Square Zeros

Jimmy Doyle is the frontman for Long Island ska punks The Fad and Jimmy Doyle And The Engineers. The Fad has achieved veteran status on their home turf, and they're headlining an all day ska-punk fest this weekend in Amityville, N.Y., called Thing In The Spring. Jimmy came into Brooklyn recently and shared some of The Fad's earliest cuts.

Jordyn Blakely is a super-tight drummer who plays in Brooklyn's Butter The Children and Tom Blacklung & The Smokestacks. She talks with Square Zeros about her high school band, Free Addiction, and their pop punk odes to masturbation, as well as a smooth jazz project she worked on around the same time. (Songs: "Victim Of Choking" and "Maggy's Song" by Free Addiction, "Big Town Boogie" by Allan and Friends, and "Spit It Out" by Butter The Children.")

Square Zeros #13: Louis Ramos with Nova Luz (The Amputees, Mrs. Whitehead) by Square Zeros

Square Zeros #12: Marisa Cerio (Big Quiet, Murray) by Square Zeros

Square Zeros #11: Chris Tracy (Clean Girls, Shire) by Square Zeros

It was high time: In this episode, Square Zeros hosts Derek Hawkins and Jon Mann — with the help of first interviewee Stephen Selman — dig into each other in an attempt to find out what's beneath their impulse to find out what's beneath other people's music.

For most of us, bedroom rock stays locked away in the bedroom. Fortunately, that isn't the case for Amanda B. She shares a couple 10-plus-year-old shoegazey tracks that crisscrossed the Pacific Ocean and eventually got put to tape here in New York. (Songs: "Look Alive" by Crazy Pills, "The Stars Above" and "Bebe" performed by Adolescence, and "Break It Down" by Crazy Pills. Photo: Amanda B.)

Marta DeLeon, the dreamy frontwoman and bassist for The Meaning Of Life, has musical roots that stretch coast to coast. Long before she landed here in Brooklyn, she played cello and, occasionally, melodica in The Getter Flash, a Seattle-based outfit that carved out a spot in the Pacific Northwest indie scene in the early 2000s. In this episode, we get treated with a couple tracks from that project, plus some new stuff from The Meaning Of Life. (Songs: "She Never Screams" by The Meaning Of Life, "Weltschmerz" and "The Days Of Living Velvet" by The Getter Flash," and "Laura V." by The Meaning Of Life.

Combine equal parts folky blue-eyed soul, nu metal, Phish-obsessed jam rock and second-wave ska. Shake vigorously. Wait a decade or so. If you're lucky, in some universe, you'll pour out Typefighter. (Songs: "Back To The Basics" by Politicks, "When It Rains It Pours" by Noise Pollution, "Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Moon" by Kokopelli, "The Oldie" by Sidewinders Ska Club, "Much" by Typefighter. Photo: Ryan McLaughlin, Will Waikart, Thomas Orgren and John Scoops of Typefighter.)

Brooklyn-based guitar wizard and recording engineer Mario Viele plays in Spirit Of Danger and Chandeli'ers — two fairly different but equally shreddy rock n roll bands. He shares a pair of cover songs from his high school metal band, Chuck Of Death, as well as an unnamed, unreleased and relatively unheard cut from a project he worked on later with a late friend. (Songs: "Spirit Of Danger" by Spirit Of Danger, "Slaughter Of The Soul" and "Fault Of The Flesh" performed by Chuck Of Death, "Untitled Track," and "Broke And Alone" by Spirit Of Danger. Photo: Mario Viele, Don Pedro)