

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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Nov 10, 2018 • 2h 1min
Episode 191 - Chris Dodge (Slap-A-Ham Records, SPAZZ, No Use For A Name, INFEST, Despise You etc.)
If Turned Out A Punk were a galaxy, then this week's guest may very well be the sun: CHRIS DODGE! Not only as a member of "the Beastie Boys of the Underground" (Damian’s clunky analogy), Spazz, but also as the founder of the hugely important Slap-A-Ham Records! Chris has had a massive, indelible influence on hardcore & punk. Though Chis Dodge’s legendary run in underground music, we can connect: No Use For A Name, Melvins, Spazz, Infest, Faction, Kool Keith, The Gilman Scene, Fu Manchu, Sunn, etc. Sit back & relax as Chris & Damian connect the dots. ONE FOR THE AGES!!!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Chris Dodge Is The Sun At The Centre Of The Turned Out A Punk Universe
Fat Day As Repressed Memory
Loving Hard Rock At The Age Of 22
Steve Papusos’ Older Sister Marries A Punk & Gets the records
“No Way, No Band Is Better Than KISS!”
The Cramps’ “Songs the Lord Has Taught Us” As First Exposure
The Dickies Are The Fastest Band Ever!
Listening To The Weirdos Over & Over Again
Finding College Radio
Hearing About Maximum Rocknroll and getting a postcard from Tim
Dead Kennedys
Missing Hardcore By 84
Forming Legion Of Doom
Transitioning From The South Bay Scene To The Gilman Scene
Youth Of Today, MDC, The Lookouts At The Gilman
Scared Straight With A Performance Artist Opening
The Gilman Scene Provided The Full Spectrum Of Punk Styles
The Feederz Bum Everyone Out
AOD Have To Go On After The Feederz Cover The Stage In Dead Animals
Rabid Lassie
Moshing To Performance Art
Off The Disc Is Godly
Slap-A-Ham Is Godly
Getting Into Metal
Putting Out Records That No One Else Would
Neanderthal Was Supposed To Be A Picture Disc
Putting Out Burning Witch
9/11 Ended Slap-A-Ham
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
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Nov 1, 2018 • 1h 7min
Episode 190 - Jesse Brown (Journalist, Canadaland)
When your fearless host, Damian was young his counter cultural imagination was ignited by a small, short-lived, rebel, Toronto punk student newspaper called, Punch. Imagine Damian’s amazement when he found out the editor of said magazine was none other than, the venerable media powerhouse, Canadaland's founder, JESSE BROWN!!! Sit back as Damian hears all about the journey that brought Jesse from being a teenage journalist wunderkind, burnt out by success to fulfilling the promise of Punch all these years later.
Also Touched On:
Damian’s Inspiration
Liking Old Music
Robert Johnston
Sonic Youth
Bad Brains
Making Your First Real Friends
Pearl Jam
“Where Can I Get A Mudhoney Shirt?”
Fishbone
Living Color Is Part Of It
Getting Into Hate & Eightball
Rollin’s As Inspiration By Being... Not Good
Getting Into Re//Search & Pranks
Reading About Howard Stern, but Not Being Able To Hear It
Creating A Column To Take The Piss Out Of The Whole High School
Starting The Legendary Punch (CA)
Not Wanting To Just: “Make Noise In The Basement.”
Winning The Toronto Star Young Journalism Award
The Fine Art Of Being A Disrupter… Or Just A Shit Disturber
Getting Celebrated In The Real Media
Burning Out On News
Running Away To Montreal To Become an Artist
Working At VICE...
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Oct 28, 2018 • 1h 47min
Footnote 189 - Mike Haliechuk & Jerry A Part #2
Listen Nerds! Never Again! This week on the show, Chris & Damian have two huge episodes to discuss, but that doesn’t stop them from having a 20 minutes conversation about veggie burgers at now defunct fast food chains.
