Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
It's Weekend Quality Live! This week we have exclusive live tracks from Hospital Job, Attic Salt, and the Groucho Marxists! Relive the thrills, or experience them for the first time!
Recorded on May 20, 2018 by Lauren Banjo at the Court Tavern, New Brunswick, NJ.
Hosted by Chris Fabulous.
Booked by Shannon Perez and Chris Fabulous.
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
We love Trenton, NJ! Listen to this episode and you'll know why! Chris plays music that comes from in, around, and through the community, as well as some of Trenton's biggest fans. And, just when you thought it couldn't get any better: the exclusive debut of a new track from Honah Lee!
Alpha Rabbit - Gravitational Collapse
Mouthpiece - What Remains
Vision - One and the Same
Pissed - Get Out
Molly Rhythm - Shackles
Meeko Brando - Sega Lemon
Caruso - Secrets
Wade Wilson - Lanes
Raymond Strife and Ill-Omega feat. Roebus One - Finishing Touches
Erotic Novels - Joan Jett
The Plurals - Gallagher's Brother, Gallagher
Honah Lee - You Never Know
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Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Chris gets back to basics with this playlist of shiny and new top-notch punk rock, hot off the presses!
Yeah, Bud!!! - Back Porch
Nectar - Smile
The Creeps - Staring Me Down
Jimmy Vapid - Prison Buzz
The LLC - Hello, My Name Is: Stressed
Not Scientists - Golden Staples
Remember Sports - Up From Below
Royal Roads - Sleep Over
The Mr. T Experience - Gooey Glasses
City Mouse - A New Dawn
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Around the state of Illinois and beyond, a group of musicians have come together around singer/songwriter/drummer/producer/engineer Luke McNeill and his projects such as The Copyrights, Hospital Job, Starter Jackets, and more. Chris and Shannon party with Luke and two of his collaborators, Tim Reynolds (Hospital Job, Horrible Things) and Kevin Rotter (The Copyrights, Horrible Things), and get to the bottom of all this pollination happening across the Land of Lincoln.
All this AND the world premiere of a track from the long-awaited Kepirights album, coming soon from Eccentric Pop!
Starter Jackets - 16-Bit
Local Drags - Girls In Denim Jackets
Horrible Things - Muncie's Best Sports Bar
Robot Bachelor - Bedroom Blitz/Turn Off The Light/Shtick In The Mud
Attic Salt - Library Boy
Skinny Genes - Don't Do Something, Just Sit There
The Copyrights - No Knocks
Dan Vapid - Let the Sunshine In
Hospital Job - Mount Rushmore
The Kepirights (Kepi Ghoulie and the Copyrights) - Tunnel of Love
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Miguel Chen (Teenage Bottlerocket) talks to Chris about meditation, wellness, the S-word, and his new book, "I Wanna Be Well." And, of course, what would an episode of Weekend Quality be, without ten tracks of blistering punk rock?
Royal Dog - Crabbed
Lisa Prank - Starting Again
The Creeps - Superstitions
Robot Bachelor - Richard Marx
Attic Salt - Arms Length
Horrible Things - El Yunque
Blackwolf Beach - Push Down and Turn
Teenage Bottlerocket - Dead Saturday
Teenage Bottlerocket - Back and Forth
Ramona - Lessons Learned
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Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
When Chris Fabulous and the best bands in punk rock team up... SOMEBODY'S GONNA GET IT! This time on the show, Chris breaks down one of the greatest moments in human history, plus tons of great music to kick off the weekend:
War On Women - Dick Pics
The Switzerlands - Army Knife
Trampoline Team - Everybody Dies
Fucko - Buzz
LIFE - Membership Man
Notches - No Wonder Why
Bong Mountain - Why You So Short?
Get the Net - Runaway Train
The LLC - Swimming
Hot Blood - Signs of a Struggle
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Make like a turtle in time, and go back to 1989! Relive the embarrassment of doing dumb shit when you were a kid! Plus, a huge stack of the latest and greatest in punk rock!
Varsity Weirdos - Bad Nurse
Terry Malts - Won't Come To Find You
Hospital Job - Hey Hey
A.M. Nice - End Of an Era
A Giant Dog - Fake Plastic Trees
Dan Vapid - The Planets Of Our Solar System
Pissed Jeans - Ignorecam
Rene SG - I Don't Give a Fuck
Cheap Whine - Step Off
Exmaid - Devoted
Weekend Quality is bringing Dr. Frank (of the Mr. T Experience) and Even In Blackouts (feat. ex-Screeching Weasel founding member John Jughead) to the Court Tavern on June 9! Mikey Erg, Erotic Novels, and Ramona will be in the house, as well. Get all the details here, and get pumped with music from everyone who's playing!
