Kevin Martin from Candlebox is here

Turned Out A Punk

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Oh you, it’s for you, only you because Kevin Martin has come to TOAP! Listen in as Damian sits down with the Candlebox singer to apologize for doubting his punk connection. From hanging with Marching Plague, to Malfunkshun being the world’s greatest band, to the dangers of being direct support for Metallica, to Rollins loving Candlebox, to Neil Peart re-writing the setlist and so much more: don’t miss this one!

Also, don't miss Kevin and Candlebox on tour!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to another edition of Turned Out of Punk.
0:30.5	I'm your host, Damien Abraham, and today on the show, my new pal, Kevin Martin from the band Candlebox.
0:36.8	Now, Kevin is someone who I met because of another former guest of this show.
0:42.3	Andrew Reich.
0:43.6	Andrew hit me up after we did an episode of I heard they stream live where I was kind of,
0:49.5	I was cracking on Candlebox and casting dispersions about the punk rock connection of this band.
0:56.2	But then Andrew hit me up and said, no, Kevin's my buddy.
0:59.6	And I got to say, he is definitely a punk rock guy.
1:02.7	And after having this conversation with Kevin, yeah, 100%.
1:06.3	I owe an apology.
1:07.5	And I apologize right off the top because I take Andrew at his word. And when Andrew said, no, he's, he's into hardcore. He's into punk. I knew. I knew. So I apologize right off the bat. If you would like to go and see Candlebox, they're going to be playing next, well, this coming weekend, if you're listening to this, when this drops of the K Rockathon reboot in Syracuse, New York,
1:28.3	and they've got other shows coming up in September where they're going to be going on tour
1:31.5	with the who, like the who, who, who.
1:35.9	Anyway, I'm not going to ramble on too much more.
1:38.0	This is a really fun conversation.
1:40.3	If you want to get in touch with this podcast, you can hit us up at Turn to Punkapunk podcast at gmail.com. The show's producer and guest booker, except for this episode, is Tristan Abraham. Thank you, Tristan, for all the hard work you do for this show. And find me on Instagram or just Instagram, at left for Damien. Turned out of punk on all the other social media platforms and there's YouTube channels and I heard they stream live streamed on the YouTube channel anyway find
2:04.4	that stuff over there and that's it. Thank you, Andrew for making this one happen. Sit back,
2:10.9	relax and enjoy Kevin Martin on Turned Out a Punk.
2:19.8	Kevin, thank you so much for coming on the show.
2:22.5	It's absolute pleasure, my man.
2:24.4	Well, as I spared you from hearing before we came on the air, like, I'm really excited that our mutual friend, Andrew Reich, friend of the show, reached out and said, no, you got to get Kevin on the show.
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