AXE TO GRIND PODCAST

As philosophers often say, this one goes hard. Jump into the way back machine to cycle some classics that move you (or at least us) - with tracks from a slew of titans of the hardcore world. Put on your work boots and get to it...  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 22 June 2025

Is camping hardcore? What does Marty McFly like? Two man booth dives on the important questions of life while also catching up on the latest of big shows and upcoming records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 17 June 2025

Hot Nights, hotter tracks. Join a delirious correspondence as we search hotboxes across the airwaves for cool songs, including but not limited to BALLISTIX, DARI BAY, RITUAL CROSS, RUNNNER, STATUE, TURNING FIGHT and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 14 June 2025

New music to talk about from Drain, Gridiron, and Turnstile. Being on big stages as a young band. Being on massive stages as an older band. Being on the internet too much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 10 June 2025

Drop the pace car and sprint after it for this one. We do it fast, we do it hard, we do it for the tracks. Bangers from HEAVENS GATE, WHO DECIDES, W.O.M.B.A.T, BAD BEAT, idialedyournumber and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 7 June 2025

Shows announced! Shows reviewed! Listener questions ranging from the insightful to the ridiculous! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2025

Robert from Life.Lair.Regret and the OZHC Digital Archive is on the mic this week, giving a guided hardcore tour of Australia. Songs from GRIM REALITY, JAWS, DEADSTARE, LIFE LOVE REGRET, and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 31 May 2025

A bit of sadness to address, and then onto the core Qs from our dear listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2025

Somewhere, somehow, someone is bringing new tracks to the table. Did we find some for you here now? Maybe so. You decide, idk. Good stuff from HISTAMINE, ANOMALY, PRAISE, CULT MIND, ALLERGIC, NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 24 May 2025

Canada; bear markets; monitors; stage dive decorum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2025

Spring loaded tracks, no traps. Break into warm weather with some modern classics, new music, and songs to stomp to, including DYNAMITE, PUFFER, GOUGE AWAY, DRY SOCKET, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 17 May 2025

Eric Wilson jumps in with the dudes to talk about the magic of punks standing outside shows, Turnstile's Baltimore bash, and the state of hardcore 2025 in general.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2025

You Chillin? We certainly are, AND we've got tracks. We ain't gonna stop. Hear the good stuff from SYMPOS, FAILURE DRILL, RUNNIN HOT, CHARMER, GOD INSTINCT, AUTOMATED EXECUTION and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 10 May 2025

Long Island on top, feeling good for other people's success, how much should you play your hometown, and celebrity HC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2025

New clothes, new shoes, new slacks, NEW TRACKS. Join the FNA Army and vibe to the beat of a whole slew of new (or new to you) music including SERVICE ANIMAL, DAMBUSTER, TOURIST, CATALYST, LAUNCH CODE and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 3 May 2025

LDB, RBS, big HC shows, tiny HC tours, building a scene from the ground up, opportunities falling from the sky, and a scorching premiere from Stockholm Sweden's MASTERPIECE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2025

Dig deep, watch out for the cat hair. We try and uncover some lost, hidden, or generally under discussed tracks by great bands of all varieties of punk, hardcore, or adjacent - maybe really adjacent. Featuring THE WEIRDOS, TITLE FIGHT, GUT INSTINCT, MENTAL, FATAL RAGE, THE FEELIES and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 26 April 2025

With the passing of Al Barile, we're in our thoughts about greatness and who deserves greater recognition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2025

Something found, something lost, how many hit, how many miss. Tracks by CULTURE SHOCK, COYOTE, IGNITE, CHAIN CULT, BLIND JUSTICE and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 19 April 2025

Speed at Coachella! Scowl on Colbert! Unconfirmed rumors about the Turnstile rollout! It's all here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025

Like tumbling down a flight of stairs, here's a bunch of bumps scrapes and bruises but you might enjoy this ride. Tracks from EGG HUNT, FIRST ATTACK, PROSTHETIC, FALSE TRUCE, HOME FRONT, MATTER OF FACT and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 12 April 2025

Celebrate Al Brarile and SSD with the crew as we're joined by Pat Flynn. Boston Hardcore. And, as a special treat, a new track from SPEEDWAY! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

