Episode 264 - Nick Woj Part #2

LIZ PHAIR IS HERE!!! That's right, the iconic indie rock legend joins Damian on the show to talk punk! Listen in as they talk: making records as an autobiography, the music nerd paradise of Oberlin & how punk drove her to get on stage.  NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss Liz's new album "Soberish" dropping later this year on Chrysalis Records! Also Touched On: The importance of tapes Feeling welcomed by punk Expression over permission The Police, Madonna and The “Why Can’t I?” Effect The dissent in the music You are human, you are alive, therefore you are qualified Bowie as a Punk icon Seeing the punk on a Liz Phair, Alanis, Garbage Tour Going to the land of the music nerd: Oberlin Getting into the Cult  Only liking pop with a punk edge How sexy are the vocals in the Fall?! Culture of zines The aesthetic of punk  Flyers and the importance of the Physical world  trying to read Raygun Magazine  Punk driving you to get on stage   The Carnivore 7” Tae Won Yu and  The Girly Sound Tapes Kicking Giant taking advance of an audience  Pink Moon and The Modern Lovers are perfect records Hearing your voice soloed in the studio for the first time The high of scoring The medium of emotion & SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

22 Mar 20211h 3min

BRUCE LABRUCE is an iconic filmmaker known the world over for his uncompromising approach to cinema… & a legendary zinemaker. Today on the show Damian sits down with one of his most anticipated guests to discuss the conception of Queercore & manifesting the punk you want. Listen in as the two discuss: the Toronto Zine Scene, Gavin & Vice, Nazi violence, Robin Wood’s cultural impact & tons of other stuff!  NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!!!! Also Touched On:  Growing up in small town Ontario Seeing a punk with fully charged hair in Toronto for the first time Into the fashion first Just Desserts: a place for rich people to eat cake and freaks to work Meeting Fifth Column and a world opening up MRR Partying backstage with Husker Du Disco and Folk CKEW out of Detroit Gucci’s Queercore line Fanzine: The Ephemeral Art form Nirvana before the boom “Queering everything”: Creating Queercore out of reclaimed and found elements of punk Trying to create a new gay culture The Mumps Vaginal Davis and “Fertile Latoya Jackson” Pat Loud cooking for the punks The rightwing appropriation of punk atheistic and strategy  The Vice days DBDTD The having to deal with Neo-Nazis Skinheads in Toronto Loving Can-rock Rough Trade Will Munro, Vazaleen and making the JDs fiction real The Gun Club at a boozecan  Zuzu’s Petals Getting punched while covering the Dead Kennedys The 1988 Anarchist Unconvention in Toronto Robin Wood: more radical than the punks Cineaction being deprogrammed by punk Pissing on the Cinema of Transgression & SO MUCH MORE!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

18 Mar 20211h 23min

JELLO’S BACK! That’s right, one of punk’s original firebrands returns to the show & oh boy, is it ever a good one!! Join Damian as he sits down with a feisty JELLO BIAFRA to discuss punk & politics as only Jello can. Listen in as the two friends talk: watching workout tapes with Zappa, getting cornered by Timothy Leary at Giger’s art show, going to war with Tipper Gore & so much more!!  Not to be missed & don’t miss Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine’s awesome brand new album: “Tea Party Revenge Porn” out now on Alternative Tentacles!!!  Also Touched On: Jack Chic comics The Dancing Assholes and the Faith Healers GG Allin’s hardrock band Lee Ving’s Psych band Felt: the pre-Dickies band Greg Sage’s band with a singin’ Wrestler Hedge-fund record collectors The censored acetate of “Too Dunk to *BEEP*” The Greek DK’s record The Beach Mutants Toronto VS Vancouver  Drake Releasing the Eraserhead soundtrack The Bad Brains Working with Bob Last Going to Australia The Lime Spiders Wrong Kind Of Stone-age The Celibate Rifles Meeting Hard-Ons after they were attacked by Skinheads The Government was supposed to be on “Let Them Eat Jellybeans!” “No Alice Cooper props!”: The surgical gloves Having to be willing to fail on stage The Husker Hotel: “Hi, we’re Husker Du and we’re here to stay!” The Fartz  Pushing potted plants in people’s faces Debating the definition of punk Ian and Henry shaving heads on the side of the stage Mosh vs. Thrash and Slam The Mudd Club sucking The origin of “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” The night the British Movement attacked the Dead Kennedys and MDC in Lester UK Mayhem  Denver catches up “This is war!”: the PMRC “You are the victim”: meeting Zappa Timothy Leary trying to get Jello to help with Al Jorgenson at a Giger exhibit  Gwar shows up to save the day & SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

13 Mar 20211h 50min

DANKO JONES ARE DOING THEIR FIRST EVER LIVESTREAM TONIGHT (and tomorrow)! To celebrate the event, The DND (Danko Jones [the person], Nick and Damian) got together for more good times and self-reflection. Listen in as they discuss a bunch of topic including whether or not they should even bother putting this episode up! Get tickets for Danko's livestream here: https://linktr.ee/dankojones And Nick can be found here on Twitter: @nickflanweakly Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

