Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about the best music of 2026 so far. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
AI music is apparently a thing on streaming services
Saxophone Colossus, mfer (RIP)
Blue dot syndrome: Tours getting canceled because of poor ticket sales
Who woulda thunk Kiefer Sutherland couldn't sell out concerts?
Many artists are trying to fill venues that are too big
We're going to a lot of concerts
Why is beer so expensive at music venues?
What is a walking class?
The Osbourne family has licensed an Ozzy hologram for use in ads
ABBA does a hologram show of them in their prime
Maybe older bands should be replaced by holograms
Car Seat Headrest remade their 2016 album, removed swear words and drug references
Kumar's HMs: King Tuff, Bevis Frond, New Pornographers, Gord Downie and the Sadies, Damaged Bug, Sub*T, Ecca Vandal, Broken Social Scene
Breitling's #10: Philly's Nothing with a different sound
Influenced by the singer's neurological disorder
Kumar's #10: Mclusky returns with a killer mini-album
Recent spate of touring has made the band even better
Breitling's #9: Lofi Legs may or may not have released an album this year
The time is right for a slacker revolution
Kumar's #9: Joyce Manor sings about getting older
LA trio makes with the emo pop-punk
Breitling's #8: Reunited original lineup of the Grownup Noise
Band deserves more props
Kumar's #8: Pure pop magic from the Lemon Twigs
Reminiscent of Sharp Pins and Redd Kross
Breitling's #7: Pittsburgh's Feeble Little Horse persevere without Ryan
All killer, no filler
Kumar's #7: Canadian artist Daniel Romano continues to bring the heat
Split up songwriting duties for this album
To be continued
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Videodrone is a weekly(ish) feature looking at music videos from the last half century.
Tom Courtenay (1995)
When you think of a band that is emblematic of the term "indie rock," you can't go wrong with Yo La Tengo. Formed in Hoboken, NJ, in 1984, the group (currently comprised of singer-guitarist Ira Kaplan, drummer-singer Georgia Hubley and bassist James McNew) remains an under-the-commercial-radar stalwart that is consistently releasing excellent albums.
In 1995, Yo La Tengo released its seventh album, Electr-O-Pura, on Matador to positive critical reviews. The band's sound was varied, ranging from quiet pop numbers to raging noise-rock epics, with often obscure lyrical references. In the middle ground of that range was the first single from Electr-O-Pura, "Tom Courtenay." The song doesn't mention the British actor by name (who was the star of films like The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Billy Liar and Doctor Zhivago), although it does mention Julie Christie, who co-starred in two movies with Courtenay.
Filled with guitar squalls and catchy backing vocals, the song seems to be sung from the POV of a junkie obsessed with Courtenay and pop culture.
For the video of the song, director Phil Morrison (who directed videos for Superchunk and Juliana Hatfield before directing the movies Junebug, Perfect Partner and All is Bright) came up with the idea of focusing on an altogether different idea: YLT are offered the unenviable chance to open for the reunited Beatles, and Kaplan dreams of what it would be like. Morrison reached out to Courtenay, who was in NYC at the time performing in a play, to play a role in the video, but he turned it down (see the behind-the-scenes video from 2020 in which Morrison and the band talk about the making of the video).
Kaplan's reverie shifts to black-and-white as the band decides what to wear at the show, which was filmed at the Mercury Lounge in NYC. McNew decides to wear a cape and insists on bringing his cat Lovely Rita. The band shows up at the venue hoping to meet the Beatles but are told they're too busy, but brings in Marshall Crenshaw, who appeared in Beatlemania, instead. Crenshaw proceeds to dig into the band's food spread as they go out to the slaughter. A young Tom Scharpling (who went on to host The Best Show on WFMU in 2000 and is still doing it all these years later) plays DJ Big Andy Rigg from WHYP, 98.8, The Hype, and introduces "Yo La Tango" to the crowd as "a band that you're probably gonna like." Other members of the NYC indie rock scene make cameos in the video.
