E107 - Conducting Camp Home Again - Max and Barber spent the afternoon grilling and swimming and then sat down to try to record a podcast. Fortunately, their guest was Matt Butler , all-around mensch and the man behind The Everyone Orchestra . This past June, Matt had the unusual honor of conducting an all-improv set by The Disco Biscuits at Camp Home Again. The jams that set produced marked a turning point in the band's summer tour and unlocked sounds and textures that can be heard across many ...
Aug 14, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 107
E106 - Think Tank Dubs All Day - Barber and Max welcome Touchdowns All Day Advisory Committee member Scott McClintock, aka DJ Think Tank Dubs , to the pod. Scott has been a friend of the band's since the late 90s, and has been spinning his unique blend of Biscuits jams, dub, hip, and electronic music for almost as long. The guys preview Scott's 100th Basement Session, which will take place on July 26, 2025, and recap a pair of highlights from the last week of The Disco Biscuits' summer tour. Thi...
Jul 22, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 106
E105 - Blue Monday - Barber and Max recap week five of The Disco Biscuits' Summer 2025 tour, which saw the band visit venues in Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and Jersey City. This episode features excerpts of the following live performances: IMan , from July 2, 2025 at XL Live, Harrisburg, PA Quad D , from July 3, 2025 at The Ave Live, Philadelphia, PA Risky Business , from July 5, 2025 at The Music Box at the Borgata Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, NJ Strobelights and Martinis and T...
Jul 14, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 105
E104 - Playing the Melody - Barber and Max recap week four of The Disco Biscuits' Summer 2025 tour. The band turned a corner on the midwestern leg, resulting in momentous performances in Columbus, Pittsburgh, and Westport. Barber breaks down the simple yet impactful strategy that he, Marc, Aron, and Allen employed to produce some of the most exciting jams of the year. This episode features excerpts of the following live performances: Postcard and Cyclone , from June 26, 2025 at The Bluestone, Co...
Jul 14, 2025•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 104
E102 - Tractorbeam Shuts Down Bonnaroo - Barber and Max recap week two of The Disco Biscuits' Summer 2025 tour, including the band's performance as Tractorbeam at Bonnaroo! This episode features excerpts of the following live performances: Hide and Seek > Bombs x Lockdown and Ring the Doorbell Twice , from June 12, 2025 at Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN Little Shimmy in a Conga Line > Confrontation , from June 10, 2025 at Lincoln Theater, Raleigh, NC Scars of the Brave , from June...
Jul 03, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 102
E101 - Summer Tour Week 1 - The Disco Biscuits are back on the road! In this episode Barber, Coach Joey, and Max recap week one of the band's Summer 2025 tour, which included stops in Atlanta, Charlotte, and Asheville. This episode features excerpts of the following live performances: 42 , from June 4, 2025 at Terminal West, Atlanta, GA Scars of the Brave , from June 5, 2025 at Neighborhood Theater, Charlotte, NC The Deal > Munchkin Invasion , from June 6, 2025 at French Broad River Brewery, ...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 101
E100 - The Wheel of Forgotten Songs - It's Touchdowns All Day's 100th episode, and to celebrate this milestone we're doing something special. Max has selected ten obscure Barber compositions from across the years and loaded them onto The Wheel of Forgotten Songs. Barber spins the wheel and offers his impressions of these songs along with the stories of how they were written and why they were abandoned. Might there be a Fever or Sweatbox in our future? Only time will tell, but at least we tried! ...
Jun 16, 2025•56 min•Ep. 100
E099 - ABA (Ask Barber Anything) - You have questions. Barber has answers. In this "Ask Barber Anything" episode, Barber once and for all shares his account of the legendary guitar contest that inspired Trey Anastasio to dub him "Jon the Jetsetter." Plus, Max and Barber revisit this day in Biscuits History. This episode features excerpts of the following live performances: Morph Dusseldorf, from May 26, 2003 at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA My Lady Survives (first time played), from December ...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 99
E098 - Clownslaying - Barber and Max catch up about everything that's been going on during the band's time off the road and look ahead to their 30th Anniversary Tour. First up, Max runs down some of the high-profile shoutouts The Disco Biscuits have received in recent weeks. Then, we preview Camp Home Again's upcoming Tractorbeam workshop by rolling back a few choice cuts from past incarnations of The Disco Biscuits' most enduring side project. Plus, Barber shares how he recently ended up on sta...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 98
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E097 - The Guru, Part 2 (I Remember When) - Benjy Eisen is a New York Times best-selling author , music journalist , artist manager , promoter , and podcaster . He's also one of the original jamband influencers, and for more than three decades he has catalyzed and mythologized our scene. Benjy's relationship with The Disco Biscuits stretches back to 1997, when he became one of the band's original fans, advocates, confidants, and collaborators. Pa...
