The guys have complicated feelings about Brand New, which is no surprise if you listened to the Your Favorite Weapon episode. How can they like the music so much, but dislike everyone else talking about how much they like the music? (they understand it doesn't make sense).

Instead of talking about an album, we're talking about our favorite songs/albums we listened to in 2022. Be sure to check out the notes below for links to all the tunes! Notes: Playlist with all the tunes we discussed on Spotify and Apple Music The 1975 - Being Funny In A Foreign Language on Spotify and Apple Music The Midnight - Heroes on Spotify and Apple Music Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone on Spotify and Apple Music Lights - Warehouse Summer on Spotify and Apple Music The Story So Far - Proper Dose on Spotify and Apple Music

We normally talk about really old music, but on today's snack we chat with a super fresh band - so fresh they just released their 2nd single ever this week! Kyle found the band on Reddit and invited Chris from Shower Beers to join us to talk about the tunes (one of which he believes is the first pop punk song tribute to an EDM song), how the band came about, and his prescription for America being more American Pie movies. Shower Beers on Spotify and Apple Music Shower Beers on Instagram

NOFX released a tune Fat Mike originally wrote with Matt Skiba and that was recorded for blink-182's California album, but didn't end up making the cut. Punk Rock Cliche on Spotify and Apple Music

This band is too gigantic for 2/3 of us to have never listened to any of their albums all the way through, so we remedy that on this episode. We realize the irony of 3 guys who don't love screaming to have a podcast about emo music, but it is what it is. Notes: Homesick on Spotify and Apple Music All I Want video (As soon as Kyle makes the playlist we discussed, we'll add it here and share on social media) Yep, Kyle wrote this country song

We're going back to Saves The Day's 1999 release for this episode. We talk about all the stuff you'd expect, including the (creepily foreshadowing) lyrical content. Here's what our faces looked like most of the time. 😬

More blink-182 news! More concerts! More festivals! Catch up with us.

Kyle and Blake talk about seeing Motion City Soundtrack, A Day To Remember, and The Used recently. Kris hasn't been to a concert in a bit, so he just cries in the background.

This one has to be on the podium of all time emo album titles, right? The Juliana Theory undoubtedly inspired a lot of bands with their 2000 album (which wasn't released Jan 1st despite Blake seeing so on Spotify - chalk that one up to a lazy intern at Tooth & Nail maybe). The guys talk at length about this and maybe get off on a tangent or twelve. Notes: Emotion Is Dead on Apple Music and Spotify At The Top Of The World (reimagined) music video (sort of?) This was basically Kris' dance in GIF form Showoff's 1999 album

Paramore finally give us a peek into their new album scheduled to release in February 2023. We're pretty excited.

Well, our last snack was relevant for approximately 48 hours because as of this morning, it's official - blink-182 is back with Tom with a world tour and album in 2023. Join us as we discuss in a very special SNACK recorded pre-NINE AM! A true first for the podcast.

Adding further credibility to the rumors swirling around the internet of Tom re-joining blink-182 was a since-deleted tweet from the head of rock programming for Cumulus Media saying as much, and that the trio would be doing an arena tour in 2023. The guys discuss.

Story of the Year's debut album went platinum, y'all. So, despite Kris and Blake not having really given them a chance in the 2000s, we felt we had to do an epsiode on it.

Blake puts Kyle and Kris on the spot to think of the best concert they went to in the 2000s. It's highly probable all three guys spent the time between recording and releasing this episode kicking themselves for not including other shows. WE WERE UNDER PRESSURE!

Since we'll not be releasing a full album episode for Labor Day, we thought we'd put together a few songs we think you should check out. We each pick 2 old tunes, and one new(ish) one to share with each other...and you! Playlist on Spotify and Apple Music

It's Cartel week here at Finding Emo, apparently. We talk about their new singles 17 and The End, and whether the beat in 17 should be referred to as "BLAH-ka-ka Blah-ka-ka" or "Clocks" beat. Very important stuff. Cartel on Spotify and Apple Music

Did Kris and Blake's band have anything to do with the leaking of Cartel's debut full-length album? Do we all maybe have the same notes about some not-so-great lyrics on this album? Do we think this is a solid debut album from a band that got better and better? What's the meaning of life? We answer some of these questions on this episode. Notes: Chroma on Spotify and Apple Music Absolute Punk Interview from 2005 2015 BuzzFeed Nostalgia Interview (with gifs!) Will Looks back on 10 years Julia Kugel’s band and article (BGVs vox on Q and A)

Dashboard Confessional and Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness are on tour together and just announced they'll be doing two live streams of upcoming shows. Notes: Buy streaming tickets to the Hello Gone Days tour Andrew McMahon's new single, Stars (video) Jukebox the Ghost/Andrew McMahon - Wasted on Spotify and Apple Music Oh, and here's another Jukebox The Ghost tune featuring Justin Pierre from Motion City Soundtrack (Seriously, they're a fantastic band - check them out) In case you needed to know, the first streaming concert was in 1993 And here's an epic Billy Joel live performance of (in Blake's opinion) his best song "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" at the final show at Shea Stadium before they tore it down

The boys from AZ have a new single out. Spoiler alert: we like it. Something Loud on Spotify and Apple Music

Buckle up because we're tackling what might be THE defining album of the genre on this episode. Between the lyrical concept, the production, the ballads, the guitar solos, and the vibraslaps there is a LOT going on on this album and we love (almost) every second of it. Notes: The Black Parade on Spotify and Apple Music Welcome to the Black Parade video Famous Last Words video Teenagers video Frank's burnt guitar