Jersey Beat Podcast

On this episode of the Jersey Beat podcast...   Mikey Erg - Heartbreak No. 53 Venomous Pinks - We Do It Better Up For Nothing - Escape Route Human Adult Band - Peace To You Sister, The Young Rochelles - Interstellar Communication The Bleeding Hearts - Gone Permanent Mistakes - 35 Burnout The Happy Fits - Changes Spygenius - I Dig Your New Robes, Pierre Brad Marino - Sad & Lonely Nights The Royal Podencos - Maybe The Legendary Swagger - She Drive-By Truckers - Welcome To Club XIII James Calleo - Pickles Jason Didner - This Man's Eyes Shane Cooley - Stellay Ray Abbie Gardner - Honky Tonk Song GRIM DEEDS - Unreliable Narrator Semantics - Get In The Car SACK - I Hate Brian Wilson Screeching Weasel - Any Minute NMow    

On this episode of the Jersey Beat Podcast... The Happy Fits - Dance Alone DEHD - Stars Future Girls - Defeat Repeat Near Beer - Yelling At A Dog Grave Danger - Specter Inspector GRIM DEEDS - Unreliable Narrator Brad Marino - Another Sad & Lonely Night The Clams - Crazy Boys Ben Vaughn - New Jersey Rock N Roll Deena Shoskes & Chasing Colours - Everybody Knows The Way The Wind Blows Roy Orbitron - E. Broadway Joy Cleaner - Easter Tuesday Super User Friendly - Clouds Part For The Sun Steve's Theme Park - Rockin' Senorita Short Fuses - How Much More? The Handcuffs - Big Fat Mouth Shut Doc Rotten - 15 Years The Rieslinger - Palatime Handcuffs Family Computer - Some Nerve Permanent Mistakes - 35 Burnout

The Ergs! - "Ultimate Falsetto Book" Delay - Friends Band J Prozac - Won't Let Go Dentist - Spilled Coffee Weekend Recovery - No Guts, No Glory Vic Ruggiero & Kepi Ghoulie - "It Wasn't Me" Shonda & The Howlers - "Used To Call Me Baby" Stop Calling Me Frank - "Hard Lovin' Man" Miss Georgia Peach - "You Blow My Mind" Ricky Rochelle - "Yeti In The Snow" Mickey Leigh's Mutated Music - "Standing In The Dark" My Son The Doctor - "King Of The Zoomers" GRIM DEEDS - "Strung Me Along" Bitch - "You're The Man" Hans Condor - "All Messed Up On Death Metal & Stuff" The Challenged - "Remain (safe keeping)" Aeon Station - "Better Love" David Heatley - "Life Our Own Way" Doug Hoekstra - "Seaside Town" Gerry Rosenthal - "In Common" The Craig Torso Show - "Conflagration Vespers" The Porchistas - "Keep Your Distance" Jeffrey Lewis - "I Wanna Be Vaccinated"

Our guest for this episode is Al Crisafulli, whose Dromedary Records has supported local music in and around New Jersey for almost thirty years. Al's big news is that his radio show Signal To Noise has moved from its longtime home to WXIORadio.com, where it came be heard every other Tuesday night from 8 to 10 p.m. Al and I chatted about the radio show, the label, Spotify and indie bands, and even a little politics, so enjoy the broadcast. On this episode you'll hear: "Mad-G" - Footstone "Broken Glass" - Speed The Plough "Easter Tuesday" - Joy Cleaner "Over The Far & Hills Away" - Cathedral Ceilings

My guest for this episode is Dan Schafer, aka Dan Vapid of Screeching Weasel, the Queers, the Riverdales, the Methadones, Noise On Numbers, and most recently, Dan Vapid & The Cheats.  Their 2021 album "Escape Velocity" was one of my favorite punk albums of the year, so in this interview we talk about how and when it was recorded, Dan's approach to songwriting, and we chat about listening to music and life during the pandemic. This episode of the podcast features four songs from Escape Velocity: Middle America The Talk Runaway Jane Midnight Blue You can find Dan Vapid & The Cheats on Facebook, Instagram, and all major streaming platforms.

