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<p>This particular episode was a long time coming, for a variety of reasons. Josh Freese has had the type of career – and has the type of personality – that has made me want to interview him for a lot longer than I've had the capacity to actually conduct interviews. He might have played with everyone from Sting to Guns 'N' Roses to Nine Inch Nails to The Offspring to Dweezil Zappa to Juliana Hatfield to Kelly Clarkson, but if you've been involved in the punk rock scene at all for the last three decades, he's still Josh from The Vandals. Or, for a small number of us, Josh from Viva Death.</p>
<p>Anyway, Josh just put out a new solo album, "Just A Minute: Vol. 1" – it was written and recorded from his home studio during quarantine. It's twenty songs in, you guessed it, twenty minutes, and it was released on Loosegroove Records, a label owned by Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard and Brad's Regan Hagar. It's wild: some of the songs are expertly crafted and fully thought-out punk rock songs and some of them sound almost like the descent into madness that a lot of us experienced when locked in our houses for an indeterminate amount of time.</p>
<p>We cover a lot of ground over the course of 75 or so minutes: Danny Elfman, The Vandals, Stone Gossard and Pearl Jam, living in Long Beach, playing with Sting, Queens Of The Stone Age, setting up a home recording studio a decade ago and actually finding the time to use it during a pandemic, and a lot more. We also talked, obviously, about "Just A Minute: Vol. 1" and probably spent more time talking about "Just A Minute: Vol. 2," which should hopefully be out during the spring of '22.</p>
<p>Buy "Just A Minute: Vol. 1" on vinyl: <a href='https://shop.thehardtimes.net/products/josh-freese-just-a-minute-vol-1-neon-coralvinyl?_pos=1&_sid=8d3887eea&_ss=r'>https://shop.thehardtimes.net/products/josh-freese-just-a-minute-vol-1-neon-coralvinyl?_pos=1&_sid=8d3887eea&_ss=r </a></p>
<p>Buy other Josh Freese merch, like stickers and pins and t-shirts and plaid shorts and a guitar: <a href='https://www.etsy.com/shop/JoshFreeseGoods'>https://www.etsy.com/shop/JoshFreeseGoods </a></p>
<p>"Just A Minute: Vol. 1" Videos:</p>
<p>"Heavy Metal Car Collection" – <a href='https://youtu.be/GpaSvkwDTrU'>https://youtu.be/GpaSvkwDTrU </a></p>
<p>"The Dwarves And The Queens" – <a href='https://youtu.be/ShnXbZDetyw'>https://youtu.be/ShnXbZDetyw </a></p>
<p>Follow Josh on Instagram: <a href='https://www.instagram.com/joshfreese/'>https://www.instagram.com/joshfreese/ </a></p>
<p>(*both laughs*) theme song is an excerpt from [laughs] track "Hurts To Laugh." © KALI MASI 2021 ℗ Take This To Heart Records 2021</p>

