The Mike Herrera Podcast

This week I'm talking about the Panic Attack video. Darren Doane and I put it together and we shot the whole thing in one day around Bremerton. It's all DIY, it's all real. The Pokinatcha Punk has taken over my life, so he's in there too. I also tell the story of getting pulled over by the cops while we were larping like cops for the Rolling Strong video. The donuts we had for a prop got us off the hook.

Then I get to your voicemails. Somebody asked about skate demos, and I got a great story about that. I met Steve Caballero at Northgate Mall when I was a kid and missed a Social Distortion show at a skate demo that same night. I still wish I'd seen that show. Somebody else wanted songwriting tips, so I get into how I write. Writing songs is like putting together a puzzle. A guy who heard Panic Attack on KEXP asked if the Tumbledown song Moving On is a cover. It's not, I wrote it, and I tell you why I write places into my songs. The Rockies line in Let's Ride came from Dumb and Dumber. A classic.

I also talk about slamming my fingers in a tour bus door in Canada and why I play bass with a pick now, how I pick the colors for my signature basses and the show Dark Matter is on my watching now list and why it connects to everything. Appreciate you all.

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Panic Attack is out everywhere, and Living in the Chaos is out January 29. We talk about the new song and album but also, Before Everything & After and Let It Happen, Marcy Playground, Ted Lasso and my first time in Montreal and more. I also share some stories about Chad Gilbert from New Found Glory.

And check out mxpx.com. Living in the Chaos is out January 29. Vinyl, CD and merch are up for pre-order now including 4 new International webstores. Panic Attack is out everywhere, add it and watch the video on repeat! We're at Warped Tour Orlando November 15. Good Things Festival in Australia in December. Melbourne December 4, Sydney December 5, Brisbane December 6. mxpx.com.

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Voicemails and real mail. I read a poem from Scott Laudati's book Rainbow Road, and Nate sends a package. A listener calls in after retiring from the Navy, and Shannon "The Cannon" McCannon sings "Disaster."

And check out mxpx.com. Living in the Chaos pre-order starts Wednesday, October 21. Full band live stream Tuesday, October 20, 5:30 p.m. PST. We're at Warped Tour Orlando November 14 and 15. Good Things Festival in Australia in December. Melbourne December 4, Sydney December 5, Brisbane December 6. mxpx.com.

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My guest this week is Howi Spangler. Singer, guitar player and founder of Ballyhoo! out of Aberdeen, Maryland. We talk about their new album, Bad Summer, and making it with John Feldmann. And of course, a lot more...

Make sure you guys follow @ballyhoorocks, and check out Bad Summer. They're on tour with Bowling for Soup in November and heading out west in early 2027. ballyhoorocks.com

MxPx is on Vans Warped Tour in Orlando November 14-15. Good Things Festival in Australia, December 4 in Melbourne, December 5 in Sydney, December 6 in Brisbane. New album, Living in the Chaos, coming soon.

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It's Music Monday. Can you feel the energy? I'm playing songs you guys sent in. Thirteen this week, including Absenter, the new band from my buddy Jeff Bettger of Ninety Pound Wuss, and The Jack Knives, friends of the show.

Want your song on Music Monday? Join the Mike Herrera Podcast Facebook group and add it to the pinned Music Monday post with a YouTube link.

0:00 Intro and MxPx news

1:02 Too Bad Eugene - Everything Is Over

3:16 Let Me Downs - Ellen C.

6:08 Krovak - Brighter Day

8:10 Jerkazoid - Fake Friends

10:33 Tony Bluebird - Lykoi

12:52 Toby Danger - Pinch and Roll

14:44 Mike & The Nerve - Raiders of the Hopeless

16:57 Ellen May - Anxiety

19:11 Buried Loud Secrets - The Drive

21:50 Burning Out - Means to an End

23:41 Light the Way - Steez Machines

26:02 The Jack Knives - Glory or Fame?

29:14 Absenter - Conflict

31:59 Leave a voicemail

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My guest this week is Stephen Egerton. If you don't know Stephen, you should. He's the guitar player in the Descendents and legendary band ALL, and a good friend of mine. His new solo record, I Think You're Overthinking This, was recorded at Abbey Road. Yes that one. We talk about making it and singing his own songs for the first time.

Make sure you guys follow Stephen, and check out I Think You're Overthinking This. Get the vinyl at stephenegerton.com. It's also on Bandcamp and everywhere you stream.

