Episodes
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634 Have a Good Life!
This week I'm talking about the Panic Attack video. Darren Doane and I put it together and we shot the whole thing in one day around Bremerton. It's all DIY, it's all real. The Pokinatcha Punk has taken over my life, so he's in there too. I also tell the story of getting pulled over by the cops...
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633 PX Takeover | Mike Herrera Podcast
Panic Attack is out everywhere, and Living in the Chaos is out January 29. We talk about the new song and album but also, Before Everything & After and Let It Happen, Marcy Playground, Ted Lasso and my first time in Montreal and more. I also share some stories about Chad Gilbert from New Found...
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632 Bigger Than One of Us
Voicemails and real mail. I read a poem from Scott Laudati's book Rainbow Road, and Nate sends a package. A listener calls in after retiring from the Navy, and Shannon "The Cannon" McCannon sings "Disaster." And check out mxpx.com. Living in the Chaos pre-order starts Wednesday, October 21. Full...
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631 Howi Spangler / Ballyhoo! | Mike Herrera Podcast
My guest this week is Howi Spangler. Singer, guitar player and founder of Ballyhoo! out of Aberdeen, Maryland. We talk about their new album, Bad Summer, and making it with John Feldmann. And of course, a lot more... Make sure you guys follow @ballyhoorocks, and check out Bad Summer. They're on...
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630 Music Monday Energy | Mike Herrera Podcast
It's Music Monday. Can you feel the energy? I'm playing songs you guys sent in. Thirteen this week, including Absenter, the new band from my buddy Jeff Bettger of Ninety Pound Wuss, and The Jack Knives, friends of the show. Want your song on Music Monday? Join the Mike Herrera Podcast Facebook...
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629 Stephen Egerton | Mike Herrera Podcast
My guest this week is Stephen Egerton. If you don't know Stephen, you should. He's the guitar player in the Descendents and legendary band ALL, and a good friend of mine. His new solo record, I Think You're Overthinking This, was recorded at Abbey Road. Yes that one. We talk about making it and...
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628 Stack Those Wins | Mike Herrera Podcast
Your voicemails this week. We talk about the new Social Distortion album, Born to Kill, and MxPx in the UK, including the sold-out London show I got too sick to play. Shout out to Hopzingers hot sauce. We're at Warped Tour Orlando November 15. Good Things Festival in Australia, December 4 in...
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Evolution of Mike | 627
Back from Milan and Punkadeka Festival, so I get into the trip and the food first. Then your calls. A listener in Athens asks if you can be a real fan of a band you have never seen live. A caller who watched our Warped Tour set asks about my voice, so I go through sleep, hydration, and how I prep...
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626 Perfect Time Capsule | Mike Herrera Podcast
All voicemails this week. Rich calls in about the MxPx documentaries and why fans want more of them. Jacob is early in his career and wants to know what mistakes to avoid. Lawrence checks in from Dodge City. Jackson asks about our B-sides. JJ wants to talk about beaches in the Pacific Northwest,...
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625 Rufio | Mike Herrera Podcast
My guests this week are Rufio. Scott Sellers, Clark Domae and Taylor Albaugh, the whole band. They've got a new EP out called From the Outside, their first new music in 16 years. The single is Maps. We talk about anxiety, why they're not touring, and the time a promoter stranded them in Peru.…
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624 Music Monday Lives
Music Monday is back after a summer of guest episodes. We've got clips from Flailing Idiot, The Cherry Bombs, Burning Out, Common Perry, Michael Bush, Stealing Lions, Arrows vs. Empires, Manuel BHG, Post Drome, Limp Wizurdz, Cliffhanger, Games We Play, Shitison, Chris Berseth, Hellish Nightmare...
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623 Si Short - The Jack Knives
Si Short from the Jack Knives is my guest this week. He grew up in England, moved to the States at 22, and now lives in Southern California. He took 10 years off from bands, started writing again in Hawaii, and the Jack Knives grew out of Thursday night jams into a fully independent band playing...
