Rogue Frequencies

Olivia Rose & Matt Booren
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What happens when punk rock meets human growth and development? You get Rogue Frequencies. Hosts Olivia and Matt explore punk music, sub-genres, bands, and culture through the lens of personal growth and becoming more fully yourself. Part music deep-dive, part human development conversation. For anyone who's ever felt like they were built for something different.

Episodes

  1. Do It Yourself, Together - Season 1 Finale

    6d ago

    Do It Yourself, Together - Season 1 Finale

    After 2 years, over 20 conversations, and 10 episodes recorded, one rad-ass graphic and one riot jingle created - season one is done. And before we move forward to season two, we look back on the 9 episodes behind us. Olivia and Matt dig into their biggest takeaways from a season spent contemplating punk as a lens for human growth. Matt pulls from the I-You-Thou framework and what punk taught him about real dialogue and brotherhood. Olivia gets into a new appreciation for history, the destruction-construction cycle, and why adversity and the unsavory corners of punk culture turn out to be some of the most fertile ground for empowerment. We also get into dichotomies, authenticity, and what it means to authentically live rather than claim or conform. Then we look ahead. Stay tuned for season two which brings interviews with punks, deeper dives into bands and genres we haven't touched yet, and your questions about living an authentic punk life. One season in. A lot learned. More coming. Rock on! Check out our curated Spotify playlist for this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3gxzyHvA1zbs5ejgxudZjJ?si=uXgggORoRP2P1BFPBN4eWA --- Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility. 🌐 oliviarosecoach.com 📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach Credits: Cover art by Joe T. IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed Theme song by Cheap Perfume FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719 CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband Post-Production: IG: instagram.com/brijettesanjose All media and photographs belong to their respective owners. Used for commentary, educational, and discussion purposes.

    38 min
  2. NOFX and Building Something That Lasts

    May 23

    NOFX and Building Something That Lasts

    NOFX built something that lasted 40 years by breaking most, maybe all, of the rules about how you're “supposed” to do it. No major label. No radio play. No apologies. This episode is where Rogue Frequencies started. We go deep on the band that kicked off this whole project, using NOFX’s story to look at what it actually takes to stay committed, to yourself and to the people around you, over the long haul. We talk about Fat Mike carrying the band in the early days and what it means to let go of over-commitment. How when the adults in the room eventually get their act together, repression and regression have a way of turning into something louder than you intended. We get into the I-You-Thou dynamic, why NOFX had to reject the East Bay rulebook to find their own, and what it looks like when a band genuinely knows who they are and when to choose to let it all go. How do you grow without losing yourself and the people you started with? NOFX didn't always get it right. That's kind of the point. Check out our curated Spotify playlist for this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2tecKqeBNrlVprOrBMdoXu?si=WYC2dpceS3-Qhe-Ygyk3Tw --- Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility. 🌐 oliviarosecoach.com 📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach Credits: Cover art by Joe T. IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed Theme song by Cheap Perfume FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719 CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband Post-Production: IG: instagram.com/brijettesanjose All media and photographs belong to their respective owners. Used for commentary, educational, and discussion purposes.

