BANDS ARE LIKE GIRLFRIENDS

Episode 21: Kent McClard Kent started Ebullition Records and HeartattaCk zine, two important entities in 90s/00s Hardcore and Punk. We talk about - why he started Ebullition - how he was about to release Inside Out’s LP called Rage Against The Machine - how he designed the early records - why he felt he was forced to do HaC - punk was about blowing up boundaries, hardcore was about creating your own thing - his take on straight edge and why he made the XXX 2xLP comp Kent also talks about Green Day, Ebullition, Maximum Rock’n’Roll, releasing international bands' records after touring abroad with Downcast, hardcore is for nerds, HeartattaCk as a platform for diverse opinions within the hardcore scene, being decidedly amateurish, it’s okay to be an outsider, hardcore is nerdy, giving people a space to participate, the 2008 housing crisis seriously affecting the underground music world and much more.

Episode 20: Abermals Happy 20th anniversary to BALG! For this special episode we're doing something special: We're not talking about the past but rather about the present. Abermals is a power-pop-punk-emo-kraut-rock trio from Mallorca, Spain and includes BALG's Chris, so to prevent the order of the universe from imploding, the interview is done by the great Michael Oxley of The Mitchums fame. We go through the new album Reasons to Travel song by song, listen in on it and talk about it all. Check out Reasons to Travel here: https://linktr.ee/abermalsband

Wir haben den ersten returning guest zu vermelden, der Musiker und Musikverrückte Daniel Benyamin ist wieder zu Gast, und nachdem wir in Folge 10 eher über die Vergangenheit gesprochen haben, geht es in dieser Folge um die Gegenwart, in der viel Interessantes zu erzählen ist. Unter anderem geht es um diese Themen: - warum der Musikbranche wieder mehr DIY und Idealismus gut zu Gesicht stehen würde, - der freiwillige Verzicht aufs 9 to 5 Leben im Tausch gegen regelmäßige Existenzängste und Strategien, mit diesen klarzukommen, - Daniel erzählt über Ghost Palace, sein Labelkollektiv/Kollektivlabel, bei dem zwischenzeitlich der große Wim Wenders beteiligt war (den ich peinlicherweise im Gespräch Wim Hof nenne), - wie es dazu kam, dass seine neue Platte Eral Fun so nach 80s-Pop klingt, obwohl er musikalisch neunziger-sozialisiert ist (falls ihr euch erinnert, die 90er waren quasi die Anti-80er), - die eigentlich unwichtige aber trotzdem spannende Frage, ob man mit oder ohne Click Drums aufnimmt, - und noch mehr #podcast #diy #indie #podcastdeutsch #indiepop #indielabel #nonprofit #musikszene

I’ve known David for more than twenty years, when we co-released the Tidal/Acabah Rot split 12" in 2002. Out of sight, out of eyes, so it was about time to catch up on what’s been going on in the meantime, and David, a great DIY idealist who has been doing his thing for more than 30 years now, has a lot to talk about: - getting bullied by Oasis’ management - touring Europe and sharing a record with Hot Water Music with his band Rydell - Rydell’s bad luck having to cancel their US tour because it was scheduled to start two days after 9/11 happened - a strange encounter with Soprano-style mafiosi in Italy - being blown away by a Fugazi show in a townhouse on the English coast - how he managed to stick around in the punk and hardcore world for more than three decades - coming up on 340 releases now on his label Engineer Records - writing and publishing books for Earth Island Books, born from his archival and collector ideas www.engineerrecords.com www.earthislandbooks.com #punkpodcast #diypodcast #hardcore #emo #screamo #posthardcore #zines #indielabel