It's our annual Christmas podcast, with over an hour of indie, alternative, and punk holiday music. Enjoy whatever holiday you celebrate at this time of year, and thank you for listening. LCars - Wet Bandit's Lament Aquadolls - Christmas Wrapping Chutzpah - Chanukah's The Bomb Peachcake - What Happens When Santa's Sleigh Gets Lost Peppermint Kicks - It's A Peppermint Christmas The Weeklings - A Very Merry Christmas The Yule Logs - Northpole 457899 Vista Blue - Santa Don't Pass Me By Bright N Early - All I Want For Christmas Is You Eye Spy - A Christmas Night Canon Logic - Kiss Me On Christmas The Connection - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) Gypsy Moths - Maybe This Christmas Modesty Blaise - I'll Be Home For Christmas Yawn Mower - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Two Inch Winky - All I Want For Christmas Is Beer Winston Rauch - Jersey Christmas Slow Club - Christmas Baby (Please Come Home) Shane Cooley - Holidaze Piney Gir - Snow, Snow, Beautiful Snow Prayer For Animals - Riptide Yuletide The Sleepy Rebels - California Christmas Neil Nathan - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Stop Calling Me Frank - Some Kind of Christmas The Mynabirds - All I Want For Christmas Is Truth Jim Testa - (It's Another) Covid Christmas  

The Front Bottoms - Voodoo Magic The Great American Novel - This Will Not Be Our Year Rockstar Racecar - Created A Monster Precious Bones - All She Wants The Happy Fits - Another Try Dummy - Daffodils Emperor of Ice Cream - Weather Vane Dangereens - Streets Of Doom The Kowalskis - I Love You Parker Longbough - Fake Sinatra Namesake - I'm Sick Hippo Campus - Bad Dream Baby The dt's - You With Me Acid Tongue - All Out Of Time Future Crib - Most Likely Never Going To Die Hand Drawn Maps - Catch A Wave Sweet Nobody - Other Humans Pale Lips - Candy mazie - I Think I Wanna Be Left Alone Mr. Goblin - Left Before Your Set

Jack Skuller - Only Getting Older The Great American Novel - Grabbin' A Slice The Clydes - Modern Girl The Anderson Council - Girl Don't Tell Me Gregory McLoughlin - Liftoff Tom Barrett - Some Grow Wings Vista Blue - Back To The Summer Olympics Lauren Banjo - Hang In There The Cheats - Rock N Roll Loveletter Geoff Palmer - Tomorrow Lysa Mychols & Super 8 - Don't Worry Baby Thought Leaders - Jane Doe's Estate Weekend Recovery - Yeah! Los Chicos - The Prize Bite Me Bambi - Our Lips Are Sealed The Demographic - Descent Woody & Jeremy - My Old Bassist Richard Barone & Johnathan Pushkar - I Get Around Colin Moulding - The Hardest Battle Future Crib - Most Likely Never Going To Die John LInnell - Haec Quoque Est Res Jerry Lehane & Dicky Barrett - Drinking Life

Rockstar Racecar - Rock N Roll In America Capitalist Kids - Real Americans The Credentials - I Killed 22 Iraquis And All I Got Was This Lousy Engineering Degree The Mr. T Experience - God Bless America Peter Stampfel & The Bottlecaps - Drink American The Stigmatics - American Dream The Steve Adamyk Band - I Fought For The USA Rick Barry - Stupid American Song Cathedral Ceilings - Hamilton Circuits The '94 Knicks - People You Know And People You May Not Know Jack Skuller - Anyhow LCARS - A Song For The Cicadas Of Brood X, 2021 (To You, In 17 Years) Emergencies - Hurt Somebody sonofdov - Reviver aBIRD - Nothing Like Us Disaster Party - Beige Turns Black Turnpike Gates - City In Heat Izzy True - New Fruit Raincrowd - Can't We All Just Get Along Nihilocerous - Iamananimal Acid Tongue - Rock N Roll Revelations

The Cucumbers - Do It Yourself Dentist - Let Me Let Go Last Minet - Don't Hold Back Lastwaves - Stroke of Luck Lost In Society - Say Anything NO ICE - Frequency Bathroom Of The Future - Watching Bill & Ted Outside Geoff Palmer - Many More Drugs Clowns - Does It Matter? French Girls - Summertime Beatnik Termites - Pet Shop Girl American Television - American Jesus Chelsea Curve - All In Time Danny Laj & The Works - You & Me Hard Nips - Alternative Dreamland Irmans - I Wanna See You Middle-Aged Queers - Size Queen Talk Show Host - Warmest Condolences Tim Foljahn - I Can't Decide Virginity - Nosferattitude (The Vampire Song) The Peppermint Sticks - Hey Fanzine!

