Unscripted Moments: A Podcast About Propagandhi

The unhinged era continues. 

Todd's Incredibly Professional Station ID for 4ZZZ Brisbane is track 10 on Where Quantity is Job #1.

Watch Propagandhi perform at 4ZZZ Brisbane in 1997: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRFDQPkN1Bc

Bad Egg is a band thats dressed all over Southern Ontario, 401 Authority.

Listen to Bad Egg: https://badegg.bandcamp.com/

Without Love is fast, melodic and passionate hardcore from the North of England. On this episode, John and I discuss Potemkin City Limits, A Speculative Fiction, and Mate Ka Moris Ukun Rasik An.

Listen: https://withoutlovehc.bandcamp.com/album/surrender-ep

Frank Zed is a musician and teacher in Quebec, Canada! He performs music under the moniker "That Lullaby Guy," as well as "You, Me, and the Dummy Dummies," and more!

Listen to That Lullaby Guy: https://frankzed.bandcamp.com/album/that-lullaby-guy-no-use-for-a-nap

Listen to You, Me, and the Dummy Dummies: https://frankzed.bandcamp.com/album/dee-zed-and-the-dummy-dummies

Timestamps:

00:00-32:40: Introduction

32:40-47:00: Interview with Todd Kowalski

47:03-END: Greg and Steve

Sunaya Sapurji is a senior editor for The Athletic in Canada. Previously, she has worked as a junior hockey reporter and editor for the Toronto Star and Yahoo Sports. Sunaya Sapurji is a senior editor for The Athletic in Canada.

Read "When Hockey Became Hardcore": https://theathletic.com/832937/2019/08/08/hardcore/

Visit Sunaya Sapurji's profile at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/author/sunaya-sapurji/

00:00-34:00: Exclusive Unscripted Moments section

34:00-41:20: a collection of covers snippets from various bands (list below)

41:25-END: Full interview with Aaron Carnes about In Defense of Ska: Ska Now More Than Ever Edition

Covers by:

Flavia Plambon, DSM5, Bam Margera (lol), Nos Atacan, Skabel, Never Found, Breakfast Formula, MiddleFinger, Untitled artist, CSKA, This is the Band, The Dancing Pandas, unnamed "artist," Beer7, Brutal Assault, Bubble Fish, Side Arm Girl Thrower, Against All Authority, Big D and the Kids Table

David Guillas (guitar) and Ryan Nash (bass) are 2/3 of the Winnipeg instrumental trio Agassiz. On this episode, we discuss each track of their new record, Pulse 1D. 

Listen to Agassiz: https://agassiz.bandcamp.com/album/pulse-1d

Introduction- 00:00-34:00

Josh Robbins cover: 34:00-37:00

Hoss Bossman cover: 37:00-40:30

Michael Walmsley cover: 40:30-43:30

Dr. Shane Singh interview: 47:40-1:43:40

Hoss Bossman interview: 1:46:00-2:30:40

Greg & Steve: 2:31:10-3:16:03

Ryan O'Nan interview: 3:18:45-END

Cover clips between 3:12:00-3:13:40 by Explain, Aiden, and Jazzmaster Jesus. 

Pat Dietrich plays drums and sings with Handheld and sings and plays guitar in Curbside.

Listen to Handheld: https://thousandislandsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-canadian-tragedy

Listen to Curbside: https://curbsidepunk.bandcamp.com/

Griffin Coyne plays guitar in the Buffalo hardcore band Selfish Act and the Buffalo punk band G.O.A. On this episode, we discuss the Buffalo scene, Dear Coach's Corner, Without Love, and Devil's Creek. 

Selfish Act: https://linktr.ee/selfishact716

G.O.A. https://linktr.ee/RealGOA

Zack of Del Paxton joins me to discuss Del Paxton's history, their record "Auto Locator," and his love of Duplicate Keys Icaro, Note to Self, and Things I Like from Failed States.

Listen to Del Paxton: https://delpaxton.bandcamp.com/album/auto-locator

Follow Del Paxton: https://www.instagram.com/delpaxtonbuffalo/

DEL PAXTON BIO

Buffalo’s Del Paxton recorded their second full length Auto Locator straight to tape over three cloudy days in a solar powered barn, somewhere in New York’s Finger Lakes. Named for the rewind mechanism on the reel to reel tape machine on which the band tracked the album, Auto Locator coils up the chemical trails of ribbon binding old places and head spaces to our consciousness. Static and hiss leach between analog track layers, blurring the normal and paranormal to remind us that no memory is totally separate from a fiction – just like no drum track is totally separate from bass.

Over Auto Locator’s ten songs, Del Paxton rip shit like a band entering their second decade of existence. On-the-nose opener “Freight Train Metaphor” throws listeners face first into the band’s first album since 2017, with a syncopated pulse and arpeggiating guitar foreshadowing a record replete with punkish, serpentine composition. “Up With a Twist,” the album’s lead track, deals in Del Paxton’s crashing punk vibrance, through which the band explores and laments the uninspired architecture of American sprawl.

Second single “Chart Reader”, whose origins trace back to a psychedelic dream inspired by Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music, sees the trio dabbling in emo Americana, even featuring a nod to John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” Such unashamed references abound throughout Auto Locator, which takes further inspiration from bands like Mock Orange, Third Eye Blind, and Jimmy Eat World, all of whose influence is clear on “Palpitations” and third single “Spiritual Gymnastics.”

Del Paxton’s mix of nostalgic references aims to serve as their primary tool for exploring the contemporary, resulting in a post mortem of the American Empire. Whether intentional or otherwise, it’s an appropriate result for the Upstate NY trio, whose self-awareness feels like a main component of Auto Locator, a feature as crucial to the band as the eponymous tool they used to record their music.

text by Joe McGrath and William Osiecki 

Fred van Schie is the marketing manager for Etnies Footwear. 

Introduction: 00:00-28:32

I Was a Pre-Teen McCarthyist: 28:32-42:26

Resisting Tyrannical Government: 42:40-51:46

A Speculative Fiction: 51:46-1:05:00

Failed Imagineer: 1:05:00-END

John Samson Fellows is well known as a member of The Weakerthans, Propagandhi, and as a solo artist. John currently makes music and crafts under the moniker Vivat Virtute with Christine Fellows.

Vivat Virtute Bandcamp: https://vivatvirtute.bandcamp.com/

https://www.vivatvirtute.com/

Episode cover art adapted by Jamie Fougere from Agnes Martin, The Islands, 1961. 

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to Josh Robbins for committing to this project! This is beyond amazing, hilarious, insane, and unhinged. You've done something that makes me really happy, Josh!

Best wishes,

Greg

Introduction: 00:00-32:30

Adam Huff cover: 32:30-34:00

Steve and Greg: 34:00-1:33:23

?????? - 1:33:23-End

Introduction: 00:00-4:00

John Wright conversation: 4:00-1:14:00

Mark Miller is a photographer in Buffalo, New York. 

Follow Mark Miller's photography on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hmniphoto/

Read the 25th Anniversary Brooklyn Vegan article featuring Mark's Propagandhi photos: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/propagandhis-less-talk-more-rock-at-25-a-retrospective/

Mike Hansen plays in Hotel Etiquette, Gatto Black, and Pentimento from Buffalo, New York. 

Hotel Etiquette:

https://www.triplehammerrecords.com/hoteletiquette

https://www.instagram.com/hoteletiquette/

Pentimento: https://www.instagram.com/pentimentony/

Gatto Black: https://www.instagram.com/gattoblk/