We're back! We had A Few Good Records artist Ben Teeney call in to talk about his EP, The Anxious Thoughts Project, as well as his brand new single Lip Service. Both of which are available wherever you stream music. Which is also probably where you are currently streaming this. How convenient. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.co…

We had Matt Fish, owner and founder of Melt Bar and Grilled, a gourmet grilled cheese restaurant and bar, on the show for this week's episode. We talk about, well...Melt. We go into the history of how things got started, their interior design, roots to the music community, and grilled cheese ice cream?!? More than that, but listen. --- Support this…

We had the pleasure of talking to Dan "Soupy" Campbell (The Wonder Years, Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties) about life this year, the two new The Wonder Years songs, their Blink 182 tribute show, Aaron West's Asbury Park shows, collaborating with other artists, and a little bit on when to expect new music from Dan. --- Support this podcast: http…

Today we have James and Laura from High Notes on to talk about THEIR podcast. We really enjoyed the first season of their show, and with season two dropping on December 15th, we figured we'd take the time to chat about their guests and what makes their podcast so captivating. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-few-g…

This week with chatted with Dan and Amy from Future Teens about covering Smash Mouth, what Dan "Soupy Campbell" thought of their TWY cover, pickle flavor snacks, and how the pandemic has impacted songwriting and feeling the effect of not being able to tour this year. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-few-good-recor…

We chatted with Dylan from Spanish Love Songs about election anxiety (this episode was recorded in between election day and when Biden actually won the election), how the pandemic has changed band life, and their Patreon. We talked a lot about the Patreon. Maybe so be part of that. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a…

Six years after Over The Garden Wall first aired on Cartoon Network, we talked to Josh and Justin from The Blasting Company about how they formed, how they ended up working on the show, new material, and what they've been up to through quarantine. We get a bit political at the end, so don't forget to vote today if you haven't yet. --- Support this …

We're back with a new season and a new cohost! Ari (my partner in running A Few Good Records) will be taking on that role going forward for our newest batch of episodes. This week we have Ben Liebsch of the band You Me and Everyone We Know on to chat about new songs, 10 years of Some Things Don't Wash Out, and more. --- Support this podcast: https:…

We have a fun one for you this time. Mike and Alex go through a track by track commentary of Alex's upcoming debut EP from Awfully Good Times. We even debut every single track as they'll appear on the EP as we go. There is some incredibly insightful, introspective thoughts on what went into creating these songs and we're excited to unleash them her…

After a short break, we're back! Bryan Carroll stopped by to talk about his role in Super Thrash Bros., iconic video game music, stage dive fails, and speculation on the rest of the Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC roster. We then go into his work with Beardly Booking and what he feels like he's doing differently when it comes to booking and running shows.…

Vater Boris (DejaGravy/Will Wood and the Tapeworms/idk a dozen other bands) stopped by. Hilarity ensues. We talked about DejaGravy's upcoming split with Please Exist, interacting with fans at shows, the worst show Bedtime Stories ever played, and the absolute best voicemail that Vater ever received (a result of his ringback tone/voicemail greeting …

Will Wood dropped in to chat about The Real Will Wood, the divide between Will Wood (the person) and The Real Will Wood (the persona) HEAD, and what is next on the horizon.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-few-good-records/support

After a year and a half, we are back with new content! Mike and Alex catch up on what we've been up to with A Few Good Records, Awfully Good Times, Emotional Transporter, and some other plans for the near future. We also discuss cancel culture in the music community, as well as Star Wars. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod…

We had Brandon Stasi back on the show to talk about his new project, Caving. We chatted about the end of Sudden Suspension, separating old projects from new ones, Spiderman, and went off topic a lot.https://www.facebook.com/Cavingmusic/https://cavingmusic.bandcamp.com/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-few-good-reco…

Gabe from The Black Lagoon stopped by to chat about their upcoming EP, current work at Backroom Studios, artists that influenced the creative process, and upcoming shows. I talked about some upcoming projects. We discuss having to make sacrifies for our art, and the struggle of having less time to work on projects as we get older. Gabe shares a sto…

