Music-scene memory, told at human scale.
The Peer Pleasure Podcast pairs music-scene memory with plainspoken, personal conversation. Recent episodes move from I Am The Avalanche and Propagandhi to Coheed and Cambria, Coalesce, and producer stories, often landing on the emotional weight behind songs and careers.
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The Peer Pleasure Podcast is a music interview show with its boots planted in lived scene history. It favors conversation over profile-writing. A guest might arrive through a new album, a reunion point, or a long-overdue catch-up, but the episode usually finds its shape through memory. The details matter here. Venue names, van interviews, Rise Records history, old tours, band breakups, and specific records become the route into bigger subjects. That gives the show its warmth. It can be funny and messy, then suddenly grave. Recent episodes with Vinnie Caruana and Sean Ingram spend real time with loss, fathers, and the objects that keep memory close. Other conversations circle around collaboration, touring choices, family life, and the way a crowd can change a show into something living. The musical territory sits around indie rock, punk, hardcore, metalcore, and adjacent scenes. Guests include people from I Am The Avalanche, The Movielife, Propagandhi, Coheed and Cambria, L.S. Dunes, Coalesce, Idle Heirs, Bury Tomorrow, and The Tone Mob Podcast. The show is not built like a tight publicity stop. It is more like a long backstage conversation that remembers the early drives and still cares about the new record. That looseness is part of the appeal. Guests can run long, double back, and bring in whatever memory suddenly feels connected. Dewey Halpas keeps the tone familiar, often meeting guests from inside the same musical world rather than treating them like distant subjects. The result is a show for listeners who want artists to sound like people with history, not just names attached to releases. It is especially strong when nostalgia, loss, and craft all sit in the same conversation. The episodes can include rough tour stories and strong language. They can also be deeply tender. At its best, The Peer Pleasure Podcast makes a song, a band, or a scene feel tied to a whole life around it.
Made for: For fans of punk, hardcore, indie rock, metalcore, and artist interviews that leave room for real life. It especially fits listeners drawn to touring stories, record memories, loss, friendship, and creative survival.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating scene history as personal history. Instead of polished release-cycle chat, it lets old venues, bands, records, and losses become the center of the conversation.
The Peer Pleasure Podcast strives to bring the listener into a conversation that breaks down artists and creatives to their true and basic form. What you are left with is the real human experience. It's the brainchild of Dewey Halpaus (Portugal. The Man/Anatomy of a Ghost/The Burning Room) and features your favorite musicians, comedians, actors, and authors. Dive in.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dewey Halpaus draws out the personal histories that make musicians' records, collaborations, and touring lives easier to understand.
The Peer Pleasure Podcast turns musician interviews into candid conversations about careers, scenes, and the personal history carried into the work.
A stage loogie shares your queue with a father's treasured signature; that's the emotional range.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm, personal look at Mike Ireland's path through bands, scenes, and Brooklyn.
Mike Ireland's move from Virginia Beach to Brooklyn gives the episode a clear spine, with I Am The Avalanche, Pass Away, Spirit Houses, and the Punk Rock Museum all treated as parts of one lived-in musical path.
A candid music conversation where grief, memory, and Stephen Wilson Jr.'s Son of Dad sit close together.
Grief sits at the heart of this return conversation, as Dewey Halbus and Vinny Caruana talk through loss and the ways music can give that feeling somewhere to go.
A lived-in producer conversation where scene memory, stage chaos, and a record's long afterlife meet.
The Peer Pleasure Podcast frames Chris Crummett's work on Anatomy of a Ghost's Evaness for Rise Records as more than a producer credit. The episode tracks how that record kept taking on meaning after its release, tying the session history to the career momentum around the…
A candid, reflective conversation about audience connection, friendship, touring, and the choices that keep music moving.
Travis Stever's return to The Peer Pleasure Podcast is strongest when it sits with the bond between a band and the people in the room. He frames each show as something shared among the audience, security, and performers, shaped in real time by the choices everyone makes.
Sean Ingram ties Idle Heirs' Life is Violence to grief, memory, and the physical traces left by his father.
Sean Ingram's appearance on The Peer Pleasure Podcast centers Idle Heirs' Life is Violence in the hard residue of losing his father: the objects, smells, and unfinished gestures that make grief feel physical.
A candid Sleeping With Sirens conversation where Oregon roots, guitar lessons, depression, and Complete Collapse come into focus.
The episode works best when the conversation around Quinn and Sleeping With Sirens opens into the life surrounding the music. Dewey Halpas steers it through TV work, record writing, guitar, and Quinn's Oregon upbringing before the exchange settles into touring ties, friendship,…
A familiar album becomes the story of one life finding its way back to live music.
Dewey Halpas treats Green Day's Dookie as more than a favorite record: it becomes the marker of a life pushed back toward music. The episode follows him from years of staying home instead of going to shows into the album's role in making him want to play, then through a touring…
Joe Wong interviews drummers and musicians about craft, history, and the working musician's life.
Records, careers and arguments, weighed by people who listen closely.
Dewey Halpas hosts a monologue episode reflecting on attending a Green Day concert where they played Dookie in its entirety.
Dewey Halpas interviews Domenic Palermo of the band Nothing about his music and career.
An interview with Otto Wicks-Green of the Australian post-rock band Sleepmakeswaves.
Dewey Halpas introduces Julian Rosen from the band Common Sage on the Peer Pleasure podcast.
Dewey Halpaus interviews Kellin Quinn, frontman of Sleeping With Sirens, on the Peer Pleasure Podcast.
Dewey Halbus calls The Starting Line’s recent album “no skips,” and Vasoli says the band finally “hit the mark” creatively.
The Peer Pleasure Podcast episode follows Mike Ireland, whose credits include I Am The Avalanche, Pass Away, Spirit Houses, and the Punk Rock Museum.
Vinny Caruana says he wrote parts of The Horror Show in a Sunnyvale hotel and finished God's Travel Plans after watching the Gilgo Beach Killer documentary on the flight home.
The Peer Pleasure Podcast episode pairs Dewey Halpas with Chris Crummett to revisit Anatomy of a Ghost's Evaness and the Rise Records period around it.
Interview with Davyd Winter-Bates, vocalist of Bury Tomorrow, discussing his music career and band.
Dewey Halpas interviews Jord Samolesky of Propagandhi about their new album At Peace.
Travis Stever talks with Dewey Halbus about balancing Coheed and Cambria, L.S.
Sean Ingram says the record started when he told Josh Barber, "We are doing this or we're not doing it."
Dewey Halpas and Blake Wyland discuss the year 2023 in a year-end wrap-up episode.
An interview with Nic Newsham, lead singer of Gatsbys American Dream, discussing his music career and creative process.