The Front Bottoms - "Camouflage" The Ukulele Sessions Mikey Erg - Hey Julie ( Saving For A Custom Van compilation ) The Milwaukees - No Way Out The Grahams - Kids Like Us Rockstar Racecar - Created A Monster Rick Barry - A Sincere Critique of 45 Odd Robot - Looking For America ( Attention! A Black Lives Matter Comp ) Jules Drucker - What To Say About Things Today Longneck - Campfire ( Talk - Action = Zero Compilation ) Matthew Caws - A Call To Young Lawyers (Talk - Action = Zero) True Love - Swe...
Jul 04, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Bouncing Souls - World On Fire Dirty Knobs - Lockdown Grim Deeds - Crushing Realization Grip Weeds - For Pete's Sake (Stay At Home!) Hammell On Trial - Damn Pandemic Adrian Danon - The Lonesome One Amanda Rose Riley - Better Brian Erickson - An Unfinished Novel The Next Great American Novelist - Kubler The Roadside Graves - I Wasted My Life Lazaris Pit - You Don't Tag Me In Memes Anymore The Cheap Gunslingers - Record Store The Berries - Scifi Racer Marc Platt - Joe Strummer Juniper - Punk Rock ...
Jun 12, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Eddie Skuller - Trust The Rhythm Track 21 Kings - A Fire Spreads Murdock & Jack Blerry - Look At Me Now Cook Thugless - Pink Pilot Crazy & The Brains - Live Fast, Burn Cash Wyldlife - Sacre Bleu The Front Bottoms - Everyone Blooms Tall Juan - I Like to Stay At Home D.A. Stern - I Wanna Be Free Jacob Sunshine - Always On My Mind Jamie Frey (with Lily Gist) - Back Of A Car King Ropes - Take Me To The River Inspector Cluzo - Hey Hey, My My Eddie Skuller - Helpless Bloods - Girls Are Just Fu...
May 16, 2020•1 hr 20 min
Drive By Truckers - Quarantine Together Bar Stool Preachers - When The World Ends GRIM DEEDS - Social Media Distancing The Challenged - Ken Doll Nick Cianci - Surrounded By Poets Jamie Frey - Never Let You Go Logan X - Settle Down Homeless Gospel Choir - Blind Faith Cimafunk - Lean On Me Mikey Erg - Bon Voyage Josie Cotton - Run Pussycat The Brains - Satana Tarantula Tad Overbaugh & The New Arrivals - Bill Stares At The TV Fountains of Wayne (w/ Sharon Von Etten) - Hackensack Val Emmich - Le...
May 02, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 170
John Feuerbach - Isolation Blues Jenny O. - I Don't Want To Live Alone Anymore Sean Barna - God Save The Scene Randy Newman - Stay Away Stephen Clair - Welcome To The World Now Adrian Danon - Ready To Fall The Dollyrots - Teenage Kicks Eliza Neals - Don't Judge The Blues Debra Devi - The Needle & The Damage Done Deal Casino - Just A Cow (from Songs From Quarantine: A Compilation) The Galanos - They Take It All Away The 65's - Never Say Never Tom Barrett - Pink Moon II viktor.digital - Dandel...
Apr 25, 2020•1 hr 20 min
Grim Deeds - Behind The Mask Vista Blue - Emmaline Is Quarantined Crazy & The Brains - I Don't Deliver Pizzas Anymore Ric Gordon - Y'all Stay Home Drunken Prayer - Crazy Alone DADS - Let's Book A Live Jam Tonight Local H - Patrick Batement ex-mothers - The Fall Conway - Juliana, Take Me Home Answering Machine - Riverdale From Punk Rock Raduno Comp. Vol 4: Three Chords No Brains The Avengers - The American In Me The Copyrights - Trustees of Modern Chemistry Dan Vapid & The Cheats - I Don'...
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr 1 min
WYLDLIFE - Automatic Answering Machines - Cherry Coke THICK - WHUB Logan X - Yours Sincerely Dropkick Murphys - Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding The Gungans - Punk Rock PhD The Parasites - No Sleep Tonight The Fur Coats - I Tumble Down A Deep Ravine Iceage - Lockdown Blues Bite Me Bambi - Hot Lava The Dents - Last Man Standing Deep Sea Diver - Stop Pretending Beach Bunny - Ms. California Stop Calling Me Frank - Habadashery Watts - Seventeen Chris Maxwell - Most Of What I Know I Learned From Women Th...
