Columbia House Party
348 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsCome one, come all, to this tragic affair, and subscribe here for the best music show in your podcast library. Hosted by Blake Murphy and Jake Goldsbie, Columbia House Party is your home for Riots and Black Parades, Cork Trees and Significant Others. At times it will showcase the very finest the music industry had to offer, often around the pop-punk and emo boom of the early-to-mid 2000s. At its worst, it will indulge in those forgotten records we all have lurking in our collection. All the while, it promises to provide the information, entertainment and self-deprecation you’ve come to expect from two of Toronto’s favourites. Welcome to our living mixtape.
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The 2000s: Paramore - Riot! (w/ Christina Squires)
May 08, 2023 10:05 - 1 hour - 82.7 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Christina Squiers (@flooezyesq) to discuss Paramore's sophomore album Riot! The album had a major influence not only on one host and our guest but on the makeup and accessibility of the post-blink pop-punk scene as a whole. Find out more about Hayley Williams bucking label pressure to be a top-40 singer as a teen, the role Warped Tour played in Paramore's explosion, how we handle Misery Business ...
The 2000s: +44 — When Your Heart Stops Beating
May 01, 2023 10:05 - 56 minutes - 77.5 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy dive into one of a handful of blink side-projects, +44’s lone album, When Your Heart Stops Beating. The unofficial follow-up to blink’s untitled album, +44 sees Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker continue down that same road, with Hoppus trying to extend himself creatively but ultimately reining himself back in. Find out more about where +44 fits in the blink fracture, why they don’t utilize Carol Heller more, and ...
The 2000s: My Chemical Romance — The Black Parade
April 24, 2023 10:05 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBIn the most-anticipated episode of Columbia House Party yet, Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy dive into My Chemical Romance’s ambitious rock opera The Black Parade. A follow-up to their breakthrough album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, The Black Parade takes the MCR aesthetic up several notches and leans into a dark, quirky, ultimately redemptive single-story arc about The Patient. The album was a much bigger commercial success than some may remember, leading to a great deal of conversation ar...
The 2000s: The Decemberists — The Crane Wife (w/ Wilson)
April 17, 2023 10:05 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MBHit save on your English lit essay and close your history textbook. In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Jake’s friend Wilson to revisit and reprocess The Decemberists’ 2006 album, The Crane Wife. There is a lot going on here, with two sprawling, multi-part songs that lean heavily on historical (or mythical) source material and a few stand-alone tracks that do the same. Find out more about which Shakespeare play The Decemberists bui...
The 2000s: The Thermals — The Body, the Blood, the Machine (w/ Eric Koreen)
April 10, 2023 10:05 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Eric Koreen (@ekoreen) to discuss The Thermals' album The Body, the Blood, the Machine. Does a fight break out between Blake's two co-hosts for co-host supremacy? Tune in to hear. Find out more about the concept behind The Body, the Blood, the Machine, why it unfortunately still resonates strongly today, what makes The Thermals a band's band, and more on this week's podcast. Come join the Patre...
The 2000s: TV on the Radio — Return to Cookie Mountain
April 03, 2023 10:05 - 53 minutes - 74 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy explore TV on the Radio’s Return to Cookie Mountain, what they feel is one of the best albums to come out of the early-2000s indie rock boom. So much so, in fact, that this episode invites the first discussion of a potential CHP Hall of Fame for one of TV on the Radio’s members. Find out more about the David Letterman performance that helped put them on the map, where they veer from otherwise similar Meet Me I...
The 2000s: Panic! at the Disco — A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (w/ Josh Custodio)
March 27, 2023 10:05 - 1 hour - 90.5 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by "The Brain Genius" Josh Custodio (@j0shc) to discuss Panic! At the Disco's debut album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Well, imagine, Jake pacing a podcast and he can't help but to hear an exchanging of words between Blake and Josh about wrestling. And also Brendon Urie. Find out more about Panic's contested roots as a blink-182 cover band, how the band eventually became a Urie solo project but not ...
