Jughead's Basement

Apr 08 2024 498
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Jughead's Basement is hosted by Screeching Weasel, Mopes, and Even In Blackouts' co-founder John Jughead Pierson.  The podcast has three subcategories: Dissections of punk records.  Long-form interviews of punk & alternative musicians, comedians, and underground performers.  Plus, lastly, an old fashion radio adventure that tells the twisted tale of two men attached to one body roaming an unknown mansion meeting and interviewing different guests every episode.

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Episode 194: Episode 194: Marc Ruvolo of No Empathy, Fur Coats, Chia Pet, Author and founder of Johann's Face Records on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests

Apr 08 2024 92 mins  
Episode 194: Marc Ruvolo of No Empathy, Chia Pet, Fur Coats, and Johann's Face Records talks to us about his new novel Pieties, Childhood From City To Suburbs To City, First Shows With No Empathy And Ongoing Trouble with CASH (Chicago Area Skinheads), Rise And Fall Of Walkthrufyre Records, Working with Roadkill Records, The Formation of Mark's Record Label Johann's Face, Ben Weasel

Episode 193: Episode 193: Chris Wrenn of Bridge Nine Records and Sully's Brand on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests

Mar 25 2024 84 mins  
Episode 193: Chris Wrenn of Bridge 9 Records and Sully's Brand talks to us about Hardcore Passion to Business Hat, On The Road Representing His Bands As An Ambassador For Bridge Nine, Is There Talent In Creating A Roster, Sully's Brand And The Boston Red Sox, DYS And A Bands' Journey Through Years And Style plus much much hardcore more!Bridge Nine WebsiteSully's Brand WebsiteBridge

Episode 192: Episode 192: Jonathan Anastas of DYS on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests

Mar 11 2024 104 mins  
Episode 192 with Jonathan Anastas of DYS and Slapshot talks to us about: On being a left handed bassist, Metal to Punk to Metal to Crossover to a hodgepodge of influences, Every punk band is a small business, Decadence - Newbury Comics - Slam Dance and MTV, Long time relationship with Dave Smalley, Entrance and exit of Slapshot, Dickie Barret and play-to-win, plus much much straigh

Episode 191: Episode 191: John Wright of nomeansno, Hanson Brothers, and Dead Bob, along with author Jason Lamb on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests

Jan 29 2024 97 mins  
Episode 191: John Wright of No Means No, and Author Jason Lamb talk to us about the book NOMEANSNO FROM OBSCURITY TO OBLIVION (an oral history), Jughead and John have a pre-interview discussion about topography and road atlases, how the book came to be, there is an underlying sadness alleviated by moments of joy, how does an oral history work and journalism, John Wright's job is no

Episode 190: Episode 190: Chris Fogal of The Gamits, Discomfort Creature, Dwayen, and Midrake on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests

Jan 10 2024 87 mins  
Episode 190: Chris Fogal of The Gamits, Dwayne, Midrake, Discomfort Creature talks to us about his late start to punk, drums a more natural but more often the guitarist on stage, metal band TAUNTAUN, the effect of pop punk in the mainstream, Black in Bluhm Recording Studio, the pitfalls of announcing your band's break up, working with Joey Cape, Gamits reformation and the effort to

Episode 189: Episode 189: Mac McCaughan of Superchunk, Portastic and Co Founder of Merge Records on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests

Dec 18 2023 69 mins  
Episode 189: Mac McCaughan of Superchunk, Portastic, Brick and the co-founder of Merge Records talks to us about school in New York forming Bricks and studying lit and history, preserving a scene compared to growing a scene, melody with a nod to dissonance, Merge, Matador, and Touch & Go, creating a label and its job as a filter, the dire situation within independent music, plu

Episode 188: Episode 188: Paul (Coyote) Fleischmann of The DeeCRACKS and The Ratcliffs on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests

Dec 12 2023 87 mins  
Episode 188: Paul (Coyote) Fleischmann of The Ratcliffs and DeeCRACKS talks to us about the universe expanding and owning a telescope, growing up in Innsbruck Austria, at university in Russia and speaking multiple languages to varying degrees, influences and similarities, Ratcliffs' history and the struggle to keep a line-up and the joining of the DeeCRACKS, translating is a little

Episode 187: Episode 187: Damon Locks of Trenchmouth, The Eternals, and The Black Monument Ensemble on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests

Dec 04 2023 104 mins  
Episode 187: Damon Locks of Trenchmouth, The Eternals, Black Monument Ensemble and more talks to us about Chicago Is a Collage, Trenchmouth Becomes One Entity, "Jello Biafra Prepared Me For This World, Intention in Music and Art, The Eternals Out of Time Out of Place Yet Appreciated in Brazil, Frontman to Constructor to The Black Monument Ensemble, Music As a Conversation in the Re

Episode 186: Episode 186: Michael (Yeahman) Marti of DeeCRACKS and Midrake on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests

Nov 21 2023 94 mins  
​Episode 186: Michael (Yeahman) Marti of DeeCRACKS, Midrake, Dwayne, Gamits, and owner of Yeahman;s Vintage and Used Guitars talks to us about flute or guitar, Jughead's story about his DJ amp becoming his guitar amp on Boogada Boogada Boogada, running a label in Switzerland, we discuss us both being lefties, putting your soul into it and technicality is not needed, band relation

Episode 185: Episode 185: Matt and Mike of DeeCracks on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests

Nov 06 2023 80 mins  
Episode 185: Matt and Mike of the DeeCracks talk to us about their new record 20 Years A Frantic Effort, Its Rerecording And Its Benefits, Spontaneity And Intention, Michael Marti The New Bass Player, An In Depth Discussion About the Working And Friend Relationship Between Mike And Matt, Never Chose To Make It A Life Time But Here We Are, Our Small Town Was Our Universe, Touring Ru