

Turned Out A Punk
Turned Out A Punk
Damian Abraham has been many things... the singer of a critically acclaimed band, a failed VJ and food network host, one of the minds behind TV's "The Wrestlers", parent of 3... and undeniably, a punk music obsessive.
Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978... PUNK!
Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978... PUNK!
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Oct 13, 2020 • 47min
Episode 289 - Lydia Loveless
What a week!! Today on the show Damian is joined by the awesome Lydia Loveless! Listen in as they discuss going from being forced to play bass in the family band to self releasing her fantastic new album, "Daughter". As always, not to be missed!!!
Also Touched On:
Mommy loved the Clash
Dad jamming New Wave records
The Romantics are Punk
Being forced to play bass
Playing weird gigs
joining Carson Drew
The Columbus buzzed about punk scene of the mid-00s
Opening fo the Carbonas
Going solo
Everyone ends up with a country side project
Finally getting somewhere!
seeing a noise artist for the first time: “When is he going to start the show?”
Touring with the Supersuckers
A family fest
& So Much More!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Oct 6, 2020 • 1h 10min
Episode 288 - Joe Wong (The Trap Set, Akarso, Kill-A-Watts)
Give the drummer some! This week on the show Damian sits down & chats punk with the man who holds down the beat for the podcasting world: The Trap Set's JOE WONG! Listen in as the two discuss basement shows, Dischord's DC, scoring TV shows/movies & even playing bass in the Kill-A-Watts. Not to be missed & also don't miss Joe's AWESOME new solo record, Nite Creatures out on now Decca Records!
Also Touched On:
Dream Guest!
Finding the Descendents at camp
The Violent Femmes
Not liking Green Day because they were on a major
Gravity records
The third wave Dischord scene
Ian MacKaye kept EVERYTHING
Forgetting that you were in The Kill-A-Watts
Forming Akarso
Seeing Fugazi
Booking Modest Mouse in your basement
Seeing your old punkhouse on Hoarders
cheap gas and Taco Bell Bean burritos was the full of the 90s’ DIY scene
Touring to Austin
Music City Washington DC
Comedy Drummers: what gives?
The Yes Men
& SO MUCH MORE!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Oct 1, 2020 • 57min
Michael Imperioli from Sopranos, White Lotus and Talking Sopranos Podcast
Episode 287:
Turned Out A Punk's Sopranos Week concludes in dramatic fashion! On this episode Damian is joined by the legendary MICHAEL IMPERIOLI to talk late blooming into punk! Listen in as the two discuss going from being scared of the New York Dolls at 8 years old to becoming completely obsessed with the era they helped usher Punk in. DON’T MISS THIS EPISODE & also, don't miss Michael & Steve Schirripa’s Podcast, Talking Sopranos!
Also Touched On:
Hearing the New York Dolls at 9 years old and not getting it
being a late bloomer with music
loving classic rock before it was classic
Jethro Tull in Concert
Going to school with adults as a teenager
Echo And The Bunnymen
The Smiths and going back from there
the 11 year old punk the smoked pot and blew up cats in your grade 4 class
Grace Jones live
early REM
Miracle Legion
No Wave
Navigating the real New York
The obsession with late 70’s Manhattan
The power of New York
The disappointment of making Basketball Diaries
Writing Summer Of Sam
Meeting Honeychild
Playing in bands
Galaxie 500
the Nu-York revival
Green Day and the Sopranos
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 25, 2020 • 1h 10min
Episode 286 - Drea de Matteo (Sopranos, Sons Of Anarchy, Gangster Goddess Broad-Cast)
It's Sopranos' Week on the show with TWO amazing episodes! Kicking it off, the GOD Drea de Matteo stops by the show! Twenty years ago, Damian read a rumour on the internet that Drea used to go to Punk shows in New York. Today, he finds out whether or not you can believe what you read on the web. Was Drea de Matteo a punk rocker? Tune in & find out!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 21, 2020 • 1h 1min
Episode 285 - Talib Kweli (Black Star, Javotti Media, People’s Party)
Hello everybody! Recorded live from somewhere (Ohio), we have the LEGEND TALIB KWELI stopping by the show! Listen in as Damian gets to sit down with one of his heroes as they discuss the deep connections between punk & hip hop. They talk: writing Operation Ivy lyrics on the wall, why Dante Ross isn't a super scrub, what led to Tupac & Biggie hanging out with Kurt Cobain & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!
Also Touched On:
The Deadhead/White dreadlock dude hybrid
The hardcore kids being the ones that tried to really understand rap.
The HipHop/Punk Connection
Self referential genres
Minor Threat
Bodycount
the similarity between hip hop and hardcore fashion
the importance of the year 1988
Writing Operation Ivy and Dead Kennedy’s lyrics on the wall
Nirvana and Hip Hop
the importance of the Video for Smells Like Teen Spriit
Hanging out with Tupac and Biggie
Lyricist Lounge and DIY
The importance of El-P
the effect of NWA getting cool on MTV
Dr. Dre and punk’s: “offensive shit over familiar melodies” formula
Frontline and the SD-50s
The reason Dante Ross talks so much shit to Talib
Sneaker Culture in Punk
Cold World
Pickle Rick golf shirt ain't all bad
The importance of black artists to punk
A band called Death
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 18, 2020 • 2h 21min
Episode 284 - Robbie Brookside Part 2 (The King of the Punk/Wrestling Connection)
The King is back! Legendary wrestler & punk historian beyond reproach, ,Robbie Brookside makes his return to the show! Listen in as Damian sits down to further establish the power of the punk/ wrestling connection! Listen in as they discuss: Crass & Cave-In coming to the matches, hiding the Shitlickers 7" from the OG Black Tiger, being the old longhair at the Cock Sparer reunion & so much other goodness!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!! One of our longest episodes ever!!!!
