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Our novice coreman strawman, Wilson from Westchester, swings by to tell us about his new venture as a booking agent. Then he asks us for advice on how to do it right. Short-term vs long-term thinking, best practices, and how to stay out of the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Questions about how to hardcore, from those who hardcore to those who hardcore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What are some songs that stir specific emotions in you? Ok, now hardcore songs. How much variety is there in those feelings? Are we a one-note culture or fully realized people with a spectrum of emotions? Also, 70s arena rock and (mercy) killing grandma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friend of the podcast Eric joins us for: Bands with bits; defending your hater side; this or that; Bob Seger; No Warning; maintaining good posture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First, some opinions about a guy who, as it turns out, has health concerns. Sorry, Al. Later, we inadvertently low-rate a guy who happened to die 10hrs later. Sorry, Terry Hall. And in-between that, we talk about the difference between a great band and a great HC band. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the Children 2022; venue choice; alt-revival; guitar music in the toilet; getting ushered outta venues like you're some kind of vagrant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Summers could use your help for for his medical bills: https://www.gofundme.com/f/matt-summers?utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined&fbclid=PAAaYlaGLRdOkW93uxDWdS3dDbxvg3j4ndzyFxoRslDdP2LGAeYx5dXJF4Vt8 Blake Fowler's loved ones could use your help with his funeral expenses: https://www.gofundme.com/f/blake-fowler?utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer This week's episode: LDB lineup and the art of putting together a lineup that feels natural. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seeing something you never thought you would, where's the Holy Terror today, DIY scenes ruined by pettiness, making interpersonal problems career problems, and linking disparate bands in less than five steps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined for a casual convo with Dwid Hellion of Integrity, Psywarfare, and much more. We discuss friction in art, genre, and interpersonal relationships. A great talk with a fascinating dude. And to kick off the episode, a blazing hot premiere from the fast and heavy COMPASSION. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can scenes survive with only corporate-owned professional venues? Prolly not. Can corporate-owned professional venues ever truly stop enterprising basement brains? Definitely not. Back this one for Patrick: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackmask/dont-avert-your-eyes-a-theres-nothing-there-comic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Redesigning merch by force, defining records, when you're hot you're hot, Spotify pocket watching, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BIG BOYS v JERRY'S KIDS! CORROSION OF CONFORMITY v MURPHY'S LAW! It's 80s Mosh Madness lunacy as the bracket offers something for everyone! Fast! Not fast! Fun! Serious! Familiar! Odd! It's all here, folks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

True or false: "What one man can do, another can do!" Congrats if you get that reference. How big can hardcore get and how big do you want it to get? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore self-regulating and occasionally self-immolating. The FYA venue change. The effort to understand each other. Firsts and most recent. Why would ChatGPT lie about a Blood For Blood show? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore in the good place right now? Has it been better in recent memory? Bands who’ve gone from good to great. Tom and Bob dive into the growing pool of excellent current hc bands while Patrick does his hair in the bathroom of a Super 8. Allegedly.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our live studio audience taping of A2G from Brain Dead Studios, as part of Sound & Fury 2022. Thanks to all who came and all involved. We let the Patreon get a crack at this months ago, but it was time to share it on main. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catching up after a week of shows played and attended. Voice of the streets over here. Also, is HC TikTok an inhumane horror? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore party games and the choice is yours. Pick your poison and get loose. Also, possibly cuddle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another monster MOSH MADNESS 80s EDITION! AGGRESSION v BLACK FLAG! CIRCLE JERKS v DIE KREUZEN! All this and where's the hottest lyrical sauce coming from in 2022? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part two of what you might need on a desert island in terms of punk and hardcore. You only get what fits in this boat, and the boat is small. A lotta hard choices. Now make those choices! Also a hot premiere from Jacksonville's finest: SUNTOUCH HOUSE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Desert island. If you could only bring one album per letter of the alphabet, how hard would the choices be? Not the time to pose, fella. These decisions are serious. Plus, a red hot premiere from EXCIDE! RIP Kevone. RIP John Rivera. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hard-hitting questions about bad album art, two-stepping to death metal, hard scenes, hard moshing, and things other than blood your heart can pump. Also, equally hard-hitting: is the beatdown wiki unreliable?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore too backwards facing? Is hating a professional sport or just a hobby some people are passionate about? Is Long Island beautiful? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are no dumb questions, especially from someone who really wants to learn. Our favorite ignorant youth rolls through to challenge our basic assumptions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mainstay Brooklyn venue St. Vitus has closed its doors for good. From our archives, out of reverence and in memoriam, we offer this recording of A2G Live from St. Vitus. Thanks for the good times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

