Video Jam

Video Jam

Eclectic music video show featuring all styles of music: pop, alternative, electronica, christian, r&b, country, jazz
YOU NAME IT, WE PLAY IT!

The show features local bands and musical events, videos from major and independent labels, and famous artists. There are interviews with the likes of The Clash’s Joe Strummer, Reprise recording artists Guster, the Bare Naked Ladies, Tears for Fears, Ashlee Simpson, Deborah Gibson and many, many more! Featured local talents include The Johnny Dollar Experiment and Clutch Grabwell.

Video Jam is hosted and produced locally by WCCA's own Tracy Foley. It is distributed nationwide and can be seen in more than a million households!

Video Jam has give-aways of both CD's and concert tickets! Tune in or send email to Tracy to get yours!

Video Jam received 3rd place in the professional performing arts category in the Fall 2003 Alliance for Community Media New England Video Festival.

Video Jam airs Fridays 9:00pm and late night at 2am, Saturdays 7pm & late night at 2:30am, Sundays 10:30am and 12 midnight. Be there!

Video Jam YouTube playlist

Video Jam Playlist for the week of August 18, 2008

See Radiohead's new video House of Cards and how it was made!

  1. Radiohead
      House of Cards
  2. Radiohead
      Making of House of Cards
  3. Augustana
      Sweet and Low
  4. Cyndi Lauper
      Into the Nightlife
  5. The Fasion
      Like Knives
  6. Fleet Foxes
      White Winter Hymnal
  7. No Age
      Eraser

Video Jam Playlist for the week of August 11, 2008

Tracy plays Alkaline Trio's newest video, Help Me

  1. Keaton Simons
      Good Things Get Better
  2. Alkaline Trio
      Help Me
  3. Menudo
      Lost
  4. Sara Bareilles
      Bottle It Up
  5. Lenka
      The Show
  6. Remedy Drive
      Daylight
  7. Jinga Boogie
      Caipirnha
  8. Noughts & Exes
      A Minor to Major

Video Jam #521: Ice Cream Fest

This show features the Big Dipper Ice Cream Festival at Worcester's Elm Park, an event for the Children's Friend Society, featuring American Idol's Ayla Brown.

Video Jam: Father's Fest

Video Jam Playlist for the week of July 21, 2008

  1. Forward Russia
      Breaking Standing
  2. Anthem In
      Down
  3. Sean Cox
      Coming Home
  4. No Use for a Name
      Biggest Lie
  5. Apples in Stereo
      Can You Feel It?
  6. AKA'S
      Dead Flowers Forever
  7. Garth Brooks
      More Than a Memory
  8. Band of Horses
      No One's Gonna Love You

Flight of the Conchords - Ladies of the World

Everlast: "Folsom Prison Blues"

Look At You Now - Mark O'Shea

CSS - Rat is Dead (Rage)

Ashton Shepherd - Sounds So Good: Video - Closed Captioned

She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?

AMERICAN IDOL CONTESTANT ON VIDEO JAM

Former American Idol contestant, Ayla Brown, will be featured in 2 parts on Video Jam, a local originated WCCA TV music series hosted by Tracy Foley. Part One will feature 2 songs Ms. Brown performed at the Big Dipper Ice Cream Festival at Elm Park in Worcester, Mass. That episode will air on Friday, August 1st at 9pm and Saturday, August 2 at 7pm. Part Two, featuring  an exclusive interview with Ayla Brown and her full performance at the Festival, will air on WCCA TV 13 and will stream on www.wccatv.com on Friday, August 8 at 9pm and Saturday, August 9 at 7pm. Thank you to interns Anthony Pepi and Asia Black.

Anthem In - "Down"

Forward Russia - Breaking Standing

Framing Hanley - Built for sin

Video Jam Playlist for the week of July 14, 2008

How sweet it is! 2 songs by Sugarland this week.

  1. Windupdeads
      On Your Way Out
  2. The Morning Benders
      Boarded Doors & Waiting for a War
  3. Sugarland
      All I Wanna Do
  4. Sugarland
      Everyday America
  5. Jose Gonzalez
      Teardrops
  6. Bridges and Powerlines
      Uncalibrated
  7. Salvador Santanta
      Summer's Day

Video Jam playlist for the week of July 7, 2008

This week on Video Jam! Willie Nelson sings the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia - Georgia On My Mind.

  1. Flight of the Conchords
      Ladies of the World
  2. Ryan Cabrera
      Enemies
  3. Grand Archives
      Miniature Birds
  4. The Notwist
      Where in This World
  5. The Cute Lepers
      Terminal Boredom
  6. Ace Young
      Addicted
  7. The Gutter Twins
      Idle Hands
  8. Willie Nelson
      Georgia on My Mind

Mail from a Video Jam Fan

Dear Tracy,
I have watched Video Jam on the community access channel in Fargo, ND for several months and have enjoyed it!"
Rosalie Heintz
Fargo, North Dakota

Video Jam Playlist for the July 4th weekend

A summer fun show this week!

