Life comes at you quick. Sometimes it's hard to take it all in, but somehow we muddle through. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from DIIV, Pet Fox, Rocketship and Fake Names in hour 1 and songs about life in hour 2. It'll give you something to listen to while a clown robs your bank.
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Friday, November 06, 2026
Stuck In Thee Garage #657: November 6, 2026
Friday, October 30, 2026
Stuck In Thee Garage #656: October 30, 2026
Hey, Halloween's back and that means I get to play two hours of vaguely threatening music on Stuck In Thee Garage. It's chock full of scary, goofy and monstrous rock to crank while you're giving out candy or heading to a Halloween party. Just take it easy on the punch!
This playlist is monster-approved:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Queens of the Stone Age - Where the Goth Girls At?/Perfecth
Upper Wilds - Hellfire/Mercury
Chat Pile - Intruder/Who Loves the Sun
Fu Manchu - Evil Eye/The Action is Go
A Giant Dog - Creep/Pile
Chandos - Creepwolf/Rats in Your Bed
Blue Oyster Cult - Monsters/Cultosaurus Erectus
Motorhead - Killed by Death/No Remorse
Kam Fong - Get Behind Me Satan/From the Bottom of the Sea
Viagra Boys - Creepy Crawlers/Cave World
The Dirtbombs - Born in a Haunted Barn/Billiards at Nine Thirty
Grinderman - Evil!/Grinderman 2
Meatbodies - Haunted History/Alice
Pardoner - Totally Evil Powers/Came Down Different
The Black Angels - Haunting at 1300 McKinley/Phosphene Dream
Jay Reatard - Haunting You/Singles 06-07
The Von Bondies - Only to Haunt You/Love, Hate and Then There's You
Hour 2
Run the Jewels - Thieves (Screamed the Ghost) (feat. Tunde Adebimpe)/RTJ3
Superdrag - Do the Vampire/Head Trip in Every Key
Superchunk - Horror Business/Misfits & Mistakes: Singles, B-Sides & Strays 2007-2023
Scissorfight - The Gruesome Death of Edward Teach/New Hampshire
Misfits - Die, Die My Darling/Single
Iron Maiden - Still Life/Piece of Mind
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman/Diary of a Madman
Primus - Mr. Krinkle/Pork Soda
Public Image Ltd. - Graveyard/Metal Box
Spinal Tap - Back from the Dead/Back from the Dead
The Afghan Whigs - Big Top Halloween/Big Top Halloween
Sonic Youth - Halloween/1988 Sub Pop Singles Club
PJ Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta/To Bring You My Love
Joy Division - Dead Souls/Substance
No trick, just treats. Click the link to rock Halloween most steadfastly!
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Completely Conspicuous 685: Catch You on the Flip Side
Part 2 of my conversation with Phil Stacey about our favorite non-album tracks. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Phil's #7
- The Until the End of the World soundtrack had plenty of good stuff
- Songs that take you back to a specific time and place
- Jay's #7
- The hunger for Nirvana music was enormous between the release of Nevermind and In Utero
- Give the bass player some
- Phil's #6
- Zeppelin haven't released many B-sides
- Jay's #6
- The Who has some amazing songs that were never on studio albums
- Phil's #5 was Jay's #10
- Jay's #5
- Another classic from the Singles movie soundtrack
- Phil's #4
- U2's cup runneth over in the '80s
- We were both U2 obsessives in high school/college
- Jay's #4
- A song that wasn't initially included on the album but later added
- College radio stations started playing it and it caught on
- Phil's #3 and Jay's #2
- The quintessential '80s alternative song?
- Johnny Marr elevated the Smiths, but Morrissey was undeniable
- Shoutout to high school classmate who hipped Jay to good music
- Jay's #3
- Another hugely influential alt-rock song
- Joy Division released amazing music in a short period of time
- Phil's #2
- Another Beatles classic
- Phil's #1
- Phil named his fantasy baseball team after this song
- One of the Dead's best
- Was a concert staple but they never did a studio version
- Jay's #1
- Amazing that it was left off Purple Rain
- Controversial for an f-word that may or may not have been THE f-word
- Completely Conspicuous is available wherever you find podcasts. Subscribe and write a review!
