Coronatose™

J Waves starring in "Don't Wear Jordans to the Drag Show"

July 06, 2021 18:51 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MB

These days, I don't really have time to do podcasts. I mean, like, I would ... if more people listened and if anyone paid me. But we got a banger banger coming soon with Lem Butler aka DJ Pez so make sure you check for that. Pez is a great dude and a legit superstar of the coffee world. Find out what happens when a hip hop DJ takes a chance on a new hobby and turns it into a career, a business, and a lifestyle. Only on Lurk Mode with J Waves. So on Saturday I had myself quite an ev...

GROSS ONES with Electric Jake / Durham, NC

April 19, 2021 12:23 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB

The stars have apparently aligned in the shape of a McRib because FINALLY my best friend Jake Neal is appearing on the show! It's been a long time coming but you have to understand: while this man is incredibly talented, he is best appreciated spontaneously. His off the cuff humor and quick wit need to be observed in the wild to truly be at their best, and while we used to perform together as rappers, a true "show" from Jake has become a one-on-one affair, with him freestyling in ...

Sparse Mansion Media Presents: Lurk Mode

January 20, 2021 13:59 - 5 minutes - 7.22 MB

ICYMI, the team at Sparse Mansion Media (the digital media company that produces Coronatose™ amongst other projects) has a brand new podcast streaming now called Lurk Mode. Once again, Jon Gregory aka J Waves (neé Juan Huevos) will be on his podcast flex with music industry and influencer interviews, TV and movie reviews and recaps, and diatribes/tributes re: all things RAP RELATED. Featured guests so far have included hip hop artist, podcast host, and author Eric Steuer and Giovan...

A VERY SPECIAL FOLLOW-UP COVID-19 infiltrates the home of Scotty Boombox

November 24, 2020 17:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MB

Dang y'all! Remember this podcast I used to do?? What a wild ride. After the world hit an all-time low back in June I just gave up on everything and accepted that getting high and playing video games and brushing my cat and running in the woods were about the only things I was up for. But I am slowly coming out of my cage and I've been doing (mostly) fine. My biggest news is that I am finally getting my podcast LURK MODE up and running, which has been my goal all along. So why ano...

Choo Choo Tane / Chicago, IL

June 15, 2020 14:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MB

Today's date is Tuesday, June 16th, 2020. And it's been challenging to get back on the ball with Coronatose after all that has been happening in America. You can tell by my intro that I wanted use my voice to say something, anything, but that I am still learning how to do it confidently. I think a lot us are in that state right now. And while we all probably know the names George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery by now, even in the time I have been preparing this episode fo...

Missy Thangs / Raleigh, NC

May 25, 2020 14:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MB

It's Memorial Day. A day we honor heroes. And who better to honor than musical powerhouse Missy Thangs. And what better way to do it than stay inside and listen to a podcast as our fellow Americans are out rampantly spreading coronavirus. Missy and I have been tight since, I dunno, 2006? 2007? We kinda met when she would buy pork chops from me at the meat counter at Whole Foods but we soon realized we were both cute upstarts in our local music scene. The only thing bigger than her ...

INTER-REVIEW "Death Cash America" by Boy In Sleep / Asheville, NC

May 18, 2020 14:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MB

There is a band from Asheville, NC that I have been obsessed with since the Myspace Era (sidebar: I just went to the site, they actually have, like, current pop culture news on there LOL who is looking at that??) called RBTS WIN and one of the founding members (Javier Francisco Bolea) dropped a solo record on 4/20 of this year called Death Cash America under the name Boy In Sleep. And I love it. I wanted to connect with him and talk about the record, essentially review it while he ...

BAKING SPECTACULAR Jphono1 / Carrboro, NC

May 11, 2020 14:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MB

Lawd, I apologize for the lengthy intro, was it the CBD??? This episode was meant to just be some bonus content. John Harrison aka Jphono1 and I were talking on the phone re: some questions I had about a performance he had streamed, then I asked him about his appearance in the New York Times and decided to record THAT for bonus content ... but then I remembered I just HAD to ask him about all this baking he had been doing (Pineapple Upside-Down Cupcakes?? BRUH.) and we ended up wit...

Scotty Boombox / Columbus, OH

May 04, 2020 14:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB

I love Star Wars but I refuse to say some shit like "May the fourth be with you!" It makes me think of the time I played with MC Frontalot at Local 506 and the place was packed with all his nerdy ass fans and my group Pink Motor Monsters (which was pretty nerdy too, I feel) was opening and we were getting ZERO love and then I dropped the line "your Han Solo gear is the hipster type / you won't join the dark side, your sister might" and everyone wents nuts for like three seconds and ...

Eric Deines / Bloomington, IN

April 27, 2020 13:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MB

I met Eric Deines during the Myspace Era when he was just a fresh-faced golden boy, his teeth white as a bar of Ivory soap, a wee cap atop his head like a poached egg on an English muffin. He showed up at my house with George Brazil one day and never left. Just kidding, he totally left. Never saw him again. Until now. That's actually not true either. But anyway, he was in a band that changed its name to B C N C that I used to play with and he probably did some other stuff but wha...

Dylan Angell / Mexico City, Mexico

April 20, 2020 13:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MB

Today is April 20th, and as you will learn in this episode, it has much more sinister connotations than just being a stoner holiday. Dylan Angell started as my friend Noah's little brother in Durham, NC. He played trumpet in his room. That's about all I knew. Over the years he has become a friend completely separate from that. As an adult, I thought of him as a model/musician/writer (#triplethreat) in New York, but honestly, you never really know with this guy, he could be anywhe...