  1. Sal Santana Band
      Summers Day
  2. B52's
      Astralwerks
  3. I'm From Barcelona
      We're From Barcelona
  4. The Brunette's
      BABY
  5. Junior Senior
      Can I Get Get
  6. Mink
      Talk to Me
  7. George Harrison
      Got My Mind Set On You

Video Jam Playlist for the week of June 23, 2008

A special treat this week! Videos from the Fathers' Festival in Worcester, Massachusetts on June 14th

  1. Fathers' Festival Footage
  2. Ciam
      The Call
  3. Alex Woodward
      Beautiful Now
  4. Bridges and Powerlines
      Uncalibrated
  5. Foals
      Red Socks

Video Jam Playlist for the week of June 16, 2008

This week's show starts with something special, video from the STart in the Park Festival held in Worcester.
Click here to watch the video of the STart in the Park Festival

  1. Framing Hanley
      Hear Me Now
  2. Lenny Kravitz
      Love Love Love
  3. Coldplay
      Violet Hill
  4. Atris
      Automatic Doors
  5. Karmina
      The Kiss
  6. Chaotica
      When She Falls

Music swag of the week

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Want free CDs, buttons, t-shirts, or stickers?

E-mail tracy at wccatv dot org, or stop by 415 Main St and ask to speak to Tracy or Mike.

Video Jam 515: stART in the Park

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Video Jam visits stART on the Park in this clip from show 515. Those interviewed include Bruce Russell, Mike Benedetti, Tina Zlody, and Jeff Barnard. If you're in this clip and I didn't ID you, please add your name and link in the comments below!

Video: Download the mp4 video (38MB) or see other formats.

Video Jam Playlist for the week of June 9, 2008

Check out the Fountains of Wayne website

  1. Spiritualized
      Soul on Fire
  2. Sugarland
      All I Wanna
  3. Fountains of Wayne
      Someone to Love
  4. Brooke Fraser
      Shadow Feet
  5. Orchid Highway
      Next World
  6. John Lennon
      Stand By Me & Working Class Hero & Slippin and Sliddin

Video Jam Playlist for the week of June 2, 2008

Don't forget Video Jam's air times are

Fridays 9:00pm and late night at 2am
Saturdays 7pm & late night at 2:30am
Sundays 10:30am and 12 midnight

  1. Sal Santana Band
      Summers Day
  2. B52's
      Astralwerks
  3. I'm From Barcelona
      We're From Barcelona
  4. The Brunette's
      BABY
  5. Junior Senior
      Can I Get Get
  6. Mink
      Talk to Me
  7. George Harrison
      Got My Mind Set On You

Video Jam Playlist for the week of May 26, 2008

  1. Architecture in Helsinki
      Like It Or Not
  2. Mary Su Englund
      Born to Run
  3. Jamie Lidell
      Another Day
  4. The Cure
      Taking Off
  5. Ashley Simpson
      La La
  6. Beatles
      Hold Your Hand
  7. Office
      Oh My!
  8. You Am I
      Friend Like You

Video Jam Playlist for the week of May 19, 2008

Tracy has something special this week! Two live performances by Jason Mraz!
The 2 acoustic songs were taped at WXLO Radio in Worcester, MA.

  1. Tristan Prettyman
      Madly
  2. We Are Scientists
      After Hours
  3. Soundside
      Loss for Words
  4. IAMX
      Spit it Out
  5. Gutter Twins
      All Misery /Flowers
  6. Jason Mraz
      2 live songs!
  7. Leann Rimes
      Good Friend/Glass of Wine

Don't forget Video Jam's new schedule starts this week
* Fridays 9:00pm and late night at 2am
* Saturdays 7pm & late night at 2:30am
* Sundays 10:30am and 12 midnight

Video Jam schedule changes

Video Jam, the eclectic music video show produced at WCCA is moving.
Starting May 19 Video Jam's new showtimes are

Fridays 9:00pm and late night at 2am
Saturdays 7pm & late night at 2:30am
Sundays 10:30am and 12 midnight

Video Jam Playlist for the week of May 12, 2008

Video Jam ANIMATION SPECIAL #1

  1. American Prines
      Never Grow Old
  2. Robyn Hitchcock
      Adventure Rocketship
  3. The Apples in Stereo
      Can You Feel It?
  4. Weird Al Yankovic
      Do I Creep You Out
  5. The Meat Puppets
      On the Rise
  6. Mum
      They Made Frogs...
  7. Of Montreal
      Gronlandic Edit

Video Jam Playlist for the week of April 28, 2008

A blast from the past this week! A new B-52's video as well as one from the Video Jam archives. Watch and see how've they've changed.