Apr 02, 2020•1 hr 3 min
My guest is Frank Portman, the singer, guitarist, and songwriter of The Mr. T Experience. On the podcast, Dr. Frank (as he's affectionately known to fans) discusses the decades of work that went into the new best-of compilation, MTX Forever. We also talk about Frank's career as an author of Young Adult fiction, the death of the music industry, his songwriting process, and lots more. Songs heard on this episode: I Wrote A Book About Rock N Roll ( MTX Forever ) The History Of The Concept Of The So...
Mar 26, 2020•55 min
JERSEY BEAT PODCAST #165 The Components - Last Caress (digital single) NO ICE - Dweeb (digital single) 21 Kings - Radio Days (digital single) The Holy Smokes - Lips Shut Tight Lowlight - Give It A Minute The Neverends - Party Boi The Front Bottoms - Camouflage (digital single) American Television -Wasteland The Flatmates - Punk Moth GRIM DEEDS - Musicians Are The Worst People In The World The Huntingtons - The Breakup Song The Prom Dates - Substitute Teacher Rockstar Racecar - Bloomfield Unlimit...
Mar 22, 2020•1 hr 12 min
The Skullers - She Denies Herself The Things She Loves Scoville Unit - Back Of My Mind Successful Failures - Everywhere She Goes It's Raining Defecting Grey - Make It Impossible Dinosaur Stampede - The Enabler Mal Blum - Things Still Left To Say She/Her/Hers - Kill The Boy Band Amanda Rose Riley - Millennials Are Getting Gray Frieda's Roses - Need To Be Free Genya Ravan - Don't Go To The Bathroom Sex Hogs II - Forever Leland Sundries - Food Court Blues Shayfer James - New York Doesn't Remind Me ...
Nov 08, 2019•1 hr 9 min
A summertime playlist from Jersey Beat HQ The Dogmatics - Summertime The Dollyrots - Animal Cromm Fallon - East Bay Joy Cleaner - Easter Tuesday Kepi Ghoulie - Four Eyes The Pinheads - Feel It Now Johnathan Pushkar - The Girl Next Door Geoff Palmer - All The Hits The Defending Champions - Flow-Nace Ten Foot Pole - Everything Dies Scary Hours - The Real Disease Positive No - Teenage Waistline The Great American Novel - Perpetual Emotion Machine The Next Great American Novelist - American Queen Ch...
Jul 18, 2019•1 hr 22 min
Jul 03, 2019•36 min
Geoff Palmer - This One's Gonna Be Hot Brad Marino - What Comes Naturally Fat Chance - Quit Bitchin' Tuffy - Everybody's Ex-Girlfriend Pboneboy- Acid Girl Bouncing Souls - Crucial Moments Mean Jeans - Hot Pockets The Murderburgers - Turning 30 Was An Eye Opener Teenage Bottlerocket - Stupid Song Urban Outfielders - The Wizard of Japan The Suck - You're Dead Karen Haglof - Tobiano Twirl R. Stevie Moore - Pop Music Jeff Whalen - Goofing Around Devo Spice - Gravity Is Stupid Johnny Kosmo - Come Dow...
Apr 17, 2019•53 min
John and Toni Baumgartnet, Ed Seifer, Jon Fried, Deena Shoshkes, and Matthew Davis are the Campfire Flies, a group of veteran NJ musicians who came together to make rustic acoustic music drawing from their many strengths. We discuss their formation, their music, and their debut album, Sparks Like Little Stars.
Mar 31, 2019•39 min
Deafening Colors - "Crash Course" Cold Weather Company - "Pocket" Sean Kiely - "Walter (Or The Wheel)" Kate Jacobs - "Every Single Time I Think Of You" Elevator Pitch - "Magnetism" Ezra Caspi - "Say Whatever" Lanier - "Tied (Ever My Eyes' Lover)" Dan Francia - "Planet In Transit" Peter Stampfel & The Atomic Meta-Pagans - "It Might As Well Be Spring" Bob Mould - "Camp Sunshine" The Wag - "We Carry On" William B. Simpson - "Feeling Better" Shayfer James - "Day of Reckoning" Cyclone Static - "C...
