As The Story Grows

Chapter 145: "Off Track Betting And Other Parlor Games" ...as read by Shawn Matthews Was Combat Chuck the very first viral sensation? Ok, maybe not. But pre social media and YouTube, Shawn was able to create a fictional persona that reached over a million people. Pretty impressive. Shawn shares the Combat Chuck origin story, tells tales from the Banana Man photo shoot, touring with Ghoti Hook and Stavesacre, and briefly talks about his amazing band Poole. Plus, Shawn is making a documentary about the new breed of craft music makers. Shawn's Instagram Page - https://www.instagram.com/creativeforhire/ Shawn on Twitter - https://twitter.com/shawncmatthews Swagbot Creative - http://www.swagbotcreative.com/ Mozark Sound - http://www.mozarksound.com Here's a Washington Post review of Poole's third full-length - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/02/12/poole-among-whom-we-shine-spinart/d8e4c0e2-62bb-4d67-bbd3-21dede7678db/?utm_term=.85ea417e94fa Combat Chuck at Cornerstone 95 - https://youtu.be/TedZjelilWA Chapter 145 Music: Five Iron Frenzy - "Combat Chuck" Stavesacre - "Shiv" Poole - "Mary Shakes Her Hair" Ghoti Hook - "Shrinky Dinks Ghoti Hook - "Banana Man" Five Iron Frenzy - "That's How The Story Ends" The Lost Chorus - "Oh, Great Divide" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 144: "We Struck A Nerve" ...as read by Devin Chaulk Devin grew up in Canada before his family relocated to the states. His parents conversion to Christianity led him to metal and playing drums. Devin deeps dives into signing with Tooth and Nail/Solid State, having to replace Jimmy Ryan, and why he left Haste the Day. Huge thanks to Devin for emailing the show and the kind words he had for the previous episodes Travis had hosted. Chapter 144 Music: Haste the Day - "Mad Man" Haste the Day - "Blue 42" Haste the Day - "When Everything Falls" Haste the Day - "Pressure the Hinges" Haste the Day - "Stitches" Haste the Day - "68" Haste the Day - "Accept" Haste the Day - "Gnaw" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 143: "Learning To Swim By Being Thrown Into The Pool" ...as read by Jack O'Shea Jack's very first, "real" studio experience was with J Robbins. Not a bad way to start! Bayside completed their contract with Victory Records without any drama, came through the other side of a horrific van crash, and is still making today! Jack also released his first solo ep in February because Ethan Luck told him to (more or less). Huge shoutout to Jamie Arthurs for getting me in touch with Jack (and Nathan Gray). Jack's solo ep - https://jackoshea.bandcamp.com/releases Bayside - https://baysidemusic.bandcamp.com/ Chapter 143 Music: Bayside - "I've Been Dead All Day" Bayside - "Masterpiece" Bayside - "WInter" Bayside - "Not Fair" Jack O'Shea - "If I Didn't Have You Around" Fugazi - "Margin Walker" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 142: "Happy People Don't Make Other People Miserable" ...as read by Nathan Gray Nathan put out a solo record in January called Feral Hymns. It's a record about healing. Nathan has moved passed anger and abuse and is using music to tell a story as therapy. Nathan discusses the many bands that eventually led him to front BoySetsFire and why it took him so long to release a solo record, and playing in a cave. Feral Hymns: https://endhitsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/feral-hymns Nathan Gray on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nathangraymusic/ Chapter 142 Music: BoySetsFire - "Savage Blood" BoySetsFire - "After the Eulogy" Nathan Gray - "Echoes" Nathan Gray - "Damascus" BoySetsFire - "Fall From Grace" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 141: "I Can't Ever Say That That's It" ...as read by Adam Morgan Hopesfall returned this year with a stellar new record called Arbiter. Adam Morgan joined me to talk about a once in a lifetime studio opportunity for his high school band, why he left before A Types, and his recent obsession with vinyl (seriously, check out his instagram page!). Adam also hints about the future of Hopesfall. Sometimes you feel like you made an instant friend and that's what it was like talking to Adam. Hopesfall: https://www.facebook.com/HopesfallOfficial Adam's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/purgeb4ubinge Chapter 141 Music: Hopesfall - "Faint Object Camera" One Amazing Kid - "Summer Time Song" Hopesfall - "The Broken Heart Of A Traitor" Hopesfall - "The End Of An Era" Hopesfall - "Waitress" Hopesfall - "The Ones" The Get Up Kids - "Action and Action" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 140: "It's Going To Sound Like Me" ...as read by Josiah Bibb Some musicians are so gifted that they can pick up an instrument to fill a need and become proficient rather quickly. Josiah is one of those musicians. From picking up bass to help at church, to playing guitar in a band because bass and drums were already taken, Josiah has channeled those experiences into Sollunar. Josiah and I talk about what makes someone in the early twenties start collecting cd's and what defines post rock anyway. Sollunar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sollunarmusic/ Sollunar Bandcamp: https://sollunar.bandcamp.com/ Sollunar's I & II on CD: https://sbrecords.storenvy.com/products/19667260-sollunar-i-ii-cd Chapter 140 Music: Sollunar - "Empath" Showbread - "Oh! Emetophobia!" Toska - "Finn" Toska - "Proposition" Sollunar - "Permafractions" Sollunar - "Cardinal" Sollunar - "Formation (B) Endeavor" Sollunar - "Formation (C) Repose" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 139: "From A Young Age" ...as read by Justin Mank Justin's parents took him to see artists like Eric Clapton and U2 starting at the age of 10. As a teenager he started booking touring acts to come play St Louis. Not Waving But Drowning spent so much time on the road that they didn't get to write the record that would've been released by Solid State. None the less, the band has new material in the works, as well as a side project, and a solo effort from Justin! Not Waving But Drowning on Bandcamp: https://nwbdstl.bandcamp.com/releases Flow Clinic on Bandcamp: https://flowclinic.bandcamp.com/releases Two Hands|One Engine on Bandcamp: https://2h1e.bandcamp.com/releases Chapter 139 Music: Not Waving But Drowning - "Everything vs Nothing Not Waving But Drowning: "Somewhere Away" Not Waving But Drowning: "Feeding The Half-Wits" Not Waving But Drowning: "Bright Eyed and Bushy Tailed" Two Hands|One Engine: "Rainbow Room" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 138: "Might As Well Just Try It" ...as read by Lauren Rearick Lauren Rearick has written CNN Opinion, Teen Vogue, The Fader, USA Today, Reader’s Digest, Travel + Leisure, Huffington Post, Bandcamp Daily and many others. She was the editor at Views & Voices, a magazine for women in Western Pennsylvania. In 2016, she received a Professional Keystone Press Award. But music is her passion so in 2013 Lauren launched The Grey Estate as a way to combat the marginalization of female and non-binary voices in the music journalism industry. Lauren discusses discovering independent music from The OC, throwing a SXSW "party", and taking a fresh approach to covering music. The Grey Estates: http://www.thegreyestates.com/ The Grey Estates on Bandcamp: https://thegreyestatesblog.bandcamp.com/ Chapter 138 Music: Ahem - "Sweet Tooth" Kelly Clarkson - "Since U Been Gone" Phantom Planet - "California Oso Oso - "Reindeer Games" Vomitface - "Mad Sugar" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 137: "The Future Is Not What It Used To Be"... as ready by Bryan Patton What's up everyone! It's the dawn of a new era here at As The Story Grows and I know that comes with some uncertainty about what the podcast will look like going forward. This podcast gives you the history of how I got involved in the podcast and what my goal is going forward. Short and sweet! Bryan on Urban Achiever: http://www.urbanachievershow.com/bryan-patton Echo Broke Alone (Bryan's music project): https://echobrokealone1.bandcamp.com/ Chapter 137 Music: Hopesfall - "Waitress" Slingshot Dakota - "Paycheck" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 136: "Hand it down and walk away" ...as read by Trav Hey gang. It is with both pleasure and sorrow that I am being interviewed on my own show. My very good friend Jeremy Hunt asked if he could flip the script and interview me. His timing couldn't have been more perfect. This will be my last podcast for ATSG and I'm going to be passing this torch over to Bryan Patton. I may pop in now and again (like when you go back and visit your friends at your old