<p>The good ship (*both laugh*) keeps sailing along with our 48th episode, and it features one of our only repeat guests to date. He's the owner of one of my favorite voices in the pantheon of punk rock, and he's also one of my favorite songwriters and one of, in my opinion, the most underrated guitar players in the scene. A triple threat!</p>
<p>Anyway, he's the inimitable Josh Caterer, and if you remember back at the beginning of 2021, we chatted about what was to be his first solo release, The Hideout Sessions. It was an album recorded in front of a live stream online audience at an otherwise empty club in Chicago, and it marked the first real appearance of any sort by this particular project, which featured Caterer on guitar and vocals, John Perrin on drums and John San Juan on bass.</p>
<p>To mark the release of that album this spring, the band played an album release show, but because all of the clubs were still closed to the public, they did it via live stream and recorded it as an album…AGAIN! If you're keeping score at home, that makes not one but TWO live albums recorded before actually playing a show in front of an in-person, human audience. The result of that latter show is The SPACE Sessions, due out next week (December 17th) on Pravda Records. It was recorded at – you guessed it – at SPACE in Evanston, Illinois, and like The Hideout Sessions, it features an interesting mix of songs from Caterer's catalog (via Smoking Popes and, yes, Duvall!!!) and some standards that you might otherwise think of as from the big band era, because they were popularized by the likes of Judy Garland and Sammy Davis Jr. and Elvis Presley and, in the case of "At Last," which happens to be my wedding song…Etta James.</p>
<p>The set also closes with Caterer being joined on vocals by his daughter, Phoebe, for an updated take on "Somethin' Stupid," popularized by Frank Sinatra and his own daughter, Nancy. If been even tangentially aware of the punk scene over the course of the last three decades, you're of course aware of a legion of bands that have covered songs from outside the typical punk rock milieu, but they've done them with a fair amount of tongue planted firmly in cheek, as in "oh, isn't it funny/ironic that we're playing this song this way!" Sometimes it works great and sometimes it's a gag that tires after the first few listens, much like a comedy album. What's different about the old standards that Caterer et al., take on is the appreciation that the band has for the source material, paying considerable homage in their modern retellings.</p>
<p>Anyway, I'm rambling (I know, right?)…if you liked The Hideout Sessions, you'll love the SPACE Sessions. I'll add pre-order links when they're available (it'll be available digitally and on CD next weekend but the vinyl will have to wait until…who knows, honestly. Friggin' Adele…).</p>
<p>Catch the Josh Caterer Trio (along with the Sunshine Boys) live and in person:</p>
<p>December 16th at SPACE in Evanston, IL</p>
<p>December 17th at The Lyric Room in Green Bay, WI</p>
<p>December 18th at the Back Room at Colectivo in Milwaukee, WI</p>
<p><a href='https://joshcaterer.bandcamp.com/music'> https://joshcaterer.bandcamp.com/music </a></p>
<p><a href='https://sunshineboys.net/'>https://sunshineboys.net/ </a></p>
<p><a href='https://www.pravdamusic.com/'>https://www.pravdamusic.com/ </a></p>
<p>(*both laughs*) theme song is an excerpt from [laughs] track "Hurts To Laugh." © KALI MASI 2021 ℗ Take This To Heart Records 2021</p>

<p>Boston-area Americana-punk troubadour Jesse Ahern has shared stages with everyone from Dropkick Murphys to Rancid to Frank Turner to Lenny Lashley and countless others both across the US and across Europe. At long last, he finally sits down with us for a chat about his new album, "Heartache and Love." The album grew out of sessions that popped up during the pandemic when what had been some pretty expansive 2020 tour plans ground to a halt. The album both refines and expands upon the sort of roots-rock-meets-folk-punk thing that Ahern has been doing so well for years now. It helped earn Ahern a Boston Music Award nomination for Americana Artist Of The Year, where he's up against some local heavy hitters like Mark Erelli and Lila Wiles and Lashley himself.</p>
<p>At first glance, it might seem that Ahern would fit into a handful of other categories, from Singer-Songwriter of the Year to Punk/Hardcore or Rock or Folk or even Blues Artist of the Year…but maybe that's what makes Ahern so perfect for the Americana label, because his sound is an amalgam of all of the above, all of which make him an artist rooted in classic American working-class music.</p>
<p>As you might imagine based on the almost 90-minute length of our chat, we cover a lot of ground, from parenting three children during a pandemic, to touring Europe with Dropkick Murphys and Frank Turner, to his upcoming overseas run with Chuck Ragan and Chris Cresswell, to growing up in the Boston area music scene, to the struggles with addiction and the depths of the recovery community in the punk scene. We also talk quite a bit about Lenny Lashley, because he's a one-of-a-kind.</p>
<p>Check out Ahern's website here: <a href='https://www.jesseahern.com/'>https://www.jesseahern.com/ </a></p>
<p>Order "Heartache & Love" here: <a href='https://www.jesseahern.com/store'>https://www.jesseahern.com/store </a></p>
<p>Watch the video for "Just A Moment" here: <a href='https://youtu.be/CJFlBaypUME'>https://youtu.be/CJFlBaypUME</a></p>
<p>Watch the video for "Lost In This World" here: <a href='https://youtu.be/4ebNhULQ3E4'>https://youtu.be/4ebNhULQ3E4</a></p>
<p>(*both laughs*) theme song is an excerpt from [laughs] track "Hurts To Laugh." © KALI MASI 2021 ℗ Take This To Heart Records 2021</p>

Hightime‘s highly acclaimed and much loved debut album, Ishi Prende celebrates its 10th anniversary today! Ishi Prende by HIGHTIME We have plans to announce the release of the album on vinyl and had hoped to be offering pre-orders for the LP today to celebrate its birthday, but unfortunately due to vinyl production delays world wide, we’re still awaiting the test press… so you’ll have to wait a little longer for exciting news on that one. In the meantime, to celebrate Ishi Prende’s anniversary today we’re stoked to release pre-orders for our Limited Edition Hightime ceramic mugs featuring the album’s original […]