The 2000s: Motion City Soundtrack — Commit This To Memory
March 20, 2023 10:05 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBEverything is alright! In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy dive into Motion City Soundtrack’s 2005 album Commit This to Memory. Not only did Commit This to Memory lock in a definitive, unmistakable sound that cut through the saturation of the genre for Motion City Soundtrack, it was also the first foray into production for blink-182’s Mark Hoppus. While the hosts agree this album isn’t necessarily Motion City’s strongest, it is certainly the mos...
The 2000s: Fall Out Boy — From Under the Cork Tree (w/ Andrew Zuber)
March 13, 2023 10:05 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBSooner or later, Columbia House Party had to tackle 'The Only Album.' Hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Andrew Zuber of Sportsfeld to dissect the quintessential mid-2000s pop-punk album, Fall Out Boys’ From Under the Cork Tree. Dripping in sarcasm and self-deprecation, From Under the Cork Tree makes it’s sad, oft-unrequited lyrics more accessible with power-pop riffs, well-designed singles, and Patrick Stump’s underrated vocal chops. Fall Out Boy pivoted to more of an arena-r...
The 2000s: Rilo Kiley — More Adventurous (w/ Jeff Rosenstock)
March 06, 2023 11:05 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Jeff Rosenstock (@jeffrosenstock) to discuss Rilo Kiley’s excellent 2004 album More Adventurous. Is there a cooler band than Rilo Kiley, and a cooler singer than Jenny Lewis? It’s hard to figure.. Find out more about which Rilo Kiley song Jeff had his first dance too, which Rilo Kiley song Jeff has covered, and why the guys think Rilo Kiley weren’t a bigger breakthrough success on this week’s pod...
The 2000s: Say Anything — ...Is a Real Boy
February 27, 2023 11:05 - 58 minutes - 80 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy dive into Say Anything’s 2004 pop-punk classic …Is a Real Boy (and, technically, their 2006 build-on …Was a Real Boy). It’s an album that stands out from its own scene upon review, somewhat ironically given the album’s heavy criticism of the scene itself. Find out more about the cost and benefit of Max Bemis’ sprawling creativity and perfectionism over the band’s life, how the hosts – and Bemis himself – deal ...
The 2000s: Wilco — A Ghost Is Born (w/ Steve Sladkowski)
February 20, 2023 11:05 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBWe are three Canadian aquarium drinkers. In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Steve Sladkowski, the guitarist from PUP, to discuss Wilco’s 2004 album, A Ghost is Born. The album that necessitated the addition of Nels Cline – first as a touring guitarist and later as a full-time member – A Ghost is Born sees Jeff Tweedy take a necessary leap as a guitarist while his songwriting is as on-point as always. Find out more about how Wilco ...
The 2000s: Alexisonfire — Watch Out! (w/ Sam Sutherland)
February 13, 2023 11:05 - 1 hour - 95 MBWatch Out! In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Sam Sutherland (@SamSthrlnd) of the blink-155 podcast to talk about…not blink-182, surprisingly. Instead, the trio takes a deep look at alexisonfire’s sophomore 2004 album Watch Out! Sam’s choice of album surprised, but explained through the lens of that moment in Canadian music history, it was the right choice. Find out more about Sam’s encyclopaedic knowledge of the early-2000s Canad...
The 2000s: The Killers — Hot Fuss (w/ Sarah MacDonald)
February 06, 2023 11:05 - 1 hour - 95.7 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by culture writer Sarah MacDonald (@sarahsmacdonald, sarahsmacdonald.com) to discuss The Killers’ 2004 debut Hot Fuss. Another Meet Me In The Bathroom-era breakthrough sees our hosts bring Sarah back because The Killers require a certain level of cool they can’t reach alone. That’s a long way to have come for some kids from Las Vegas sneaking in to UNLV to practice and record. Find out more about ho...
The 2000s: Hawthorne Heights — The Silence in Black and White
January 30, 2023 11:05 - 48 minutes - 67.2 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy discuss Hawthorne Heights' 2004 album The Silence in Black and White. We almost said their debut album, which would only be kind-of true, as A Day In The Life changed their name and jumped to Victory Records for this successful next step. Find out more about why Ohio is for lovers, how Hawthorne Heights stand out as a dividing line between pop-punk eras, play a YouTube algorithm game with the guys, and more on...
