Class is in session! This week on the show Damian is joined by the author of the amazing memoir "I'm Not Holding Your Coat" & celebrated teacher: NANCY BARILE! Listen in as the two discuss the formation of the American East Coast hardcore scene. From early Philly New Wave, to the economic realities behind what gets canonized in punk, to why Jackal is the coolest punk & so much more! NOT TO BE MISSED!



Don't miss Nancy's fantastic "I'm Not Holding Your Coat" on Bazillion Points! Available at your favourite bookstore now!



Also Touched On:



Kenn Kweder

The Ramones and Blondie

“Philly never gets its due”

The class differences in the early hardcore scenes

having to sell a school ring to pay for the Sadistic Exploits 7”

The 1981 explosion

Punkfest



SSD

The Stick Men

Headcheese

the art/punk divide 

Pure Hell are gods

When Jackal hits the scene

Going to New York… somehow

The NY before the HC

Hating DC 

The board daylight Boston scene

Bad Brains 

“Kill anyone with a beer in their hand”



& SO MUCH MORE!!!!





BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS