Jughead's Basement

Episode 102 - Grant Lawrence - The Smugglers - Novelist - CBC Radio & TV Personality on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests.  This week we talk to Grant Lawrence about The Smugglers and the struggle to keep the chemistry, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The Giorgini Family and their miraculous lives and stories, Dan Vapid and Screeching Weasel talk, Lookout Records and the Gilman Scene, st...

Episode 101: Ryan Malott of 500 Miles to Memphis talks to Jughead about such things as his legendary slide guitarist David Rhodes, Vinnie Fiorello's label Paper & Plastick, his blood gory music video, Addiction and Redemption, the Ego of a Young Man, From external producers to home studio, plus much much more. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com 500 Miles To Memphis Official Site 500 Miles To Memp...

Episode 100: Mass Giorgini - Punk Producer and all around Renaissance Man is the 100th episode and also the marker of the 10 year anniversary.  In this episode Jughead and Giorgini talk about so many things including but not limited to: The Queers, Naked Raygun, Green Day, Common Rider, Smoking Popes, The Vindictives, Lemonheads, Toxic Reason, Steve Albini, Paul Mahern, Screeching Weasel’s How To...

Episode 99 - Justin Sane from the band Anti Flag.  In this episode we talk about such things as Unity, our mutual friends Mass Giorgini and Jesse Michaels, the seemingly unlikely event of sports bringing punk bandmates together, the 1979 Disco Demolition, Progressive parents and Jughead and Justin's similarly shared chaotic family lives, the naming of Anti Flag, political music influences and Amer...

Episode 98: Alice Hour from In Evil Hour talks to Jughead about Touring in Europe, Hometown Darlington, Brexit and Touring Across Borders, Tattoos, the origin of In Evil Hour, Alice's "day job", writing for a band with political overtones, Future Plans, and much more. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com www.inevilhour.bandcamp.com

Episode 97: Colin Brooks of The Big Cats, Samiam, Little Rock’s band Substance, Red 40, and about 200 more bands.  In this episode we talk about such things as his ongoing friendship and working relationship with Jason White, his bands The Numbskulls and Substance, his metal influences, the then thriving punk scene of Little Rock Arkansas and the documentary Towncraft, his foray into off Broadway...

Episode 96: Vincent Fiorello formerly of Less Than Jake and now The Inevitables talks with Jughead, who goes off the rails, throws away all his pre-determined questions and editing and engages Vinnie in a discussion about Life and Immortality. (Or was it Mortality?) www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com www.theinevitables.world

Episode 95 - Daddy Wonk Alex Brindle Johnson of Wonk Unit.  In this episode we talk about such things as raising a baby girl, his first band the Flying Medallions and all the glory and tragedies which led him to alcohol abuse and recovery,  his ongoing relationship with Duncan Redmonds from the band Snuff, Ego and the selling of the self in music, his new record Uncle Daddy, Dinosaurs are Wankers...

Episode 94- Poli van Dam formerly of The Bombpops and recent contributor to the popularity of Liquid Death.  In this episode Poli talks about such things as her departure from the Bombpops, her history as a diabetic, piano as a strong musical background, meeting her long lasting bandmate Jen, ongoing use of her creativity, birthing a child, plus much more. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com www.siren...

Episode 93 with Brenna Red from The Last Gang.  In this episode Brenna and Jughead talk about such things as Being a Gear Nerd, From Drummer to Guitarist to Singer, What Lunch Table Did You Sit at in School, From Showcase to Main Stage at Punk Rock Bowl, Writing Like Painting, and The Last Gang's Path onto Fat Wreck Chords. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com https://fatwreck.com/

Episode 92: Christopher Appelgren of Lookout Records and bands The PeeChees, The Pattern, and The Potatomen talks to Jughead about Ancestry False and Real, Creating Yourself, Meeting Larry Livermore, The Pattern Business and Pleasure, Music as a Community, How To Ruin a Record Label and Christopher's honest take on his responsibilities, and of course we discuss that Goddamn Lookout Blue Bear. www....

Episode 91: Dave Faulkner from Hoodoo Gurus and The Victims talks to Jughead about The Pandemic in Australia, The Effect of The Ramones first record and the birthing of punk in Perth, His punk band The Victims, moving to Sydney and the forming of the Hoodoo Gurus plus a discussion about black and white television and being a child brought up on sitcoms. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com https://www....

Episode 90: Gregg Turner, Singer & guitarist of VOM, Angry Samoans and The Gregg Turner Group, Author of Confessions of an Angry Samoan, and Mathematician talks to Jughead about Voyeurism & Storytelling, Creem Magazine, Roky Erickson, B Movies, Becoming a Parent, What is PUNK and is that a valid question, plus a pretty hilarious imitation of Ozzy Osbourne. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com h...

