This week we're joined by the one and only Brendan Brown, founder of Wheatus! We go back to the beginnings of the band and Brendan's influences, talk about the ride from Teenage Dirtbag, the multiple waves of resurgence of Dirtbag and more! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our offic...
Jul 03, 2025•1 hr 13 min
It's been a hell of a month hyping up Four Chord Music Festival and we're ending it with a bang. One of the coolest, most unique bands out there Keep Flying just released their first full length record and they're on tour forever promoting it. We talk to John about how the band started, their history with FCMF and more. Check out Keep Flying's Time & Tide out now https://open.spotify.com/album/73YiFRtFRWBE2pKkgZUsoS?si=Q0y73-u3QbWBT6VZUhBxQg BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access ...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 19 min
On our road to Four Chord Music Festival this week we're chatting with Joe and Bert from the band Mallory Run. Based out of Edinboro, PA they are about to be 3 time alums to Four Chord. We talk about the beginnings of the band, rock one of their tracks and chat about what Four Chord has meant to them. Make sure and check them out on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/673ozZmEIahPL1NDZgvVZ4?si=3tNbXEIGQH-rA6xwd3O9IA BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: ht...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Next up on the Road to Four Chord we're checking in with one of our favorite OG bands, Adam and John from Home Grown! Since we've last spoken with Adam the band has reunited, played a handful of shows, and booked Four Chord. We chat all about the past, present and future of Home Grown! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise a...
Jun 12, 2025•50 min
For the month of June we're hyping up one of the coolest indie festivals out there - Four Chord Music Festival in Pittsburgh. We're devoting all our episodes to bands playing this year's Four Chord and we're kicking it all off with the man himself... the creator of the entire event... and frontman for Eternal Boy - Rishi Bahl! We dive in deep to Eternal Boy and how the festival got started plus get some inside info into the booking process of the festival. Join us at the show - tickets are avail...
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 9 min
We conclude this year's Movie May: Soundtrack Edition with a conversation about a spoof movie and it's all-covers soundtrack. Not Another Teen Movie features some pop-punk covers, some all-time great ones, and some really bad ones. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Disco...
May 29, 2025•1 hr
Our breakdown of fun movie soundtracks continues with a deep dive on BASEketball! We're not sure what about Tre Parker and Matt Stone playing a newly constructed sport has to do with ska... but we're here for it. Movie Steve joins in on the fun! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our ...
May 22, 2025•1 hr 51 min
We had so much fun recording this bracket-style matchup of pre-2001 pop-punk bands for Patreon that we're releasing it for all as a special patron exclusive freebie! Play along, here's a link to the bracket: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k9P_ofOcqZRcOsD7JKjC-UN08HXtiby5/view?usp=drivesdk BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchand...
May 15, 2025•58 min
In our next Movie May Soundtrack Edition we're deep diving the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack! We're joined by Steve Kelly who played in a cover band that solely played this album which is the definition of an expert. Enjoy the episode and we hope it's not the most annoying sound in the world. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandi...
May 08, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Movie May is back with a brand new spin! All month we will be diving into some of our favorite movie soundtracks. First up, a movie that captivated us all and a soundtrack that has 90's written all over it... it's American Pie! Dave Dross joins in on the fun. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conver...
May 01, 2025•2 hr 3 min
Patron Picks April wraps up as Tom chose a band that we really needed to talk about. This week we deep dive The Wonder Years and their album The Greatest Generation. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part ...
Apr 24, 2025•1 hr 52 min
We're back to Patron Picks April and next up Ashleigh chose REM's Monster. We deep dive the album and talk a whole bunch about REM! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independ...
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 42 min
Awful April was so fun last year that even though it's not our official theme for the month we had to sneak one in there. A vote on social media dubbed Fall Out Boy's MANIA as AWFUL. Do we agree? BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm Hig...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr
Quick Hits is back! In a special bonus episode we sit down with Sean and Mike from Pittsburgh's Old Neon! They talk us through playing through several natural disasters and we check out their brand new single from their upcoming EP Resolution. Check out Old Neon on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wlS5mhA0UzBOuLfaeMQvx?si=J6b4gL_IS1qThXKzpOuUPQ BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media...
Apr 06, 2025•1 hr 10 min
For April we raffled off our episode topics to our Patrons. PunkishDad's name was first drawn so he got to pick the topic and he went with Mom Jeans and their album Sweet Tooth. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never End...