Editor Jim Testa interviews Ira Robbins on his new book Music In A Word, a combination anthology and memoir about his life and career as a music journalist.

Mike Chick - "Pine Lake Park" Keith Kenny - "Move Along" Little Hag - "Walk Of Shame" Darrin Bradbury - "Deanna, Deanna" Ruby Bones - "Tired Eyes" Oliver Ignatius - "Debris" Devon Kay & The Solutions - "Liver" Brad Marino - "Even The Score" Hayley & The Crushers - "Kiss Me So I Can" Hadda Be - Apathy The Planes - Decoder Ring Proper Nouns - Situation Done Direct Hit! - Hollow Comfort Hey Baby! - Walking Home Prima Donna - He's A Rebel IV - "WTW" Hit Like A Girl - "Boardwalk" Andy Bilinski - "Do What You Want" The Shang Hi Los - "Stay"    

Anthony Walker - Stealin' Andy Bilinski - Do What You Want Annie Blackman - Why We Met Luke Faust - Don't Seem Right Laura Veira - The Panther GRIM DEEDS - Born To Be Odd Authority Zero - Ollie Ollie Oxen Free The Bitty - Kurt Kobain Chadd Derkins - Save The Whales Kelly Sullivan - When The Waves Are Low Rocky Rochelle - I Don't Wanna Fall In Love Mikey Erg - Amy Left Me For An Emo Guy Too Much Joy - That's The Way The World Goes Round Eleventh Dream Day - Yves Klein's Blues Blanketman - National Trust Rebreather - Orange Crush Smallpox - Driver 8 NO ICE - All Night Songs For Snakes - Her Descent Talk Show Host - Blood In The Sand Big Rips - Planet Of Dipshits Supermutt - Show Them Fangs  

Anthony Walker - Wolves Can Wait Jon Klages - God Bless The Columbia House Record Club Lake Street Drive - Being A Woman Ruby Bones - Don't Lose Your Head Whiner - Fear The Challenged - Sleep On It The Blips - Walking Home Pale Lips - You're A Doll The Neighborhood Brats - Who Took The Rain? Classic Pat - Change Machine Half Past Two - Mean Green The Living Pins - Downtown El No - Move In Twos Hot Breath - What You're Looking For The Nuclears - Siamese Connection Triptides - Let It Go Dana Why - Raspberries    

Dan McLane - Sad All Over State Drugs - Rain King The Challenged - Exposed J Robbins - Automaticity Lo Talker - No Champagne Space Cadet - Bad Luck Fatrace - Fun Fun Fun The Right Here - Here We Go Again Horsegirl - Sea Life Sandwich Boy Brian Damage - Psycho Horny Future Selves - The Hell With It Proper Nouns - Known Unknowns Carpool Tunnel - Better Now The Cantenary Wires - Mirror Ball Clever Girls - Remember Pluto Ugli - House Pet Hanalei - Screen Echoes Too Much Joy - Uncle Watson Wants To Think Steve Almaas - Goodbye Nicolina The Rayo Bros. - Love Undead Stephen Clair - When This Is All Over Solstice Rey -Mountains The Fleshtones - Alex Trebek

Mikey Erg - Hey Marissa Jennifer Blowdryer - Stole My Camera Devon Kay & The Solutions - Frustrated People Of The World, Unite Tiger's Jaw - New Detroit Arrows To Fire - I'm Supersonic The Authorities - Just An Excuse The Cheap Cassettes - See Her In Action The Clydes - The Fate of California Har Mar Superstar - Where We Began The Living Pins - Raven Zebedee - Marlon Brando The Camel City Blackouts - Angels Commons2 - Hands Bachelor - Anything At All Palehound - How Long? The Reds, Pinks & Purples - The Record Player & The Damage Done Speed The Plough - Soul To Keep The Vaughns - Bushwick The Martha's Vineyard Ferries - After You Mod Fun - I Am With You, Action Tyme, The Bulrushes (Bongos cover,) Titanic  

