Episode 55 - Part 2 : Nate Newtown & Jacob Bannon ( Converge )

This week on the show, not only do we have the first Part 2 with Nate Newton form Converge BUT joining him for the first time on the show is Jacob Bannon from Converge! Listen in as the three talk the shared love of punk. Sit back and enjoy the best threeway dance since Daniels, Styles, and Joe! AND stay tuned later in the week for the debut of “Turned Out A Punk Footnotes”, going deeper into some of the topics brought up in this conversation! Also talked about in this episode: -The Reality of your heroes -Social media and the older generations -The sting of social media -“Hooks and barbs” -The punk backlash vs. the mainstream music backlash -Heart attack (the magazine) Anxiety -The 90s “PCHC” scene and the pendulum swing -Here for the music -The point Converge became “real” -The Ire connection -“You are a Hardcore kid!” -Holding a grudge against bands -“Dudes have lives” -The tour that can break you -Nate meets Converge -Boston: The Tale Of Two Neighbourhoods -Metallic Hardcore and Worcester -The draw of punk -The many scenes of Boston -The dead period of mid 90’s HC -The New School Melodic Hardcore Scene -Turning Point Clones -The Loss of Regional identity -A lot of people don’t get At The Gates -Dudes from Disrupt jamming in your basement -Grief: Big in the pre-Southern Lord Records -Suppression -Who own Theologian Records? -Greenmachine: underrated doom awesomeness from Japan -Watching GISM videos -Converge and Fucked Up go to Japan…