Sunday Conversations

Nick Acosta (New Morality Zine), Joey Goergen (joeysxworld) and I sit down to discuss our top 10 records of 2022. Listen to all of the records we mentioned on this Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5LyuX4nUTXh49YtLh3zFCZ?si=acf924e7b605461c New Morality Zine: http://newmoralityzine.com http://instagram.com/newmoralityzine/ http://newmoralityzine.bandcamp.com Joey's World https://www.joeysxworld.com https://joeysxworld.bigcartel.com https://www.instagram.com/joeysxworld/ Sunday Drive Records: https://www.sundaydrive-records.com https://www.instagram.com/sundaydriverecords/ http://sundaydriverecords.bandcamp.com

Branden Palesano, guitarist of mad honey, and I talk about growing up in Oklahoma, starting mad honey, early touring, filming the music video for "Odds", their recent shows w/ Cursetheknife + much more.   Music: mad honey — “Odds”   mad honey:  https://www.instagram.com/madhoneyband/ http://twitter.com/madhoneyband  For more music and mad honey merch, visit: http://www.sundaydrive-records.com  Sunday Drive Records:  http://instagram.com/sundaydriverecords/ http://twitter.com/SundayDriveRecs 

Nick Acosta (New Morality Zine), Joey Goergen (joeysxworld) and I sit down to discuss our top 10 records of 2021. Listen to all of the records we mentioned on this Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3d54ygjpKw8wQWvO6WNqxt?si=3f5797fd74684237 Jonathan's List: Fiddlehead — "Between the Richness" Webbed Wing — "What's so Fu****g Funny"  Turnstile — "GLOW ON" Method of Doubt — "Staring at Patterns" Tyler, The Creator — "CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST" James Blake — "Friends That Break Your Heart" Runnner — "Always Repeating" The Marías — "CINEMA" pretty/normal — "pretty/normal" Circa Survive — "A Dream About Love" Nick's List: One Step Closer — "This Place You Know" Turnstile — "GLOW ON" Method of Doubt — "Staring at Patterns" Chemical Fix — "Our Shade Casts Far" Ends of Sanity — "Ends of Sanity" Militarie Gun — "All Roads Lead to the Gun I + II" Fiddlehead — "Between the Richness" Deafheaven — "Infinite Granite" King Woman — "Celestial Blues" Time and Pressure — "Halfway Down" Joey's List: Every Time I Die — "Radical" Fucked Up — "Year of the Horse" Stand Still — "A Practice in Patience" SLUG — "Demo" Rest Easy — "Sick Day EP" Angel Du$t — "YAK: A Collection of Truck Songs" Drug Church — "Tawny" Quicksand — "Distant Populations" SPACED — "DEMO 2021" Glitterer — "Life Is Not A Lesson" New Morality Zine: http://newmoralityzine.com http://instagram.com/newmoralityzine/ http://newmoralityzine.bandcamp.com Joey's World https://www.joeysxworld.com https://joeysxworld.bigcartel.com https://www.instagram.com/joeysxworld/ Sunday Drive Records: https://www.sundaydrive-records.com https://www.instagram.com/sundaydriverecords/ http://sundaydriverecords.bandcamp.com

Toni Ordaz, guitarist of Glare, and I talk about growing up in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, getting into alternative music, and the writing and recording of the new Glare EP, "Heavenly".   Music: Glare — “Bloom”   Pre-order "Heavenly" on 12" vinyl, out December 10, 2021 on Sunday Drive Records: https://orcd.co/glare-heavenly  Glare: https://twitter.com/glaretx https://www.instagram.com/glaretexas/ https://www.facebook.com/glaretx/  For more music and Glare merch, visit: http://www.sundaydrive-records.com Sunday Drive Records: http://twitter.com/SundayDriveRecs http://instagram.com/sundaydriverecords/ http://facebook.com/sundaydriverecords/

