Stuck In Thee Garage #589: July 18, 2025

These days, seeing isn't necessarily believing. You can't always trust what you see. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about vision in hour 2 (along with new music from Wet Leg, Geese and Mal Blum in hour 1). 

This playlist was made by someone named Abby Normal:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Wet Leg - CPR/Moisturizer

Geese - Taxes/Getting Killed

Mal Blum - Truth is Out There/The Villain

Viagra Boys - Pyramid of Health/Viagr Aboys

Tropical Fuck Storm - Irukandji Syndrome/Fairyland Codex

Car Seat Headrest - Equals/The Scholars

Thalia Zedek Band - Pin/The Boat Outside Your Window

Fine - I Could/I Could

Allo Darlin' - You Don't Think of Me at All/Bright Nights

Kurt Vile & Luke Roberts - Classic Love/Classic Love EP

Jeanines - Satisfied/How Long Can It Last

The Bug Club - Beep Boop Computers/Very Human Features

Subsonic Eye - Situations/Singapore Dreaming

Hotline TNT - If Time Flies/Raspberry Moon

The Convenience - Target Offer/Like Cartoon Vampires

Lifeguard - (I Wanna) Break Out/Ripped and Torn

Chime Oblivion - Heated Horses/Chime Oblivion

Turnstile - Sole/Never Enough

Civic - Swing of the Noose/Chrome Dipped

Hour 2: Vision

Run the Jewels - Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) (feat. Zach de la Rocha)/Run the Jewels 2

Boss Hog - Black Eyes/Brood X

Queens of the Stone Age - Keep Your Eyes Peeled/...Like Clockwork

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Ativan Eyes/The Brutalist Bricks

Johnny Foreigner - Eyes Wide Terrified/Waited Up Til It Was LIght

Witch - Eye/Paralyzed

Spiral Stairs - Angel Eyes/Doris & the Daggers

Male Gaze - Pale Gaze/Miss Taken

The Kills - Baby's Eyes/Little Bastards

Johnny Cash - Mean Eyed Cat/Unchained

Kiwi Jr. - Night Vision/Chopper

Velocity Girl - Audrey's Eyes/Copacetic

Green River - Corner of My Eye/Live at the Tropicana 1984

Death From Above 1979 - All I C is U & Me/Outrage is Now!

Marnie Stern - Believing is Seeing/The Comeback Kid

Get yer ya-ya's out (AKA, listen to the show) RIGHT HERE, kids! 

Stuck In Thee Garage #588: July 11, 2025

There's a danger in looking backwards too much. That said, it can be fun. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I revisited the reverse chronological order thing that I did back in January. In that episode, I played songs from 2025 to 1994 and this time around, I picked up where I left off and went from 1993 to 1964. It was a blast and there was nary a hot tub time machine in sight.

Come on in, the water's fine:

Hour 1: 1993-1979

Artist - Song/Album

Fugazi - Rend It/In On the Kill Taker

Faith No More - Midlife Crisis/Angel Dust

Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign/Bandwagonesque

Jane's Addiction - No One's Leaving/Ritual de lo Habitual

Big Audio Dynamite - Contact/Megatop Phoenix

Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Prince - U Got the Look/Sign O' the Times

Peter Gabriel - Big Time/So

R.E.M. - Can't Get There From Here/Fables of the Reconstruction

Husker Du - Pink Turns to Blue/Zen Arcade

The Fixx - The Sign of Fire/Reach the Beach

Bad Brains - Sailin' On/Bad Brains

Van Halen - Mean Street/Fair Warning

The Pretenders - The Wait/Pretenders

Joe Jackson - Friday/I'm the Man

Hour 2: 1978-1964

The Rolling Stones - Respectable/Some Girls

AC/DC - Dog Eat Dog/Let There Be Rock

Rush - Something for Nothing/2112

Parliament - Ride On/Chocolate City

David Bowie - 1984/Diamond Dogs

Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy/Billion Dollar Babies

T. Rex - Buick Mackane/Slider

Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft/Shaft soundtrack

Black Sabbath - N.I.B./Black Sabbath

MC5 - Come Together/Kick Out the Jams

The Kinks - Do You Remember Walter?/The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

The Who - I Can See for Miles/The Who Sell Out

The Remains - Don't Look Back/The Remains

Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm/Bringing It All Back Home

Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell/St. Louis to Liverpool

Don't adjust the framistat: Just crank it up HERE!

