Jersey Beat Podcast

On this episode of the Jersey Beat Podcast, we interview Stephen Friedland, better known as Brute Force and author of the legendary banned song "King Of Fuh."

"King of Fuh," "Tapeworm of Love," and "Tierra Del Fuego" appear on I, Brute Force: Confections Of Love, available on Bar-None Records.

We also play "Fantasy Of Nationality" from the album Planetwork, and "The World..." from the album Tour De Brute Force.

Brute Force and Daughter of Force will perform live at The Golden Door Film Festival at the Brightside Tavern in Jersey City on Saturday, September 26. For tickets and showtimes, visit www.goldendoorfilmfestival.org

Goodman - Strange Hold
Hong Kong Graffiti - Red
The Deafening Colors - Parkway South
The Paper Jets - Elizabeth Distressed
Lady - Chuta
The Planes - Keep You Safe
The Benjees - Hollywood
Bloody Your Hands! - Boys & Girls
The Clydes - Stay Away From The Doorman
Mini-Boone - I Don't Wanna Send An Email
Static Radio NJ - Worlds On Heroin
Doziac - Brick Wall
Tris McCall & The New Jack Trippers - An Ass of U And Me
Dirty Fences - Deep In Your Heart
Fox & the Law - Bad Motivator
Lost Boy? - Chew
Leaf Pile - When I'm Dead
The Front Bottoms - Cough It Out

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Jim Testa talks to musician, writer, and author Jon Fine about his rock n roll memoir Your Band Sucks.   We also play a few songs from some of Jon's bands as well as contemporaries that he interviews in the book

Bitch Magnet - Ducks Or Drakes
Bitch Magnet - Joan Of ArcSquirrel Bait - Kid Dynamite
Coptic Light - Arson Guy
Poster Children - Zero Stars
Black Flag - TV Party
Bitch Magnet - Americruiser

Justin Angelo Morey - now performing as Sunshine & The Rain with his wife, Ashley -  talks about his new band Sunshine & The Rain, growing up in punk rock, and his hometown of Jersey City.  Justin was the bassist in the great Rye Coalition and frontman of the psychedelic Black Hollies. 

We also play a track each from Sunshine & The Rain, the Black Hollies, and Rye Coalition.

This episode of the JB Podcast showcases a slew of new indie rock plus a few old favorites.

The Graveyard Kids - "Bought & Sold"
Bitterheart - "Can't Stop"
The Front Bottoms - "Wolf Man"
Joanna Gruesome - "There Is No Function Stacy"
Hiccup - "Whatev, It's Cool"
Wyldlife - "(It's Called) Rock N Roll"
Holy City Zoo - "Poor Little Pinkus"
The Flashing Astonishers - "Insignificant Others"
Miniboone - "Any Other City"
Short Attention - "Jim's In Love With Rachael Ray"
The Fleshtones - "Destination Greenpoint"
The Kyle Sowashes - "Lemons"
Adam & The Plants - "Cheating To Win"
Dirty Fences - "High School Rip"
Dutch Boys - "HWY"
Our First Brains - "open-ended unrequited love"
The Insect Trust - "Hoboken Saturday Night"
Bone & Marrow - "Eye Contact"

The Harmonica Lewinskies - Papa's Got A Brand New Man
The Gripweeds - Rise UP

The Smithereens - It Don't Come Easy
The Corner Laughers - Fairytale Tourist

Triumph Of The Wild - California To The Cross
Turbo Fruits - Show Me Something Real
Worm Quartet - Fueled By Angst
Grounders - Bloor Street and Pressure
Kurt Baker Combo - Love Potion #9

The Catholic Girls - Down At The Shore
Terrell Atrophy & The Holy Savior Club - Girl

Tuffy - Ice Cream Trucks
Sinkhole - Wreck On The Highway
The A.G.'s - Jesse's Girl
Teenage Bottlerocket - Too Much LaCollina
Thomas Wesley Stern - Talk Is Cheap

Weird & Wonderful Words - Bobsy-Die

The Sharp Things - Everything Breaks
Sound Advice - it's the fun song!

