The Mike Herrera Podcast

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I'm catching up on your voicemails, podcast stickers are here, and MxPx is on every Vans Warped Tour date this summer and fall. Amelia asked what video games I play, which took me from Pong through Zelda, Skate or Die...