The Submissives has been played on NTS in shows including Homeshake, featured first on 16 May 2017. Songs played include Forces, Maybe Someday and Do You Really Love Me?.

The Submissives were a notable B&D and S&M themed hardcore punk band from Portland, OR comprised of three of the biggest names in the American hardcore scene. The bands members included Pig Champion (a.k.a. Tom Roberts) from Poison Idea, Dave Dictor from MDC, and Steve Andrews from Naked Violence. The songs were almost exclusively about men wanting to be dominated by women.

Dave Dictor said of the project in a 2007 interview: “It was a glorious and fabulous project out on Honest Don’s Records, worked on in 1996/1997 about sexual submission in the realm of female domination. I write on my myspace blog (myspace.com/mdc) about my relationship with Tom Roberts. He was a hell of a creative soul and also a hurting person. We did drugs with each other and lived with each other on the second floor of a punk club rehearsal space known as Suburbia. It was some of my most creative moments with a totally committed person I have ever worked with. Ron Posner and Al Shultz of MDC are other very creative people but Tom’s and my creative time was very compressed. He was a large soul-filled being. I miss Tom greatly.”