High School Never Ends : A Pop-Punk Dad Podcast

There's no better person to hype up Four Chord Music Festival than Pittsburgh's own Rishi Bahl. He founded the show and has put in a ton of work year over year and we hit him up with all the questions about this year's fest, the bands, and what he learned on Reddit.  BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all...

Four Chord Music Festival in Pittsburgh is coming back to town on Sept 25-26 and we're taking the month of July to celebrate the festival and some of the bands playing. Kicking it off we have Will Pugh of Cartel to talk a little band history, their new album, and of course, FCMF! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to foll...

In the final episode of You Pick 'Em June we're going back to 2004 to discuss Name Taken's Hold On. We have Blake and Ryan from the band on to deep dive the album and give some awesome background intro on these tracks! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepo...

In a special episode, we catch up with Alex & Joey of The Cab to talk about their first album in 14 years, their headlining tour, and much more! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our o...

Next up in You Pick 'Em June we're going back to 2004 to discuss an album that many would consider a cult classic. We're joined by Jessie and we're deep diving Northstar's Pollyanna. Should they be considered part of an emo trinity? Listen and weigh in! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @...

For our second You Pick 'Em June, you wanted us to talk about I Am the Avalanche and their album Avalanche United. We have some IATA super fans in Dave and Steve Kelly join us to break this one down. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official...

You Pick 'Em June is back! You chose the albums for the votes, and you chose the winners. First up, a monster of an album we've never officially broken down, it's the one and only release from Box Car Racer.  BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for...

It's our final HSNE Kills It Live and we're talking about Fall Out Boy Live in Phoenix. Whether you're a huge Pete Wentz fan or not, this is peak early Fall Out Boy and we deep dive this live album track by track. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com...

If you've ever dreamed of hearing us discuss a 35-track live album featuring THE Reel Big Fish, today's your day! We are deep diving the banter and the songs of Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for o...

HSNE Kills It Live continues this week with a chat about The Starting Line's "final" tour and subsequent CD/DVD Somebody's Gonna Miss Us. We break this one down from the banter to the live sound to the crowd and more. Make sure and hit up YouTube to listen to the full show since it's no longer streaming. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.co...

Welcome to a month full of live music! It's HSNE Kills It Live and we're kicking it off with New Found Glory's Kill It Live, an album recorded from their live performances in 2013. This is classing NFG and we're going through the songs, the banter, and the harmonies track by track.    BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to...

We're wrapping up our Acoustic April with a double dose of acoustic guitars from 2 of our favorite bands. This week Justin from Cheer Up Dusty joins us to discuss Fall Out Boy's EP My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue and State Champs' The Acoustic Things. Check out Cheer Up Dusty and their new single Everybody Hates Me II: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5q3IEYLUoXQp2Io1kAyDE5?si=0zWPo...

We could not do a full month about acoustic albums and not feature one on Dashboard. So we went back to the days of MTV Unplugged as we walk through their acoustic live performance along with Pamela V! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for officia...

Next up on Acoustic April it's another "Avenue" but this time it's Yellowcard's Ocean Avenue. We never actually did a full spotlight on the original so it's fun chat through a classic album along with Dr Bernie! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com f...

For April we're calming things down and going acoustic. First up, we have an acoustic re-imagining of Story of the Year's Page Avenue called Page Avenue: Ten Years in Counting. If you've never heard this version of the album, check it out and listen to us break it down track by track. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to...

OK so it's April now, but we had one more March Madness bracket to finish up, and that's a mega 64 choice bracket featuring movies! Of course Movie Steve joins us to help pick the winner. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise...

Four our next March Madness bracket, we turned back to AI and asked it to give us a list of 32 top screamo/post-hardcore songs. Stew and Darin help us crown the winner! Companion playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6IyLuuhUkzMJcrOSaQFlip?si=IwnpHGw9TlqmX2aXStnSeQ&pi=qxs3Sh4ySLCQL BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure...

This week's March Madness comes courtesy of Jason C who gave us 32 Road Trip Snack Foods that correlate to pop-punk bands for us to determine what is the ultimate road trip snack. Tom Keiger from Houston Calls joins us to figure out the winner, and we preview a new song from his solo project Throw Thermal Pod. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patr...

Welcome to HSNE March Madness! This week we asked AI to pick 32 top pop-punk songs and put them in a bracket to see which will prevail the winner! Eternal Boy frontman and Four Chord Music Festival founder Rishi Bahl joins us as the resident pop-punk expert to help us determine the ultimate song (based on what AI gave us). BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: ht...

Welcome to HSNE March Madness! This week we asked AI to pick 32 top pop-punk songs and put them in a bracket to see which will prevail the winner! Eternal Boy frontman and Four Chord Music Festival founder Rishi Bahl joins us as the resident pop-punk expert to help us determine the ultimate song (based on what AI gave us). BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: ht...

This week we're giving you a sneak peak into our Patreon exclusives! PunkishDad was calling the shots for February and asked us all to make the perfect blink-182 setlist with the caveat that NO SINGLES are allowed. Wingman Steve, Chris-183, PunkishDad himself, and Nick J make their setlists and Tom G analyzes and picks the winner. For more Patreon shenanigans, subscribe at www.patreon.com/hsnepod...

We wrap up Forgotten Favorites February with a discussion about everyone's favorite topic... Vacation! This is the album Vacation by Seaway, and we're joined by PunkishDad him self and Chris from the cautious.optimistic handle to deep dive the album, talk about Maxim magazine and much more! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be s...

We do not endorse our listeners to skip school or start fights, but we do endorse you to check out Hit the Lights and their album Skip School, Start Fights. We've never spoken about Hit the Lights before but we have Stefan from gear182 to help us walk through this neon pop-punk jam. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to f...

For our next Forgotten Favorites February we're talking about a band that somehow we have overlooked for years. Today we are joined by D-Rock and we're talking all about Unwritten Law's self-titled album. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for offi...

Our HSNE Jeopardy Tournament of Champions Winner PunkishDad gets to pick the content for our show for all of February! He's demed this "Forgotten Favorites February," and if you're unsure what that means, tune in and everything will be explained as we deep dive Saves the Day's Sound the Alarm with PunkishDad and PunkishDad's friend! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive ma...