Turned Out A Punk
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Punk history, one obsessive conversation at a time.
Turned Out A Punk treats punk less like a genre than a chain reaction. Damian Abraham talks with musicians, writers, and comedy-world outsiders about the records, local scenes, touring memories, and strange cultural crossovers that changed their lives.
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Turned Out A Punk is a long-running interview show about punk’s aftershocks. Its center is conversation, but its real subject is connection. Damian Abraham talks with guests from bands, books, comedy, hardcore, alternative rock, and underground culture, then follows the names as they stack up: labels, first shows, local magazines, record stores, producers, tour bills, and bands that almost made sense only to the people who were there. The show can start with a bucket-list guest and end up in the machinery of an old record deal. It can begin with Snapcase and drift through Buffalo hardcore, Uniform Choice, Slapshot, Seven Seconds, and the tension between staying hardcore and changing shape. It can approach The Tragically Hip as a Canadian phenomenon, then settle into Paul Langlois talking about luck, friendship, writing, and joining a band before the scale of it was imaginable. With Melissa Auf der Maur, the frame widens from Hole, Smashing Pumpkins, and Tinker into Montreal history and 90s culture. With Jason White, East Bay punk becomes a lived ecosystem of Lookout, Maximum Rocknroll, warehouse jobs, local shorthand, and bands remembered through old descriptions. With Frank Carter, the charge around Gallows, touring, Rattlesnakes, Pure Love, and Sex Pistols work becomes part of the same punk lineage. The show is at its best when it lets a guest be precise. It likes origin stories, but not in a polished documentary way. It wants the awkward first band, the blown chance, the label pressure, the scene gossip, the friend who got the job at the punk label, and the moment a sound stopped being theoretical. There are tangents, corrections, gushing introductions, and occasional rough edges. That looseness is part of the point. Turned Out A Punk makes punk feel less like a museum category than a living network of people still comparing notes, still correcting the map, and still excited that a record could change the whole room.
Made for: For listeners who want punk, hardcore, alternative rock, and underground culture told through specific people and scenes rather than tidy overview. It suits record collectors, scene historians, band-lore completists, and anyone who enjoys interviews that follow the tangent until it pays off.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its density: it does not just profile guests, it maps the bands, labels, local scenes, and forgotten connective tissue around them. The conversations feel informal, but the reference level is unusually deep.
Damian Abraham has been many things... the singer of a critically acclaimed band, a failed VJ and food network host, one of the minds behind TV's "The Wrestlers", parent of 3... and undeniably, a punk music obsessive. Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978... PUNK!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed questioning turns punk recollection into a working history of scenes, records, careers and contested ideas about hardcore.
Damian Abraham treats an interview as a chance to reconstruct the networks around a musician: formative records, local scenes, changing sounds and the practical choices that shaped a career. His preparation gives the conversations unusual specificity.
Damian Abraham traces punk lineage until your mental record shelf needs another room.
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Rachel Love's visit is a scene-rich conversation about Dolly Mixture, solo records, and making records on their own terms.
Rachel Love's visit follows the thread of how Dolly Mixture and her solo records altered Damien Abraham's idea of punk, with Pitcher in Mind and Lyra drawing renewed attention through Slumberland Records reissues.
A fan-led hardcore conversation that turns Buffalo scene memory into a vivid Snapcase story.
Daryl Taberski's turn on Turned Out A Punk is a loose, welcoming conversation about Buffalo hardcore and Snapcase. Damien Abraham wears his fan status on his sleeve and keeps circling back to the records, the first 7-inch, and the early shows that shaped the band, which gives…
A plainspoken look at The Tragically Hip's scale, luck, and staying power.
Paul Langlois is the anchor here, mostly because the conversation treats The Tragically Hip as something lived with rather than mythologized. It keeps circling back to the luck around his first band, and that gives the story a plainspoken feel that works well.
A restless punk-world conversation that moves from record-store memory to Berlin politics, Eraserhead sound, and a sincere Twin Peaks tribute.
Turned Out of Punk Splits brings Jamie Stewart and Kevin Heggie back for a lively, roaming conversation that keeps one foot in record-store culture and another in more difficult political terrain.