FROM THE VAULT: Our infamous, never-before-heard Phantom Of The Opera podcast

April 17, 2020 13:00 - 7 minutes - 7.09 MB

I love The Phantom Of The Opera. Like, frfr. In 2018, Ned Phillips and I recorded what would be our magnum opus as POTO fans: a painfully long podcast where we cover all the bases from the book to the movie to the stage show aka THE GREATEST MUSICAL OF ALL TIME. After collecting dust for the past 2 years, Ned finally took on the mission that I wasn't brave enough to tackle and edited our longform episode down to a scant 1.5 hours. LISTEN TO THE FULL VERSION HERE When I say we ta...

MIX: "Mirage Goggles" by Said Deep / Durham, NC

April 14, 2020 13:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MB

Hank Stockard aka Said Deep is one of my best friends and is probably the most dedicated seeker of records I know, and that's saying a lot. The dude has been collecting, cataloging, and compiling non-stop for as long as Billie Eilish has been alive. I asked him to make a special all-vinyl mix for Coronatose and he did not hesitate for a second. He says to me: "You want funky, something soothing, music to beat it to? Need a theme. Surrounded by piles of records." So I says: "Tags: ...

HELP: Local Venues That Need Your Support

April 12, 2020 16:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MB

Dang, it's Easter Sunday. I used to go to church with my moms back in the day. Now I'm just sitting in my dirty pajamas working on my quarantine-themed podcast. But instead of going to church, or not going, or doing whatever it is you do on a day like this, or any other day for that matter, please consider donating to any (and all!) of these GoFundMe campaigns. These are my favorite places in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area of North Carolina. I honestly don't go out that much beca...

Victoria Bouloubasis / Durham, NC

April 09, 2020 14:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MB

Victoria Bouloubasis is a hard person to track down. I gave her a skateboard lesson on the street at 2 in the morning in 2008 and haven't seen her since. But she's been making the world a better and well-informed place this whole time. She is involved in so many things including the production of this show and the making of this film. But we don't talk about any of that! Instead, we focus on her very real experience with coronavirus, my experience with swine flu, and our shared expe...

Stu McLamb / Cary, NC

April 06, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MB

Stu McLamb is not a "bad boy" nor a "boy toy" nor a "soy latte" ... he's just a cool guy I know that makes great music. We've been talking about doing a podcast episode since I started Coronatose so I'm glad I finally got him to take a break from his nonstop quarantine recording to sit in a creaky ass chair in his old bedroom at his parents' house and chop it up with me. We talked for over an hour and actually got pretty deep in the last half, at least I feel like we did, we might ...

UPDATE: No Nut Quarantine

April 02, 2020 16:00 - 5 seconds - 188 KB

Questions? Comments? Want to hit us up for either Ask Huevos or Quarantine Confessions? The lines of communication are open at [email protected]

Autumn from Moon Racer / Durham, NC

April 01, 2020 14:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MB

Today aka last night I talked to the mysterious A.U.T.U.M.N. from Moon Racer, a very private person who only comes out on full moons to feast on chicky nuggies. Obviously, with the quarantine, she has had to find other ways to feed herself. Apparently, the answer is: sweet potatoes. But for real, one time we went to Trader Joe's so she could grocery shop and I think she bought turkey slices, a frozen thing, and four kinds of cheese. I cuss too much so there is no way she is goin...

Laughlin Siceloff / New Orleans, LA

March 30, 2020 14:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MB

My boy Laughlin aka Lockjaw is one of the sweetest guys out. He gives the best presents and he'll make you an amazing drink if you're willing to wait 30 to 45 minutes for him to hand-grind some limes. He's lived in New Orleans for the past 8 years and really knows what's going down in the hottest of hotbeds for COVID-19. Join us for his reactions to the latest headlines from NOLA, some rap trivia, and how "fat washing" can improve the liquor you already have at home. It's not as gr...

BONUS: Edible Overdose

March 28, 2020 02:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB

Last night I ate, like, a third-ish of an edible and ended up completely losing my shit. I'd like to think this is no rookie mistake here, just a bit of a fluke, but boy did I go down HARD. Panic city. Shout out to my heart for continuing to do what it do, despite the hell I put it through yesterday. On this bonus ep I also shout out some upcoming guests aka people who pretty much said they'd do it. Laughlin will probably be too tired, Victoria will probably be too busy, and Stu w...

Matthew Park / Portland, OR

March 25, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MB

Matthew Park (or International Matt Park as I like to call him) is an amazing musician who has been in bands like Opening Flower Happy Bird and Airstrip and my personal favorite, Veelee, which was signed to a record label I used to co-run called Grip Tapes. He is also really into film and comedy but we don't really talk about any of that stuff. Or even those bands, actually. He does have a new song out called "Anthropomorphize Your Addiction" which we feature on this episode and you...

Kristin Garber / Charlotte, NC

March 21, 2020 14:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MB

Kristin Garber is a REALTOR® and she's also REALCOOL®. Kristin and I have been friends for about 13 years. We've partied on at least 2 continents, drove across the country together, consumed many fancy drinks, and shared laughter and tears. She's been in Charlotte, NC as long as I have known her and is an authority on all things popping from the uppity uptown to the hipster hoods. While this probably isn't the time, please consider Kristin as your future-style representative if you...

George Brazil / Columbus, OH

March 18, 2020 14:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MB

Lawd have mercy, it's George Brazil. He loves his 404 sampler and cooking up focaccia pizzas. I love him because he's one of my bffs. We met in Charlotte, NC but now he lives in Columbus, OH. He is known for his party snaps and his sensual wit. Talking to him is always a trip. It's our first episode so don't give me a hard time! Also, I say "our" but y'all know it's just me. Our theme song is me crooning over "Neg-Fi" by Modern Leather, which happens to be another alias of George B...

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