And check out mxpx.com. We've got tour dates. We're at Warped Tour Orlando November 14 and 15. Good Things Festival in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane December 4, 5 and 6. New record, Living in the Chaos, is on the way. mxpx.com.

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Your voicemails this week. We talk about the new Social Distortion album, Born to Kill, and MxPx in the UK, including the sold-out London show I got too sick to play. Shout out to Hopzingers hot sauce.

We're at Warped Tour Orlando November 15. Good Things Festival in Australia, December 4 in Melbourne, December 5 in Sydney, December 6 in Brisbane. http://mxpx.com/. And check out http://livinginthechaos.net/. Living in the Chaos, our new album, is coming soon.

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Back from Milan and Punkadeka Festival, so I get into the trip and the food first. Then your calls. A listener in Athens asks if you can be a real fan of a band you have never seen live. A caller who watched our Warped Tour set asks about my voice, so I go through sleep, hydration, and how I prep before a show. Hannah in Carolina asks how my songwriting has changed.

Plus a letter from a fan in Italy, and Jake in Texas turning a room in his house into a free venue called the Tile Room.

mxpx.com has tour dates. Orlando Warped Tour November 15. Australia December 3, 4 and 5 for Good Things Festival in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. New album, Living in the Chaos, is coming.

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All voicemails this week. Rich calls in about the MxPx documentaries and why fans want more of them. Jacob is early in his career and wants to know what mistakes to avoid. Lawrence checks in from Dodge City. Jackson asks about our B-sides. JJ wants to talk about beaches in the Pacific Northwest, which got me onto where the Let's Ride line about driving out to the sea really came from. Shannon the Cannon closes it out singing.

MxPx is on Vans Warped Tour Mexico City September 13 and Vans Warped Tour Orlando in November. Good Things Festival in Australia in December. Melbourne December 4, Sydney December 5, Brisbane December 6. New song, "The Good Days," is on the Warped Tour comp CD. New album, Living in the Chaos, coming soon. livinginthechaos.net.

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My guests this week are Rufio. Scott Sellers, Clark Domae and Taylor Albaugh, the whole band. They've got a new EP out called From the Outside, their first new music in 16 years. The single is Maps. We talk about anxiety, why they're not touring, and the time a promoter stranded them in Peru. Make sure you guys go check out From the Outside.

And check out mxpx.com. We've got tour dates. We're playing all the Warped Tours coming up. Milan, Italy on September 5 for Punkadeka Festival. Warped Tour in Mexico City September 12 and 13, Orlando in November, and Good Things Festival in Australia in December. We're playing Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. New album, Living in the Chaos, coming soon.

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Music Monday is back after a summer of guest episodes. We've got clips from Flailing Idiot, The Cherry Bombs, Burning Out, Common Perry, Michael Bush, Stealing Lions, Arrows vs. Empires, Manuel BHG, Post Drome, Limp Wizurdz, Cliffhanger, Games We Play, Shitison, Chris Berseth, Hellish Nightmare Squadron, and Me, Grimlock!

Head to the Mike Herrera Podcast Facebook group and read the pinned post for how to send in your song for a future Music Monday

And check out mxpx.com. We've got tour dates. We're in Milan for the Punkadeka Festival, our only European show this year. We're back in Australia in December for all three Good Things Festival stops. New record, Living in the Chaos, is coming soon. Keep checking livinginthechaos.net

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Si Short from the Jack Knives is my guest this week. He grew up in England, moved to the States at 22, and now lives in Southern California. He took 10 years off from bands, started writing again in Hawaii, and the Jack Knives grew out of Thursday night jams into a fully independent band playing House of Blues and the Fillmore.

We get into building a following brick by brick instead of buying followers, what streaming data tells you about where to play, why live streams reach a totally different audience, and how the band balances tours with day jobs and families. Si also explains why he pushes the band to promote a record for a year instead of three months, and tells the story of getting his bass player turned away at the Canadian border before a Vancouver show.

The new Jack Knives album, Negative Spaces, is out November 6 on Fumie Records, produced by Pete Steinkopf of the Bouncing Souls. This fall they play shows with Dave Hause and The Mermaid, headline dates in Germany, Austria and England, and a run with the Bouncing Souls, the Flatliners and Suicide Machines. Find everything at thejackknives.com.

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My guest this week is Mike Frazier, a singer-songwriter from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. He lives in Seattle now. The first time he was here was his first podcast ever, 10 years ago. We talk about the two years of symptoms nobody could figure out, the brain surgery, and April Days, the album he wrote after it. He plays April Days live in the studio. Make sure you guys follow Mike Frazier VA, and check out April Days.

