NOT JUST A PHASE

Maggie, Nathan and Spencer from First Day Back join us on the pod today! We discuss their debut album “Forward” and their overnight blow up, we chat about everything from environmental studies to music enjoyers, origin stories, their Santa Cruz scene, hotstuff productions, their recording process, lyrical journeys, becoming hood famous, best friends forever, property destruction, arson, a good soc...

Debuting a new HKFY song on the podcast with Christian Hell this week. Christian Hell from Hong Kong Fuck You / All You Need Is Kill is back to fuck the show up with a new song debut and many laughs. We discuss everything from marx maxers to his recent Japan tour, hentai, tengas, getting naked, goatse, jenkem, the Hellverse, merchcore, zoofiles, Godzilla, Calvin Kleins, art inspo, contrabass, nega...

Crochet guitarist Zach Tarzi joins us this week for a chat. We discuss the latest Crochet album “Cherish” and their 2025 plans. We also chat about everything from practicing Italian to political philosophy, law school, origin stories of the band, danger music, music industry exploitation, the feeling of war, hateful birds, the composition process, the different kinds of effort, Jake’s back, best f...

New Iowa city screamo act thisworldisnotkind kicked off my new year on January 3rd with a heavy EP release that’s been nominated for two Skrammy Awards this year, thisworldisnotkind, or TWINK for short, is being nominated for "Best New Jacks of 2025" and "Best Screamo EP of 2025" for their release titled “death”. Today I’m beyond excited to chat with Laela so we can get into their lore and find ou...

Chelsea from the Sadder Star radio show is on the podcast this week to chat with us about her origins and her love of emo music. We get into her lore and everything else from mall emo to “real emo”, jocks, vans warped tour, Arizona & Texas scene, suburbia, online songs, live journal, blink 182 chat rooms, fourfa, what the heck is emo anyway, long walks to the record store, trivia, common wealt...

Gus and Brian from Ostraca join us on the podcast for a chat this week. We discuss everything from the Big O to Steve-O, the wild west of the internet, rocking and wrenching, the shed, the warehouse, the hole, homemade merch, committing to strange dating apps, pirating legends, psychedelic jazz, Oanon, their writing process, a potential Ostraca cover, the secret formula, the rig rundown, the Danny...

The fabulous four from Febuary are on the show this week to chat with us Rila, Abby, Airon & Steph join us to chat about DDR and being goofsters, stacking clips, origin stories, best friends, the growing DIY Vegas scene, black bear diner, first bands, best friends forever, sound and fury, the shed, emo demon possession, dreams and almost reunions, SoundCloud rap, smoking a bean, being a gather...

This week from Dylan and Nick from Pneumonia Breath come on the pod to chat. We discuss everything from pit injuries to foot fetishes, headbangers ball, non derogatory metalcore, cringey content, good morning PB, yappers by default, being a diva, Ontario hardcore scene, music videos, wormwood records, arena metalcore, cop chases, OSHA violations, wrasslin & freeballin.

Grady Allen of Anxious returns to the show this week to discuss the bands new album “Bambi” and the bands plans for 2025. We discuss everything from school to touring plans, full circle moments, inspirations behind the upcoming album, art aesthetics, their writing and recording process, Japan, adjusting to changes, unique merch, jankxious, Connecticut straight edge, I think you should leave, fire...

Lemus and Ben from Stateside join us this week for a chat. We discuss everything from zoboomafoo to origin stories, podcasts, coffee, the long beach scene, quarantine productions, future goals and plans, letting the food speak for itself, tour memories, hotel shenanigans, scooby doo, TikTok hardcore, using the amenities, Twitter while driving, murder porn, guilty pleasure music, ancient phones and...

This we chat with Cullen from Milkcrate Merch to find out how the milk is made. We discuss podcasts and being a mailman, origin stories and small towns, screenprinting envy, vegan patches, pizza,long sleeves, fascinating doodles, gundam model kits, unique merch, bar codes, deodorant, entering the vinyl game and label wars, J cards, BSDJ, bedroom skramz, Digimon VS Pokémon, neopets funding Scientol...

See You Next Tuesday guitarist Drew has joined us this week to discuss the new Asymmetrics split. We discuss everything from his local scene, stinky sound guys, origin stories, goregrind, mailman activities, jazz and music theory, sobriety, kickstand productions, meth and hugs, musical chairs, mandolins, cornfields and mythical creatures, grocery shopping, the death of fascism, musical growth, gho...

