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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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchAn 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.
Before The Stream is hosted by Jason Lawrence. The show has published 71 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, with Rob Collier" (14 July 2026, 101 minutes), "Elvis Costello: Spike, with Peter Morén" (19 September 2025, 89 minutes), and "Soul Asylum: Slowly But Shirley, with Rob Collier" (4 February 2025, 90 minutes).
Before The Stream publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 66 minutes across 71 episodes.
Booking probability for Before The Stream is 23%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Before The Stream requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Before The Stream's contact route on record: verified email.
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Jason Lawrence hosts Before The Stream, a music podcast with 71 episodes published.
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Before The Stream
Doctor Rob Collier is a Beatles/Paul McCartney scholar, an educator, composer, performer, and heck of a bass player. Some of his current projects are Beatles Bass Lines and a Patreon page for bass/music education Jason...
Before The Stream
<p>Swedish singer/songwriter Peter Morén (Peter, Bjorn, and John) joins the podcast to talk about Elvis Costello's 1989 album Spike and Peter's new SunYears album The Song Forlorn. </p> <p>Jason and Peter talk about how...
Before The Stream
<p>Soul Asylum again? And their new album from 2024?</p> <p>When Jason and Rob Collier saw that the title of Soul Asylum's new album quoted the movie Airplane! they knew they had to follow up on their previous episodes...
Before The Stream
<p>Al Melchior of You, Me and An Album joins the show to talk about U2 and their 1983 album War.</p> <p>Al saw U2 in concert around the time that War came out and it made a huge impression on him. </p> <p>Jason and Al...
Before The Stream
<p>Just a quick little update to let you know that Jason talked about Radiohead's album Kid A on the podcast "You, Me and An Album" with Al Melchior. </p> <p>You can listen to the episode here or wherever you listen to...
Before The Stream
<p>A Safe Place is out. It's the 3rd single from Jason's forthcoming new album The Grand Routine. </p> <p>Great friend of the show Rob Collier joins again to talk about the song, how it was written, songwriting...
Before The Stream
<p>The 2nd single from Jason's forthcoming LP is out now. </p> <p>Singer-songwriter/drummer/multi-instrumentalist/producer Anthony LaMarca of The Building and The War on Drugs joined Jason to talk about the song and the...
Before The Stream
<p>The 1st single from Jason's forthcoming 2nd LP is out! </p> <p>The song is called In the Quiet Golden Hour, and Jason talked all about it with Andrew Carlson, who played bass and guitar and sang on the track. </p>...
<p>We are back! </p> <p>The grand return of Before the Stream features Jason and Natasha Alexandra talking about Tori Amos' 1994 classic album Under the Pink.</p> <p>Jason tries to guess Natasha's defining 3 songs from...
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<p>Rob Collier made his first appearance on the show back in episode 4 to talk about Soul Asylum.</p> <p>Now he's back to talk about their 1995 album, Let Your Dim Light Shine.</p> <p>It's impossible not to talk about...
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<p>Jason and Brian Kantor continue and conclude their conversation about The Cardigans' 1996 album First Band on the Moon. </p> <p>The two friends analyze each song on the record while sharing thoughts on production...
Before The Stream
<p>Nina Persson of the Cardigans is interviewed in this episode! </p> <p>Brian Kantor returns to talk about The Cardigans' 1996 album First Band On The Moon. </p> <p>Brian is friends and erstwhile bandmates with Nina...
Before The Stream
<p>We're talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York song by song.</p> <p>Host Jason Bemis Lawrence did this one by himself. </p> <p>It gave Jason a chance to ruminate on the song Something in the Way, play some...
Before The Stream
<p> 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. </p> <p> Jason Bemis Lawrence is the host and...
Before The Stream
<p>Chris Towers of CBS joins the podcast to count down our rankings of full-length albums by the band The National in anticipation of a new National album in April. </p> <p>Jason Bemis Lawrence has been forgetting to...
<p>D. James Goodwin is back on the show. </p> <p>We're taking a break from the Nirvana series to ask Dan some questions about his process of learning and engaging with the world via social media, technology, etc, before...
Before The Stream
<p>Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.</p> <p>Travis Smith returns to the pod to discuss On A Plain and reminisce about Nirvana. Jason and Travis talk...
Before The Stream
<p>Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.</p> <p>We finally had to go out of song order for this one, but you'll be glad to get it sooner.</p>...
Before The Stream
<p>Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.</p> <p>Chris Buckridge joined Jason to share his deeply personal connection to this song and to Nirvana. </p>...
Before The Stream
<p>Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.</p> <p>Rob Collier returns to the show to talk about Pennyroyal Tea, the 5th song on the album. </p> <p>We explore...
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