Theme song:  "Raft Of The Medusa" by The Graveyard Kids

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Music on this program:
Bones Howell - "Maya Angelou"  from Bones Howell
Carter Prince - "Hopeless Unromantic"  from "Electric Love"
Sink Tapes - "Home's A Chore" from Plastic Love
Tris McCall - "Robert Menendez, Basta Ya!"  from Shootout At The Sugar Factory

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The Lookouts - "California/Mendocino"   Spy Rock Road (And Other Stories)
Crazy & The Brains - "I'm Rich"    Good Lord

Honah Lee - "Sobered, So Bored" "33 On 45" EP
Tuffy - "Now Now"  "Don't Chase EP"

Less Than Jake - "American Idle" (single)
Dentist - "I Do It Cause I Wanna" Vinyl Heart
Heeney - "Brooklyn Pop" (single)
Big Cheese - "Watch TV) (single)
Goodwolf - "Desperately 21"  Car In The Woods
Turbo Fruits - "Favorite Girl" No Control
Hot Love - "Get Back Down" (single)
The Grizzled Mighty - "For The Sake Of It All"  Closed Knuckle Jaw
Life Eaters - "Government Kicks"   Life Eaters
Made Violent - "Two Tone Hair" "Made Violent EP"
Jesse Turits - "Freight Train" (single)
Janet Devlin - "Creatures Of The Night" Running Scissors
Junior Brothers - "I've Been Drinkin' 'Cause of You" One Way Ticket
Julian Fulton - "Paris, Idaho"  Reverie
Shilpa Ray - "Make Up"  Make Up
Thomas Wesley Stern - "Jackson"  Never Leave

On this episode of the Jersey Beat Podcast, we interview Frank Portman, aka Dr. Frank of the Mr. T Experience, about his new novel King Dork Approximately, a sequel to 2007's King Dork.

Songs on this episde:
"King Dork"
"King Dork Approximatley"
"Andromeda Klein"
"I Wanna Ramone You"
"She Turned Out To Be Crazy"
"Gooey Glasses"
"How'd The Date End"
"Thinking of Suicide"
"Two Martinis From Now"

On this episode of the podcast, we interview Jarrett Dougherty, drummer of the Screaming Females, about his band's new album "Rose Mountain," touring, and DIy culture.

On this episode:

"Because The Night" - Garbage/Screaming Females
"Wishing Well" and "Criminal Image" from Rose Mountain by Screaming Females
"Rotten Apple" from Ugly by Screaming Females
"Cortez The Killer" and "I Do" from Singles from Screaming Females

On Episod 113, we check out some of the new music that's come into Jersey Beat HQ since the start of 2015.

Active Bird Community - Million Ways
Dinosaur Eyelids - Lambertville
Eyelids - 854
Labyrrrnth - Traveling Strange
Sink Tapes - Small Lipped Bird
Grim Deeds - Weasel Acres
The Young Rochelles - Stay-At-Home-Man
Ben Popp - Lolita
No Ice - Darlin'
Hot Love - Tripping In The Hall
Science Club - It's A Drunken Sleaze Party
Thelonesomekid - Slurls In The Next
Front Porch Step - A Lovely Mess
Guts Club - I Am A Marine Biologist
Hugh Trimble - Another Ghost Ship
Jack Skuller - Hard To Want
Roy Orbitron - Navajo Juggalos
Stoop Kids - Happy Birthday
Big Figment - Cut Knuckle

The Front Bottoms - Jim Bogart
Those Mockingbirds - How To Rob A Bank
The Martinets - Rock N Roll Will Probably Never Die
Stuyvesant - Shh
Black Wine - Breaking Down
Jeffrey Lewis - What Would Pussy Riot Do?
Cymbals Eat Guitars - XR
Eastern Anchors - Above Your Station
Smalltalk - Indecipherable
The Everymen - NJHC
The Gradients - Enemies
Single Mothers - Blood Pressure
Loudon Wainwright III - Brand New Dance
The Porchistas - The Moon Saloon
Deena - My Friend Superman
Karen Haglof - Musician's Girlfriend Blues
The-All-About - All Your CD's
Gay Elvis -Sing When I'm Alone
Allison Strong - Days Like This

On this episode of the JB Podcast,  host Jim Testa talks with Joseph D'Agostino of Cymbals Eat Guitars about his band's new album, and the state of the band in the current indie-rock landscape.

Songs on this podcast:

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Laramie  (from Lose)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Another Tunguska (from Lenses Alien)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wind Phoenix (Radio Edit) (from Why There Are Mountains)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - XR (from Lose)
The Wrens - I Guess We're Done (from "Abbott 1135")
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Warning (from Lose)

This is a rebroadcast of Jersey Beat Podcast #12 from 2006 when we paid tribute to Jean Shepherd, the author, filmwriter ("A Christmas Story,") comedian, raconteur, and longtime star of The Jean Shepherd Show on WOR-AM. 

Jim Testa talks to Peter Stampfel about his latest album, his long career, and never slowing down.

