Episode 292 of the Punknews Podcast features Adam White, Ricky Frankel and John Gentile confronting the 2016 Record Store Day list as we try to separate the interesting and entirely superfluous. We also talk about the retirement of Black Flag's Ron Reyes, the ailments of Bad Brains' H.R., the frontman of The Hives' pitching to sing for AC/DC, and upcoming music from Teagan and Sara, Morning Glory and Napalm Death.
This week the Punknews Podcast finds Adam White, Greg Simpson and John Gentile chatting about the Ottawa Explosion lineup, the Foo Fighters' response to those breakup rumours, the Melvins' 958th album, the upcoming film from Jesse Michaels, AJJ's PUP cover, Greg's mom listening to Nerf Herder and much more.
Punknews.org's Best Midwestern podcast, focusing on the music of the U.S. Midwest, is back this week with a new episode. On this episode Greg and Scott conduct an extensive interview with Jonathan Diener of The Swellers, curator of a benefit comp for the Flint, MI water crisis.
On Episode 290 of the Punknews Podcast, Ricky Frankel, John Gentile and Adam White chat about records, Record Store Day and the RSD ambassadors Metallica. We also disucss Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem's new solo song and when (or if) the other-genre trajectory of an act sends them out of Punknews' orbit. We also touch on Tiger Army, Green Day Day in Oakland, and just how cool the 2001 Hellcat Records output was.
On Episode 289 of the Punknews Podcast, Greg Simpson, John Gentile and Adam White wrestle with the Andrew Jackson Jihad name change, both the rationale and the resulting choice. We talk new music from White Lung, Weezer, and Mean Jeans. This week we also bid farewell to Vi Subversa of the pioneering anarcho-punk act Poison Girls.
It's Episode 288 of the Punknews Podcast! On this outing Tom Trauma, Adam White and John Gentile speculate on the new band formed by members of No Doubt and AFI, we discuss the new Bad Religion Drummer, the YouTube movie-mashup of Green Day's "Basket Case," and more.
Punknews.org's Best Midwestern podcast, focusing on the music of the U.S. Midwest, is back this week with a new episode. On this episode Greg and Scott review of new releases by TWINS (Waterloo, IA), The Please and Thank Yous (Chicago) and Cullen Omori of Smith Westerns (Chicago).
On episode 287 of the Punknews Podcast, Samantha Barrett, John Gentile and Ricky Frankel assess a huge number of upcoming releases from some Punknews community favourites including solo efforts from Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem and Ray Rocket of Teenage Bottlerocket along with new music from The Falcon, PUP and news of an upcoming Bouncing Souls release. All this and we chat about John Joseph's Bloodclot, Sheer Mag, and the reunion of the original Dag Nasty lineup.
On episode 286 of the Punknews Podcast, Adam Eisenberg, Adam White and John “Adam†Gentile look at a week of dumb authority figures trying to stop the kids from dancing. First, the rather draconian music regulation bill in Philadelphia was withdrawn, then a high school decided that Green Day’s American Idiot musical was too much for sensitive student ears. To top it off we discuss the new Leatherface / Sainte Catherines supergroup, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong on the X-Files, and NOFX’s upcoming book tour.
Punknews.org's Best Midwestern podcast, focusing on the music of the U.S. Midwest, is back this week with a new episode. On this episode Greg and Scott present a twist on the "classic album episode" in which the guys educate each other on a classic the other person hadn't heard (at least in full) until the day before recording. Greg schools Scott on the Dead Boys Young Loud and Snotty and Scott schools Greg on Cheap Trick's second record In Color. Both albums happen to have been released in October of 1977, and we all know that the best year for music in all of popular music history was 1977. We also hear a Bowie tribute from midwesterner Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs.
On Episode 285 of the Punknews Podcast, John Gentile, Adam White and Ricky Frankel discuss why old music outsold the new for the first time ever last year. We also grapple with the new songs from Iggy Pop's team up with Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme, and look forward to new releases from PUP, PEARS and the decidedly uncapitalized Harley Flanagan. All this and we open the mailbag and chat about our recent record store finds.