Gut Feeling Podcast #18 - Ted Leo (Chisel)

Gut Feeling Podcast #31 - Jesse Gander (d.b.s. / Rain City Recorders)

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is a conversation with Jesse Gander, acclaimed producer/engineer at Vancouver’s Rain City Recorders [https://www.raincityrecorders.com/] and onetime vocalist for Lynn Valley punk teens d.b.s. [https://www.instagram.com/d.b.s.punk/], who just had a pair of albums from the Nineties pressed onto vinyl for the very first time. Throughout the talk, Jesse touches on: a recent recording project in Quebec’s cabin wilderness; learning engineering tricks from producer Cecil English (D.O.A., SNFU); crafting teenage punk songs about love, politics and the price of cheese; re-upping the represses with new art, lost recordings and drastic cuts; early shows and dangerous highway drives; d.b.s.’ famed striped t-shirts and Jesse’s stinky pair of cargo shorts; Much Music coverage, and the time one of them crashed into a skateboard bowl on national TV; reconnecting with his old bandmates for the reissue project; an upcoming live LP; how his recording career is still rooted in the punk friendships he made on tour; and more! 1995’s Tales from the Crib and 1999’s Some Boys Got It Most Men Don’t vinyl reissues are out now via Dine Alone Records [https://www.dinealonestore.com/collections/dbs?srsltid=AfmBOooHZuTa3ohmDlRO1enEvREYOjiNM4U-j5ovCN3y0ksVJqsUQMMm]. The full d.b.s. catalogue is streaming now via Boat Dreams From the Hill [https://www.instagram.com/boatdreamsmusic/]. The Gut Feeling Podcast is currently streaming through Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gut-feeling/id1537424512?utm_source=GutFeeling&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gut-feeling-podcast-14-kyle-de-ville-enact], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/1JBscRO2lmly8lNqSzCaiV?si=_yYmBTbDRs-zSIdBmKdOcA&dl_branch=1&utm_source=GutFeeling&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gut-feeling-podcast-14-kyle-de-ville-enact] and more. You can revisit a 2020 podcast conversation between Jesse and I here [https://gutfeeling.substack.com/p/gut-feeling-podcast-2-jesse-gander]. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gutfeeling.substack.com [https://gutfeeling.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Gut Feeling Podcast #30 - Mark Palm (Supercrush / Devotion)

Hello, and Happy New Year! The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is a conversation with Mark Palm, guitarist and vocalist for Seattle power-pop institution Supercrush [https://supercrush.bandcamp.com/album/following-the-taillights], and onetime vocalist and songwriter for Vancouver-to-Seattle-based heavy rock outlet Devotion [https://devotion.bandcamp.com/]. Throughout the talk, Mark hits on: new Supercrush singles and covers coming out in 2026; the band losing their HMS Studio space in the SODO district, and the grungy history of the old building; the demolition of North Vancouver’s Seylynn Hall; Devotion’s pipeline from detuned hardcore to sludging metallic groove; naming your album B*****d Son of Affluence Blues, and what your parents might think about that; obscure Canadian amps; getting someone to work your wah pedal for you; communicating solitude; neon-glow nocturnality; early work with drummer Aaron O’Neil (Lights Out, Supercrush), guitar soloist Graeme “Smokestack” Honeyman (Go It Alone, September), lead guitarist Sean Meyer (Supercrush); and more. Let’s call this one a belated Gut Feeling fifth anniversary special. You can also revisit a 2020 gear talk with Supercrush [https://gutfeeling.substack.com/p/strats-arent-just-for-blues-dads], a 2021 podcast [https://gutfeeling.substack.com/p/gut-feeling-podcast-8-mark-palm-supercrush] on Mark’s time with hardcore bands Look Inside and Reserve 34, and a 2023 podcast [https://gutfeeling.substack.com/p/gut-feeling-podcast-20-mark-palm-go-it-alone] on the beginnings of Go It Alone. The Gut Feeling Podcast is currently streaming through Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gut-feeling/id1537424512?utm_source=GutFeeling&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gut-feeling-podcast-14-kyle-de-ville-enact], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/1JBscRO2lmly8lNqSzCaiV?si=_yYmBTbDRs-zSIdBmKdOcA&dl_branch=1&utm_source=GutFeeling&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gut-feeling-podcast-14-kyle-de-ville-enact] and more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gutfeeling.substack.com [https://gutfeeling.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Gut Feeling Podcast Rewind: Joshua Brown (Ink & Dagger)

