Episode 225: Transcend the Usual
Stacked episode this week on the pod. Check it out here, here, or here and check the playlist here or here. Let’s get into it!
Dan and I started by talking the Disguised S/T EP that was released digitally in January. This is a good band playing The Hard Style from Jersey. It’s a short but sweet 3 song + intro demo that doesn’t wear out its welcome and the singer has a pretty naturally savage voice. This lands right in the lane with Scarab of modern shit that I dig big time.
Enemic Interior released their 3rd EP, aptly titled III, in late January. If you like the COUPE-GORGE record we big upped last year, I think you’ll enjoy this. It’s soaked in both vocal and guitar melodies but the songs are so succinct that it never seems overdone. Als Angels is a pretty perfect melodic hardcore punk track.
The sound of FrOi! has coated the world. We heard it in Australia last year when we talked Brut, and here it is in Texas. Jangly guitars over melodic Oi! tunes with awesome gruff ass gutter vocals. I like, I like. Well, I like the two originals. Grab the 7” from friends of the pod.
We continued Dan’s journey through the Poison Idea catalog by talking about their 1st 12”. This is a great follow up to an all time classic USHC 7”. The songs still rip (obvz) but they’re getting longer and working in a bit more of sleaze like on the end of “Legalize Freedom” or the “Cold Comfort” verse riff. Essential.
Todd Jones came on the pod to talk all the different cover songs that Nails has done. He breaks down the songs - what makes them dope and why he chose them.
That’s a murderer’s row of hardcore songs. Speaking of Final Conflict…
Ron Martinez of Final Conflict joined me to talk the late 1980’s So Cal scene. How dead was the punk scene? What was Fender’s like? What caused hardcore and punk to split? We get into it all.
When we did the 1982 Super 7 episode, we talked the Zero Boys a bit. Pops mentioned that a Boston rocker named Yukki Gipe had drawn the Vicious Circle album cover way back when. Well shit, shout out Noodles, Squirrel, Johnny Condom, and…Yukki! I tracked him down and we talked the original Indiana punk scene, The Master Tape comp, the Zero Boys, Mississippi punk, and what he’s been up to since.
- ZN
Finally got some time to read this substack but I just want to say that the interviews on this episode of the pod were great. I love the specifics and that if you are interested in these people and how they decided to do covers or draw a logo that you brought them on and just asked them. Keep doing you. This podcast rules.