Voice & Verse Podcast

Through his work in Further Seems Forever and Dashboard Confessional, Chris Carrabba has been one of the most successful and idolized scene-based songwriters of the past 15 years. His work in Dashboard has earned him three gold records, the lead single to the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack and even a stint at Madison Square Garden — […]

Photo credit: Catherine Powell If you’re headed to Warped Tour this summer, odds are you’ll hear The Summer Set’s name thrown around quite a bit. Since forming in 2007, the Scottsdale band has risen to become one of the more popular acts in the pop-rock genre, even earning some much-desired crossover success by performing at […]

As drummer and half of the songwriting team behind The Swellers, Jonathan Diener’s punk proficiency has helped the Flint, Michigan quartet grow a cult following and tour with everyone from Paramore to Anti-Flag. Since 2002, the band has released four full-length albums and two EPs; their most recent release, 2013’s The Light Under Closed Doors […]

In June 2004, New Jersey rock band Midtown released Forget What You Know, their third and what would go on to be their final album. The quartet cut their teeth on Drive-Thru Records in the early 2000s, releasing albums that launched them onto tours with the likes of Blink-182, but it wasn’t until years after the […]

Taking Back Sunday is truly a band that needs little introduction. The Long Island quintet changed the emo and contemporary punk games forever back in 2002 with the release of Tell All Your Friends, and they went on to enjoy mainstream success thanks to hits like “MakeDamnSure.” Of course, none of this was without turmoil; […]

I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Will Pugh since 2004, back before his band Cartel struck pop-punk gold with Chroma, their debut full-length. From there, the group went on to star in Band In A Bubble, a high-profile MTV reality show and live web series that thrust them even further into the mainstream fray. These […]

Welcome to Episode 007, featuring the ever-so-talented William Beckett. You might know Mr. Beckett from his time spent fronting Chicago-based band The Academy Is… from 2003 to 2011, but these days, he’s a hard-touring solo artist. His debut full-length album, Genuine & Counterfeit, was released last year on Equal Vision Records. I caught up with […]

Mike Herrera from MxPx stops by on this week’s show to chat about the early days of MxPx, how songs like “Chick Magnet” and “Well Adjusted” came to be, and why being compared to Jimmy Eat World actually turned out to be a bad thing. Stay tuned to the end of the show, because we’ll […]

On Episode 005, I sat down with Nick Santino, formerly of A Rocket to the Moon and currently of Nick Santino and the Northern Wind. During the conversation, which was recorded back in November while Nick was opening the Up Close & Personal Tour alongside This Century, we talked about his feeling toward co-writing culture […]

On Episode 004 of the show, I sat down with the members of Never Shout Never to talk shop. We chatted about Bandhappy (a songwriting lecture Christofer Drew gave on last summer’s Warped Tour), the push-and-pull of major label politics, and even heard Chris play the very first song he ever wrote. Chris also gave […]

On Episode 003 of the Voice & Verse Podcast, my guest is Brendon Urie from Panic! at the Disco. Panic!’s new album, Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!, hit stores last November and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, matching their best chart position ever. You can pick it up on […]

Welcome to Episode 002! This week, my guest is Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams and The Terrible Twos. Matt’s also an accomplished solo musician; you can pick up his new solo album, Wrist Slitter, here. Additionally, he’s a member of the service Downwrite, which connects fans and songwriters to create […]

Hello, and welcome to the very first episode of the Voice & Verse Podcast. This week, I’m pleased to welcome my buddy Joel Madden to the show. Joel is best known as the singer of (and half of the songwriting duo behind) multi-platinum rock band Good Charlotte. These days, he’s staying busy as a songwriter and […]