Podcast Episodes

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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 months ago

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Emo Pop Perfected: Hot Rod Circuit's Sorry About Tomorrow

Episode 122

By the time 2002 came around, "emo" had gone mainstream. Bands like Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional had made it to MTV, and paved the way …

5 years, 9 months ago

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Two-Thirds of Blink 182 Go Dark: Tom Delonge Gets Serious With Box Car Racer

Episode 121

For our Sidetrack this week we dive into Box Car Racer, the shortly lived side project of Blink 182's Tom Delonge. During recording sessions of Blink…

5 years, 9 months ago

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What's Our Age Again? No Filler Goes Back To School & Jams Out To Blink-182

Episode 120

We kick off our batch of episodes devoted to our awkward teenage years with a look at a band that sings about boners and dysentery: the one and only …

5 years, 9 months ago

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Sidetrack: Post Malone & Co. Give Us A Socially Distanced Proper Nirvana Tribute Concert

Episode 119

As we're wrapping up our 90's rock binge, we thought what better way to do it than to share a few of our favorite non-singles from Post Malone's Apri…

5 years, 9 months ago

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