Artist Vs Poet: A Neon Underdog Story

[@mikeziemer]

Artist Vs Poet started in the living room of my apartment. Tarcy was my best friend and I was his manager for his former band Enter The Collector, when they broke up he moved in with me to figure out his next move. When Craig messaged him I was like “dude yes this is perfect; I love Craig.” Lot of crazy stuff leading to the actual launch of the band that’s not on here, but love the tribute to the band and Tarcy. RIP.

[@DerekFlores69420]

RIP Tarcy. Talked to him online several times (along with Jason, who I still talk to on occasion). Great guys. I was bummed out when the second formation dissolved. I know Tarcy had plans to release some music as a solo act. What a great artist and singer.

[@benxgoh]

Wow RIP Tarcy - I had no idea! Couple other points worth mentioning… - The song “Exit the Quitters” off the first EP is about the demise of Enter the Collector, hence the play on words with the song title. - Joe Kirkland had an acoustic side project, The Follow Through, from the 2008 era. The song So High was pretty viral on KZbin. - Dylan Stevens was recruited from another Texas pop punk band, A Bird A Sparrow

[@Sebaastgeen]

Man, I miss the fuck out of this band. I didn’t even find them until AFTER Joe Kirkland took over vocals. But man I loved them. Huge fan of the covers AVP 2.0 dropped, I love Joe’s voice

[@IamBravest]

I'll never forget going to my first Warped Tour at the Toronto Flats and seeing Artist vs Poet and somehow getting Joe Kirkland to let me and some friends come sit outside their bus while he played a couple The Follow Through songs for us. Man, it gave me so much respect for these guys and really got to see at a young age how cool these dudes who seemed like rockstars to me could be and it was one of the main reasons I started my first band and have ever since loved this kind of music. Great video as always dude!

[@cheetoes3961]

Literally just looked up this band to see any background on them and this vid was released 10 min ago haha

[@NecrosVideos]

My heart broke when I found out Tarcy had passed, still loved AVP when Joe took over, kinda sad I found out through FTSK posting it while Joe didn’t seem to even acknowledge what happened..

[@6millionforms]

Worked at chilis shortly with Joe Kirkland. He was a good dude and was great seeing him go get signed and be on the Voice.

[@VictoriaButton]

AVP was such a jam and still is. Runaway, Lisa Marie and even their second album, I loved Alive and Miserably loving you. Those spoke to me so much during high school.

[@kotztotz3530]

The Fearless Friends tour show in Chicago was one of my favorite shows of all time.

[@unbornborg3261]

I was introduced to this band through their cover of Bad Romance on Punk Goes Pop vol. 3, which was one of my favs off that album (love the pop punk spin on the campiness of Lady Gaga). I also heard their song Christmas With You on the Tis the Season to be Fearless holiday compilation. 30:26 Funny that you brought up the John Mayer comparison, since one of the members actually does bring him up as one of their musical influences in an interview with PCM from Warped Tour 2010. Interesting to hear the story of this band explored in detail. Rest in peace, Tarcy.

[@MarryMeSenpai]

I found them through remember this then went back to their older stuff. Didn't know they had an ep before their self titled thanks for linking it. Love all their music to be honest

[@RefRMart10]

I didn’t know about the ftsk info, very cool. I always wondered what happened and why artist vs poet never truly blew up. They had some great songs. Great video man, thanks!

[@Typrevail93]

I love Artist Vs Poet and it’s sad people don’t talk about them more so thank you for this.

[@sarahburnheart]

Haven't thought of them in years and yet the minute I saw the title, I instantly remembered being in middle school, painstakingly cutting out Alt Press' short profile on AVP, and scotch taping it to my bedroom wall so I could prove I loved them before all my other friends. Thanks for the nostalgia hit ❤

[@AllsWellInHell]

MAN I swear we would’ve been MySpace friends, I loved this band - didn’t know the vocalist passed, that’s a bummer :/

[@douglasplease]

The Medicine album was the soundtrack of my 2014-15 life.

