Episodes
March 25, 2025
E260 Gio and Jerrod of Giovannie and the Hired Guns on Blending Genres, Getting Responsible, and Being Texan
This week, we're scratching The Itch to be quitters! Gio and Jerrod of Giovannie and the Hired Guns join us to talk about their new album Quitter . We discuss the making of the record, Gio getting responsible, how Jerrod beca...
March 20, 2025
March Bandness 2025 Voting Is Open!
March Bandness is live! The 5th Annual Itch Invitational Tournament features 8 first-time entries who dropped excellent albums in 2024. Vote here (or at the link in our IG bio) for your first round favorites and send 'em all ...
March 18, 2025
E259 Alan Koenig of ASK4 Entertainment on Shiprocked Origins, Poster Fonts, and Building the Best Festival Lineup
This week, we're scratching The Itch to talk with the Captain! Alan Koenig, founder of ASK4 Entertainment and its flagship event Shiprocked (see what we did there?) joins us to discuss the past, present, and future of The Itc...
March 13, 2025
E258 The Itch On Tour: Disturbed, Three Days Grace, and Sevendust + Local H (again, sort of!)
This week, we're scratching The Itch to get sick! Disturbed 's all-time nu metal debut album The Sickness is 25 years old, and the band is playing it in full on tour. Alongside a now dual-fronted Three Days Grace and an alway...
March 11, 2025
E257 Nathan Aurora of Aurorawave on Features, Fatherhood, and Breaking a Reggae Band Into the Rock World
This week, we're scratching The Itch for reggae metal! Nathan Aurora 's band Aurorawave released one of our favorite albums of 2024, and he's putting the finishing touches on the exciting follow-up. Nathan joins us to talk ab...
March 4, 2025
E256 Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire and Anberlin on Blindside, Removing Our Masks, and Learning to Say No
This week, we're scratching The Itch to take off our masks. Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire and Anberlin joins us to discuss the new Memphis album Shapeshifter , which looks internally to how we can become better versions o...
Feb. 27, 2025
E255 The Itch On Tour: Jerry Cantrell and Filter
This week, we're scratching The Itch to get Chains'd! Aaron and KC returned to The Hawthorn in St. Louis to see Jerry Cantrell and Filter on the "I Want Blood" tour. Join us for more Itch Etiquette, an all-star backing band, ...
Feb. 25, 2025
E254 Eric Bass of Shinedown on Imposter Syndrome and Writing a Personal Album With Fictional Characters
This week, we're scratching The Itch for some world building! Eric Bass of Shinedown joins us to discuss his outstanding debut solo album Eric Bass Presents... I Had A Name . It's a thrilling rock opera of sorts featuring a c...
Feb. 18, 2025
E253 Sonny Sandoval of P.O.D. on His New Book, Surviving the Music Business, and How Nothing Is a Coincidence
This week, we're scratching The Itch to read a book! Sonny Sandoval of P.O.D. is releasing his autobiography, Son of Southtown: My Life Between Two Worlds on February 25th. He joins the show to discuss his story of God's fait...
Feb. 11, 2025
E252 Winona Fighter on Their Debut Album, Supporting Local Scenes, Doggy Managers, and the Bass of Doom
This week, we're scratching The Itch to fight! Coco from Winona Fighter returns, and this time she brought the boys! Join her, Dan, and Austin as they break down the origins of some of the songs on their debut LP My Apologies...
Feb. 6, 2025
E251 Itchiversary: Shiprocked 2025 Recap Part 2
This week, we're scratching The Itch to keep celebrating! Our Shiprocked coverage continues, as the guys wrap up the week with 80s covers, a pair of epic sets on the beach, a slippery stage, a late night call to Halestorm, an...
Feb. 4, 2025
E250 Itchiversary: Shiprocked 2025 Recap Part 1
This week, we're scratching The Itch for a birthday celebration! Our radio show was born 21 years ago this month, and to celebrate that milestone (and 250 episodes), the guys spent a wild week on the water with 31 bands on Sh...
