Let's get one thing straight: there is no algorithm that explains Autopsy Transmission.
The first episode opened with Michael Cera Palin and ended with The Birthday Massacre. In between, I made room for Hot Mulligan, KMFDM, Nova Twins, Lamb of God, Hocico, and Assemblage 23. All cuts released in 2025, all chosen by one guiding principle: I like what I like.
There's no real sense to it beyond chaos. Wild swings and emotional pull. That's the curation.
The Education
I didn't arrive at my taste in a straight line.
Nobody does.
It started with cassettes (Ugly Kid Joe, Genesis, Janet Jackson…all from a quickly cancelled Columbia House subscription) and a childhood built on pop radio staples like Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, and AC/DC. The kind of foundational stuff that gets into your bones before you know what music even is. Then @Green Dayand The Offspring cracked something open. For a lot of us, those two bands were the door. And once I walked through it, the Punk-o-Rama compilations were waiting on the other side. Skate punk, hardcore, a flood of sounds that each led somewhere new.
Somewhere in high school, a few friends decided they wanted to start a ska band. I played trumpet, so naturally I got recruited. The only problem: I didn't really know ska. So I did what I always do, I dove in. @Less Than Jake, the Toasters, the whole catalog. The band never went anywhere past a few practices, but that didn't matter. Another rabbit hole had opened up, and I was already in it.
The industrial thread came from a completely different direction. The 1995 masterpiece that was the original Mortal Kombat soundtrack introduced me to KMFDM and Gravity Kills. Two acts that had no business showing up in a movie about a video game tournament and yet fit perfectly. That's the thing about a killer soundtrack attached to a bad movie: it bypasses your defenses. You're not looking for KMFDM. KMFDM finds you.
Then came my time at the record store. Working retail in music is either the best or worst thing that can happen to a person with a developing taste. For me, it was a revelation. That's where I first heard @Coheed and Cambria come through the speakers. Where Alexisonfire made themselves known. From there, the rabbit hole went deep into post-hardcore and screamo and all their adjacent scenes, which, eventually, looped back around to the pop-punk roots that started everything.
Once I find something I like sonically, I dive headfirst into related artists, compilations, anything I can get my hands on. Doing that while working at a record store is, honestly, almost too much for one person to ingest.
The result is that I hear connections most people miss, between the melody in a Hot Mulligan hook and the drive in a Dayseeker chorus, between the cold precision of Assemblage 23 and the theatrical aggression of Hocico, between a brutal Lamb of God riff and a Lindsay Schoolcraft vocal. All different scenes. All part of the same emotional vocabulary, if you're listening for it.
The Show
Autopsy Transmission started simply. No grand mission statement, no strategy. Just me, with decades of accumulated taste, and a small community to share it with.
I wanted some way to give back. Create something I enjoy and just hope others enjoy the ride.
Each episode is a curated deep dive. Themed, intentional, built around connections between artists and scenes that don't always get talked about in the same breath. Episode 001 premiered in January 2026 as a 2025 year-in-review, tracking what hit hardest across a genuinely eclectic range of genres. Episode 002 traced the entire lineage of industrial and hardcore music from Killing Joke to Code Orange. Future episodes will keep going deeper. More genre archaeology, more artist spotlights, more of the kind of connective thinking that only comes from decades of paying very close attention.
The Discord radio format does something a playlist can't. There's context. There's connective tissue. There's a voice in the room helping you understand why these songs belong together, even when it's not immediately obvious. And its run live.
What to Expect
If you're coming to Autopsy Transmission expecting a pure emo show, you'll be surprised. That's the point.
Yes, emo is in the DNA. The post-hardcore rabbit hole is real and you'll feel it throughout. The industrial beat keeps on driving through. But this is a show built by someone who got to hardcore through Punk-o-Rama, got to industrial through a video game movie, and got to screamo through a record store shift. The connections I make are genuine because the journey that produced them was genuine.
What you can expect: deep dives into your favorite artists and those who deserve more attention, explorations of how genres bleed into each other, and the occasional wild swing that shouldn't work but absolutely does. The chaos is the point. The chaos is the curation.
The only question is whether you're ready for the ride.
Autopsy Transmission is a curated radio show airing on the Never A Phase Network Discord. New episodes drop regularly. Follow @autopsy_transmission on TikTok or @itsDaFoose on IG for upcoming episodes.