Jaake Margo - Rudy's Got The Roni LCars - Town Without Streets J Prozac - Number One State Drugs - Beautiful & Broke To The Helpless - Afraid Of Yourself NRCSSST - Sinking Trojan Warfare - Outlaw Wizard Brain - 4 AM EST Tri-State - Chapeaux stillhungry - Best Costume Wins Big Fang - Mondays Chiba Neko - Built For Speed Cold Expectations - Two Blueberries Art d'Ecco - Head Rush Amiture - Touch Distant Voices - Lights Of The City Aubrey Haddard - Portugese Red Brett Altman - Holding On To Now Reilly & Co. - Dirty F'ing Laundry She's A Guy - I Don't Know Kowalski's - First Date The Heartdrops - Lesson Learned  

Mikey Erg - Rumblestrip Brad Marino - What Do You Know? Haley & The Crushers - Jacaranda Dentist - Don't Let Me Catch You Indonesian Junk - One More Try FSHG - Love Is All That You Need Adrian Danon - Romance Is Dead Blue Vervain - North Carolina Smallpox - #10 (Under Acme) Terry McCarthy - Most Sorry Speed The Plough - Broken Glass Val Emmich - Massive Headache Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans - Don't Let Me Catch You Jordan Krimston - Betty Leafing - Little Ball Linnea's Garden - Non-Dramatic Breakup Song Modesty Blaise - Girls Just Wanna Dance NRCSSST - Sinkin Peter Stampfel - Rave On

Amy Rigby - Four years of u Blue Vervain - North Carolina Karen Haglof - Devastation Completed Jon Caspi - She Is Fine Val Emmich - Blue State Jason Didner - Salt & Sand Beeman & Bannon - Simple Twist of Fate George Wirth - Jackson Girl Mickey PG & The Overshare - Cardboard Box Worm Quartet - Pacman Is 40 & So Are You Cheekface - Emotional Rent Control Deathray Davies - Oh Stars The Gungans - She's Always Looking At Her Phone Twin Flame - 7:50 Reconciler - Push To Break

Amanda Rose Riley - Better Luck Next Year Stuyvesant - Explorer Sal Cannestra - A Little Dumb, A Little Cruel Airport Dreaming - Seminar Prof Of The Year Oliver Ignatius - To Hell With Good Intentions Ritual Tension - I Can't Find The Party Chrissy Roberts & Ralph Capasso - Stand By Me The Great American Novel - Barstool Blues Eddie Skuller - Rock On Goodman - Shallow (Completely Shallow) Shang Hi Los - Skipping Records Slow Buildings - Fruit Chaser - 2020 Belaver - Here It Comes The Dirty Nil - One More And The Bill George Wirth - Get Up Joe Jason Paul & The Know It Alls - We Took The Risk GRIM DEEDS - Unresolved Childhood Traumas Marc Platt - Everything Dies Stephen Chopek - Unspoken Heroes Mick Chick - Sleepwalking Darren Deicide - The Year The Music Dies

Amanda Rose Riley - Can You Still Remember December? Devon Kay & The Solutions - A Little Bit Modern Hut - I Don't Want To Get Adjusted To This World The Red Shift - Revolution Or Bust! Concrete City - Lulu Louise The Gentlemen Rogues - Do The Resurrection! Drunken Prayer - It's Christmastime Crush Limbo - All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth The Conte Brothers - Father Christmas The Pom Poms - Christmas Postcard (Wish You Were Here) Kevin Devine - Splitting Up Christmas Anthony D'Amato - Merry Christmas, I Guess American Culture - For My Animals Amy Rigby - Dancing With Joey Ramone Barracuda McMurder - The Thorns Of Life The Catholic Girls - Night Shift (The NJ Song) Chris Collins - Imagine The False Positives - Closed Circuit TV Romance Cormac Russell - Lotus Train Goodman - Hey, Santa Hummer - Whiskey Eyes Smash Fashion - I Got The HeebeeGeebees at CBGBs Lookit! Martians - Drunkistan Jittery Jeff Gammill - Good News (I'm Over You)

