Joey Spehar
HostJoey Spehar is a Pittsburgh native who started as a volunteer D.J. fresh out of college in 2006. He took on any job they’d let him do like editing audio, engineering remote broadcasts, and shoveling snow.
By fall, he was hosting a weekly show on Friday nights from midnight to 4 a.m. and started doing freelance production work for The Allegheny Front – Pittsburgh’s best environmental radio show – and eventually served as the show’s Production Director.
In 2012, Joey was hired full-time at WYEP as a co-host of the morning mix and started broadcasting solo in July 2017. In the midst of a global pandemic in 2020, he also became the host of WYEP’s virtual music quiz show, Drive Time.
Favorite Band: Grateful Dead
Most notable interview: This unpublished talk with David Bazan.
Read all about him:
My Favorite Pittsburgh Thing To Do With Kids, KidsBurgh.org
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Summer in Pittsburgh means lots of live music! We asked three WYEP hosts to put together their recommendations for the best shows to check out this July. -
Yokai Jem took some time away from making music to focus on his work and his faith. He’s back now with a new song that reminds us that it’s always a good idea to live life facing forward. -
Instrumental bliss abounds on the new release from Pittsburgh guitarist Ernie Francestine. His song “If It’s A Flower” could be the perfect soundtrack to your next nature walk. -
We don’t always give ourselves the grace we give other people, but the psychedelic space lounge band Roussett are here to remind us that we all have some really great things about us. -
The Hell Club are leaning into the nihilism of this strange new world we’re living in. Their new song, “Ha Ha Hey Hey,” is a fun escape from it all. -
The Pittsburgh indie post-punk band Sleeping Witch & Saturn are returning with a new album this year. “MoJOther’s Day” is your first look at the new material and it thoughtfully deals with the pain of familial trauma. -
I am thrilled that Fantastic Cat are on the bill for this year’s WYEP Summer Music Festival and not because there’s a problem with mice in Schenley Plaza! While these guys probably do have some experience with rodent removal — they are musicians, ya know — I’m mostly looking forward to watching a group of accomplished songwriters do their thing on stage. -
Pittsburgh rocker DiLisio’s new album "Make It Go Away" is out now and it’s bursting with hard rocking songs full of fun and introspective lyrics. “Oklahoma Strut” is a cautionary tale about a guy who threw it all away for something new. -
Pittsburgh indie folk artist Reliable Child just dropped a barn-stormin', soul-stealin' and revival stompin' anthem for folks with a quiet disdain for Election Day. -
From the experimental rock and psychedelic sounds of new Cage the Elephant music to Kacey Musgraves’ iconic “Pageant Material” to a concept album from Father John Misty, 2015 was a time for artists to figure out who they were and celebrate their great songwriting.
