Episodes
June 10, 2025
E273 New Rock Roundup: ALT BLK ERA, Architects, The Darkness, and Sleep Token
This week, we're scratching The Itch for new rock! We're five months into 2025 and overdue to spotlight some of our favorite albums of the year so far. The Itch has been enjoying sounds from across the rock spectrum, and we'r...
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 13, 2025
E269 Alizon Taho and Ben Parker of Calva Louise on Time Travel, Tour Pranks, and DIY Innovation
This week, we're scratching The Itch for a reunion! Alizon and Ben , our vacation buddies and international inspirations from Calva Louise , return to discuss their brilliant new album Edge of the Abyss , which drops on July ...
May 8, 2025
E268 Arya Goggin of Skindred on New Music and Releasing Their Biggest Record 20 Years Into Their Career
This week, we're scratching The Itch for a homecoming! Arya Goggin of Skindred was our second ever interview, back in November 2020. To celebrate 5 years as a podcast, the man who drums on our theme song makes his long overdu...
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...
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May 1, 2025
[Short Cuts] The Music Menu
It's our podcast anniversary and this month we're scratching The Itch to celebrate! The Itch Rock Podcast debuted on May 9th, 2020, originally under the name "Rock Matters". What started as a replacement for our radio show wh...
April 29, 2025
E266 Han Mee and Jim Shaw of Hot Milk on Punk Ethos, American Insanity, and the Death of Genre
This week, we're scratching The Itch for honesty! Han Mee and Jim Shaw of Hot Milk join us for a refreshingly candid conversation about their new album Corporation P.O.P (out June 27th) and the ideas surrounding it, including...
April 22, 2025
E265 Justin Benlolo of BRKN LOVE on Self-Reflection, Trainwreck Shows, and Translating the Studio to the Stage
This week, we're scratching The Itch to get with The Program ! BRKN LOVE just dropped an excellent album by that name, and we talked all about it with frontman Justin Benlolo . We discuss the recording and release rollout dif...
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...
April 15, 2025
E263 Cody Hanson of Hinder on Divorced Dad Rock, Honest Songwriting, Longevity, and the Importance of Timing
This week, we're scratching The Itch for extreme behavior. Cody Hanson of Hinder joins us this week for what turns into a roundtable talk about Bring Me Back to Life , the band's first new album since 2017. He discusses what ...
April 8, 2025
E262 Devour the Day on Border Patrol, Enjoying the Adventure, and Opening for Themselves with Pop Evil
This week, we're scratching The Itch to multitask! Blake Allison and Joey "Chicago" Walser formed Egypt Central in 2002, then Devour the Day in 2012, and most recently have both become members of Pop Evil . Being together in ...
April 1, 2025
E261 Lotta Ruutiainen of LUNA KILLS on Sci-Fi, Discovering Deftones, Panic Attacks, and Lana Del Rey Tattoos
This week, we're scratching The Itch for sci-fi! Lotta Ruutiainen of LUNA KILLS joins us to discuss her band's new album DEATHMATCH , including a song that came together through a writing practice she never wants to try again...
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...