Axe To Grind Podcast

User groups; eating garbage; that city between New York and Baltimore; sympathy for the CD industry; types of snot; leather cowboy hats; bands without children; and a very fun Album-To-Album examination of the mighty Ink & Dagger! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Deepest of Deep Dives, this episode goes all the way into THE SUICIDE FILE. Underrated or well-loved? Punk or hardcore? Rock or roll? This band was a critical part of the hardcore landscape for many kids, despite only being active a few years. The band's place in the ecosystem is discussed by dudes not in the band, before singer Dave Weinberg gets on the horn and tells it straight from the horse's mouth. An episode for fans and the uninitated alike! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two shows tonight, Jerome's Dream and Unit Pride, which gets your money? Are LP jackets a viable clothing item? Are scab lineups a bad thing or just a thing? Does liking someone's tweet make you their tight homie? Is it cool to see hardcore in film and television? Is Twitter killing your band? What's going on with children's garden? Sounds creepy. Are HC cruises the next wave? Oh, ALSO, one of hardcore's tightest, MINDFORCE performs Live On A2G! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A timely and timeless episode that takes a snapshot of HC in 2019. Hardcore fests are packed, there's a wild variety of styles being embraced, and kids are open to older bands. It's all pretty dope, so let's enjoy it before we're cooked alive. Of interest: Is Florida a top 3 state? Do hot springs give you brain diseases? Do the hardest kids still have Hawaiian shirts in their closets? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is HC moving faster than listeners can keep up with? Is there a right way to enjoy this? Does career trajectory of a band matter to fans or is that for absolute nerds? What role do GAINS have in making a thin man delusional? Is going viral a boon or a total nightmare? Do people say 'going viral' anymore? And the big question of the day: whose definition of a thing wins history? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's 1989. Satanic Verses inspires a fatwa, the Exxon Valdez destroys a coastline, the US sneak-invades Panama, Chinese students are fed up, and the Berlin wall falls. Also, possibly the single best year in hardcore music occurs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A wildly varied Listening Party, featuring ENVISION, REDBAIT, THE ANSWER, SECT, DYING WISH, POINT OF CONTACT, FUCK IT I QUIT, INVOKE, MH CHAOS, HESITATION WOUNDS, SANCTION, CONSTANT ELEVATION, FINAL RITE, IMPLIED RISK, SUNSTROKE, and LURK! Who owns crust? Is Neglect on the lips of every kid? Are we on the cusp of a Panteraissance? Is it time for more Prayer For Cleansing? All this and special 25 Ta Life correspondent, Worst Possible Eric! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is an Album to Album look at the American Nightmare LPs Background Music and We're Down Til We're Underground! Also: prison slashings; Europeans demanding value for their money; Louisville pizza; the lifting of balls; breakup music; where does AN exist on the Hellfest / Posi Numbers axis; songs about your breakup; marquee album designers; and LIVE ON A2G: GULCH! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is more music contained in these 3hrs than in any single piece of media in human history. It's a LISTENING PARTY! Andy joins us to give THREAT 2 SOCIETY, ANTAGONIZE, DOLLHOUSE, GATECREEPER, DOMINANT FORCE, REGIONAL JUSTICE CENTER, SUNAMI, LIFE'S QUESTION, RESULT OF CHOICE, BROTHER, LOVE & TRUST, BRAIN TOURNIQUET, THE BERRIES, SHEER MAG, EYES OF THE LORD, MOURNING, TOMB MOLD, HEAVY DISCIPLINE, and OBEDIENCE some attention! Then we're joined by DRAIN for a LIVE ON A2G session, who proceed to rip. It's more than most can handle, but faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Would you rather watch a show from the comfort of your $300 gamer chair than actually attend one in the flesh? Is there a reason to catalog the scene from top to bottom? What space belongs to a band and what space belongs to the audience? Are you bad at guessing? Possibly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Album 2 Album: Secrets of the World v Big Kiss Goodnight. Which will you bequeath to family in your will and which will you be buried with? Best NYHC that is NOT from NY? Is this world split into honest souls and jealous MFers? Can these disparate partisans ever collaborate for a greater good? And don't miss LIVE ON A2G: Bogota Colombia's RAW BRIGADE performing a full set! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a listening party! New music from RENOUNCED, GLITTERER, HANGMAN, THE FIGHT, PINOCCHIO, SEEYOUSPACECOWBOY, MAD, CEREMONY, NINTH CIRCLE, PORTRAYAL OF GUILT, TIME AND PRESSURE, OUTSIDER, END OF YOUR ROPE, YOUNG GUV, BE ALL END ALL, HUSBANDRY, BEAR NO SHAME, GEL, and STEEL CAGE. Also discussed: Nuclear holocaust as it applies to dogs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Photogate rocks the HC Twitterverse; what's good in hardcore; will our homie ever come back from the war; is noncore the bridge to heaven or the tunnel to hell; how many people can fit on a stage legally; doing it for the gram; shadow people; vehicles; and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dust off your opinion shoes, we pulled out THIS or THAT to answer your burning binary questions. Joined by Andy Scarpulla (Tear It Up, Forward To Death, Staring Problem) we take on the world’s biggest quandaries such as: Agnostic Front or Madball? Death Row or Bad Boy? Fruity or Cocoa Pebbles? SST or Dischord? Yankees or Mets? Much more... and a disturbing revelation about Guy Fieri in the first of our ongoing series “Missing Guy Fieri.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So international. Is the Have Heart reunion the logical limit of reunions? Could you skip college and just study the Lungfish discography? Is the Whopper disgusting? Is Quake the best game? Should you torch your dorm room? Where are the RZL DZL shirts? HOW GREAT IS THIS LIVE ON A2G SET FROM **WORN**? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moon Knight, Krust, Wildside, label promotion in hardcore and self-promotion in hardcore and accidental promotion in hardcore, more Wildside, Candy, colorism in the NBA, The lawfirm of Misfits Misfits & Misfits, riding mowers, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's 75 episodes in, so time to go SUPER OFF-BRAND and talk about Horse the Band, Biohazard, Seadoos, beets, the Christian god, Shockwave, cake donuts, prison, Glassjaw, John Elway, Yuppicide, and horse farms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest hosts Dave Ackerman and Andy Scarpulla join the fray to discuss their favorite records of the early 2000s. Marvel at how different the opinions can be from one mouth to the next. Was American Nightmare universally universal? Should everyone hear the Striking Distance lp? Is the Rival Schools lp mandatory in elementary alt music education yet? Where were you when the early aughts trends started to split... and exactly how expensive were your jeans? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NEW MUSIC FROM ABUSE OF POWER! Toby and the cops vs Instagram Police; Cro-Mags vs Cro-Mags; bootleggers vs wallets; headliners vs support; mastering engineers vs musician ignorance; reasonable adults vs Brooklyn rent; bunk beds vs romantic partners; more! Also Back To School Jam details! And a LIVE ON A2G SET FROM **BLIND JUSTICE!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's summer and things are poppin'. Time to play beach volleyball with Backtrack on their final tour. Maybe meet Drake on the floor of the Scotiabank Arena. Or walk around Vegas until you die of sun exposure. OH AND ATTEND ANY OF THE SICK SHOWS TAKING PLACE. Don't know where/what they are? We got you, fam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices