This Album Changed My Life

Glenn and Bret interview Travis Davis about Relient K’s The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek, the album that sent 10/11 year old Trav down a lifelong path of music. We talk Sadie Hawkins Dance taking over fifth grade, the glory of CD-ROM bonus music videos, watching Dave Douglas play Pressing On with chopsticks in hand, and how both Bret and Trav got drum sets as a gift, which eventually let to two...

It's story time with Bret as he discusses the exact time and place he first heard Thursday's Understanding In A Car Crash off, and how although he normally didn't like things like that, he liked it...a lot. Thursday was his gateway into post-hardcore, which led him all the way to Furnace Fest. Then, Dennis Martinez from the Flamingo Friends crew hops on to talk about his journey to Thu...

Glenn interviews Bret about MxPx's monumental 1996 album Life in General, which set him on a musical journey he didn't see coming. From pop punk to ska, to playing it, to emo and on to heavier stuff, to music festivals, friends, the vinyl community, and more, we go deep on why Bret owes it all to this album. We praise Yuri "The Machine" Ruley, discuss growing up in youth groups,...

Bret interviews Glenn for our first episode, discussing ADTR's landmark album Homesick, which blended pop-punk with metalcore and was possibly the first time a lot of the pop punk kids ever heard a breakdown. We learn how and why 13 year old Glenn was feeling so Homesick and how this album was there for him in some tough times.