The 2000s: Modest Mouse — Good News for People Who Love Bad News
January 23, 2023 11:05 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy break down Modest Mouse’s 2004 breakthrough Good News for People Who Like Bad News. Unlike some of the other bands to perform at The Bait Shop, Modest Mouse were already quite well-established, but The OC rub and an enormous hit in Float On helped push them into the mainstream consciousness. That didn’t mean Good News was any less weird and fun, though. Find out more about why a band like Modest Mouse would ag...
The 2000s: N.E.R.D — Fly or Die (w/ Densil McFarlane)
January 16, 2023 11:05 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Densil McFarlane of The OBGMs (@theobgms) to discuss N.E.R.D.’s 2004 album Fly or Die. Obscured to some degree by the immense success of the group as producers (The Neptunes) and Pharrell Williams’ eventual solo work, N.E.R.D. is more than deserving of their own oxygen as a bridge between hip hop and rock. Find out more about the influence N.E.R.D. had on Denz, the irritating, if predictable, cri...
The 2000s: The Walkmen — Bows + Arrows
January 09, 2023 11:05 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy break down The Walkmen’s 2004 album Bows + Arrows. The Walkmen represent an interesting and often self-defeating secondary character in the indie rock boom and an unlikely Bait Shop performer. They’re also emblematic of the Meet Me In The Bathroom-era New York rock scene, dripping in cool while made up of the pieces of other, disbanded groups. Find out more about the enormity of The Rat, the overall excellent ...
The 2000s: Blink-182
January 02, 2023 11:05 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy dive in on the band's untitled 2003 album. It also happens to be both hosts' favorite blink-182 offering. Find out more about what led to the dramatic shift in sound, how the rift between Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge continued and led to their eventual separation, and what made this era of blink the best live-show era of blink on this week's podcast. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, ...
B-Sides: December Mailbag
December 26, 2022 11:05 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBIn this edition of the mailbag Blake & Jake discuss the music stories they'd write a book about, what albums they bought for "cred" and the relevance of "Best Of Albums". Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show notes and even more goodness: https://www.patreon.com/columbiahouseparty Follow @ColumbiaHP on Twitter! While you're there say hello to @BlakeMurphyODC and @JGoldsbie. If merch is your thing, be sure to check out the store: http://bit.ly/chpmerch Or reach...
The 2000s: Death Cab for Cutie — Transatlanticism (w/ Lauren Mitchell)
December 19, 2022 11:05 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by comedian Lauren Mitchell (host of the @cavernofsecrets podcast) to discuss Death Cab For Cutie’s enormous 2003 hit Transatlanticism. The podcast will explore bands that performed at The Bait Shop on the hit show The OC, which served as a snapshot and elevator of the early-2000s indie rock scene. Find out more about Ben Gibbard’s workmanlike songwriting approach for Transatlanticism, what characte...
The 2000s: Billy Talent (w/ James Herbert)
December 12, 2022 11:05 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by NBA writer James Herbert (@outsidethenba) to discuss Billy Talent’s 2003 self-titled debut. James made sense as the guest since he was also on for Billy Talent influence At The Drive-In and because he and Blake were at the same Billy Talent concert during frosh week at Queen’s. Find out more about Blake’s overdue realization that punk is political, Try Honesty’s continent-crossing success, and wh...
The 2000s: The Weakerthans — Reconstruction Site
December 05, 2022 11:05 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBJake and Blake take you on a walk through the first snowfall of winter to the soundtrack of The Weakerthans. With sprinkles of Canadiana, a triumvirate of songs in iambic pentameter, and a track from the perspective of a cat, John K. Samson is at his absolute best on Reconstruction Site, the band’s 2003 album that directly inspired the next wave of emo-pop and many in the emo revival. Find out more about Samson’s love-hate relationship with Winnipeg, his quest to reclaim Neil Young’s honour, ...
B-Sides: November Mailbag
November 28, 2022 11:05 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBIn this edition of the mailbag Blake & Jake share their favourite female fronted bands, bands that you would expect they like - but don't, and end off by ranking their parents' music. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show notes and even more goodness: https://www.patreon.com/columbiahouseparty Follow @ColumbiaHP on Twitter! While you're there say hello to @BlakeMurphyODC and @JGoldsbie. If merch is your thing, be sure to check out the store: http://bit.ly/chpmer...