    55 min
  3. What Modern Punk Looks Like Outside the System

    May 16

    What Modern Punk Looks Like Outside the System

    The modern punk scene has a question it's actively trying to answer: can you build something that holds all of it - every identity, every ability - without flattening any of it? The Denver, Co Punk scene are working that out in real time. This episode centers Cheap Perfume and Team Nonexistent (among many others, such as the, Potato Pirates and Dead Pioneers) and traces the lineage, from The Slits and X-Ray Spex through Bikini Kill, Against Me!, and Propagandhi. We look at how the present requires the past, while also being completely new. We examine the how and why the current scene are the ones punk spent decades making room for. This scene focuses on intentional community, what it means to police a scene with purpose, and how "brotherhood" became "siblinghood." And we dig into what it actually takes to create a vision before the infrastructure exists to support it. Punk has always been about reclamation. The modern scene is not asking who gets to do it, they are declaring that we are the ones we have been waiting for. And they show us what happens when that shift is made. Check out our curated Spotify playlist for this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4vK1M4stInAhcsZezX072N?si=2zbacCUzTAGADruUWihG5w Special shout out and thank you to these bands: Potato Pirates: Web: https://www.potatopirates.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/potatopirates/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/potatopirates/?hl=en Team Nonexistent IG: https://www.instagram.com/teamnonexistent/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/teamnonexistentmusic/ Bandcamp: http://teamnonexistent.bandcamp.com/ Ded Pioneers Web: https://www.deadpioneers.band/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/dead.pioneers/ Cheap Perfume FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719 CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility. 🌐 oliviarosecoach.com 📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach Credits: Cover art by Joe T. IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed Theme song by Cheap Perfume FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719 CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband Post-Production: IG: instagram.com/brijettesanjose

    53 min
  4. Riot Grrrl and Taking Up Space

    May 9

    Riot Grrrl and Taking Up Space

    The Riot Grrrl movement didn't ask for a seat at the table. It built its own and that's the point. This episode we digging into feminist punk, its origins, and what it actually tells us about how change gets made, both in a scene and in a life. Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Amyl and the Sniffers, Cheap Perfume. These aren't just bands. They're case studies in what happens when we use our voices to create the change we seek in the world. We get into the politics of reclaiming your own sexuality, the male gaze in music, and why "whore and housewife" as a framing isn't an insult, it's a mirror held up to everyone who put it there. The bigger question underneath all of it: what does it take to build something new from the inside out, and why does that process require the pain of the old thing first? Listen to our playlist for this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7BkaEaEQrySRypc13jzahh?si=wGI-3-YtQgSSiixqzcl0dw Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility. 🌐 oliviarosecoach.com 📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach Credits Cover art by Joe T. IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed Theme song by Cheap Perfume FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719 CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband Post-Production: IG: instagram.com/brijettesanjose

    47 min
  5. Growing Up with Crackcore

    May 2

    Growing Up with Crackcore

    We are calling this genre we explore today as “Crackcore.” We admit, Crackcore is genuinely fun to listen to. They're also a mess of contradictions. We look at the complex human that is Scott Sturgeon aka. Stza Crack. We use this artist, these bands, and genre to pull on a real tension: what happens when transgression becomes the whole identity? When the a*****e stops being a tool and starts being the person? There's a line between destruction that clears the way for something and destruction that just leaves rubble. Crackcore bumps up against that line constantly, and sometimes blows right past it. Can you separate the art from the artist? We don't fully answer that. But we do ask whether you even should. Listen to our playlist for this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4wm9LU06ccgK43e9a3KMGq?si=b3e5dbeb7dd34c0d Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility. 🌐 oliviarosecoach.com 📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach Credits Cover art by Joe T. IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed Theme song by Cheap Perfume FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719 CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

    46 min
  6. Why Misfits & Ramones Still Hit

    Apr 25

    Why Misfits & Ramones Still Hit

    The Ramones and the Misfits both came out of the same collapsed, scrappy New York moment. One became a blueprint. One fell apart. This episode we use these two foundational bands to dig into what actually drives growth when the conditions are hard and the path isn't clear. How do you build something real when you don't yet know what you're building? And what does it mean to succeed at something you never actually set out to do? We get into the difference between grit that connects and grit that just grinds, why your goals need to grow with you, and how the Ramones pulled off something the Misfits couldn't: searving the thing they were making more than their own egos. The arc only makes sense in hindsight. But you still have to run it. Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility. 🌐 oliviarosecoach.com 📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach Credits: Cover art by Joe T. IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed Theme song by Cheap Perfume FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719 CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband Post-Production: IG: instagram.com/brijettesanjose