Feb 09, 2019•1 hr 4 min
In this episode, I interview Kate Jacobs - singer/songwriter, co-owner of Little City Books in Hoboken, part of the Radio Free Song Club collective, and mom. We discuss all her roles and especially her new album, Second Day Cake, her first release since 2011's Home Game. On the podcast, you'll hear the following tracks by Kate: "St. Mark's Bar, 1984," "Slow Dancing To Aqualung," "Slacker Mom Summer Song" from Second Day Cake "Jesus Has Been Drinking" and "$55 Motel" from Home Game. "The Heart Of...
Jan 27, 2019•37 min
SOME FAVORITE NJ RELEASES FROM 2018: Rockstar Racecar - The Real Housewives of Pyong Yang Character Actor - 72 Paperbacks The LLC - I Don't Give A Butt The Components - Il Bandito 21 Kings - Photographs Sunshine & The Rain - It's All In Your Mind Sailor Boyfriend - Do You Like Sonic Youth? Turnpike Gates - Hiding In Plain Sight Well Wisher - Believe The Porchistas - The Abe Vigoda Polka Elevator Pitch - Eric The Happy Fits - Hungry People The Rock n Roll Hi-Fives - C'est La Vie Forget The Wh...
Jan 06, 2019•1 hr 4 min
Antietam - I'm So Tired, Intimations of Immortality Lemuria - Best Extra, Generational Hate Downtown Boys - I Can't Wait, Cost Of Living Jigsaw Youth, Hawaii's Nice This Time of Year, America's Sweethearts RIPS, Damaged, RIPS Black Wail, Chromium Homes, "Chromium Homes" EP The Mr. T Experience - Cynthia With An "I", King Dork Approximately Potato Rocket, Fucked Up Generation, Grown Ass Adults Grim Deeds, White Power Picnic (single) The Moms, Good Job, Doing Asbestos We Can Teenage Bottlerocket, ...
Jan 05, 2018•1 hr 38 min
Tris McCall - Sybarite Mr. Flannery & His Feelings - Hymn Of The Isolated Artist My Teenage Stride - Living In The Straight World Los Campesinos! - Sad Suppers Sunshine & The Rain - Little Rag Doll Shanda & The Howlers - Keep Telling Me Hiccup - Lady MacBeth & Miss Havisham Jigsaw Youth - But You're Not Dave Grohl GRIM DEEDS - Human Waste Downtown Boys - A Wall Best Ex - Girlfriend Ratboys - Elvis Is In The Freezer Robot Bacheler - Today The World, Tomorrow Your Love The Skullers...
Jul 01, 2017•1 hr 14 min
Our special guest is lo-fi legend R. Stevie Moore, who talks about his new album with Jason Falkner, Make It Be, as well as his long career, his philosophy of music, and his mind-boggling back catalog, which includes hundreds of releases available for download at RStevieMoore.com On this episode, you'll hear... Stamps and I H8 Ppl from Make It Be Chantilly Lace from Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About RSM Vol.1 Academy Fight Song from T he Future Is Worst Than The Past Album Drop and If You...
Apr 13, 2017•58 min
Goodman - "Modern Girl" Adam & The Plants - "Sideman" Cheap Cassettes - "Wreckless" Wyldlife - "Bandita" The Connection - "Other Guys' Girls" Kurt Baker Combo - "Upside Down" Brook Pridemore - "Occupation Blues" Gay Elvis - "What About Now" GhostKing - "Melting Sky" Atom Driver - "Hate Me Now" The Anderson Council - "I Never Feel" Dentist - "You're A Bore" Ambien Blackout -"Elliot Smith On A Gluetrap" Mr. Elevator & Brain Hotel - "When The Morning Greets You With A Smile" Not A Part Of I...
Feb 09, 2017•1 hr 7 min
Wyldlife - Contraband Magic Mountain - Both Suns Max Kagan - Ghosts Freak Baby Daddies - Hot Sauce Dan McLane - Mr. Dirty No Shoes - Lizzie's Sandbox Peter Searcy - Better Lie Mr. Elevator - Are You Hypnotized Tony Low - Do The Mikey Sound & Shape - I'll Still Reach That X Animal Masks - Used By The Universe Atom Driver - Life Tearing In The Challenged - Hypoxia Get The Net - Witch In My Basement The Catholic Girls - Somebody Better Get A Room The Anderson Council - I Never Feel Lilah Larson...
