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Friends And Girls

by Bear Radio

Friends & Girls asks the important questions like: "Who's the Beyonce of Warped Tour?," "Did Pete Wentz discover the emo hair swoop?," and "Why are there no women in pop punk?" Join hosts Cameron & Jill as they revisit the angsty music of their youth. We cover seminal bands like New Found Glory, Blink-182, Dashboard Confessional, and more. Eat your broken heart out!

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Episodes

  1. Taking Back Sunday, "Tell All Your Friends"

    In the FINALE of F&G’s second season, we’re treating you to the quintessential album about both Friends™ and Girls™, Taking Back Sunday’s 2002 breakthrough release, Tell All Your Friends. From the band’s feud with J*sse Lac*y, to Adam Lazzara’s sometimes cataclysmic mic swinging, to Flava Flav’s...

  2. Tegan and Sara, "So Jealous"

    This week we’re expanding our emo canon to include everyone’s favorite lesbian Canadian twin sisters, the one (two?) and only Tegan and Sara! One the menu: 2004’s heart wrenching classic So Jealous. From explosive ‘80s power pop hooks (those are Tegan’s songs) to introspective heart wrenching…

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  3. Say Anything, "...Is a Real Boy"

    This week we tackle the seminal breakout album by Say Anything, the rock opera that never was, the soundtrack to every mid-‘00s self-deprecating crying jag: ...Is a Real Boy. From their humble beginnings at Jewish summer camp to touring the world with some of emo’s most prestigious acts, Zaddy…

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  4. AFI, “Sing the Sorrow”

    In today’s ep, we cover the seminal 2003 emo/post-hardcore/goth rock/alt album, Sing the Sorrow by Tim Burton wet dream AFI. Jill & Cameron discuss AFI’s departure from their horrorcore roots, the fact that the band spent their junior year in Prague, Davey’s questionable writing projects, and…

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  5. Bright Eyes, "Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground"

    There are many crown princes of emo—Pete Wentz, Gerard Way, the realtor who let Sunny Day Real Estate keep their name—but there is only one man who, as the kids say these days, is on some king shit. That’s right, this week on Friends and Girls we take a long, hard look at Connor Oberst, aka…

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  6. #BlackLivesMatter

    Cameron and Jill discuss some great black pop-punk bands and how the punk community can be more inclusive to POC. Check out these bands! A Place In Time: https://aplaceintime.bandcamp.com/ Meet Me @ The Altar: https://mmata.bandcamp.com/ Fuck U Pay Us: https://www.facebook.com/fupayus/ RadKey:...

  7. Blink-182, "Enema of the State"

    For our second season premiere here at Friend and Girls, we wanted to bring out the big guns. What is an album that has made an indelible imprint on pop punk and Emo since the turn of the century? What band revolutionized the So-Cal sound, so precious to our teenage years? How many scatological...

  8. My Chemical Romance, "The Black Parade"

    WHEN I WAS... A YOUNG BOY... MY FATHER... TOOK ME INTO THE STUDIO... TO RECORD A PODCAST... In the season finale of Friends and Girls, Cameron and Jill discuss what may be the crowning jewel of mid-00s emo, the alpha and the omega, the nucleus around which we all orbit... My Chemical Romance’s…

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  9. Brand New, "Your Favorite Weapon"

    On this week’s very special episode of Friends And Girls, Jill and Cameron discuss an album that has recently gone from being an early-‘00s emo staple to a creepy casualty of the #MeToo movement: Brand New’s 2000 debut LP, Your Favorite Weapon. Yes, Jesse Lacey had been fully cancelled at this...

  10. Braid, "Frame & Canvas"

    Often on F&G, we discuss emo and pop punk as a thing of the past, something we’ve grown out of, a guilty pleasure of sorts. And that may be true when we’re exploring our deep-seated, bittersweet love of Allister’s debut album or Gerard Way’s red eyeliner circa Three Cheers era. However, this week...

  11. New Found Glory, "Sticks and Stones"

    This week, Friends and Girls tackles a major heavy-hitter in early ‘00s pop-punk, NEW FOUND GLORY’s seminal ode to first loves, broken hearts and potentially toxic bromances, 2002’s Sticks and Stones. Yes, they may have been a little too enthusiastic with the cargo shorts, studded belts and...

  12. Paramore, "RIOT!"

    Yaaaaaassss Tangerine Dream! Come thru! In this ep, we cover Paramore's rise to fame (even though they were all children at the time), Hayley Williams as one of the few female pop punk icons, and what the hell happened to that woman from the Misery Business video. Also discussed: Riverdale, the…

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  13. Dashboard Confessional, "The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most"

    Are you still Screaming Infidelities because your life is a Ruined Puzzle? Do you find yourself always thinking, “Again, I go Unnoticed?” Are you a Saint/Sailor? Well, in this Brilliant Dance of an episode we discuss - you guessed it (or did you?) - Dashboard Confessional’s seminal album, you…

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  14. Season 1 Trailer

    Friends And Girls launches November 30th!

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Friends & Girls asks the important questions like: "Who's the Beyonce of Warped Tour?," "Did Pete Wentz discover the emo hair swoop?," and "Why are there no women in pop punk?" Join hosts Cameron & Jill as they revisit the angsty music of their youth. We cover seminal bands like New Found Glory, Blink-182, Dashboard Confessional, and more. Eat your broken heart out!

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Friends & Girls asks the important questions like: "Who's the Beyonce of Warped Tour?," "Did Pete Wentz discover the emo hair swoop?," and "Why are there no women in pop punk?" Join hosts Cameron & Jill as they revisit the angsty music of their youth. We cover seminal bands like New Found Glory,...

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