JERSEY BEAT PODCAST #182 The Ergs - Linus Lucy The Dollyrots - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Fascinations Grand Chorus - Merry Merry Christmas Thee Volatiles - Oy Hanukkah! Jonathan Pushkar - Little St. Nick Dentist - Mele Kalimaka Diamond Rugs - Christmas In A Chinese Restaurant Cait & The Marrow - All I Want For Christmas Is You The Electric Six - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch The Front Bottoms - Christmas Wrapping The Brofloskis - Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel Jagger Holly - It's Christmas Somewhere Jody Quine - Got My Eye On Santa Sarah Noelle - Christmas Time Is Here Ryan Hamilton - To Heck With Ole Santa Claus Tom Leher - I'm Spending Hanukkah In Santa Monica The Worm Quartet - A Worm Quartet Christmas Show With Goats - Rudolph Ralphie's Red Ryders - I Don't Want Your Tinker Toys Soraia - Santa Claus Stop Calling Me Frank - Santa, Buy Me A Beer Teen Idle - Another Christmas Song Mac & Tomato - I Don't Wanna See Grandma For Xmas Chutzpah - Hanukkah's The Bomb Fairmont - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Jim Testa & Foggy Otis - The Festivus Song

Editor Jim Testa first chats with Gary Van Miert of  Jersey City's Sensational Country Blues Wonders about his new album, The World Will Break Your Heart. Then Jim chats with Chip Heuisler, the owner of Tunes Records in Hoboken, which is celebrating it's 25th anniversary. Chip talks about surviving the changing climate of the music industry as well as weathering the pandemic. And we have some songs for you... Second Fiddle To A Steel Guitar I'm Afraid of Every Goddamn Thing My Baby Stabbed Me With A Steak Knife by  The Sensational Country Blues Wonders Record Shop, by Weston Natives Of The Land, by Tommy Strazza No Smoking, by Rick Barry Bonfire Of The Manatees by Cathedral Ceilings Too Many Groceries by Jeffrey Lewis  

Jersey Beat Podcast #180 Jeffrey Lewis - What A Party We're Gonna Have Deena - Dance The Night Away The False Positives - Closed Circuit TV Romance Grim Deeds - Ignorance Is Bliss Kurt Baker - I Like Her A Lot French Girls - No Morals Laura Jinn - I'm Driving To Target Mal Blum - Nobody Wants Ruthless Cosmopolitans - Make America Hate Again RebUke - Hindsight 2020 Rick Barry - A Sincere Critique of 45 Bad Religion - What Are We Standing For? Gregory McLoughlin - Boss Tweed Oliver Ignatius (with Flower Face) - No Way Home Anna McLellan - Desperate Arrica Rose - Once In A Lullaby Readymade Blakeup - My Universe Kurt Vile (with John Prine) - How Lucky Karyn Kuhl - I Feel Love    

On this episode of the Jersey Beat Podcast, Editor Jim Testa chats with Larry Livermore, co-founder and former co-owner of Lookout Records, author, and frontman of The Potatomen. Don Giovanni Records has just released Toytown: Outtakes And Rarities, a collection of demos and other effluvia from the band that Livermore formed with his business partner and good friend Patrick Hayes and, a barely teenaged lad who called himself Tres Cool (whatever happened to him?) Larry talks about both the Potatomen and the book he's currently working on, as well as some other remembrances and observations. This episode includes the following songs: The Mr. T Experience - "God Bless Lawrence Livermore" The Potatomen - "Empty Inside" The Potatomen - "Debra Jean" The Potatomen - "The Day I Said Goodbye" The Potatomen - "The Drunken Staircase" The Potatomen - "Toytown" The Potatomen catalog including Toytown: Outtakes & Rarities is available from DonGiovanniRecords.com

JERSEY BEAT PODCAST #178   Jaded Azurites - "Break Up" The Jersey Beat Podcast Theme Song (by Jack Skuller) Bob Mould - "American Crisis" Dawn Oberg - "Mitch McConnell" The Dirty Knobs - "Lockdown Part II" Goodman - "Brave New World" Rachel Lark - "The World's Really Fucked" Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby - "Vote The Fucker Out" Ezra Caspi - "Mice In The Sound Hole" Daniel Romano - "A Rat Without A Tale" Blue Vervain - "American" Emily Li - "Autopilot" Chaser - "Found Myself Again" Angora Debs - "B Side" The Gypsy Moths" - "We Can't Go Home" Jay Allen & The Arch Criminals - "Grow Some Stones" Teenage Halloween - "Sweat" Speed The Plough - "Rush Hour" Tiphanie Doucet - "You And I" Sky Furrows - "The Mind Runs A Race & Falls Down"    

