Jersey Beat Podcast

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 - Nobody Makes It On Their Own

Jim Testa's guest on JB Podcast #143 is Peter Horvath, lead singer and guitarist of New Brunswick's Anderson Council, a psychedelic pop band that's just released a primer of old and new tracks entitled Assorted Colours (on the reborn Jem Records.)

On the podcast, you'll hear the following tracks from Assorted Colours:

Pinkerton's Assorted Colours
Never Stop Being '67
Girl On The Northern Life
Love Bomb
Fire Island
Hole In The Sky

and from Greyhouse' s Dives To The Deep End on Zimba Records,

Johnny's Temple

On this episode of the Jersey Beat podcast, editor Jim Testa interviews Joe Galarraga from the Brookly band BIG UPS.

Bouncing Souls - Up To Us
The Antidon'ts - Optimistic Loser
The Hannas - The Bend
Free Pizza - Juliet
The Backseat Angels - Pick Up The Phone
P@tomic & The Bomb! - No Time To Waste
GRIM DEEDS - Shot Dead By Police
J.T. Makoviecki - Little Bit of Sunlight
Eleandor Friedberger - Scene From Bensonhurst

Keepin' The Family - Coastline
Peter Stampfel & The Bottlecaps - Funny The First Time
The Porchistas - Ebolabama
The Harmonica Lewinskies - Flowers Will Bloom
C.R. & The Degenerates - Pink Slippin'
Cool Ghouls - Just Like Me
Evan O'Donnell - Now I Wanna Sound Like Chrissie Hynde
Hit Bargain - The Circuits That Cannot Be Cut
The Maytags - Business Trip
Mikey Erg - Song For New Britain

The Everymen - Bridge & Tunnel Love
Kandel - Ordinary Time
Mikey Erg - Boys And Girls And Tentative Decisions
Martha - Chekhov's Hangnail
Karyn Kuhl Band - Not LIke That
GRIM DEEDS - I'm Moving To Kepiland
Connections - 4 Kate & Everyone Else
The Queers - Hawaii
The Phantoms - The Ballad Of Overend Watts
The Right Here - Judge Me When I'm Sober

The Cucumbers - Don't Watch TV
The Backseat Angels - Pick Up The Phone
Broom Vs The Combine - Less Than
Active Bird Community - Longport
Lisa Prank - Baby Let Me Write Yr Lines
Tall Juan - Not Enough
Watts - Bring On The Lights
The Vaughns - What's Cooking
Johnny Angel Wendell - New York Dolls

Our guest is Mikey Erg, former singer/guitarist for The Ergs!, whose debut solo album "Tentative Decisions"will be released in June on Don Giovanni Records.

We talk to Mikey about writing and recording the nealbum, touring, his Ergs legacy, and lots more.  Plus we play the following tunes:

Books About Miles Davis - The Ergs!
Songs Against Ian Raymond - Mikey Erg
Key Of C, Fix It, Fix It, Stop - Mikey Erg
Obligatory Song About Killing One's Boyfriend- The Ergs!
You've Never Heard 'My Aim Is True' - Mikey Erg
Comme Si About Me - Mike Erg(from Tentative Decisions)

Jersey Beat's Jim Testa interviews Jamie Frey, the lead singer and main songwriter of Brooklyn's
NO ICE.

On this episode, you'll hear:

NO ICE - Metropolitan Avenue
The Brooklyn What - Blowin' UP
NO ICE - We Get High Together
NO ICE - The Cemetery
NO ICE - Castlebraid

We're almost ready to celebrate the JB Podcast's tenth anniversary but first here's an hour of music to keep you busy.  Come back next time for a GREAT interview with an artist that our listeners will know and love.

Diarrhea Planet - Life Pass
Bay Kee - Shady Birds
Evan O'Donnell - Buster On The Granite Highway
Art Brut - The Replacements
Savages - Evil
Doctor Barber- Pictures Of Your Pets
New Age Healers - I Want More
JT Makoviecki - If You Just Hold On, Poor Boy
Diplopia - Adeline
Lloyd & The Impressions - Sunny Day
Petra Haden - Armenia In The Sky
Yo La Tengo - The Summer
Big Figment - Cut Knuckle
The Forty Nineteens - I Walked With A Zombie
The Gotobeds - Real Math/Too Much
The Goo Goo Dolls - Never Take The Place Of Your Man

Grim Deeds - Child of the Millennium
Adult Books - Casual Wrecks
Bent Shapes - 86'd In '03
Robert Pollard - My Daughter, Yes She Knows
Sink Tapes - J For Jazzy
The Other Stars - You Looked Better At The Party
Karen Haglof - Cowgirl Clothes
Karyn Kuhl - It Was A Very Good YearBitterheart - Someone Told Me
The Bordello - Chocolate, My New Rock N Roll
Diplopia - Hoboken
Mean Jeans - Now I Wanna Be Yr Dog
Ray Rockett - Pet Semetary
The Dudikoffs - Burrito Party
Can't Swim - Way It Was
Fucko - Submarine
ROMP - Departure From Venue
NO ICE - Castlebraid
The Maravines - Tie Retie
Toot Sweet - Dilettante
The Wrens - Pretty OK
Soul Asylum - Supersonic

On this episode of the Jersey Beat podcast, our friends Jack Fitzimmons (Netflix With Fitz podcast) and Chris Fabulous (Weekend Quality podcast) take over as guest hosts and interview their special guest....  Jim Testa!   They talk about JIm's new EP "American Spirits & Artisanal Cheese" and throw in a good old-fashioned Philly punk playlist for one of our most entertaining episodes in a long time!