<p>Despite having a career that has consisted of more than three decades of writing and recording and playing music professionally in bands like Rancid and the Old Firm Casuals and Stomper 98 and Last Resort and Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and Oxley's Midnight Runners and probably more that I'm forgetting, next Friday (November 26th if you're keeping track) marks the release date for the inimitable Frederiksen's debut release as a solo artist. The album is called "To Victory" and it'll be released on Pirates Press Records (and yes, physical copies of the vinyl version do exist!) and it features reworked versions of a half-dozen tracks that span Frederiksen's entire career arc as both a music fan and a music maker. Fear not, fans off Frederiksen's particular style of aggressive songwriting; this solo release doesn't see him abandoning his street punk roots for a beard and a flannel and a campfire acoustic guitar. It's still raw and aggressive, yet the stripped down version of a song like "Motherland" or "Skunx" finds the lyrics resonating on a much more personal level. We were lucky enough to have a lengthy and wide-ranging conversation with Frederiksen about all things "To Victory," from the initial batch of several dozen songs that were proposed, to playing his first show as a true solo artist, to the sort of shifts in perspective and priorities that come from going through a divorce and the death of his mother and finding a new partner and turning 50 all in the span of a couple of years…a span that included a global pandemic that forced the shutdown of the entire music industry for the foreseeable future.</p>
<p>Lars Frederiksen "To Victory" music videos:</p>
<p>"Skunx" – <a href='https://youtu.be/vJ-JHDHQD9Q'>https://youtu.be/vJ-JHDHQD9Q </a></p>
<p>"God And Guns" – <a href='https://youtu.be/B7UvBZE_RS4'>https://youtu.be/B7UvBZE_RS4 </a></p>
<p>"Army Of Zombies" – <a href='https://youtu.be/qsO0ANtKpjM'>https://youtu.be/qsO0ANtKpjM </a></p>
<p>Order "To Victory" here: <a href='https://shop.piratespressrecords.com/products/lars-frederiksen-to-victory-12-ep-cd-cassette'>https://shop.piratespressrecords.com/products/lars-frederiksen-to-victory-12-ep-cd-cassette </a></p>
<p>More Lars merch: <a href='https://kingsroadmerch.com/lars-frederiksen/'>https://kingsroadmerch.com/lars-frederiksen/</a></p>
<p>Follow "Lahz's Lockah" on Instagram to catch when he sells some of his personal memorabilia…could be old records, could be wrestling action figures, could be old pants…you never know: <a href='https://www.instagram.com/lahzs_lockah/'>https://www.instagram.com/lahzs_lockah/ </a></p>
<p>Check out the Wrestling Perspective Podcast that features Lars, two former MLB All Stars Jason Kendall and Dmitri Young, 4x Stanley Cup champ Darren McCarty, Impact Wrestling's Petey Williams and Dennis Farrell: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJXIX4REmMnNkqVTIaohL6Q/featured'>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJXIX4REmMnNkqVTIaohL6Q/featured</a></p>
<p>(*both laughs*) theme song is an excerpt from [laughs] track "Hurts To Laugh." © KALI MASI 2021 ℗ Take This To Heart Records 2021</p>

Blindspot continue to celebrate their tenth anniversary with the release of their new video single, ‘Keyboard Warrior’ from upcoming 7″ EP ’10 Years Of Beers’. Keyboard Warrior is the first single from ’10 Years Of Beers’, with the EP due for release on Friday 10 December.The Limited Edition 7″ is pressed on an eco-mix coloured vinyl and is available for pre-order now. The eco-mix colour is made with recycled waste vinyl materials from other orders, and therefore produces a different coloured vinyl effect for every record.. environmentally friendly and no two records the same! Pre-Orders come with a download code […]

<p>Welcome back, (*both laugh*) fans! We took a little hiatus there for a few but we're back in action.</p>
<p>For episode 45, we caught up with Sonia Sturino of the kick ass trio known as Weakened Friends. They're due to put out their sophomore full-length, "Quitter," on November 19th and let me tell you…it's a great one! We talked an awful lot about the band pushing themselves on this record (which was produced by the band's bass player, Annie Hoffman, and engineered by Hoffman and their drummer, Adam Hand) in ways that they hadn't quite before. We also talked about being on tour in March 2020 as the world was shutting down, and getting back out on the road last month in the, I guess we're calling it, "new normal." Oh, and we definitely talked about The Tragically Hip (a band I've quite honestly never knowingly heard) and Our Lady Peace (a band that I've definitely heard and enjoyed for years) and about how cool a record label Don Giovanni is and lots more stuff as well (like our mutual pal Adam Parshall, who is an amazing concert photographer…hi Adam!).</p>
<p>This was a lot of fun and everyone should check out "Quitter" ASAP and go catch Weakened Friends on the road with The Beths early next year!</p>
<p>-Pre-order "Quitter" from Don Giovanni Records here: <a href='https://www.dongiovannirecords.com/store'>https://www.dongiovannirecords.com/store</a></p>
<p>-…or find it on their Bandcamp page here: <a href='https://weakenedfriends.bandcamp.com/'>https://weakenedfriends.bandcamp.com/ </a></p>
<p>-Visit Weakened Friends' website here: <a href='https://www.weakenedfriends.com/'>https://www.weakenedfriends.com/ </a></p>
<p>-Theme song as always is "Hurts To Laugh" by the lovely and talented Kali Masi. from their 2021 release [laughs].</p>

<p>Episode 29 is finally here and boy, is it a doozie!! For this one, we lured in Mr. Bob Noxious (Pig Pen/Chris Barrows Band) to help co-host with us! And if you’re thinking to yourself, “Heeeeyyy, that name sounds familiar.” it’s because he was one of the original co-hosts of Dying Scene Radio many many moons ago! As always, we’re gonna to be jammin’ new tunes from emerging artists that you were probably too lazy to discover and talkin’ about some of the more noteworthy scene news from the last few weeks. But, we’re also going to get reacquainted with Mr. Noxious throughout the episode. So, if you’ve ever wondered about his fingerbanging skills, (and we know you have) you’re definitely gonna wanna listen to this one! All of that and much more in this episode! So, crank it up, fuckers!</p> <p> ————————————————————————</p> <p>You can also find us on <a href= "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dying-scene-radio-official/id1287380361"> iTunes</a>, <a href= "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robert-burns/dying-scene-radio-official"> Stitcher</a>, <a href= "https://open.spotify.com/show/0Ewrjwl6wXwl6cCREBswz1">Spotify</a>, <a href= "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9kc3JhZGlvLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNzcw?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiy1bnC5cTwAhUbUc0KHdtjBxoQ9sEGegQIARAC"> Google Podcasts</a> and <a href= "https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-dying-scene-radio-official-30990574/"> I Heart Radio.</a> </p> <p>Follow us on <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/dyingsceneradio/">Facebook</a> and <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/official.dyingsceneradio/">Instagram</a> for more news, updates, show & fest pics and articles!</p> <p>————————————————————————</p> <p><em>*In a band? Want to be featured on the podcast? Send your shit to dyingsceneradio@dyingscene.com and if it’s good enough, we’ll probably play it! If you send us some swag, it’ll increase your chances… just sayin’!</em></p> <p> </p> <p>Episode 29 Playlist</p> <p>Steve Buscemi – “Chicago Real Estate”</p> <p>Bossman Dave’s SGLotE – Madison Bloodbath – “Icebergs”</p> <p>#1 Fan Spike’s pick – If I Die First – “Where Needles and Lovers Collide”</p> <p>Caltrops  – “White Boy”</p> <p>Thumb Between the Middle Fingers – “Truth Pass”</p> <p>Sarchasm – “Blacklist”</p> <p>PIG PEN – “The Scene Is Dead”</p> <p>Debt Neglector – “Cult Cult Cult”</p> <p>Gay Lips  – “The Ballad of Hinksley Road”</p> <p>Duchamp – “The Art of Defiance”</p> <p>Fiddlehead – “Million Times”</p> <p>The Slow Death  – “We Aint Even Married/Fuck The Labor Pool (Young Pioneers)”</p> <p>Listen to these songs along with all of the other songs we've featured on the podcast on our <a href= "https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/dying-scene-22/pl.u-8aAVXElsvR5yRz"> iTunes</a> and <a href= "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2C21HBcB7epknlRtUxObZs"> Spotify</a> Playlists!</p>