Episode 89: Dan Vapid of The Cheats, Screeching Weasel, The Methadones, The Riverdales, The Mopes, The Queers, Sludgeworth, Noise By Numbers and… I could go on and on.  In this episode we talk about such things as Audiobooks, Vapid’s new Cheats record, Screeching Weasel’s transition into The Riverdales and back, What is success, a discussion about Hope and Regret, our favorite Heavy Metal records,...

Episode 8:  Chris Barrows of Pink Lincolns, The Spears, The Chris Barrows Band, has recently published a book of punk rock photos called Cheap Shots.  In this episode we talk about such things as his book Cheap Shots, Drinking and Stage Antics, GG Allin, Landscaping, the balance between being a fan and a performer, The Circle Jerks, plus we describe and get a few backstories behind some of the pho...

Episode 87: featuring Dr. Frank Portman of The Mr. T Experience on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests.  In this episode we talk to Frank about such things as Sounds Rad Music and a plethora of re-issues, Vinyl Records and theorizing about what is next in the digital world, Frank’s early band relationship with Jon Von, That Hippie show with Green Day, Screeching Weasel and The Mr. T Experience, and w...

Episode 86: Josie Cotton Singer/Songwriter, record producer and of the Johnny Are You Queer and He Could Be the One 80's fame comes out of hiding once again to talk to Jughead about escaping and returning to your roots, major labels, Are Musicians Actors, What is the true character of Lee Ving from Fear, The Disco Demolition and the New Wave Progressive Movement, Bomp Records, and much much more....

Episode 85: Larry Livermore part two.  In this episode we talk about such things as China the Tao and the forming of lookout records, contracts and Gentlemen's agreements, the Turn It Around documentary, the classic Screeching Weasel lineup, growing older & nostalgia, Green Day and if or not they sold out, and much more! www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com Lookout Magazine: https://eastbaypunkda.c...

Episode 84: Miski Dee Rodriguez from the band City Mouse.  In this episode we talk about such things as Medical School Acting, Father Daughter late night musical performances, Living on the road and touring with the Dollyrots, Bicycling, Collecting “Good Mornings”, The Meaning of Home, Future and Current Recording Plans, and much much more. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com City Mouse at It's Alive...

Episode 83 - Jeff Pezzati of Naked Raygun, The Bomb, and Big Black.  In this episode we talk about such things as buying a house in Amboy, and the success of Jeff's children, the recording process for the new Naked Raygun record, touring and not touring, the now present difficulties in performing live, the introduction of Bill Stephens into the band, the Gator Documentary soundtrack and current re...

Episode 82:  Justin Perkins of Mystery Room Mastering and also Bassist and sometimes lead singer for such bands as Yesterday’s Kids, The Obsoletes, Screeching Weasel and Bash & Bop, in this episode we talk to him about such things as Panic Button Records, Lookout Records, the important differences between mastering and mixing, being the quiet one, his work with Dan Vapid, The Riverdales and To...

Episode 81: Jason White of Pinhead Gunpowder, Green Day, The Influents, Monsula and many other bands.  Today we are in discussion about File 13 Records and Little Rock Arkansas, Punkhouses, Knights in Satan’s Service, 8 Bark & Chicago’s Underdog Records, his battle with tonsil cancer, Recording with Kevin Army and he candidly discusses his working relationship with Green Day, and much more! Pi...

Episode 80: Brad Logan of Leftover Crack, F-Minus, Rats In The Walls, The Adolescents, plus the co writer of a new book called Architects of Destruction. In this episode we talk about such things as What’s an Oral History, Touring and Staph Infections, Working at Hellcat Records and Brad’s Days as a Guitar Tech, Inevitable Band Business for Punks that are in it for the long haul, The Love of fello...

Episode 79: Jay Prozac of The Prozacs, Stiletto Bomb, and Grand Prixx talks to jughead about highschool friends and lifelong buddies, his father passing and his effect on Jay and his community, the origins of Grand Prixx and The Prozaks, the inspirations of Screeching Weasel, his heartfelt run-in with Dan Vapid, and the touching story behind his song Live Like It's New.  Plus much more!

Episode 78: Ryan Rockwell of Mixtapes and more recently Billboards.  In this episode we talk about such things as Religion and Spirituality, pros and cons of home recording, the origins of Mixtapes and Billboards, Self Sabotage and Recovery, plus much mulch much more. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com www.sirenrecordsmchenry.com Ryan's new project: Billboards https://billboardsband.bandcamp.com/