Go's documentary and their brand new song "Club Zero"!!
& also VOTE FOR THEM INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME BECAUSE THE GO-GO’S RULE!!!
https://vote.rockhall.com
Also Touched On:
Frosted is super underrated
The pre-punk LA Glam scene
making punk clothes
Meeting Pleasant
Rodney’s English Disco
Zolar X
Silverhead
New York Dolls
Tales From Canterbury
The origin of the song Blades
The darkness of the early LA scene
Drug and alcohol
being too punk for power pop
the AM radio influence
The Weirdos and the Screamers: too good to get signed
X
Castration Squad
The St. Daddy’s Day Massacre
Beef with Elvis Costello
the real side of the Germs legend
& SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Feb 22, 2021 • 1h 34min
Todd Kowalski from Propagandhi and I Spy
Episode 313:
Today on the show, Damian is joined by a legit triple threat: Propagandhi bassist, I Spy vocalist & visual artist TODD KOWALSKI!!! Listen in as they talk finding metal/punk/hardcore in Regina, Unlawful Assembly is Saskatchewan's greatest band, The Besnard Lakes' connection & so much more!
Not to be missed!!!!
Also Touched On:
Loving Metal
Accused
Possessed
a friend from the ally with Razor and Celtic Frost records
Trying to comprehend Slayer
Insight: Regina’s answer to SNFU
Unlawful Assembly: The best unrecorded Regina bend ever
The greatness of Beyond Possession
The Chris Todd Kenton Warriors: first band
Imaginary metal bands
Government Issue playing to 15 people
Doing the best stage dive of your life for No Means No
Needing to hear what death metal sounded like
The Killer Dwarfs playing at the bar at the mall
Records On Wheels
GG Allin in Flipside: “I’m going to be banned from life if I’m caught with this!”
Drummer of Ditchpig
The Besnard Lakes/ Propagandhi connection
Going to a Fugazi and hoping for Minor Threat
Loving Youth Of Today
Seeing Tankhog on the best possible day
Bonehog did not age well
Death Sentence dancers
Seeing Sloan on the very first tour
Seeing the Small
interviewing Propagandhi
There is always a market for dark punk
The influence of the Melvins, Helmet and Coffin Break
The effect of hearing Ebullition records stuff
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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