It's the end of the year and it's time to reflect back on all the beautiful pop-punk music we were given in 2025. In our first of several 2025 Recap episodes we're deep diving Yellowcard's first full length record since their reunion, Better Days. Huge singles, violins, some electronics, Travis Barker, Avril, Matt Skiba... we have a lot to discuss.
HSNE Collabs: Wasting Time
For our final HSNE Collabs, we're chatting with Chris from across the pond and The Wasting Time Podcast. Chris chats with us all about their show, some cool guests they've had on, and their involvement with our favorite music festival - Four Chord!
Fantasy Draft: Yellowcard + Starting Line
In this Patreon episode, we took 10 Yellowcard songs, 10 Starting Line songs, and 4 total wild cards and did a fantasy draft with our buddies Stew and Steve Kelly. We also invited third party analysts Dr Bernie and Sam to evaluate the teams and see who came out on top!
HSNE Collabs: Stereo Therapy
For our next HSNE Collabs we are chatting with Lisa from Stereo Therapy Podcast. We talk all about the local music scenes in Chicago and New Jersey and discuss the importance of mental health in the scene. Check them out @stereo.therapy!
HSNE Collabs: Playlitest
This month we're collabing with some awesome fellow podcasters. We're kicking things off with our friends Wiley and Steve from Playlitest. We talk all about playlists, CD-RW's, their show and more. We even created a Quintessential Pop-Punk Playlist which you can listen to! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2d0Ec1TIJjT211rv4sgqsS?si=63d7c0d824b4451b
Rocktober: Minutes to Midnight
In our next Rocktober episode we get to the transitionary period where Linkin Park goes from nu-metal to rock, and that's Minutes to Midnight. We bleed it out together and deep dive this 2007 banger!
Rocktober: Big Ones
It's Rocktober and we're gonna chat a little bit about some rock bands. To kick us off we're starting with Aerosmith. This is a band Wingman Steve has been following for over 30 years and we're gonna talk about their compilation album Big Ones that covers their Permanent Vacation, Pump, and Get a Grip albums. We're joined by long time friend Jello to share his perspective on the boys from Boston.
Warped Tour '25 Recap w/ The Warped Band
Unfortunately we were not able to make it to this year's Warped Tour reunion shows, but we have Warped Tour experts Aaron and Drew from The Warped Band to re-live the old Warped glory days and give us a recap of what went down this year. Check out The Warped Band at a city near you at warpedband.com!
Four Chord Music Festival Aftermath w/ Rishi Bahl
It's time to put a pin in Four Chord Music Festival 11, and to do that properly, we have Rishi Bahl, the founder of the festival on to talk all about how the fest went with some behind the scenes info. Make sure to sign up for early updates for next year at www.fourchordmusicfestival.com
Patreon Freebie: Four Chord Music Festival Recap
Blink-182! Jimmy Eat World! Bowling For Soup! State Champs! Hot Mulligan! All in the beautiful city of Pittsburgh! We sit down with Steve from Something in the Wilderness Podcast and recap Four Chord Music Festival.
HSNE Jeopardy: Season 3 Championship
It all comes down to this. We have our 3 winners from this season, Jeff, Dave and Chris facing off against each other to see who is this season's champion!
HSNE Jeopardy: Season 3 Game 3
As we get close to wrapping up Season 3 of HSNE Jeopardy we need to find out the third person to join the elite winner's circle and advance to the championship. This week Chris, Dave and Matt face off!
HSNE Jeopardy: Season 3 Game 2
It's Game 2 of HSNE Jeopardy Season 3! Today we have Dave, Tyson and Kevin facing off to see who's got the pop-punk knowledge to advance to our championship!
HSNE Jeopardy: Season 3 Game 1
Welcome to Season 3 of HSNE Jeopardy! It's a pop-punk trivia game show modeled after the famous show - you get it. Today in our first game, Jeff, Sam and Adam square off with some fun categories!
Chris Picks: The Knife
To wrap up our August hodgepodge, it's Chris' turn to pick an album to deep dive. He settled on Goldfinger's The Knife which is basically a pop-punk-ska supergroup of artists. PunkishDad joins in on the fun and the debate on whether Goldfinger is ska, punk, ska-punk, or something else!
Steve Picks: Mest feat Tony Lovato
We're sneaking in another Steve Picks episode and this week it's gonna be the Mest's self-titled record. We reached out to the man himself, Tony Lovato, who gave us a few minutes for some insights into the album and then we do the full spotlight!
Rankin It Summer Showdown: 2003 Albums
August is going to be a hodgepodge of different shows. To kick it all off we're sticking with some continuity and ranking the top albums from 2003. Rank along with us!
Rankin It Summer Showdown: The Great Debate
Welcome to the finale of the Rankin' It Summer Showdown: The Great Debate! We are joined by friend of the show Stew and we nominate our quintessential pop-punk albums of all time and then whittle them down to a top 10. This exercise is not for the faint of heart and was not without it's challenges. Enjoy!
Rankin It Summer Showdown: 2002 Albums
We had so much fun doing a Rankin It Summer Showdown with albums from 2001 that we decided to move forward 1 full year and do it all again. If you're playing a drinking game, take a sip every time we mention how tough this was and play along!
Rankin It Summer Showdown: 2001 Albums
In our next Rankin It Summer Showdown we've compiled a list of 20 albums that came out in the year 2001 and we're rankin' 'em all from 20-1. Play along at home and see if you agree with us!