Michael Cho joins the pod this week for a sleepy night time episode - this is Dead Ramones After Dark baby, so grab a cognac and settle into your favourite chair. We're talking 2010s straight edge icon Foundation and their final release, the Turncoat EP. In a very distracted, tangential episode, we cover the legacy of Foundation, the shortlived fanfare around them in the early 2010s, as well as the 90s hardcore revival they were at the forefront of.

Topics discussed: the Brisbane comedy scene, hecklers, dead people, NDIS, irony.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another red hot episode. Annabelle James is the best, she's so funny, and she dropped in before she heads off to Scotland forever to discuss Bane's final album (although they have been pretty active of late, so we'll see). This record does so much in such a short time, exploring the concepts of grief, both literal and figurative - the weight of 20 years resting on songs that for the most part go for less than 2 minutes. Bane are a very important band to not only the hardcore scene, but the very concept of punk and hardcore universally. They helped define the genre, and it's not often you get to watch a figurehead like this consciously say goodbye.

Topics discussed: Kim Petras, slut eras, driving

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alice Tovey is a comedian and writer for shows like Gruen and Question Everything. She's also an absolute sweetheart. We psychoanalyse Uncle Hardcore himself, Todd Jones, and get into the virtues of unhinged anger in art. Great album, great episode.

Topics discussed: white guys with dreadlocks, metal as being camp, crunchy noise.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

First episode in Dead Ramones HQ, Hastings is back to deliver his expertise on the state of the Scene (capital S) in 2012. Skinny jeans. Black vans. Grotesque designs on all your band tees. The Ghost Inside. I'm drinking haterade on this episode - I know this band is beloved in certain circles but I really couldn't find any redeeming value in this investigation. But they were a big deal, and I think it's a good snapshot of what the time period looked like.

Topics discussed: skinny jeans, Attack Attack, the various Destroy All Lines club nights around Australia, fingering, chemically straightened hair.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sophie, the other half of the genius Basecamp podcast, joins us this week to discuss everybody's favourite album, Shed by Title Fight. I thought Shed was commonly acknowledged as THE TF album, turns out it's actually Floral Green, but I don't like that one as much. I really think Shed did a lot to push the genre forward and it's imprint on the scene can still be felt today. Every new band either sounds like Title Fight or Trapped Under Ice.

Topics discussed: Pilates, Nicola Lombardi, film, Tom Hardy.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nic is on the pod! Cohost of the amazing Basecamp podcast, stand up comedian, lawyer - what can't she do!? Nic brings some awesome insights and a good lexicon of influence to discuss Ceremony's third, and arguably best, full length record. A great way to kick off the new decade of hardcore, with an album that in equal parts looks back on it's heritage, and forward to whatever comes next.

Topics discussed: poo, houses, teeth, a billion dollars.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The great and patient Tom Witcombe from the Flog Cabin podcast joins me for a great little chat. We're talking about one of my favourite ever records this week, and Tom couldn't be more ambivalent about it. I think TUI really embodied the spirit of hardcore for a period in time there, combining all the things that make it so cool - the toughness combined with the vulnerability of being a "confused kid" and this underlying punk rock rattiness beneath it all. We mainly talk about comedy I guess.

Topics discussed: comedy, thoughts VS feeling, Jeselnik, post-punk, the F-slur.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Australia's favourite nephew Luka Muller joins the pod to discuss Have Hearts's second & final record. We discuss our mindsets at the time, how this record smashed our expectations of hardcore more widely, as well as all the cool bands we were in.

Topics discussed: scents, smells, aromas, comedy.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.