To celebrate the holidays Will wants one thing for the podcast.  To chat with his friend Paul Cohen and recap their favorite pop punk moments of 2024.  The discuss favorite albums, the return of Warped Tour, When We Were Young Fest, and the number of times Will saw Green Day each in a different city.

Paul on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/therealpaulcory/

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Awesome Disaster Highlights!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T5fT0Sc8bipvHWFaBEY2J?si=5f8ad01818404d07

Will's Band:

https://www.instagram.com/skiplagnyc/

Will and Slaney usual see each other passing through the tech booth at the Peoples Improv Theater, so a long conversation is a nice change of pace.  Slaney talks to Will about studying vocal performance, musical theater, and theater.  How she translates these skills into sketch comedy, tech disasters, improv comedy, and her ideas for many different solo shows.

https://thepit-nyc.com/people/slaney-rose-jordan/

https://www.instagram.com/slaneyrose/

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Awesome Disaster Highlights!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T5fT0Sc8bipvHWFaBEY2J?si=5f8ad01818404d07

Will's Band:

https://www.instagram.com/skiplagnyc/

Lena McFrison's band The Loyal Cheaters will be playing with Will's band in Astoria Queens on November 2nd the last day of their US tour.  Before that they sit down to talk about discovering Punk Rock and putting on shows in a small town in Italy.  the logistics of planning a tour of the USA as an international DIY act, Their upcoming show at The Fest in Gainsville, Florida, and the songwriting process for their newest album And All Hell Broke Loose.

Follow and See The Loyal Cheaters Live

https://beacons.ai/theloyalcheaters

https://www.instagram.com/theloyalcheaters/

https://open.spotify.com/album/3nzloYQ27lnXmPrxHsYZBk?si=mXRRc92VTH2US_-1o26SfA

https://open.spotify.com/track/6StU3cjkNVf3zASJ77w3hA?si=bc34291a71f84e76

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Awesome Disaster Highlights!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T5fT0Sc8bipvHWFaBEY2J?si=5f8ad01818404d07

Will's Band:

https://www.instagram.com/skiplagnyc/

Goalkeeper guitarist Marc Juliano returns to the show ahead of the band's new ep Pins and Needles during their tour with Calling All Captains.  He talks to Will about their newest single Black Hole, the heavier direction that they are taking musically and lyrically  on the new ep, his current live set up and the bands current tour opening for Calling All Captains.

Listen to the new Goalkeeper single:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3ZvWNjZk7kFwvM4EF5fiGf?si=_i4gX8z-RJaePdvuFna5GA

https://www.goalkeeperband.com/

See Will's band live in NYC 10/18/24:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6StU3cjkNVf3zASJ77w3hA?si=bc34291a71f84e76

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Awesome Disaster Highlights!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T5fT0Sc8bipvHWFaBEY2J?si=5f8ad01818404d07

Will's Band:

https://www.instagram.com/skiplagnyc/

Larry Spahn recently celebrated two milestone anniversaries of his pop punk band On Hiatus, and his hardcore punk band But, Pyrite.  He talks to Will about growing up in Queens, New York, how started by playing bass cause a friend told him he needed a bassist, his degree in history, the inspiration for the brutal riffs and goofy lyrics of But, Pyrite, 15 years of Hopeless Otis, how he co founded a record label with Brandon Bujnowski of Bedpan Fight and how he puts together DIY tours.

Listen to Hopeless Otis

https://hopelessotis.bandcamp.com/album/leave-it-all-behind

Listen to But, Pyrite

https://butpyrite.bandcamp.com/album/get-it-down

https://www.instagram.com/knuckledownrecords/

See Will's band live in NYC 10/18/24:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6StU3cjkNVf3zASJ77w3hA?si=bc34291a71f84e76

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Awesome Disaster Highlights!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T5fT0Sc8bipvHWFaBEY2J?si=5f8ad01818404d07

Will's Band:

https://www.instagram.com/skiplagnyc/

A lot has changed since the last time Aaron Barkstrom was on the show.  He has a new band Suburban Surf Club and a new ep titled Something Higher.  He talks to Will about their summer concert schedules, The collaborative writing process of the new ep, his deep dive into listening to The Grateful Dead and Surf Rock and how these diverse influences combine into the band's new ep.