job) but moving forward the show is in the very able hands of Bryan. It's time. Thank you Jeremy for this interview. Thank you Bryan for the countless hours of help over the past two years. Thank you Stephen for helping me get this off the ground. Thank you to each patron who was generous enough to flip me a few bucks over the years. THANK YOU to every guest who's ever been on and every person who's ever listened. I love you. Take care. Bye bye. Trav's homepage: http://www.mynameistrav.com Jeremy's famed "QOHELETH" art-noise project: https://qohelethnoise.bandcamp.com Chapter 136 Music: Skid Row: "Youth Gone Wild" Aletheian (Crutch): "Wounds Of The Tongue" Solamors: "Calling Down The Sky" The Houselights: "Boxcutter" Half Bomber: "Trapped Inside" The Satire: "Noize 2 Men" (not Trav on the drums) Unteachers: "Fear Of Silence" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 135: "Snarkasm as an art" ....as read by Andrew Colosimo of Kinzua (Sheep And The Shears) Who? I love doing this show because sometimes I get to organically get to know someone who happens to be a fantastic musician. Score. Today we hear all about Andrew Colosimo, eastern Pennsylvania's diamond in the rough. Andrew used to front Sheep And The Shears which just at the height of momentum...didn't. Andrew moved along with life but quietly floated below the radar while building his new project called Kinzua. I can't say enough but I'll say that if I played the "Best Of The Year list game" I think this would make my cut. So proud of my fellow snarkastic friend, Andrew. Bandcamp: https://kinzua.bandcamp.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kinzuaband/ Sheep And The Shears "Grande Dame" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoE5SRHedvw Chapter 135 Music: Kinzua: "Marshes" Sheep And The Shears: "The Grande Dame" Kinzua: "Matterhorn" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected] This chapter was edited by the quixotic Bryan Patton. Thanks Bryan! https://twitter.com/bryanpatton84

Chapter 134: There's More Braid Where That Came From Yes, more Braid! We recorded just about 6 hours of conversation for the Frame and Canvas 20th Anniversary episode. And there was so much good stuff that we decided to give you a b-side episode. There are Braid tour stories, some insights into recording, and even a love story. More Braid isn't a bad thing! Chapter 134 Music Braid - "The Right Time" The Lassie Foundation - "I Can Be Her Man" Braid - "Jimmy Goes Swimmer" Braid - "Bang" Braid - "Do Over" Fugazi - "Waiting Room" Hey Mercedes - "Go On Drone" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 133: "1998 Looked Great" ...as read by Bob Nanna, Chris Broach, Todd Bell, Damon Atkinson, Chris Bickert, Matt Lunsford and J Robbins (whew!) If you know this show then you probably know that Bryan and I are Braid fans. (That's Bob singing the theme song at the end.) Well back on April 7th, 1998 Braid had an album released on Polyvinyl Records called "Frame And Canvas". This is an important album to me and quite a few people, seeing on how this makes the top indie/emo albums of all time list again and again. I was able to assemble all four members of Braid, their roadie Bicks, Matt Lunsford (head of Polyvinyl) and J Robbins of Jawbox (produced and mixed) all together under one podcast roof to discuss this album. I hope you enjoy this. And again, this would not have been glued together without the wizardry of Bryan Patton. Thanks to everyone involved. If you like this, hang in there. There were lots of leftovers from this huge seven-course meal. https://www.facebook.com/braidcentral/ Chapter 133 Music: Every song from Frame And Canvas. Duh. As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected] This chapter was edited by the ever-proficient Bryan Patton. Thanks Bryan! https://twitter.com/bryanpatton84

Chapter 132: "You Can Never Break The Train" ...as read by David Raymond of Hidden Hospitals Happy Easter! Say what you will about Chicago; the trains run on time. Dave Raymond returns to the show to discuss the new Hidden Hospitals album out on May 18th. We have engineered an inside look at the lyrics on another track by track adventure (c'mon with the train puns), we discuss the artwork and we solve the rest of all the world's problems. Check this album out on Spartan Records, and thanks to HH and Spartan for letting me leak some audio out for everyone: http://www.hiddenhospitals.com Chapter 132 Music: Clips from the entire album "Liars" "Liars" "Razor Blades" "Liars" "Smile And Wave" "Better Off" "Acid Rain" "Pulling Teeth" "Typecast" "Memories" "Taking Sides" "The Weeds" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected] Photo: Jerry Shirts

