Your Next Favorite Band

Our 3rd annual Listen to the Dissonance:songs and conversations about mental health event will take place on Friday, February 27th at The IceHouse in Bethlehem, PA.  The show starts at 7pm ET and features brave stories and powerful music from CLOVER, Judah Kim, Barney Cortez and Patty PerShayla.  Each have been on the show previously, so you can check out our interview with any and all of them at nextfavband.com.

The doors...

Before ever even having a show, I had read the book This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel J. Levitin simply because I was fascinated by the magic of music, and it was a wonderful read.

Then when I started to have my own show about music discovery, I "shot my shot" and reached out to Dr Levitin to see if he'd be open to coming on as a guest.  And back in Nov of 2022, I had the honor and pleasure of interviewi...

Episode 200???  I can't believe it.  When first started doing interviews with musicians I admired, I thought I'd get maybe 10-20 people total to say yes to coming on the show.  And now here we are 200 episodes in, and we're only just warming up.

I reached out to the person who was the guest on Episode 1 - Mike Mains.  We chat about that, his personal journey, and how his bravery and vulnerability at a show I...

The topic of streaming services comes up on our show a lot, and one thing we're always hoping to raise awareness on is how little revenue there is in that for the artist.  But what if it wasn't like that?  Coda Music is a new streaming service seeks to offer a more ethical treatment of the musicians who's art is on their platform.

We're joined by CEO Randy Fusee and COO Ted Andre who will help talk us t...

Many of our finest institutions are under attach by removing funding and support.  One such pillar is public radio - stations across the country are faced with difficult decisions and intimidating challenges on how to accomplish their missions with drastically reduced or non-existing funding from our government.

Stations like WDIY here in the Lehigh Valley that provides so much for our community now approach an uncertain f...

This band from Chicago came flying in to our mindshare late in 2025 with their album release Ur A Star, and especially their track "Bad Heart" which caught our earholes so fast and furiously, it made our Top 19 Songs of 2025 list.

We'll spend time with lead singer and songwriter Ari Levin and learn all about this bands raw and infectious sound, and that's not where their duality ends.  They are self-pro...

We wanted to share our fav tracks from the year, so we were able to whittle it down to the top 19 according to our earholes.

We decided to provide the one track that we liked the best - which for 2025 is "Never Rest" by Great Grandpa.  The remainder of the list is shared in chronological order of album release date.

Top 19 songs of 2025

• "Never Rest" by Great Grandpa
• “Weird Birthday Song” by Kendall Lujan
• “Ab...

Join us on New Year's Day as we spend time with long time friend and previous co-host of the show David Moore to revisit the year that was 2025, and preview what we have in store for 2026.

We'll talk resolutions, guests, live events, Musikfest, and much much more (Moore?).

I even share my Top 19 Songs of 2025 and we’ll be releasing a bonus podcast only episode that shares each track. Be sure to check it out!

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Every year WXPN puts out a "Greatest" prompt for the listernship community to chew on and submit their Top 10 list.  The station then compiles, calculates and computes the highest ranking 885 from those submissions.  This year, we are determining the Greatest Cover Songs of all-time.

Here's how WXPN is defining a cover: A cover is when an artist performs or records a song created and released by someone else...

Every year WXPN puts out a "Greatest" prompt for the listernship community to chew on and submit their Top 10 list.  The station then compiles, calculates and computes the highest ranking 885 from those submissions.  This year, we are determining the Greatest Cover Songs of all-time.

Here's how WXPN is defining a cover: A cover is when an artist performs or records a song created and released by someone else...

Join us as we express gratitude and honor the guests we've had throughout the year and invite them back to share a message for the season and perform a holiday tune.

We have messages and songs from:

• Kyle Lacy & Amanda D'Amico - "Holly Jolly Christmas"
• Kahone Concept - "Christmas, How I've Missed This"
• Joe Edelmann - "Nice Dream / War Is Over"
• Emma Bockrath - "What Are Y...

When I recently was introduced to the music of Bird Streets, it immediately jumped out as something special.  Described as running the gamut from claustrophobic folk, to anthemic indie pop, to punk rock freakouts - there's something here for everyone.

One song in particular has been living in my earholes since I first heard it, and so I cannot wait to connect with John Brodeur, the mastermind behind the sound.

After one of the coolest moments of Musikfest this past year, and a killer set, we're so excited to spend time with rockabilly blues man Kyle Lacy!

Born and raised in Atlanta, based in NYC, this cat has the magical ability to transport an audience to the 1950s and experience rock-n-roll as it was taking its first steps.

We'll dive in to his catalog, his backstory, how he creates this time warp, and he wi...

A bunch of topics have been on my mind, and I wanted to talk about them with you all.  Some of them are deep and that I wanted to ensure we got a musicians perspective on, so I reached out to my good friend George Hrab and he agreed to come on and banter with me.

We'll first review Halloween and some related topics and then talk about the recent announcement of the Winter WonderJam 2025 line-up and details, and also t...

We were recently introduced to the infectious music of Nep and instantly knew we wanted to listen to more, and to hopefully bring her on the show.  Multiple bangers later, here we are - right on the heels of the release of the brand new music on her debut full length release Noelle and right before she tours to support the new music.

The story of Nep begins in Daytona, Florida, a place of endless motorcycle rallies, sticky...

When my ears heard the first moments of the song "Rivers" by Daisychain, everything stopped.  It was one of those moments.   I knew we were in "nextfavband" land.  A deeper dive in to their catalog reveled countless bangers - all tracks stay true to a core dripping with psych rock blues, but they often take a moment to try on other genres, all to a great success.

Daisychain is a femme-fronted psych/blue...

We have such a wonderful treat for everyone this week - we are honored to bring you a fantastic chat with the world renowned cuatrista Fabiola Méndez!

This brilliant musician picked up the cuatro (a classic folk guitar of Puerto Rico) at 6 years old and hasn't put it down since.  She learned to play it from the masters of her country and then it earned her a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she...

We were so honored to be able to host the venerable Dr Dog on our show and loved our time with keyboardist Zach Miller.  He took us through his early inspirations and then on in to the band - even experiencing some of the "chaotic and unhinged" live performances the provide along with us.

We also spend time exploring the latest announcement of them joining the Philly Music Fest line-up, and what all that means.

This was such a special conversation, and went differently than any prior episode - hence the "Part 1" shown here.  We'll have Lia back for a dive in to her personal journey and inspirations, but this one started in the asbstract and Lia, Galen and I decided to stay there.

We played Lia's brand new (released yesterday) track "I'm Still Here" and she was brave and vulnerable sharing the full backsto...