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Jughead's Basement

John "Jughead" Pierson

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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: 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 Reco…
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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…
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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 p…
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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 j…
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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, Ga…
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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…
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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 …
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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,…
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​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 technical…
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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…
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Episode 184: Mike Cessario founder and CEO of Liquid Death talks to us about what is home and why a lot of good entrepreneurs are unemployable, rallying people to believe in you, irony, compassion, and our mutual love of the movie Real Genius, Exploring the complexity of the "Fuck You" attitude, advertising as entertainment, greatness is not suppos…
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In this episode we talk to Jason Narducy about such things as Cheap Trick And Budokan, Being A Team Player Sounds Corny But True, How Our Father's Introduced Us To Things We Probably Shouldn't Have Seen, Verboten to Verbow, The Gift Of Band Camaraderie, Touring REM's Murmur With Michael Shannon, Time For Family, On Albini And Electric Audio, Gushin…
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Episode 182: Mike Kinshella of Murderland talks to us about Mike’s move to Los Angeles, Jughead and Mike share their experiences with archaic film editing techniques, a wonderfully complex conversation about nostalgia, the origin story of Murderland, EC Comics and how horror films, lyrics, and comics has always spoken to writers like him, on writin…
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Episode 181: Poli Van Dam is BACK with a guest appearance from Billy Brown. On this episode we talk to Poli about Jughead's Covid, Journal Writing & Diaries, Liquid Death Update, The Poli Van Dam Band Has Arrived, Touring With Aquadolls, The Origin Story of Semi Famous, Diabetes Talk And The Forces Used To Fight Back, plus much much whopping holy s…
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Episode 180: Billy Brown talks about the decade it took to release his first solo record on vinyl, Best Of Tragedies. We are joined by his friends, producer Shawn Harris, and artist Emily Flake. We discuss the record and how the themes have become relevant once again in ways unforeseen with the first public announcement of Billy's current battle wi…
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Episode 179: John Haggerty of Pegboy and Naked Raygun talks to us about the musicians and producers he has worked with in his long career, we talk about such people as Joe Haggerty and growing up, Santiago Durango and John's beginnings in Naked Raygun, Ian Burgess and recording in France with Pegboy, Steve Albini and "The Scene", Pierre Kezdy and t…
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Episode 178: Donnie Walsh of Grumpster and Doki Doki talks to us about the move from Massachusetts to California, the Origin Story of Grumpster, Getting to Maximum Potential and the Gilman St. Era, the Move from Asian Man to Pure Noise Records, on Bringing in a Producer, the Influence of Against Me's Transgender Dysphoria Blues and Donnie's own Tra…
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Episode 177: Aaron Leatherbarrow Punk Rock Teacher Official and member of the band Cassette Crisis talks to us about The Long Wait Before Playing A Venue, The Effects of MXPX and The Lillingtons on the Young Leatherbarrow, Dad Was My God And Still Is My Idol, Building The Ultimate Facade, Cincinnati And Becoming Friends With Ryan Rockwell, The Orig…
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176: Simon Lamb of Dan Vapid & The Cheats talks to us about: Circus Maximus, Japan Talk, Simon & Jughead's History Of Nearly 25 Years Friendship, Scotland And Punk Rock, Simon Is An Actual Working Illustrator And Designer, A Potentially Difficult Question About How Simon Replaced Jughead In Screeching Weasel, The Genesis And Continuing Relationship…
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Episode 175: Chris Wollard of Hot Water Music, The Ship Thieves, and The Draft talks to us about Looking At The Self, Guitar Talk & Chris' First Guitar Is Still His Main Guitar, Art Process And A Discussion About Discovery and Creativity, The Influence And Affect Of Naked Raygun On Hot Water Music, Playing Your Heart Out When No One Is There Or Nob…
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Episode 174: Lucy Giles of Doki Doki and Dog Party talks to us about The Link Between Punk Rock And Country Music, Dog Party Is Working On A New Record, Lucy's First Public Show in 4th Grade Opening For Agent Orange, Transition Into Intentional Writing, Gwen Loves Spreadsheets, Recording With Doki Doki And Mike Park's Involvement, Lucy's Current Ca…
