AXE TO GRIND PODCAST

Do you prefer the legitimate article, or something good? These are your only options with a reunion show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back and this time we brought flowers. And by flowers we mean a boatload of new tracks, featuring BURNING LORD, JUMP BALL, WOUNDED TOUCH, EXISTENCE OF HATE, ULTIMATE DISASTER, G.U.N., CAPE CRUSH, ADHERENCE, STRIKEFORCE, HOME FRONT, and EXIT LIFE. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How much lore does a working man need? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A workman's like efficiency in delivering this week's hot music. Call us the Culligan Man, maybe your favorite post office employee, or even the Witchita Lineman... because we're still on the line. Featuring RAW PEACE, SHAVED APE, RIVERBED, DEMOCRACY, CITIZEN, BIG LAUGH, MORAL POLLUTION and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most hyped show of the year, FOR OLD PEOPLE? Taco Truth. Tom yells! Boo this man! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back to it with so much new you're gonna need to buy a basket. Tracks with no filler including heat from STINGRAY, GUV, SQUINT, BAD BREEDING, X FOREVER WAR X, YLEISET SYYT, UNITED STARE, STEP 2 THIS, NEAUX, SUBLIMINAL EXCESS, and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Vogel joins us to talk hardcore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's the sound of hardcore in 2026? Is there just one? Hell nah, what are you thinking. We explore the patchwork of punk hc this year with tracks from HAYWIRE, BAD BEAT, ANGEL DU$T, COLLATERAL, BETON ARME, POISON RUIN, SPEED, SCARAB, C4, DRAIN, FATAL REALM, FENTANYL, HOME FRONT, NEOLITHIC, and COMBUST.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Community, for good and bad. Is Bold ever discussed? You'll have to listen to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Up and down, round and round. Got some songs for the new, the old, and everything in between. Tracks from MILE END, SWEAT, PRIME SUSPECT, ANGUISH CRY, LOT IN LIFE, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RIP Bo. Guest cohost Patrick Flynn. And a new song premiere from NC monsters A KNIFE IN THE DARK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here for everyone who is down and feeling it. Be good to one another and to yourself. New music from HOLY DOSE, FIB, MR. RADICAL, DEMENTED FX, TOLLS, FIGHTBACK, DIVISION OF MIND, SUBJECTS, GROTTO and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lyrics? Huh! What are they good for? (Absolutely nothing!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hot stove episode, we got that new heat, we got that smoldering ancient lava heat, and we got that warm pie on the window sill perfection... songs from '82 INFERNO, TURN OF PHRASE, SQUARE ONE, MAYAKOVSKY, START TODAY, CURE FOR YOUTH, LATEST GOD, CONSUMER CULTURE, BIRDLEGS and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does subculture mean anything anymore? Or did we just buy cat ears and a DRI shirt on Amazon? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A spritzer, a mixer, a full on blended concoction, merely a cacophony of sound for you to consume. Something like that. New music up and down from the likes of REEK MINDS, CIRCA 40, XTOBEARX, SCREAMING FIST, GRIMOIRE, BAD WORLD, THE CROSSES, and a couple two or three old diamonds to round it out. Let's go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Take or Leave, but with SERIOUS consequences. We're erasing bands from history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are we Post-Everything? Or just putting new spins on old webs? What songs pull you in, or rip you out, or make you erupt outta your seat? Here's some, including NOI!SE, TRIED, SECLUSION, BLOODSTAINS, OUTNUMBERED, DEAF CLUB, FIGURINE, BEZETTE STAD and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Nermal a femboy? Bellybutton watch. Bold. And a premiere from Oakland stompers STRAGGLER! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes you need that old fuzzy, familiar blanket. AND SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO GO BUY A NEW BLANKET. New tunes for the new you, it's 2026, find something new to love. Featuring IRON CRUSADERS, TAR, ONIONIZM, STRAGGLER, WEDNESDAY, POISON RUIN, ELIMINATORS, HEAVENLY BLUE, CHANCERS, YANKEE BASTARD, THE DOGS, ATTRITION. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barbershop talk about who is fastest, hardest, and heaviest. Plus, a premiere from a fresh LAMENT reissue! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Has it been a long week or a short week? When is there ever a regular week? Can we get a regular week maybe? What we DO have is your weekly dose of dope songs, including ZERO MOB, BAD SPORTS, xGAARGOYLEx, GUNNER, DIMENSION, OVERHAND, and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hardcore questions come fast and furious, from the basics "YoT or Judge?" to the heady "does this sh*t have a future?