YLT launches into its originals, much to the dismay of the crowd as the guy at the merch table keeps knocking down the prices to their t-shirts. It's not working, until Ira has an idea and the group launches into "Twist and Shout" and the crowd gets into it. Cut back to the promoter asking Kaplan if he's accepting the offer, and Kaplan asks him to hold on while he continues to dream.
I first heard "Tom Courtenay" a few years later on the What's Up, Matador? compilation, which also came as a VHS tape that was a faux children's show hosted by NYC TV personality Bill Boggs in front of a live studio audience of children at a New Jersey elementary school (see below). It features appearances from Matador artists include Kaplan, Liz Phair and others as well as several videos from Matador bands (but not "Tom Courtenay").
"Tom Courtenay" is the lead track on the CD compilation and it still holds up. The Beatles never reunited and YLT is still doing their thing, which I suppose is the way it should be.
Summer doesn't officially start for a few more weeks, but for all intents and purposes, it's here, baby. That doesn't always mean perfect weather (especially here in New England), but the heat is rising at least a few days a week. To celebrate, on Stuck In Thee Garage this week I played songs about summer in hour 2 (following new hotness from Eddy Current Suppression Ring, the Bug Club, Guided By Voices and the Cramps (!) in hour 1)! Crank it up while you're heading to the local theme park.
Step right up for the playlist:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Self Sabotage/In Light of Recent Events
The Bug Club - A Good Day for Dying/Every Single Muscle
Guided By Voices - One Last Blow/Crawlspace of the Pantheon
The Cramps - TV Set/Gravest Gravy
Kurt Vile - Chance to Bleed/Philadelphia's Been Good to Me
Deer Tick - Mary Singletary/Coin-O-Matic
Ecca Vandal - Eyes Shut/Looking for Someone to Unfollow
Gurriers - Nobody's Coming to Save You/Nobody's Coming to Save You
Waves Crashing - Feel the Glow/In the Blur
The Sheila Divine - I Climbed Inside a Whale/The Middle Ages
Pond - Through the Heather/Terrestrials
Cola - Third Double/Cost of Living Adjustment
Ed O'Brien - Sweet Spot/Blue Morpho
Conscious Pilot - Horatio Burns/Human Poultry
Telehealth - Donor Country (A Good Cause)/Green World Image
Drakulas - Morning/Night /Midnight City
Dread Spectre Council - Where Would the Light Go/Thetans
Hour 2: Summah
Mary Timony - Summer/Untame the Tiger
Husker Du - Celebrated Summer (11-4 Boulder)/1985: The Miracle Year
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we discuss our favorite guitar solos. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
Continuing our top 10
Phil's #9: Trey Anastasio of Phish stretches out
No studio version of the song
Jay's #9: The concise awesomeness of Alex Lifeson
A virtuoso in a band of virtuosos
Phil's #8: Back to the jam with RIck Mitarotonda of Goose
Another band that saves their best for the live setting
Jay's #8: Another Matthew Sweet song, this time featuring Richard Lloyd on lead guitar
Features a fake ending with even more soloing
Phil's #7: Square dancing in gym class led Phil to this Beatles song
George Harrison with a beautiful, heartfeld solo
Great video, too
Jay's #7: A ripping solo from J. Mascis from '93
Video wasn't directed by Matt Dillon; he did the "Get Me" video
Mascis has recorded a ton of great solos over the years
Phil's #6: Eddie VH's magnum opus
The instrumental that changed the face of hard rock
Wasn't meant to be recorded at first
Jay's #6: Less overplayed solo from Jimmy Page
A lesser-known album from Zeppelin
Phil's #5: Mick Taylor shines for the Stones
The band started jamming at the end of the song and they kept recording
Jay's #5: Robert Fripp with a ripper of a solo for Brian Eno
Eno's first solo album after Roxy Music
Phil's #4: The Allman Brothers' tribute to Django Reinhardt
Three different solos
Jay's #4: More Richard Lloyd along with Tom Verlaine on a 10-minute art-rock classic
Kind of jam band adjacent
Phil's #3: Neil Young with an epic love song
Recording starts in the middle of a jam
Jay's #3: Monster instrumental featuring Eddie Hazel's psychedelic playing
Mike Watt does a cover with J. Mascis handling the guitar
The interesting career of Prakash John
Phil's #2 and Jay's #1: Hendrix blows minds with acid blues rock
SRV does an incredible cover
Jay's #2: Nasty riff and solo from Eddie VH
One of Van Halen's darker songs
Phil's #1: A Grateful Dead classic that highlights Jerry Garcia
Cover of a Bonnie Dobson folk song
Builds to a roaring crescendo
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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.