Chapter 131: "THAT'S A CRAZY STORY" ... as read by Neil Samoy Neil became a Christian at a Bible study in high school that set his musical career in motion. Neil became friends with members of Focused, Unashamed, Bloodshed and Havalina Rail Co. He was signed to Alarma Records before graduating high school, had a record deal with Stairwell and was in the right place at the right time to join Stavesacre at the height of their career. Neil's life is one crazy encounter after another and he was generous enough to take the time and share them with me. Chapter 131 Music: Stavesacre: "Night Town" Stairwell: "Don't Let It End" Stavesacre: "Island" Stavesacre: "Blind Hope" Stavesacre: "Rivers Underneath" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 130: "The Feasts Unlocked" ...as written by Allan Aguirre (Spy Glass Blue, Scaterd Few) If you know me at all you may have already heard that I'm kind of a Scaterd Few fan. Allan Aguirre has written a book based on Leviticus 23 and it's my privilege to help him get it out there. Allan discusses what the book is about, the challenges of writing and why he even decided to write in the first place. It's not a music-centric chapter, but when you get an opportunity to help somebody out that you've been listening to since you were thirteen...you do it. http://planetbluemedia.com This was my first Facebook live event with the podcast. You can watch Allan and I have this conversation at the Chameleon Church FB page: https://www.facebook.com/ChameleonChurch/?hc_ref=ARS8eXKCvltnw-kAo54egF5oN6FjeGHV1qHEhMp_vdEQBFK8RjbRW-ji64sAPuoNPSU&pnref=story Chapter 130 Music: Scaterd Few: "Shark Attack" Spy Glass Blue: "One & Only" Scaterd Few: "Wonder Why" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 129: "Apparently what happens in Mexico doesn't necessarily stay in Mexico" ...as read by Jimmy P Brown II of Deliverance Jimmy P Brown II brings it around again to discuss how Deliverance got the inspiration to record another album from a semi-sweet experience in Mexico. JPB2 explains the new album "The Subversive Kind" in track by track detail. We also discuss pancakes and how important they are in the recording process. The Black Hand lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqxBqHt-jg4 http://www.roxxproductions.com/bands/deliverance/ Chapter 129 Music: excerpts from Deliverance "The Subversive Kind" "Bring 'Em Down" Concept Of The Other Center Of It All The Black Hand Epilogue Listen Closely The Subversive Kind The Fold As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]

Chapter 128: "Lo, and I am really busy" ...as read by Josh Thieler of Slaves BC The long-awaited return of the handsomest man in music...Josh Thieler of Slaves BC. Josh tells us about the new upcoming Slaves BC album "Lo, and I am Burning" on March 16th . (Preorders are going up on March 2nd, I'll link ya below). Josh started a label called Fear And The Void Records and a PR company called CVRSED BREVTH (I can't figure out how to flip my "v" over but you get it.) Josh goes into how he got around not having label and PR support; he made some. Ultimate DIY finishing move. He mentions a lot of bands he is involved with but he sent me a clip for the band Deathcrawl on his label. This guy has a lot going on; just start clicking links. Always been a friend of the show, and quite frankly he is someone who is twelve years younger than me whom I respect and look to for inspiration. (Ok lemme explain the bathroom thing...no. Actually I won't; you draw your own conclusion.) One of Josh's IG: https://www.instagram.com/cvrsedbreath/ Label Site: https://www.fearandthevoid.com Band FB: https://www.facebook.com/SlavesBC/ Chapter 128 Music: (SBC songs are from the upcoming album!) Slaves BC: "Lo, and I Am Burning" Deathcrawl: "Perpetually Damned" Slaves BC: "We Are All God's Fault" As The Story Grows links: Help out at Patreon ATSG Website ATSG Music and Merch Join the Email List ATSG Facebook Email: [email protected]