Jughead's Basement

Episode 127: Victor DeLorenzo of Violent Femmes, Nineteen Thirteen, and Night Crickets talks to us about Orson Welles, Reinvigorated sparks of creativity in aging musicians, Theater and how it affected The Violent Femmes, Busking and Intimacy, Opening for The Ramones, The Night Crickets with David J and Darwin Meiners, Dinner with Willem Dafoe, Nineteen Thirteen and loop pedals, plus much much De...

Episode 126 this week with Matt Caterer.  In this episode we discuss such things as the clear distinct Caterer voices, creativity stemming from the 1920s big band era, Speed Stick and zero to band in a week, Are you a bass player? Somebody has to play this thing, 90s Punk Rock politics, Phil Bonnet, the difference between I don’t care and active letting things happen, spirituality in music plus mu...

Episode 125: John Ross Bowie of band, Egghead, plus actor in Speechless/Big Bang Theory/Children's Hospital and many more credits talks to us about My pen, Theme Park Life, Knock Knock Records and Punk Tattoos, Theater Talk, Improvisation - Upright Citizens Brigade - Second City - and Working with Chicago Comics and Writers, Insubordination Fest, Egghead - Irony - Music - Politics, His book - Fath...

Episode 124: Eli Caterer of Smoking Popes (2 of 5 interviews exploring the whole band and record Born To Quite originally released in 1994) talks to us about being the youngest brother, the parents music collection, Speedstick into Smoking Popes, dynamics of brothers in a band, association with Solid Sound Studios and Phill Bonnet, the artwork behind Born To Quit, plus much much Eli More. ON GEAR...

Episode 123: Trevor Shelley de Brauw from Pelican, RLYR, Tusk and others talks to us about The Fireside Bowl and Brian Peterson, Cultivating an audience and what becomes of the band/audience relationship in an instrumental band, An intuitive approach and translating emotions through music, The Weasel connection and other influences, How do you remember all those parts!, Improvisation in music, Bei...

Episode 122: Josh Caterer of Smoking Popes (1 of 5 interviews exploring the whole band and record Born To Quite originally released in 1994) talks to us about Born To Quit and then things spiral off into multiple directions at once including Producer Phil Bonnet and onward into Jerry Finn, Crooner or Poet or both or none, The structures of Old Standards, Irony and National Guilt, The Self and Othe...

Episode 121: Danny Dunlap of Gentlemen Rogues, The Fall Collection, and JILL talks to us about Houston and The Axiom, Is Danny a Failure, his first band JILL, songwriting compared to novel writing, The Fall Collection and his debilitating days of arthritis, the brilliance of Erasure's Vince Clarke, opening for Bob Mould, and much much Dunlap more. ​Danny On Little Steven's Underground Garage Gentl...

Episode 120: Russ Forster of Underdog Records, Fudgetunnel, Gore Gore Girls, Spongetunnel and Dashing Marbles talks to us about Chicago Venue Batteries Not Included and getting banned, Finding Unusual Bands in Bargain Bins, Influence from The Fleshtones, Decline Of The Western Civilization, Albini's Basement, The Fireside Bowl and the 8-Track Mind and much much russ more! Russ Forster Bandcamp

Welcome to Jughead’s Basement Episode 119 sub category Stories This week we hear stories told between Jughead and Billy Brown of Ashers, Crash & Burn, Deadly Sins, Solo and so on, in this episode the stories touch on such things as Expensive Guitars & Bikers, One Eyed Dogs and Vomit in Belgium, A Golden Shower of Hits, Punks with Acoustics and a bit more.  Let’s hear the stories. https://b...

Episode 118: Billy Brown of Ashers, Crash & Burn, Shoot The Hostages, and Deadly Sins talks to us about Reagan Era Punk, his band Ashers with Mark from The Unseen, Boston Not LA or Boston To LA, The Sense of Community, Rehab in North Hollywood, and Literature and Book Talk, plus much much much much more and then later even some more!  (Part I: History) Crash and Burn Bandcamp Demands Bandcamp...

Episode 117: Christoph Jesus of Crazy & The Brains talks to us about Comedy & Music, Open Mic as a Preparation for Ingenuity and Change, Restrictive vs. the Openness of the Punk Style, Building an Ensemble and how it relates to the growth of a band, Jersey City, Gilman St. for Christoph and Jughead, Formatting Music and Timing in the modern age, plus much much more. Crazy and the Brains Ba...

Episode 116: John Jughead of Screeching Weasel, Even In Blackouts, The Mopes, and The Mitochondriacs on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests (Power Chord Hour Podcast) Anthony Merchant of Power Chord Hour interviews Jughead about The Origins of Jughead's Basement, Improvisation, What is an ensemble, Is the Urge to Create Turnoffable, Mind and Brain Talk, My Style of So Called Guitar Playing, and talk...

