07: 'I'm Giving You A Hard Maybe', with guest Joshua Hammond

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2+ y ago 1:33:45

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Joshua Hammond is a blogger turned publicist that's been writing around the Midwest for about a decade. After a while, he switched ends of the email chain and picked up publicity, which moved him from Kansas to The Big Apple. We discuss everything from the start of his career at Popwreckoning to today, as a publicist at Press Here.

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Show Notes:

Getting to know Joshua Hammond
- Popwreckoning (the old wordpress blog)
- Harassed and Coerced by the Ting Tings Tour Manager
- Under The Gun Review
- PropertyOfZack
- PunkOut
- Punk Talks
Music Digs
- MCR Followup: Not touring, rerelease of The Black Parade
- Balance & Composure announce record through Vagrant
- Twitter opens up verification requests
- Kevin Lyman wishes maybe someone would step up and take over Warped?
- Happy 10 year, Put Up Or Shut Up
- Apple bought Carpool Karaoke
Recommendations
- Stranger Things (IMDB)
  - Jake's new Stranger Things podcast with James Shotwell
- “Holy Key” - DJ Khaled feat Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar
- “Tiimmy Turner” - Desiigner
- Six Day Hurricane - Johnny Gallagher
  - The Newsroom (IMDB)
  - American Idiot (Wikipedia)
  - Josh's review
- Air For Free - Relient K
- Gilmore Girls (Trailer released today. I literally can not)
- Sprained Ankle Julien Baker
- Pokemon Go
Joshua Hammond
- Joshua on Twitter.
- Press Here

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