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Mike Park, Alkaline Trio, & The Exploding Hearts Coming to CrossFade! Send Questions & Songs! (Patreon)

Published:
2021-06-28 15:01:02
Imported:
2022-07

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This week on CrossFade, we’ll be talking about Alkaline Trio and The Exploding Hearts with Mike Park, musician and founder of Asian Man Records! Leave questions and song suggestions for Matt and Mike by the end of the day Tuesday, June 29 and then catch the episode Friday morning!

What You Need to Know

Mike Park is a musician (Skankin' Pickle, The Chinkees, The Bruce Lee Band, Ogikubo Station), activist, and founder of Asian Man Records, celebrating its 25th year in 2021. His label has released music from Five Iron Frenzy, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Less than Jake, Bomb the Music Industry!, and more music you probably know!

Matt picked “Guitar Romantic,” the first and only album by The Exploding Hearts, a rock band from Portland. A few months after it came out in 2003, three of the band members died in a car accident, shattering the band and leaving this album as a sort of haunted monolith. Mike picked “Goddamnit,” the debut record from Alkaline Trio, which kicked off their punk pop career when it released in 1998 on *checks notes* Mike Park’s Asian Man Records??? He once said he listened to it for a year straight, so I wonder how he feels about it 23 years later…

What do you think of these albums? What’s that burning music question you can’t get out of your head? What song are you listening to a lot right now? Like, too much? Send us your questions and song suggestions by the end of the day Tuesday and we’ll do our best to bring them up in our community portion at the end of the episode.

CrossFade is MinnMax’s music podcast hosted by Matt Helgeson and produced by me where a guest has Matt review one of their favorite albums and vice versa. We publish every other Friday, so subscribe, rate, and review wherever you get podcasts: https://apple.co/3kWBb5K

Even if we don’t get to your song this episode, we’ll add it to the CrossFade Community Spotify Playlist (https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox) and your song might be pulled on a future Community Shuffle episode, so keep sharing!

Thanks for checking it out!

Comments

Tommy Carver-Chaplin

Hey guys. As someone who got into Alkaline Trio so much later, have you guys given Matt Skiba's blink-182 a go, and what do you think of them if you have? Nine didn't hit the mark for me but I loved California, and I think Skiba brought a strength in vocals that I controversially think elevates the band.

Anonymous

My contribution to the playlist is "Theme Song For Nothing" by Sticks and Stones. They have a lot of great tunes but for whatever reason it is the only one available on Spotify because it is on a compilation. I think anyone who likes Pop Punk should absolutely check them out. https://open.spotify.com/track/6OyAWA8rnKnFEALcMg3NRh?si=63e44a86711e4504

Braden Summers

No way, I just heard a podcast about The Exploding Hearts, and have been hooked ever since. What a fantastic album.

Anonymous

Whoa, I just signed up to be a Patron and I already see you talking about Exploding Hearts on a podcast, that's amazing!! Guitar Romantic is one of the greatest power pop albums ever created. It was good enough that I started following just about everything Dirtnap Records released for years. So, with my song suggestion I would like to go back to someone that influenced The Exploding Hearts since they covered one of his songs that made it onto the equally amazing Shattered comp album. Paul Collins / The Beat (probably more recognized for The Nerves) Song: Rock N Roll Girl. It's power pop perfection.

Anonymous

Also, I live close enough to Chicago (Indiana/the Region) that I was able to catch Alkaline Trio several times back in the day at places like The Metro and the sadly missed Fireside Bowl. I was able to catch another Chicago band several times that Mike knows well, The Lawrence Arms. Anyone who likes Alkaline Trio should give them a listen. A song suggestion from them is from an Asian Man release, Nebraska. I wouldn't mind knowing if the Mike they reference in the beginning of the song is Mike Park. And if so, if he's comfortable with it, would he mind elaborating on the meaning of that.

Mike Lynch

Mike Park, welcome to CrossFade! In the 2000's-2010's you organized charity tours through your Plea For Peace Foundation. Could you please talk about the work the foundation did and are there any current non-profits reminiscent of Plea For Peace you feel could use a signal boost or donation? ***Summer Of Punk continues*** https://open.spotify.com/track/2TncdAnbeRHID1yNR8YJC9?si=exNQheyuTBKJXsoMujLh_w&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

Braden Summers
>>62711087

Actually thought of a question. Do you think the deaths of musicians have more weight than other artists' deaths? If so why do you think this is?

Anonymous

Are there songs you've listened a lot to and still don't know the lyrics? For instance, i still don't know what the hell Bizzy Bone is saying in Notorious Thugs to this day

podbod
>>62736867

Cocteau twins' cherry colored funk is one for me. I love that song and just sing jibberish along with it

Anonymous

Asian Man Records has been one of my favorite labels since the late 90s. Many of my favorite bands are the Chicago bands, like Alkaline Trio, Tuesday, Lawrence Arms, The Broadways, The Honor System that all formed out of Slapstick, which was one of the earliest releases on Asian Man Records. When you first started working with Slapstick did any of you fathom the volume of output and classics that you would put out together? Throughout the 25 years of Asian Man Records was there any band or record you put out that you loved, but just didn't the traction or love you thought it should have?

Thom Blackburn

Onset- hikes is my song choice

Anonymous

Mike - Where’d you come up with the record label name?

Anonymous
>>62805012

Just kidding. For real: When you first heard Alkaline Trio, what was it that told you they were a good fit for Asian Man Records? Do you still hear that same X factor in it today?

Anonymous
>>62710125

I'm not in love with some of the songwriting and production of the Skiba era, but his vocals have been on point in both albums. Especially Nine.

Anonymous

Oh no in probably too late for this! How do you feel about bands that split singing duties pretty equally among members? Do you have a clear favorite between Matt and Dan in Alkaline Trio? I think I tend to prefer Dan songs actually!

Anonymous

Thanks guys, the show was awesome. I mostly knew MinnMax through Youtube so I wasn't aware that your show existed until I signed up on Patreon. You've got another Spotify follower now. I can't wait to go through the backlog.