Sat Oct 18 2025

Rawr XD

hosted by Jack Galardi

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Rawr xD is a nostalgic dive into the MySpace era, exploring music that reflects the angsty teenage culture of scene kids and Y2K, and music that couldn’t have existed without the influence of early 2000s internet trends. Listeners can expect dramatic lyrics, unnecessarily d1gitiz3d sounds, themes of heartbreak, and generally to feel as though they were transported to a suburban high school in 2007 as the scene kid virus spreads throughout the country. Focusing primarily on metalcore/scene-adjacent music between the years 1998 and 2012, occasionally venturing outward to other styles within that time period, I aim to exemplify how the internet explosion influenced music during that era by this time machine-style radio show honing in on the br0ken he4rt3d, lost, yet juvenile, boisterous, and charming scene community fostered by 2000s teens escaping the real world by logging on to the internet.

Be Like Panda Tacos and Tequila - Ted Williams, Demo - EP (Mob Records) 2024

Traits - silk, A Fenestrated Fantasy (Mob Records) 2024

xO - OLTH, fire dOve / xO - Single (Fill Thy Cup) 2024

This Summer's Sorrow - Wristmeetrazor, I Talk To God... - EP (Wristmeetrazor LLC) 2017

This Fragile Life - Montclair, This Fragile Life - Single (Ephyra) 2024

In Verity - Montclair, Two Song Promo - Single (Ephyra) 2023

Kiss Me, Kiss Me - The Civil War in France, Where'd Everyone Go ? - EP (Frogshack Records) 2022

Hey Could You Be a Little Nicer? - The Civil War in France, mssdta / The Civil War in France - EP (mis sueños son de tu adiós & The Civil War in France) 2021

Never Will Come for Us - Braid, Frame & Canvas (Polyvinyl Records) 1998

10.

Watch Out Vegas; I'm a Show Stopper - Her Words Kill, Load My Revolver, Baby (Independent) 2005

11.

Without Your Touch - Nehemiah, Nehemiah (Ephemerol Night Terrors) 2002

12.

Four Letter Lie - Fordirelifesake, Breathing In Is Only Half the Function (Forge Again Records) 2003

13.

My Unbroken Reflection - This Day Forward, The Transient Effects of Light on Water (Eulogy Recordings / War Machine Records) 2000

14.

Lie To Me - Love Letter, You Look Good In Red (Love Letter) 2025

15.

Carry on - Kiowa, 2-Songs - Single (Home To Heart) 2024

16.

Weather to Believe - I Promised The World, Fear of the Fall (Ephyra) 2024

17.

Of Adornment and Disgust - Skycamefalling, To Forever Embrace the Sun (Ten Twenty One Music) 1998

18.

Dead In Magazines - Hopesfall, The Satellite Years (Shock Records) 2002

19.

My Mirror No Longer Reflects - Poison the Well, The Opposite of December... A Season of Separation (Shock Records) 1999

20.

Rings from Corona - Poison the Well, Tear from the Red (Shock Records) 2002

21.

I Do My Crosswords In Pen - On Broken Wings, Some of Us May Never See the World (Eulogy Recordings) 2003

22.

Under the Weight of a Blackened Sky - Balmora, With Thorns of Glass and Petals of Grief - EP (4Ephyra) 2023

23.

The Boy from Judecca - A Long Winter, I'm So Bad With Goodbyes... (Tribunal Records, Inc) 2002

24.

Metanoia - Death of James Dean, All or Nothing (Home to Heart Records) 2024

25.

Slán Agat - Death of James Dean, All or Nothing (Home to Heart Records) 2024

26.

City On the Edge of Forever - A Skylit Drive, Wires And The Concept Of Breathing (Tragic Hero Records) 2008

27.

Bite to Break Skin - Senses Fail, Let It Enfold You (Vagrant Records) 2004

28.

A Boy Brushed Red Living In Black and White - Underoath, They're Only Chasing Safety (Solid State Records (SST)) 2004

29.

This Song Goes Out to - Greeley Estates, Caveat Emptor - EP (Record Collection Music) 2005

30.

Knife Vs. Face: Round II - Drop Dead, Gorgeous, Be Mine, Valentine - EP (Rise Records) 1998