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Jughead's Basement
Published by John "Jughead" Pierson
- Music
- Music History
- Music Interviews
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 236: Episode 236: Vera Bozickovic of Taxi Girls (Montreal) on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Girls from Jughead's Basement
236: Vera of Taxi Girls talks to us about: Where do names come from, Punk linguistics, Origin of Taxi Girls, Vera and Jamie writing team, Ego disillusion, Guitar solos that make you cry, Highs and lows, Flow of a record, plus much much static more static STATIC! Taxi Girls on Bandcamp Taxi Girls at STOMP Wild Honey Records on Facebook
- Episode 235: Episode 235: Dan Vapid of Sludgeworth on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 235: Dan Vapid of Sludgeworth talks to us about one inch equals one inch, toby and red scare, lineup changes and the additions of simon, enthusiasm is an important aspect of being in a band, 35 years later/maximizing strength, science & philosophy, instant gratification and the flow of a record and the bigger picture, plus much worth sludge more! Second Time Around LP at Red Scare Pre-order (available June 19 2026) Digital version at bandcamp
- Episode 234: Episode 234: CJ Ramone of The Ramones, Bad Chopper and Solo Work, and CJ Says Podcast on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 234: CJ Ramone of The Ramones, Bad Chopper, and Spike & The Gimme Gimmes talks to us about Hard Rock & Guitar Pete's Axe Attack - Auditioning and Learning to Downstroke for The Ramones, Living on Long Island & Forming an Identity, Working with Ed Stasium, What it was Like Replacing Dee Dee Ramone and then Becoming his Friend, The Mystery & Privacy of the Ramones, CJ's New Podcast plus one two three more! CJ Ramones' Patreon for his Podcast, CJ Says: A Ramones Podcast Jughead's Basement Patreon
- Episode 233: Episode 233: Isaac Thotz of The Arrivals, Treasure Fleet and Clown Sounds on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 233: Isaac Thotz of The Arrivals, Treasure Fleet, and Clown Sounds talks to us about Growing up in Blue Island, Origin of The Arrivals, One of the House Bands at Fireside Bowl, Thick to Recess Records, Musical Communities and Isaac's move to San Pedro, Treasure Fleet & Clown Sounds, Preparing for the New Record Payload, Writing Political Songs, We've Been Doing This a Long Time, plus much much molotov more more more! Bandcamp for The Arrivals Record, PAYLOAD Vinyl at Recess Records
- Episode 232: Episode 232: Erik Funk of Dillinger Four on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 232: Erik Funk of Dillinger Four talks to us about his band Billingsgate - Victory Records to Nemesis Records - The Erik Funk/Erik Fink Story - Bloodline, Angerhouse and the move to Minnesota - The Beginning of Dillinger Four, Friendship, and the thing about Paddy, Dynamics of their voices - How titles fuck with the brain - Aaron Cometbus and Scooby Don't - About the new song, plus much much one two three more more dillinger four! Dillinger Four Web Page
- Episode 231: Episode 231: The Fake Friends with Brad and Felix on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 231 with Brad and Felix from The Fake Friends. On This episode we talk about: On being a close-knit group of friends - A deep unlearning and being liberated from cohesive sludge - Music theory - Groove, dance, and the importance of getting people to move - repetition, monotony, and spontaneity in live performance - Felix wants the whole pie, wearing influences on your sleeves, plus more more and obviously MORE! The Fake Friends on Stomp Records The Fake Friends on Bandcamp
- Episode 230: Episode 230: David J Haskins of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Jazz Butcher, Night Crickets, and Solo Work on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 230 with David J Haskins of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Night Crickets, Jazz Butcher, Solo Work plus much more, talks to us about from England to LA - Shoe Boxes of Cassette Tapes - Purging & Catharsis - Nostalgia is Two Parts Bullshit, - Love & Rockets, Sabotage, and We Being Us - Intimacy & Living Room Shows - On The Death of Pat & Max of The Jazz Butcher, plus some more. Information on Tracks From the Attic Revisited David J Official Website Jazz Butcher episode on Youtube
