Reminiscent | A Pop Punk and Emo Music Podcast

If you were an edgy 12-year-old growing up in a depressed former steel town in rust belt Pennsylvania in the early 2000s, you probably listened to a lot of Linkin Park. Hell, if you were alive in any…

Simple Plan was really on to something when they wrote I’m Just a Kid almost 20 years ago. If we’re being honest, we’re 29 and our lives still feel like a nightmare most days. The guys take some time…

As far as early internet era guerrilla marketing efforts go, there are few as intricate and successful as Avril Lavigne’s impromptu street performance (and possible murder?) that takes place in the S…

Jeremie Lavigne of The Vinyl Countdown podcast joins us this week to discuss the endlessly poppy, fun, and oftentimes confusing album “So Wrong, It’s Right” by All Time Low. Pat ponders a mega album …

The Postal Service occupies a very unique corner of the emo-verse of the early 2000s. Such Great Heights was a song that dominated airwaves in the early aughts, and still to this day remains a cult c…

We asked, Twitter responded, and now we delivered. The most anticipated draft ever done on this show, the “Lying on the Floor in Existential Despair Mixtape Draft”. Deep into quarantine, things are g…

Good Charlotte released Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous in 2002 and the world hasn’t been the same since. Well, that’s not all true. Actually, almost everything is the same, unfortunately. It took us…

Ocean Avenue is a crazy good record. So good I can’t believe it took this long to get to it. From the best run of 3 songs in pop punk history, to one of the greatest album closers, Ocean Avenue as a …

While the guys may have been too afraid to admit “A Lesson in Romantics” was one of their favorite albums in high school, it totally was. This week they try to discuss this banger of an album opener,…

The guys head back to the year 2005 with the “cutesy electronica” banger Here (In Your Arms) by Hellogoodbye. The song rips, the music video pays great homage to Wet Hot American Summer, and everyone…

We’ve been holding off on the Blink-182 episode for a very very special occasion, and how much more special can it be than episode 182?! We roll 182 dice (for real, check out the Patreon) and draft o…

One song to rule them all, one song to find them, one song to bring them all, and in the Church of Bryce bind them. That’s how we feel about So Much Love by the Rocket Summer. The ultimate unifier, t…

2008 saw the release of some very poppy, very catchy acts in the pop scene, but not many as poppy or as catchy as Underdog Alma Mater by Forever the Sickest Kids. This album consisted of some pretty …

Ben Gibbard has lead our fragile minds to ponder many heavy topics over time, dating back to our teenage years. Possibly none more than the music video for I Will Follow You Into the Dark, which aims…

The Blink-182 family tree saw a huge growth to it’s branch system when Tom DeLonge released the first full length album “We Don’t Need to Whisper” with Angels & Airwaves in 2006. For just over 14 yea…

All good things must end, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a bummer. In this week’s draft, a part 2 from last week’s summer road trip mixtape draft, the guys pick the 8 songs they want to hear on t…

Every great summer needs a road trip with friends, and every road trip with friends needs a killer playlist that you can scream at the top of your lungs. The guys offer some contradicting road trip a…

There are few feelings more visceral to a teenager than the desire to pack a a 1981 Honda Civic full of Doritos Cool Ranch, Mountain Dew, and trail mix and hit the road with your best friends, not kn…

Panic! At the Disco dropped their debut album “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” in late 2005 and kind of took the entire world by storm. At that time, the whole circus freak vibe wasn’t super mainstream …

It’s no secret that teenagers feel feel every emotion with the intensity of a thousand suns. Maybe your mom took your PS1 away because you threw your pizza rolls at your little sister for telling you…