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.
In Episode 63 Maura Weaver (Mixtapes - Ogikubo Station - Direct Hit) is in conversation with Jughead about Her Okinawan Roots, The Power Chord Academy, Mixtapes, Voice Therapy, Ogikubo Station, and Comedy. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com
Episode 62: Jaret Reddick from Bowling For Soup talks to Jughead about The history of Bowling for Soup, Phinneas & Ferb, Writing about nostalgia and pop culture, Jaret's Screeching Weasel questions, what is the ego unprotected from, and much much more. For all the cool links: https://www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com/hi-fi-guests/62-jaret-reddick
Episode 61 featuring singer Liz Eldredge from the band Even In Blackouts. This is Liz’s first solo interview in her 19 year career with EIB, so it is something special. In this interview we talk about The Southside of Chicago and it’s Children’s Choir, visiting the Vatican, life on the road, the nurturing of a strange punk acoustic style, the benefits of earplugs on singing stoned, Spanish Television, a ten year hiatus and her writing relationship with the members of her band. I will admit this ...
Episode 60: Kelly & Luis from The Dollyrots talk to Jughead about their band, their trip from Florida to California, Vocal Coaching, Balancing Mainstream and Independent music, Panic Button Records, Producer John Fields and More... plus MORE! www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com
In Episode 59 Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy, Common Rider, Classics Of Love, Musician, Artist, Novelist) engages in a mostly nonmusical conversation with Jughead about their lives and the world in general. Touching on Night Terrors, The War Of Art, Japan, the nature of creativity, the relationship between Jughead and Ben Weasel, Astrology, Monty Python and Friendship.
Chris of the Austria based band The Mugwumps talks to Jughead about German 80s hardcore, Radio Theory of the mid 20th century, the definition of Mugwumps, Integrity in punk rock and its global reach, plus we end with a discussion about the stellar 2018 release Clown War Four on Monster Zero Records. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com www.monsterzerorecords.com
Today Jughead (and Sara) speak to Manges' frontman, singer/songwriter/guitarist Andrea. The Manges formed in 1993 and are still playing 27 years later. In this episode I split interview credits with Sara Ramone (Ramona Confidential) pop punk superfan and journalist for her one woman effort called 1,2,3,4. Today we talk to Andrea about topics such as home town La Spezia, their hometown venue Skaletta Rock Club, Striped Music, the Manges creative and business dynamics, publishing rights and the It...
Matt and Mike of The DeeCracks talk to Jughead about their new record, Serious Issues. Plus other conversations such as the road atlas vs GPS, Touring China, singing in English, long time friendships/business relationships, and getting kicked out of America. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com
Reverend Norb from Boris the Sprinkler is visiting Jughead in his basement. They talk about Spiderman, Guilty Pleasures, Origins, Science, and much much more! visit www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com to learn more and to join the Patreon
Jughead's Basement Episode 54 - Paddy Costello of Dillinger Four and The Arrivals. Jughead and Patrick Costello talk about Art, Touring, Lyrical Content, Dillinger Four And More!
Dog Party visits the mansion of the Polycephaly Aporia and plays an acoustic version of one of their songs, plus play a part, literally, as one of The Scientists' creations. Plus we get a visit from Miguel Chen from Teenage Bottlerocket.
Luke McNeill talks to Jughead about The Copyrights, Hospital Job, his actual job as a lawyer, Screeching Weasel, Even In Blackouts, Songwriting and much much more! www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com
Adam Fletcher of The Copyrights on Episode 51, talks to Jughead about: Jukebox, Punk Houses, Touring, History of the band, Weasel stories, Vapid, and many many more things. www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com
Ray Carlisle of Teenage Bottlerocket talks about the history of the band with Jughead, friends for about 20 years.
Episode 49: Horror Of The Polycephaly Aporia Part III with Grim Deeds With reoccurring characters: John Jughead Pierson, Jason Strange, Steve Ball, Claire Hall, and Brian Rooney.
Jughead's Basement: Episode 48 Part II of The Horror Of The Polycephaly Aporia is John Jughead's and Jason Strange’s Horror Podcast with Punk and Underground interviews. This episode stars stand-up punk comedian Kyle Kinane. Cast: John Jughead, Jason Strange, Steve Ball, & Brian Rooney Artwork by B Face. (Chris Barnard)
Jughead's Basement: Episode I Part I of Horror Of The Polycephaly Aporia John Jughead's Horror Podcast with Punk and Underground interviews. This episode with guest Miguel Chen from Teenage Bottlerocket. www.miguelchen.com Cast: John Jughead, Jason Strange, Steve Ball, & Claire Hall Artwork by B Face. (Chris Barnard)
Episode 46 with Gub Scott Conway and Todd Pot. Gub of Even In Blackouts, Ivy League, Ghost Forest, and the highly influential band Gauge, which helped to inspire a generation of EMO bands around the world and Todd in his home, in his lava lit tub, eating cherries, Tod was the vocalist and lyricist for Apocalypse Hoboken and also The House That Gloria Vanderbilt, among many others. Our conversation is far reaching. This particular episode took off amongst my facebook friends, and is still the mos...
