Reminiscent | A Pop Punk and Emo Music Podcast

Best friend Zach drops in to accompany the guys on their usual New Year goals episode. As everyone approaches 30, there’s some big life changes about to take place (did someone say kids?!), and 2020 …

Green Day, Weezer, and Fall Out Boy are gearing up to hit the stage in a massive tour that is somewhat reminiscent of massive stadium tours of generations passed. While the guys are probably not goin…

If you’re gonna talk about sad boy, hall of fame albums, you won’t get very far without coming across ‘Give Up’ by The Postal Service. Somehow 150 episodes have gone by without the attention it deser…

When you’re thinking of classic sad boy acoustic jams from the early to mid 2000s, Ever So Sweet by The Early November and Hey There Delilah by Plain White T’s surely come to mind. The guys sift thro…

Every band in the world takes a crack at writing a several overdone cover of a classic Christmas song. Very few write decent originals, but the mixtape draft this week includes songs of both kinds re…

5 year have passed since Jimmy Eat World released their 4th studio album ‘Futures’, and somehow the guys are just now finding out about it. They share their initial reactions to the album and try to …

Per listener request, the guys take a stab at a The Academy Is… episode. The only problem is, neither of them know the band very well, so Pat creates a game show and quizzes Tom’s knowledge of the ba…

Relient K’s vaguely christian breakout 4th album ‘Mmhmm’ stirred a lot of conversation back in the early 2000s, just as it did this week. The guys discuss the christian undertones of the band, whethe…

With the breaking news of My Chemical Romance’s reunion show, the guys take a stab at putting together their dream set list for the show in LA. This all then begs the question, does knowing the setl…

The guys take on one of the greatest challenges of their time, drafting their year 2003 mixtape. The rules are simple: always try to pick something from the wrong year, regret all your choices, and e…

Often described as “the emo anthem”, Hawthorne Height’s single Ohio is for Lovers played a very important role in the culture of the early 2000’s emo scene. The guys speculate on what it is about Ohi…

She Hates Me may be regarded as the last viral, word of mouth song that’s ever existed. Tom and Pat recall schoolyard talk about a song that’s an absolute bop, but also like, swears a whole lot! It b…

Let’s face it, Teenage Dirtbag is the best loser anthem of all time, and possibly one of the best songs of the 2000s. That statement alone sums up the entirety of this episode, but we all know the Go…

We are gathered here today to determine a winner from the selection of 4 songs off Hot Fuss that received their own music video. The rules are simple, no one cares about anything and you always speak…

Not a single soul alive today could forget the song “The Reason” by Hoobstank. Every radio station in the world made darn sure of that. Both Tom and Pat have been fans of the song all 15 years it’s b…

The music video for I Miss You turns 15 years old and the guys go deep. They discuss the first time they heard the song, what the hell is going on in the video, how did Blink-182 wind up in this haun…

It’s been 15 years since Green Day rocked the entire universe with their career revitalizing ‘American Idiot"‘. The guys remember where they were when they first heard the record, how it impacted the…

After a quick meditation to get back into the swing of things, and after a brief and super normal fan mail bag, the guys discuss the brand new album from Taylor Swift, Lover. They discuss initial tho…

Pat moves into an AirBnB, Tom explains the differences in cold brew and Japanese style iced coffee, Taylor Swift runs into some controversy (*Pikachu Face*) over who owns her masers, Tom does a follo…

The guys take some time to recap their 10 year high school reunion, of which 1 attended and 1 did not last week in Erie, PA, fun times were had at Tom’s dad’s house, 17 year old time tries to dance t…