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Episode 232: Episode 232: Erik Funk of Dillinger Four on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
Apr 22, 2026
1h 35m 21s
Episode 231: Episode 231: The Fake Friends with Brad and Felix on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
Apr 7, 2026
1h 25m 48s
Episode 230: Episode 230: David J Haskins of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Jazz Butcher, Night Crickets, and Solo Work on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
Mar 30, 2026
1h 10m 22s
Episode 229: Episode 229: Sam Russo musician of Red Scare Industries on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests
Mar 17, 2026
1h 35m 14s
Episode 228: Episode 228: Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein of Why? Philosophical Discussions about Everyday Life Podcast
Mar 11, 2026
2h 03m 00s
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| 4/22/26 |  Episode 232: Episode 232: Erik Funk of Dillinger Four on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | Episode 232: Erik Funk of Dillinger Four talks to us about his band Billingsgate - Victory Records to Nemesis Records - The Erik Funk/Erik Fink Story - Bloodline, Angerhouse and the move to Minnesota - The Beginning of Dillinger Four, Friendship, and the thing about Paddy, Dynamics of their voices - How titles fuck with the brain - Aaron Cometbus and Scooby Don't - About the new song, plus much much one two three more more dillinger four!Dillinger Four Web Page | 1h 35m 21s | ||||||
| 4/7/26 |  Episode 231: Episode 231: The Fake Friends with Brad and Felix on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | Episode 231 with Brad and Felix from The Fake Friends. On This episode we talk about: On being a close-knit group of friends - A deep unlearning and being liberated from cohesive sludge - Music theory - Groove, dance, and the importance of getting people to move - repetition, monotony, and spontaneity in live performance - Felix wants the whole pie, wearing influences on your sleeves, plus more more and obviously MORE!The Fake Friends on Stomp RecordsThe Fake Friends on Bandcamp | 1h 25m 48s | ||||||
| 3/30/26 |  Episode 230: Episode 230: David J Haskins of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Jazz Butcher, Night Crickets, and Solo Work on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | Episode 230 with David J Haskins of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Night Crickets, Jazz Butcher, Solo Work plus much more, talks to us about from England to LA - Shoe Boxes of Cassette Tapes - Purging & Catharsis - Nostalgia is Two Parts Bullshit, - Love & Rockets, Sabotage, and We Being Us - Intimacy & Living Room Shows - On The Death of Pat & Max of The Jazz Butcher, plus some more.Information on Tracks From the Attic RevisitedDavid J Official WebsiteJazz Butcher episode on Youtube | 1h 10m 22s | ||||||
| 3/17/26 |  Episode 229: Episode 229: Sam Russo musician of Red Scare Industries on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | Episode 229: SAM RUSSO on Red Scare Industries talks to us about the Future with a Full Band, A Game of Who Can Do What When, Ego & Personal Growth, Iron Maiden Talk, Energy & The Dynamics In Playing Acoustic, Banter & Improvisation, Intimacy With An Audience, I'm So Sad To Meet You, Good Melody Hurts My Teeth And The Legacy of Teenage Bottlerocket, Stone Soup, Relationship With Brendan Kelly & Toby & Red Scare Industries, Personal vs. Relatable plus much much mono e mono solo more!Sam Russo Website | 1h 35m 14s | ||||||
| 3/11/26 |  Episode 228: Episode 228: Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein of Why? Philosophical Discussions about Everyday Life Podcast | Episode 228 with Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein of Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life Podcast. Jack talks to us about his Biography And Path From New York To North Dakota, SLC Punk - Tribes - And The Internet, We Wanted The Scene To Change our Lives, Parsing And Punk As An Entry Exam, The Ivory Tower & Public Philosophy, We Are Stand-Ins For Our Audience, Perception & Cultural Differences, Fuck The Audience & Subverting Expectations, Ska Music, Appropriation, History & Trust In Potential. Plus MORE MORE MORE!Episode on Ska and Jamaican MusicJack's Radio Show WebsiteJack's Web PageJughead's Basement Patreon | 2h 03m 00s | ||||||
| 3/3/26 |  Episode 227: Episode 227: Mass Giorgini of Squirtgun, Screeching Weasel, and Common Rider on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | Episode 227: Mass Giorgini of Squirtgun, Screeching Weasel, and Common Rider talks to us about Sonic Iguana Studio in Rome, On Singer Kevin and PT's Revenge, Teen Idols Talk, Praises for Zac Damon, Is It Worth Doing Art, The Back Story of Sunflowers and a Bit Of European History, Rising Up Against Injustice, plus more more ghostly, more!Squirtgun Sunflowers Vinyl EPSunflowers For MarioJughead's Basement Patreon | 1h 46m 07s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 |  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 | 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 ScareMax' band Feral Tact on BandcampBrian's Art on EtsyJughead's Patreon | 1h 36m 54s | ||||||
| 1/26/26 |  Episode 225: Episode 225: Adam Bones of The Two Tens and The Manic Standstill on Lo Fi Interviews with Hi Fi Guests | 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 MOVINGThe Two Tens Bandcampwww.jugheadsbasementpodcast.comJughead's Patreon | 1h 31m 35s | ||||||
| 9/8/25 |  Episode 224: Episode 224: Greg Norton of Ultrabomb and Hüsker Dü on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | 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 | 1h 15m 32s | ||||||
