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Turned Out A Punk

Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth is here

Turned Out A Punk

Turned Out A Punk

Music, Music Interviews, Music History, Music Commentary

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This one is well worth the wait, cause this week Damian finally gets THURSTON MOORE on the show & it's a MONSTER!!! Kickback & listen in as the two talk about Thurston being at the ground zero of punk when his journey began. You may have heard other Thurston Moore interviews over the years, but NOTHING like this. All in celebration of the launch of Thurston’s Ecstatic Peace Library imprint with Omnibus Press. GET READY!!!!!

Also Touched On:

It's All For You Thurston

Always Being A Punk

Louie Louie

Rock Mags

Seeing Iggy Standing On Hands & Heads

Trying To Turn Your 10-Year-Old Friend's Onto The Stooges

Raunchy Rock

The Fast Rule!

“Patti Smith Is Playing, Let’s Go!”

Talking Heads

The Ramones With Johnny On Vocals & Joey On Drums

“You’re Too Good To Hang Out With Us At The Friendly’s Now?!”

Cutlers In New Haven To Buy X-Offender

Buying Slaughter & The Dogs

The Damned

The Buzzcocks “Spiral Scratch”

Seeing The Fast, The Planets & Suicide At Max’s

Joey Was The Guy: Everything Cool About Punk Always

CBGB’s Is Nirvana

Richard Hell Licking His Stamp To Transfer It To Your Hand

Blondie & The Mumps

CB’s Burgers

The Living Doll Bass Player

Milk & Cookies

When The Dead Boys Came To Town…

The Stimulators

The Blessed & The Younger Scene

Student Teachers

Connecting With Lee & Kim Through Art

Going To Rat Cage

The Early DC 7”s

Darby’s Death

Going To LA To See Kim’s Parents

Never Seeing The Misfits

NY’s Early More Rock Influenced Hardcore

DC Comes In Like Buzzsaws

Heart Attack

Wanting To Be More Of A Hardcore Band

Jesse Malin: “I Heard You Saw The Dead Boys?”

Meeting The Singer Of Kaaos

& Much, Much More!!!!

BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS

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0:00.0

It's punk rock bowling time. That's right for the 24th year. One of the greatest

0:06.8

festivals on earth in my opinion returns to downtown Las Vegas the weekend of May 25th, 26th and 27th.

0:15.9

I have had some of my greatest times playing this thing,

0:18.8

and just hanging out of this thing.

0:20.3

You want to know how much this festival speaks to turn out of punk's mindset?

0:23.4

The headliners are Devo, Descendants, and Madness.

0:27.6

Every day of this festival, the line up is stacked with amazing bands of all types and stripes of punk and

0:33.7

hardcore from all different eras from ska to post-hardcore. We're talking like

0:38.7

Brat Mobile to Rock from the Crypt to stiff Stiff Little Fingers, to The Cosmic Psychos, to Scout,

0:46.7

I just... And then there's also all these late night after shows which are happening and you wouldn't

0:52.0

believe the lineup of these things from the

0:54.6

zeros to agnostic front and everything in between this festival is out of control for fans of punk.

1:05.0

So I hope I will see you there because this isn't like some sort of festival that you just go

1:08.8

to and the bands are secluded in some sort of backstage area. Bands and fans and just punks alike

1:16.0

are all just taking over downtown Las Vegas.

1:19.8

So you turn around and all of a sudden you're gambling beside John Doe from X. I don't know if John Doe gambles, but if you turn

1:27.2

around on the buffet line you'll probably see me. And you better believe we're going to be talking

1:30.3

about punk music. And because this festival loves this

1:33.2

podcast as much as this podcast loves this festival, punk rock bowling is

1:38.3

bringing you a series of special episodes. So each and every week I will have an episode going up

1:44.0

featuring someone that's playing this festival and hot damn are there some good ones

1:49.7

coming head over to punk rock bowling dot com and hopefully I see you in downtown Las Vegas May 25th 26 and You're going to be. So, Hello and welcome to another edition of Turned Out a Punk. I'm your host,

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