Jughead's Basement

Episode 135:  Kody Templeman of Sack, Teenage Bottlerocket, and The Lillingtons talks to us about How To Maintain a Perfect Body, Sack's Origin Story, Larping & Jughead's Days with D&D, The Patino Brothers and Sack Recording The New Record Ripper, Lillingtons & Weasels In A Box, The Demise of Panic Button Records, Pop & Soda & Soda Pop, plus much much metal minded man more more more!www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.comSack's New Record at Red Scare

Episode 134: Kepi Ghoulie talks to us about Life as a Rock N Roll Shark, Nick Names, Being A Member of the Punk Rock Rat Pack, Jonathan Richman & Vapor Records, The Universe/Choice/Kepiland, Major Labels & Surviving Lookout Records, The Law Of Attraction and much much more than just monsters more.Stardumb RecordsKepi Ghoulie Webstore at Machine Shop RocksThich Nhat Hanh​Jim & Tom InterviewsAd:Little Lost Girl MediaJughead's Basement Website

Episode 133: Johnny Personality (Stockfisch) of Vindictives and Screeching Weasel talks to us about Steve Albini Engineering Weasel, Not Touring - Choice - Fear-Other - or All, Home Studios - Television City Dream & Hypno Punko, Being The Leader Or Second Hand Man Of A Band, Johnny's Origin Stories with Vindictives & Screeching Weasel, Recent Projects, plus much much mini studio more!www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com

EPISODE 132: Fred Armisen of Trenchmouth, Portlandia, Saturday Night Live, Drummer & Comedian Talks To Us About John Ross Bowie, Cafe's In Chicago, His Mohawk Being Hassled, Trophy for Mike Watt, Punk Uniforms & Just Being Punk, Kinko's Appreciation, His Netflix Special: Stand Up For Drummers and much much fucking Fred Armisen More!www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com

Episode 131: Parry Gripp of Nerf Herder Talks To Us About the Re-Release Of American Cheese, Honest Don Records-Panic Button-& Fat Wreck Chords, Major Labels-Band Pressure-Money-& Band Rebirth, Non Professional Chicago Foodie Talk, Everyone Wants To Be Loved, Parody & Angry Children Saying Mean Things, Weezer Talk And Much Much Nerdcore More!Nerf Herder Official Site

Episode 130: Mark Linsenmayer of The Partially Examined Life (One of the top Philosophy Podcasts) and Nakedly Examined Music (Interviewing musicians from many genres) talks to us about Cross Pollinating Woes and Successes, Music and Business, Philosophy & Music Side by Side, Songwriting as Intentionally Dumber than Philosophy, His Book - Philosophy For Teens, Philosophy Shouldn't Be Scary - It's Like a Song, plus much much rhetoric-a licious-more.The song Tolerated is from Mark's 3rd and final album by his band New People from their 2013 release.​Mark's Music BandcampPartially Examined Life YouTubeThe Partially Examined Life PodcastNakedly Examined Music PodcastJughead on Partially Examined LifeJughead on Nakedly Examined MusicStoicism on Partially Examined LifePrett Much Pop Podcast

Episode 129: Mike Felumlee ​(Part IV of V of The Smoking Popes) on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests.  This week we talk to Mike about being a Midwestern Boy with transient roots, Discovering punk through Thrasher and Skateboarding, The Truth Comes Out About The Trombone, Working with Brothers, Fears of Being Replaced on a Major Label, Returning To The Smoking Popes, Into The Agony, and The Rock Room, plus more more drummy drum more!Link to Mike's The Rock Room

Episode 128: Larry Livermore, John Jughead, Mass Giorgini, & Dan Vapid, four friends talk about their lives apart and together including such topics as First Meetings, Don Quixote TED Talks, Counter Culture/Sub Culture/Punks/Hippies, Heavy Metal & Punk Ethos Talk, Betrayals, Forgiveness, & Never Forgetting, What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Old, Plus Much Much Gabby Gabby More More.www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com

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 much Lorenzo more!​Nineteen Thirteen (Victors current band)

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 much much oldest brother Matt more!www.jugheadheadsbasementpodcast.com

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 - Fathers - The Silent Generation, and Mel Brooks into the Zucker Brothers, plus more more Bowie more.Links talked about:Egghead MusicHousehold Faces with John Ross Bowie (Podcast)Book: No Job For A ManAirplane Oral HistoryJughead's Andy Dick Story

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 BUDS PODCASTJosh says good bye to Solid Sounds StudioJughead's Basement Podcast link with videos

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, Being genuine and the inspiration that punk can achieve at its best, plus more.www.jugheadsbasementpodast.comhttps://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/rlyr

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 Others, The arduous journey to the songwriting of Pretty Pathetic, the yearning and the path to God, plus much much lofty, friendly, kindly, and laughable more much more.

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 GarageGentlemen Rogues WebsiteThe Fall Collection BandcampGentlemen Rogues Bandcamp

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 StoriesThis 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://billybrown.bandcamp.com/https://www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com/

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 BandcampDemands BandcampBilly Brown 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 Bandcamp

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 about Screeching Weasel, Even In Blackouts, and The Mitochondriacs, plus much much much. (Used by permission from The Power Chord Hour Podcast)Power Chord Hour LinkEven In Blackouts BandcampThe Mitochondriacs Bandcamp