Also Touched On:
Mom throwing out the Zine
A squat gig to see AYS with Pete Stahl from Scream
“BASH HIS HEAD IN!!!”: Crass hitting you up for wrestling tickets
Music to scare your sister with
Trying to put on a DIRT show
Corpus, Society’s Problems and Clockwork destruction
Hearing the Siege demo for the first time
The legendary Planet X venue’s punk roots
Anti Cimix and Toxic Reasons hanging in Liverpool
bringing younger kids
Deathmatches are the 7 Minutes of Nausea of wrestling
Paco and Clint Chapman
Mike Clark and MCR UK
This is the best life: Seeing Jawbreaker in a German Squat
Two long hair and 800 men with no hair on the boarder : going to see Cock Sparrer
The Punk Wrestling connection: Cal from Discharge going to school with Klondyke Kate
Defend Grind Core (from skinheads)
The Fits staying at your parents place
“He’s an animal!”: meeting Dave Grohl
Wool: “Mainstream Scream”
Cave In, the NME and Pro-Wrestling
Hiding the Shitlickers 7” from Rollerball Rocco Roc
“That’s just American bullshit this” Green Day infamous Christmas gig
“Are you Larry Livermore?”
Penpals with Green Day
Funaki putting the whole looker room to sleep
and so much more!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BE VANS
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Sep 15, 2020 • 11min
RIP Wade Allison
Wade Allison was a father, a friend & a legend. We will miss him forever. This is for Wade. So much love going to the Allison, Metz & Iron Age families.
Photo by Corbin Hughes
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Sep 7, 2020 • 56min
Episode 283 - Barney Greenway (Napalm Death, Benediction, Extreme Noise Terror)
Today, we rip the punk right out of metal with one of the greatest to ever do it: Napalm Death's Barney Greenway! Join Damian as he sits down with the vocal god to discuss, the difference between extreme music in America and the UK, Motorhead being the ultimate punk band, why do Italians do it (hardcore) better & tons of other goodness! Not to be missed!!! Also, don't miss Napalm Death's AWESOME new "Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism" OUT SEPTEMBER 18th!!!
Also Touched On:
The Ruts
GBH are the greatest
Discharge
The Mermaid
Birmingham football hooligans showing up for Sham 69
The formative power of Ungovernable Force
Dad loved the hard rock!
Motorhead: Trve Pvnk
Vocal heroes from Genesis to Gang Of Four
“Oi could be tricky”
not 100% fitting in with metal
Tape trading
Raw Power
the American influence on UK Hardcore
Burning Spirits
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Sep 2, 2020 • 1h 41min
RIP Riley Gale
Riley Gale was family. We will love & miss him forever. This is for him. Our deepest condolences to Power Trip & everyone else that loved Riley.
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Aug 24, 2020 • 1h 9min
Episode 282 - Derrick Green (Sepultura, Outface, Alpha Jerk)
METAL IS PUNK! This week on the show we celebrate punk's influence on metal with two of the greatest to ever do it! First off, Sepultura's DERRICK GREEN stops by the show. Join Damian as he sits down with one of his dream guest’s to talk about what lead him to his twenty plus year career fronting one of the worlds most important metal bands. Listen in as the two discuss: teenage jams with Jeff Buckley's future drummer, the early days of Integrity, going on the road with Quicksand and Inside Out, the legend of the Overfiend DEMO & more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!
Check out Sepultura's new Quadra album out on Nuclear Blast NOW!
Also Touched On:
Still being friends with all the kids that got you into it
Cleveland’s lineage
getting in to rock music
Matt Johnson had cable, a drum set and wound up playing with Jeff Buckley
False Hope
Knifedance
Starvation Army
Growing up with Dwid
Integrity
Hyper As Hell
Face Value
The division between Scat/St. Valentines scene and the hardcore scene
the influence of the Faction, Stalag 13, Decendents and Dag Nasty on Outface
Falling into singing
The East and West side of Cleveland gathering at shows
Connecting with Walter Schreifels
Going on the Inside Out, Quicksand, Shelter tour
The grunge era of Outface
Going to Europe
Opening fo Sheer Terror
Keelhaul being the favourite Cleveland band
Alpha Jerk
Moving to New York and forming Overfiend
New York Hardest Vol.2
Toybox Records
Mike Gitter and XXX
Davide from Orange 9mm chooses a studio
Auditioning for Sepultura
Taking a book out from the library and trying to learn about Brazil
Shooting crossbows in Brazil
The origins of Integrity
The Hostile Amish
& TONS OF OTHER GOODNESS!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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