2026 marks our 5th annual Musikfest Exordium where we preview “must see” bands, weather predictions, enjoy some live music, and kick things off with “the first part”. In this last part, we hear from: EPAWA Chief Meteorologist Bobby Martrich regarding how the weather is looking from a few days out of the start of things. He's been a pretty good luck charm so far, and he's always got things dialed inOrganizers of the Musikfest Music Industry Conference Grace Obert and Marissa Guarriello ...

2026 marks our 5th annual Musikfest Exordium where we preview “must see” bands, weather predictions, enjoy some live music, and kick things off with “the first part”. In this segment, we "get to the music" and hear phenomenal live performances from two bands who'll be performing during this year's Fest: Atlassian and Bren. Atlassian Bio Lehigh Valley local favorites Atlassian formed in the winter of 2015, when Nickolas Kossup and Anthony Belcaro were playing early acoustic versions of thei...

2026 marks our 5th annual Musikfest Exordium where we preview “must see” bands, weather predictions, enjoy some live music, and kick things off with “the first part”. In this segment, we spend time with ArtsQuest Chief Programming Officer Patrick Brogan to detail our collective "must see" bands and make our case for Best Day of the Fest. We each individually submit our top 10 bands we are most looking forward to, and it has to be a mix of 4 FestFavBands (meaning those bands who've appeared ...

First and foremost, Pepperwine is a groovy, funky, beachy vibe that is producing infectious music and puts on killer live shows. But they are also some of the kindest, funniest and most supportive humans around. They were the 4th ever interview I did, back when I was co-hosting episodes with George Wacker under Lehigh Valley with Love: Music. They were also part of the first Holiday Spectacular, and then under the Your Next Favorite Band banner, they were the first headliners of ...

I've heard tracks from Love? said the Commander consistently on Dan Drago's 25 O'Clock Pod pretty regularly over the years. And every time it always caught my ear, and tug at my emotions. I suppose that's where the genre label "emo" truly comes from. At some point, when I heard another one of their brilliant songs, I just said "alright, that's it. I've gotta have them on the show". And reached out to Kate Hall and Chris Bishop and we started to plan for it. Then they...

I was able to see Disterbenz (the moniker of Gabrielle Sterbenz) perform live a few years back when she opened for Wheatus and was majorly impressed. She has a powerful voice and a performance that includes looping of her vocals and guitar that really impresses. And the songwriting is stellar - mostly Americana, but really a sound all her own. You may already know that she is a member of Wheatus as a backing vocalist. But her catalog of solo music is vastly different and wo...

We had the great honor of spending time with Wheatus to learn all about how they achieve their iconic sound. We had this awesome group of humans on 3 years ago to dive in to their backstory, and we did that on the sidewalk during Wayne Music Fest. One of our fav episodes for sure! We then hatched the idea to get back together during one of their concerts in Bethlehem to capture their load-in, sound check and performances for our Behind the Sound series. So tonight we share what we pu...

When we had Lia Menaker on back in October, we had out traditional episode format planned and ready, but a combination of some things going on in her life that were connected to her recent release "I'm Still Here" and a perfect synergy with guest co-host Galen Deery, we ended up just talking about things like heartbreak and hurt, and processing things. At about 32 mins in to that one, I realized the banter was just too good, and shelved the research and ditched the traditional format ...

One of the things we love the most on this show is when an artist grabs two (or more) genres and brings them together brilliantly and just turns your preconceived notions of what to expect in music on it's ear. When we took a listen to Orillia for the first time, we knew we were on a ride down a new road and were going to enjoy every turn. We're joined by frontman and songwriter Andrew Marczak and his collaborator, harmonizer and partner Peach for a dive in to their backstories and acr...

There's a good chance you've seen Jacob Givens have a hilarious reaction to a killer track from the 90s, and if you haven't ... you should. He's developed a series of videos that attempt to express what it was like to hear some of the iconic grunge music of the 1990s for the first time and how mind-blowing it was, and we'd never listen to music the same way after. He also has a similar series of videos called Buried Treasures that look to reconnect everyone to some of the tracks and artists...