The Jungle Beat began in the basement of my friend Marc’s house one night in the early 90′s. I suppose that “fanzine”was the closest one word description of the publication,but I hated that word,so I called it a music newsletter. With Lotus AmiPro (their Word equivalent at the time) and a few random articles about music,The Jungle Beat was born. Our distribution was our local college campus,in various places around Rutgers University.. any place we could place a couple hundred copies. With a number of record (yes,record) company contacts,we reviewed CDs,interviewed artists,and reviewed live shows. This hobby became a great amount of fun,and an equal amount of work. Combined with being Program Director and then Music Director at our Livingston College radio station,many colleagues wondered how I didn’t end up doing this professionally. I miss it,though,and with this site,I’m bringing it back. I’ll bring in some archival articles as I dig them up,especially some interviews I’m particularly proud of. Yes,I was young and asked boring questions. Get over it! Please enjoy,and thank you so much for visiting. –George Huang