On this episode of the Jersey Beat Podcast, editor and host Jim Testa serves up some new tracks he's been enjoying as well as one golden oldie.

Grim Deeds - My Real Doll
Giant Peach - Fight
Mono In Stereo - Long For Yesterday
Golden Bloom - Books You Never Read
Phonoscenes - Drive
The Maravines - Olive Garden
Sons Of An Illustrious Father - ppm
M. Ward - I'm Going Higher
Bay Kee - Shady Birds
Jim Testa - Here's To The State of NJ
Out of System Transfer - I Shot President McKinley
The Maxies - I'm Punk
Teen Death - Dark Life
The Wrens - Pretty OK
Furnsss - #12 Looks Just Like You
ManDancing - Broken

Rick Moody, acclaimed author of  Garden State, The Ice Storm, and many other novels and short stories, recently published his latest novel Hotels Of North America. Rick talks about the new novel, his life as a writer, and his passion for music as both a fan of bands like the Feelies and Yo La Tengo, and as a recording artist and performer.

On this episode:
The Feelies - It's Only Life
Wingdale Community Singers - Learned Astronomer
Yo La Tengo - Hearts Expired
Yo La Tengo - The Summer

On this episode we talk to Lazlo of BlowUpRadio.com about why his Internet radio station will be signing off on January 31, and how he plans to continue broadcasting on other platforms to keep BlowupRadio's mission of supporting New Jersey music alive.

Happy Holidays From the Jersey Beat Podcast!

A Christmas Gift For You - Ghost Pal
Have Yourself A Merry Secular Christmas - Connor Ratliff & Mikey Erg
The Festivus Song - Jim Testa & John Raido
Splittin' Up Christmas - Kevin Devine
Christmas In A Chinese Restaurant - Diamond Rugs
Frosty The Snowman - Danny Adlerman, Yosi Levin, Kevin Kammaral
Run Run Rudolph - Jack Skuller
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Janet Devlin
The Front Bottoms - ChristmasWrapping
John Prine - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Electric Six - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
The Lawn Darts- Do They Know It's Christmas (Feed The World)
The Rein Deers - Christmas Brings Me Down
Six To One Mathematics - Silent Night
Peter Stampfel - Pagan Jewish Christmas Tree
Dan McLane - I Spent Christmas
Anna Vogelzang - Christmas Baby, Please Come Home
Deena - Light Shines Through
Geno & The Juke Box - Secret Santa
Deep Sea Diver - It's Christmas (and I'm still alive)
Peachcake - What Happens When Santa's Sleigh Gets Lost?
Mac & Tomato - I Don't Wanna See Grandma This Christmas
Bitterheart - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

To help celebrate the release of Stringer's debut EP "Dead Ass,"  we sat down with Max Kagan, Mark Fletcher, and drummer John Seymour to talk about the band, their decision to change the name from Heeney, and the good and bad of Brooklyn's music scene.

On this podcast:

Striinger - "Dead Ass" EP
"Dirty Room"
"Wanting Less"
"Fear of Death"
"Just Like You"
"Luxury"
"Fear of Death"

and
Huffers - "Pulled Pork"
Lidia Stone - "Sick Of Words" (live)

The enigmatic pop punk rocker Grim Deeds is our guest on this episode of the podcast.

Playlist:

King Of Queers
Being Fat Mike
Weasel Acres
Ballad Of The Opening Band
We're All A Little Racist
I Don't Care About Your Kids
I'm An Atheist

All of Grim Deeds' music is available for free download at grimdeeds.bandcamp.com

Teenage Bottlerocket - Bloodbath At Burger King

The Connection - Labor of Love

Kurt Baker - Send Me To Mars

Shellshag - Baby's Arms

Tin Armor - Strange & Estranging

The Unlovables -Miracle Braves

Mono In Stereo - Late Night Confessor

Fiction Plane - Where Do We Go From Here?

Ezra Furman - Wobbly

Laura Stevenson - Torch Song

Spiders - Why Don't You?

Chris Stamey - Universe Sized Arms

The dB's - Before We Were Born

Bitterheart - I Can't Stop

Teenage Bottlerocket - Radio

Jim Testa interviews the Hold Steady's Craig Finn about his new solo album "FAith In The Future."  Craig also talks about going out to see bands in Brooklyn and gives some advice to young musicians.

Then we check out some new music that we love at Jersey Beat:

The Campbell Apartment - "Seaside Hts NJ"
Bitterheart - "Know It All"
Mal Blum - "Robert Frost"
Kinky Friedman - "Wild Man From Borneo"
Roadside Graves - "Gospel Radio"
The Unlovables - "1996"
Pwr Bttm - "1994"
Tin Armor - "1 Million Shitlists"
Yo La Tengo - "Friday I'm In Love"
Man Named Pearl - "Atlas"

On this episode, Jim Testa chats with lead singer/guitaristz

Brian Sella of The Front Bottoms about the group's major

label debut Back On Top, and how the band is adopting to z

life in the fast lane.

On This Podcast:

"Maps," from The Front Bottoms
"Motorcycle," from Back On Top
"Jim Bogart," from Brothers Can't Be Friends
"Skeleton," from Talon Of The Hawk
"The Beers," from The Front Bottoms