The Mr. T Experience - Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend
Even In Blackouts - Hey Suburbia
Ramona - Shit We Broke Up
Braceface - She's a Dork
Mikey Erg - Stinking of Whiskey Blues
Erotic Novels - I'm Not Willing
Even In Blackouts - Dear Resonance
Dr. Frank - King Dork
Weekend Quality Presents...
Dr. Frank
Even In Blackouts
Mikey Erg
Erotic Novels
Ramona
June 9, 2018
The Court Tavern
New Brunswick, NJ
$10 advance / $15 at the door.
8pm doors. 9pm music.
Ages 21 and over.
Advance tickets available at weekendquality.com!
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Looking for someone who will cut to the chase? Someone who will drill down to the core? Someone who will slice all the way to the bone? Someone who will play some radical punk rock music, already? Look no further! Chris Fab is your man and Weekend Quality is your plan!
Headlines - Monuments
Direct Hit - You Got What You Asked For
Sick Shit - Trichotillomania
Waxahatchee - 8 Ball (demo)
Playing Dead - Couches and Coffins
A.M. Nice - 4H
Breaklights - Call It Off
Breaklite - Mother's Warning
Melted - Death Hymn Number 10
Torpedoes - No Thank You
Amy and Chris from Little Dickman Records call in to talk about the label and share music from their newest releases. C-Fab also has trouble pronouncing words between delivering you the hottest punk rock music allowable by law!
Dimber - Grey Suits White Coats
Secretary Legs - Sally Ride
The Total Bettys - I'll Fix It
Raging Nathans - Dayton
The Putz - I Don't Wanna Go
Lost Boy? - I Fought the Reaper
Rock N' Roll Hi-Fives - Hold On
Ex-Girlfriends - Flat Tire (demo)
The Blinders - Swine
MakeWar - Sallie
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Chris tells the tale of an embarrassing early gig, hockey stick mic stands and all, at the dawn of his punk rock awakening. Plus, a murderer's row of sweaty-toothed punk rock greats:
Vacation - Sharptooth Tinsel Town
The Slow Death - It's Not Enough
Jeremy Porter and The Tucos - Walk of Shame
Martha - Ice Cream and Sunscreen
Headlines - Primary
Weird Skin - Question Mark
Eric Mahnke - Dead Weight
Coward - I Still Remember
Open City - Nightshift
Dead to Me - Fear Is The New Bliss
Be sure to catch Weekend Quality Live:
March 23 at the Court Tavern, New Brunswick, NJ
Headlines
Playing Dead
Meeko Brando
Torpedoes
Shannon Perez of Erotic Novels (solo electric)
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Chris talks rock with Dave from the exceptional record label Black Numbers. Hear music from the newest Black Numbers releases, along with punk rock that'll make your arms bend back.
Static Radio - Loved to Death
Booji Boys - Weekend Rocker
Worriers - Best Fear / Worst Fantasy
Mind Spiders - Never Like That
Banquets - Forever Bender
Save Ends - Heavy Hearts
Scream Hello - Sad Places, Happy People
Brian Rothenbeck and the Adventuring Party - Life is a Highway to the Danger Zone
Sea Lilies - Pretty Sure
Groomers - Breakfast For Dinner For Lunch
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Chris goes into the finer points of the plight of the glasses-wearer at the punk show, takes you on a trip through tangentially related regional music, and plays a helluva great batch of punk rock songs.
Royal Dog - Thingy
Rata Negra - Por No Estar Sola
Timeshares - Anxious and Aspy
The LLC - You
Shadow Cats - Paranoia
Lemuria - Wanted To Be Yours
Dentist - You're a Bore
Hot Blood - Nuclear Summer
Tuffy - Wonder Twin Powers
Color TV - Night After Night
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Chris has returned to business as usual, after the Year-End Specials last month. The Jersey authorities want to arrest him. An old foe wants a reunion. The Feds want the Man of Tomorrow to put a stop to him. Plus, punk rock:
The Cryptkeeper Five - The East Horizon
Basic Bitches - My Body, My Choice
Parasite Diet - Chrononaut
FUCK! *(It's Pronounced SHIT!)* - Deliberately Stepping In Dog Shit Is My Favourite Hobby
Lily Livers - ACME
Teenage Bigfoot - Gringos
Heck Yes - Jesus Gave Up His Weekend for Your Sins
Hound - Bad One
John Hays - Toll Free
Lost Balloons - Losing Time
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS: an episode that is the culmination of an absolutely insane year in punk rock! Join Chris and Shannon as they round out their top 10 albums countdown by chatting with the hit-makers, themselves, determine the #WQbabeoftheyear, spring some big New Brunswick news with Chris Pierce, and play the best tunes of 2017. But... THERE'S MORE! Surprise guests galore drop by to ring in the new year with their takes on the year-in punk! IT COULD NOT POSSIBLY GET BIGGER OR BETTER!