We sat down with Pat from Aguirre to talk about their new record, Overexposed, using different forms of media to accompany a record, film, and the band going on hiatus.https://forcedabandonmentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/far-022-overexposed--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-few-good-records/support…

We sat down with Dean, Matt and Mark from Our Wits That Make Us Men to talk about their upcoming album, The Manifesto. We heard about how the band came to be, the writing and recording proccess, and background to some of the songs on the record. We are debuting the final version of the track "Holy Father Franklin" at the end of the episode. The Man…

After taking a six month break, we are back. We decided to pick up where we left off and do another episode with Will Wood of Will Wood and the Tapeworms. We discussed how the last six months have treated him and his band, embarking on his first ever solo tour, his daughter, an upcoming live event at Backroom Studios, and welcoming back an old memb…

Will Wood makes his second appearance on the show to dive into a track by track discussion of the new album "Self-Ish". We talked about influences, the process of writing these songs, having a new lineup for the band compared to "Everything is a Lot", guest appearances, and more.willwoodandthetapeworms.bandcamp.comfacebook.com/willwoodandthetapewor…

Tohm Bakelas stopped by to chat about his involvement in the NJ music community over the last decade, recounting stories through his time with Four Fingers, finding the frontman for Johnny-Cab Suicide, fronting a band again (Permanent Tension), and working on a studio only project (Cortard). He also spoke about running his DIY cassette label, Force…

Ben Scardo is back! This time he brought he bandmate Ricky Hall for an entire episode of DejaGravy. We chat about Kevin Smith movies, the new DejaGravy releases planned out, upcoming shows, Ben and Ricky's history together in multiple bands, Sausage Party, and a bit about Bedtime Stories.We've got a snippet of an unmixed track of the upcoming DejaG…

For this week's episode Calendar Year came out from New York to talk about Pokemon Go, Netflix shows, recording their new record in a cabin in the woods, notable bands we've seen/stacked show lineups, the creative process of writing songs and not writing anything that isn't sad. We also reminisced about when Bedtime Stories and Friday's Nightmare (…

This week Brandon Stasi left tour for a couple hours to chat about Sudden Suspension, comic books, Stacy's Mom, touring with some of his favorite bands, and pizza. Episode photo by Brad Noonanhttps://www.facebook.com/suddensuspensionhttps://sudden-suspension.bandcamp.com/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-few-good-r…

This week Matt Micieli stopped by to chat about his time in East Coast Blackout and Do a Barrel Roll before we really got into chatting about The Highlight, his current band. Jay told a story about helping run a record release show for Major League back when Hard Feelings first came out. We also talked about bands we've seen live the most often, an…

For this week's episode, P.D. Brody stopped by to chat about the influence his father had on his music, his cross country road trip last summer, songwriting, his debut EP Find a Way, his upcoming full length, pay to play shows (clearly one of my favorite topics), auditioning for American Idol and The Voice, and more.http://www.pdbrody.com/index.htm…

This week Weston stopped by to chat about Parallel, Ire Form and Fat Chance. We talked a little bit about production value and plans for both his bands, and what I've got in store for Bedtime Stories in the near future.https://soundcloud.com/jakegehrig/sets/reason-ephttp://www.ireform.bandcamp.com/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotif…

This week Luke Heinbockel came by to chat about Harvard on The Hill, songwriting, pop punk, pay to play shows, and recording new material with Nik from Man Overboard. We're premiering an unmixed recording of a new song from their upcoming EP. Jay helped cohost for the first time...look for him in upcoming episodes.https://harvardonthehill.bandcamp.…

This week Dylan Jacobus showed up to chat about his bands (mainly Cephalopods and their Allies and Impossible Voyage, but also Disseriph), influences as a musician, karaoke, Star Wars and Super Smash Bros (see a recurring theme among guests?), and the status of new Cephalopods music.https://cephalopods.bandcamp.com/https://impossiblevoyage.bandcamp…

