Back In The Cool Day

Another Road to Furnace Fest episode with Sonny Vega from Close Your Eyes. We're getting this out late, but better than never! This episode is so much fun, Sonny is a blast and we discuss his early musical interests, Close Your Eyes, Furnace Fest and Rise Against's album "Siren Song of the Counter Culture." Enjoy!

We're back with a new Furnace Fest episode with The Showdown! We discuss their reunion for Furnace Fest and one of their favorite albums Bombs Over Broadway by Squad Five - O

On this episode we welcome comedian Holly Brown to the pod to discuss her love for the scene, early influences in music, early 00's nostalgia, Holly's perspective as a woman in the scene and Sum 41's album "All Killer No Thriller". This episode also marks the triumphant return of "Blake's game corner" and is filled with lots of lots of laughs (Holly is a comedian so you know...) . We had such a blast with Holly, check out her comedy show "Salty AF"!

Dylan Hryciuk from Versa Films , the genius behind music videos for Senses Fail, Spirit Box, True North, Halocene and more. Dylan joins us to talk about one of his favorite albums of all time, My Chemical Romance's "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" as well as his short film project "Our Last Day as Kids". The film will be coming-of-age homage to the Myspace era Emo/Punk/Hardcore scene and we could not be more excited about it. The KickStarter for the film opened on Friday May 20th, 2022,...

We welcome the band True North to the podcast to discuss their recent single "Out Loud" featuring Aaron Gillespie, their musical origin stories, their recently release EP "Not Alone" as well as the Alexisonfire album "Watch Out!". We had a blast chatting with these dudes and are so excited to share their music with you and can't wait to see what amazing things they are going to accomplish. Get on the hype train now so you can brag to all your scene friends how you knew about True North "befor...

We're back with more Furnace Fest hype! With 99% of the final lineup released, we reconnect with Johnny, Adam and Dana to discuss the most recent bands added to the FF lineup, upgrades to the VIP package, new exciting food sponsors(spoiler: all you can eat tacos!!!) and more hypothetical "back in the day" entertainment. Pogs tournament anyone? Furnace Fest keeps getting better and better!Special shout out to @hardcorehotline for the fun bit at the start of the episode!Thank you to our present...

We welcome Casey and Sam from the Growing Up Christian podcast to discuss gateway Christian heavy music, scene culture, Killswitch Engage's album The End of Heartache and lots and lots of random stuff in between. This episode was a blast, we hope you enjoy this collab episode!

We are beyond stoked to share this episode. Jason Gleason from Further Seems Forever joins Blake, Eric and Ian to discuss The Moon is Down. Jason and Ian toured The Moon is Down together as members of Further and share their experiences joining the band as Further fans, tour memories, favorite songs and more! It was a blast hearing these unique perspectives of one of our favorite albums from some of the dudes who helped cement Further Seems Forever's legacy. Give it a listen!

On this episode we hang out with Aaron Lunsford, drummer from As Cities Burn as well as regular guest on the Bad Christian podcast. In addition, our buddy Kevin joins us and we discuss Aaron's musical origin stories, early days on tour with As Cities Burn, his current view on music, shows and place in life as a musician after 15 + years, baseball and so much more! We have a blast talking with Aaron about all sorts of other topics. Disclaimer: We did not edit this episode for profanity, s...

On this episode of Back in the Cool Day Podcast, we welcome Ivory Mobley from Showbread to the pod to discuss his musical origin story, Showbread's controversial place in the music scene and their performance at Furnace Fest. We celebrate our official partnership with our presenting and Furnace Fest sponsor Level X. We also discuss one of Ivory's favorite albums from "back in the day" MXPX album, "Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo". We had a blast hanging with Ivory and are excited to...