  1. The Cool Kids
      Black Mags
  2. Sally Anthony
      So Long
  3. The B-52's
      Funplex
  4. The B-52's (from the Video Jam archives!)
      debbie
  5. Love in October
      Petrula the Destroyer
  6. Barenaked Ladies
      Brian Wilson

Video Jam Playlist for the week of April 21, 2008

  1. Landon
      Only 20
      & Red Lipstick
  2. Jimmy Buffet
      1 Particular Harbor
  3. Greyboy Allstars
      Still Waiting
  4. K'Naan
      Strugglin'
  5. Jen Hanson
      '73
  6. Maroon5
      Makes Me Wonder
      & Wake Up Call

Video Jam Playlist for the week of April 14, 2008

Send a message to Tracy telling her if you saw the show on a local channel or if you watched it on WCCA's streaming video on the internet. tracy@wccatv.org

  1. Spoon
      Don't You Evah
  2. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
      Please Read the Letter
  3. Minus the Bear
      Throwin' Shapes
  4. These New Puritans
      Elvis
  5. The Last Shadow Puppets
      The Age of Understatement
  6. Clinic
      The Witch
  7. American Princes
      Real Love
  8. NeedtoBreathe
      Washed by the Water

Video Jam Playlist for the week of April 7, 2008

Videos of Guster and Barenaked Ladies taped at WXLO FM 104.5 in Worcester!

  1. Sink to See
      Speakers
  2. Cross Canadian Ragweed
      I Believe
  3. Someone Still Love You Boris Y
      Think I Wann Die
  4. Merlin Moon
      Poppy Fields
  5. Guster
      performs 2 songs live at WXLO Radio 104.5 in Worcester, MA
  6. Barenaked Ladies
      "Crazy" taped live at WXLO Radio 104.5 in Worcester, MA

Video Jam spins 36 times a week

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Did you know that Video Jam, produced at WCCA, airs across the country 36 times a week?

In Massachusetts, the show airs 5 times a week in Worcester (Ch13, 57,000 households); 3 times a week in Medfield (Ch8, 10,000 households); 3 times a week in Hudson and Stowe (Ch8); 3 times a week in Amherst (Ch12, 7,500 households); 3 times a week in Ashburnham, Ashby, and Westminster (Ch8, 8,500 households); 3 times a week in Townsend (Ch8, 8,000 households); and 3 times a week in Spencer (Ch11, 8,000 households).

Last month the show was added to the "Residence Life" channel at Drake University in Des Moines, where it airs once a week to 3,000 students.

In California, it's carried 3 times a week by Berkeley's Channel 25, which goes out to 20,000 households.

Video Jam is seen 3 times a week by the 100,000 households surrounding Londonderry, New Hampshire.

Fargo, North Dakota's Channel 12 carries the show 3 times a week to 30,000 households.

Finally, the show goes out to the 182,000 households around New Haven, Connecticut, 3 times a week.

Not bad for a locally-produced show!

Video Jam Playlist for the week of March 24, 2008

Video Jam ANIMATION SPECIAL #2

  1. American Prines
      Never Grow Old
  2. Malajube
      Montreal
  3. Jars of Clay (Christian Rock)
      Love Came Down at Christmas
  4. Pirates of the Mississippi (Country)
      Kickin' Up Dust
  5. Weird Al Yankovic
      Don't Download This Song
  6. Weird Al Yankovic
      I'll Sue Ya
  7. The Knife
      Like a Pen
  8. Eastern Conference Champions
      The Box

Video Jam Playlist for the week of March 17, 2008

This week's Video Jam show is the first ANIMATION SPECIAL! The real life host, Tracy, presents 7 videos. All of them animation!
If you like this all animation special send an email to Tracy, tracy@wccatv.org , telling her you want to see more animation.

  1. American Prines
      Never Grow Old
  2. Robyn Hitchcock
      Adventure Rocketship
  3. The Apples in Stereo
      Can You Feel It?
  4. Weird Al Yankovic
      Do I Creep You Out
  5. The Meat Puppets
      On the Rise
  6. Mum
      They Made Frogs...
  7. Of Montreal
      Gronlandic Edit

Video Jam Playlist for the week of March 10, 2008

  1. The Moog
      Everybody Wants
  2. Bell XI
      Rocky Took a Lover
  3. The Apples in Stereo
      Energy
  4. Salvador Santana Band
      Summer's Day
  5. School of Language
      Rockist
  6. Headlights
      Cherry Tulips
  7. Five Times August
      The Good Life
  8. Mica Roberts
      Things a Mama Don't Know

Video Jam to Air at Drake University, Iowa

Video Jam, WCCA TV 's local originated music video show, created by Mauro DePasquale and hosted by Tracy Foley, has been asked to present their show on the Residence Life Channel 7 at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa! Video Jam has produced over 500 shows since 1992 and it is seen not only in Massachusetts, but New Hampshire, California, North Dakota, and now Iowa!