Peter Stampfel & The Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Banjo Squadron - Roadkill
Peter Stampfel & The Ether Frolic Mob - I Will Survive
Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel - Hoodoo Bash
Peter Stampfel - Keep A'Knockin'
The Unholy Modal Rounders - Griselda
The Unholy Modal Rounders - Midnight In Paris
Peter Stampfel & The Bottle Caps - Surfer Angel
Peter Stampfel & The Bottle Caps - Springtime In Alaska
Peter Stampfel & Jeffrey Lewis - Do You Know Who I Am? I'm Fuckin' Snooki!
Peter Stampfel & The Worm All-Stars - Fucking Sailors In Chinatown
Peter Stampfel & The Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Banjo Squadron - Page 88 (outro music)

On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Chad Oliver of the Brooklyn band The Graveyard Kids about his band and its involvement in the Mama Coco's Funky Collection collective.

Mama Coco's is a DIY recording studio around which has built a coalition of musicians and fans working to create music in an atmosphere of mutual cooperation and support. With its old space flooded out, Mama Coco's has launched an IndieGoGo campaign to build a new state of the art studio to serve as a nexus for low-cost, quality recording facilities as well as community activities.

Music on this podcast:

The Graveyard Kids - Raft of The Medusa

The Graveyard Kids - Jor G

Ghostpal - Do You Know The Way?

The Great American Novel - Layne Montgomery Is Bad At Girls

The Harmonica Lewinskies - The Ghost Pal Song

The Jean Jackets - The Myth of Sisyphus

Ghostpal - God Save Mama Coco's

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Glee Cast - Blue Christmas

Dismemberment Plan - Mexico City Christmas

Electric Six - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch

The Front Bottoms - Christmas Wrapping

Diamond Rugs - Christmas In A Chinese Restaurant

John Prine - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

Kevin Devine - Splitting Up Christmas

Ghost Pal - A Christmas Gift For You

The Kinks - Father Christmas

Ruby On The Vine - Everything New (Like On Christmas Morning)

The Ravers - It's Going To Be A Punk Rock Christmas

The Pogues - Fairy Tale In New York

The Wag - Feels Like Christmas

Peachcake - What Happens When Santa's Sleigh Gets Lost?

Dan Bryk - Dan Bryk's Christmas Ballad

Bright N Early - All I Want For Christmas Is You

Richard X Heyman - I Can't Wait

The Worm Quartet - A Worm Quartet Christmas

Our guest for this podcast is Tony Tavano, guitarist/vocalist of the Chicago punk band Vortis.

Vortis songs:
Sisyphean March -  Modern Savage

Fellow Traveler - Take The System Down

God Won't Bless America Again - God Won't Bless America

Things Won't Get Better - Modern Savage

Walking Down Lincoln - 2007 Demos

Roadside Bomb - Modern Savage

Everybody Killed - Modern Savage

Singalong - Modern Savage

So Long - Modern Savage

For more information, visit www.vortisrocks.com

The Dopamines - Business Papers
Turkish Techno - Without You
American Lies - Glassbones
Gateway District - Waves & Cars
Rumspringer - Give Me A Fucking Vowel
Big Dick - Too Hot To Trot
FYP - Toss My Cookies
Radon - Facial Disobedience
The Slow Death - Opposite of Jessie's Girl
Jabber - Talk To You
Parasites - Find The Words To Tell You
Lipstick Homicide - Who Stole Molly's Bike?
Sharkpants - Past & Future
Hands Like Bricks - The Old Crowd
Gentlemen Prefer Blood -Rochester
Horror Squad - Walking Eagle(
The Steinways - (Nobody Wants To) Make Out (With Me Because I Wear Sweatpants)
Riverboat Gamblers - Victory Lap
Shellshag - Medley
Plow United - Westchester Rock City
Toys That Kill - Goodbye California

The Steinways - Attaching Transmittals To Erection Drawings
Houseboat - I Work On the 13th Floor
Mikey Erg! - Flower Tattoo
Slow Death - Sorry Sam
Team Stray - Gender Studies
Trashkanistan - Milly
Flamingo Nosebleed - Dance To The Stereo
Meeps! - You're Dating A Douchebag Now
The Hellstroms - Dianne Debris
Dog Party - The World Is Not A Game
Tight Bros - Benny Hates Shelly
Sick Sick Birds - Marietta
Dead Mechanical - Three Cities
Night Birds - Born To Die In Suburbia
The Copyrights - Worn Out Passport
Screaming Females - Normal
The Marshmallows - Hoboken
Jetty Boys - My Times
The Capitalist Kids - Weasel
Borderlines - Past Lives
Candy Hearts - Asbury Park
The Fatal Flaw - So Old
Beatnik Termites - Rock All Night
Dan Vapid & The Cheats - Baby Baby Get Over Yourself
Kepi Ghoulie - Blame It On My Mom
The Mopes - Squeaky Clean