Hometown Sounds

What if the Front Bottoms were a ska band that liked doing covers of trap and pop-punk songs? Easy, then you’d get Takoma Park band Mountain Jew! We introduced the fine listeners of our biweekly podcast to these young party rockers back in January with “We Only Know What We’ve Been Told”, their contribution to The Art Takes Action Mixtape from VoidLife Records. Today’s music video for the melodica-heavy song “While I Was Stuck In Jersey” comes from their 2016 name-your-own-price release The Shooman EP. It’s awkward and charming and fun as hell, and I definitely want to learn all the words and sing along to this live. Mountain Jew’s full length album Mountain Jew Fails Gym Class drops in May.