Fairmont - "High Water Mark" Jay Della Valle - "The Van Song" Well Wisher - "Halfway Heart" MOD FUN - "Day After Day" The Pine Barons - "Sputter" Nick Rifken - "Disco Girl" Lunch Box - "Gary Of The Academy" The Lemon Drop Gang - "Georgie" The Cocktails - "Nobody's Going To The Movies" Kurt Baker - "Over You" dan bryk - "bigger than you" Blacks Beach Boys - "HGTV In HD" Bad Wires - "You Call This Lupus?" Jamie Frey - "Rebel Girl" The Mortars - "Hoboken" GRIM DEEDS - "Joe Don't Listen To Judas Priest" Joy Cleaner - "Nervous Purr" Lesser Creatures - "Stephanie Jean" The Campbell Apartment - "Seaside Hts, NJ"  

The Bouncing Souls - Ghosts On The Boardwalk The Milwaukees - Burn And Shame Bloody Your Hands - Checked Out The Happy Fits - Hold Me Down Amy Rigby - Here It Is Saturday Geoff Palmer & Lucy Ellis - In Spite Of Ourselves Eels - Baby Let's Make It Real Harvey Gold - Song For Joanne Peter Stampfel & The Bottlecaps - Random Violence Richard Barone - Streets of New York Rick Barry - No Smoking Jeff DeVito - Sycamore Muck & The Mires - Zoom Breakup Lost In Society - Police On My Back Juan Solo 7 - My Place Teenage Halloween - Holes Stuyvesant - This Is The End Amy Rigby & Wreckless Eric - Vote That Fucker Out  

Sons Of Butcher - Quaranteen Logan X - Yours Sincerely The Lawrence Arms - Ghostwriter Stuyvesant - Miles On The Shoes Short-Haired Domestic - A Song In Spanish... The Yum Yums - Can I Come Over? Jackie June - Chasing Nightmares HelloImDylan - Keep You Around Andre Salvadore & the Von Kings - I Love You (Don't Laugh) Harvey Gold - In Consideration of Joe Strummer The Asbury Park Love Contingent - Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) The Glorybots - Suicide Hotline Save Face - Pour (Redux) Billy Walton Band - Cortez The Killer Commons2 - Candles R Burning Bozen! - Short Story Long Dawn Oberg - Mitch McConnell  

The Happy Fits - Go Dumb The Successful Failures - More Of The Same Peter Stampfel & The Bottlecaps - Random Violence The Special Pillow - I Woke Up Rich Girls - Born To Run Supermutt - Ain't So Kind Peter Stampfel & The Bottlecaps - Springtime In Alaska Ramblin' Deano & Jon Langford - Quarantine Rock Petey & The True Mongrel Hearts - Turning Of The Wheel al Riggs - Alice David Pollack - Turning Grapes Brad Marino - At Night Muck & The Mires - Take Me Back To Planet Earth Nick Lowe - You Stabbed Me In The Front Half Past Two - Lyin' Eyes Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers - This Land Is Your Land Cheekface - That Thing You Do The Cry - Everything & Nothing YOL Bolson - Being Blind  

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 - Sweet Racket (Talk - Action = Zero) Ali Koehler - Hackensack (Saving For A Custom Van) Ben Lee & Sarah Silverman - Way Back Into Love (Saving For A Custom Van) Coriky - Clean Kill Transistor 21 - The Bombastic Song That Nobody Heard Anyway Chromeo - Roni Got Me Stressed Out Color Killer - It's The End Of The World As We Know It Grim Deeds & Jim Testa - My Friends Are Getting Famous

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 Girl The Bobby Lees - Blank Generation Boat - Zombie State Of Mind High-Waisted - Cereal Mikey Erg - Sunshine John Prine - I Remember Everything

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 Fucking Cool Anthrophobia - Ghosts The Berries - Ancient Steel L Cars - In Quarantine II Live Ones - Right On Sister Gregory McLoughlin, Ross Sandler & Abbe Rivers - First On My Life FTC - Flatten The Curve "Flatten The Curve," which benefits the Jubilee Consortium and the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, can be purchased here.

