Sohrab Habibion from Obits and Edsel is here

Turned Out A Punk

Music Commentary, Music History, Music, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

All aboard for the Town of Hardcore because Sohrab Habibion has come to TOAP! Listen in as Damian sits down with the: musician, writer, engineer, designer, DCHC documentarian and all around cultural force to talk all things punk. From run-ins with Leftie, to Dave Grohl drumming in Kids For Cash, to signing to Grass Records, to mom's role in documenting DC hardcore, to why Ian McKaye probably doesn't want to be on TOAP, to helping put together the amazing Rick Fröberg art book and so much more: DON'T MISS THIS EPISODE!

Also, order a copy of "Plenty For All: The Art of Rick Fröberg" from Akashic Books or your favourite books store!

Also, check out Sohrab's work on the amazing Rap Central Station!

Also, check out Sohrab in SAVAK

Also, check Sohrab's YouTube channel for all you DCHC Post-Revolution Summer Era video needs!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to another edition of Turned Out of Punk.
0:32.7	I'm your host, Damian Abraham, and today on the show, someone that I've known for years on the internet,
0:39.2	but never had a chance to sit down and talk to.
0:42.2	So Rob Habibion is on the podcast today.
0:44.4	And from Kids for Cash to Edsel to Savak to his work with Artro Lindsay, who I think I fuck up his name when I say it the first time on this podcast, to his work with a rap central station, Chuck D's rap magazine, to his unbelievable YouTube page, which I could do a whole episode just talking about his YouTube page with them because, oh, I've watched a lot of those videos over the years.
1:14.3	Sorab has been someone who has been involved in unbelievable amounts of cool culture, and this is a small fraction discussed in this episode of the stuff he's been involved in.
1:25.0	But I'm excited for you to hear it, so I'm not going to ramble on too much more other than to say, uh, you can go check out rap central station.
1:33.3	Dot net to check out his work there. Also go to Habibion on at YouTube at Habibion on
1:40.4	YouTube to check out his crazy video archive of videos he shot back in the day in the mid 80s
1:46.9	in DC. We talk about it in this episode, so you'll know more about that in one second.
1:51.4	Some notes before we get into the episode, Commander Venus is indeed the band's name. That
1:59.1	will make sense when you hear it. I for some reason thought Commander Cody.
2:02.4	I don't know why.
2:03.0	Apologies to Commander Venus for that.
2:05.1	Also, Ben Gosling was the guy who came up with the term promoter core, hip to me by a friend
2:12.1	of the show, footnotes, co-host, whenever it comes back, Chris O'Toole, uh, fart blossom.
2:19.0	I've got some note about fart blossom that I can't really, uh, fear out why I said it.
2:24.8	Other than check out the records on fart blossom as, as they come out, uh, pissed happy
2:30.4	children, Pillsbury hardcore, uh, the, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, theillsbury Hardcore, the Dane Bramage LP, which we talk about in this episode,
2:38.0	the half skull compilations, or empty skull compilations.
2:43.4	And also, I want to say rest in peace to Rick Froberg, pick up this book.
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