MxPx is on all the Warped Tours coming up. Montreal is August 21, then Mexico City and Orlando. We're in Milan September 5 for Punkadeka Festival, our only European show. mxpx.com, anything we have going on is right there.

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Bill Stevenson is on the show. He's the drummer for legendary punk bands Descendents and ALL, he also played in Black Flag, and he produced our first live album, MxPx - At the Show. We get into songwriting, how he stays fast behind the kit at 62, the early Black Flag days, and taking his son Miles out on tour with Jon Snodgrass and Miles' band All My Senses.

Bill, Miles, and Snodgrass are out this August, running from Indianapolis and Chicago up to Tillsonburg, Ontario for a full ALL set at Buddies Fest, then Detroit. Descendents tour this fall with Social Distortion and the Chats.

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Blag Dahlia returns for his third time on the podcast. The Dwarves have a new album out called Jenkem, and Blag explains exactly what the title refers to, which I immediately regret.

From there we run through the worst heat wave in European history, arguing about flat earth with your own bass player, the Stray Cats and the clean rockabilly problem, why image decided which punk bands got big and which didn't, AI and where an artist draws the line, and the difference between a person and the role he plays on stage. Yeah, it's a lot.

My guest this week is Larry and His Flask. Got three of the guys: Ian Cook, Jeshua Marshall, and Jamin Marshall. If you don't know them, they're an Americana punk band out of Bend, Oregon, and they're back after seven years off the road. We talk about busking, how they went from an electric punk band to an acoustic one, and the 3 shows in March that turned into 30. Make sure you guys follow Larry and His Flask, and check out larryandhisflasks.com.

And check out mxpx.com. We've got merch, we've got vinyl. We're at Warped Tour in Long Beach, California this weekend. We're on all the Warped Tours. We're in Milan September 5 for Punkadeka Festival. mxpx.com.

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Gearing up for Warped Tour Long Beach, and how Warped Tour meet-and-greets work.

Cyrus calls in with questions about our documentaries, It Came From Bremerton, B-Movie, and Both Ends Burning, and I walk through how each one came together. Shannon calls in and sings her own version of "Wrecking Hotel Rooms," and it's great. JJ from Alaska asks about the new Sterling by Music Man Stingray bass and what makes it play so well.

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Happy birthday to MxPx! But age doesn't matter unless you're a cheese or so they say. Mike marks it by telling the full story of how the band got started in 1992: a rented Flying V, a garage-sale snare drum, and a drummer who'd barely played before their first practice. One week later, MxPx played their first show ever, a backyard barbecue, and played the whole set twice in one day. Mike also answers a longtime fan question about the real story behind "Wrecking Hotel Rooms," co-written with Mark Hoppus. Your voicemails and news on the upcoming album Living in the Chaos.

What is up with you guys? We got a great episode this week. We played Warped Tour in DC, I played the World Cup fan zone in downtown Bremerton, the town I grew up in, and we announced the new MxPx album, Living in the Chaos. Then I got into your voicemails and ended up telling a bunch of stories about how I got into punk back in the day, the local Bremerton scene, and the bass. Thanks for calling in. Keep them coming.

New album: MxPx, Living in the Chaos. More at livinginthechaos.net.

Voicemail: 360-830-6660

Merch: mxpx.com

Produced and edited by Bob McKnight @Producer_Bob

Additional production by Christine Hall @shirtsizesmall

My guest this week is Ryan Holiday. If you don't know Ryan, he's an author and a friend of mine. He writes about philosophy, strategy, and life. We talk about what it's like being an artist, being a writer, the quirks of it, and how you deal with it. Make sure you guys follow Ryan, and check out the Daily Stoic. Follow Ryan Holiday: @ryanholiday

And check out mxpx.com. We've got tour dates. We're on all the Warped Tours coming up. New song, "The Good Days," is out on the Warped Tour comp CD. New album later this year. We're in Milan September 5 for Punkadeka Festival, our only European show. mxpx.com.

UPCOMING MxPx SHOWS:

Jul 25-26 — Vans Warped Tour, Long Beach, CA

Aug 21-22 — Vans Warped Tour, Montreal, QC

Sep 5 — Punkadeka Festival, Segrate (Milan), Italy (only European show)

Sep 12-13 — Vans Warped Tour, Mexico City

Nov 14-15 — Vans Warped Tour, Orlando, FL

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