Episode 115: Mike Byrne of The Methadones, Urban Idols, Dan Vapid & The Cheats and Vindictives, talks to us about discovering punk as a 6th grader, Record store and local show talk, Suburbs vs. The City, The path to the Fireside Bowl, Out of Focus Videos, an extensive talk about The Vindictives, The Methadones, The Urban Idols, and our mutual love for anything Dan Vapid related, Mike's years o...

Episode 114: Paul Mahern of Zero Boys, Datura Seeds, and *ask also producer and engineer of Toxic Reasons, Blake Babies, John Cougar Mellencamp and more, talks to us about Minimalism and it's relation to punk, His Childhood from Indiana to Chicago to back to Indiana, Kill Your Idols, Is the Need To Teach a Fundamental Characteristic, DIY in the American Hardcore, His Job at The Archives of Traditi...

Episode 113: Mike Holt of The Huntingtons talks to us about catching up on the history of The Huntingtons, recording live in the studio as a departure approach, losing touch with new music and being a parent, rotating members and its repercussions, our shared indifference to Bad Religion, talk about the christian connections with the band and it's labels, along with discussions about free will and...

Episode 112 - Mikey Erg from The Ergs, The Unlovables, The Worriers, Solo projects and more talks to us about what do you listen to in a punk van, keeping track of music as if it's a job, are you still improving as a musician, solo work and the Ergs Machine, cassette recording to reel to reel to inventing in the studio, from in front of drums to behind in the early band days, can you whistle a Fra...

Episode 111: Sammy King of Get Dead talks to Jughead about Real Recognize Real, Genre Hopping in the Modern Age, Punks Becoming Industries, Latch Key Kids, Living in the Gray and Being a Member of Society, Use of Drugs and the Ego, plus much much more. Get Dead at Fat Wreck Chords www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com

Episode 110: Rob Huddleston of Ann Beretta talks to Jughead about Vinnie Fiorello, Fueled By Ramen, Lookout Records, and Paper & Plastik, wise advice from Bill Stevenson, also the 2020 Clusterfuck leading to 60 days of songs and inspiration, the making of Ann Beretta's new record RISE, their musical friends like Thomas Barrett from Strike Anywhere and Mass Giorgini lending their talents, plus...

Episode 109: Alice Bag of The Bags, Cholita, Solo Projects and More.  On this episode Alice talks to Jughead about Aggression in one's life and music, Punk introspection and Agency, The Harry Potter Sorting Hat, What do you take with and what do you leave behind, Band Dynamics and Solo Projects, Singing, Screaming & Writhing, Female Police Officers in Mexico City, plus much much more. Alice Ba...

Episode 108:  Maria Surfinfird of Sex Dream, Surfinbird, Kobanes, Gigillas, & Mitochondriacs talks to Jughead about such things as being a judge for sports events in Russia, learning and singing in English, Music as a lover, Punk Rock Raduno and traveling longs distances for punk rock, Trouble at the border, and much more. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com Sex Dream Bandcamp Mitochondriacs Bandc...

Episode: 107: Rikki Styxx drummer for The Two Tens, Death Valley Girls, The Darts and more talks to Jughead about drumming ancestry and rock family trees, how the hell do creative types learn to manage time, fake it till you make it, The Two Tens and the pros and cons of being in a two person band, Death Valley Girls, a Coloradoans in Los Angeles, Punk scene as family, the complexity of playing dr...

Episode 106: Kristen Ferrell - Artist talks to Jughead about What is creativity and does it branch out beyond being an artist, The printing press to the internet, Shut the fuck up and produce, Duchamp and the importance of Anti-Art, Taylor Swift, Symbolism and Archetypes, Punk Rock, AI and the concept of the soul, and so much more! www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com Kristen Ferrel Website Kristen Fer...

Episode 105: Hallie Bulleit of The Unlovables, The LLC Band, and Hiccup talks to Jughead about Jughead's Literal Basement and the show she played there, Selling out, Hallie in the Broadway production of RENT, Like Mother Like Daughter, Experimental Theater and the New York City Living Experience, Family and Parenting, Mikey Erg and much much more. https://www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com/ https://t...

Episode 104: The Punk Poet Episode - Matt Hart (formerly of Squirtgun) and The Nevernew and Timothy Stafford Chicago Poet and Performance Artist.  In this episode we talk about such things as the differences and similarities between poetry readings and stand-up, the word poetry and its relation to music, social change and self deprecation, on being a teacher plus much much more. https://www.jughea...

Episode 103: Ali Tabatabaee talks to Jughead about moving from Tehran to California, choosing music over a medical profession, path to a major label, the influences of rap and hiphop, and his battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma.  Plus much more. https://www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com/ https://www.zebrahead.com/