It's our one-year podiversary! For the 52nd episode of the show, The Itch celebrates the return of The Offspring and their long-awaited new album, Let The Bad Times Roll. Join us reminisce about the history of the band and discuss their place in the current rock landscape. And enjoy as Dan makes a painful and surprising admission and Aaron gets completely out of line to offer career advice to a band that's almost as old as he is!

And hey, we've got merch now! If you wanna help us keep the show going and provide more interviews and rock-related content (or at least pay hosting and website fees), what better way than to grab some swag and rock our dope new logo?

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Maynard James Keenan of Tool & A Perfect Circle and Sonny Sandoval of P.O.D. went through similar, life-changing experiences with their mothers ... and wrote very different songs about those experiences. If you're looking for a bit of food for thought this Mother's Day, Aaron's got you covered with this bonus story.

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It's almost Mother's Day! So in honor of our mothers, your mothers, and all you mothers, we're carrying on an Itch tradition with a celebration of the mamas. Join us as we talk about your mom for 45 minutes, diving in on a few of our favorite songs about moms and a few that remind us of our own. It's a journey full of humor, affection, and peach cobbler.

And inquiring minds want to know: do you have a "Stacy's Mom" story? If so, drop us a voicemail, email, Tweet, or Facebook message! If it's entertaining, we might even include it in a future episode or Short Cut!

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Dan's Funko Pop obsession, about which he gives Aaron and KC frequent updates in Itch episode pre-game talk, was a secret to the public until episode 50. Now, on the heels of its revelation, The Itch felt that we had no choice but to tell, piece by piece, the long, esoteric tale of Dan's other great passion. So we give to you the first chapter in this off-topic babbling: The Funko Pop Saga Prelude. Enjoy...

and then tell us how ridiculous this is.

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The Itch has reached a milestone! Since we try to run a (semi) professional ship, we decided to celebrate 50 episodes by releasing a collection of our LEAST professional moments! Whether it's bodily functions, Dan forgetting the intros, or Aaron's penchant for strange and distracting sounds, we hope you enjoy 35 minutes of grown men giggling while trying to talk about hard rock!

And hey, tell us how you feel about this nonsense!

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Finally, The Itch gets back to what brought us here! After playing our beloved classic rock artists weekly for 16 years on the radio, we've largely neglected them for 48 episodes of the podcast. Well, NO MORE! In this episode, we give some love to a few of the bands who taught us about talent, taste, and how to be comfortable being ourselves.

Spoiler: This episode ends with a big question, and we need your help to answer it! Once you've listened, visit itchrocks.com and click the blue microphone in the bottom corner to help us solve a debate (in under 2 minutes). Or if you don't want your voice to show up on a future episode, hit us up with your keyboard at:

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In this week's episode, we pondered some of the eternal questions about Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, and what could've been if Kurt Cobain were still with us today. And it reminded us that we had an unused bonus chat along similar lines from alllll the way back in the recording of episode 9! So to keep the conversation going, we're sharing it with you now! We hope you enjoy this and the rest of the content we produce. If so, please subscribe and leave a positive review and rating on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser. Then let us know you did, and we'll give you a shout out on a future episode.

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It's time to catch up on some recent rock releases! We each came to the mic with a 2021 album that's impressed and tried to sell each other on its merits! Aaron's got Teenage Wrist's Earth Is a Black Hole, KC brought Foo Fighters' Medicine at Midnight, and Dan's in with Rob Zombie's The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy. And enjoy our bonus chat about Serj Tankian's new EP, Elasticity, where we will most definitely talk about Your Mom!

We've added a few of our favorite tracks from this episode to our ongoing Flavor of the Week playlist. And for more great new releases, follow our New Rock Roundup playlist!

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The results are in, the upsets left us shook, and March Bandness is complete! Over the last month, you voted on Twitter to make a champion out of 1 of 32 bands The Itch has played often but never podcasted about. Now we have a winner and an episode about them already on the calendar! Thank you to everyone who participated. You made this fun, and we hope you enjoy your reward as much as we enjoy recording it.

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We must'n't dwell... not on Rex Manning Day! (It's April 8th, specifically, so put that in your brain forever.) In this episode, The Itch follows through on a half-joking idea from six months ago to use the legendary Empire Records event as an excuse to talk about some of our favorite movies that rock! Join us to stroll through a series of mostly wholesome, mostly 90s rock-related films, as well as a fun game of "good film, great soundtrack" and "garbage film, great soundtrack"!

And we want to make this an ongoing series, so hit us up with your own favorites so we can stock our streaming queue with enough films to do it again!

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