- 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.
Friday, October 23, 2026
Stuck In Thee Garage #655: October 23, 2026
Basic math can be depressing. Thirty-five years ago was 1991, which was a pretty tumultuous year for rock music (in a good way). But for comparison's sake, in 1991 when we looked back 35 years, it was 1956! Yikes. Nevertheless, this week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Pardoner, Fontaines D.C., Cameron Keiber and Spanish Horses in hour 1 and songs from 1991 in hour 2. Time travel is groovy, man.
This playlist will light your fire:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Pardoner - Canary/Target Practice
Westside Cowboy - Kick Stones (The Boys)/It Goes On
Bodega - Combustible/All Inside Aquarium
Fontaines D.C. - Happy for You/Dopamine Chamber
Darren Hayman - Words Fall Out of Me/I'm Your Team
Anna McClellan - Do You Want Me Like This/South of Dodge
Cameron Keiber - Rockers/The Tide
Johnny Foreigner - The Great Work/Forwards!
The Tubs - Now and Then/Hard Life
Greg Freeman - Loser's Prize/All Set the Bone
Heavens to Betsy - Seek and Hide/Baby's Gone
Roller Dome - Raking Me Over/Still Feral
Slift - The Village/Fantasia
Spanish Horses - Some People/Small Notions EP
Lex Walton - Hipster Runoff/Ultimate Love Forever
Ceremony - Death Destruction Mayhem/Tell Me Your Dream
Today Junior - If You Want to/Stranger Days
Hour 2: 1991
Motorhead - Ramones/1916
Smashing Pumpkins - Bury Me/Gish
Superchunk - Seed Toss/No Pocky for Kitty
School of Fish - 3 Strange Days/School of Fish
Material Issue - Trouble/International Pop Overthrow
Teenage Fanclub - What You Do to Me/Bandwagonesque
Firehose - Down with the Bass/Flyin' the Flannel
Screaming Trees - Bed of Roses/Uncle Anesthesia
Dinosaur Jr. - Puke + Cry/Green Mind
Mudhoney - Into the Drink/Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Matthew Sweet - Thought I Knew You/Girlfriend
The Tragically Hip - Born in the Water/Road Apples
The Feelies - Time for a Witness/Time for a Witness
Pizzicato Five - Twiggy Twiggy/This Year's Girl
De La Soul - Let, Let Me In/De La Soul is Dead
The Nation of Ulysses - Love is a Bull Market/13-Point Program to Destroy America
Swervedriver - Rave Down/Raise
Crank up the show to experience the pre-digital joys of '91 (as well as some cool new stuff)!
Monday, October 19, 2026
Completely Conspicuous 684: Dark Side of the Tune
Part 1 of my conversation with Phil Stacey about our favorite non-album tracks. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Back after a few months away
- The definition of "B-side" has changed over the decades
- Now a more accurate term is "non-album tracks"
- Sometimes B-sides were more popular than the A-side
- Got more airplay back when FM stations were new and adventurous
- You had to hunt them down because they weren't on the proper albums
- Some bands like U2 would regularly put non-album tracks on B-sides singles
- Sometimes covers, sometimes original songs that didn't make the album
- When CDs became popular, you had longer albums and more of those songs would be included
- Eventually bands released B-side collections; the Who was one of the first with Odds and Sods in the '70s
- So many Beatles classics weren't included on albums
- Phil's honorable mentions: Beatles, Who, Grateful Dead, Matthew Sweet, Phish, R.E.M., The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Pavement, U2, Goose, Prince, Pearl Jam, Talking Heads, Neil Young, Nirvana
- Pavement's "Harness Your Hopes" became their most-streamed song courtesy of Tik Tok
- Jay's HMs: Who, Motorhead, Chris Cornell, Rolling Stones, Dylan, Nirvana, Bowie, Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Sloan, Tragically Hip, Radiohead, Simple Minds, Beatles, Iron Maiden, Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, Beck, Beach Boys, Police, New Order, Cure, Clash, Soundgarden, AIC, Sugar, Joe Jackson, Hendrix, PJ Harvey, Robert Plant, Iggy Pop
- Prince vs. Neil Young for most unreleased material
- Phil's #10
- Jay's #10
- Phil's #9
- Jay's #9
- U2 just announced a stadium tour of South America
- Probably couldn't do that in North America anymore
- Phil's #8
- Jay's #8
- YouTube comments are the worst
- Completely Conspicuous is available wherever you find podcasts. Subscribe and write a review!
