Jughead's Basement
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.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 82 minutes
- Episodes
- 205
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Episode 204: Episode 204: Dan Vapid of Sludgeworth and The Cheats on Catching Up With Friends
204: Dan Vapid of Sludgeworth and The Cheats has been my friend since the late 80s. We have been through a lot together and apart. And it was nice to chat with him about Sludgeworth, The Cheats, Wh…
01:14:10 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
Episode 203: Episode 203: B.A. of Sloppy Seconds on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
Episode 203: B.A. of Sloppy Seconds talks to us about wearing band shirts, early rock influences including KISS and Queen, road to punk, Sloppy Seconds' strange song writing process, the affect of tv…
01:13:51 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
Episode 202: Episode 202: Glen Herman of Impulse Manslaughter on Catching Up With Friends
Glen Herman was an important part of Screeching Weasels introduction into the world of Chicago punk friendships. And on this podcast we talk about such things as Chicago Music Venues and the band Ar…
01:15:14 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Episode 201: Episode 201: Blag Dahlia Part II of Dwarves, Introducing Ralph Champagne, and Author on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
Episode 201: Featuring Blag Dahlia of The Dwarves, Author and Singer of Introducing Ralph Champagne talks to us about Sleep & Gluttony, Introducing Ralph Champagne, Self And External Criticism And Ed…
01:04:49 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Episode 200: Episode 200: Mass Giorgini - Producer, Musician, Academic on Catching Up With Friends
Mass Giorgini is a Producer, Mixing & Mastering Engineer, Musician from bands such as Squirtgun, Screeching Weasel, and Common Rider. Jughead and Mass have been friends since the late 80s. That's a…
01:23:30 |
Mon 12 Aug 2024
Episode 199: Episode 199: Shawna Potter of War On Women on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
Episode 199: Shawna Potter of War on Women talks to Jughead's Basement about Current Activity and Quietly Working, Valuing Art, Anti Harassment Activism and Working on Movies and Theater, Classic Pun…
01:14:24 |
Mon 05 Aug 2024
Episode 198: Episode 198: Larry Livermore on Catching Up With Friends
Larry Livermore is a Novelist, Essayist, Record Producer, Musician and founder of Lookout! Records. He is my friend and we talk about a lot of stuff in this free form episode. If you enjoy thoughtf…
01:10:13 |
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Episode 197: Episode 197: Steve Albini's Life Celebration Reissue of Big Black's Episode
Steve Albini's Life Celebration Reissue of The Big Black Episode from October 2014.Interviews with Steve Albini, Santiago Durango, Jeff Pezzati, Camilo Gonzalez, Jim DeRogatis, and Russ Forster.July …
01:47:49 |
Mon 22 Jul 2024
Episode 196: Episode 196: Eddie Pignataro of The Kobanes, Noodle Brain, and The Mitochondriacs on Catching Up With Friends
Episode 196: Eddie Pignataro of The Kobanes, Noodle Brain, and The Mitochondriacs on Catching Up With FriendsThe KobanesNoodle BrainThe Mitochondriacs
01:03:47 |
Tue 16 Jul 2024
Episode 195: Episode 195: Blag Dahlia of The Dwarves on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
Hello and Welcome to Jughead’s Basement Episode 195 Sub Category LoFi Interviews with HiFi guests. This week with Blag Dahlia from The Dwarves. In this episode we talk about such things as Dwarves …
01:10:26 |
Mon 01 Jul 2024
Episode 194: Episode 194: Marc Ruvolo of No Empathy, Fur Coats, Chia Pet, Author and founder of Johann's Face Records on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
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…
01:32:02 |
Mon 08 Apr 2024
Episode 193: Episode 193: Chris Wrenn of Bridge Nine Records and Sully's Brand on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
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…
01:24:24 |
Mon 25 Mar 2024
Episode 192: Episode 192: Jonathan Anastas of DYS on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
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 …
01:44:02 |
Mon 11 Mar 2024
Episode 191: Episode 191: John Wright of nomeansno, Hanson Brothers, and Dead Bob, along with author Jason Lamb on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
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…
01:37:25 |
Mon 29 Jan 2024
Episode 190: Episode 190: Chris Fogal of The Gamits, Discomfort Creature, Dwayen, and Midrake on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
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,…
01:27:07 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
Episode 189: Episode 189: Mac McCaughan of Superchunk, Portastic and Co Founder of Merge Records on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
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 com…
01:09:41 |
Mon 18 Dec 2023
Episode 188: Episode 188: Paul (Coyote) Fleischmann of The DeeCRACKS and The Ratcliffs on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
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 spe…
01:27:29 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
Episode 187: Episode 187: Damon Locks of Trenchmouth, The Eternals, and The Black Monument Ensemble on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
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 Worl…
01:44:20 |
Mon 04 Dec 2023
Episode 186: Episode 186: Michael (Yeahman) Marti of DeeCRACKS and Midrake on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
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 becomi…
01:34:10 |
Tue 21 Nov 2023
Episode 185: Episode 185: Matt and Mike of DeeCracks on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
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…
01:20:09 |
Mon 06 Nov 2023
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