Interviews:
Chris Pierce (Doc Hopper, Nervous Triggers, Mikey Erg Band, Volume IV Studios)
Corrie Gillies (Pinact)
Jason Lubrano (Iron Chic)
Jerri Queen (Vacation)
Contributors:
Anne Lapore (The Machine Shop)
B-Face (The Queers, The Groovie Ghoulies, The Mopes, The Tunnel Rats)
Bobby C. (Erotic Novels)
Elena Barrio (Ellen and the Degenerates)
Erika Atrophy (The Jantones, The Holy Savior Club)
Jim Testa (Jersey Beat)
Joe Decarolis (Psychic Teens, Hurry, Exmaid)
Kepi Ghoulie
Luke McNeill (The Copyrights, Hospital Job, Robot Bachelor, Starter Jackets)
Mike Madrigale (High Heels, Mr. Suit Records)
Nick Woods (Direct Hit!)
Rookie Rochelle (The Young Rochelles)
Zac Mayeux - (Notches, Heavy Pockets)
Music by:
Bleached - Dear Trouble
Cayetana - Am I Dead Yet?
Cayetana - Side Sleepers
Doc Hopper - Altoona
The Dopamines - Common Rue
Downtown Boys - Somos Chulas (No Somos Pendejas)
Exmaid - Easy
Harmony Woods - The Best Things
Heavy Pockets - We
Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns to Blue
Iron Chic - My Best Friend (Is a Nihilist)
Iron Chic - Planes, Chest Pains, and Automobiles
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Amputation
Life and Times - The King is Half Undressed
The Lillingtons - Night Visions
The Lillingtons - Zodiac
Lost Balloons - Numb
The Mopes - 1850 (Live at Jughead's 50th Birthday Bash)
The Mr. T Experience - Down With the Universe
Needles//Pins - Boil
Nervous Dater - Bad Spanish
Perfume Genius - Slip Away
Pinact - Bring You Down
Pinact - Seams
Pkew Pkew Pkew - Cold Dead Hands
Ramona - Shit We Broke Up
The Ramones - Locket Love (Tracking Mix)
Ted Leo - Run To the City
The Touch - Necro Nancy
Vacation - Clumps of Love
Vacation - Sleepyhead
So... IT BEGINS! THE BIGGEST WEEKEND QUALITY EPISODES OF THE YEAR ARE HERE! Chris and Shannon count down the top 10 albums of 2017 and talk to the artists who helped create them. As if that weren't enough, there's SO MUCH MORE! Punk rock friends, pals, party animals, and rock gods check in with their own favorites, and the top songs of the year get spun just for you!
Interviews:
Andy Burris (Odd Robot)
Ernest Mahoney (The Touch)
Jesse Thorson (The Slow Death)
Mikey Erg
Miski Dee, Nich Richard (City Mouse)
Contributors:
Corey Meyers (The Barren Marys)
Dr. Frank Portman (The Mr. T Experience)
Drew Crowley (The Hourchive Podast, Pizzanaut)
Dylan McCartney (Vacation)
Evan Wolff (Vacation)
Fraser Murderburger (The Murderburgers, Fuck! (It's Pronounced Shit!))
Gillian Smith (Spowder)
Jaime Parker (Alpha Rabbit, Meeko Brando)
Jerri Queen (Vacation)
J Nixon (Nervous Triggers, Mikey Erg Band)
John Hoffman (Vacation)
Jon Lewis (The Dopamines)
Kika Kalikas (Wild Rice, In the West)
King Mike (Screaming Females, Sweaty, State Champion Records)
Mark Hughson (Everyone's Invited)
Phil Connor (Glazer, In the West)
Rachel Feldmann (Lipstick Homicide, 83 Wolfpack)
Schwervon!
