Best Midwestern - Episode 13

Punknews.org's Best Midwestern podcast, focusing on the music of the U.S. Midwest, is back this week with a new episode. The show is hosted by long time Punknews contributor Greg Simpson and former Punknews editor, current editor-in-chief of Substream magazine and owner of Youth Conspiracy Records, Scott Heisel. In this episode…

…we review records by The Good Life (Omaha/Chicago), Thee Tsunamis (Bloomington, IN) and Unions (Bloomington, IN). Also, Scott tries to score as many scene points as possible.

You can find Best Midwestern on Facebook and Twitter at @BestMidwestern. You can subscribe to the show with RSS or via the iTunes Store.

Episode 261

It’s episode 261 of the Punknews Podcast! This week John Gentile is joined by the Adams, both White and Eisenberg, to read some listener mail and check the news. We look at The Dirty Nil signing to Dine Alone, the bankruptcy of Columbia House, the Salad Days doc release, and CJ Ramone wanting to be the first US punk to play Cuba.

We also play music from The Dirty Nil (covering The Replacements), Mystic Inane, and a latter day cut from the Ramones.

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Episode 260

This week on the Punknews Podcast, John Gentile, Adam White and Ricky Frankel start from the hiatus of the Gaslight Anthem and end up on some impressively unrelated tangents. When not meandering around the question of whether popular rock music is dead, we chat about the Flatliners' b-sides, Bikini Kill's demos, NOFX playing the early classics and Morrissey's alleged assault at the rubber-gloved hand of the TSA.

We play music this episode from External Menace, Integrity and Fightball.

You can subscribe to the Punknews Podcast via RSS, on iTunes or with the Stitcher app for iOS and Android. We love reading your mail on the show so send us your feedback via e-mail.

Episode 259

Periodically John Gentile and I (for the record, I'm Adam White) shed off the very thin veneer of planning that goes into the Punknews Podcast and just talk without a guideline for an hour or so. Episode 259 is one of these. We cover such groundbreaking punk topics as my family vacation to Ottawa, John's travels for work, and records we acquired along the way. We also chat about a big recent controversy surrounding the Hamilton hardcore band Chokehold that's been making the rounds online. Round it out with some esoteric Sandinista facts and you've got yourself a show.

We play music this episode from New Swears and Screaming Females.

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Episode 258

On episode 258 of the Punknews Podcast, Adam White, Mark Little and John "still recording in the parking lot of a closed Panera Bread like a creep" Gentile chat about the new Titus Andronicus record, new music from Night Birds, the latest Ceremony remix, 69 Enfermos' new record, the silent film to feature Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins, the Damned's 40th anniversary and the Toronto supergroup Lids.

We play music this episode from Black Cat Attack and Great Neck.

You can subscribe to the Punknews Podcast via RSS, on iTunes or with the Stitcher app for iOS and Android. We love reading your mail on the show so send us your feedback via e-mail.

Best Midwestern - Episode 12

Punknews.org's Best Midwestern podcast, focusing on the music of the U.S. Midwest, is back this week with a new episode. The show is hosted by long time Punknews contributor Greg Simpson and former Punknews editor, current editor-in-chief of Substream magazine and owner of Youth Conspiracy Records, Scott Heisel. In this episode…

…we review new releases by Dan Andriano In the Emergency Room (Chicago), Mates of State (orig. Lawrence, KS) and Jackson Mud (Chicago), the new band of Josh Caterer of the Smoking Popes. Greg once again serenades us with his best Dan Andriano impression.

You can find Best Midwestern on Facebook and Twitter at @BestMidwestern. You can subscribe to the show with RSS or via the iTunes Store.

Episode 257

On episode 257 of the Punknews Podcast we sit down with Shaun Colón, director of the upcoming Fat Wreck Chords documentary A Fat Wreck. We chat about how the film came to be and the ongoing IndieGoGo campaign to fund it. On the news front Adam White, John Gentile and Ricky Frankel chat about the Ramones appearing in Archie Comics, the new Public Image Ltd song, the rape allegations regarding Kim Fowley and Jackie Fox of the Runaways, the Weakerthans’ apparent break-up and the crowd funding of the new Sum 41 album.

We play music this episode from Propagandhi, False Alarm with Rick Wilder and Some Nerve.

You can subscribe to the Punknews Podcast via RSS, on iTunes or with the Stitcher app for iOS and Android. We love reading your mail on the show so send us your feedback via e-mail.

Episode 256

On Episode 256 of the Punknews Podcast, Adam White and Ricky Frankel are joined by the travelling John Gentile, who participated in the call from the parking lot of a closed Panera Bread like some sort of psychopath. Before the cops came we talked about the Descendents recording new material, Andrew W.K. finally playing Fest, the Libertines’ upcoming record and Adam’s weird obsession with them from some years back, the next record from Leftover Crack, and The Queers re-recording old material.

We play music this episode from Descendents, Class of 86 and Carpenter.

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Episode 255

On Episode 255 of the Punknews Podcast, the first since Apple's Beats radio rendered all other forms of internet-based audio obsolete, Adam White, John Gentile and Ricky Frankle try and pick up the pieces. For what it's worth we discuss the new records from Refused and Radioactivity, songs from Jakob Danger and heredity-based musicianship, a reunion of NWA, and a bit on Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes and Psywarfare.

This episode features music from The Rebel Spell, Geza X and the Ketamines.

You can subscribe to the Punknews Podcast via RSS, on iTunes or with the Stitcher app for iOS and Android. We love reading your mail on the show so send us your feedback via e-mail.

Best Midwestern - Episode 11

Punknews.org's Best Midwestern podcast, focusing on the music of the U.S. Midwest, is back this week with a new episode. The show is hosted by long time Punknews contributor Greg Simpson and former Punknews editor, current editor-in-chief of Substream magazine and owner of Youth Conspiracy Records, Scott Heisel. In this episode…

…we talk about the Riot Fest Chicago lineup and our favorite Midwest fest experiences, and it gives us a chance to play some --GASP-- non-Midwest bands!

You can find Best Midwestern on Facebook and Twitter at @BestMidwestern. You can subscribe to the show with RSS or via the iTunes Store.

Episode 254

On episode 254 of the Punknews Podcast, John Gentile and Adam White are joined by our returning guest host Nikki of the Clash-worshipping Everything and the Kitchen Sink podcast. We discuss the Clash, of course, or at the very least their questionable Twitter doppelgangers, and revisit the big Apple Music debate in light of their post-Taylor Swift change of heart. We also discuss what state the Misfits will be in without Dez Cadena in the mix, as well as Neil Young feuding with the Donald over use of "Rockin' In The Free World" at a campaign rally.

This episode features music from Vancouver acts Tough Age and The Ballantynes as well as a special birthday song to celebrate Danzig's 60th.

You can subscribe to the Punknews Podcast via RSS, on iTunes or with the Stitcher app for iOS and Android. We love reading your mail on the show so send us your feedback via e-mail.