On this episode of the Jersey Beat podcast...

Mikey Erg - Heartbreak No. 53
Venomous Pinks - We Do It Better
Up For Nothing - Escape Route
Human Adult Band - Peace To You Sister,
The Young Rochelles - Interstellar Communication
The Bleeding Hearts - Gone
Permanent Mistakes - 35 Burnout
The Happy Fits - Changes
Spygenius - I Dig Your New Robes, Pierre
Brad Marino - Sad & Lonely Nights
The Royal Podencos - Maybe
The Legendary Swagger - She
Drive-By Truckers - Welcome To Club XIII
James Calleo - Pickles
Jason Didner - This Man's Eyes
Shane Cooley - Stellay Ray
Abbie Gardner - Honky Tonk Song
GRIM DEEDS - Unreliable Narrator
Semantics - Get In The Car
SACK - I Hate Brian Wilson
Screeching Weasel - Any Minute NMow

The Ergs! - "Ultimate Falsetto Book"
Delay - Friends Band
J Prozac - Won't Let Go
Dentist - Spilled Coffee
Weekend Recovery - No Guts, No Glory
Vic Ruggiero & Kepi Ghoulie - "It Wasn't Me"
Shonda & The Howlers - "Used To Call Me Baby"
Stop Calling Me Frank - "Hard Lovin' Man"
Miss Georgia Peach - "You Blow My Mind"
Ricky Rochelle - "Yeti In The Snow"
Mickey Leigh's Mutated Music - "Standing In The Dark"
My Son The Doctor - "King Of The Zoomers"
GRIM DEEDS - "Strung Me Along"
Bitch - "You're The Man"
Hans Condor - "All Messed Up On Death Metal & Stuff"
The Challenged - "Remain (safe keeping)"
Aeon Station - "Better Love"
David Heatley - "Life Our Own Way"
Doug Hoekstra - "Seaside Town"
Gerry Rosenthal - "In Common"
The Craig Torso Show - "Conflagration Vespers"
The Porchistas - "Keep Your Distance"
Jeffrey Lewis - "I Wanna Be Vaccinated"

My guest for this episode is Dan Schafer, aka Dan Vapid of Screeching Weasel, the Queers, the Riverdales, the Methadones, Noise On Numbers, and most recently, Dan Vapid & The Cheats. Their 2021 album "Escape Velocity" was one of my favorite punk albums of the year, so in this interview we talk about how and when it was recorded, Dan's approach to songwriting, and we chat about listening to music and life during the pandemic.

This episode of the podcast features four songs from Escape Velocity:
Middle America
The Talk
Runaway Jane
Midnight Blue

You can find Dan Vapid & The Cheats on Facebook, Instagram, and all major streaming platforms.

It's our annual Christmas podcast, with over an hour of indie, alternative, and punk holiday music. Enjoy whatever holiday you celebrate at this time of year, and thank you for listening.

LCars - Wet Bandit's Lament
Aquadolls - Christmas Wrapping
Chutzpah - Chanukah's The Bomb
Peachcake - What Happens When Santa's Sleigh Gets Lost
Peppermint Kicks - It's A Peppermint Christmas
The Weeklings - A Very Merry Christmas
The Yule Logs - Northpole 457899
Vista Blue - Santa Don't Pass Me By
Bright N Early - All I Want For Christmas Is You
Eye Spy - A Christmas Night
Canon Logic - Kiss Me On Christmas
The Connection - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
Gypsy Moths - Maybe This Christmas
Modesty Blaise - I'll Be Home For Christmas
Yawn Mower - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Two Inch Winky - All I Want For Christmas Is Beer
Winston Rauch - Jersey Christmas
Slow Club - Christmas Baby (Please Come Home)
Shane Cooley - Holidaze
Piney Gir - Snow, Snow, Beautiful Snow
Prayer For Animals - Riptide Yuletide
The Sleepy Rebels - California Christmas
Neil Nathan - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Stop Calling Me Frank - Some Kind of Christmas
The Mynabirds - All I Want For Christmas Is Truth
Jim Testa - (It's Another) Covid Christmas

The Front Bottoms - Voodoo Magic
The Great American Novel - This Will Not Be Our Year
Rockstar Racecar - Created A Monster
Precious Bones - All She Wants
The Happy Fits - Another Try
Dummy - Daffodils
Emperor of Ice Cream - Weather Vane
Dangereens - Streets Of Doom
The Kowalskis - I Love You
Parker Longbough - Fake Sinatra
Namesake - I'm Sick
Hippo Campus - Bad Dream Baby
The dt's - You With Me
Acid Tongue - All Out Of Time
Future Crib - Most Likely Never Going To Die
Hand Drawn Maps - Catch A Wave
Sweet Nobody - Other Humans
Pale Lips - Candy
mazie - I Think I Wanna Be Left Alone
Mr. Goblin - Left Before Your Set

Jack Skuller - Only Getting Older
The Great American Novel - Grabbin' A Slice
The Clydes - Modern Girl
The Anderson Council - Girl Don't Tell Me
Gregory McLoughlin - Liftoff
Tom Barrett - Some Grow Wings
Vista Blue - Back To The Summer Olympics
Lauren Banjo - Hang In There
The Cheats - Rock N Roll Loveletter
Geoff Palmer - Tomorrow
Lysa Mychols & Super 8 - Don't Worry Baby
Thought Leaders - Jane Doe's Estate
Weekend Recovery - Yeah!
Los Chicos - The Prize
Bite Me Bambi - Our Lips Are Sealed
The Demographic - Descent
Woody & Jeremy - My Old Bassist
Richard Barone & Johnathan Pushkar - I Get Around
Colin Moulding - The Hardest Battle
Future Crib - Most Likely Never Going To Die
John LInnell - Haec Quoque Est Res
Jerry Lehane & Dicky Barrett - Drinking Life