Tape Swap Radio

Listen to the full episode that debuted on WDIY 88.1 FM on April 3, 2026 featuring the Shards Session from Lehigh Valley garage rockers The Further; recent live sets recorded at Homebase Skateshop from Leadpetal, Headzo, and Wipes; and an interview with Chris Devlin about his punk beginnings in No Cash.

Julia Steiner, guitarist and singer for the Chicago-based band Ratboys, reflects on the band’s 16-year history; making their latest album, Singin’ to an Empty Chair; and more as they prepare to play at Archer Music Hall in Allentown on June 22.

A Shards Session with Lehigh Valley garage rock band The Further; live sets recorded at Homebase Skateshop from Leadpetal, Headzo, and Wipes; an interview with Chris Devlin of Headzo.

A Shards Session from Lehigh Valley surf rock band Sun Bus; live sets recorded at the IceHouse Punk & DIY live show from January 20, 2026 with Radlands, Cassie Ramone, and Colleen Green; an interview with The Menzingers singer-guitarist Tom May.

A Shards Session from Lehigh Valley garage-psych rock band The Living Things; live sets recorded at the IceHouse Punk & DIY show from January 10, 2026 from Lunar Pools, Concourse, and Public Beach; an interview with Frank FOE, who has been supporting punk rock in the Lehigh Valley for 40+ years.

On this episode of Tape Swap Radio, we premiere the Shards Session from Bethlehem weirdo experimental rockers Rubix Pube, recorded in November 2025. We also wrap up 2025 by looking back at the year in the Lehigh Valley DIY/punk/indie scene. We feature some of our favorite new releases that came out this past year, memorable shows in the area, and we pay respect to bands and people we lost. This sh...

We premiere the Shards Session from Lehigh Valley alt-metal band Leadpetal, recorded at Shards in November 2025. Plus, we dig into the IceHouse Punk & DIY archive for live sets recorded at the Ice House in Bethlehem in January 2025 from Spoing, Party Nerves, and Fictional Name — during the Fictional Name album release show for their album Overall Now I Want To Destroy This Place. Finally, we talk...

Hear a mixtape from Derick Fiedler aka @tumbleweed_photographer, a Lehigh Valley-based photographer who has shot a number of live music shows over the past few years. His work includes DIY shows — like Tape Swap Radio’s Live in the Garden sponsored shows in Bethlehem this past summer — as well as larger concerts at places like Archer Music Hall in Allentown. Derick has become a fixture at shows in...

Mindie Riley (Ultra Death Cult, ex-Grieving Eucalyptus) brings a mixtape to play featuring her favorite songs from the '90s to the modern day — indie rock, alternative rock, shoegaze, surf rock, metal, and more.

A Rooftop Session with Allentown psych-punk band Pale Fang. Recorded in October 2024 on the Flatiron Building in Bethlehem, PA shortly before the band announced they were breaking up.

Bethlehem, PA indie rock band Food Truck join Tape Swap Radio on the roof of the Flatiron Building in their hometown in August 2024, one week after the release of their sophomore album 'Pure Gold'.

Brooklyn’s Matte Black have been making swirling, heavy rock since 2012. Their time together has been anything but musically stagnant, though. From the the doom metal feel of 2015’s Dust of This Planet to the psychedelic touches in 2019’s Psyche to the addition of synthesizers on their new album, 2013’s Portrait, Matte Black has never been afraid to evolve wherever the music takes them. The three...

This show features the Shards Session from Allentown, PA-based psych rock band Catatonic Suns recorded in March 2022. The band is made up of Jakob Christman, Patrick Shields, Caleb Strobl, and LJ Llaguri. They’ve been refining their their lush and noisy sonic template since beginning in 2018. They performed wo songs from the band's latest album, 2022's Saudade, and two songs from their first album...

Tape Swap’s first show of 2022 premiered in April on WDIY 88.1 FM and featured the Shards Session with Laurel Canyon. The four-piece band is a new addition to the Lehigh Valley music scene, having recently releasing their debut EP, Victim, in January 2022. Laurel Canyon is made up of guitarists Nicholas Gillespie and Serg Cereja, bassist Dylan Loccarini, and drummer Egan Miller. The band joined us...

The Jawnstowne Standard may be one of the Lehigh Valley’s newest punk bands, but the four members all have long histories playing loud and raucous DIY music. After the break-up of Valley punk band Twin 55, Bruce, Brock, and Matt regrouped under the banner As Years Pass, whose name they would eventually change to the Jawnstowne Standard in 2019 with the addition of former Road Sodas drummer A.C.. T...