May 23, 2025•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 97
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E096 - The Guru (I Remember When) - Benjy Eisen is a New York Times best-selling author , music journalist , artist manager , promoter , and podcaster . He's also one of the original jamband influencers, and for more than three decades he has catalyzed and mythologized our scene. Benjy's relationship with The Disco Biscuits stretches back to 1997, when he became one of the band's original fans, advocates, confidants, and collaborators. In this, t...
May 12, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 96
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E095 - Basis for a Day (Song Spotlight Series) - In TDAD094 we brought you the story of Kevin Abrams, the filmmaker, novelist, and bassist for a day who, along with his college best friend, composed The Disco Biscuits' signature song in 1995. In this episode we're joined by Andy Bazany, author of The Biscuits Internet Project's definitive history of Basis for a Day , for an in-depth discussion of that song's thirty-year history. Basis for a Day i...
May 05, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 95
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON. E094 - A Bassist for a Day, A Friend for Life - Kevin Abrams is a filmmaker and author whose first novel, Mt. Forgotten , hits bookstores this May. He's also one of Barber's oldest and closest friends. In this episode, Kevin and Barber reminisce on more than thirty years of friendship and collaboration. Astute Biscuits fans will recognize Kevin's name from the songwriting credits for Basis for a Day. In addition to co-writing The Disco Biscuits'...
Apr 25, 2025•2 hr•Ep. 94
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON. E093 - Riding With You - Step inside the studio with The Disco Biscuits in this special behind-the-scenes audio documentary about the making of Under Ur Spell. On January 2, 2024, Barber, Magner, and Joey convened in Barber's basement to begin work on what would become the band's first new song of 2025. This episode traces the story of Under Ur Spell through interviews, unreleased demos, live performances, and documentary-style footage recorded ...
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 93
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON. E092 - Hot, Confident, Cocky, and Exploratory - Aron Magner returns to the pod to recap the concluding east coast leg of the 2025 Bubble Tour. Max and Aron listen back to a selection of the most exciting jams from the final shows of the run and discuss how the band's confidence is translating into more risk taking and exploration on stage and off. Aron also shares an update (and a few quick snippets) from the band's recent studio sessions, and l...
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 92
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E091 - "Slayerville's Greatest Hits (with PLAN C Archivist Jon Goldberg)" Few venues hold as fond a place in the hearts of The Disco Biscuits community as The Starland Ballroom. Between 2004 and 2012 the band played 18 shows in "Slayerville," many of which fans regard as amongst the band's finest performances ever. In celebration of the The Disco Biscuits' upcoming return to The Starland, Touchdowns All Day is proud to present "The Jernee Mill Ro...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 91
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E090 - "Jake Szufnarowski and The History of The Starland" Few venues hold as fond a place in the hearts of The Disco Biscuits community as The Starland Ballroom. Between 2004 and 2012 the band played 18 shows in "Slayerville," many of which fans regard as amongst the band's finest performances ever. In celebration of the The Disco Biscuits' upcoming return to The Starland, Touchdowns All Day is proud to present "The Jernee Mill Road Back to Sayr...
Mar 12, 2025•39 min•Ep. 90
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E089 - "Dan Berkowitz and the Hunka Bunka Bus" Few venues hold as fond a place in the hearts of The Disco Biscuits community as The Starland Ballroom. Between 2004 and 2012 the band played 18 shows in "Slayerville," many of which fans regard as amongst the band's finest performances ever. In celebration of the The Disco Biscuits' upcoming return to The Starland, Touchdowns All Day is proud to present "The Jernee Mill Road Back to Sayreville," a t...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 89
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E088 - "Baba in a Bubble'" Barber is fresh off the road and ready to recap the west coast leg of the 2025 Bubble Tour. Barber and Max shout out the venues, the songs, the jams, and the fans who made this tour such a special one, and roll back one of its most exciting jams. This episode features excerpts of the following Disco Biscuits' performances, many of which can be streamed on Nugs.net : Also Sprach Zarathustra , from February 7, 2025 at Bou...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 88
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E087 - "Remixing 'Shocked!'" Phil Tamney, aka Crosson , is a musician, producer, and long-time fan of The Disco Biscuits. After a chance meeting with Barber, Phil set out to create a house remix of the lead song from The Biscuits' 2024 album "Revolution in Motion." The resulting track was debuted on stage in Arizona on February 2, 2025 , and was subsequently performed by Tractorbeam during their recent show at The Boulder Theater in Boulder, CO ....
