joe wood
Q&A: Joe Wood on Bringing Change Today? Songs Back on the Road
February 14, 2020 Justin Norton
We talk to onetime T.S.O.L. frontman Joe Wood about his new band and finally playing his classic mid-80s material again
Change Today? Turns 30
April 14, 2014 Justin Norton
Pushing boundaries is taken for granted in extreme music. The review pages of Decibel are packed with bands that eschew convention in the hopes of creating something different. In the early 80s, hardcore punk and metal were ruled by dogma. T.S.O.L. was one of the standard bearers: Weathered Statues and Dance With Me were benchmarks…
Blues Into Metal #3: Joe Wood
July 3, 2013 Justin Norton
Guitarist and vocalist Joe Wood is best known for his time in T.S.O.L., including the classic Change Today? album – a hybrid of punk and blues that I consider one of the best Southern California punk albums in the early-to-mid 80s. The album’s highlight is “Flowers By The Door,” a near-perfect song that is still…