Night Dangers. Ever since I heard this band a couple years ago, I’ve been hooked. Then Andrew Philp, the main Night Danger-er, sent me a copy of their soon-to-be-released full length record and whooooooo yeah, it was time for an interview. This Bobcast feautures an interview with Andrew about all kinds of stuff - music, mental health, the Midwest “sound”, who would win in a fight - Prince or Bob Stinson (that’s totally not in this episode besides they’re both dead how fucked do you think I am???) and more! Oh yeah, there are TWO ghost stories in this one as well, one by Andrew, one is a VERY SPECIAL GUEST (Hi Mono!). Music-wise, there’s a brand new Bobcast theme song by What Me Worry? and three Night Dangers songs - “All I Need”, “This Time” and “Let Myself Down Tonight”.
When it comes to East Bay punk stuff, Alex Botkin knows his stuff. As the person behind Lavasocks Records, Alex does his part to keep the history and radness of the East Bay sound alive with releases such as “The Thing That Ate Floyd” comp. “Floyd” originally came out on Lookout! Records back in the stone ages of 1988 and has pretty much every band from the Bay Area of the time on it. An incredible record that Alex felt needed a new lease on life. Coming soon from Lavasocks is a partnership with Sell The Heart Records and a rethinking of Rancid’s classic record, “And Out Come The Wolves”. This version has a much better title, “And Out Come The Lawsuits”. Track by track, “…Lawsuits” features 19 bands covering ALL 19 songs on the original record and WOW. It’s an amazing record! So, Alex and I talk about the records, a little music history of the Bay Area, Gilman Street, Lookout Records, Rancid and more! Music of the episode is two songs of of “Floyd” and “…Lawsuits” - Sweet Baby and Cringer off of Floyd, Danger Inc. and Sarchasm off of Lawsuits. This episode is brought to you by Thirty One Ten Printing and Hodad’s. Here are some links!
Lavasocks Records Bandcamp
Lavasocks Records Big Cartel Site
Thirty One Ten Printing Website
Hodad’s Website
LEGAL STUFF
Intro and outro song written and performed by Se Vende.
Sweet Baby, Cringer, Danger Inc. and Sarchasm appear courtesy of Lavasocks Records.
Intro and outro background music - Kevin MacLeod - “Quirky Dog” http://incompetech.com/
Grant Lawrence is a venn diagram gone horribly, horribly wrong. Where do you start with this guy? Grant is the singer of Canadian Crazies The Smugglers. He’s a radio and podcast personality for the Canadian Broadcast Corp. Books? Grant has written them and even has a children’s book on the way in late 2021. What else? Oh yeah! Grant and The Smugglers were on the Lookout! Records roster during the “Golden Years” of both Lookout! and pop-punk in general. So, Grant decided to reunite some of his labelmates for a series of Lookout! Records based livestreams that feature music, conversation and fun! What a great thing, these Lookout! Zoomout! streams are for a covid weary world. Interested in hearing more? Good, because this episode is a conversation with Grant where we talk about all of this and more! Three songs by The Smugglers are also featured in this episode - “Death At Disneyland”, “Rosie” and “Buddy Holly Convention”. Tune in and get awesome with Grant Lawrence! Here are some links!
Buy tickets to Lookout! Zoomout! HERE
The Smugglers Webpage is HERE
Check out Grant’s books on Goodreads HERE
Visit the Lookout! Records group on Facebook HERE
Houseghost is the name, hauntingly powerful pop-punk is the game. This episode features Dayton, Ohio’s finest minstrels of mayhem, Houseghost. An interview with Nick, Kayla and Tyler! Three songs by Houseghost! The WORLD PREMIER of the Bobcast theme song!! Ohio facts and trivia, ghosts, Bigfoot and The Misfits vs. The Ramones are topics you can expect hear on your spirt-box in this episode. Here are some links!
Houseghost Bandcamp
Houseghost Facebook Page
Welcome to the Sad Girlz Club Bobcast episode! This one has been in the works for a long, long time, as we were initially supposed to talk back in April of 2020 during La Escalera Fest - which was cancelled due to covid. Well, here we are and let me say, this one was worth the wait. Shelby, Eric and I talked recently, on the evening of Biden’s victory over the current shitbag in the White House. Don’t worry, I didn’t start celebrating until AFTER the interview started. This is a family Bobcast, after all. What you’ll get in this most un-sad episode is an interview with Shelby and Eric, plus four Sad Girlz Club songs! We talk politcs, Sacramento, who would be Scooby Doo and who would be Shaggy and more! The Sad Girlz Club songs in order of appearance are - Back Around, Pedestal, Lonely Nights and Ex-Men. Here are some links to some truly tubular things!
Dr. Frank of the Mr. T Experience, the catchiest band to “catch” my heart and ears, has been making music since the early 1980’s. That’s almost 40 years. Can I get a “HOLY SHIT”? For someone to do absolutely anything for 40 years is such a huge accomplishment, to have written so many incredible songs and done as much rad stuff in those 40 years as Dr. Frank has? Inconcievable, but there it is. Dr. Frank and I had a talk via Facetime in the summer of 2020 about some stuff. His early years prior to Mr. T Experience, how the MTX reissue campaign came to be, Dr. Frank answered some questions asked by fans I got via a Facebook Lookout! Records group, plus the notorious I Wanna Party With Bob ghost and burrito questions! So much good stuff, how could there POSSIBLY be more?!?!? There is more. Four MTX songs - And I Will Be With You, Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba, I Fell For You and Dumb Little Band. Listen, enjoy and fall back in love with the catchiest band that ever did band stuff. Brought to you by Sticker Junkie and Mouse And Monkey Button Company. Here are some radical links for you!
Sounds Rad Records, your source for all things Dr. Frank and MTX - https://www.soundsradical.com/
Dr. Frank’s Amazon page, buy his books! - https://www.amazon.com/Frank-Portman/e/B001HD389Y/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1
Sticker Junkie, get your very own custom stickers made here - https://stickerjunkie.com/
Mouse And Monkey Button Company, DIY Done Right! - https://mmbuttonco.com/
City Mouse and Miski D. Rodriguez embody all the good things about DIY punk for me. Hard working, great ethics, productive, fun. Talented? Oh my, yes. City Mouse is one of the best bands going these days. One of the best bands ever, in my opinion. Songs from and by the heart, written by someone who lives by and for her heart. I had the opportunity to spend some time with Miski before and during the recent Fest 18 that took place in Gainsville, Florida. We looked for some ghosts at the Gainsville Hippodrome. We drank a bit and talked for a bit longer. Here is the result and I’m very, very happy at the results. More happy to have such amazing people like Miski in my life. Check out some City Mouse here -
https://citymouse.bandcamp.com/
Some YouTube stuff? Check this out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tckdHZGLALM&list=RDEM7wj162NUqjQkSq3ZO0AwIA&start_radio=1
Little Rocket Records has some City Mouse stuff here -
https://littlerocketrecords.co.uk/artists/city-mouse/
City Mouse - The Webpage
The beer this week? And every week to follow? Plan 9 Alehouse’s “California Nightmare”. Check them out here -
The Hammerbombs are so tight, so good. They have that blasting through songs, beers all over the stage thing down pat. I’m serious, so goddamn good. And they are all super nice people. Bonus? Yes, for sure. Do you want to know what a “Sidewalk Slammer” is? Listen and figure it out, punk. Also, check out this stuff, these fabulous links -
The Hammerbombs on Bandcamp! - https://thehammerbombs.bandcamp.com/
Paper Street Cuts Records - http://www.paperstreetcuts.com/
Check out Rob’s shop!! - http://meteormotorbikes.com/