Hosted by Adam JR Stoffel · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 48 episodes
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Discover your next favorite indie band right here. We go looking for the best music you never knew about, so all you have to do is let us introduce you to the music and the band,
Adam JR Stoffel hosts Bands You've Never Heard Of, a music show with 48 episodes published.
We started this one differently. No theme song. No intro. Just the video for "Desert Moon" — dark, shot in a Savannah swamp at midnight with one light on the back of a truck. That's your introduction to Dallas Wax. Ryan
Most gigging musicians have no idea what they're actually making per hour. Cliff Adams did the math — and it wasn't pretty. After 120 gigs in a year, Cliff (jazz pianist, IT veteran, former #1 Uber driver in Cincinnati)
Stick around to the end. The opening track from Yes Officer's brand new album — Ignore the Town Crier — plays in fullafter the credits. Jeremy Harnum is a one-man band from St. John's, Newfoundland making "loud and abras
Stick around to the end of this one. There's a prize. Susanna B is a New York-born, LA-based singer-songwriter with a voice that lands somewhere between Alanis Morissette and Sheryl Crow — and a story that goes way deepe
JR asked Spotify's AI to find bands perfect for this show. This is one of them. The Schwa is Eric Intile and Cooper Phillips — two college friends from Greenville, South Carolina who met in 8th grade, graduated with musi
They met on a Disney movie set in 2003. Reconnected 22 years later on the sequel. Started writing songs in between takes. Got one into the film. Now they're a real band.Hudson Rubin is Hayley Hudson and Danny Rubin — act
The Beard and the Bird are Jon and Cat, a bi-coastal rockabilly/Western swing duo splitting their time between San Diego and upstate New York. Five songs on Spotify, a YouTube series filming bands in bars across the coun
No pre-roll. No credits. Just news.Two bands we've featured on this show have major updates — and we couldn't wait for a regularly scheduled episode. Blackbeard's Tea Party just lost their lead singer of 15 years and mad
Three brothers from Long Island. Started playing jazz together when the youngest was eight. Won Amateur Night at the Apollo — multiple times. Opened for Slash and Living Color. Endorsed by Paul Reed Smith. Most played so
JR found this band using AI. He's going to have to tell them that. They're not going to love it.Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice is a five-piece synth-punk art rock band from Melbourne, Narrm, Australia — and they are exactly
This one's different. No living room discovery session, no cold open with Gary going in blind. This episode starts with an email — one of the best pitch emails JR has ever received — and ends with a love story that spans
Bad Mother Nature became the first band in BYNHOPod history to come back for a second episode — and they didn't come back empty-handed. Corey, Ryan, Axl, and Johnny (yes, the drummer's here this time) join JR and Gary to
No new band this week. Instead, JR and Gary each pick their five favorite songs from the first year of Bands You've Never Heard Of — 30 bands in — and make the case for why these songs have stuck with them long past the
JR kicks this one off differently — no intro, no bio, no warning. He just lets Uncle Ben's Remedy walk through the door and introduce themselves with "Jesus Never Took the Wheel." Gary's first words: "I think they're the
Guy Collins is a South African-born, Norway-based guitarist and songwriter blending Delta Blues, African roots, and global folk — and he joins JR and Gary live for this episode of Bands You've Never Heard Of. Full Descri
JR goes solo for the first-ever S.O.B. — State of BYNHOPod — a "State of the Union" check-in on almost one year of Bands You've Never Heard Of, what's coming next, and how listeners can help the show grow. Full Descripti
Discover Blackbeard’s Tea Party — a high-energy pirate folk rock band mixing sea shanties, Celtic-leaning folk, and sharp political protest songs — on this episode of “Bands You’ve Never Heard Of.” JR introduces Gary to
What happens when you mix Marine Corps drill cadence with heavy guitar riffs and a "no fads" attitude? You get 434, a band that is reclaiming the raw energy of rock and roll. And we have some serious role reversal going
Joudy is a three-piece New York City based Shoegaze, heavy grungy rock band originally from Venezuela. They were kind of a big deal in Venezuela before they had to flee the country in the late 2010s, for obvious reasons.
This is a bonus episode, featuring just JR talking about a new song from a new artist that he is convinced is an AI creation. Then JR goes in to what it takes to get a band on the show. www.bynhopod.com www.youtube.com/@
Johnny
Chef · Evictions
1 appearance on this show
Ryan
student · Brown University
1 appearance on this show
Corey
Dr. · JDR Restoration
1 appearance on this show
Scott
father behind the hit movie The Unbreakable Boy · @the_gray_area_
1 appearance on this show
Mike
trauma surgeon · The MDX Podcast
1 appearance on this show
Diego Ramirez
lead singer and guitarist
1 appearance on this show
Madi
personal trainer and health coach · United States
1 appearance on this show
Annabelle
senior supply chain director · AB Performance Nutrition
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Briggs
student intern · Kairos Partnerships
1 appearance on this show
Hayden
Ambassador for Grand Talon · Branksome Hall
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