    44 min
  7. What We Took from Political Punk

    Apr 19

    What We Took from Political Punk

    Punk is not just noise. It’s a response, a diagnosis, a dare. In this episode, we use a few bands that intentionally embody “the personal is political” to live and model what it actually means to be authentic, not as a brand, but as a living, evolving person. Matt traces the lineage that gets us to how these two bands Crass and the Dropkick Murphys put their politics on the stage and meant it. And we talk about what happens when the room shows up, the audience grows, and when the lure of growth conflicts with ethos. We dig into generative transgression, the difference between confrontation-first and consumable-first, and why authenticity has nothing to do with how you look and everything to do with what you're willing to hold onto when it costs you something. We also get into the push and pull between the individual and the collective, which is basically the oldest human tension there is. Punk didn't solve it. But it named it louder than most. Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility. 🌐 oliviarosecoach.com 📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach Credits Cover art by Joe T. IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed Theme song by Cheap Perfume FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719 CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

    57 min
  8. Raised on The Clash & Rancid

    Apr 15

    Raised on The Clash & Rancid

    Olivia and Matt dig into two bands that have to be in any honest conversation about punk - The Clash and Rancid. We explore what their wildly different trajectories can teach us about staying true to yourself when the world wants something else from you. From the streets of 1976 London to the blue-collar swamps of Berkeley, these bands share DNA, but their stories diverge in ways that matter. One band fractures under the pressure of chasing something outside itself. The other finds a way through addiction, loss, and decades of adversity by doubling down on loyalty, community, and each other. Matt brings the history, Olivia brings the framework. Together they get into Carl Jung's ego, Maslow's hierarchy, the difference between "I give no f***s" and "f**k off," and why authenticity is always an inside job. Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility. 🌐 oliviarosecoach.com 📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach Cover art by Joe T. IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed Theme song by Cheap Perfume FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719 CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

    55 min
  9. A Deep Dive in New York Hardcore

    Apr 13

    A Deep Dive in New York Hardcore

    What happens when a city is burning and nobody's coming to save you? You build something from the wreckage. In this episode, Olivia and Matt dig into the New York hardcore scene - its raw origins in the economic decay of late 70s/early 80s NYC - and what it has to teach us about growth, grit, and becoming. They explore how bands like Agnostic Front, the Cro-Mags, and Bad Brains didn't just make noise - they made meaning. From the ethos of PMA (positive mental attitude) to the DIY spirit that built a scene out of nothing, this episode unpacks what it looks like to move with your story instead of running from it. Because growth doesn't happen in comfort. It happens in the squat, the pit, the rebuild. 🎵 Check out the companion Spotify playlist featuring some of our favorite NY hardcore artists and songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1aCujiFkswt0REjLixxJUB?si=7w3M4vIZTn67JbAo6GTw1g Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility. 🌐 oliviarosecoach.com 📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach Credits: Cover art by Joe T. IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed Theme song by Cheap Perfume FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719 CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband Post-Production: IG: instagram.com/brijettesanjose

    51 min
  10. This Is Rogue Frequencies

    Apr 9

    This Is Rogue Frequencies

    Welcome to the first episode of Rogue Frequencies! Rogue Frequencies is a podcast where we mash up punk music with human growth and development. Hosts Olivia and Matt kick things off in this our very first episode by sharing how this adventure came to life, their personal backgrounds, and what punk means to them. This episode sets the stage for Season 1, where we'll dig into punk music, sub-genres, bands, and culture through the lens of personal growth and becoming more fully yourself. 🎵 Check out the companion Spotify playlist featuring some of our favorite artists and songs: open.spotify.com/playlist/6c556z6LWSIO5nHBIRPoGA Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility. 🌐 oliviarosecoach.com 📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach Cover art by Joe T. IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed Theme song by Cheap Perfume FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719 CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

    27 min
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What happens when punk rock meets human growth and development? You get Rogue Frequencies. Hosts Olivia and Matt explore punk music, sub-genres, bands, and culture through the lens of personal growth and becoming more fully yourself. Part music deep-dive, part human development conversation. For anyone who's ever felt like they were built for something different.

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  • Creator
    Olivia Rose & Matt Booren
  • Years Active
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  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Olivia Rose & Matt Booren
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