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622 Mike Frazier
My guest this week is Mike Frazier, a singer-songwriter from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. He lives in Seattle now. The first time he was here was his first podcast ever, 10 years ago. We talk about the two years of symptoms nobody could figure out, the brain surgery, and April Days, the…
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621 Bill Stevenson Descendents / ALL
Bill Stevenson is on the show. He's the drummer for legendary punk bands Descendents and ALL, he also played in Black Flag, and he produced our first live album, MxPx - At the Show. We get into songwriting, how he stays fast behind the kit at 62, the early Black Flag days, and taking his son…
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620 The Dwarves | Blag Dahlia
Blag Dahlia returns for his third time on the podcast. The Dwarves have a new album out called Jenkem, and Blag explains exactly what the title refers to, which I immediately regret. From there we run through the worst heat wave in European history, arguing about flat earth with your own bass...
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619 Larry and His Flask
My guest this week is Larry and His Flask. Got three of the guys: Ian Cook, Jeshua Marshall, and Jamin Marshall. If you don't know them, they're an Americana punk band out of Bend, Oregon, and they're back after seven years off the road. We talk about busking, how they went from an electric punk...
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618 What's Up Doc?
Gearing up for Warped Tour Long Beach, and how Warped Tour meet-and-greets work. Cyrus calls in with questions about our documentaries, It Came From Bremerton, B-Movie, and Both Ends Burning, and I walk through how each one came together. Shannon calls in and sings her own version of "Wrecking...
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617 The Happy Birthday Episode
Happy birthday to MxPx! But age doesn't matter unless you're a cheese or so they say. Mike marks it by telling the full story of how the band got started in 1992: a rented Flying V, a garage-sale snare drum, and a drummer who'd barely played before their first practice. One week later, MxPx…
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616 Punk Rock Pizza Boy
What is up with you guys? We got a great episode this week. We played Warped Tour in DC, I played the World Cup fan zone in downtown Bremerton, the town I grew up in, and we announced the new MxPx album, Living in the Chaos. Then I got into your voicemails and ended up telling a bunch of stories...
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615 Ryan Holiday (Daily Stoic) | Mike Herrera Podcast
My guest this week is Ryan Holiday. If you don't know Ryan, he's an author and a friend of mine. He writes about philosophy, strategy, and life. We talk about what it's like being an artist, being a writer, the quirks of it, and how you deal with it. Make sure you guys follow Ryan, and check out...
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614 Summer Slammer
I'm catching up on your voicemails, podcast stickers are here, and MxPx is on every Vans Warped Tour date this summer and fall. Amelia asked what video games I play, which took me from Pong through Zelda, Skate or Die, Mortal Kombat, Madden, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater. I was a fan before we were…
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613 Music Monday Spring Edition
613 Music Monday Spring Edition This week is all about Music Monday. Before the songs, a few updates: MxPx is going on the full Warped Tour (Washington DC this weekend) and on Friday I'm playing an acoustic set in downtown Bremerton (June 12 @ 5pm) for the Bremerton fan zone party. Just got back...
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612 Mike "The Pike" Moen - Neutralboy
Moen is back from the Bremerton woods with Neutralboy's latest Rock Polishing Machine. Vinyl-only. No streaming, no YouTube, no digital. Moen's been living off-grid for a year. No internet, no neighbors, half-mile walk to the end of the driveway. We get into what a year of homesteading has done…
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611 No Doubt In My Mind
No Doubt's been doing their Sphere residency out in Vegas, and man, it gives me FOMO! Telling the whole story of when MxPx opened for them way back in 1997, our first bus tour ever. That bus got stuck on an elevated road and that was the last time we had it. The three feet of stage we had to play...