Apr 03, 2025•1 hr 27 min
In our final Steve Picks episode, we're talking about a pop-punk emo staple, Mayday Parade and their debut album A Lesson in Romantics! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio inde...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Never before spoken about in HSNE history, we're talking about musical comedy! This week on Steve Picks we're deep diving Stephen Lynch's album Superhero. It's inappropriate and hilarious - don't listen with your kids in the car. Local comedian Jesse Draham joins in on the fun - follow him on Instagram @jessedraham BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod....
Mar 20, 2025•2 hr 2 min
Since the launch of the show Wingman Steve has been talking up the band Ludo as the best band not enough people have heard of. Today we're joined by Mike Landlot, owner of over 216 small businesses to discuss their album You're Awful, I Love You. You can find Mike's podcast all about Small Busness here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/small-busness/id1796984419 BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on al...
Mar 13, 2025•1 hr 55 min
It's now March and it's Wingman Steve's turn to pick any album he wants. First up, we're going with America Hi-Fi's debut self-titled album. Was this album just a flavor of the weak or does it hold up in its entirety? BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://dis...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 21 min
In the final Chris Picks February, we're taking a trip to A Place in the Sun by Lit. Is this album more than just the big singles? Is it rock, or pop-punk, or something else? Find out as we deep dive the album and more! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://d...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 30 min
Next up on Chris Picks, we're heading back to NJ to deep dive Senses Fail and their sophomore album Still Searching. Chris has loved this album for a long time, tune in and see if Wingman can get on board! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3Ad...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Sometimes when our listeners make suggestions we actually follow through on them! This week we got a recommendation to listen to No Pressure's self-titled album and it's Chris Picks February so Chris picked it! Is this a new school call back to the old school? Listen to the album and our episode for our thoughts! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.co...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 2 min
This month it's Chris-183's world and we're just listening along. Chris personally picks whatever album he wants and it's all kicked off with a discussion of Sam's Town by The Killers. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Ne...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 16 min
We're wrapping up our New from 2024 series with some old school punks doing some new music. This week resident Offspring expert Bailey joins us for a deep dive on SUPERCHARGED. Is this album truly supercharged or is it a dead battery? Listen and find out! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversati...
Jan 31, 2025•1 hr 25 min
The originator of the phrase "High School Never Ends" Mr Jaret Reddick joins us for an epic conversation this week! We tackle the real hard questions including the best actors of our generation, preferences in beer and of course a ton of stuff about the greatest band in the world - Bowling for Soup! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official...
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 47 min
You might be saying to yourself, Hot Mulligan's Why Would I Watch is from 2023 and you're supposed to be covering albums from 2024. Well, look at you Mr or Mrs Mathematician. It doesn't matter, we wanted to talk Hot Mulligan! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord htt...
Jan 16, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Last year we covered Neck Deep for the first time and bought in big time. This time around we tackle their newest self-titled album from 2024 along with our bud PunkishDad BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3AdrAYURm High School Never Ends is a...
Jan 09, 2025•1 hr 25 min
Happy New Year! To kick things off we're going back to last year and deep diving some new records that came out. First up is Bayside's There are Worse Things Than Being Alive. We first covered Bayside last year and now we're going to check out what they've been up to lately with the help of our friend Sam. BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for o...
Jan 02, 2025•1 hr 36 min
We close out 2024 and our look back on 2004 with an epic discussion of one of the biggest records of all time - Green Day's American Idiot. Tom Keiger and DJ Rossstar join us for a VERY in-depth conversation and a breakdown of the American Idiot storyline. Check out Ross' YouTube Channel for some awesome content: https://youtube.com/@getlostwithrosselliott?si=XSWCFvGw3X_Ps5o9 BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow...
Dec 26, 2024•2 hr 20 min
This week as we reflect back on 2004, we take our first ever deep dive on a Bowling for Soup album! We're talking all about A Hangover You Don't Deserve. Even if you live in Ohio, this will be a fun listen! BECOME A PATRON and support the show while access to exclusive material: http://www.patreon.com/hsnepod Be sure to follow us on all social media @HSNEpod and visit http://www.hsnepod.com for official merchandise and more! Join in the conversation on our official Discord https://discord.gg/b3A...
Dec 19, 2024•1 hr 30 min