- Episode 229: Episode 229: Sam Russo musician of Red Scare Industries on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 229: SAM RUSSO on Red Scare Industries talks to us about the Future with a Full Band, A Game of Who Can Do What When, Ego & Personal Growth, Iron Maiden Talk, Energy & The Dynamics In Playing Acoustic, Banter & Improvisation, Intimacy With An Audience, I'm So Sad To Meet You, Good Melody Hurts My Teeth And The Legacy of Teenage Bottlerocket, Stone Soup, Relationship With Brendan Kelly & Toby & Red Scare Industries, Personal vs. Relatable plus much much mono e mono solo more! Sam Russo Website
- Episode 228: Episode 228: Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein of Why? Philosophical Discussions about Everyday Life Podcast from Jughead's Basement
Episode 228 with Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein of Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life Podcast. Jack talks to us about his Biography And Path From New York To North Dakota, SLC Punk - Tribes - And The Internet, We Wanted The Scene To Change our Lives, Parsing And Punk As An Entry Exam, The Ivory Tower & Public Philosophy, We Are Stand-Ins For Our Audience, Perception & Cultural Differences, Fuck The Audience & Subverting Expectations, Ska Music, Appropriation, History & Trust In Potential. Plus MORE MORE MORE! Episode on Ska and Jamaican Music Jack's Radio Show Website Jack's Web Page Jughead's Basement Patreon
- Episode 227: Episode 227: Mass Giorgini of Squirtgun, Screeching Weasel, and Common Rider on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 227: Mass Giorgini of Squirtgun, Screeching Weasel, and Common Rider talks to us about Sonic Iguana Studio in Rome, On Singer Kevin and PT's Revenge, Teen Idols Talk, Praises for Zac Damon, Is It Worth Doing Art, The Back Story of Sunflowers and a Bit Of European History, Rising Up Against Injustice, plus more more ghostly, more! Squirtgun Sunflowers Vinyl EP Sunflowers For Mario Jughead's Basement Patreon
- Episode 226: Episode 226 with Brian (Vermin) Mcquaid of Screeching Weasel, Sludgeworth, and Ethyline with mini interview with his drummer son Max on Lo Fi Interviews with Hi Fi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 226 with Brian Vermin Mcquaid of Screeching Weasel, Sludgeworth, and Ethyline and a visit from his drummer son Max Mcquaid Feral Tact, they talk to us about: "That's where you cut your teeth" - On becoming a drummer, Fatherhood and producing a better person, Dan Vapid talk, Brian's days touring with Screeching Weasel, Working at Kinkos on Clark near Belmont, Sludgeworth to Ethyline back to Sludgeworth, "Without them I don't want to play," Breclaimed, the effect of Japanese art on Brian’s sculpture and carpentry, and the emotional depth involved with custom made work, plus much much mcquaid and mcquaid more more. Sludgeworth Label: Red Scare Max' band Feral Tact on Bandcamp Brian's Art on Etsy Jughead's Patreon
- Episode 225: Episode 225: Adam Bones of The Two Tens and The Manic Standstill on Lo Fi Interviews with Hi Fi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 225: Adam bones of The Manic Standstill and The Two Tens talks to us about: The Two Tens and the dynamics of being in a two person band, Chicago suburbs to California and becoming who you are, Networking and finding a community, Jughead talks about how B Face taught him how to rock, When Adam was a drummer and played fast and faster, On being a hired gun for Go Betty Go Josie Cotton and Save Ferris, Writing for Ritchie Ramone, Manic Standstill talk, plus much much 1,2,3,4 more! Adam Bones Personal Website Manic Standstill Merch Get the record MOVING The Two Tens Bandcamp www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com Jughead's Patreon
- Episode 224: Episode 224: Greg Norton of Ultrabomb and Hüsker Dü on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 224: Greg Norton of Ultrabomb and Hüsker Dü talks to us about us being night people, Greg's friendship with Grant Hart and the formation of Hüsker Dü, board game talk, Hüsker Moms, Introduction to SST, Minute Men and Hüsker Dü's double album race, feeling isolated after the breakup, restaurant work is similar to being in a band, formation of Ultrabomb: its genesis and recording style, fuck cancer, and One Moment One Time, plus more more more! Ultrabomb Merch Site Husker Du 4LP Miracle Year Mike Watt's podcast Jughead's Basement Patreon
- Episode 223: Episode 223: Slackrr with Scotty & Cait on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 223: Slackrr with Scotty and Cait. They talks to us about such things as Band History and Southampton is a Port Town, Music is for Sharing, Lineup Changes and Studio Time, Writing on the Road, Make It Sound Like Fucking Jumanji, Endless Touring and Exhaustion, Punk Haiku, Does the Soul Sellout, plus much much skackety skackety skackrr more! Slackrr on Facebook Jughead's Basement Patreon