Tracy Robinson (State Champion Records)
Music by:
Alpha Rabbit - Damage
Canker Blossom - Stork Little
The Capitalist Kids - Decent Proposal
Cat Tatt - Kill Yr Roommates
Cheap Whine - Cut Out
Cheap Whine - Kasumi
City Mouse - Journal
City Mouse - Mariposa Venenosa
Color TV - Meat Wagon
The Cryptkeeper Five - 1,000 Keys
Dead Bars - Emergency
Glazer - Made of Meat
Goddamnit - Letterbox
Iron Reagan - Grim Business
Jamie and the Debt - Mother
The LLC - You
Milk Music - Dramatic Exit
Odd Robot - Bleeding Out
Odd Robot - Take With Two White Pills
Partial Traces - Dashi Bay
Punkémon - Lickitung
The Slow Death - Anything
The Slow Death - Be The One
Spowder - Miracle Grow
Starter Jackets - Landline
Sweaty - Sweet Baby
Swell Maps - The Helicopter Spies
Teenage Bottlerocket - Gay Parade
The Touch - Flowers
The Touch - Rooster
The Travoltas - Dying To Do That With You
The Young Rochelles - Last Love Letter
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Pour a glass of your favorite nog and come with Chris and Shannon on a holiday journey. They reminisce about the past year, look forward to the year to come, and play some Christmas classics to get you in the frame of mind for the season.
The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)
XTC - Thanks for Christmas
The Mr. T Experience - Merry Fucking Christmas
Fear - Fuck Christmas
George Michael - Last Christmas
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Christmas At Ground Zero
Tommy Page - Christmas Without You
The Vindictives - Nuttin For Christmas
Erotic Novels - Revenge Therapy
bed music: The Ergs! - Linus and Lucy
Episode 84 - The Hung Man (w/Guli Remondi of Sketchy)
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Chris speaks with Guli of the Brooklyn band Sketchy about their new album, Heck, as well as the past and future of the band. BUT THERE'S MORE! That's right, there's music, and tons of it:
High Heels - Full On Hex
Bully - Feel the Same
Ted Leo - You're Like Me
A Giant Dog - Bendover
The Isotopes - Sandlot Party
Sketchy - Never Meant to Get This Old
Sketchy - Normal
Dark Thoughts - No More Soul
Dirty Fences - These Freaks
White Reaper - The World's Best American Band
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Chris is all wound up and all ground down from thinking to hard and working too dumb. However, he still has his wits about him enough to bring you the finest tunes that punk rock has to offer:
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
This time, Chris and Co-Executive Producer Shannon Perez dive into the complex world of punk rock concept albums and the tangled web of band members at FEST. Plus, the hottest tracks on Planet Earth:
A Giant Dog - Photograph
Hot Knife - My Fangs
Headlines - Teething
Notches - Word
Vacation - Without You
The Touch - Four Legged
City Mouse - Waiting
The Carousers - Strangers
Sticks and Stones - Cynical
Pinact - Separate Ways
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Chris gets excited about the WQ online community, goes Muppet-hand without a Muppet, and rocks out while Mikey Erg freaks out the norms.
Hiccup - Dad Jokes
Pinact - Seams
Iron Chic - My Best Friend (Is a Nihilist)
Ellen and the Degenerates - Smoochy
The World's Greatest Detective - Something Else
Lost Balloons - Don't Find Me
RMBLR - Name Game
Cheap Whine - Where Are You Now?
OBN IIIs - No Time For the Blues
rpllnt - Talk Talk Talk
King Mike (Screaming Females, Sweaty) and Tracy Robinson, founders of State Champion records, stop by and show Shannon and Chris what their label is all about.
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Excerpts from the Weekend Quality Live with The Capitalist Kids, The Young Rochelles, and Sketchy!
Sketchy
Normal
Street Sharks
Elevator Dings
Sick of Riffs
The Young Rochelles
Coffee In the Dog Dish
I Never Saw The Ramones
Don't Let it Last
Not Any Use
The Capitalist Kids
On My Mind
Body-Snatchers
Brute Farce
Becki2012
(I Got) Nobody 2 Luv
Trains
Ericalectric
recorded by Garrett Price on August 19 at Muchmore's (Brooklyn, NY) and August 20 (Asbury Park Brewery, Asbury Park, NJ) 2017.
cultivated and curated by Co-Executive Producer Shannon Perez
hosted by Chris Fabulous
Weekend Quality: Every other Friday we play the music fit for weekend consumption!
Tomorrow night (August 19) is Weekend Quality Live at Muchmore's in Brooklyn! Chris is so excited that he plays each and every band that will appear on that bill, PLUS MORE! Hang onto something solid, kids!