- 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.
Friday, October 16, 2026
Stuck In Thee Garage #654: October 16, 2026
By the time Friday rolls around, the weight of the world can weigh heavy on your shoulders. Not that it goes away on the weekends, but at least you get a little break before the work week starts to grind you down again. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Westside Cowboy, Bodega, Roller Dome and Slift in hour 1 and songs about everything in hour 2. They'll help you pick up the pace while you're getting some supplies.
I'll be taking this playlist and whatever cash you got:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Westside Cowboy - Pin Up Boys/It Goes On
Bodega - Weather Me/All Inside Aquarium
Spike Fuck - Getting Sober/Evidence
Roller Dome - Wrecked/Still Feral
Death Valley Girls - Plant Magic/Welcome to Earth
Slift - Waiting Man/Fantasia
Anna McClellan - Drank Earlier/South of Dodge
Greg Freeman - Decade/All Set the Bone
Pet Fox - Avoidant/Balance
Slow Pulp - Red Car/Melodie
C.O.F.F.I.N. - Sleep In It/Out in Oslo
Adult DVD - Jesus Christ Supercar/Adult DVD
Gilla Band - Giraffe/Pugnello
The Van Pelt - Linens Should Be Freshly Pressed/Remain Obscure
Gurriers - Today is Not Enough/Nobody's Coming to Save You
Smug Brothers - Blitz Meridian/Pinhole to Vortex
Hour 2: Everything
Charm School - Boycott Everything Everywhere/Debt Forever
Dinosaur Jr. - Everything at Once/There Near
Superchunk - Everything Hurts/Misfits & Mistakes: Singles, B-Sides & Strays 2007-2023
Descendents - Everything Sux/Everything Sucks
Husker Du - Every Everything/Flip Your Wig
Faith No More - Everything's Ruined/Angel Dust
Johnny Foreigner - The End and Everything After/Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
Kaiser Chiefs - Everything is Average Nowadays/Yours Truly, Angry Mob
Spoon - Everything Hits at Once/Girls Can Tell
Sloan - Everything You've Done Wrong/One Chord to Another
A Tribe Called Quest - Everything is Fair/The Low End Theory
Speedy Ortiz - Everything's Bigger/Real Hair
Piebald - Location is Everything/If It Weren't for Venetian Blinds It Would Be Curtains for Us All
Radiohead - Everything in Its Right Place/Kid A
David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away/Blackstar
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Over Everything/Lotta Sea Lice
Friday, October 09, 2026
Stuck In Thee Garage #653: October 9, 2026
Writers are often advised to write what they know. The same could apply for songwriters, and sometimes what they write about is music itself. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from C.O.F.F.I.N., Pet Fox, the Van Pelt and Gilla Band in hour 1 and songs about music in hour 2! It's like that time you got George Clinton to play at your college in the '90s.
This playlist is Piven-free:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
C.O.F.F.I.N. - Think Bad/Out in Oslo
Pet Fox - Balance/Balance
The Van Pelt - Kris is Riding Horses in Ojai/Remain Obscure
Adult DVD - Do As I Please/Adult DVD
Greg Freeman - Totaled/All Set the Bone
Gilla Band - Placeholder/Pugnello
Gurriers - Party Lines/Nobody's Coming to Save You
Green Star - Lush/Silver + Dust
Avery Friedman - You Move/Single
Protomartyr - The Old Hotel/Hotel Usona
Shudder to Think - Something to Do/Who Sent You?
