Musician and podcaster Brendan Hutchins joins Mark to discuss guitar music from the early 21st century.
Brendan loves pop punk for its energy and reasons of nostalgia, and has lots of names to bring to the table. He also helps Mark define what /isn’t/ pop punk.
Mark based his list on bands who had seminal or otherwise important albums during the early 2000s, and while Brendan’s picks are perhaps from slightly younger bands, none of them formed post-2005.
Mark shares stories about plectra, music he discovered through Kerrang! Radio, and stuff he used to play on his old radio show (like this from Of Kings and Captains ).
Brendan also sings the praises of Bowling for Soup’s guitarist, who performs tricks with his pick!
Hear the commentary track
https://naftpod.podiant.co/e/list-envy-commentary-1-an-emotional-reaction-37a91b10036a0e/
Hear Brendan and his Nobody Asked for This co-host Arron Wong discuss the first part of this episode, director’s commentary style.
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Honourable mentions
- My Chemical Romance (too emo)
- +44
- Avril Lavigne (some of her new stuff is apparently quite good)
- Box Car Racer
- Charli XCX
- Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
- Motion City Soundtrack
- Panic! at the Disco
- Plain White Ts
- Something Corporate
- Wakefield
- Yellowcard
- Weezer
- NoFX
- The Descendents
- Jawbreaker (who might not have been active around the early 2000s)
- No Use for a Name
- The Offspring
- The Fratellis
- Ash (check out their most lauded album, 1977 )
- Feeder
- The Matches
- Fall Out Boy
- Reel Big Fish (sort of)
- Paramore
- Papa Roach (who don’t really fit the