For the moshers. For the alt rockers. For the peace punks and anarchoheads. Coming down like a ton of bricks featuring SÖT, JUSTIFY, GANG BUSTERS, SLUMPED, IF IT RAINS, and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 5 April 2025

What gets press? What is Turnstile cooking? Are bands being assembled in underground labs by lizard people? Are city folk missing out on malls? Is Patrick an ugly 62-year-old? Also, a wildly hard premiere from Richmond's own, NAYSAYER! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2025

Did you finish cleaning the bedrooms? How about the attic? And did you even look in the garage yet? More new music to Spring Clean to, tracks from AGE OF APOCALYPSE, IDENTITY SHOCK, GOSSIP COLLAR, MORAL LAW, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 29 March 2025

Hardcore is too big. Like Skynet, it must be stopped. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025

New New for the springtime. Lets get fresh and so clean with tracks by SCOPE, BOX, PISSED JEANS, MOTORBIKE, PYREX, MT GREY and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 22 March 2025

If you were given 5min to sell an album you love to someone who has never heard it, do you think you could? We try. Also, we talk Pearl Jam. And we premiere a brand new track from the mighty SUNSTROKE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2025

From HARDSKIN to KILL HOLIDAY, with a healthy dose of new acts like WROUGHT and REJOICE. This one's got it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 15 March 2025

The nature of gossip, having to turn down nice offers, and iron cross discourse in 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 11 March 2025

All over the place but do you like music? What about music with guitars? Ok then welcome in, have a seat. Tracks from FLOOR, NO WARNING, FATAL, THE BABIES, GLITTERER and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 8 March 2025

This or That, wildcard style. What does Infest have to do with Turning Point? Only that you gotta choose one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 4 March 2025

Hits, new and old. POISON RUIN, RITES OF SPRING, COROSSIVES, and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 1 March 2025

Pro-core: Do we see the death of it soon, or are we all playing stadiums this time next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2025

All time smash hits from BORN DEAD ICONS, ABSOLUTION, MENTAL, and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 22 February 2025

Show of the year; dorm talk such as what's a band even supposed to be maaan, and can you hear yourself accurately; arcane rituals at the SuperBowl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 18 February 2025

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Transcribed - Published: 15 February 2025

Readers hit Tom with the hard questions, and his cohosts insist he walk us through the lineups of shows from a quarter-century ago. "What was it like playing with Wetnap Hand Grenade??" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 11 February 2025

Exemplary hardcore from KNELT, INHUMAN NATURE, MORAL END and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 8 February 2025

Down a host, the remaining forces hunker down to touch all the bases on what We need in hardcore 2025. Can the line between emo and hardcore be delicately thread? What state produced the best straight edge bands? Hardcore life lessons AND beating up children.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 4 February 2025

Hits, both certified and future, including LIFE'S HALT, INTO ANOTHER, NERVE AGENTS, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 1 February 2025

We decided to give 2024 a chance to air out before we inspected it. Now time to put the spotlight on some releases you may've missed. Also, dropping tours, old fella callouts, the return of Hellfest, and more! RIP to a real one RICH HALL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 28 January 2025

Your weekly dose, featuring music from INGROWN, LETHAL, PARANOIAC and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 25 January 2025

Solid core talk. The surprise of realizing a band has more hype than you thought, to the surprise of realizing a band has lost some of that hype. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 21 January 2025

Music. Hardcore, music. SPLEEN, JUST US, FREEZE OUT, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2025

Los Angeles on our minds. And because we're damaged, that means Los Angeles hardcore also on our minds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2025

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Transcribed - Published: 12 January 2025

Are we getting worse at hardcore by getting better at music? Also, horseshoe hate. And say it ain't so, Skip! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 7 January 2025

It's the end of the year and we celebrate by having a chat about emerging rapcore and democore trends. A sentence I never believed I'd type. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 31 December 2024

The joys of anonymity, what it means to be a fraud, a lesson in trolling, and our gift to you: half a radio episode where we play some ripping hardcore. Thanks for a good year, fam. Stay safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 24 December 2024