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Most notable interview: This unpublished talk with David Bazan.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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Silver Car Crash ponder the meaning of life — and keep it noisy — on "Pleasure Zone." Listen here. -
The Stapletons are getting ready to take the whole family on the road in an old school bus, playing chamber folk songs across the country. -
English alt rockers Sports Team made their debut appearance at WYEP’s studios with a Live & Direct session on Tuesday, Sept. 26! They were in town for a Mr. Small Theatre show with Sun Room stopped by for an interview with Joey Spehar. -
Catch a groove and take a trip to the Inflatable Spacestation with this Pittsburgh power trio. -
The Garment District is a project from multi-instrumentalist Jennifer Baron, and it has a jangly new song "Left On Coast." -
Pittsburgh Hip-Hop project Abstract Theory returns with the emotional new album "PULP." -
Cody Piper flexes his music theory muscles on a fun new song called "Things May Change." -
Clara Kent recently released the first of four new EPs. Listen to "Play Clothes" from "The Four Winds: East" here. -
Pittsburgh basement legends Gaadge are back with a new album that could propel them into the national spotlight. -
Jimmy Adler’s new song “Living Upside Down” will make you smile bigger than that time you got the ketchup to flow on the first tap.