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610 Dose of Nostalgia
What a week. Heading to the UK with Goldfinger for Slam Dunk Festival, and then we kick off our Warped Tour run in DC on June 14. Come see me Friday June 12, downtown Bremerton, free solo acoustic set in the World Cup fan zone, big screen game starts right after. And September 5, MxPx is…
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609 Fourth Corner Punk Fest - Jesse Goodwin
Sat down with Jesse Goodwin, who runs Fourth Corner Punk Fest in Bellingham, Washington. Pennywise, Bouncing Souls, Suicide Machines, and The Vandals are headlining July 18 and 19. Jesse walks through the lineup (also playing are Good Riddance, Authority Zero, Bad Cop, Bad Cop, Diesel Boy, Bite…
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608 Star Wars Lore and More
May the 4th be with you. Brand new episode 608. Got into Star Wars this week - the original trilogy versus the prequels. Four, five, six are the movies I grew up on. That's the trilogy, will die on that hill. Tried to explain what an Ewok was to my kid the other day. Best I could do was little…
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607 Think Funny
This week I'm flying solo on the pod with show announcements and a round of your voicemails. Free Subscriber Sticker Link: https://forms.gle/kwYDM93UvCGgCdhp9 (While Supplies Last) Tour news includes a solo acoustic set at the World Cup fan zone in downtown Bremerton on Friday, June 12 (free as…
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606 Reach Out All Night
Mike just got back from Denver and he's not done with your voicemails. Episode 606 wraps up the meet-and-greet conversation from Episode 604 with fan stories that span 1995 to today, plus cover song what-ifs, Screeching Weasel split ideas, show intros, and turning 40. Fresh off the Mission…
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605 You Spoke Up - The Pod Community Responds
Episode 605 opens with Mike addressing the wave of community response to last week's meet and greet voicemail, making clear this isn't a pile-on. It's a conversation. This week: Mike opens with a direct message to Michael, apologizing for how big the story blew up and inviting him to come on the...
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604 AITAH For Ruining Everything? A Scathing Review
Solo episode. One very critical voicemail, one very fun one, and one about books. Plus: East Coast tour is done, Denver is next, and new MxPx album is getting close. This week: The Find a Way Home Tour with The Ataris wraps up after DC, Norfolk, Charlotte, and Charleston. Mike recaps all four…
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603 Starved Naked Cold and Wet
603 Starved Naked Cold and Wet Free Form Fun This week: Joe from St. Pete calls in about the Seahawks Super Bowl win (Mike is absolutely not over it), shouts out Clint Gresham, and recaps the Jannus Live show with Goldfinger, Zebrahead, Unwritten Law, and sullvn. Dave from Omaha asks about the…
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#602 The Business of Living
The Business of Living Diving deeper into how things get done and more. Questions or comments? Leave a voicemail: 360-830-6660 X/Twitter: twitter.com/mikeherreraTD Facebook: facebook.com/mikeherreraTD Instagram: instagram.com/mikeherreraTD MXPX.com: mxpx.com UPCOMING MxPx SHOWS: Mar 27 -- 9:30...
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601 Rev on The Drowns
Ep 601. Rev on The Drowns We talked about obsession, debt, making art for yourself, and the new Drowns album recorded with Bill Stevenson at The Blasting Room. Also: Zach Blair shreds on a track, Matt Hensley plays accordion, and Rev asks me why Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo is the AC/DC of...
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#600 Yuri Ruley
#600 Yuri Ruley on Drumming and more. Fixing our Hospitality Rider Van's Warped Tour stories Yuri's Pre and mid show mindset Early days of MxPx and going a band New MxPx Album Merch: mxpx.com Any questions or comments 1-360-830-6660 MXPX is coming! MAR with The Ataris -Thursday March 26 -...
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599 State of the Music Monday
It's a full Music Monday episode. Submissions came in from all over — Spokane, Quebec City, Toronto, Arizona, Japan, and more. Each Artist gets a listen and a real reaction. Before the music, Mike explains the new submission process: post your music in the comments of the pinned Music Monday post...
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598 The Ever Passing Process
Ep 598: The Ever Passing Process Also: Rich from Northeast Washington shows off his new Sterling by Music Man signature bass, and Mike floats Rich's idea of custom MxPx picks in the store. State of my world... Then JP from Michigan asks about the difference between recording with Steve Kravac and...
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597 QUESTIONS on Singing, AI and the solo acoustic private show era
QUESTIONS How hard do I sing live? MxPx and Goldfinger shows New and Old fans are the best Is AI drinking all our water? The Solo Acoustic era This week from the Mike Herrera Podcast Facebook Group and your voicemails. Any questions or comments 1-360-830-6660 MXPX is coming! MAR with The Ataris...
