Episode 235

Everyone does things they regret. We regret trying to record this episode of the Punknews Podcast over shitty hotel wifi. John Gentile, Adam White and Mark Little try and maintain some semblance of professionalism as we chat about The Dwarves being hacked, Menzingers videos, the new record from War On Women, and Bad Religion hitting the road with OFF!.

We play a tune from Night Birds on this episode, more than usual (they DO provide our theme music after all).

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Best Midwestern - Episode 4 with Josh Caterer

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 with the one and only Josh Caterer, singer of Chicago's punk legends the Smoking Popes. The band's record Born to Quit turned 20 on Capitol Records this year (21 if you are cool enough to own the Johann's Face version) and we talk about the history of their signing to a major label with the help of the Green Day bump, as well as delving far back into what music Josh grew up on and how much his parents played a part in the band's sound to come. He also reveals some exclusive stories behind songs that have never been heard in interviews before.

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Episode 234

On this episode of the Punknews Podcast, Adam White and John Gentile are joined by special guest host Dominic Davi of Alternative Tentacles Records and Kung Fu Records. We discuss just what it's like having Jello Biafra as a boss, what it's like having Joe Escalante as a second boss, speculate about getting beat up by Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler in a bar, and chat about new music from War on Women, The Offspring, Bad Canoes, Jeff Rosenstock and much more.

This episode features music from Really Red, Circle Jerks and Crash & Attack.

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Best Midwestern - Episode 3

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 discuss our favorite shows ever. We each tell the tale of three amazing or weird shows we attended, booked or played in. Also, find out which member of a Fat Wreck Chords band dipped his head in the Fireside Bowl's toilet!

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Episode 233

On this episode of the Punknews Podcast, Adam White, Greg Simpson and John Gentile chat about the Blink-182 disfunction (whatever level it was at when we recorded this, it's certainly worse now), along with stories on the Dropkick Murphys, L7, Ariel Pink, that awesome new track from The Sonics, reissues from The Specials, the new Title Fight record and much more. We've already got angry letters from Blink fandom regarding this one! Success!

This episode features music from The Mau Maus.

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Episode 232

On this episode of the Punknews Podcast, Ricky Frankel, Adam White and John Gentile discuss Fat Mike's Home Street Home musical, the Beastie Boys' lawsuit against Monster, new music from toyGuitar, Johnny Rotten in LEGO, the death of Kim Fowley and the breakup of Neighborhood Brats.

This episode features music from Tartar Control.

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Episode 231

On this episode of the Punknews Podcast, Tom Crandle, Adam White and John Gentile chat about Marky Ramone's new book, Sleater-Kinney's No Cities To Love, the upcoming Gallows record, Jeff Rosenstock's new LP, and what an H.R. show is like in 2015. All this we break down the punk music listening audience into two main buying personas: Tommy Microchip and Jimmy Leatherbag. Each is a horrible person.

This episode features music from Hivehead and Black Lungs.

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Best Midwestern - Episode 2

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

Best Midwestern - Episode 1

Punknews.org is thrilled to announce the launch of Best Midwestern, a podcast focusing on the music of the U.S. Midwest. The show is hosted by long time Punknews contributor Greg Simpson and former Punknews uber-editor, current magazine magnate and owner of Youth Conspiracy Records, Scott Heisel.

On this first episode Greg and Scott review the latest releases by Bloomington, IN's Murder By Death, Columbus, OH's The Sidekicks, and Chicago's The City on Film. They also debate whether 'illuminous' is actually a word. The red squiggly underline in this story editor votes no.

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Episode 230

On this episode of the Punknews Podcast, Adam White and Ricky Frankel console poor John Gentile after he was swamped by Paramore fans. We also chat about the new Crazy and the Brains video, Rancid playing …And Out Come The Wolves in its entirety, the Beastie Boys' lawsuit against Monster, new music from toyGuitar, the "No Cities to Love" video from Sleater-Kinney and more.

This episode features music from The Bombpops, Nausea and for some insane reason, Buster Poindexter.

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Episode 229

On this episode of the Punknews Podcast, Adam White, John Gentile and Greg Simpson get the year started with a look back at 2014 and the releases we loved. This show features far more music than usual, so keep note if you normally can't bare to listen to us yammer incessantly, this is for you. We rock tunes this episode from Bad Canoes, Cloud Nothings, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Dwarves, New Swears, Parquet Courts, Single Mothers, Sonic Avenues and World / Inferno Friendship Society.

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