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Episode 173: Brett Jansch of Dune Rats talks to us about Minute Men into Beefheart into Zappa , When the Dune Rats First Became a Unit and the Party to Raise Money for Brett's Ticket to America, Music Is a Never Ending Bucket, Records Seem To Have Survived the Test of Time, Creativity and Lightening in a Bottle, The Beach Has a Sound, Brett Loves A…
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Episode 172: Jesse Michaels of Doom Regulator and Operation Ivy returns to LoFi Interviews to talk about Reconnecting Friendships and the Return to Working with Tim Armstrong, Mystery & Film Noir, Discovering Ska, The similarities and Differences in his Creative Pursuits, Religion and Zen plus much much more and more and also more! Jughead's Baseme…
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Episode 171: Link from The Meanies talks to us about: The Open Letter About AI and Link and My Abilities To Turn On A Computer, Rick Springfield and Other Bands From Australia, Link Admits He Used To Be A Miserable Bastard, Wounds Acquired On Stage, Emotional Music and Our Bands' Influences, plus much much eeny meanies miny mo more! The Meanies Web…
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Episode 170: Tane Graves of Tightwire talks to us about Rocky Horror And Surrounding Oneself with Trinkets and Posters, Dillinger Four And their Minneapolis Legacy, Sad Music, Fun Music, and Catharsis, Color Blindness Leading To Creative Choices, ​Complications With Touring And The Intricacies Of The Relationship With Founder Paul Kettler, Noelle f…
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169: Eamon Sandwith of The Chats talks to us about The Future of Signing Autographs, Mates and Early Gigs with The Unknowns, Cheap Equipment & Jerry Rigging Your Gear, Dave Grohl Becomes a Fan, Interviews and On What People Expect You To Become, The Affect of Smoko and Maintaining Integrity By Not Thinking Too Much About It, plus much much smoko fu…
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168: Jay Whalley of Frenzal Rhomb talks to us about the Australian TV Show RAGE, Building An Audience And The Intricacies Of A Band Message, Living By Example Compared To Blatant Activism, On The Road To Fat Wreck Chords And The Sarcastically Awesome Decision To Sign To Sony Records, Playing At The Edge Of Your Ability, Recording At The Blasting Ro…
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Episode 167: Dimitri Coats of OFF! and Burning Brides talks to us about a past Kpop/Hardcore Tour of Japan, How He Thought He was Setting Out To Produce A Circle Jerks Records But Ended Up In A Band with Keith Morris, Downstrokes And Dimitri's Introduction To Punk, Keith's Milk Crates Full of Lyrical Scraps, The Effect Of Early Industrial Noise Ban…
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Episode 166 with Daryl Wilson from Bollweevils talks to us about Daryl's Cliffs Notes on The History of Bollweevils, A Deep Dive Into The Lyrics and Recording of Their New Album ESSENTIAL, Examining The Word Content, Legacy Or Just Kinda' Old, Ken & Daryl's Long Time Friendship, Art Evokes Emotion, The Stoic Marcus Aurelius, The Importance Of Commu…
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Episode 165: Joey (Shithead) Keithley of D.O.A talks with us about Being Elected Councillor After 6 Tries, From Civil Law To Punk Rock, Protest Songs Inspiring Him To Change The World, The Something Better Change D.O.A Documentary, The Charitable Streak In Punk, This Month’s 45th Anniversary, Change Starts In Your Neighborhood plus much much hardco…
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Episode 164: Warren Fischer of The Ozzfish Experience and Screeching Weasel talks to us about Record Collections & Memorabilia, The Ill-Fated Weasel/Ozzfish 7Inch, South Holland Illinois & Hail Satan, A Bass To The Forehead And Entrance Into Screeching Weasel, In The Studio For Boogada Boogada Boogada, On Being A Teacher And How To Remain Rebelliou…
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163: Kat Moss of Scowl talks to us about From Suburb to City: An Old Punk Story, Hardcore Bands Should Be In A Symbiotic Relationship With Their Audience, Scowl's New EP: Psychic Dance Routine, No Matter Where You Go There You Are, Hardcore Is Always Evolving, Plus An Equestrian Competitor Must Dig Their Heals in, so let's do so, and go go go! 1. S…
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Episode 162: Sam McPheeters of Born Against, Wrangler Brutes, and Men's Recovery Project, Journalist and Author of Fiction and Nonfiction talks to us about Facial Hair, Sam's Book Mutations and It's Reception, On Being a Hardcore Singer, The Contingency Thing, Ben Hamper and Rivethead, Performance Horror Stories, Shock Value & Fuck The Audience, pl…
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Episode 161: Flav Giorgini of Squirtgun, The Phase Problem, Simians, and Solo works talks to us about Teaching Science & The Virtual Academic Life, The Phase Problem, The Whole Better Than The Parts, It Takes Three Of Something To Be Something, The Bond Between The Giorgini Brothers, The Importance Of Exercising Different Parts Of One's Brain & The…
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Episode 160: Sascha Altman DuBrul bassist for Choking Victim, Activist, Punk Journalist, and Mental Health Advocate talks to us about Twins!, Zoom & the World Past And Present In Face of the Industrial and Digital Revolutions, Carl Jung and The Shadow, Being Born Sensitive, Feeling Like An Outcast And What Does That Mean Set Beside Privilege, Imagi…
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Episode 159 with Jon Ginoli of The Outnumbered and Pansy Division on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests. In this episode Jon talks with us about The Outnumbered Releases, Steve Dahl and the Chicago Disco Demolition, Coming Out In 1981, Ginoli's Incomplete History of Important Bands, Being a DJ in College, How Most People Usually Just See The Tip Of T…
