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Before The Stream

An in depth look back at albums I listened to growing up and the listening experience. 
Jason Bemis Lawrence, creator and host of Before The Stream, is a singer/songwriter and a drummer with bands like Heather Woods Broderick, The Building, and Jesse Marchant. In this podcast, Jason and a guest will be checking in on a record they both listened to abundantly in the past to see what memories the record conjures, what holds up, and what has changed about.. well, everything.

Jul 21, 2023

Rob Collier made his first appearance on the show back in episode 4 to talk about Soul Asylum.

Now he's back to talk about their 1995 album, Let Your Dim Light Shine.

It's impossible not to talk about Dave Pirner's lyrics. But Rob and Jason also talked a lot about music production (Butch Vig produced this record),...


May 22, 2023

Jason and Brian Kantor continue and conclude their conversation about The Cardigans' 1996 album First Band on the Moon

The two friends analyze each song on the record while sharing thoughts on production, arrangement, creativity, Black Sabbath, and more. They even dramatically read a couple of bizarre reviews for this...


May 2, 2023

Nina Persson of the Cardigans is interviewed in this episode! 

Brian Kantor returns to talk about The Cardigans' 1996 album First Band On The Moon. 

Brian is friends and erstwhile bandmates with Nina, so they recorded a conversation about the album that we listen to on this episode. 

Jason and Brian talk about drum...


Mar 27, 2023

We're talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York song by song.

Host Jason Bemis Lawrence did this one by himself. 

It gave Jason a chance to ruminate on the song Something in the Way, play some guitar, sing a little, address some of the common topics about the song and the differences between the Unplugged...


Mar 6, 2023

Chris Towers of CBS joins the podcast to count down our rankings of the full-length albums by the band The National in anticipation of a new National album in April. 

Jason Bemis Lawrence is the host and once had his parody song played on Chris' podcast, as Jason mentions. You can hear Chris and his colleagues...