The 2000s: The Constantines — Shine A Light (w/ Max Kerman)
November 21, 2022 11:05 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Arkells frontman Max Kerman (@arkellsmusic) to discuss Shine A Light, the 2003 sophomore album from Constantines. The Cons had a huge influence on Max and his bandmates, and this episode allows us to explore how influences make their way into a band’s sound, consciously and subconsciously. Find out more about The Cons’ 519 roots, how their legendary live shows helped build a following, and why so...
The 2000s: Yellowcard — Ocean Avenue
November 14, 2022 11:05 - 53 minutes - 73.6 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, Jake and Blake take you to a place off Ocean Avenue to sit and talk with you about Yellowcard’s 2003 album named for a street in Jacksonville, not Los Angeles. That mistake is one of two personal stories the hosts share on this one, the second of which is far more embarrassing. Find out more about Yellowcard’s path from the home of the Jaguars to L.A., how they incorporated violin so effectively into an otherwise standard pop-punk sound, and why ...
The 2000s: Avril Lavigne — Let Go
November 07, 2022 11:05 - 59 minutes - 82 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, Jake and Blake travel back to Blake’s most heartbroken shifts at the Cambridge Home Hardware and fire up Avril Lavigne’s 2003 debut Let Go. Armed with four massive singles one-through-four on the album, Let Go was a tour de force at the time and feels no less significant in retrospect. Find out more about the changes in writing process (and partners) Lavigne went through to find her sound, how and why she was able to blur the lines between genres...
B-Sides: October Mailbag
October 31, 2022 10:05 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBHappy Halloween, it's the October Mailbag! Blake & Jake are handing out the full-size answers in this edition as they discuss their protest songs, albums they've listened in full the most and what songs are oh so close to being perfect. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show notes and even more goodness: https://www.patreon.com/columbiahouseparty Follow @ColumbiaHP on Twitter! While you're there say hello to @BlakeMurphyODC and @JGoldsbie. If merch is your thin...
The 2000s: Alkaline Trio — Good Mourning
October 24, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBA can of matches, a can of kerosene, a bad idea. In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy revisit what they agree to be the best Alkaline Trio album, 2003’s Good Mourning. Even with the podcast still in its relative infancy, this almost felt overdue – Jake and Blake began their friendship arguing about the ranking of Alkaline Trio albums on Twitter. Find out more about how challenging Good Mourning was for the band to write and record, how Blake chan...
The 2000s: Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Fever to Tell (w/ Sarah MacDonald)
October 17, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBOther podcasts don’t love you like we love you. In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by culture writer Sarah MacDonald (sarahsmacdonald.com) to discuss the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s 2003 debut album Fever to Tell. Karen O features heavily in Lizzy Goodman’s Meet Me In The Bathroom, an exploration of the early-2000s New York rock scene, and for good reason: not only is she unspeakably cool, she is, as Sarah once wrote, indie rock’s beating heart...
The 2000s: Cursive — The Ugly Organ (w/ Alyssa Laessig)
October 10, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Alyssa Laessig of Guardrail (@guardrailsucks) to discuss Cursive’s 2003 album The Ugly Organ. And be sure to check out Guardrails’ new EP Yikes when you’re done hearing Alyssa break down one of her influences. Find out more about Jake’s and Alyssa’s deep connections to Cursive, how the cello gets accounted for in the songwriting process, and whether The Ugly Organ qualifies as a concept album on ...
The 2000s: The Postal Service — Give Up
October 03, 2022 10:05 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MBIn this week's episode of Columbia House Party, Jake and Blake go deep on one of the most well-regarded side projects of the 2000s, Give Up from indie supergroup The Postal Service. With Dntel synths, Ben Gibbard’s vocals, and Jenny Lewis’, well, everything, Give Up withstands the test of time as something greater than a pit-stop before Death Cab for Cutie blew up. Find out more about how the recording process fed into the name, the weird concert performance that resulted, and why despite tea...
