100 Words Or Less: The Podcast
Host Ray Harkins dives deep with creators of independent culture from musicians, artists and other interesting people to find out what inspires them, how they came to be and many other unexpected places.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 70 minutes
- Episodes
- 728
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Ezra Morris from Downpour, The Power and the Glory
There are hardcore scenes that I know we all become interested (or in my case) and obsessed with. The Atlanta hardcore scene always made me perk my head up because of the incredible bands and sense o…
01:06:48 |
Wed 01 Nov 2023
Joel Birch from The Amity Affliction
This episode is brought to you by the fine folks at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival that allowed me to have this chat face to face with none other than Joel Birch from The Amity Afflictio…
00:46:19 |
Wed 25 Oct 2023
Dave Mandel from Indecision Records
Celebrating its 30 years of existence, Indecision Records founder and head honcho Dave Mandel finally sits down with me to podcast. I had been bugging him for the last 7 years to turn this into a rea…
01:23:03 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
Winston McCall from Parkway Drive
So pumped to be sharing this conversation with one of the largest success stories in hardcore and something that I think still surprises him, we welcome Winston McCall from Parkway Drive to the podca…
00:53:25 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
BONUS EPISODE - Marcus Bridge from Northlane & Sean Harmanis from Make Them Suffer
This episode is exclusively brought to you by the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival!
In this bonus episode we speak to two frontmen of up and coming modern metal core bands, Marcus from Northla…
01:06:36 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
Gina Gleason from Baroness
We have the pleasure of hanging out with the absolute shredder, Gina Gleason from Baroness today. She has such an interesting journey in music as she cut her teeth in the local Philly scene but then …
01:08:16 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
Eugene Robinson from Oxbow & author
The one, the only, Eugene Robinson is on the podcast today. For the uninitiated Eugene is the vocalist for long running artistic post-punk/metal/whatever band Oxbow as well as an author of many books…
01:09:30 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
Nick Hexum from 311
HAPPY 11TH BIRTHDAY TO THE PODCAST! It's wild to say, but this show has been around for 11 years and has changed my life but most importantly, I thank you the listener for caring about DIY culture, p…
01:03:09 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
Dan Yemin from Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, Paint It Black and Open City
I am absolutely thrilled to welcome an incredibly thoughtful human and prolific musician, Dan Yemin. He's played in Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, Paint It Black and his most recent project, Open City is ab…
01:04:10 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
Cormac O’Siochain (Cormy) from Geld
Top of the morning to ya! Pardon the horrible cliche but we have an Irish punk veteran on the show this week in the form of Cormy from Geld. While he's since moved to Australia and plays in the band …
01:17:41 |
Wed 06 Sep 2023
JT Woodruff from Hawthorne Heights
My heart is in...well, you get it if you existed anywhere in the mid 2000's emo scene as Hawthorne Heights was INESCAPABLE during that time. I have the pleasure of hanging out with JT Woodruff from t…
01:18:26 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
Christina Ward from Feral House Publishing
Elated to share this conversation with Christina Ward who is the Vice President of Feral House Publishing and an author. They are one of the most prolific indie publishers around hitting subcultures …
01:08:58 |
Wed 23 Aug 2023
Wes Eisold from American Nightmare & Cold Cave
Oh boy, this one has been on my "list" for awhile and glad we were able to make this happen. I have Wes Eisold from American Nightmare and Cold Cave chatting with us today. The introspective Wes and …
01:06:58 |
Wed 16 Aug 2023
Eric Egan from Heart Attack Man
We got a lot of Cleveland hardcore talk this week with none other than Eric Egan from Heart Attack Man! Eric is a funny man on the internet and truthfully, that's where I discovered the band but once…
01:08:44 |
Wed 09 Aug 2023
BONUS EPISODE - Live from Outbreak: Jem from Speed
This is a bonus episode from a live recording I did at the Outbreak Festival in the UK with Jem, the vocalist of Speed. This episode was released on the Outbreak Official Podcast feed a few weeks bac…
00:28:44 |
Fri 04 Aug 2023
Dave Castillo from Saint Vitus and Confines
An often overlooked person within our whole music industry structure is the promoter/booker and I love to highlight people that create the spaces for us to watch bands, have an experience and connect…
01:13:47 |
Wed 02 Aug 2023
Scott Lee, founder of NEMHF and manager
Very excited to welcome back my friend, Scott Lee to the program. He's a music biz veteran and one of the founders of the recently re-launched, New England Metal and Hardcore Festival...which is why …
00:57:07 |
Wed 26 Jul 2023
Steven Andrew Miller from Unbroken, Kill Holiday
In celebration of their impending "reunion" (since they have been doing shows off/on the past 10 or so years), I had to bring my friend Steven Andrew Miller from Unbroken on the podcast. This was a l…
01:09:43 |
Wed 19 Jul 2023
Grady Avenell & Jeff Irwin from Will Haven
We are lucky to be bringing you not just ONE human from a band, but TWO this week. First up we have Jeff Irwin, the guitarist from long standing metal/hardcore heroes Will Haven. Then, to top it off …
01:23:29 |
Wed 12 Jul 2023
Sean Leary from Loma Prieta and Jeromes Dream
Holy screamo episode! We have the dude behind bands like Loma Prieta and Jeromes Dream, Sean Leary. He plays guitar in both bands and has been in/around that particular scene for many years so I was …
01:09:50 |
Wed 05 Jul 2023
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