Emo Kids Anonymous
Emo Kids Anonymous is a podcast about emo and emo-adjacent music. With multiple new episodes every week, Emo Kids Anonymous is your home for everything emo. Previous guests include Saturdays At Your Place, Kerosene Heights, Winona Fighter, Origami Angel, Greywind, sports., Riley!, and so many others.
Emo Kids Anonymous is...
Amanda Valdivieso
As the resident Fall Out Boy aficionado, Amanda is one of the co-creators and co-hosts of the NAPNET podcast, Emo Kids Anonymous (EKA). She’s a proud emo mom raising two future emos that wants to share her passion, love, and knowledge of all things emo/pop punk with others. When she’s not hosting a podcast, she’s going to every show she can, posting her Patrick Stump cosplay, and keeping up with the latest in entertainment news. Also, ask her about her love of Lord of the Rings… She may just end up quoting the movies to you.
Robb Laffoon
Robb Laffoon (he/him) is an entertainer and the co-host and co-creator of the Emo Kids Anonymous podcast. Born in Maui and raised primarily in sunny Southern California and northern Alberta Canada, Robb found his way to alternative culture via blink-182 and later punk-o-rama compilations. After a decade as an unsuccessful musician, he eventually found his way to his true calling of lip syncing to pop punk and emo songs and rambling about bands both up and coming and classic. Currently based just outside of Los Angeles, Robb is now a grown man with two kids who still listens to emo music. Just don’t call him an “elder emo”.
CZB
CZB—aka Catherine/Cath/Cat (but never Cathy)—is the resident y’allternative of NAPNET, serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief & Content Officer. She is also behind-the-scenes showrunner and Executive Producer of the Emo Kids Anonymous podcast. Though her emo roots run deep, her diverse music taste and love of shows has taken her on many cross-country journeys: from cruising with Lamb of God in the Caribbean, to enjoying organic corndogs with outlaw country legends at Farm Aid, to lamenting lack of decent arch support with fellow elder emos in Las Vegas at When We Were Young (emphasis on the Were). In between travels, you’ll find her holding down the fort in Charm City at local shows and sharing medium cringe content, ft. occasional cameos from her husky, Pepper. For inquiries: CZB.NAPNET@gmail.com
Episodes
144.5. Paper! At The Disco: Emo Origins, IG Success, Making A Real Band & Backpack Politics | Emo Kids Anonymous
Welcome to EKA144.5! On todays minisode we are joined by the youngest guests in Emo Kids Anonymous history, Paper! At The Disco. If you use instagram, there's a strong chance these kids have popped up on your feed and we had to know more about how this started, where it's going, and what we can e...
143. Tom Denney: ADTR, Overcoming Addiction, Writing With Vic Fuentes, Sounds Like Color & More | Emo Kids Anonymous
Welcome to EKA 143! Today we are joined by Tom Denney, former guitarist and co-founder of A Day To Remember slash co-writer, composer and producer of some of your favorite bands of the 2010s. Tom is an open book, we talk about the early days of ADTR up to leaving the band, his work behind the sce...
142. Future Teens: Meeting on Tinder, Making "Still Life" and Emo Adjacency | Emo Kids Anonymous | EKA143
Welcome to EKA142! Today we are joined by the Boston band Future Teens! Their new album Still Life comes out this Friday May 8th and Amy and Daniel joined us to discuss it in depth. This record is an absolute classic, a tonal masterpiece if i do say so myself. We spend time nerding out over speci...
141. Latchkey Kids: Philly & NJ Emo, Fall Out Boy, and the Making of Year of Summers | Emo Kids Anonymous
Welcome to EKA 141! Today we are joined by our friends Hanny, Cyle and Joey aka latchkey kids, a New Jersey band based in Philly. Join us as we explore the journey of the band Latchkey Kids, their influences, the creative process, and the making of their latest album 'Year of Summers'. We talk ab...
140. MakeWar: Jose Prieto Talks Punk vs Emo, The Lawrence Arms, Survivor, Fat Wreck Chords, Friends & Fest | Emo Kids Anonymous
Welcome to EKA140! Today we are joined by Jose Prieto, aka MakeWar! I first heard Jose's music about a decade ago so when our friend Gary Cioni texted me to suggest bringing Jose on, I was immediately excited. Jose has a helluva story and we cover as much of it as we can in this hour long convers...