Your Next Favorite Band

Time to get ready for the Listen to the Dissonance shows happening on Fri 2/28 and Sat 3/1! In this episode we will share music from each artist, provide info about each of the incredible organizations who'll be at the events, and we will dive in to interviews with amazing human beings. We'll also spend some time admiring the incredible poster design by Marissa Paternoster. The int

Ever want to know what it sounds like to go vintage shopping with a friend who spills all the details about their shitty ex in a distinctive mid-range vibrato? Well this is the episode for you! Come join as we spend time with Portland, OR based, singer/songwriter Kendall Lujan. Her music grabbed my ears from the first time I heard it, and I've had it on heavy rotation ever since. E

This week we are in for a special treat as we "hop across the pond" and land in Dundee, Scotland to connect with innovative songwriter, composer and producer Theo Bleak, whose music resonates with a profound sense of place and reflection, somehow achieving a sound that is equally familiar and unfamiliar, nostalgic and yet completely new. With each note, she weaves a sonic tapestry

The exciting supergroup Fantastic Cat is so great, we're featuring an episode on each one of it's members. So with this endeavor, you get 5 nextfavbands! You're welcome! They are all that good - trust us. Our second Cat is Brian Dunne, who is not your grandma’s antiseptic, pseudo baby boomer singer songwriter. Known for his laugh-to-keep-from-crying, darkly humorous lyrics, Dunne

This week we jump back to the 1990s to hear the story of The JudyBats with frontman Jeff Heiskell. This band has an incredible catalog and they reached the charts so you will probably recall a track or two of theirs if you were in your teens or 20s at that time. Or you might be a raving fan and can't wait to hear more about them. And if you don't know their music at all, well...I'm

I love when you discover music that just scratches that part of brain that wants to listen. Cutting edge and fresh, but yet also calling back to that familiar sound of shoe-gazey grunge - Meg Elsier has just released some crazy great music on her album Spittake. She's has stunningly gorgeous vocals that are laid on top of a bed of industrial fuzz. This effort to juxapose counterint

Happy New Year! We kick off the year with The Hot Mamas - an all-female collective (coagulation?) full of depth and loaded with surprising instruments. One member describes them as ... if you went to a junkyard and you had a bathtub and you filled the bathtub with everything you could find in the junkyard and then you put it on some skateboards and rolled it down the street, and th

Phillip and David tie a bow on 2024 and also look towards some exciting plans for 2025. First, they announce the line-up for Listen to the Dissonance 2025, which is happening Friday, Feb 28th in Bethlehem at The IceHouse and Sat, Mar 1st in Wayne at 118 North. Then Phillip shares the podcast download stats for 2024 - where the show saw in increase of +31%! Phillip also shares video

Philadelphia-based radio station WXPN often asks listeners to submit top 10 lists for various types of music to be compiled, calculated, and ranked to produce a list of the 885 best, according to those that were submitted. This year, they dedicated that to songs of that have been release from the year 2000 to today. Of course we'll be joined by Dan Drago of 25 O’Clock Pod, and Na

Tune in for our annual year-end extravaganza where we reflect back on all of the great interviews and experiences we've had during the year. In Part 2, we start with a very special premiere of music from The Christmas Sweaters: Alex Radus & George Hrab We get the opportunity to share "John, the Christmas Hero" and it is incredible. Their album release show is on Thur 12/19 at T