Hello, folks! No fresh Halloween interview this year, but it feels like a ripe time to revisit the first-ever Gut Feeling Podcast [https://gutfeeling.substack.com/p/gut-feeling-podcast-1-joshua-brown], which is an interview with Ink & Dagger [https://www.instagram.com/inkanddaggerofficial/] bassist Joshua Brown. Amazingly, Ink & Dagger are playing a series of four shows around Philadelphia this Halloween season (starting tonight), marking the horror-locked, psychedelic-hardcore band’s first performances since 2011. Throughout our conversation from 2020, Josh gets into: his teenage Straight Edge hardcore band Flagman, and playing with future I&D frontman Sean McCabe in Crud is a Cult [https://www.instagram.com/crudisacult/]; how Josh wasn’t initially sure about Ink & Dagger’s vampiric themes; touring Europe alongside Refused in ‘98 ; awkwardly live-scoring a brawl during Dagger’s 1999 bar show in Vancouver; and more. His wife Leanne, who had played in Vancouver hardcore group Dissent in the ’90s, also pops by. Reissue hub Trust Records have also kicked off a vinyl reissue campaign behind the full Dagger discography, from bloodlusting singles compendium Drive This Seven Inch Wooden Stake Through My Philadelphia Heart, to boundary-pushing 1998 full-length debut The Fine Art of Original Sin and onto their posthumous self-titled head-trip. Essential listens, all. You can find out about the represses over here [https://trustrecords.com/collections/ink-dagger], while they all hit streamers in-full on Halloween. You can stream this episode and the full Gut Feeling Podcast archive now via Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/gut-feeling-podcast-1-joshua-brown-crud-is-a-cult-ink-dagger/id1537424512?i=1000496128391], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/episode/69hiYUnTD3Zg4sacM4BeMv] and more. End Hits The Ghouls “Weird Wolf” On the topic of reissues and revisiting old Gut Feeling Halloween editions [https://gutfeeling.substack.com/p/draculas-deuce-revving-through-gary-ushers-horror], studio monster rock project the Ghouls just had their Dracula’s Deuce album put back into print for the first time since its initial release in 1964. To recap, the Ghouls were the brainchild of producer Gary Usher, a onetime Beach Boys collaborator who ended up putting together a few fake bands in the Sixties (the Kickstands being another favourite). The Ghouls, in particular, specialized in rip-roaring, horror-and-hot-rod-themed vocal tracks and bone-chilling surf-strumentals. Gut Feeling went through a lot of the history in 2023, but let’s close things out by looking at one instrumental jam we didn’t get to sink our teeth into the last time around. The gentle-tremor guitar tremolo and breezy island-sway behind “Weird Wolf” make this tune one of the more low-key creatures found on Dracula’s Deuce. But set against bat-s**t bonkers vamps about Dracula drag racing around the graveyard, it also makes for a necessary breather — the pack of hounds howling off in the distance on “Weird Wolf” would seem to agree. A perfect mood-setter for those nights when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright. You can pick up a copy of Dracula’s Deuce via Real Gone Music over here [https://realgonemusic.com/products/the-ghouls-draculas-deuce-vinyl]. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gutfeeling.substack.com [https://gutfeeling.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Gut Feeling Podcast #29 - Marc and Brent Belke (SNFU)

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is a conversation with Marc and Brent Belke, brothers and co-founding guitarists of Edmonton, Alberta-formed and later Vancouver, BC-based hardcore icons SNFU [https://www.instagram.com/snfu_ofishal]. Throughout the talk, Muc and Bunt hit on: the new Come With Me, I’m On My Way [https://www.3presscomics.ca/product/come-with-me-im-on-my-way-digital-copy] horror comic featuring four gruesome tales inspired by classic SNFU songs; Trust Records [https://trustrecords.com/]’ upcoming 40th anniversary project behind debut album ...And No One Else Wanted to Play; Edmonton’s early ‘80s punk and skateboarding scenes; the absurdist and sometimes misunderstood lyrics of late frontman Mr. Chi Pig; the making of 1995’s The One Voted Most Likely to Succeed; the ‘90s punk boom, and touring with Green Day and Bad Religion; gear and guitar solos; Strain bassist and SNFU roadie Eric "Flexyourhead" Thorkelson’s very bad day; Brent’s current film score work; and more! 3Press Comics’ Come With Me comic is out now, along with an SNFU tribute 7-inch from Dad Religion; Trust Records’ Play repress out soon; and a repress of Voted is out in November via La Agonia De Vivir [https://www.instagram.com/p/DNlICotIYHC]. You can also read a 2020 feature I’d written around some of the most poignant, poetic and occasionally profane lyrics Mr. Chi Pig brought to the mic over at Exclaim! [https://exclaim.ca/music/article/remembering_snfus_mr_chi_pig_the_finest_moments_from_canadas_punk_poet_laureate] The Gut Feeling Podcast is currently streaming through Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gut-feeling/id1537424512?utm_source=GutFeeling&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gut-feeling-podcast-14-kyle-de-ville-enact], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/1JBscRO2lmly8lNqSzCaiV?si=_yYmBTbDRs-zSIdBmKdOcA&dl_branch=1&utm_source=GutFeeling&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gut-feeling-podcast-14-kyle-de-ville-enact] and more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gutfeeling.substack.com [https://gutfeeling.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Gut Feeling Podcast #18 - Ted Leo (Chisel)

BY GREGORY ADAMS Hello again! The latest Gut Feeling podcast is an interview with Ted Leo, the longtime punk-and-pop Pharmacist who is just about to jump into a series of reunions shows with his ‘90s-era outfit, Chisel. Ted gets into the general history of Chisel, from forming the mod-and-punk-inspired band with college friends Chris Norborg (bass) and John Dugan (drums), to the time they technically headlined over Radiohead, to song specifics around their epic-in-scope 1997 LP, Set You Free (which is just about to arrive as an expanded, double-LP [https://numerogroup.com/products/set-you-free] reissue through Numero Group). It’s a big gear talk, too, with Ted jumping into the “unhip” solid state Fender head he was using in his hardcore days, through to early Chisel; the affordability of his 8 A.M. All Day Tele Deluxe, fit with an unflattering Floyd Rose tremolo system; and unlocking the potential of an elegant major-to-minor chord progression. Chisel are playing shows in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco this February, and you can peep the details here [https://www.instagram.com/chisel_wdc/]. The Gut Feeling Podcast is currently streaming through Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gut-feeling/id1537424512?utm_source=GutFeeling&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gut-feeling-podcast-14-kyle-de-ville-enact], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/1JBscRO2lmly8lNqSzCaiV?si=_yYmBTbDRs-zSIdBmKdOcA&dl_branch=1&utm_source=GutFeeling&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gut-feeling-podcast-14-kyle-de-ville-enact], Google Podcasts [https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9jZDc5NDg4NC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw], and more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gutfeeling.substack.com [https://gutfeeling.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]