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Oct 22, 2018 • 1h 29min
Episode 189 - Jerry A Part #2
The greatest hardcore record of all time, Poison Idea’s Feel The Darkness, is getting reissued!!! To celebrate, the King of Punk himself, JERRY A returns to the show! In keeping with the tradition of Aliens & The GodFather Part II, this sequel may be better than the original?!?!? So listen in as Damian gets to sit down with one of his heroes AGAIN & punish him about everything he forgot to ask the first time!
Also Touched On:
Part #2 Hard To Make Happen
Ramones As Universal Language
Music: If It’s Good, It’s Great
MRR Reviews Everything
Inept Music Is PERFECT
Jerry Loves Finnish Tom Loves Dutch
Buying GISM & Not Getting It
United Mutation
The Beef With DC
“It’s Time To Turn Up The Heat On Ian Again.”
Tom Hates Henry
What Is A "Superbeer"?
A 1/5 Of Jim Bean & Touring With The Hard-Ons
Drinking Where Belushi Did
Making “Feel The Darkness”
Writing Taken By Surprise For The Sub Pop Single
Making Sub Pop Pay Up
Pig’s Last Stand As Payback
Alice In Chains Find Grunge
Wanting To Go Out On A Good Note
Metal Bands
Getting Goth & Performance Art As Openers
Punk Love Cow Brains
I’m In A Hard Rock Band
How Pantera Heard About Poison Idea…
Having A Song On The Crow Soundtrack
Being On Punk-O-Rama
Never Getting A Statement From Epitaph
The Unreleased Poison Idea
Loving YDI
Poison Idea Was Its Own World
Record Collecting
Touring Australia With The Hard-Ons
Iggy Pop
Sonic Youth
Beasts Of Bourbon
Helmet
Mudhoney
Mick Harvey Almost Becomes Shark Bait
& Much, Much MORE!!!
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Oct 17, 2018 • 2h 2min
Episode 188 - Mike Haliechuk (Fucked Up, Ruination, Smartboys, Walls Around Us, Where It Ends)
This week on the show, in celebration of the NEW FUCKED UP LP "DOSE YOUR DREAMS”, Damian is joined by one of the most requested guests ever on the show, MIKE HALIECHUK!!! Yes, it finally happened! AAAAAANNNNNDDDD Jonah Falco makes a cameo too!!!!! This is one they'll be talking about around the water cooler tomorrow!
Also Touched On:
Mike Finally Makes An Appearances
Buying A Melvins, Sex Pistols & Maybe An L7 Tape
TV Over Radio
A Tie Dye Sex Pistols Shirts
Green Day Or The Offspring: You Must Choose
Mike & Damian Meet For The First Time At The Circle Jerks Opera House Show
“Stay Out Of Riverdale” / “East End Kids Are Poseurs”
Freaking Out About Meeting Chris Colohan
Jay Hammer’s Shows
Hardcore Is About Freedom: Ordering Pizza’s To Shows
The Last Hockey Teeth Show… & Missing Hockey Teeth
Random Killing
The HMV Vinyl Section
The Confine Release Show
Daragh Hayes Is The NICEST!
The Peter Pan Scene Of Toronto
The AFI Riot
Ignite Cancels On Toronto A Million Times
How Where It Ends Formed…
Booking The Jewish Community Centre
Fastbreak Save The Day & 5 Knuckle Chuckle
Mike Forms Ruination & Damian Gets Jealous
Europe Breaks Mike
How Fucked Up Forms
Recording 7”s
Making Hidden World
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
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Oct 11, 2018 • 1h 40min
Footnote 187 - Matt Murphy, TOAP 80's Toronto Hardcore Special, Aimee Interrupter & Kevin Bivona
Your Mindless Propaganda Be It Right Or Be It Wrong It's Just A Cheap Attempt To Prey On My Nerd Fears!!! This Week, Damian & Chris sit down & breakdown the last 3 episodes. It's what these guys do.
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Oct 8, 2018 • 1h 15min
Episode 187 - Aimee Interrupter & Kevin Bivona (The Interrupters, Transplants)
This week on the show, not one, but TWO amazing guests - THE INTERRUPTERS' Aimee & Kevin!!! Two people who couldn't have had more different paths that led them to the same band. THIS IS A GOOD ONE!!! Kickback & listen how Aimee had to go through the wringer from getting yelled at as a kid in smoke filled bars to then being thrown quickly into the majors before meeting Kevin, who was raised in punk. Together, they both realized their childhood dream's by forming THE INTERRUPTERS! IT PLAYS LIKE A MOVIE!!!
