Concert Reviews Episodes
June 3, 2025
E272 Concert Catch-up: Pointfest, Primus, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle, and Padflower... er, Badflower
This week, we're scratching The Itch to rebel! AI art is trash, and you shouldn't use it. But if you put on a show as fun as this year's Pointfest, we'll forgive you. Mostly. The whole team made it to see 311 headline a lineu...
May 27, 2025
E271 Shiprocked Lineup Reaction
This week, we're scratching The Itch for community. Last week, the rock world experienced tragic losses. In this episode we honor those we lost and celebrate the way they touched people's lives and brought so many together th...
May 20, 2025
E270 Concert Catch-up: Boston Manor, Ocean Grove, Hot Milk, Pop Evil, Gore., and more!
This week, we're scratching The Itch to party! KC's birthday week was stacked with shows featuring podcast guests, and The Itch got to see plenty of them! First, KC and Aaron catch Boston Manor at the Subterranean in Chicago ...
May 6, 2025
E267 The Itch On Tour: Dorothy and Cory Marks
This week, we're scratching The Itch for a homecoming! Itch guests Dorothy and her guitarist, our fellow St Louisian Sam Bam Koltun , played at The Hawthorn with Cory Marks , and The Itch had to be there! After dropping The I...
April 17, 2025
E264 The Itch On Tour: Superbloom and Footballhead
This week, we're scratching The Itch to bloom! Aaron had quite an unusual adventure seeing Superbloom and Footballhead at the Cobra Lounge in Chicago, so we had to discuss the oddities of the evening and how he might be the u...
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...
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. 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...
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...
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...
Nov. 5, 2024
E237 Concert Catch-up: Seether, Skillet, Wage War, Fame on Fire, Local H (sort of), and more!
This week, we're scratching The Itch for a first! This concert catch-up takes a new twist when one of us sees not just a concert, but a concert film made by Local H ! And even recorded, it's somehow a great live show! Join us...
Oct. 8, 2024
E233 Concert Catch-up: The Movement, Aurorawave, Saosin, Lowlives, Badflower, and more!
This week, we're scratching The Itch for consistency! It's time for our regularly scheduled Badflower coverage, plus our first time seeing 2-time guests Lowlives, and our introduction to a reggae metal band that ISN'T Skindre...
Oct. 1, 2024
E232 Riot Fest Recap + HANS FREAKIN' ZIMMER
This week, we're scratching The Itch to Riot! For the fourth year in a row, Aaron ventured to Chicago's own Riot Fest ... and this time he finally brought friends! Not only that, but he bookended two days at the festival with...
Sept. 17, 2024
E230 Concert Catch-up: Weezer, The Flaming Lips, In This Moment, Ice Nine Kills, Joey Valence & Brae, and more!
This week, we're scratching The Itch to visit the Blue Planet! Three decades of fandom come to a head as Aaron sees Weezer perform The Blue Album for the first time with support from the ever-entertaining Flaming Lips . And h...
Sept. 10, 2024
E229 Concert Catch-up: Oxymorrons, VRSTY, Nothing More, Eva Under Fire, Post Profit, & The Burkharts
This week, we're scratching The Itch to keep catchin' up! Concerts continue to abound, and this one includes the rhyming trifecta of friendships, road trips, and vacation pro tips! Join us to hear insights about the touring l...
Aug. 20, 2024
E226 Concert Catch-up: Primus, Paralandra, I Prevail, Halestorm, Hollywood Undead, Silly Goose, and more!
This week, we're scratching The Itch to share the wealth! It's another Concert Catch-up, but this time with stories from the whole gang! We saw no less than 10 bands, recently, including an Itch radio staple, some concert bud...
July 30, 2024
E223 Concert Catch-up: Micah Bournes, Fury in Few, Metric, & The New Pornographers
This week, we're scratching The Itch for unique concert experiences! Aaron saw four shows in four very different environments, and now the guys have to break down the details on poetry readings, surprising mosh pit members, w...
July 9, 2024
E220 The Upheaval Draft
This week, we're scratching The Itch for Michigan! Grand Rapids' Upheaval Festival is coming up, and in a callback to last years coverage, we're breaking down this year's lineup. But this time, it's an Itch fantasy draft, as ...
May 28, 2024
E213 Concert Catch-Up: Pointfest, Fury in Few, Calva Louise & VUKOVI, and Eve 6
This week, we're scratching The Itch for another set of shows! It was a week of favorites as Fury in Few , Calva Louise , and Oxymorrons all came through St Louis. Join us for an international adventure as Calva visits St Lou...
May 14, 2024
E212 Concert Catch-Up: Des Rocs, Dead Poet Society, Finch, Winona Fighter, Trophy Eyes, Rarity, and more!
This week, we're scratching The Itch to catch up on concerts! It's show season, and we've been out and about experiencing live music from Itch guests, favorites, and new discoveries. KC had a special experience seeing Des Roc...
April 23, 2024
E209 The Itch On Tour: Set It Off, Crown the Empire, & Caskets + SAUL, Kingdom Collapse, & Hang Your Hate
This week, we're scratching The Itch to see shows by friends old and new! We got to see Itch guests Caskets on their tour with Set It Off and Crown the Empire , as well as repeat Itch guests SAUL headlining with Kingdom Colla...
March 19, 2024
E204 Booking Shiprocked + The Itch On Tour: Beartooth, The Plot In You, Invent Animate, & Sleep Theory
This week, we're scratching The Itch to lie to you (but just a little)! We've got a smidge more Shiprocked -related business to take care of in the form of booking the 2025 lineup. (Alan, if you're listening...) Plus, Dan saw...
March 12, 2024
E203 March Bandness Announcement + The Itch On Tour: Mammoth WVH and Nita Strauss
This week, we're scratching The Itch for a tradition! March Bandness returns, and we've got an 8-artist field vying for the prize of their very own dedicated Itch episode! Visit the polls below to vote on the first round, and...