Episodes
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...
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...