Completely Conspicuous 658: Hits to the Dome

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite music of 2025 so far. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Counting down our favorite albums
• Breitling's #6: Dan Bejar with another well-done Destroyer album
• "Slacker Sinatra" singing about aging
• Kumar's #6: Striking solo effort from Tunde Adebimpe
• Breitling's #5: Shoegaze goodness from NJ's High
• Kumar's #5: Dax Riggs with fuzz-laden goth grunge
• Breitling's #4: Digging the Estonian dream pop from mariin k.
• Kumar's #3: Impressive 15th solo album from Bob Mould plays to his strengths
• Still kicking ass into his mid-60s
• Breitling's #3: Boston trio with a dumb name and a great album, (T-T)b
• Kumar's #2: Mclusky returns after 21 years with a razor-sharp ripper
• Breitling's #2 and Kumar's #4: Surprise return to thunderous form from The Men
• Kumar's #1: PUP's fifth album finds them exploring more mature themes while still kicking ass
• Breitling's #1 and Kumar's #7: The four-album magnum opus from Hallelujah the Hills exceeds expectations
• Many guest appearances among the 54 songs
• Looking forward to new releases from the Lemonheads, Sloan, Superchunk, Pile, Wednesday

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. 

Stuck In Thee Garage #587: July 4, 2025

Nothing strikes more fear in the hearts of partygoers than when some jamoke breaks out an acoustic guitar. Nine times out of 10, it's a total cringe-inducing moment. But in the hands of a professional, the acoustic guitar can be used for good, not evil. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Superchunk, Allo Darlin' and the Jeanines in hour 1 and quality acoustic jams in hour 2. They're the bomb!

MacGruber, we've only got 30 seconds left:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Superchunk - Is It Making You Feel Something/Songs in the Key of Yikes

The Bug Club - How to Be a Confidante/Very Human Features

Lifeguard - A Tightwire/Ripped and Torn

Hotline TNT - Julia's War/Raspberry Moon

Hallelujah the Hills - Gimme Midnight (Ace of Diamonds)/DECK: Diamonds

Queens of the Stone Age - Running Joke/Paper Machete /Alive in the Catacombs

Model/Actriz - Poppy/Pirouette

Allo Darlin' - Stars/Bright Nights

Jeanines - You Can't Get It Back/How Long Can It Last

Lightheaded - Mercury Girl/Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!

Turnstile - Time is Happening/Never Enough

Civic - Trick Pony/Chrome Dipped

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Total Reset/Trash Classic

Tropical Fuck Storm - Bloodsport/Fairyland Codex

Viagra Boys - Waterboy/Viagr Aboys

(T-T)b - Hey, Creepshow/Beautiful Extension Cord

Hour 2: Acoustic

Superchunk - The First Part/Acoustic Foolish

Pixies - Break My Body/Live on WERS 1/18/87

Ted Leo - Parallel or Together/Live on WUSW 12/6/02

The Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil/American Beauty

Zwan - Number of the Beast/Honestly

XTC - Great Fire/Dear God/Big Day /K-Rocking in Pasadena 1989

Bob Mould - Sinners and Their Repentances/Workbook

Ty Segall & White Fence - Good Boy/Joy

Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay/Elliott Smith

Syd Barrett - Terrapin/The Peel Session 1970

Big Star - Thirteen/#1 Record

R.E.M. - Pop Song '89 (Acoustic)/In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003

The Tragically Hip - Fireworks/Live at Planet Studios July 1998

Screaming Trees - Winter Song (Acoustic)/Shadow of the Season

The Feelies - Let's Go/The Good Earth

The Replacements - Skyway/Pleased to Meet Me

Light off some firecrackers and crank up the tuneage HERE.

Completely Conspicuous 657: Charts Schmarts

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite music of 2025 so far. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Drinking some Italian beer
• Rock is dead commercially
• Billboard album chart contains nearly no rock
• Fleetwood Mac's Rumours still riding high for some reason
• Festival cancellations: Bonnaroo, Boston Calling next year, Lollapalooza
• Too many festivals, high ticket prices
• Black Sabbath farewell show
• Lots of big rock deaths: Brian Wilson, Sly Stone, David Johansen, Marianne Faithfull, etc.
• We saw Hallelujah the Hills recently and it was glorious
• Kumar saw some shows: Frank Black, Shannon/Narducy, Gang of Four, Bob Mould
• Breitling will see Oasis in Mexico, as one does
• Who's the Who's drummer?
• Breitling's bubbling under albums: Whirr, Winter, Lunchbox, Pink Floyd reissue, Rough Francis, The Get Quick, Autocamper, Viagra Boys, Thalia Zedek Band
• Kumar's list: Kinski, Ty Segall, Civic, Cameron Keiber, Dean Wareham, Pulp, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, The Bug Club, Turnstile, The Tubs, Kestrels, Lifeguard, Hotline TNT
• Breitling's #10: An electronic collab between Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
• Kumar's #10: Sophomore release from Horsegirl explores mellower sounds
• So much music to listen to these days
• Breitling's #9: Ambient situation delivered by William Tyler
• Of Bills Frisell and Laswell
• Kumar's #9: Post-punk ripper from Charm School
• Kurt Loder is still with us
• Kumar's #8: Heavy Spoon influence on the new album from The Convenience
• Breitling's #7: Dean Wareham is still bringing it
• To be continued 

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.