Jughead's Basement

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, Music As a Conversation in the Real World plus much much exploding ensemble mouth trenched eternal monument more more more!

Editor Correction: When Damon was talking about Angela Davis I mistakenly played a clip from his song Solar Power of Amina Baraka, partner of poet/artist Amiri Baraka.

Damon on Turned Out A Punk

​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 technicality is not needed, band relation to the Gamits and the formation of Midrake, joining the DeeCRACKS, recording a prerecorded catalog allows no time for bullshit, plus much much marti more midrake more more more!

DeeCracks Record with Michael Marti
Midrake record on Bandcamp

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 Town Was Our Universe, Touring Russia And Japan, Which Punk Rockers Do Not Sweat plus much much cretin deecrack midrake and more!

Pirate Press Website
DeeCracks Official Website

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 supposed to be easily scaleable, what is a big idea in marketing, nailing a concept and making it reality, plus much much liquidy, can can, death metal, punk more And MORE!

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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, Gushing Over John Ross Bowie and Bob Mould, plus much much evanston chicago morton more grove more more more!

Split Single Band Web Page
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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 writing the patron saint of burned out losers and Mike’s experiences with the film industry, Mike's wonderfully odd and beautiful proposal of marriage to Poli van Dam, plus much much murder, mayhem, marriage, monsters and more more gory more!
Murderland Bandcamp
Murderland Facebook
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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 shit more more more!

Debut of a new song called Obvious from Semi Famous, featuring Ryan Rockwell and Poli van Dam is at the end of this episode!

Go to Rare Bird Lit for Billy Brown's record and also look for a future link for the release of Weasels In A Box, by Semi Famous with Poli Van Dam joining in on vocals.

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 with cancer.

*Shawn's sister's name is Vanessa Harris and the recording studio was The Green Room.

Here are some links you should explore:
Shawn Harris' Web Page
Emily Flake's Web Page
Rarebirdlit for Billy's vinyl recording

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 the influence of Strike Under on John's confidence to become a working guitarist, Eric Spicer and DV8, Jeff Pezzati and a Band is a Band and a Group of Individuals is a Group of Individuals, Befriending Jake Burns of Stiff Little Fingers plus much much metally schenker, page and blackmore more more more more!

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 Transition plus much much grumpster more!

Grumpster Website

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