Jersey Beat Podcast #183: Wrapping Up The Year

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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 Bu 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: Our Holiday Episode

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JERSEY BEAT PODCAST #182

Welcome to our annual holiday show, one hour plus of uninterrupted indie music for the season. Happy holidays and please subscribe on iTunes!

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. Grinchv
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
Shower 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

JERSEY BEAT PODCAST #181: Gary Van Miert, Chip Heuisler of Tunes Hoboken, and some music

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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 its 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: I Feel Love

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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 & Flower Face - No Way Home
Anna McLellan - Desperate
Arrica Rose - Once Upon A Lullaby
Readymade Blakeup - My Universe
Kurt Vile (with John Prine) - How Lucky
Karyn Kuhl - I Feel Love

Jersey Beat Podcast #179: Larry Livermore

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On this episode of the Jersey Beat Podcast, 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 the Potatomen and the new book he's currently working on, as well as 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, as well as Larry's books Spyrock Memories and How To Ruin A Record Label, are available from DonGiovanniRecords.com

Jersey Beat Podcast #178: More Songs About Crises and Despair

JERSEY BEAT PODCAST #178

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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"

Jersey Beat Podcast #177: Summer's Over, But Here Are Some Songs Summer Left Behind

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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"

Jersey Beat Podcast #176: Vote That F*cker Out Edition

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The Bouncing Souls - Ghosts On The Boardwalk
The Milwaukees - Burn & 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 - The 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 The Fucker Out

Jersey Beat Podcast #175

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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

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Jersey Beat Podcast #174: July Jams

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JERSEY BEAT PODCAST #174

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



 

Jersey Beat Podcast #173: More Songs About Chocolate & Viruses

 

JERSEY BEAT PODCAST #173

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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

Jersey Beat Podcast #172: Another Pandemic Playlist

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JERSEY BEAT PODCAST #172

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

Jersey Beat Podcast #171 - Another Pandemic Playlist

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Jersey Beat Podcast Theme by Jack Skuller
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 Home
D.A. Stern - I Wanna Be Free
Jacob Sunshine - Always On My Mind
Jamie Frey - Back Of A Car (with Lily Gist)
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 (with Abbe Rivers & Ross Sandler) - First On My List
FTC - Flatten The Curve

The Flatten The Curve Benefit single benefits the Jubilee Consortium and Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, which help musicians in need during the pandemic.

Jersey Beat Podcast #170 - Social Distancing Media

Jersey Beat Podcast #170

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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

 

JERSEY BEAT PODCAST #169: More Songs About Quarantines And Food

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JERSEY BEAT PODCAST #169

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

Jersey Beat Podcast #168: Another Pandemic Playlist

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Jersey Beat Podcast #168

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

Jersey Beat Podcast #167: Pandemic Playlist #2

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JERSEY BEAT PODCAST #167: Pandemic Playlist #2

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
  

Jersey Beat Podcast 166: Dr. Frank Portman of The Mr. T Experience

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Jersey Beat Podcast #166:  Dr. Frank

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: Maudlin Madness

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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