Columbia House Party

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake throw it back to Hostage Life and their excellent single Sons of Hostage Life. Which, yeah, you know there are some bad jokes about that song title within. But it’s still a good discussion about a band that was a staple of the Toronto scene and a little unknown outside of it. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show n...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy crown Sum 41’s 2001 album All Killer No Filler a Canadian musical landmark. That’s like a Canadian Heritage Minute, but it just plays every commercial break on Much Loud for eternity. Maybe a statue in Ajax, too. Find out more about how Sum 41 broke through outside of just the Canadian pop-punk scene to become embl...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake reach into Blake’s high school CD case to listen to Something Beautiful by Cauterize. The band formerly known as Take Off, Eh! seems an unlikely miss in the pop-punk explosion of the early 2000s, given how good the album So Far From Real is. Let’s try to figure out why they never broke through unless you really liked snowboarding video game...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by NBA writer James Herbert (@outsidethenba) to discuss Billy Talent’s 2003 self-titled debut. James made sense as the guest since he was also on for Billy Talent influence At The Drive-In and because he and Blake were at the same Billy Talent concert during frosh week at Queen’s. Find out more about Bla...

How do you spell ooh ah ah ah ah? In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake get “Down With the Sickness” and take a quick look at Disturbed. They were more than just a two-hit nu-metal star that The Edge 102.1 overdid. Shockingly so, actually, with ludicrous album sales and five No. 1 records. Learn more about High School Blake’s favourite band, and get stupefied. Come join the Pat...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by comedian John Cullen (@cullenthecomic, @blockedpartypod, @thePOD_Kast) to discuss Broken Social Scene’s sophomore album You Forgot It In People. But not before they get derailed talking about Disturbed, Korn, labret piercings, and John’s love of nu-metal. The guys eventually talk BSS, we promise. Find...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake spotlight a Toronto punk band they’re both very high on, The OBGMs. Built around the single “Not Again” off of their upcoming album “The Ends,” the hosts explore whether The OBGMs can back up their claims of being Nirvana, Steve Jobs, Steph Curry, and Drake of the local scene. Keep an eye out for their album on October 30. Come join the Pat...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Erin from Resting on Pretty (@RestingOnPod) to discuss Lorde’s 2017 sophomore album Melodrama. Melodrama being considered a pop album is accurate, but it paints Lorde in a way that sometimes seems to undersell her excellent as a songwriter. Find out more about her growth as a person and writer over th...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by their first three-time guest, Sarah MacDonald (@sarahsmacdonald, sarahsmacdonald.com), to discuss Phoebe Bridgers’ 2020 sophomore album Punisher. This is the show’s first crack at covering a new album without the benefit of at least some nostalgia, so it’s good the hosts had Sarah to guide them. Find...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake take a trip to Better Oblivion Community Center to discuss the self-titled album from Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst’s group. What better way to bridge Bright Eyes and Bridgers episodes? It also offers yet another chance for Jake to be unkind to his younger self as it pertains to Dylan Thomas. Yeemo-haw. Come join the Patreon family for b...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy make Conor Oberst the third member of the CHP two-time subject club, exploring Bright Eyes’ 2002 album Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground. Find out more about Saddle Creek’s epic early-2000s run as a label, why the hosts think Bright Eyes was so influential as a thread between folk eras...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake call an emergency podcast to discuss a new song from blink-182 called Quarantine. Down Matt Skiba for this one – is there drama afoot? – Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker go back to their punkier roots, lament the pandemic situation we all find ourselves in, and poke at how it’s all been handled politically. Just remember: We’re blessed to be s...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Jeff Rosenstock (@jeffrosenstock) to discuss Rilo Kiley’s excellent 2004 album More Adventurous. Is there a cooler band than Rilo Kiley, and a cooler singer than Jenny Lewis? It’s hard to figure.. Find out more about which Rilo Kiley song Jeff had his first dance too, which Rilo Kiley song Jeff has co...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake use their two tongues to discuss the Two Tongues of Max Bemis and Chris Conley. After enjoying their work together on a Bob Dylan tribute, the respective lead singers of Say Anything and Saves the Day collaborated on a 2009 album together. The result, though, doesn’t quite live up to the expectations cast by each groups’ previous work, a co...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy dive into Say Anything’s 2004 pop-punk classic …Is a Real Boy (and, technically, their 2006 build-on …Was a Real Boy). It’s an album that stands out from its own scene upon review, somewhat ironically given the album’s heavy criticism of the scene itself. Find out more about the cost and benefit of Max Bemis’ spraw...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake aren’t quite the heroes you’re looking for, but they do their best to analyze the hit single from the SpiderMan soundtrack. It’s just a shame the supergroup that made the track – including members of Nickelback, Saliva, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Our Lady Peace, and Theory of a Deadman – never gave themselves a cool early-2000s of-the-moment a...

Please open your sad teen textbooks to Page 1. In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are screaming infidelities and sharing all their best deceptions as they break down the 2001 album from Dashboard Confessional, The Places You Have Come to Fear the most. Find out more about Chris Carrabba’s transition from Further Seems Forever to Dashboard Confession...

Watch Out! In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Sam Sutherland (@SamSthrlnd) of the blink-155 podcast to talk about…not blink-182, surprisingly. Instead, the trio takes a deep look at alexisonfire’s sophomore 2004 album Watch Out! Sam’s choice of album surprised, but explained through the lens of that moment in Canadian music history, it...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake spotlight a newer Canadian punk band, the Montreal four-piece NOBRO. They’re a band both hosts came across opening for other reputable bands in the scene and quickly became enamored with for their intensity, musicianship and songwriting. Check out the song Marianna here and their EP Sick Hustle on Bandcamp. Come join the Patreon family for...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Taylor Markarian (@TKMarkarian), author of From The Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society, to reminisce about the self-titled 2003 debut from The All-American Rejects. Tyson Ritter hive, it’s your time to log on. Find out more about Taylor’s AOL Instant Messenger association with...

It’s about time. In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy finally open up the grunge side of the podcast, diving deep on Nirvana’s industry-changing 1993 album In Utero. If you preferred Nevermind, well, blame the Patreon supporters who voted for this, and maybe give that take a second thought upon re-listening. Find out more about what Kurt Cobain set ou...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake run it back to episode No. 3 to get a gauge on where Fall Out Boy is, musically, here in 2020 rather than 2005. Using the song The Last of the Real Ones as a window into how Fall Out Boy have developed, it’s clear the current incarnation is a successful formula – and not a far cry from their earlier sound – even if it’s not for the hosts.

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Katie Heindl (@wtevs, @weirdvessels) to discuss FEELINGS and the 2014 album Singles from Future Islands. It’s a bit more of a pop turn than usual for the hosts, but upon deeper listening, it fits right in with the CHP ethos. Find out more about how freestyle rapping played a role in Future Islands’ de...

What has Jake become? In the latest Columbia House Party single, he finally relents and allows Blake to discuss Fozzy’s Judas, a surprisingly catchy song that’s taken a hard pivot from being liked ironically to being liked earnestly. How, exactly, did Chris Jericho turn a half-joking side-project into something with seven albums and multiple Download Festival appearances? More importantly, is Jake...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy explore TV on the Radio’s Return to Cookie Mountain, what they feel is one of the best albums to come out of the early-2000s indie rock boom. So much so, in fact, that this episode invites the first discussion of a potential CHP Hall of Fame for one of TV on the Radio’s members. Find out more about the David Letter...