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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 EtsyJughead's Patreon

 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 WebsiteManic Standstill MerchGet the record MOVING​The Two Tens Bandcampwww.jugheadsbasementpodcast.comJughead's Patreon

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 SiteHusker Du 4LP Miracle YearMike Watt's podcastJughead's Basement Patreon

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 F*****g Jumanji, Endless Touring and Exhaustion, Punk Haiku, Does the Soul Sellout, plus much much skackety skackety skackrr more!Slackrr on FacebookJughead's Basement Patreon

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 SiteBorn Innocent link to watching the documentaryLink to Jughead's Basement Patreon

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' BandcampJughead's Basement Patreon

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 PRESSAARON'S FANZINES AND MORE AT MICROCOSM PUBLISHINGPINHEAD GUNPOWDER RECORDS AT 1234 GO!TURNED OUT A PUNK: PINHEAD GUNPOWDER ON APPLE PODCASTAARON'S ARCHIVES AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY​CRIMPSHRINE ON JUGHEAD'S BASEMENT - YOUTUBEJughead's Basement Patreon

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 F*****g 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 FacebookFastbacks on BandcampJughead's Basement Patreon

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 WebsiteThe Fatal Flaw Bandcamp

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.comJughead's Basement Patreon

Episode 216: with Ronnie Barnett of The Muffs.  He talks to us about Jughead and Ronnie First Meeting on the Buck, Muffs, and Lillingtons tour in 1999, Lisa Marr and Cub, Ronnies Record Store Career and Venturing into Rock Criticism, On Moving to LA for Love and the Beginning of The Muffs, The Influence of Older Brothers, Major Label Talk, Working with Sub Pop and Fat Wreck Chords, Our Mutual Distain for Warped Tour, Kim was a Perfectionist, Kim Shattuck Plays with The Pixies and her Battle with ALS, Small Talk about White Flag, plus much muff muff much more!Jughead's Patreon

Episode 215: John Szymanski of Even In Blackouts and Jon Langford and the Four Lost Souls talks to us about how EIB Broke John, Music Archeology,  Working at the Famous Chicago Recording Company (CRC), Musicianship, Creativity, and A Choose Your Own Adventure Mentality, Recording with My My My and Even In Blackouts, Recording in Muscle Shoals, Four Lost Souls and the National Number System, plus much much more.Jon Langford's site with many John Szymanski projectsJughead's Basement Patreon

Episode 214: Deanna Belos of Sincere Engineer talks to us about Suburban Chicago, Toby And Red Scare Industries, Jughead Uses Deanna's Time to Reminisce about High School Theater, Experimentation and Giving Your Audience What They Didn't Know They Wanted, Moving Producers from Matt Jordon to Mike Sapone, Simplicity, Humility, & Being Genuine, Self Deprecation, Revenge Songs, The Effect of EMO plus much much solo, band, sincere, yes my dear, to the end genuine more more more!Sincere Engineer Website​Jughead's Basement Patreon

Andrew Reich is a producer and screenwriter and now documentarian of Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story. On this episode we talk about New Jersey Influence: WFMU and Adrenalin O.D., Contrarianism in Music/Crossing Genres, Becoming a Comedy Writer for the tv show Friends and its path to becoming a documentarian for Redd Kross, Fair Use and Collecting Footage, The McDonald Brother Interviews, Ruthlessly Cutting, The Year of Redd Kross, plus much red, redd, cross, kross, rake, reich more!Information on Born Innocent: The Redd Kross StoryExtended interview with Andrew Reich and Ronnie BarnettRedd Kross Website

Episode 212: Thomas Thacker of Sum 41 and GOB on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests talks to Jughead about: Screeching Weasel, the Mystery & Reality of the Band, GOB Eclectic in a Good ay, Piano in Sum 41, Drumming for McRackins  , Relationships with Theo & Friends as Ice Breakers, Balancing GOB & Sum 41, Masculinity - Femininity - and Self Destruction in Punk Rock, Horror & Fear Talk, Seriousness & Darkness Introduced into GOB, Deryck from Sum 41 Writes as a Producer, Creative Process & Personal Conflict plus much much gobbity gobbity gob!Jughead's Basement PatreonGob WebsiteSum 41 WebsiteMcRackins Information