Growing Up Punk

It's the one where Aaron chats with Chad Pearson, founder of The Militia Group. In this episode they discuss the origins of The Militia Group, and Chad's 5 favourite releases from the label. Aaron also shares a few of his favourite bands on the label. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpo...

It's the episode where Aaron interviews Mike Perez of No Bragging Rights. Mike shares his 5 favourite releases on Pure Noise Records. No Bragging Rights were the first band signed to Pure Noise, along with the first release on the label JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpod.com TWITTER:...

It's the episode where Aaron chats with Steve Rawles of Belvedere. They talk about the brand new record, Hindsight Is The Sixth Sense (OUT NOW!) as well as the early days of the band - including landing an opening slot on a Bad Religion tour where they went from previously playing in front of 1-200 people, to thousands every night. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME...

It's the episode where David and Aaron share their top 5 releases, from Pure Noise Records. They also discuss their surprise at how deep the label's catalogue is, for only being around for just over 10 years. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpod.com TWITTER: @growingpunkpod INSTAGRAM: @...

It's the episode where David chats with James Karagiozis of Between You & Me, and Bukowski. In this episode James shares his 5 favourite releases from Hopeless Records. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpod.com TWITTER: @growingpunkpod INSTAGRAM: @growingpunkpod FACEBOOK: https://www...

It's the episode where David and Aaron share their 5 favourite releases from Hopeless Records. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpod.com TWITTER: @growingpunkpod INSTAGRAM: @growingpunkpod FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/growinguppunkpod/

It's the episode where Aaron interviews Tim Rogner of Allister. Tim shares his 5 favourite releases on Drive-Thru, as well as what it was like being one of the first bands to sign to Drive-Thru and watching it take off. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpod.com TWITTER: @growingpunkpod I...

It's the episode where Aaron interviews Seth Roberts of Watashi Wa, about his five favourite releases on Tooth & Nail Records. As a member of Watashi Wa, Seth ended up releasing albums on one of his favourite labels growing up. He may break the rules a bit, and pick an artist more than once, but these picks cover off some of the heavy hitters from 90s Tooth & Nail. JOIN OUR PATREON: https:...

It's the one where David and Aaron share their top 5 releases from Tooth & Nail Records...with a bit of a twist. We've covered a number of bands from the earlier days of Tooth & Nail, and a lot of those bands would make our all-time top 5 list, for T&N. So, we decided to do something a little different and focus on releases that came out 2001 or later. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.pat...

It's the episode were David chats with Bob Nanna from Braid & Hey Mercedes (among other projects). In this discussion they discuss Bob's 5 favourite releases on Polyvinyl Records, as well as short discussions on some of Bob's releases in the bands Braid, Hey Mercedes, and his latest solo project. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/st...

It's the episode with Johnny Smrdel of Beloved & Advent! Aaron sits down with Johnny to talk about his 5 favourite releases from Bridge 9 Records. They also cover the early days of Beloved, what lead to their split and the formation of Advent. Along the way they also talk about moving from Solid State Records to Bridge 9. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH...

It's the episode with Chris and David of Stretch Arm Strong! Aaron sits down with these two to discuss their 5 favourite songs (each!) from Stretch Arm Strong. They get into some of the inspiration behind the songs, and some of the behind the scenes, production, bonuses. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: h...

It's the episode where Aaron interviews Peter Tsouras (Fairweather & Be Well) about his five(ish) favourite releases from Equal Vision Records. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpod.com TWITTER: @growingpunkpod INSTAGRAM: @growingpunkpod FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/growinguppu...

It's the episode where David and Aaron share their top 5 releases from Equal Vision Records. Equal Vision, as a label, has been around since the early 90s, playing an important role in the emerging post-hardcore/hardcore scene of the day. Still running with a roster full of bands both from the previous generation, and the next, they're a label that's remained relevant to the scene. JOIN OUR PATREO...

It's the episode where David interviews Roger Camero ( No Motiv ) about his 5 favourite releases from Vagrant Records. No Motiv was one of the first bands that Vagrant signed, releasing their record '...And The Sadness Prevails' shortly before the label was launched into the stratosphere, with 'Something To Write Home About ' by The Get Up Kids . Roger not only shares his favourite releases, but s...

It's the episode where David and Aaron pick their five favourite releases from Vagrant Records. It's the year 2001...you're a high school kid who loves pop punk and emo. Vagrant Records is about to explode, and take over your listening preferences. These are some of the records you are going to fall in love with. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://tee...

It's the episode where Aaron chats with Russ Rankin of Good Riddance, about his top 5 releases from Fat Wreck Chords. They also discuss how Russ first heard about Fat Wreck, as well as Good Riddance's album Ballads From the Revolution. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpod.com TWITTER: @...

It's the episode where David and Aaron pick their 5 favourite releases from Fat Wreck Chords. In the 90s and early 2000s, if you grew up in the scene, and someone described a band as 'having that Fat Wreck sound', you knew what that meant. Having that sound lead to a lot of our hard earned lawn mowing money, being thrown down at our local record shops. These are our favourites. JOIN OUR PATREON: h...

It's the episode where Aaron welcomes Todd Mackey to the show! Todd is from the band With Honor, who released their 2005 album This Is Our Revenge on Victory Records . In this episode Todd shares his 5 favourite releases from Victory Records, as well as a short discussion of their album This Is Our Revenge. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring...

It's the episode where David and Aaron pick their 5 favourite releases from Victory Records. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpod.com TWITTER: @growingpunkpod INSTAGRAM: @growingpunkpod FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/growinguppunkpod/

It's part 2 of our look at Solid State Records. In this one Aaron interviews Joe Calderon of Light Worker, who shares his top albums from Solid State Records. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpod.com TWITTER: @growingpunkpod INSTAGRAM: @growingpunkpod FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/...

It's the one where Aaron and John Gaskill (Life In Your Way/Comrades) each share their top 5 releases from Solid State Records. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpod.com TWITTER: @growingpunkpod INSTAGRAM: @growingpunkpod FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/growinguppunkpod/

Welcome to the first ever Guppies! It's the one where David and Aaron pick their favourites in a number of categories including Best Artwork, Best Livestream, Best EP, Best Song, and more! JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpod.com TWITTER : @growingpunkpod INSTAGRAM : @growingpunkpod FAC...

It's the episode where David and Aaron share their top 10 records from 2020. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growingpunkpod GRAB SOME MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/growingpunkpod WEBSITE: https://growingpunkpod.com TWITTER: @growingpunkpod INSTAGRAM: @growingpunkpod FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/growinguppunkpod/

It's the one where Aaron interviews Adam Nigh, of Craig's Brother and Too Bad Eugene. They discuss how Adam got into playing music, eventually joining Craig's Brother. They also discuss his involvement on the classic Craig's Brother album, Homecoming (Tooth & Nail) as well as what lead to his departure from the band, and starting Too Bad Eugene. JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/growin...