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 - Let's Hope That Love's Enough The False Positives- Good Enough For Rock n Roll Brad Marino - False Alarm The Bookends - She's Got It Fake Names - Brick Gavin Mendonca - Bad News Mark Erelli - The Gig At The End of the World

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 - Dandelion Wine Dan Bryk - Appetite For Discussion The Happy Fits - Hungry People Tuff Sunshine - We Seal Every Deal With A Kiss GirlSkin - Darling Answering Machine - Bubblegum Radio Buzzkills - Just One Look RATBOYS - Everybody Loves The Ramones The Dirty Truckers - Help Me Anne GRIM DEEDS - The Hard Way

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't Want To Go To The Party Tonight    Pansy Division - Coming Clean The Next Great American Novelist - Baby Duck Song Reese Van Riper - Electric City Sonofdov - Battle Lines Steven Wright-Mark - Just A Dream Puppy Pile - Wrecked Papills - Too Hot For May    

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 The Wants - Fear My Society Amy Rigby - One Way Ticket To My Life Esther Rose - My Favorite Mistake The Dirty Truckers - Feedback

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 Soul (MTX Forever) With My Looks And Your Brains (Revenge Is Sweet... And So Are You) Hell Of Dumb (MTX Forever) High School Is The Penalty For Transgressions Yet Specified (King Dork Approximately: The Album) London (MTX Forever) Links: Sounds Radical Records Dr, Frank's Blog

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 Unlimited The Hi End - The Way She Moves Me Nat Freedberg - Play With The Devil The Warhawks - Deliver Notches - Room Upstairs The Livermores - PP Is A Spy Seattle Stomp - Great Unknown Victims of Circumstance - Never Have I Ever The Real Impossibles - All Over The World Muck & The Mires - Cupid Rockstar Races - Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robotos

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 Of You Wyuldlife - Neon Nightmare Big Cheese - Golden Brat Curse - Sweat Pants Lawyer Grim Deeds - Past Your Prime Philly Boy Roy - Punk Rock Girl Mickey PG - White Guy Playing Guitar GRLwood - I Hate My Mom Rick Barry - Signing Off

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 Cheap Gunslingers - Junky Friends The Copyrights - Are You Passionate? Karyn Kuhl Band - Hey Kid The Last Bees - Saturday Mikey Erg - Careless Or Cruel?

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 Down To Get Down Mykel Board & Clean Boys - Havin' Your Baby The Weeklings - Friday On My Mind

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.

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 - "Company Man" The Carvels NYC - "Scarcity" Smoke & Mirror Routine - "Millionaire's Son" The Planes - "Now Hiring" Grim Deeds - "Rock N Roll Will Die"

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 The Matter" (with Dave Schramm) from the "A Sister" EP

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 Whale - Halfway Home Hit Like A Girl - Forget That You Have Me Val Emmich - Cave Glenn Morrow's Cry For Help - Yellowed Pages

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, Gay Parade, Stealing The Covers The Front Bottoms, Peace Sign, Going Grey The Capitalist Kids,  Cognitive Dissonance, Brand Damage Glenn Morrow's Cry For Help, Pony Express, self-titled The Feelies, Turn Back Time, In Between Damfino, American Healthcare, One False Move And I'm Yours Atom Driver, Play Dead, "In The West" EP Fred Schneider & The Superions, Strip Search, The Vertical Mind New Age Healers, He Took A Bullet To Heaven, Where The Tragic Happens Peter Stampfel & The Atomic Meta-Pagans, Blue Moon, The Cambrian Era The Vice Rags, Jersey Boy, "The Vice Rags" EP Ted Leo, Run To The City, The Hanged Man Wyldlife, Teenage Heart, Out On Your Block Sunshine & The Rain, Come On Baby, In The Darkness Of My Night Overlake, Unnamed November, Fall The Skullers, Pressure Face, "Meet The Skullers" EP YJY, Somebody Take My Phone, The Enduring YJY The Harmonica Lewinskies, Remember Monica, Bring Back Bush NO ICE,  We Get High Together, C'mon Feel The NO ICE

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 - Can We Do That Again? Wire - Diamonds In Cups Rips - Damaged NVRS LVRS - Primer Impacto Overlake - You Don't Know Everything Ubetcha - Obviously I Shouldn't Be Doing This Fairmont - NYC

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 The Future Is Worst Than The Past Album Drop and If You See Kay/Run For Your Lives! from Make It Be California Rhythm from Phonography Fuckin' Idiots Everywhere from Unpopular Singer, Vol 1 & 2

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 It - "It's Been A Crazy Week      Weatherwise" Peter Holsapple - "Don't Mention The War" The Porchistas - "Mr. Chump" Jim Testa - "Random Violence" The Ergs! - "September/October"