The War on Drugs - Who's That/Single
Smug Brothers - Kind Enough to Share the Drop/Pinhole to Vortex
Joel Cusumano - Stigmata/Appendix
Slow Pulp - Entertainer/Melodie
Upper Wilds - Dark Road/Mercury
Hour 2: Music
Van Halen - Little Guitars/Diver Down
Ty Segall - Break a Guitar/Ty Segall
Thrush Hermit - Songs for the Gang/Clayton Park
Talking Heads - Electric Guitar/Fear of Music
The Hold Steady - Certain Songs/Almost Killed Me
Sloan - Waiting for Slow Songs/Between the Bridges
The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Writing Songs/Still Clouds at Noon
Thelonious Monster - ...And the Rest of the Band/Baby...You're Bummin' My Life Out in a Supreme Fashion
Hunx & His Punx - Baby of the Band/Hardly Released: Bedroom Recordings, Demos, Rarities, Unreleased, and Widely Ignore Material
Peel Dream Magazine - Back in the Band/Pad
Thom Yorke - Dawn Chorus/ANIMA
Blinker the Star - The Band is Back in Town/Juvenile Universe
Colleen Green - Natural Chorus/Cool
Horsegirl - The Guitar is Dead 3/Versions of Modern Performance
Kathy Valentine - Guitar, Talk, Love and Drums/Light Years
Sleater-Kinney - Words and Guitar/Dig Me Out
Nirvana - Verse Chorus Verse/No Alternative
Friday, October 02, 2026
Stuck In Thee Garage #652: October 2, 2026
According to the experts, we're in the midst of a loneliness epidemic. The American Psychiatric Association says 30% of American adults experience loneliness at least once a week and 10% feel lonely every day. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Smug Brothers, Krill and Shudder to Think in hour 1 and songs about being alone in hour 2.
This playlist is talkin' to you:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Smug Brothers - Eureka Minor/Pinhole to Vortex
Krill - Dominate/Secret Language
Shudder to Think - Who Sent You?/Who Sent You?
Protomartyr - Exalted Eagles/Hotel Usona
Joel Cusumano - 7 x 7/Appendix
The Afghan Whigs - 77/Soft Control
The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Bad Poetry in Bed/True Love Daydream EP
Miley - Different Religion (feat. Model/Actriz)/Bass Persuades
Kristin Hersh - Dark Eyed Junco/Sugar on Blackstone
The Tubs - Stoop to Me/Hard Life
Today Junior - Keep On Pushing Me/Stranger Days
Ty Segall - Black Paint/Chrome
Public Opinion - Closed Captioning/The Curse of Public Opinion
Johnny Foreigner - The Sacking of Fairhill House/Forwards!
French Film - Rabbit Foot/Yours + Five
Wild Pink - Still Coming Down/Still Coming Down
Beck - It Ends Right Here/Ride Lonesome
Hour 2: Alone
Split System - Alone Again/Vol. 2
Jack White - All Alone Again/Frozen Charlotte
The Cure - Alone/Songs of a Lost World
Husker Du - Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely/Candy Apple Grey
Foo Fighters - Alone + Easy Target/Foo Fighters
Living Colour - Leave It Alone/Stain
Titus Andronicus - Lonely Boy/The Most Lamentable Tragedy
The Smithereens - Alone at Midnight/Especially for You
The Replacements - If Only You Were Lonely/For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986
Silver Jews - Honk If You're Lonely/American Water
Jeff Rosenstock - Beers Again Alone/We Cool?
Ducks Ltd. - How Lonely Are You?/Modern Fiction
Mick Jagger - Lonely at the Top/She's the Boss
La Luz - Lonely Dozer/Floating Features
Ty Segall - The Loner/Fudge Sandwich
Bonk the link and crank up the show in your isolation chamber!
Saturday, September 26, 2026
Videodrone #27: Tribute
Videodrone is a weekly(ish) feature looking at music videos from the last half century.
Tribute (2002)
Friday, September 25, 2026
Stuck In Thee Garage #651: September 25, 2026
What goes up must come down. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from the Tubs, Kristin Hersh and Beck in hour 1 and songs about falling in hour 2.
This playlist is perfect for when you're driving off a cliff:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
The Tubs - Hard Life/Hard Life
Johnny Foreigner - The New Navigation/Forwards!