Dan Vapid and Dan Panic join the Live Quarantine Hour recorded on May 12, 2020. Dan Vapid, of Dan Vapid & the Cheats, Methadones, Sludgeworth, Riverdales, Screeching Weasel, The Mopes, and Noise By Numbers, plus many more, in conversation with Dan Panic of The Groove Ghoulies, Riverdales, Squirtgun, Avengers, Pansy Division, Beulah, Screeching Weasel and much more, and in conversation with Me, Jughead, Bill & William talking about the actual postal service, screeching weasel, wine, and b...
Episode 44 - Lucky Yates - Dr. Krieger of Archer. I am happy to bring to you my interview with long time friend from the theater company in Atlanta Dad’s Garage. Lucky is most well known for his voice work on Archer but he is also a multi talented man in improvisation and puppetry. We talk here about his theater work, Archer, puppetry, my wizardry, Turner Classics, Frisky Dingo and much more. Links to interesting things: Dad’s Garage https://dadsgarage.com/ The Center of Puppetry Arts in Atlanta...
Episode 43 with Johnny Puke professional renaissance, singer, poet, and unique story teller. We are old friends and we talk about Screeching Weasel, Cletus, Performance Art, Blues Brothers, Movie Onset Tragedies, Punk Rock, Chris Barrows, GG Allin, Johann's Face records and my 50th Birthday Party.
This week Stefan Tijs from Stardumb records. We talk Screeching Weasel, Even In Blackouts, Apers, Children Books, Integrity, Rebellion, Art, Philosophy, and much much more.
This time KJ Jansen from Chixdiggit, a Calgary Canada Pop Punk Band chats with Jughead. They met in Japan on the band's last tour. And now just a few weeks later the two have decided to talk about music, Wikipedia, and Toilets.
B Face and I were in The Mopes together. A band that was and is not a band. We also talk about guitars, amps, Screeching Weasel, The Queers, and also about our personas in the punk scene. This is very stripped down, no music, no edits.
Episode 39 - Danny Panic Here is an October 2012 Interview Jughead conducted with Panic for episode 2 on My Brain Hurts. Panic and Jughead talk about Screeching Weasel and some of their experiences in the band. Opening song for Jughead's Basement used to be called Johnny's Got A Problem , NOT Johnny's Out Of Control. In this podcast I call it by the wrong name. It's a great song by the band DI. Please donate to us, simply go to paypal and donate money to jugheadsbasement@gmail.com ONE TIME DONAT...
Kody Templeman of The Lillingtons and Teenage Bottlerocket. This is a full interview with Kody from April 2013, talking about Death By Television and much much more. Please donate to us, simply go to paypal and donate money to jugheadsbasement@gmail.com ONE TIME DONATIONS TO JUGHEAD'S BASEMENT: OR PATREON LINK
Episode 37: Tim McIlrath, An unedited interview with Rise Against's lead singer and songwriter, Tim McIlrath, about their record Sufferer & The Witness. Recorded in July of 2016. ONE TIME DONATIONS TO JUGHEAD'S BASEMENT: OR PATREON LINK
Navajo Artist and Punk Rocker: Ryan Singer. Welcome to Jughead’s Basement Episode 36, subgenera, Lo Interviews with Hi Fi guests, today featuring an interview with Navajo artist and punk rocker, Ryan Singer. Ryan Singer currently resides and works out of his studio in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ryan allows many of his influences to affect his artwork including comic books Native art, pop art, and of course often created in his studio while listening to such bands as J Church, Black Flag, ...
This is episode 35. Hayley Cain, from Hayley and The Crushers, and Jughead talk Punk music, life, theater, writing, and even a bit of psychology. Hayley and her husband Doctor Caine were also together previously in their punk band Magazine Dirty. Hayley and Jughead have been corresponding for over a year now, and they began to work together to help each other out with social media. During this period their correspondences turned into a pretty cool friendship. This subgenera episode is a bit clos...
Paul Russel is an artist known for his work on HALO and creating the Screeching Weasel Logo: Paul and I met when we were in high school, and together we made films and worked together on many artistic pursuits. Paul is the artist who created the original Screeching Weasel logo plastered on bodies across the world, he was also the guy who came up with the name Halo for Xbox and created the walls and textures of that very same game. For the past 5 years he has been creating birthday portraits of h...
