Watch video from Bad American's Shards Session now.
Allentown, PA hardcore punk band Bad American join us for a Shards Session; plus a punk-heavy mix of bands who played in the Lehigh Valley in the month of August including Lehigh Valley's own The Clap, Admit Nothing!, and The Plumcocks.
Friday, Sep. 29 - Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017
Cedar Beach Park - Allentown, PA
Tape Swap Radio returns with our own stage at Allentown ArtsFest 2017. We will have three days of free concerts open to the public (and under a tent). We'll be featuring many of the bands that recorded recent sessions and a few new favorites as well.
LIBRARY AFTER HOURS II WITH CALVIN JOHNSON
Selector Dub Narcotic
Secret Cities
VoirVoir
Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 - 8 PM
Bethlehem Area Public Library
Legendary Beat Happening frontman and K Records founder Calvin Johnson brings his new band, Selector Dub Narcotic, to our second "Library After Hours" show at the Bethlehem Area Public Library.
Supporting is NYC/D.C. psych pop band Secret Cities and Bethlehem indie rockers VoirVoir playing their first full-band show in over a year.
All Ages, 21+ to drink.
$10; $8 with valid student ID.
Proceeds benefit the bands and the library.
Ticket Pre-Sale
All pre-sale orders include a free 11x17 show poster!
Bethlehem's Gypsy punk/vaudeville troop This Way to the Egress perform our inaugural Rooftop Session on the Cigar Factory building in Allentown; our staff picks highlight artists who played in the Lehigh Valley during July including local indie pop band Doctor Ransom and Brooklyn folk punk group Out of System Transfer.
Bethlehem, PA's This Way to the Egress can only begin to be described as a concoction of gypsy, vaudeville, punk rock, and circus music. Even that description doesn't do them justice. Maybe a better way to put it is, they are simultaneously the circus' main attraction and P.T. Barnum's outlandish showmanship rolled into one. The Lehigh Valley showmen and women admit they did the usual band trajectory backwards, starting with hitting the road soon after forming in 2008 and only recently focusing on building a solid local prescence to grow roots in their hometown. With Egress' fourth studio album, Onward! Up a Frightening Creek, set to be released in September 2017, the band is making strides to grow those local roots, performing at at a slew of LV venues in the summer and fall of 2017 including the new One Centre Square venue in Easton, The Funhouse in Bethlehem, Allentown ArtsFest, and this session for Tape Swap Radio recorded in June 2017.
This session marks Tape Swap Radio's first Rooftop Session and we're thrilled to be able to bring bands up to the roof of the four-story Cigar Factory building in Allentown. The building is home to the Alternative Gallery, Coffee House without Limits, Inkhound Press, and more. The Cigar Factory has been host to a lot of live music in the LV's DIY community throughout the 90's and early 2000's, so it is fortuitous that our project has ended up on the roof of this same building. Roots run deep.
1. What Do You Want? (0:03)
2. Mark of the Beast (4:21)
3. See No Evil (8:14)
4. Southbound (11:52)
5. Interview (16:33)
6. Band Pick: The Ford Theatre Reunion - New American Standard (25:33)
The Ford Theatre Reunion (Band Pick):
http://www.thefordtheatrereunion.com/
This Way to the Egress:
http://thiswaytotheegress.com/