Today Junior - Waiting for a Change/Stranger Days
Kristin Hersh - Moths/Sugar on Blackstone
Working Men's Club - Devout/Single
Joel Cusumano - Buying Time/Appendix
Beck - Ride Lonesome/Ride Lonesome
Futurebirds - Fly On/Far Out Country I&II
Allah-Lahs - Vini da Gama/Sirenas
Ty Segall - Let Go/Chrome
Chat Pile - Influence/Who Loves the Sun
Upper Wilds - Reaper/Mercury
Evil Island - No Good/Terraform the Afterlife
Velocity Girl - I Know Exactly What You Mean/1989-1992
Real Numbers - This Empty Frame/Was It Always This Way
Dinosaur Jr. - No Friends/There Near
Hour 2: Falling
Catherine Wheel - Waydown/Happy Days
Radium Dolls - All That Falls/Wound Up
Dax Riggs - Even the Stars Fall/7 Songs for Spiders
The Jesus Lizard - Falling Down/Rack
Tricky Woo - Fell from a Cloud/Sometimes I Cry
Bullet LaVolta - Swan Dive/Swandive
Black Sabbath - Falling Off the Edge of the World/Mob Rules
Yo La Tengo - Our Way to Fall/And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Ben Kweller - Falling/Sha Sha
Dude York - Falling/Falling
Tony Molina - See Me Fall/Confront the Truth
Scarce - We'll Fall Down/Noble Scars
The Pursuit of Happiness - When the Sky Comes Falling Down/Love Junk
Dumptruck - Watch Her Fall/CBGB '86 & '88
The Black Angels - Empires Falling/Wilderness of Mirrors
Friday, September 18, 2026
Stuck In Thee Garage #650: September 18, 2026
Sometimes you just need to mix things up. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I put the playlist in a blender and came up with two hours of randomly selected songs. It's random, but not as random as Mick Jagger in an Emilio Estevez sci-fi flick.
This playlist is free, Jack:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Pavement - Range Life/Live at the Palace, Hollywood 4/24/94
Ty Segall - Drug Mugger/Mr. Face
Pill - Sin Compromiso/Soft Hell
Kids on a Crime Spree - Overtaken by the Soil/Fall in Love Not in Line
Future of the Left - Stand by Your Manatee/Travels with Myself and Another
Eyelids - Starlight Limelight Machine/The Accidental Falls
The Strokes - Barely Legal/Is This It
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Cameo/Sideways to New Italy
Girlpool - Babygirl and Mental/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2
The Brigands - (Would I Still Be) Her Big Man/Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era
The National - Baby, We'll Be Fine/Alligator
Weezer - Tired of Sex/Pinkerton
Fugazi - Long Division/Live at Irving Plaza, NYC 4/4/95
Danger Doom - Benzie Box (feat. Cee-Lo)/The Mouse and the Mask
Bob Mould - Keep Believing/Silver Age
Ceremony - Years of Love/In the Spirit World Now
Teenage Fanclub - Hold On/Here
Max Webster - Check/Universal Juveniles
Hour 2
Varsity Drag - Knife/Live Owls: Varsity Drag Live on WFMO
Guided By Voices - Eye City/Crystal Nuns Cathedral
Early Man - Four Walls/Closing In
Buffalo Tom - Treehouse (Acoustic)/Bones EP
The Zambonis - The Greatest Season/To Bleed Black and Gold
Pointed Sticks - Shape of Things to Come/Part of the Noise
Stephen Malkmus - Freeze the Saints/Face the Truth
Hooded Fang - Glass Shadows/Venus on Edge
Notches - Sayin'/Normal Demo
Pearl Jam - Don't Gimme No Lip/No Code outtake
Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away/Houses of the Holy
Jason Isbell - In a Razor Town/Sirens of the Ditch
Porridge Radio - Jealousy/Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky
Kathy Valentine - How the West Was Won/Light Years
Gang of Four - You'll Never Pay for the Farm/Content
Iggy Pop - Repo Man/Repo Man soundtrack
The Men - Fire Sermon/Buyer Beware
Hit the futuristic link thingy to be transported to the rock music!
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