[@smokeandmirrors85]

This band freaking ruled!!!

[@soundofhistory_]

Such an underrated band. Loved their Mean cover.

[@weightlessfilms5651]

Appreciate you highlighting a great band from a great era of music. You initially threw me with your take on Favorite Fix. That album was one of my favorites I'd spin from start to finish. I appreciated the diversity in sound. It was right around the time I started college when all these bands just broke my heart. Members of AVP and Forever the Sickest Kids left, All Time Low left or got dropped from their "major" label, and The Maine totally changed their sound. When Joe continued AVP as a more acoustic-oriented project, I didn't believe that sound was the goal. Fearless dropped them and so they had to record independently. It just seemed like it was a practical measure to keep putting out music until another label signed them and they could record in a professional studio again. I still loved the AVP 2.0 and saw it as potential for what they could be. Prior to the demise of these bands, I had the delusion that pop punk was going to be the next major top 40 sound, dethroning hip hop. Sadly that never came to be. And we're all here now in our late 20's and 30's reminiscing on once was. New music never quite hit the same for me again.

[@slvr2732]

Definitely agree with the "trusting Fearless Records" bit. The whole reason I bought so many damn Punk Goes albums was because they came with a Fearless compilation disc. I discovered a ton of smaller bands from those samplers.

[@erutne]

love u cozy, hope at some point you make some more post hardcore content, you had me hooked there for a while, hope all is good!

[@lilaaron6516]

simpler times. loved this band so much. solid ass dudes.

[@thegingerbat]

I used to go to local shows in ft worth all the time in HS and ETC was one of my favs 😭

[@danmillerperez]

I still have my physical copy of the AVP EP and throw that on in the car from time to time. Great EP, super underrated band.

[@vasiliroros8699]

IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR AN ARTIST VS POET VIDEO FUCK

[@lolmee2696]

i love these videos. would love one about my american heart

[@thomasm2774]

rip Tarcy :(

[@mattiesavannahpahl9934]

Yooooo! I got turned onto AvP when i was working at Journeys back in the day! Ended up getting passes to the Journeys Back to School Tour date in Jacksonville, FL. It was AvP, Go Radio, Breathe Carolina, and Mayday Parade. Shit was so lit, but Breathe Carolina had some technical difficulties with their equipment and played such a short set.

[@storytimespectacular]

This was a really great video dude! I’m a big fan and love your coverage of bands I grew up with. But I wanted to highlight that I could tell YOU were even having fun researching for this. It’s a huge plus as a creator 👍 Keep up the awesome job man

[@DerekFlores69420]

Joe and Jason went on to become songwriters under "Whiskey Water." I loved both first and second formations. Then Joe went on to make a new songwriting company. He had a project called The Follow Through pre AVP. God, I miss this band soooo much.

[@ValerieWillemsen]

happy bithday cozy you rock🤟

[@caseyjc5]

I remember first founding out about them from a Spotify suggestion to me a few years ago and I loved what I heard of theirs, but I had no idea they were from DFW like I have been living in (less than a decade, though)! Sad to hear of that vocalist passing that I also didn’t know about.

[@logandeancook]

This was very informative and pretty cool to watch and listen to. But i was also there in highschool when they were getting "big" but they sounded like copies of everyone else and my friends and I weren't into them. Like you said they were more like openers unfortunately. The thought about their last album not taking them off was probably spot on. Not having a solid sounds is unfortunate.

[@jonah5286]

Loved this video, I was a fan of AVP during that firstish EP. They have a similar career to the band The Graduate I feel. Their first EP the Horror Show EP was as cohesive as it gets, and then they just couldn’t really capture it again with their 2 albums. You can’t even stream that EP unfortunately, it is on YT tho thankfully

[@Chelaxim]

This is the first time i ever heard of them. RIP Tarcy.