Feb 14, 2025•40 min•Ep. 87
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E086 - "We Just Came Cause We’re Chicks!" & The Ladies is an online forum for the women of the Disco Biscuits scene. In this episode, Max welcomes & The Ladies' founder, Laura Heifetz Brooks , and two of its moderators, Chelsea Waxenberg and Nya Seaton , for a conversation about the group and its mission. While membership in & The Ladies is limited to women, this episode is for everyone who loves The Disco Biscuits. It touches on gend...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 86
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E085 - Marc Brownstein 2024 Year in Review. The New Years Run is upon us, which can only mean one thing: Marc Brownstein is back on the pod to review the results of the 2024 Year in Review Fan Poll. Marc joins Max to reveal the Song, Show, and Jam of the Year, as selected by you, the Disco Biscuits community. Special thanks to Andy Bazany and Mike Walsh for all of their help in putting this year's poll together. 424-666-SIYD insta: @touchdownsall...
Dec 29, 2024•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 85
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E084 - The PLAN C Touchdowns All Day Hanukkah Special (Part 2). Happy holidays from all of your friends at Touchdowns All Day. In the spirit of the season, PLAN C archivist Jon Goldberg has selected a playlist of Disco Biscuits rarities, some of which have never been heard before, which we present as our year-end gift to the Biscuits community. We've divided the playlist into eight segments spanning two episodes of the podcast. In this second ins...
Dec 24, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 84
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E083 - The PLAN C Touchdowns All Day Hanukkah Special (Part 1). Happy holidays from all of your friends at Touchdowns All Day. In the spirit of the season, PLAN C archivist Jon Goldberg has selected a playlist of Disco Biscuits rarities, some of which have never been heard before, which we present as our year-end gift to the Biscuits community. We've divided the playlist into eight segments spanning two episodes of the podcast. In this first part...
Dec 20, 2024•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 83
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E082 - FT2K24 Part 2. Barber and Max review the final weeks of the band's fall tour and listen back to two of November's most exciting jams. Jon also shares some recordings of his (mostly) acoustic duo shows with Aron at The Iridium in NYC, including the live debut of their newest song, "Postcard." Voting is now open in our 2024 Year in Review Poll , with categories for Show, Jam, and Song of the Year! Check out our Jam of the Year playlist , and...
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 82
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E081 - Thanksgiving Acoustic Special. We in the Disco Biscuits community have much to look forward to this holiday season, including Barber's and Magner's upcoming (mostly) acoustic shows at The Iridium in New York City. To get you in the right mindset for the duo's two-night stand, this episode looks back at some of The Biscuits' most memorable acoustic performances from across the decades. Along the way, Max shares a few thoughts about what he'...
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 81
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E080 - Bernstein and Chasnoff (Song Spotlight Series) - For years you've heard the songs...Now hear the stories of the people who inspired them. Andy Bernstein is a jamband Zelig and the inspiration for one of the Disco Biscuits' most beloved classics, "Bernstein and Chasnoff." A friend and collaborator of Marc Brownstein's since their Brooklyn days, Andy has enjoyed a front-row seat for the Biscuits' entire career. But Andy has never been just a...
Nov 22, 2024•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 80
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E079 - FT2K24 - Fall Tour 2024 is underway, and once again the Biscuits are on fire. Barber joins Max on a rare day off to reflect back on the tour's first nine shows, including their Halloween movie set, the Hurricane Helene Benefit in Atlanta, and the two-night stand at Brooklyn Steel. Plus, Barber previews the band's upcoming studio recording session, and gives a few hints about which songs are slated to receive the full Rolling Stones treatme...
Nov 15, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 79
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E078 - IDGAFFTDAD - Have you checked out @idgaffoods yet? If not, stop whatever you're doing and head over to Instagram or TikTok and behold the viral account that's been lighting up the internet for the last few months. Barber and Max welcome Mike, the account's creator, to the podcast to discuss his path to sobriety, his unique style of spoken-word performance art, and the inspiration he's drawn from the music of The Disco Biscuits. Plus, Max s...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 78
TOUCHDOWNS ALL DAY w/ JON BARBER & MAX DAWSON E077 - Tractorbeam x Montana - The Disco Biscuits' Tractorbeam side project took yet another step into uncharted territory during the band's recent three-night stand at the Pine Creek Lodge in Livingston, MT. Biscuits' keyboardist Aron Magner returns to the pod to discuss the genesis of the remixes and mashups that he produced specifically for this special performance. Aron shares a number of the demoes of the songs performed at PCL, as well as a...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 77