Also Touched On:
Kevin Getting Into The Late 90’s Ska Boom
Alvin & Punkamunk
Less Than Jake & The Aquabats
Amy Gets A Bleach
Hearing …And Out Come The Wolves & Feeling Less Alone.
Bad Religion & NoFX
AFI, Pennywise & The Warped Tour Era
Joan Jett Punk From Before The Germs, To Bikini Kill, To Present Day
Boys II Men
Kevin Hears “Here Comes The Hot Stepper” As The First Exposure
Snow - “Informer”
Amy Finds Music Through Mom
Kevin’s Grandfathers’ Music
Frank Sinatra’s “One for My Baby One For The Road”
Kevin For The Void
The Cheap Punk CD Comp
Green Day
Save Farris & The Specials Go To Montana
Government Cheese Opens For Strung Out
Kill Radio
Aimee Gets Into Jam Bands
Kevin & His Brother Form The Telecasters
Meeting On A Sugar Ray Tour
Getting The Dream Gig In Transplants
Meeting Tim Armstrong
Touring With The Dropkick Murphy’s
Touring With 7 Seconds
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Oct 2, 2018 • 1h 31min
TOAP 80's Toronto Hardcore Special (Fran Grasso, Derek Emerson, Shawn Chirrey, Simon Harvey)
This week on the show we bring you a very special episode in celebration of the release of the incredible 80’s TOHC chronicle, Tomorrow Is Too Late! Damian is joined by the nucleus of the book's creation: Derek, Fran, Shawn & the often referenced on Turned Out A Punk: Simon Harvey! Sit back & enjoy a deep delving conversation about the under documented, but all the same amazing - 80’s Toronto Hardcore Punk scene. GET THIS BOOK!!!
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Sep 27, 2018 • 1h 44min
Episode 186 - Matt Murphy (Super Friendz, Black Pool, TUNS etc.) + LTRANTAS + TOAP LIVE WITH DINOSAUR JR!!!!
BOY, THIS IS ONE JAMMED PACKED EPISODE! First off, it’s an interview Damian has been trying to make happen for years, MATT MURPHY of the godly Super Friendz & TUNS is on the show! Hear about Matt growing up in Halifax & watching it quickly become the Canadian “next Seattle”. THEN, enjoy the debut of LISTEN TO RECORDS AND NEVER THINK ABOUT STOPPING (LTRANTAS), a brand new podcast featuring Damian & The Kids! They listen to & discus Damian's record collection. FINALLY, check out the birthday spectacular that was TOAP LIVE WITH DINOSAUR JR!!!
WHAT A WEEK?!?!?!?!?
Also Touched On:
Long Time Friends
Working Together At VICE… Kinda
Dressing Up As “PUNKS” To Go To The Mall
The Let Down Of “The Great Rock & Roll Swindle”
Hanging With Jay From Sloan At Old Dan’s Record Store
“There Would Be No Scene Without Greg Clark”
Nobody’s Heroes: Halifax’s Top Punk
October Game: Sarah McLaughlin New Wave band
Trashcanz Inspiration For The “Z” In Super Friendz
Aggro: Hard New Wave
Matt Form’s The Ink Stains… With A Kazoo Player
Bo Diddley Plays Halifax
Sneaking Into Zappa
Not Liking Neil Young’s “Live Rust”
Black Pool: Pre-Sloan & Super Friendz
Dinosaur Jr.
Bubblegum Pop
Killed By Death
Fugazi
Deep Wound
Minor Threat
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
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Sep 24, 2018 • 1h 22min
Footnote 185 - Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Foss, Antemasque, Anywhere, De Facto etc.)
Support can be a selfish thing. For nerds, I think it’s this way. Today on the show Chris & Damian sit down to talk about the incomparable Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Also, the importance of drummers.
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