Hardcore history that keeps scene memory, labels, and DIY ethics in the same frame.
This Turned Out A Punk Classic works best when Jamey Jasta treats hardcore as a living scene, not a label. The conversation moves through Quicksand, Gorilla Biscuits, Infest, Vorhees, Man Is the Bastard, and Rorschach, then ties them back to the Connecticut DIY network that…
Joe Wong interviews drummers and musicians about craft, history, and the working musician's life.
Records, careers and arguments, weighed by people who listen closely.
Rachel Love traces Dolly Mixture back to hearing the Ramones in 1976 through her brother Andrew, then to forming the band in February 1978 after being asked to play a party.
Damien Abraham brings on Daryl Taberski of Snapcase as a Buffalo hardcore legend.
Damian Abraham opens with Paul Langlois and The Tragically Hip.
Host Damian Abraham interviews Melissa Auf der Maur about her new book 'Even the Good Girls Will Cry', discussing her music career with bands like Hole and Smashing Pumpkins, her family's cultural significance in Montreal, and 90s music and culture.
Turned Out A Punk brings Jamie Stewart of Shoo Shoo and documentarian Kevin Hegge together to compare punk histories, creative scenes, and their earlier connections.
Damian Abraham interviews Larry Charles about his connection to punk music and its impact on his life and work.
Damian Abraham interviews musician Jason White about his career and punk music influence.
Damian Abraham interviews Frank Carter about his career in punk bands including Gallows and Sex Pistols.
Damian Abraham interviews comedian Josh Sharp, discussing punk rock history and crowd work.
Host Damian Abraham interviews Greg Turkington about his punk music journey and career.
Host Damian Abraham interviews Jordan Dreyer of La Dispute about their new album and punk's impact on their life.
Damian Abraham chats with a guest about their holidays and recent punk shows, setting up a discussion on punk's influence.
Host Damian Abraham interviews influential hardcore vocalist Jack 'Choke' Kelly about his career and impact on punk music.
Host Damian Abraham interviews Ryan and Gary Jarman of The Cribs about their new album and tour, discussing punk's impact on their lives.
Host Damian Abraham interviews musician Justice Tripp about his punk and hardcore background and upcoming Angel Dust Money record.
Host Damian Abraham interviews Fletcher Drag from Pennywise about a new Motorhead tribute album and their long friendship.
Host Damian Abraham interviews musician Mo Berg about his career and the influence of punk music.
Host Damian Abraham interviews Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys about their new album and tour.
Host Damian Abraham interviews musician Alan Sparhawk about his career with Low, his solo work, and the influence of punk music.
Host Damian Abraham interviews Chris Candy about his father John Candy and his work on punk documentaries.
Host Damian Abraham interviews Peter Morén from the band Peter, Bjorn and John about punk music, their 19th anniversary tour for the album Writer's Block, and the subgenre Swindy.
This episode features an interview with the band Ho99o9, discussing their new album 'Incline', upcoming tour, and reflections on music trends over the past eight years.
Jamey Jasta traces his punk and hardcore start to The Moon in New Haven, Connecticut, where he saw Mohawks, studded jackets, and Doc Martens while his family was going to VA therapy in West Haven.
Damian Abraham interviews David Sandstrom of Refused about his prolific music career and the band's final tour.
Host Damian Abraham interviews comedian Fast Ronald about punk rock, shared memories, and recent losses in the punk community.
Damian Abraham interviews Kevin Martin of Candlebox, discussing punk rock connections and apologizing for previous skepticism.
This episode features an interview with artist Brian Walsby, discussing his work with bands like Scared Straight and Wwax, and exploring punk music connections.
Host Damian Abraham interviews Steve Miller, vocalist of the hardcore band The Fix and author, discussing his new book on The Laughing Hyenas and punk music history.
Host Damian Abraham interviews comedian Kyle Gordon about his viral parody songs and comedy career.
Damien Abraham interviews Pelle Almqvist from The Hives about how punk music changed their lives and their experiences in the music industry.