B-Sides: September Mailbag
September 26, 2022 10:05 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MBLadies and gentlemen, it's the September Mailbag! In this edition of the mailbag Blake & Jake discuss favourite bands that had only one album, songs that we didn't know were cover songs and our hosts give you jean recommendations. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show notes and even more goodness: https://www.patreon.com/columbiahouseparty Follow @ColumbiaHP on Twitter! While you're there say hello to @BlakeMurphyODC and @JGoldsbie. If merch is your thing, be ...
The 2000s: The All-American Rejects (w/ Taylor Markarian)
September 19, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Taylor Markarian (@TKMarkarian), author of From The Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society, to reminisce about the self-titled 2003 debut from The All-American Rejects. Tyson Ritter hive, it’s your time to log on. Find out more about Taylor’s AOL Instant Messenger association with the Rejects, which song stands out as a missed opportunity as the follow-up single behind Swing,...
The 2000s: Broken Social Scene — You Forgot It in People (w/ John Cullen)
September 12, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 98.5 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by comedian John Cullen (@cullenthecomic, @blockedpartypod, @thePOD_Kast) to discuss Broken Social Scene’s sophomore album You Forgot It In People. But not before they get derailed talking about Disturbed, Korn, labret piercings, and John’s love of nu-metal. The guys eventually talk BSS, we promise. Find out more about the ways Broken Social Scene are tied to myriad Toronto artists and bands, how th...
The 2000s: Bright Eyes — Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
September 05, 2022 10:05 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy make Conor Oberst the third member of the CHP two-time subject club, exploring Bright Eyes’ 2002 album Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground. Find out more about Saddle Creek’s epic early-2000s run as a label, why the hosts think Bright Eyes was so influential as a thread between folk eras despite often being classified as emo on this week’s podcast. Come join the Patreon family for...
B-Sides: August Mailbag
August 29, 2022 10:05 - 47 minutes - 65.9 MBLadies and gentlemen, the monthly mailbag has arrived. In this edition of the mailbag Blake & Jake discuss the best and worst album art, best concert performances and some truly bad lyrics. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show notes and even more goodness: https://www.patreon.com/columbiahouseparty Follow @ColumbiaHP on Twitter! While you're there say hello to @BlakeMurphyODC and @JGoldsbie. If merch is your thing, be sure to check out the store: http://bit....
The 2000s: Box Car Racer
August 22, 2022 10:05 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy discuss the self-titled 2002 album from Box Car Racer. Find out more about what led Tom DeLonge to embark on a solo project after Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, how Travis Barker got involved but Mark Hoppus was excluded, and how Box Car Racer paved the way for the best of blink-182 on this week's podcast. Come join the Patreon family for bonus episodes, mailbags, show notes and even more goodness: https://...
The 2000s: Taking Back Sunday — Tell All Your Friends
August 15, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy change their MSN statuses in biting fashion, firing up lyrics from Taking Back Sunday’s 2002 genre classic Tell All Your Friends. It is, with some likelihood, the album one host has listened to more than any other in his life. Find out more about Taking Back Sunday’s clunky and dramatic origins, the benefits and limitations of the band as one of the avatars of the emo movement, and whether mics are for singing...
The 2000s: Desaparecidos — Read Music/Speak Spanish
August 08, 2022 10:05 - 58 minutes - 81.1 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy dive into Conor Oberst’s punk-rock side-project, Desaparecidos. Not unlike a wrestler’s excursion, Oberst took a brief aside from his ascension as a part of Bright Eyes and as the face (and bangs) of a genre to do something a little different before ultimately returning. Read Music/Speak Spanish is more political and far angrier than you may be used to with Oberst’s other projects, and while it wasn’t heralded...
The 2000s: Jimmy Eat World — Bleed American
August 01, 2022 10:05 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBAre you listening? In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy dive into Jimmy Eat World’s fourth album, the crossover success Bleed American. A follow up to Clarity, which is often debated as their best album, Bleed American shifted from an emo-oriented sound toward alt-rock, producing eminently recognizable singles thanks to accessibly simple lyrics and excellent power-pop guitar work. That Jimmy Eat World continued producing good albums – a lot of th...
The 2000s: Blink-182 — Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
July 18, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBBreathing deeply, walking backwards. In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy dive back into one of the seminal works of not only the pop-punk explosion but of all of early-2000s pop culture, Blink-182’s Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. It was time for a blink episode, as a key moment in the podcast’s origin story involved our hosts quite lubricated on the first tour with Matt Skiba. Find out more about how the making of Take Off Your Pants and Jacket...