[@cosmo_junk]

ANOTHER BANGER FROM JULIAN COZYREP

[@johndeeretech10]

It’s cool that you mentioned following a label. When I was in high school, I followed Drive Thru Records and Victory Records. A lot of good music came from both of them

[@BadgerMushroom2]

We need a 2-3 part series of the epic, multi band frontman known as Craig Mabbit! Plenty of bands and history to go through with a character like him!

[@lexidarling]

"Caffeinated" is such a perfect way to describe FTSK, haha.

[@Frankensteinboy]

I wore my cozy rep shirt today lol!

[@GrumiaLake]

I listened to Joe Kirkland's project The Follow Through and that's how I found out about AVP

[@Blue-J4]

As someone who heard medicine while finding music recently and had no idea of the band itself it’s really interesting to hear abt them

[@JessicaSmith0121]

I literally only knew the song runaway. Of course I was obsessed with this song in highschool❤

[@LawsonFilms]

Dude long time no see. Please stick around

[@sentisuba9492]

Wow ftsk, blg,wtk,avp,atl, come on finally someone talks about them

[@dev_with_me]

I used to work at a marketing agency with Craig Calloway and Marc from FTSK. It was a fever dream.

[@rotaficionado666]

Blackbear is credited in the Maroon 5 song too! Another secret scene kid in the pop world

[@senior_sensei_]

Yes!!!

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Interesting vid! Never heard of this band before

[@nevermindgaming6848]

Never heard of this band but rip Tracy

[@aliciav6279]

Im glad you made this video! I never hear much about artist vs poet i had a time where i bumped that record often. Cozy you’re around the same age as me im curious if you grew up listening to nat and alex wolff? The naked brothers band lol. I loved them theyre the first “band” i was a fangirl for when i was a kid. Theyre actually playing some shows this year just nat and alex. ALSO!! If you liked hidden in plain view id loveee to see a video of them some day 😭

[@DboiOSRS]

man hearing that news just now really rubbed me the wrong way :( RIP

[@SquirellArmyofOne]

Assurance closure was one of my favorite songs back in the day ❤ Great video 👍 Will you be finishing the series on The Maine? 🪩

[@shamal17]

i personnally really like the medicine album, that's how i know them actually XD

[@Radboijoey]

I had no idea tarcy passed away. I saw him play many times with his previous band "enter the collecter" and a hand full of times with avp all over the dallas area. Bummer 😢

[@justyouraveragegeek548]

I find it funny both joe & Cassadee both where on the same season of the voice but Cassadee won it would of been interesting if they both acknowledged each otherCause I watched a season for them

[@MountainsBreath]

Please! We need a Shai Hulud doc!!! I will post this on all of your videos until you relent!!

[@_Majunior]

You could probably do a decent sized project on Myspace's impact on music during this era

[@JimmyiPad]

Damn what happened to Tarcy? 😔 RIP

[@HeckEarnstel]

speaking of C tier bands i suggest We are the ocean

[@AllsWellInHell]

PS - imagine an As Tall As Lions video :’)

[@Dannygee71]

I do like the artistvspoet2.0

[@MrCmitche11]

weird seeing one of your vids about dudes I know.

[@elunico13lu]

🤔 video on Cartel?

[@BlueBeetle1939]

Didnt one of these guys go on the voice?

[@DboiOSRS]

@the cozy represnetative so you're not going to do you, me and everyone we know?

[@hotstankygarbage788]

If you released cideos that are in depth on these kinds of bands on a regular basis i bet you could make this your full time job. Theres definitely an audience for this type of thing

[@_nukeohio]

Seriously, still no Breathe Carolina video? Come on man.

[@yosoybenjamon]

Please make a video about the band issues. 😬

[@ThePartyyChat]

Remember when this channel was starting to blow up and get views ? This dude started covering shit no one cares about and lost the hype smh 🤦‍♂️

[@nevermindgaming6848]

Bro it's not that serious watch something else he covers stuff he likes don't like it go watch something else bro