Mark, Gary & Matt from the Newfound Interest In Connecticut join us this week to chat about their future. We discuss everything from the pizza scene in Long Island to industrial dishwashers, the musicians union, vampires, disc golf, squash VS racket ball, professional chess, the long dark path to repress albums, Turkish psych music, machismo emo, new friends fest, swordfighting, cobourg vs wel...

Julian from Common Sage joins us this week to discuss the bands new album “Closer To”. We touch on origin stories for Julian as well everything else from radio lab to scary stories, chess, goodfellas, equal vision records, out of place southern accents, recreational weed and viagara, graffiti, the vandal squad, Anthony Bourdain & comic books. Oh and then we talk ghosts, aliens and bears (oh my...

Abel from Big Ass Truck made a pit stop this week to have a chat with us. We discuss everything from San Bernardino to video games, grunge, being an industry plant, brocore, breaking limbs, modelos and weapons, Rockville, Coachella, SOS booking, pit goggles and rat tails, being a lame, mullets, deadlifting, info wars, hyper pop, 7 string guitars and so much more.

Mason and Hellena from Senza join us this week on the podcast. We chat about everything from silly podcasts to video games, origin stories, 9/11, the Portland scene, bandswithnameslikethis, vocal technique, mystery bass tones, recording & re recording, anti facist music, the celestial body explained, gay album art, new music to come, ZBR fest, Cali Kicks fest, little things coming, tournament...

East coast legend, Thomas Schlatter joins us for a chat this week. We chat about everything from tour life to podcasts, Elias “the hulk” Amini, the New Jersey scene, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, bottling air, straight edge, sanitized screamo and the wild west, basements and big stages, VHS worldwide, misogyny in the scene, the three amps thing, friends VS rivals, music as a learning experience and commu...

Vocalists Brian and Jen from In Loving Memory join us this week for a chat. We discussed everything from fantasy baseball to fairies, big dogs, the world (of Warcraft), their Iowa scene, the safari club, their writing process, vampires, music videos, Gen Z screamo & the kids (they’re gonna be alright), anti smoking campaigns, dilly dally fest, visors, playing christian schools, streaking, skin...

Johnny Whitney from the Blood Brothers joins us for a chat this week. We discuss everything from their comeback to our grandmothers, their origin stories, vocal technique, dance rhythms, Henry Rollins, Jimmy Kimmel, drag racing, Metallica, math class, human spaghetti, brat summer, transformative experiences and Nintendo.

Connie Sgarbossa from SeeYou SpaceCowboy joins us to discuss the new SYSC album “Coup De Grâce”. We chat about everything from skating to crowdkilling, aesthetics, sin city, Cali, sophies floorboard, sound and fury, the circle of nostalgia, “real” screamo vs twinkle screamo, the separation of punk genres and their fanbase, cross my heart with a knife, tour stories, athletic crimes, che cafe, San D...

Kyle (Vocalsit) of Votive joins us this week to chat. We get into everything from Texas to Dark Days Bright Nights, Dilly Dally, coochie, German splatter, horny chain raves, Dr. Pepper, whitebelt headquarters, manipulating physics, rawdogging, bare backing, robdogging, defeating stereotypes, cancel culture, being normal, Hitler (in a classical sense) and letting go of shame.

Guitarist Josh, and bassist / back up vocalist Jason from ...Of Death came onto the podcast with us about 3 months ago (so sorry for the delay guys). We got to chat about everything from wrestling to Texas, Cali, podcasts, the 711 to edge day conspiracy, Cali kicks fest, the year of screamo festivals, Cookie Monster vocals, Cali again, the Russian discography tapes, Krispy Kremes for some reason,...

Peter, Tom & Chris from As Living Arrows join us this week to chat about their new album Hope and Ruin. We chat about everything from SNL to their local scenes, big screamo money, the end of the world, cum chat, skating, new merch, omelettes, cat impressions, intoxicated climbing, shoe shopping, goat simulator & understanding animals. #incaseyouleave #myrushmore #gel #godalone #voidoflight...

Caleb and Hunter from Sinema join us this week to chat. Caleb and Hunter are the vocals and guitarists for the new Texas emocore band Sinema and we chat with them about everything from their local scene to rubber gloves, skateboarding, musical inspirations, self versed records, home to heart, touring with the new jacks and the vets, heatwaves, musicals, r&b, and punching boomers.

Yavi, Erick and Jack from Kiowa join us to chat about their band and their debut EP “Forever Ends Today”. We discuss how this supergroup was formed of many other active and inactive screamo bands. We chat about lastfm, Cali Kicks Festival, indie music, home to heart fest, their writing process, graphic design, swimming, what’re the odds, milk, large dogs, mosh calls, nightcore and more.