| 8/27/25 |  Episode 223: Episode 223: Slackrr with Scotty & Cait on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | 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 FacebookJughead's Basement Patreon | 1h 13m 05s | ||||||
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| 8/5/25 |  Episode 222: Episode 222: Steven McDonald of Redd Kross, The Melvins, and OFF! on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | 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 | 2h 02m 00s | ||||||
| 7/26/25 |  Episode 221: Episode 221: Kurt Bloch of The Fastbacks on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | 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 | 1h 37m 26s | ||||||
| 7/10/25 |  Episode 220: Episode 220: Aaron Cometbus of Cometbus Fanzine and Pinhead Gunpowder | 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 UNIVERSITYCRIMPSHRINE ON JUGHEAD'S BASEMENT - YOUTUBEJughead's Basement Patreon | 1h 43m 30s | ||||||
| 5/7/25 |  Episode 219: Episode 219: Kim Warnick of Fastbacks and Visqueen on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | 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 FacebookFastbacks on BandcampJughead's Basement Patreon | 1h 39m 49s | ||||||
| 3/31/25 |  Episode 218: Episode 218: Joel Reader of The Fatal Flaw, MTX, The Plus Ones on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | 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 | 1h 47m 54s | ||||||
| 3/24/25 |  Episode 217: Episode 217: Tyson Cornel founder of Rarebirdlit and musician of Semi-Famous on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | 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 | 1h 16m 33s | ||||||
| 3/17/25 |  Episode 216: Episode 216: Ronnie Barnett of The Muffs on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | 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 | 1h 30m 02s | ||||||
| 1/22/25 |  Episode 215: Episode 215: John Szymanski of Even In Blackouts, Jon Langford and the Four Lost Souls on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | 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 | 1h 13m 55s | ||||||
| 12/9/24 |  Episode 214: Episode 214: Deanna Belos of Sincere Engineer on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | 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 WebsiteJughead's Basement Patreon | 1h 33m 19s | ||||||
| 12/2/24 |  Episode 213: Episode 213: Andrew Reich - Redd Kross Documentarian (Screenwriter and Emmy Award winner for tv show FRIENDS) on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | 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 | 1h 25m 59s | ||||||
| 11/19/24 |  Episode 212: Episode 212: Thomas Thacker of GOB and Sum 41 on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | 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 | 1h 38m 13s | ||||||
| 11/11/24 |  Episode 211: Episode 211: Lynda Kicks of Pale Lips, Dirty Cheetah, and Taxi Girls (Montreal) on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | Episode 211: Lynda Kicks of Pale Lips, Dirty Cheetah, and Taxi Girls (Montreal) on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests talks to us about: Marriage Talk, Kicks Pseudonym and her Briefs Brother Stevie Kicks, Always Having Wanted To Start A Girl Band, Jugheads Gets a Lesson in Roller Derby from Lynda, From Roller Derby Back to Punk Rock, Pale Lips, Dirty Cheetah and Taxi Girls on Improving as a Drummer, Lynda and Jughead share Body Wound Stories plus much much drummer drumming montreal mania wrestling and more!Dirty Cheetah WebsiteTaxi Girls BandcampPale lips BandcampJughead's Basement Patreon | 1h 15m 37s | ||||||
| 11/5/24 |  Episode 210: Episode 210: Tobias Jeg of Red Scare Industries on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests | Episode 210: Tobias Jeg of Red Scare Industries talks to us about: Is Red Scare Solvent, Punk Rock Postal Workers, On Being a Booking Agent and Negotiating Fees, "My Job is Dealing with Liars," This is not a Soccer Podcast, Fat Wreck Chords and Red Scare Crossover, Is Signing Bands Truly Dumb Luck, Lillingtons Talk, being Part of the Creative Process and the Value of Life, Election & Apathy, Lastly the 20th Anniversary Comp, and not much more more more because that's a lot lot lot!Red Scare Web SiteJughead's Basement Patreon | 1h 13m 46s | ||||||
| 10/28/24 |  Episode 209: Episode 209: Dan Panic of Screeching Weasel, Riverdales, Beulah and more on Catching Up with Friends | What a treat to talk to my old friend Dan Sullivan (DAN PANIC). We talk Screeching Weasel, Beulah, Cartoons and its affect on us as people and musicians, our diverse musical influences, plus just a whole hell of a lot of fun. I walked away from this one feeling good. It was very heartwarming to chat with him after so long.LINK TO PATREON FOR JUGHEAD'S BASEMENT | 1h 29m 15s | ||||||
| 10/14/24 |  Episode 208: Episode 208: John Jughead on The Power Chord Hour | Episode 208: John Jughead. Anthony Merchant from the Power Chord Hour is one of my favorite interviewers. He has had me on a few times. Here is his podcast of our interview presented to you in full. We talk about such things as the new band Semi-Famous, How to run a podcast, interview styles and how to get better, Screeching Weasel, plus much more.Jughead's Basement Patreon (Donate to the show)https://www.patreon.com/jugheadsbasementPlaces to hear The Power Chord Hourhttps://powerchordhour.simplecast.com/https://www.facebook.com/powerchordhour/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6jTfzjB3-mzmWM-51c8Lgg?app=desktophttps://www.instagram.com/powerchordhour/?hl=en | 1h 37m 12s | ||||||
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