This week Anthony Gobeille came by to chat about Impossible Voyage, spreading an in depth history lesson interwoven with conversation about Star Wars, other local bands, bad show experiences, sharing band members with more time consuming projects, Andrew WK, Super Smash Bros, and more. impossiblevoyage.bandcamp.comanthonygobeille.com--- Support thi…

After a short break, the podcast returns with JKB3 making a brief return to the garden state from ATX. While he was home, we chatted about a documentary he helped edit, Star Wars (spoilers for The Force Awakens, skip about 18 1/2 minutes in to avoid that), his first band, Skalet Fever (we were going to put a song from this band up but that didn't w…

This week Greg Tindal came over to talk about Ratnip going from doing a oneoff reunion show to recording a new EP and coming back full force, and his tenure with Fall to the Queen. We ended up chatting about Bedtime Stories for a bit too.https://ratnipnj.bandcamp.com/https://soundcloud.com/gdt1124--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify…

This week Henry & DJ Menzel (Survay Says!) came over and answered listener questions, which included discussions about Super Smash Bros, burritos, song writing, the current state of the band, and a lot of other stuff. Idk, we recorded for about 2 hours.https://www.facebook.com/survaysays/http://survaysaysmusic.com/http://3ecustomtees.com/--- Suppor…

This week Adam Lepkowski came by to talk about Michael Ironside (the band!), Gepetto Tales, his time playing bass in Four Fingers, and former podcast guest Greg Furlong.https://michaelironside8888.bandcamp.com/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-few-good-records/support…

This week Dean Scordilis (Our Wits That Make Us Men/Epilude/ex-Dolphin Uppercut Avenger) came on the show to discuss his bands. We focused primarily on Our Wits That Make Us Men and looked at parallels between that band and Bedtime Stories. We discussed a Meatlocker show that our bands played together in August, as well as our own influences in the…

This week Ben Scardo (DejaGravy/Bedtime Stores/Johnny-Cab Suicide/too many other bands) came on the show to talk about all of his many musical endeavors. We talked about Bedtime Stories more than I thought we would, and announced a new project.https://dejagravy.bandcamp.com/https://johnnycabsuicide.bandcamp.com/https://bedtimestoriesnj.bandcamp.com…

On this week's episode, Will Wood (Will Wood and the Tapeworms) came on the show, talked about things, and then took it all back at the end. We also talked about Aladdin.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-few-good-records/support

This week we had Alex Grippo from Science on to talk about the history of the band, influences in songwriting, the NJ music scene's constant growth/new bands forming from the demise of multiple bands, being in a Reggie and the Full Effect music video and more!https://www.sciencenj.bandcamp.comhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9csud9pddIhttps://www.y…

On this week's episode, Erick Roman came on to talk about his many musical projects over the years (Last Falling Theory, Sons of Paterson, Suspect/Ratnip, Bedtime Stories, and solo material), the old Rockaway music scene, and his current projects.https://erickmichaelroman.bandcamp.com/https://sonsofpaterson.bandcamp.com/--- Support this podcast: ht…

We had Rob Shea (Suspect/Ratnip/Aguirre) on to talk about the punk/hardcore music scene, the stanhope house, the early days of Suspect, the future of Ratnip, and writing his own movie.ratnipnj.bandcamp.comsuspectnj.bandcamp.com--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-few-good-records/support…

This week we have Greg Furlong of Basement Beers, Renovations, Betamax, Moot Point and Grissac Meets World on to talk about his bands, touring, the local NJ music scene, and the mysterious egg bandit of Denville, NJ.http://basementbeers.bandcamp.com/http://renovations.bandcamp.com/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-…

For our first episode we sat down with Jon Maisto of Backroom Studios, Science, A Verbal Equinox and more. He's a jack of all trades when it comes to music, both performing and producing.http://www.thebackroomstudios.com/https://sciencenj.bandcamp.com/https://willwoodandthetapeworms.bandcamp.com/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.…