Episodes

  • Episode 226: Episode 226 with Brian (Vermin) Mcquaid of Screeching Weasel, Sludgeworth, and Ethyline with mini interview with his drummer son Max on Lo Fi Interviews with Hi Fi Guests
    Feb 2 2026

    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 Etsy

    Jughead's Patreon

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • Episode 225: Episode 225: Adam Bones of The Two Tens and The Manic Standstill on Lo Fi Interviews with Hi Fi Guests
    Jan 26 2026

    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 Website
    Manic Standstill Merch
    Get the record MOVING
    ​The Two Tens Bandcamp

    www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com
    Jughead's Patreon

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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • Episode 224: Episode 224: Greg Norton of Ultrabomb and Hüsker Dü on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
    Sep 8 2025

    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 Site
    Husker Du 4LP Miracle Year
    Mike Watt's podcast
    Jughead's Basement Patreon

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Episode 223: Episode 223: Slackrr with Scotty & Cait on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
    Aug 27 2025

    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 Fucking Jumanji, Endless Touring and Exhaustion, Punk Haiku, Does the Soul Sellout, plus much much skackety skackety skackrr more!

    Slackrr on Facebook
    Jughead's Basement Patreon

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Episode 222: Episode 222: Steven McDonald of Redd Kross, The Melvins, and OFF! on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
    Aug 5 2025

    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 Site
    Born Innocent link to watching the documentary

    Link to Jughead's Basement Patreon

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • Episode 221: Episode 221: Kurt Bloch of The Fastbacks on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
    Jul 26 2025

    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' Bandcamp
    Jughead's Basement Patreon

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • Episode 220: Episode 220: Aaron Cometbus of Cometbus Fanzine and Pinhead Gunpowder
    Jul 10 2025

    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 PRESS
    AARON'S FANZINES AND MORE AT MICROCOSM PUBLISHING
    PINHEAD GUNPOWDER RECORDS AT 1234 GO!
    TURNED OUT A PUNK: PINHEAD GUNPOWDER ON APPLE PODCAST
    AARON'S ARCHIVES AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY
    ​CRIMPSHRINE ON JUGHEAD'S BASEMENT - YOUTUBE

    Jughead's Basement Patreon

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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Episode 219: Episode 219: Kim Warnick of Fastbacks and Visqueen on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
    May 7 2025

    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 Fucking 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 Facebook
    Fastbacks on Bandcamp

    Jughead's Basement Patreon

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    1 hr and 40 mins