12 Mar 202152min

JOEY SH*THEAD’S BACK!!! One of Canada's most iconic musicians, DOA's Joey Keithley returns to the show! From teaching the punk world how to tour, to running for political office; Joey's life is worthy of a movie & soon, it will be! Keep an eye out for Scott ("Salad Days" & "Creem" documentaries) Crawford's highly anticipated documentary on Joey: "Something Better Change" coming soon!  Until then, listen to Joey & Damian talk: lost Mystic Recording sessions, the Yippies' roll in the early hardcore scene, RCMP surveillance in the wake of the arrest of the Squamish 5 & so much more!  NOT TO BE MISSED!!!  Also Touched On: The sonic range of small town Vancouver The reason for the creative explosion Vancouver: weird mix of people Why not Toronto and Montreal? SCUM in Montreal The Nils The BC and Quebec connection Lee Kendall: the original singer of The Skulls Art Bergman’s first band: Schmorg The coming together of the suburban groups with completely different idea of what punk was The Ramones show up and teach everyone how it’s done Studying Black Flag Playing one of the first Husker Du shows Grant Hart  Playing with the Bad Brains in 1979 The all-time great line-ups No rules Going to China the lost Mystic Session Label Issues: drugs and the music business  CD Characters and the “Cocksucker Blues” connection Anti-Canada Day The Squamish 5: “Anyone heard from Gerry lately?” RCMP Surveillance   Playing hockey against Negazione  & TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

10 Mar 20211h 23min

DARRYL JENIFER IS HERE!!! Join Damian as he sits down with the BAD BRAINS' LEGEND to discuss his journey in punk. From kicking Cars' records off of turntables, to the Bad Brains' early "James Chance" era, to the real story behind the Clash Bond Street show:  DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!!  Also Touched On: Growing up with Soul, GoGo and Motown Discovering the Damned, Sex Pistols and The Ramones Some nights, it’s Wow! Some nights, it’s Why? Brothers before Bad Brains RIP Sid McCray: too punk for a band The influence of a Budgie Loving No New York Comp  Mindpower The James Chance inspired first line up of the Bad Brains “Five people clap for you and now you’ve sold out” From one song to Black Dots in a few months Playing with on back of flatbed  the Mall in DC Seeing Jame Brown at the Howard Theatre in ’64 “Why is the bass too loud?”: The first time seeing Bob Marley  The Swimming Pool Q’s The Urban Verb the year 1979 The Happening Playing Berlin when the Wall fell The art of writing a setlist Kicking a Cars record off the turntable: “Why are they playing this shit?!” “Biker Music”: Hearing the Viletones’ Screamin’ Fist for the first time A “19 year old young Peter Tosh” had no love for Basquiat  Ian MacKaye: Very Washingtonian  The Old New York CBGBs: always cool The Bloodless Pharaoh’s Brian Setzer goes swing Red Hot Chilli Peppers : “How the hell did this band get on the bill?” The Beastie Boys going rap Screamin’ Mad George is making shit again: living with The Mad “Stay Close To Me is a Clash influenced song and Pay To Come is a Ramones influenced song” Meeting Jerry Williams and Th’Cigaretz  “The Ramones are dope but I am The Damned“ The Clash and The Ramones are sore losers & SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

5 Mar 20211h 22min

No need to wonder what to do for pleasure this week because, JON KING from the legendary Gang Of Four comes to Turned Out A Punk! Listen in as he & Damian talk about: cinematic influence, the Dadaist nature of punk, psychedelic Hawkwind shows & fighting Nazis at the Fenton!  NOT TO BE MISSED! & don't miss the new Gang Of Four "77-81" Boxset on Matador Records!! Also Touched On: The influence on the present day trying to never be in a genre Dr. Feelgood: UK proto-punk the disappointment of the Clash toilet reverb: “it sounded shit” being sampled by Run The Jewels’ “We were pretty good at being difficult” Refusing to compromise for Top Of The Pops A friend’s dad with a crack and peel Velvet Underground Marc Almond getting whipped as an opener Having to deal with the first wave of Nazi punks The Mekons Sham 69 & TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

2 Mar 20211h 12min

Episode 314: Cancel that vacation because today on the show, the LEGEND JANE WIEDLIN FROM THE GO-GO’s is here to talk punk! Listen in as Damian sits down with one of his dream guests to talk about the good, the bad & the disturbingly violent of the LA punk scene that the Go-Go's fought their way out of. From the reality behind the Germs legend, dealing with Nazi's at Ska shows, the LAPD's war on punks & so much more!   NOT TO BE MISSED & don't miss the amazing new Go-Go's documentary and their brand new song "Club Zero"!! & also VOTE FOR THEM INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME BECAUSE THE GO-GO’S RULE!!! https://vote.rockhall.com Also Touched On: Frosted is super underrated The pre-punk LA Glam scene making punk clothes Meeting Pleasant Rodney’s English Disco Zolar X Silverhead New York Dolls Tales From Canterbury The origin of the song Blades The darkness of the early LA scene  Drug and alcohol  being too punk for power pop the AM radio influence The Weirdos and the Screamers: too good to get signed X Castration Squad The St. Daddy’s Day Massacre Beef with Elvis Costello the real side of the Germs legend & SO MUCH OTHER GOODNESS!! BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

26 Feb 202153min