Tommy Harte, vocalist of Broken Vow, and I talk about growing up in Massachusetts, the role of veganism and straight edge in our lives, Broken Vow's new EP, "Sane Minds End" and much more. Music: Broken Vow — “Broken Vow” Pre-order "Sane Minds End" on 12" vinyl, out December 3, 2021 on Sunday Drive Records & New Morality Zine: https://smarturl.it/sanemindsend Broken Vow: http://instagram.com/brokenvowhc/ http://twitter.com/brokenvowhc Sunday Drive Records: https://www.sundaydrive-records.com https://www.instagram.com/sundaydriverecords/ http://sundaydriverecords.bandcamp.com

Alex Allen, singer of Utmost, and I talk about growing up in New York, learning guitar, the sound and start of Utmost, inspiring skaters & brands, filming skate videos in your own neighborhood and much more. Music: Intro: Utmost — “No Room” Utmost: http://utmosthardcore.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/utmost_crew/ Sunday Drive Records: https://www.sundaydrive-records.com https://www.instagram.com/sundaydriverecords/ http://sundaydriverecords.bandcamp.com

Zach Godwin, singer of Sparing, and I talk about the art & songwriting on Sparing's latest EP, “Old Dreams”, early 00's emo and pop-punk influences, why hardcore kids write the best pop-punk music, music videos, and much more.   Music: Intro: Sparing — “Lush”   Sparing: https://sparing.bandcamp.com http://instagram.com/sparingband/  Sunday Drive Records: https://www.sundaydrive-records.com https://www.instagram.com/sundaydriverecords/ http://sundaydriverecords.bandcamp.com

Andrew Sacher, editor at Brooklyn Vegan, and I discuss influences across the genres of pop-punk to emo and hardcore, how we discover music today, getting over being embarrassed by some of the music from our youth, some of our favorite bands and albums in the genre, and the future of punk. Music: Intro: blink-182 — All Of This Andrew Sacher: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/author/asacher/ http://twitter.com/llllbfgllll Sunday Drive Records: https://www.sundaydrive-records.com https://www.instagram.com/sundaydriverecords/ http://sundaydriverecords.bandcamp.com

Joey Goergen (AKA Joeysxworld) and I discuss art and its importance in hardcore and life in general, where we find influences from, our experiences in art school, balancing art projects with full time jobs and life, staying inspired during the pandemic and much more.  Music: Intro: Sunstroke — Richard Spencer Joey's World: https://www.instagram.com/joeysxworld/ https://joeysxworld.bigcartel.com https://www.patreon.com/joeysxworld https://www.joeysxworld.com Sunday Drive Records: https://www.sundaydrive-records.com https://www.instagram.com/sundaydriverecords/ http://sundaydriverecords.bandcamp.com

Nick Acosta of New Morality Zine and Jonathan Lee Gonzales of Sunday Drive Records answer questions about running a DIY record label. We talk releasing music on a label vs self-releasing, running a label with no live music today, what inspired us to start our labels, the ideazation of a release and a lot more. If you have more questions, get in touch to have it answered on a later episode. Music: Intro: Fake Eyes — Subsystem Recognition Outro: Downward — Leechy Bands mentioned to check out: Stages in Faith, Generation, Big Cheese, Chain Reaction, Sunstroke, New Methods, Raw Plastic, Anxious, Hollow Suns, Porcupine, Holy Figures, Podcasts to check out: Axe to Grind Podcast, The Nose Knows (Jon Contino) Labels to check out: Deathwish Inc, Run for Cover Records, Dischord, Revelation Records, TopShelf Records, No Sleep Records, React Records, Control Records, Head 2 Wall Records, Flesh & Bone Records Label resources: Limited Run, Bandcamp, PayPal, Novo, Storevny, Big Cartel, Squarespace, Wordpress New Morality Zine: http://newmoralityzine.com http://instagram.com/newmoralityzine/ http://newmoralityzine.bandcamp.com Sunday Drive Records: https://www.sundaydrive-records.com https://www.instagram.com/sundaydriverecords/ http://sundaydriverecords.bandcamp.com