- Episode 222: Episode 222: Steven McDonald of Redd Kross, The Melvins, and OFF! on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 222: Steven McDonald of Redd Kross, Melvins, and OFF! on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests talks with us about Identity Crisis, Colonoscopy & Anesthesia, Kiss Talk, Guitars Tick Boxes, Redd Kross & Circle Jerks Beef Under The Bridge, My Band Is My Last Name, Repetition Is Knowledge, On Brian Wilson And His Recent Death, Documentary Talk, plus much more tour on tour town on downtown more more more! Redd Kross Official Site Born Innocent link to watching the documentary Link to Jughead's Basement Patreon
- Episode 221: Episode 221: Kurt Bloch of The Fastbacks on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 221: Kurt Bloch of The Fastbacks talks to us about: Touring Canada and its ease and difficulty, On Blue Oyster Cult, Skill of the downstroke, Jughead's guitar sounded like crinkling paper, Kurt built a guitar with his dad like Brian May, No Threes Records, The Accident, The Vains, and Fastbacks, Learn to play it right and wrong, plus the newest record by Fastbacks For WHAT Reason! plus much much back back forward and fast back back! Fastbacks' Bandcamp Jughead's Basement Patreon
- Episode 220: Episode 220: Aaron Cometbus of Cometbus Fanzine and Pinhead Gunpowder from Jughead's Basement
Episode 220 with Aaron Cometbus of Cometbus Fanzine, Pinhead Gunpowder, Cleveland Bound Death Sentence, Colbom, Crimpshrine, and many more talks to us about: His PM Press releases Downtown Local and In China with Green Day . We also touch on such subjects as: What We Did in the Past Brings Us Together in the Present, What is Home and on Living in New York, An Exploration of the Word Potential , When Your Gone Your Gone, On Writers and Reading, On Aging and Writing the Perfect Book, Pinhead Gunpowders' New Record UNT, and Aaron Asks Me Questions. Plus much much more! LINKS: AARON'S BOOKS AT PM PRESS AARON'S FANZINES AND MORE AT MICROCOSM PUBLISHING PINHEAD GUNPOWDER RECORDS AT 1234 GO! TURNED OUT A PUNK: PINHEAD GUNPOWDER ON APPLE PODCAST AARON'S ARCHIVES AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY CRIMPSHRINE ON JUGHEAD'S BASEMENT - YOUTUBE Jughead's Basement Patreon
- Episode 219: Episode 219: Kim Warnick of Fastbacks and Visqueen on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 219: Kim Warnick of The Fastbacks and Visqueen talks to us about: Nightmare drives through Texas, Learning geography through touring, Our love of Queen and Classic Rock, Lifelong friends, 70s influence and the movie Over The Edge, Forming of The Fastbacks and unison singing with Lulu, 45 Fucking years of The Fastbacks, Kim's profound experience in Maine, The band Visqueen, Addiction and sugar cravings, Touring in Japan plus much much fast fast fastest fastbacks more more more! Fastbacks label No Threes Records on Facebook Fastbacks on Bandcamp Jughead's Basement Patreon
- Episode 218: Episode 218: Joel Reader of The Fatal Flaw, MTX, The Plus Ones on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 218: Joel Reader of The Fatal Flaw, MTX, The Plus Ones, Pansy Division, The Bomb Bassets, and Avengers talks to us about how California is vast, Hardwired to have a melody and pop sensibility, Mother's chamber trio dreams, Joining MTX as a big fan was like a mentor project, Cello to drums to bass, Dissecting regret, Moving from California to Boston and the origin story of The Fatal Flaw, Power pop talk, plus much much emotionally motivated intellectually charged more more more! The Fatal Flaw Website The Fatal Flaw Bandcamp
- Episode 217: Episode 217: Tyson Cornel founder of Rarebirdlit and musician of Semi-Famous on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests from Jughead's Basement
Episode 217 with Tyson Cornell founder of Rarebirdlit and drummer for Semi-Famous and Scooby Don't talks to us about Minneapolis of the 90s with its culture and music, the Scooby Don't Punkhouse, I think like a drummer, Touring with Scooby Don't and splitting dates with Aaron Cometbus, Hair Core Rock and Tyson's stint in Supercool and working relationship with Japanese band Sex Machine Gun, Semi-Famous and it's dynamic, on being older and more internal, Tyson's appearance on the inner sleeve of Screeching Weasel's Kill The Musicians, plus the genesis of Rarebirdlit, and scores and scores and lores and novels more more more! Rarebirdlit.com Jughead's Basement Patreon