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How many songs on this episode are you interested in? Should I start letting AI write these intros? Do you need a quantitative number to make something great? Songs from MANIK, FLESH COMMODITY, WORLD I HATE, HITMEN, PERRO MUNDO, REASON WHY, STAND TALL, FIXED GAME, B.O.R.N. and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The most brilliant minds in hardcore show promotion join Tom for a roundtable of wisdom and whimsy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maybe 80% less wiley talk but still 100% tracks on tracks. New music and hopefully some new to you from acts including LOOSE LEASH, CRUSH YOUR SOUL, ENKASED, KILLING PACE, THE MASTER'S CALL, SEE IT THROUGH and 6 more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk Converge. In depth. And detail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I stay on, I stay on, where do I get off? Well not here, not this week, we got tracks to farm. From this week's yield we got STARING CONTEST, REJECT MODERNITY, FAR AWAY, HEAD CRACK, EN LA MUERTE, GLORY, BLOCKADE, and more. Lets go.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An oldhead stops by with some questions. What's a Grammy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just a lot of good music, is that enough? IT IS. So let's get it with tracks from SPIKEPIT, NIGHTFEEDER, GYLT, RITUAL DISORDER, LOSE SIGHT, GALLOP, FINAL GASP, INFILTRATORS and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A lot going on in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We go in a lot of directions but that's how you grow in a lot of directions, right? Hear something new, something old, something stage dive, something chill with this batch, which includes VIOLENT PROTEST, THE CONSEQUENCE, DAISY CHAIN, CARTOON, SPY, BAD BREEDING, RIFLE, LAST ORDER, KNUMEARS, ALL 4 ALL and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Impromptu GB vs CIV debate; are we doing old guy bands dirty with the venues we put them in; when to tell someone a boring story they don't care about Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It never really dies. Plus, showing up to a 100 cap room in a bus. And how are we all seeing the world so differently? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NEW YEAR NEW EPISODES SAME GREAT TASTE. We've got the greatest and latest in hc punk adjacent and everything in between, including MESS, BULLS SHITT, NEGATIVE FORCE, REDS, TAKE STEPS, CRUELSTER, EN LOVE, COLOSSAL MAN, UTILITY and more. 2026, Let's Go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do we expect in 2026? Join us for some irresponsible speculation on the immediate future of hardcore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2025: Was it lit? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Proceed to the music station of your choice; plug in, sit with ample space for comfort and focus, while maintaining a healthy heart rate and strong posture. Enjoy this weeks' music, including CARE FREE, ALIENATOR, LIMIT OF DESTRUCTION, RED SUN, MASHAAL, END STATE, TERRITORY and more. Let's go Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why some releases GO and other's are PASSED OVER. Are we literate? Why you want union welders in your band. Why the 1995 NBA draft matters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're at the tracks store and strolling the NEW ITEMS aisle. Catch some new heat that includes SPLEEN, FADING FAST, DEFY YOU, DEADBOLT, FLORIDA MAN, PUBLIC SHAME, GAMMA, NYLON, RURAL HATE, NUCLEAR MAN, and more. Lets go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That's SIR Elton John to you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The year is winding down, the cold weather is locking in, but the hot tracks won't stop. Music for the mindful, the mindless, and the unminded, including ARESI, DRAFT DODGERS, PRICE OF REDEMPTION, FREEZE OUT, PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE, TU LA LLEVAS, ANTENNA and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New hardcore discussed in obsessive detail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We might have gotten weird, or we were just a bit wired, but who can say. There's tracks, I stand by it. Stand by with songs new and old (mostly new) from NEOLITHIC, FEELS LIKE HEAVEN, ANGEL DU$T, REMEMBER SPORTS, TOTAL FLESH, EXCIDE and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quick round of this or that to connect with our fill-in legend, Tyler Short. Talk on live shows, new core, old core, Flyover Fest, For The Children, and LDB. All that and a debut from Milwaukee’s ENERVATE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Usually we're back on the map, this week we're all over it. New bands? Check. Modern classics? Yup. Stone cold 90s banger? You got it - all that and more. Featuring IDENTITY SHOCK, ATARI, WMD, GNOSTICS, DEAD AND GONE, 411, G.A.Z.E. and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A little bonus for the Holiday. Listen now before it gets copyright claimed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It takes strength to be gentle and kind, but the internet isn't about that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're out here on the corner like a newsie flingin' tracks at you, the least you can do is drop some change in the hat. Or at least, go buy one of the records by any of these excellent bands, including CROSS, WILL TO SPEAK, SAVIOUR COMPLEX, LAUGHING CORPSE, RECOLLECTION, SNOCAPS, SIEGE COLUMN, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are SONGS hard to come by these days? Has metalcore been a pernicious influence on hardcore? Also, LDB; Brandon Boyd; and the torturous nature of album plays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices