Podcast Episodes

"Record Store Zombie" - A Conversation With Mark Burke

Episode 132

We end our look back at the music of our youth by talking with the man that sold us those records: the one and only Mark Burke, current owner of Mad …

5 years, 8 months ago

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Flickerstick: How the VH1 Reality Champs Spawned Our Love for Live Music and Superfandom

Episode 131

To wrap-up our batch of episodes devoted to the albums of our youth, we go back to the origin and talk about one of the first bands we truly connecte…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Garage Rock Evolved: Phantom Planet's Self-Titled Re-Invention

Episode 130

Phantom Planet was once most notably known as the group that sings that song from The O.C. (you know, the one that goes "California, here we come!").…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Ethan Durelle - White Knuckles On Turned Wheels (with special guest Joel Fruth)

Episode 129

If you were a teenager in the 2000s and grew up near Dallas, TX, you probably went to your fair share of live music in Deep Ellum like we did. On thi…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Mae: Destination: Beautiful

Episode 128

As we've covered heavily over the past few weeks, emo bands were a dime a dozen in the early aughts. Mae's debut record, Destination: Beautiful, was …

5 years, 9 months ago

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mewithoutYou - [A→B] Life: When Poetry and Post-Hardcore Meet

Episode 127

mewithoutYou's debut record [A→B] Life defies the genre labels one might be eager to place on it. Singer Aaron Weiss' poetic lyricism and spoken word…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Emery: The Weak's End

Episode 126

Continuing our exploration of the music from our youth, we crank the angst to 10 and go full emo with a listen to Emery's debut album, The Weak's End…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Sidetrack: Mutoid Man

Episode 125

On this week's Sidetrack episode, we listen to Cave In frontman Stephen Brodsky's side project, Mutoid Man. Unlike the polished sound that Cave In ac…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Antenna: Cave In's "Sell Out" Space-Rock Masterpiece

Episode 124

Fresh off the success of their 2000 release Jupiter, Cave In signed to major label RCA to record their next album. The result was Antenna: a masterfu…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Sidetrack: Hey Mercedes - Frowning of a Lifetime

Episode 123

After the dissolution of Chicago-based Braid, Bob Nanna and Todd Bell took their post-hardcore emo sound and added some melody and pop to it. The res…

5 years, 11 months ago

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