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596 Tips for New (& not so new) Bands
596 Tips for New (& not so new) Bands Real advice for those starting a new band, Naming some names, Sports talk, Recipe for Success, Songwriting, Band Updates Any questions or comments 1-360-830-6660 MXPX is coming! MAR with The Ataris -Thursday March 26 - Washington DC at 9:30 Club -Friday March...
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595 Music Monday Bowl
Music Monday Bowl 1. First Natural – Walking Several Miles Listen on YouTube 2. Belgravia DieNasty – New Track Submitted by Brock Jeffries Watch on YouTube 3. The Disorderlies – Get Up (Track starts around 0:40) Watch on YouTube 4. Your Honor – Red Dress (Chorus hits around 1:20) Watch on YouTube...
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594 Legendary Replacements
Huge Weekend complete! Tapping into the greatness of the MXPX community Bootlegs? Seattle Sports, professional sports, legendary trades and how it relates to band members coming and going. Any questions or comments 1-360-830-6660 MXPX is coming! MARCH with The Ataris -Thursday March 26…
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All About That Bass #593
My first bass was Peavey T-40 and my latest bass guitar is the Orange Creamsicle. The Mike Herrera Artist Series StingRay is instantly recognizable — a bass shaped by decades on the road with MxPx. Mike Herrera brings his signature style to the classic StingRay with passive electronics…
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592 Anesthesia Amnesia
This week -The Hiester - What would you want if it could be anything? I may have gotten this all wrong! -Connecting with people through your favorite bands and songs -My first bass - Peavy T-40 from Charleston Pawn for $175 USD. My mom paid for half. Stranger Things Finale Talk and more Any...
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591 Punk Rock Logistics
591 Punk Rock Logistics This week - Seattle Sports and the Seahawks are the #1 seed Division Champs! Logistics - A little peak into how we make shows happen from city to city And more… Stack those memories. Any questions or comments 1-360-830-6660 MXPX is coming! 2026 JAN with The Suicide…
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590 Freakish Thumb
A double year in review by Stiggs McQueen. -Holidays, Shows and the upcoming new year. -Cover songs, permissions and more! Correction- I said the thumb photo was from the let it happen artwork but it was from the 10 years and running back side artwork. Any questions or comments 1-360-830-6660…
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589 Concert Tickets, Tattoos & a Schmooze
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidaze! This week! -Favorite Christmas songs -Concert ticketing and service fees -Talkin' Tattoos Any questions or comments 1-360-830-6660 MXPX is coming! 2026 JAN with The Suicide Machines -Friday January 9 - Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom -Saturday January 10 -...
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588 Touring - Then and Now
-Why did bands explode in the 90's.? -Touring - Let's go through some of the day to day, ups, and downs of touring at the very beginning of MxPx, the middle and the present day way we tour. -Special tribute to Seattle's Kevin Diers, a radio DJ at KISW whom made mark on the Seattle Music scene.…
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587 Introvert - How to overcome crippling Social Anxiety
THIS WEEK!| -The Octi PX fuzz pedal by Keeley Your calls on -How to be a front person when you're an introvert Step 1: Practice so much that you that succeeding just comes natural. Step 2: Stay focused mentally Step 3: Stay in the zone. Channel bad vibes into positive energy. Don't think about…
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586 BOY HOWDY MUSIC MONDAY
We got another action packed Music Monday for you this week! 1. Steven Rovery – American Television Song: You Are Not Alone (Title Track) EP: Upcoming release on Smartpunk Note: "Good song. Good video. Do it again." — Mike Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ncU9DQcFa8 2. Dan Heller – Suspect...
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585 Desert Island Albums
Desert Island Albums 585 This week we tackle a hard topic. My top 5 favorite desert island albums. This was so hard. Also add my favorite MXPX album to the list of tea time topics. We also talk about Religious Halloween, Big Foot, The Bremerton Werewolf and more. MXPX is coming! DEC -Saturday...
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