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SNACK! New Music Buzz: Motion City Soundtrack & Hayley Williams Aug 07, 2025

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We discuss the latest music releases from Motion City Soundtrack and Hayley Williams (who released all 17 singles on streaming), exploring the stories behind the new singles and the excitement surrounding upcoming albums. And then we answer what full album we'd like to see performed live.

Chapters

00:00 New Music Releases: Motion City Soundtrack & Hayley Williams

08:50 Exploring the Impact of Late Night TV (it's all Jay Leno's fault) on Music Culture

17:30 Hayley Williams' New Singles: A Deeper Dive

23:23 Albums We Wish We Could See Live in Full

SNACK! Haley Williams, The Staring Line, and Patrick Stump fills in with Motion City Sountrack Jul 31, 2025

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Let us know what albums you want us to talk about next!

What a week! Haley Williams dropped 17 new tracks on her 90s aesthetic website (which we're pretty sure has disappeared, now). The Starting Line teased and released a new single from their upcoming album. And when Justin Pierre fell ill and couldn't join his band Motion City Soundtrack, the guys called in some favors and had the likes of Patrick Stump take the mic.

Question of the week: Which musicians are you choosing for your dream band?

SNACK! The Starting Line's new single Jul 24, 2025

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Blake and Kyle chat about the unexpected comeback of The Starting Line, thanks to a shoutout from Taylor Swift. They debate the difference between full re-imagining of classic albums (yay!) and artists sneakily George Lucas-ing their original albums on Streaming. Plus, find out which bands Kyle and Blake would drop everything for if they asked us to join.

SNACK! MXPX and The Ataris mini-tour Jul 17, 2025

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Look at us being consistent and releasing snacks two weeks in a row! On the agenda today: MXPX and The Ataris are gracing 4 towns with their presence this coming fall, including OKC (probably because we're so good at basketball). Plus, we learn what the upcoming Yellowcard album's cover art is all about and feel like a-holes. And, as expected, Kyle gets us talking about Creed.

SNACK! We're back talking about Yellowcard's new single Jul 11, 2025

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SURVEY: What albums do you most want to hear us talk about next?

We are aware we've been radio silent for over a year. Life has been busy for us. But we're getting back to it! In this SNACK!, we talk about Yellowcard's three tunes released so far from their upcoming Better Days album.

Stay tuned on Thursdays for these short SNACK! episodes, where we'll talk about what's going on the genre currently. And as soon as the three of us get in a room together, we'll start recording more full album episodes to help with your nostalgia cravings as you cruise into middle age.

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Yellowcard - Better Days on Spotify and Apple Music

Ep078 - Invented by Jimmy Eat World Apr 30, 2024

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Happy 4 year birthday to the podcast! As per tradition, we do a Jimmy Eat World record every year and we've made our way to the 2010 album Invented by the kings of emo from Arizona. This record definitely had a tough task of following four PERFECT albums in a row from Jimmy Eat World (Clarity, Bleed American, Futures, Chase This Light), and we'll admit it was hard for it to live up its predecessor. But - spoiler alert - the whole album is a bit of a "grower, not a show-er" for us. What do you think?

00:00:00 INTRO

00:02:55 About the album

00:09:35 First Impressions

00:17:38 Track 1 - A Heart Is Hard To Find

00:27:22 Track 2 - My Best Theory

00:33:24 Track 3 - Evidence

00:38:56 Track 4 - Higher Devotion

00:43:30 Track 5 - Movielike

00:49:18 Track 6 - Coffee and Cigarettes

00:56:00 Track 7 - Stop

01:05:12 Track 8 - Littlething

01:09:10 Track 9 - Cut

01:15:58 Track 10 - Action Needs An Audience

01:20:54 Track 11 - Invented

01:29:15 Track 12 - Mixtape

01:36:14 Lasting impressions

Ep077- Stick And Stone by New Found Glory Apr 02, 2024

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In this episode of "Finding Emo," we dive into New Found Glory's iconic album "Sticks and Stones." Celebrating its 20th anniversary, we explore everything from the album's production with Neil Avron to the cameos from the likes of Mark Hoppus on the album. We'll share why tracks like "My Friends Over You" have left a lasting mark on the punk scene and what made New Found Glory different than other pop-punk bands. Join us for a mix of nostalgia, analysis, and behind-the-scenes insights into one of the early 2000s' defining punk rock albums.

Ep076 - Five Score and Seven Years Ago by Relient K Mar 19, 2024

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Relient K nailed it with their follow up to their breakout album, Mmhmm. Five Score takes what worked about the previous album and gets even more ambitious - specifically ending the album with an 11 minute epic. We think they strung together a perfect three records with this sandwiched right inbetween MmHmm and Forget and Not Slow Down.

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:57 Quick history of the album

00:08:10 Let's talk about the Christian music scene

00:19:26 First impressions

00:23:43 Track 1 :: Pleading the Fifth (A Cappella)

00:27:54 Track 2 :: Come Right Out and Say It

00:32:22 Track 3 :: I Need You

00:35:08 Track 4 :: The Best Thing

00:44:20 Track 5 :: Forgiven

00:48:04 Track 6 :: Must Have Done Something Right

00:53:58 Track 7 :: Give Until There's Nothing Left

00:56:08 Track 8 :: Devastation and Reform

01:03:20 Track 9 :: I'm Taking You With Me

01:07:31 Track 10 :: Faking My Own Suicide

01:14:55 Track 11 :: Crayons Can melt on Us for All I Care

01:16:36 Track 12 :: Bite My Tongue

01:20:31 Track 13 :: Up and Up

01:24:13 Track 14 :: Deathbed

01:35:54 Does it hold up? Is it their best record? Is it their most important record?

Ep075 - Paramore's self-titled Mar 05, 2024

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Hayley Williams is the G.O.A.T. Yeah, we said it. Now, listen to us say it for 2 hours straight.

After the departure of the brothers Farrow, I don't think any of us imagined we'd be getting this album. But it turned out Hayley Williams' pipes weren't Paramore's only secret weapon, because Taylor and Jeremy also kicked their musicianship to a higher gear, and we'd argue the band was better off in the long-run letting Taylor take over all guitar work. Their 2013 release went on to be the band's first platinum album, and gave us the inescapable classic "Ain't It Fun", which we'd argue is one of the best songs of the twenty-teens.

They also managed to make the only album with interlude tracks worth a damn, so there's that.

Ep074 - Dog Problems by The Format Feb 20, 2024

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We're back!!! We took some time off, but we're back to our regularly scheduled programming. Thanks for sticking around!

What a weird little gem of a 70s record this album was in a sea of the giant drums and guitars of 2006. The Format's sophomore effort sees the beginnings of what would become Nate Ruess'' next project, fun., with Jack Antonoff. That obviously went on to be a huge success, but if you haven't listened to this one, you absolutely should. It's a hell of an album, and we're sad we didn't get more from The Format.

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