Shamus and Maggie premiere the Rooftop Session from Hairdo, a three-piece band from Kutztown, PA. The band was recorded in August 2020 and was the first recording Tape Swap has done on the Flatiron Building in Bethlehem, PA in August 2020. This session debuted on WDIY 88.1 FM later that month. They also catch up with fellow Tape Swap collaborator Matt Molchany for an interview on how he has been c...

THE MEGA YEAH SHARDS SESSION ---> The Mega Yeah - Pineapple Pie (0:03) ---> The Mega Yeah - Stereo Silence (3:36) ---> The Mega Yeah - North Star (8:17) ---> The Mega Yeah - Moon Face (12:45) ---> The Mega Yeah - Interview (16:11) ---> BAND PICK: Victor Traps - Borderline (27:17) DAVE ALLISON INTERVIEW + MIXTAPE ---> Dave Allison - Interview Pt. 1 (30:27) ---> Static Daydream - Seconds (32:26) ---...

Lehigh Valley-based hip-hop group, The Xenomorph, join us for a Shards Session recorded in November 2019. The two members of the group are Bethlehem rapper NyteXing and Allentown artist and producer Johnny Five. And if all of those names didn’t clue you in, you can expect lots of references from comics, movies, cartoons, and gaming in their music, especially from NyteXing who says he’s a “gamer no...

On this show, we premiere the Shards Session from Philadelphia-based band Booze Radly, recorded in August 2019. The five members of Booze Radly, who are all originally from the Lehigh Valley, have just self-released their debut album Haunted Mind, an energetic mixture of raucous pop-punk and emo whose songwriting explores singer and guitarist Alex Manescu’s personal family struggles. We also explo...

---------PART ONE--------- Run from the Radio: An Introduction (0:39) LV Girls Rock Interview ----> Jen and Felicia introductions (2:06) ----> What is LV Girls Rock? (2:41) ----> Why did they start LV Girls Rock? (4:04) ----> Discussing former campers Space Is Crunchy (5:29) Space Is Crunchy - Safe Space (6:40) Small Mess - Feeling Better (10:25) LV Girls Rock Interview ----> Discus...

A ROOFTOP SESSION WITH WE’RE FROM ANTARCTICA AND A MIXTAPE BY THE DEAD MILKMEN’S JOE JACK TALCUM On this show, we premiere the Rooftop Session with We're from Antarctica. The five-piece alternative indie pop band joined us on the roof of the Cigar Factory in June 2019. Also on the show, we feature a mixtape put together by Joe Jack Talcum from legendary punk band The Dead Milkmen. Shamus sat down...

We’re going full Florida for this show. We unveil the Shards Session with Orlando three-piece 'bubblegrunge' band Expert Timing, recorded in May 2019. The band combines melodic punk and energetic indie rock to create a catchy and powerful sound. Also, on the show, we talk with Amanda Starling, host of the weekly podcast Angry Grrrl Music of the Indie Rock Persuasion based in Tampa. She picks out h...

---------PART ONE--------- L.A. FASTLIFE : An Introduction (0:37) Slingshot Dakota - Louder (2:29) Pretty Lousy - People You May Know (6:00) Pool Radio - Real Life Hero (8:57) ---------PART TWO--------- L.A. FASTLIFE - Beach Party (14:26) L.A. FASTLIFE - Killbot (17:32) L.A. FASTLIFE - Ersatz (20:04) L.A. FASTLIFE - Interview Part 1 ----> Practicing at Shards (23:50) ----> Bands that inspire...

Austin, TX post-punk band Beth Israel stopped by Shards on their tour in October 2014 to record this Shards Session. The band had just released their album Dental Denial on the indie record label Dull Tools, a label run by Parquet Courts’ Andrew Savage which was receiving some national attention. This session’s files were originally thought to be lost after a hard drive at Shards crashed shortly a...

---------PART ONE--------- The Curls - Hit Em Where It Hurts (3:18) You & Your Whatever - Heart Breaks in Three (6:34) Horrible Charlie - Browning Out (9:52) ---------PART TWO--------- Line Leader - Premonition (12:12) Line Leader - Gemini Divide (16:08) Line Leader - Bubblegum (20:54) Line Leader - Interview Part 1 ----> Band introductions (22:57) ----> Experience playing live (23:22) -...