Jan 16, 2017•1 hr 9 min
Prayer For Animals - Riptide Yuletide Yawn Mower - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town The Connection - Merry Christmas Baby (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) The Front Bottoms - ChristmasWrapping Diamond Rugs - Christmas In A Chinese Restaurant John Prine - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Tom Lehrer - I'm Spending Hanukkah In Santa Monica Mac & Tomato - I Don't Wanna See Grandma This Christmas Winston Rauch - Jersey Christmas Anna Vogelzang - Christmas Baby (Please Come Home) The Brofloskis - Dreid...
Dec 16, 2016•1 hr 27 min
On this episode of the Jersey Beat Podcast, editor Jim Testa shares some of his favorite new music from the tail end of 2016. Kevin Devine - No History Lilah Larson - Father Daughter Ghost Manchez - War Is All Over Ex-Mothers - Neon Drones Rick Barry - Humming Bird Song Richard Barone - Learning The Game Peter Stampfel & The Brooklyn & Lower Manhattan Fiddle/Mandolin Swarm - New Johnnie Get Your Gun Pinegrove - Visiting Darren Deicide - Boom Power Boogie The Paranoid Style - Daniel In Th...
Dec 01, 2016•59 min
Our guest on this episode is Rookie Rochelle, bassist of Long Island's The Young Rochelles, who talks about the enduring influence of the Ramones, pop-punk, and the Long Island punk scene. We also play the following tracks from The Young Rochelles: "Not Any Use" "Stay-At-Home Man" "Cannibal Island" "I Need My Mommy To Do My Laundry" "Psycho Therapy" For more information, visit the Young Rochelles on Facebook or at theyoungrochelles.bandcamp.com...
Nov 11, 2016•32 min
Our guest for this episode is Mark Segal of Atom Driver, a New Brunswick supergroup of sorts featuring Mike Polilli (Buzzkill,) Jay Ingstrup (Doc Hopper, Break Evens,) and Mark, who is best known for his tenure in Boss Jim Gettys. Mark talks about his new band and discusses the New Brunswick music scene of the Nineties. We also present three demos from Atom Driver as well as a playlist from the Golden Age of the New Brunswick scene, with tracks from Boss Jim Gettys, Bionic Rhoda, Buzzkill, bobfi...
Oct 25, 2016•1 hr 10 min
The Romantic Comedy - The Thirst Damfino - If You Want Me YJY - Through Being Hip Stuyvesant - Waiting To Be Cool Again Cymbals Eat Guitars - Have A Heart The Mr. T Experience - King Dork Approximately Four Lights - Death To False Posi The '94 Knicks - Don't Worry Beach Slang - Spin The Dial Jacuzzi Boys - Boys Like Blood The Moms - Road Soda Phonoscenes - Don't Think Too Much Kandel - Judy The Hood Cat - East River Jive Light Years - Atlantic City Shilpa Ray - When Doves Cry The Growlers - City...
Oct 08, 2016•1 hr 12 min
On this episode of the podcast, editor Jim Testa chats with Chris Freeman of Pansy Division about the gay punk band's remarkable 25th anniversary, their new album "Quite Contrary," and the band's legacy in the gay community and beyond. Pansy Division will be at Sunnyvale in Brooklyn on Saturday, Sept. 24
Sep 19, 2016•55 min
On the latest JB podcast, we chat with Val Emmich, a veteran NJ musician who's just released Whatever's Chasing You. Val also talks about his career as an actor, including his recurring role on HBO's controversial "Vinyl," and he also tells us a bit about his forthcoming debut novel. This episode features the following Val Emmich tracks: I Want To Hang Out Bedtime Regrets Nobody Makes It On Their Own Absolutely Still What Doesn't Kill You Makes You You Change Of Scenery Privacy Attracts A Crowd...
Sep 14, 2016•56 min
Glueboy - Foot Soldier '94 Knicks - Marky's Dilemma Big Cheese - Crack Yr Whip NO ICE - We Get High Together Bouncing Souls - Up To Us The Hellstroms - I Hate Your Mom Grim Deeds - Audrey Has Autism The Fleshtones - Rick Wakeman's Cape NOFX - Six Years On Dope Masked Intruders - Running From The Cops YJY - Summer Lifeguard The Paranoid Style - The Ambassador's Morning Lift Sophe Lux & The Mystic - Love Is Waiting LADY - Realize Eros & The Eschaton - Center Of The World Val Emmich - Nobod...
Aug 14, 2016•56 min