California wrap-up and Sound & Fury post-game. Fun in the California sun recounted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A tease episode before we all land back at home and can get back to business. Quick Sound & Fury recap with Bob and friend of the podcast, Eric. Thanks for the memories, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's that time of year when everyone makes a pilgrimage to Los Angeles to experience one of the best HC fests going, Sound & Fury. Interesting lineup this year and we dig into every crevice of it. New acts, established acts, even a reunion or two. Also, we talk about Alien Ant Farm and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. NEW MUSIC FROM GEL AND COLD BRATS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There was a time when California was just as powerful a HC machine as it is today... but some of us didn't know it! We're talking on some of the bands we slept on or feel other people slept on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do hardcore kids miss the punk boat and is there any way to get on it once you've started sailing the HC seas? Some humble recommendations. Also, is John Brannon a sex symbol? Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some big announcements, and loving recap of recent events including the biggest HC fest of all time. A lot going on, from shows to live podcasts to a killer premiere by Boise's own REJECTION PACT. Get it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A little breather to reflect on 80s Mosh Madness up to this point. Have we learned anything? Also, how to use the bathroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric drops in to play a little THIS OR THAT, a simple game with deadly consequences. Sheer Terror or Merauder, which makes you mosh the drywall? Have Heart or Bane, which makes you donate your time to a local charity? Indie rock or pop punk, which traps you in amber as an adult? More deadly inquiries! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Questions from all angles. Is it worth doing a band as an old person? How do you tell a story people may care about? Is corniness inevitable? Is promotion annoying? What constitutes a DM slide? How do you approach an old head in the wild? So much knowledge in one convenient audio log! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patrick prattles about disc golf until the hook takes him off-stage and then we dive into BL'AST “Its In My Blood” vs FU’s “My America” and VERBAL ABUSE “Just an American Band” vs MDC “Millions of Dead Cops”. It's a ripper. a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FYA; regional kings and queens; genres vs lifestyles; isn't it all woofwoofwoof music; Palm Springs music; getting beat in Erewhon; best/worst reasons to do reunions; more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Production; taking the bait; Tears For Fears; being too heavy; End It hosts the Playa Haters' Ball; running a record store in Portugal under a fake name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The bracket is fierce: CRUMBSUCKERS; D.R.I.; VISION; WARZONE. Also, naked moshing, senility, and being wrong for multiple decades. a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bands supporting bands, or at least not hatin. The case for Limp Bizkit. The celeb cosign in 2022. Being a celeb in your own head. Are we witnessing the Turnstile effect already? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

News of the world, and then straight into a 80s Mosh Madness bracket for the ages: Adolescents; Neurosis; Youth of Today; YDI. Something for everyone here. Truly delish! a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Festival season approaches! Compulsive gambling. Outburst. Staged live photos. Bookbag vs backpack sectarianism. Also, you're balding. It's all here, folks. a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How sharp is your hardcore brain? Could you compete in the terrordome of intellectual athletics that A2G designed? Is Tom cheating at these games of honor again? Change.org for Blues Traveler. Australian grocers. And a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travel; on-stage meltdowns; human moments; Rollins Band; do you gotta be great to be vulnerable; more! a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is hardcore changing? Obviously. But are these shifts temporary or is this a new direction for the genre? We won't know for sure for a decade, but we're here to speculate today! Also, getting vulnerable on main. a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Weinraub Recovery fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/dan-weinraub-recovery-fund Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What to expect (or not) as a HC band. How niche is niche? Do you deserve a microphone that doesn't give you tetanus? Is sweat equity real or is it all a roulette wheel? Zing a dong bone, let's go. a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A long time is spent on 00s shock-rockers. And some attention is given to the correct way to handle grievances with total strangers. And some time is devoted to Dave Navarro's vest and why the Live reunion didn't happen. But mostly we talk hardcore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We get a visit from HC HR. Time for our yearly training. Also, Super Mario 44. Pit reports agogo. Davey Havok TMZ. Dubstep. And are you jealous of Turnstile? a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How would you explain some very basic hardcore ideas to someone who just doesn't know yet? Could you do it without sounding insane? Also, a debut from the newly remastered FASTBREAK release, a Touche Amore ticket giveaway, and more talk about Dog Eat Dog than you'd expect. Stacked episode. As always, send your pit reports to a2gpitreport@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

80s Mosh Madness rolls on! INFEST vs INSTED; DESCENDENTS vs TOKEN ENTRY. Some big hitters and some dark horses. Also, train people, dope hair, and is Sepultura cool? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices