Rogue Frequencies

NOFX built something that lasted 40 years by breaking most, maybe all, of the rules about how you're “supposed” to do it. No major label. No radio play. No apologies.

This episode is where Rogue Frequencies started. We go deep on the band that kicked off this whole project, using NOFX’s story to look at what it actually takes to stay committed, to yourself and to the people around you, over the long haul.

We talk about Fat Mike carrying the band in the early days and what it means to let go of over-commitment. How wh...

The modern punk scene has a question it's actively trying to answer: can you build something that holds all of it - every identity, every ability - without flattening any of it?

The Denver, Co Punk scene are working that out in real time. This episode centers Cheap Perfume and Team Nonexistent (among many others, such as the, Potato Pirates and Dead Pioneers) and traces the lineage, from The Slits and X-Ray Spex through Bikini Kill, Against Me!, and Propagandhi. We look at how the present requires the past, while also being completely new. We examine the...

The Riot Grrrl movement didn't ask for a seat at the table. It built its own and that's the point.

This episode we digging into feminist punk, its origins, and what it actually tells us about how change gets made, both in a scene and in a life. Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Amyl and the Sniffers, Cheap Perfume. These aren't just bands. They're case studies in what happens when we use our voices to create the change we seek in the world.

We get into the politics of reclaiming your own sexuality, the male gaze in...

We are calling this genre we explore today as “Crackcore.” We admit, Crackcore is genuinely fun to listen to. They're also a mess of contradictions. We look at the complex human that is Scott Sturgeon aka. Stza Crack.

We use this artist, these bands, and genre to pull on a real tension: what happens when transgression becomes the whole identity? When the asshole stops being a tool and starts being the person? There's a line between destruction that clears the way for something and destruction that just leaves rubble. Crackcore bumps up against that line cons...

The Ramones and the Misfits both came out of the same collapsed, scrappy New York moment. One became a blueprint. One fell apart.

This episode we use these two foundational bands to dig into what actually drives growth when the conditions are hard and the path isn't clear. How do you build something real when you don't yet know what you're building? And what does it mean to succeed at something you never actually set out to do?

We get into the difference between grit that connects and grit that just grinds, why your goals...

Punk is not just noise. It’s a response, a diagnosis, a dare. In this episode, we use a few bands that intentionally embody “the personal is political” to live and model what it actually means to be authentic, not as a brand, but as a living, evolving person.

Matt traces the lineage that gets us to how these two bands Crass and the Dropkick Murphys put their politics on the stage and meant it. And we talk about what happens when the room shows up, the audience grows, and when the lure of growth conflicts with ethos...

Olivia and Matt dig into two bands that have to be in any honest conversation about punk - The Clash and Rancid. We explore what their wildly different trajectories can teach us about staying true to yourself when the world wants something else from you.

From the streets of 1976 London to the blue-collar swamps of Berkeley, these bands share DNA, but their stories diverge in ways that matter. One band fractures under the pressure of chasing something outside itself. The other finds a way through addiction, loss, and decades of adversity by doubling down on loyalty, community...

What happens when a city is burning and nobody's coming to save you? You build something from the wreckage. In this episode, Olivia and Matt dig into the New York hardcore scene - its raw origins in the economic decay of late 70s/early 80s NYC - and what it has to teach us about growth, grit, and becoming.

They explore how bands like Agnostic Front, the Cro-Mags, and Bad Brains didn't just make noise - they made meaning. From the ethos of PMA (positive mental attitude) to the DIY spirit that built a scene out of...

Welcome to the first episode of Rogue Frequencies!

Rogue Frequencies is a podcast where we mash up punk music with human growth and development.

Hosts Olivia and Matt kick things off in this our very first episode by sharing how this adventure came to life, their personal backgrounds, and what punk means to them. This episode sets the stage for Season 1, where we'll dig into punk music, sub-genres, bands, and culture through the lens of personal growth and becoming more fully yourself.

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