The 2000s: Sum 41 — All Killer No Filler
July 11, 2022 10:05 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy crown Sum 41’s 2001 album All Killer No Filler a Canadian musical landmark. That’s like a Canadian Heritage Minute, but it just plays every commercial break on Much Loud for eternity. Maybe a statue in Ajax, too. Find out more about how Sum 41 broke through outside of just the Canadian pop-punk scene to become emblematic of early-2000s culture, why their early work stands out even better in retrospect, and the...
The 2000s: Dashboard Confessional — The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
July 04, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 92.8 MBPlease open your sad teen textbooks to Page 1. In the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are screaming infidelities and sharing all their best deceptions as they break down the 2001 album from Dashboard Confessional, The Places You Have Come to Fear the most. Find out more about Chris Carrabba’s transition from Further Seems Forever to Dashboard Confessional, what we know – and don’t know – about what went into his painful songwriting, and why one hos...
The 2000s: Linkin Park — Hybrid Theory (w/ Elamin Abdelmahmoud)
June 20, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 93.9 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined Elamin Abdelmahmoud (@elamin88), host of Pop Chat (@popchatcbc) to discuss Linkin Park’s 2000 debut Hybrid Theory. A re-exploration of this album for its 20th anniversary in 2020, and after the death of Chester Bennington in 2017, reveal a long-lasting impact for fans of the band and their relationship with vulnerability and emotional space. Find out more about Linkin Park’s influence, Bennington’s ...
The 2000s: At the Drive-In — Relationship of Command (w/ James Herbert)
June 13, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by NBA writer James Herbert (@outsidethenba) to discuss At The Drive-In’s 2000 album Relationship of Command. This is a fun revisiting of a very influential album. Find out more about James and Blake’s unlikely non-friendship in university, how At The Drive-In became the Mars Volta and Sparta separately, and how Relationship of Command holds up against In/Casino/Out in the present on this week’s pod...
The 2000s: Limp Bizkit — Significant Other (w/ John Cullen)
June 06, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 102 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by the self-proclaimed world's foremost analyst of nu metal, John Cullen (@cullenthecomic), to discuss the first album Jake ever purchased with his own money: Limp Bizkit's Significant Other. Consider this a Limp Bizkit podcast in general, though, as you know Blake wasn't going to try to discuss the connection of Fred Durst, My Way, and Rollin' to professional wrestling. Find out more about Durst's ...
The '90s: Saves the Day — Through Being Cool (w/ Drew Fairservice)
May 23, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 99.9 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by Drew Fairservice (@DrewGROF) to discuss Saves the Day’s 1999 bridge album for the pop-punk scene, Through Being Cool. Drew might cringe at that term pop-punk given his – and Chris Conley’s – hardcore roots, but tracing from Lifetime to Fall Out Boy through Saves the Day is tidy work. Find out more about Drew’s experience seeing Saves the Day in the hardcore scene, how the band’s slow transition t...
The '90s: The Dismemberment Plan — Emergency & I
May 16, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy discuss Emergency & I, the 1999 album from The Dismemberment Plan. More than two decades later, it remains held in the highest of indie esteem. Find out more about the best rhythm section in indie rock, what Jake feels is maybe THE best song (period!), which band member moved on to work for NASA, and more on this week's podcast. Sick of hearing all the ads? Subscribe to Soda Premium on Apple Podcasts to get ...
The '90s: Britney Spears — ...Baby One More Time (w/ Sarah MacDonald)
May 09, 2022 10:05 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBIn the latest episode of Columbia House Party, hosts Jake Goldsbie and Blake Murphy are joined by their first four-time guest, Sarah MacDonald (@sarahsmacdonald, sarahsmacdonald.com), to discuss Britney Spears' debut album ...Baby One More Time. That's probably enough appearances to just call Sarah a co-host, right? Cassie Leigh Clancy (@cassleigh, co-host of the @restingonpod podcast) also joins for a segment to talk jean suits and other fashion. Find out more about why Sarah's Britney inter...