
Episode #488
Matt Byrne
Matt Byrne, drummer for arguably the world's biggest hardcore band, Hatebreed, joins us to talk about the art of the epic breakdown, literally rocking out in the cradle, and life on the road with Ozzfest. Hatebreed links


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A weekly interview show hosted by Benny Horowitz (The Gaslight Anthem) and producer, Brad Worrell. The guest list leans musical but with plenty of other interesting folks thrown in.
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Signup to Generate a PitchA weekly interview show hosted by Benny Horowitz (The Gaslight Anthem) and producer, Brad Worrell. The guest list leans musical but with plenty of other interesting folks thrown in.
Going Off Track is hosted by Benny Horowitz & Brad Worrell. The show has published 500 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Matt Byrne" (28 October 2026, 98 minutes), "Howard Beck II" (21 October 2026, 72 minutes), and "Scott Winegard" (14 October 2026, 116 minutes).
Going Off Track publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 102 minutes across 500 episodes.
Booking probability for Going Off Track is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Going Off Track requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Going Off Track's contact route on record: public web form.
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Benny Horowitz & Brad Worrell hosts Going Off Track, a music podcast with 500 episodes published.
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Episode #488
Matt Byrne, drummer for arguably the world's biggest hardcore band, Hatebreed, joins us to talk about the art of the epic breakdown, literally rocking out in the cradle, and life on the road with Ozzfest. Hatebreed links

Episode #488
Senior Staff Writer at The Ringer, Howard Beck joins us again on the eve of the start of the NBA season to talk... well BASKETBALL! There's some other fun stories too, like meeting Muhammad Ali and his Nickelback beef...

Episode #487
Master chef and Texas Is The Reason bassist, Scott Winegard got with us this week to talk about music in the kitchen, food, ghost stories galore and upcoming stuff for TITR. Scott's stuff

Episode #485
The absolutely amazing, talented singer songwriter, Nicole Atkins joins us for a really fun, funny, informative and truly off-track conversation. From punking "Weird Al" Yankovic to getting locked in the Beacon Theater...

Episode #486
This week we're digging back into the archives to revisit a great chat with Chris Shiflett, guitarist for a little band called The Foo Fighters (via No Use For A Name and let's not forget Me First and the Gimme Gimmes!)

Episode #485
Everybody loves Rusty! It's impossible not to. The H2O guitarist has lived a life of adventure and we get a chance to talk about a lot it here - from the early days, building a halfpipe in the band house and possibly...

Episode #484
Rancid drummer and The Used founder Branden Steineckert grew up in Utah between a steel plant and a prison — chased by cops for skateboarding and then later having to call them to his home for domestic abuse. (They were...

Episode #483
This week’s guest is Johnny Whitney, frontman of the all-star band Evil Island , whose members come from Johnny’s former band The Blood Brothers, as well as Glassjaw and …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead...

Episode #482
Ensign frontman, Tim Shaw tells us tales of learning the ropes with Sick of It All, getting his ass kicked at a Discharge show and being healed of road-douchery by Rancid. Of course he and Benny also get into a lot of...

Episode #481
This week we dip back to 2022 for a really intelligent conversation with Hot Water Music bassist, Jason Black . A bunch of ska talk, Metallica, New Jersey... enjoy.

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This week we're going all the way back to 2014 to revisit this wonderful chat we had with the hilarious stand-up comedian, actress, writer, and producer, Nikki Glaser. Long-time listeners of the show should be...

Episode #480
Here is a FUN episode - the always great, Tucker Rule, drummer for Thursday, L.S. Dunes, Frank Iero and the Future Violents... - Put two drummers together and what do you get? Well, in this case it's a really...

Going Off Track
This week we reach back to the dark depths of Covid to revisit a wonderful interview with Frank Turner that certainly brightened our day in April of 2020. Check Frank's upcoming tour schedule of Europe and North America

Episode #479
Oh what a great convo we've got for you this week - Mike Olender fronted Endeavor, Disembodied, Burnt by the Sun, For The Love Of, River Black... and guess what? - more than one of those are back! Some great stories...

Episode #478
Equal Vision Records is a label with awesome vision, as evidenced by the many of our recent guests who call it home. So after great talks with Quicksand, The Flatliners, Sparta, and I Am The Avalanche, to name just a...

Episode #477
Author and music journalist, Andrew Sacher joins us to talk about indie bands, ska bands, classic rock and of course emo, the subject of his new book, "Emo Revival: Community, DIY, and Rebirth in Post-Hardcore and Emo...

Episode #476
Detroit in the house this week with Rich and Ryan, massive-dynamic rhythm section of The Suicide Machines. Snow tricks, Bourgeois Filth, drunk at Punk in Drublic... and what about being too broke to tour with the Foo...

Episode #475
This week we introduce a new special episode: the first, "Brain Edition with Doc & The Wizard". Two specialists in what's between the ears - both studied professors of psychology, get real with Benny on the mind of the...

Episode #474
Minor Threat, Bad Religion, Dag Nasty, Junkyard - there's so many more bands that Brian Baker, guitarist (and bassist) extraordinaire has started or shined in. The boy is still rocking hard and grinding out that SOUND...

Going Off Track
On this day in 2020 - we had fucking MILO AUKERMAN from THE DESCENDENTS on the show! So while none of us want to go back to those lockdown days, we DO want to hear Milo again talk about science and PUNK ROCK!
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