Columbia House Party

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined Elamin Abdelmahmoud (@elamin88), host of Pop Chat (@popchatcbc) to discuss Linkin Park’s 2000 debut Hybrid Theory. A re-exploration of this album for its 20thanniversary in 2020, and after the death of Chester Bennington in 2017, reveal a long-lasting impact for fans of the band and their relationship wi...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy finally get around to an album Jake has been wanting to discuss since the podcast's inception, Harvey Danger's Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone? It is, the hosts hope, worth the wait, as both find Harvey Danger to be criminally under appreciated and miscast as a one-hit wonder. Find out more about the curse of F...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by their first four-time guest, Sarah MacDonald (@sarahsmacdonald, sarahsmacdonald.com), to discuss Britney Spears' debut album ...Baby One More Time. That's probably enough appearances to just call Sarah a co-host, right? Cassie Leigh Clancy (@cassleigh, co-host of the @restingonpod podcast) also joins...

In this bonus pod Blake and Jake break down their favourite albums of the last decade. And if you're afraid of this being a uni-genre grouping, fear not. They've got tunes to tickle every fancy. This episode hits the best-of-the-best from 2010 to 2019, but if you want even more content head over to The Stringer for Blake's Top 100 & Jake's Top 50 lists. Come join the Patreon family for bonus e...

It's coming on Christmas, they're cutting down trees, putting up reindeer and singing songs of joy and peace... Oh I wish I had a bonus Christmas episode of Columbia House Party! Howdy friends, happy holidays! For the very first Patreon exclusive Blake and Jake thought they'd channel the festive spirit and bring you a collection of their favourite non-traditional Christmas songs. There might not b...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Nick Dika (@NickDika) of Arkells (@arkellsmusic) to discuss Silverchair's debut album Frogstomp. It was Blake's first album purchased with his own money, at $1 from Columbia House. How fitting. Find out more about Silverchair's unlikely and meteoric rise as 15-year-olds, where they fit in the grunge s...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by the self-proclaimed world's foremost analyst of nu metal, John Cullen (@cullenthecomic), to discuss the first album Jake ever purchased with his own money: Limp Bizkit's Significant Other. Consider this a Limp Bizkit podcast in general, though, as you know Blake wasn't going to try to discuss the conn...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake fire up a new track from The Wonder Years, Brakeless. With the band trying to go back and play a new song with their 2010 sound here in 2020, Brakeless offers a helpful window into the hosts' divergent opinions on each era of The Wonder Years. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show notes and even more goodness: http...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by "The Brain Genius" Josh Custodio (@j0shc) to discuss Panic! At the Disco's debut album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Well, imagine, Jake pacing a podcast and he can't help but to hear an exchanging of words between Blake and Josh about wrestling. And also Brendon Urie. Find out more about Panic's conte...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake play let's remember some early-00s LimeWire bands and fire up Rufio, Rufio, Ru-Fi-Ohhh. The guys take a listen to Above Me, a song that shreds musically but stands nearly alone as a Rufio highlight, which kind of tells their story. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show notes and even more goodness: https://www.patr...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Drew Fairservice (@DrewGROF) to discuss Saves the Day’s 1999 bridge album for the pop-punk scene, Through Being Cool. Drew might cringe at that term pop-punk given his – and Chris Conley’s – hardcore roots, but tracing from Lifetime to Fall Out Boy through Saves the Day is tidy work. Find out more abo...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, the b’ys Jake and Blake fire up some Great Big Sea. More specifically, they take a listen to Oh Yeah, the theme song from Republic of Doyle, and discuss the show, Great Big Sea, and the obvious fit between the two. Entourage wishes it Oh Yeahed like this. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show notes and even more goodness: https:/...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy change their MSN statuses in biting fashion, firing up lyrics from Taking Back Sunday’s 2002 genre classic Tell All Your Friends. It is, with some likelihood, the album one host has listened to more than any other in his life. Find out more about Taking Back Sunday’s clunky and dramatic origins, the benefits and li...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake listen to the latest from Sufjan Stevens, the song Video Game from his new album The Ascension. While one hosts tries to make jokes about the former WWE tag team of the same name, the other explains why this is the version of Sufjan he may like best. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show notes and even more goodnes...

It’s the season premiere! Kind of. In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy celebrate the podcast’s birthday by resetting the connection tree and starting anew for Year Two. To do so, they fire up Green Day’s 1997 album Nimrod, maybe not the best Green Day album but possibly the most important. Find out more about the hosts sneaking Green Day tunes around...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake discuss a recent favourite with Bartees Strange’s Mustang, off his new album Live Forever. It’s a quicker hit than such a good, deep, expansive album deserves, but the hosts wanted to waste little time giving it some deserved love. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show notes and even more goodness: https://www.patr...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Densil McFarlane of The OBGMs (@theobgms) to discuss N.E.R.D.’s 2004 album Fly or Die. Obscured to some degree by the immense success of the group as producers (The Neptunes) and Pharrell Williams’ eventual solo work, N.E.R.D. is more than deserving of their own oxygen as a bridge between hip hop and...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake fire up Machine Gun Kelly’s foray into pop-punk…? It’s true. And while it’s not surprising that one host enjoys it, the other does, too. With an assist to Halsey on forget me too, this meeting of genres gets the CHP seal of approval. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show notes and even more goodness: https://www.pa...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Alyssa Laessig of Guardrail (@guardrailsucks) to discuss Cursive’s 2003 album The Ugly Organ. And be sure to check out Guardrails’ new EP Yikes when you’re done hearing Alyssa break down one of her influences. Find out more about Jake’s and Alyssa’s deep connections to Cursive, how the cello gets acco...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake highlight Meet Me @ The Altar, a pop-punk three-piece both hosts have discovered in 2020 and really enjoyed. Their newer single Garden is a good window into how they blend melody with a traditional pop-punk sound, earning comparisons to some legends in the scene and lending plenty of optimism that their next album will be a breakthrough one...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, Jake and Blake take you to a place off Ocean Avenue to sit and talk with you about Yellowcard’s 2003 album named for a street in Jacksonville, not Los Angeles. That mistake is one of two personal stories the hosts share on this one, the second of which is far more embarrassing. Find out more about Yellowcard’s path from the home of the Jaguars to L.A....

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake get just about as Canadian as it gets, taking Serial Joe’s single Mistake for a spin. It certainly sounds a certain way in 2020. But can you blame labels, Much Music, and the band for trying to capitalize on multiple overlapping trends at once? It was worth a shot. And Skidrow is still good. Sick of hearing all the ads? Subscribe to Soda Pr...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Chris Cresswell (@crustcrustwell) of The Flatliners (@theflatliners) and more to discuss one of his major influences, Gob’s 1998 album How Far Shallow Takes You. You really thought CanCon pop-punk month was going to go down without some Gob? Go jump in a lake. Find out more about the path Gob paved fo...

In the latest Columbia House Party single, Jake and Blake offer up a rarity and actually concede that something is a one-hit wonder, and it’s not just because you didn’t listen to the album enough. The Age of Electric had a fairly big hit with Remote Control, and the band is otherwise best known for their subsequent (or parallel) projects. That doesn’t mean the song rules any less. Come join the P...

In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, Jake and Blake travel back to Blake’s most heartbroken shifts at the Cambridge Home Hardware and fire up Avril Lavigne’s 2003 debut Let Go. Armed with four massive singles one-through-four on the album, Let Go was a tour de force at the time and feels no less significant in retrospect. Find out more about the changes in writing process (and partners)...