Jan. 28, 2025
E249 Emma Anzai of Sick Puppies & Evanescence on Bass Solos, Beastie Boys, and Metallica and Halestorm Tours
This week, we're scratching The Itch for bass! Emma Anzai , co-founder of Sick Puppies and more recent addition to Evanescence , joins us to discuss Wave the Bull , Sick Puppies' first new album in nine years. We discuss the ...
Jan. 23, 2025
Shiprocked Replay Pt 2: Oxymorrons on Performative Justice, Marvel, and Re-educating the Scene (from 2022)
This week, we're scratching The Itch to get educated! Shiprocked sails along, we bring you the second part of the 2022 conversation that introduced us to Oxymorrons . And this is where it gets serious (while somehow remaining...
Jan. 21, 2025
Shiprocked Replay Pt 1: Oxymorrons on Dragonball Z, New York Bodegas, and Rock’s Black Roots (from 2022)
This week we're scratching The Itch to ... not be here! The boys are back on a boat enjoying Shiprocked , but while we're out partying with Oxymorrons , we thought we'd post a pair of throwback episodes to when we first met t...
Jan. 14, 2025
E248 Janine Shilstone of VUKOVI on Art As Therapy, Touring with Unpeople & Calva Louise, and Scottish War Horns!
This week, we're scratching The Itch for Sno! It's not only in St Louis and Chicago, but in Scotland as well! Janine Shilstone of VUKOVI becomes The Itch's first Scottish guest as she joins us to discuss "Sno," the newest sin...
Jan. 7, 2025
E247 The Itch Awards and Top 20 Albums of 2024
This week, we're scratching The Itch for awards season, baby! The fifth annual Itch Awards are here, honoring the best rock releases of 2024. We've got albums galore, featuring a plethora of past and future guests. Who were o...
Dec. 31, 2024
E246 New Year's Eva II with Eva Marie of Eva Under Fire
This week, we're scratching The Itch to send the year out in style! Official fourth member Eva Marie of Eva Under Fire joins us for another holiday tradition (and to continue building her lead as our most frequent guest). Des...
Dec. 24, 2024
E245 Christmas Concert Catch-up: The All-American Rejects
This week, we're scratching The Itch for Christmas cheer! As a follow-up to our recent conversation with Nick Wheeler of The All-American Rejects , The Itch venture out to see the band on not one, but TWO shows of their holid...
Dec. 17, 2024
E244 A Conversation with Brandon Yeagley of Crobot
This week, we're scratching The Itch to get choppy! The excellently facial-haired Brandon Yeagley of Crobot joins us for a conversation full of industry insight, artistic excitement, and... giant eggs. We were introduced to B...
Dec. 10, 2024
E243 A Conversation with Jason Zeilstra and Adam Woloszyn of Nonpoint
This week, we're scratching The Itch for a tradition! Jason Zeilstra of Nonpoint continues introducing us to his bandmates one by one. one year at a time, this time joining us alongside bassist Adam Woloszyn ! The fellas reca...
Dec. 3, 2024
E242 A Conversation with Nick Wheeler of The All-American Rejects
This week, we're scratching The Itch for rejection! Well, in a sense. Nick Wheeler , guitarist and co-founder of The All-American Rejects joins us for a freewheeling discussion (see what I did there?) that covers his history ...
Nov. 29, 2024
E241 Clipisode: Leftovers V
Today we're scratching The Itch for a post-Thanksgiving tradition! To show our gratitude to our incredible guests and listeners, we've compiled a collection of previously unheard clips from each of our 2024 interviews. We hop...
Nov. 26, 2024
E240 Concert Catch-up: Ben Folds, Lit, The Exies, and more!
This week, we're scratching The Itch for the greatest week in the history of our sport... er, podcast. Find out why as we recap a trio of shows by artists who are aging like fine wine (though that's probably not what they dri...