Video Jam #501: Snow Ghost interview

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This episode of Video Jam includes an interview with the Snow Ghost!

Video: Download the mp4 video (5MB) or see other formats.

Eastern Conference Champions: The Box

Shelby Lynne: Anyone Who Had a Heart

Foals: Balloons

Ferras: Hollywood's Not America

The Brunettes: B-A-B-Y

Tim McGraw: Susupicious

Chemical Bros.: Salmon Dance

Video Jam Playlist for the week of February 25, 2008

This week's Video Jam is our 500th show! 500 shows of great Eclectic music videos. YAHOO!

  1. Jill Criscuolo
      Insane
  2. British Sea Power
      Waving Flags
  3. Matt Nathanson
      Car Crash
  4. Willie Nelson
      Gravedigger
  5. Radiohead
      Bodysnatchers
  6. Taxi Doll
      Waiting

Video Jam Playlist for the week of February 18, 2008

This week's show is a repeat of last week's, February 11th. Next week will be a very special occasion for Video Jam. Don't miss it!

Video Jam Playlist for the week of February 11, 2008

A special from the Video Jam archives this week.
R.E.M.'s Crush with Eyeliner.

Peter Francis: Shooting Star


A Farewell Rescue: Pretty, Cut and Dry


Hurt: Ten Ton Brick


Garth Brooks and Huey Lewis: Working for a Living

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Weird Al Yankovic: I'll Sue Ya


Weird Al Yankovic: White and Nerdy


R.E.M.:Crush with Eyeliner


Video Jam 496

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Watch one of Tracy's favorite Video Jam shows featuring Rookie of the Year, Lenny Kravitz, and Jon Bon Jovi.

Download the mp4 video (34MB) or see other formats. You can subscribe via Democracy and see all WCCA videos as they are posted.

Video Jam Playlist for the week of January 28, 2008


  1. Blind Boys of Alabama
      Free at Last

  2. The Faint
      I Disappear

  3. The Thermals
      Returning to the Fold

  4. Maritime
      Guns of Navarone

  5. John Tesh
      Overture

  6. Nancy Fullforce
      Dead and Alive

  7. Lightspeed Champion
      Tell Me What It's Worth

  8. The Kills
      U.R.A. Fever

  9. Sons and Daughters
      Gilt Complex

Video Jam Playlist for the week of January 21, 2008


  1. Iron and Wine
      Boy with a Coin

  2. The Motion Sick
      30 Lives

  3. The Fiery Furnaces
      Duplexes of the Dead

  4. Point One
      Monochrome Mistress

  5. Modern Skirts
      Passadena

  6. Stellar Kart
      Innoncent

  7. Hot Chip
      Ready for the Floor

  8. JR.
      Not a Slave

Video Jam Playlist for the week of January 14, 2008


  1. Rookie of the Year
      Liars and Battlelines

  2. Meat Puppets
      On the Rise

  3. Lenny Kravitz
      I'll Be Waiting

  4. Ryan Bingham
      South Side of Heaven

  5. Liam Finn
      2nd Chance

  6. Jon Bon Jovi
      Til We Ain't Strangers Anymore

  7. Maria Taylor
      Song Beneath the Song

Video Jam Playlist for the week of January 7, 2008

2008 is going to be another dynamic year for Video Jam!


  1. Liars
      House Clouds

  2. Foreverinmontion
      Hot Air Balloon

  3. Maps
      To the Sky

  4. Richard Hawley
      Serious

  5. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
      Gone, Gone, Gone

  6. Maria Taylor
      A Good Start

  7. Beep Beep
      Executive Foliage

  8. Criteria
      Good Luck

Video Jam Playlist for weeks of December 24 and 31, 2007

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!


  1. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
      Gone, Gone, Gone

  2. Nassiri
      Happy Birthday Jesus

  3. Jars of Clay
      Love Came Down at Christmas

  4. Keith Urban
      Everybody

  5. Fiery Furnaces
      Navy Nurses

  6. Matt Nathanson
      Car Crash

Video Jam Playlist for the week of December 10, 2007

Parrot Head special! A Jimmy Buffet video!


  1. Shout Out Louds
    • Impossible (Long Version)

  2. Avalon Superstar
    • So Alive!

  3. Racetrack Babies
    • The Storm

  4. Jimmy Buffet
    • One Particular Harbor

  5. Georgie James
    • Need Your Needs

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