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Episode 158: Bruce Stuckey of Toxic Reasons talks to us about Aldo Giorgini and his Intelligent Offspring, Working with Paul Mahern of Zero Boys, Punk in the Ronald Reagan Age, Cynicism Idealism and Political Bands, Discussion of Rebellion and Bruce's Challenging Upbringing, Repercussion of Asking Your Audience To Burn It All Down, Tufty and JJ And…
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Episode 157: Darren Chewka of Teenage Bottlerocket and Old Wives talks to us about being recruited by Teenage Bottlerocket, Chewka's Ancestry and his drive towards and with drums, When is a chair not a drum, Inspired by punk drummers such as Lumley, Panic, and Stevenson, Joining Teenage Bottlerocket in times of tragedy. Chewka tells us the ins and …
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Episode 156: B Face (Chris Barnard) of The Queers, Groovie Ghoulies, The Real Kids, The Mopes, Kepi & Friends, talks to us about Kepi And Pirate Press, Why Never In The Foreground, Improvising And Precision And The Fuck It Attitude, Spouting Cliches And Overcoming What Has Already Been Done, Everyone Draws Skulls, B Face's Band History with The Que…
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Episode 155: Joe King Queer of The Queers talks to us about being a vocalist without his guitar, changing band members, Joe's Place, The call of the Sea and being on fishing boats, Music as an inevitable career choice, Punks should always be underdogs, stories of GG that perhaps humanize him, The influence and friendship with Joey Ramone, How Punk …
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Episode 145: Jack Wimpy Rutherford Hayes of The Mercy Fucks, The Queers, Wimpy & The Cryptics, Tulu & Wimpy, and The Jabbers, talks to us about Heritage & Are All Jacks Johns, Television's Effect on Punk Rock, Origin Of The Queers & Working With Joe And Tulu, The Monsignors, Punk Getting Violent, Agronomy & Soil Science, Playing With The Jabbers & …
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Episode 144: Dave Scott Schwartzman of Adrenalin O.D. talks to us about his new book If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Walla Walla: The Wacky History of Adrenalin O.D. Plus Punks In Good Studios But During Stupid Hours, Danzig In The Hood And Looking Through Flyers in Biafra's Bedroom, Self Awareness - Nietzsche - And The Humor In Punk, The Color Pink, …
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Episode 143: Keith Morris of OFF!, Circle Jerks, Black Flag, and Midget Handjob talks to us about repeating oneself onstage and off, What if you had a million dollars, Making amends for aggression towards society and the self, Keith's half-time firing squad if he were president, Learning a work ethic from his father, Green Day and mega popular "pun…
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Episode 142: Smoking Popes' Born To Quit on Jughead's Basement subcategory Album Dissections. This week the long awaited 5th part of the Smoking Popes series that started to take root back in October 2018 when Jughead spent the evening at Josh Caterer's house. This episode explores the 1995 Record Born To Quit in its entirety, with all four band me…
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Episode 141: Warren Fitzgerald of The Vandals, Oingo Boingo, and studio work with Tenacious D, Danny Elfman, Jughead's Revenge and many more, talks to us about Being On The Spectrum, Opposites Naturally Manifest, How Do You Sleep, The Art Book Punk Rock & Paint Brushes, Does Humor Protect From Intimacy, Working With Danny Elfman, Vandals' Humor & B…
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Episode 140: Larry Damore of Pegboy and Bhopal Stiffs talks to us about Larry's Father And His Days As A Football Player For The Bears, Stopped At The Canadian Border, Transition From Bhopal Stiffs To Pegboy, Producers Albini And Burgess, A Eulogy For Pierre Kedzie, Damore Admits He Is A Meathead, Chicago Blue Collar Music And The Punk Bar Culture …
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Episode 139: Jessica Colombo of Mable Syndrome (Podcast) talks to us about Music And It's Emotional Response, Finding Punk On Vancouver Island Canada, The Origin And Reach Of Mable Syndrome, Jawbreakers Schwarzenbach Interview, Women In The Masculine Driven Hardcore Scene, EIB & Liz Eldredge, Balancing Politics In A Podcast, Women Behind The Scenes…
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Episode 138: Kevin Aper of Sweatpants Party, Insanity Alert, and The Apers talks to us about Family Life, Being a Punk Rock Free Mason, Monster Zero Records, Love And Respect For And From Diverse Music Scenes, Insanity Alert, Self Titled Sweat Pants Party, Everything Is Connected and much much monster insanity sweatpants more. ​Monster Zero Records…
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Episode 137: Kevins Seconds of 7 Seconds talks to us about Podcasts, His Clear Speaking And Singing Voice, Aggressive Punk Rock And Making Cute Shit, Circle Jerks' Keith Morris' Vocal Lesson, Alienation/Community/Aggression & Love, Applause And Finding Common Ground With The Audience, Kepi Ghoulie Talk, What is Success, plus much much mosh pit more…
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Episode 136: Talli Osborne, nicknamed Nubs by Fat Mike, is a Punk Rock Singer and Inspirational Speaker talks to us about Her Bands Future And Past, Musical Theater Background, Self Pity-Positive Energy-And Telling Your Own Story To Improve The Live's Of Others, Meeting Richard Branson, Fat Mike's Fat Mic And How Talli And Mike Met, Early Surgeries…
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