Geoff Rickly of Thursday has launched a new podcast called “Dark Blue” talking about “mental health in the arts.” The first three episodes are now up and include Saves the Day’s Chris Conley and Pictureplane.
Nathan Gray of Boysetsfire is on the latest episode of the Lead Singer Syndrome podcast.
Congratulations to contributor Deanna Chapman on her Welcome to Geekdom podcast hitting 100 episodes.
Jesse Cannon talks about the latest Dashboard Confessional album on the first episode of Atlantic Records’ “Inside the Album” podcast:
In this episode, we talk about the creative process fueling the new release, along with how they crafted a sound that both pleases old fans while updating for the new generation.
Chvrches are on a new episode of Comedy Bang Bang.
Shawn Harris and Tim de Vil have started a podcast/record club where they make a song on the podcast and then send flexi-discs/lyric books of the songs out to subscribers. You can find out more information on their website.
Shawn Harris and Tim de Vil take turns producing one-another’s songs on the PRC podcast, in front of your very eyes, or ears actually, and then they press the song onto these thin, collectable plastic records called Flexi-Discs, and deliver them to your doorstep.
Hey, look what we have here, a new podcast episode. On this week’s episode of Encore I am joined by Craig Manning to discuss the ten year anniversary of one of my favorite albums of all time: The Gaslight Anthem’s The ’59 Sound.
Death Cab for Cutie are on the latest episode of the Consequence of Sound podcast.
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Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World is on the latest Consequence of Sound podcast.
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As some of you may know, I started AbsolutePunk.net over 15 years ago as an MxPx and Blink-182 fan-page. Those were the first two bands I truly loved. They shaped my entire music taste and starting that website changed my life. I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for those bands and those albums. Listening to “Doing Time” as a teenager gave me hope. Discovering pop-punk music and the community around it made me feel like I belonged to something special. Small, right outside of the mainstream, but undeniably special. The music was unlike anything I was listening to at the time and hit me right when I needed it most.
Last week MxPx released their new, self-titled, album. It’s their first album since 2012. Today, I’m excited to debut a new episode of Encore featuring lead singer Mike Herrera. This episode is a joint episode with Mike’s podcast, “The Mike Herrera Podcast,” which I also recommend subscribing to and checking out. In this episode we go deep on the new album. We talk about the recording process, the inspiration behind the songs, and then I walk through each song with Mike and get his thoughts on different aspects. I share some thoughts too, but mostly I was trying to get at what made this album feel so fresh, and yet so wholly MxPx, here in 2018.
We also recorded the FaceTime conversation we had doing this podcast and the video is available on the MxPx YouTube channel. I look ridiculous and my cat walks into the office to have lunch a few minutes in, but we thought being able to see each other and read and react to facial expressions would bring a fun vibe to this episode. I think it worked. This is one of my favorite episodes of the podcast I’ve ever done.
Show notes are below, the band’s new album is available on all streaming platforms, and physical copies are available at MxPx.com right now.
Derek Sanders of Mayday Parade is on the most recent episode of the It’s All Dead podcast to discuss the band’s history with Warped Tour, how the band members have grown/evolved as people and musicians over the past decade, and about the business side of being in a band.
Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low is on the latest episode of the Rock Sound Podcast.
There’s a lot of music kicking around, I will say that. I’m not sure what form it’s gonna take yet. I don’t know if it’s gonna be an album or if we’re just gonna keep kicking around these soft releases, so to speak. The way I looked at this one was kind of like the old 7 inch vinyls where you get an a-side and a b-side from back in the day…So that seems really fun and maybe we’ll keep doing that for now or maybe this is the link towards an album. But what I love is that there’s no pressure. It’s really fun as a band in this day and age to be able to think about it in the moment. We’re not necessarily committed to putting out 15 songs now. It’s just like ‘hey, let’s see how this goes’. We can kind of pivot and have fun with it based on what we’re feeling. It’s fun to have that flexibility.
Adam Duritz of Counting Crows is on the latest episode of the This Must Be The Gig podcast.
Dallon Weekes is on the latest episode of the Rock Sound Podcast.