Listen to Suburban Surf Club:

https://open.spotify.com/album/0iKsHGYwoABR0Mv2t58GZ2?si=71x9__Q6T1-m7XEU1m3EfQ

See Will's band live in NYC 10/18/24:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6StU3cjkNVf3zASJ77w3hA?si=bc34291a71f84e76

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Awesome Disaster Highlights!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T5fT0Sc8bipvHWFaBEY2J?si=5f8ad01818404d07

Will's Band:

https://www.instagram.com/skiplagnyc/

Mike and Rob's band The Challenged have been a part of their lives and the NYC music scene for 20 years.  They tell Will about the DIY and house show scene in Brooklyn, sharing the stage with punk rock legends, learning how to record all of their own music, songwriting and how the band is critical part of their emotional and physical well being.

Listen to the Challenged: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1UgvwKkB30lo4JNpGXx6Jl?si=7DUCQSXIQi-4S8TLGT0zNw

https://www.instagram.com/thechallenged?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

See Will's band Skip Lag in NYC 10/18/24

https://www.seetickets.us/event/Skip-LagMichael-Hilliard-and-The-Working-ClassGhost-Melody/618249

Listen to Rhode Island by Skip Lag:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6StU3cjkNVf3zASJ77w3hA?si=bc34291a71f84e76

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Awesome Disaster Highlights!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T5fT0Sc8bipvHWFaBEY2J?si=5f8ad01818404d07

Will's Band:

https://www.instagram.com/skiplagnyc/

On Hiatus vocalist/bassist Tom Lee Rose is dedicated to building up the punk rock scene in Des Moines, Iowa,  and continuing the band throught van tours and incrediable loss.  He talks to Will about the band's recent tour, the music scene in Iowa, the music that drew him to bass guitar, self recording the band's newest ep One More Day, and the small victories that need to occur for a band to get on stage.

Listen to On Hiatus:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6jYIcwKrCbqkYeMRcOODY5?si=f9SfTl4jSlSsDh0dimkkow

Follow the band and Tom on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/onhiatusband?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

https://www.instagram.com/tomonhiatus?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Listen to Rhode Island by Skip Lag:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6StU3cjkNVf3zASJ77w3hA?si=bc34291a71f84e76

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Awesome Disaster Highlights!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T5fT0Sc8bipvHWFaBEY2J?si=5f8ad01818404d07

Will's Band:

https://www.instagram.com/skiplagnyc/

Precursor guitarist Stuart Mckillop says the bands music is a product of their surroundings and the angst that you discover when you get older.  He talks to Will about the band's new album Thick & Thin, working with the bands lead vocalist on song rewrites, the recording and engineering of the album, the punk scene in Vancouver, BC of the late 90s early 2000s, his time in Daggermouth and how Precursor is the natural extension of this musical style.

Listen to Precursor.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3WWcjT7IvFYLR5MLB5fe6Q?si=ps6l4eJfSxSeoGOd2yUHNg

Stuart on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/sturules604/?hl=en

Listen to Rhode Island by Skip Lag:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6StU3cjkNVf3zASJ77w3hA?si=bc34291a71f84e76

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Awesome Disaster Highlights!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T5fT0Sc8bipvHWFaBEY2J?si=5f8ad01818404d07

Will's Band:

https://www.instagram.com/skiplagnyc/

Pat Condon graduated college just as Covid descended on the world, but it only slightly delayed his plans of moving in NYC.  He talks to Will about growing up in rural upstate New York, playing in cover bands, working at a rental car place solo, how the first interation of the band came together before Will joined, Skip Lag's new single Rhode Island and where the band plans to go next.

Listen to Rhode Island by Skip Lag:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6StU3cjkNVf3zASJ77w3hA?si=bc34291a71f84e76

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Awesome Disaster Highlights!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4T5fT0Sc8bipvHWFaBEY2J?si=5f8ad01818404d07

Will's Band:

https://www.instagram.com/skiplagnyc/