Politicore Politcorepod

On this episode of Politicore Davin Bernard (Kingdom, Eaten Alive) of the Marked For Life Podcast and joins the show to discuss her journey as a hardcore lifer into the stuffy halls of academia.

Topics include:

-Tension between hardcore ethos and higher education

-College as class replication

-Math IS class warfare!

-90s hardcore as a political compass

-The Anthropocene (obviously)

After months of attempting to get Brain on the show the Politicore boys finally succeed.

Topics include:

-Using Marxist and anarchist framework to organize labor and society at large (simple right?)

- Brian's work on abolition and what it means to be a contemporary abolitionist

-The usual chat about bands

Check out Brian's work: https://brianlovato.wordpress.com/about/

On this episode, Politicore is joined by Graham Culbertson of the Everyday Anarchism podcast (https://www.everydayanarchism.com/ )

Topics discussed:

-Anarchism as punk's token political ideology

- You (yes you) are already an anarchist

- Farmers markets

-Degrowth

-Joe Strummer

-Smash the state or just give out free food and start gardening?

-Graham's ongoing series on the works of David Graeber (RIP)

On this episode the Politicore boys are joined by Jake Razor of the Kings of Punk Podcast and Rochester's Leaking Head.

Topics Include:

-Corporate entities in hardcore and punk spaces are nothing new (sorry taco bell)

- Hardcore has the spotlight, not punk

- Bands embracing a degrowth economy

- Nuke all your accounts and bring some f*****g cash to the show!



LISTEN TO LEAKING HEAD: https://leakinghead.bandcamp.com/album/better-homes-gardens

LISTEN TO THE KINGS OF PUNK PODCAST: https://kingsofpunk.com/

Jake' underrated gems: NOG WAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZz-lkPpwek

Delfin Quispe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NecoBo0BhEk

Evan has finally finished doing all his homework, so to celebrate the Politicore boys have a fun talk with Riz Farooqi of the Unite Asia Project.

Topics discussed (in no particular order):

- Unite Asia as a way to combat the western elitism in hardcore https://uniteasia.org/

-Why Japanese hardcore/punk gets the spotlight over everyone else in Asia?

- Too many bands

-King Ly Chee/ NoFx show needing an army escort

- Nu metal lore is nothing more than a revisionist history of subculture

- Youth Tribalism

-The same zoomer bullshit every hardcore podcast hates

- 2019 Hong Kong protests

- Klonns

-Daggers

-King Ly Chee



Enjoy!!!

On this Politicore Dylan and Evan have a chat with Cass Gregg and Kristy Martinez of the Indigenous Punx Archive! 

IG: @indigenouspunxarchive

Topics include:

-Punk and metal in Flagstaff, especially with regard to Indigenous inclusion/exclusion.

- Rumble (Doc on Netflix do the knowledge!)

- Importance of representation in punk/hardcore. The Importance of giving voice to issues that are population-specific. 

-Historic under- and misrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in media generally and the consequences of it. 

-Increasing visibility of Indigenous people in media that is for them and by them and the consequences of that. 

-What do punk and metal offer to platforming Indigenous People's voices that other genres don't? 

-Underrated gems: Appalachian Terror Unit, With War, Mictlan, 1876 and Sacrifice (CAN)

- Enjoy!