Cities tend to take on personalities of their own, and even within a city, there can be many different personalities. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played hot new rock from Ecca Vandal, Caroline Rose, Ed O'Brien and the Sheila Divine in hour 1 and songs about cities in hour 2. The king stay the king.
This playlist ain't playing checkers:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Ecca Vandal - Cruising to Self Soothe/Looking for Someone to Unfollow
Caroline Rose - Yip Yip Yow/Single
The Purrs - Before the Sun Goes Down/All of Us Right Now!
Ed O'Brien - Teachers/Blue Morpho
The Sheila Divine - Middle Ages/The Middle Ages
Waves Crashing - Coming Up for Air/In the Blur
Conscious Pilot - My God is So Angry/Human Poultry
Social Distortion - Never Going Back Again/Born to Kill
Drakulas - F.A.F.O./Midnight City
Telehealth - Things I've Killed/Green World Image
Cola - Much of a Muchness/Cost of Living Adjustment
Broken Social Scene - Paying for Your Love/Remember the Humans
The Laughing Chimes - Behind Your Blue Fields/Behind Your Blue Fields
Sub*T - Sister Species 1/How My Own Voice Sounds
Metric - Antigravity/Romanticize the Dive
The Lemon Twigs - Your True Enemy/Look for Your Mind!
Hour 2: Cities
The Menzingers - Alone in Dublin/Some of It Was True
Mekons - Glasgow/Horror
Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam/Deep in the Hole
King Hannah - New York, Let's Do Nothing/Big Swimmer
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we discuss our favorite guitar solos. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
Occasional chiming in from CC intern Lily
Rolling Stone recently released a top 100 solos list
Phil likes the long jammy solos
Solos can go along with a riff or go off on crazy tangents
Steely Dan used many guitarists
Jay used to be into '80s speed guitar
Vinnie Vincent went way over the top
Charlie Sexton was a guitar prodigy who went on to play in Dylan's band
The greatness of early Dire Straits
Tough to narrow down our lists
Appreciating Billy Idol
Eagles bad, Joe Walsh good
Terry Kath could rip
So many great Jimmy Page solos
The vast and weird catalog of Frank Zappa
Billy Corgan has many excellent solos
Kim Thayil was an unconventional soloist
Bowie worked with many great guitarists: Mick Ronson, SRV, Belew, Earl Slick, Reeves Gabrels
Townshend's solo on "I Can See for Miles" is simple but intense
Fun weirdness from Focus on "Hocus Pocus"
Phil's #10 is a tie
Roger Hodgson of Supertramp was better known for playing keyboards
Many hidden gems in the Who catalog
Jay's #10: Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age
Phil's not a fan of mosh pits
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.
Videodrone is a weekly feature looking at music videos from the last half century.
Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe (1994)
In 1994, alternative rock ruled the roost. Even though it was dampened somewhat in April '94 by Kurt Cobain's suicide, the grungesplosion was in full effect. The major labels were scouring rock scenes in various cities looking for the next big thing. There was a lot of great music out from the likes of Beastie Boys, Sloan, Helmet, Frank Black, Pavement, Weezer, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Mazzy Star, Liz Phair. And there was a weirdo anthem out of Sweden that captured the attention of the world thanks to its crazy video.
In Stockholm, record producer Gordon Cyrus and radio host Henrik Schyffert were working on a TV ad when they decided to write some music together as a joke. They recruited Schyffert's girlfriend Cia Berg, who sang with the '80s new wave act Ubangi, to sing. The song they came up with, "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe," was a combination of Chili Peppers-esque funk metal, quirky Bjork-styled vocals and trip-hop beats. Berg sings about a well-off woman who sleeps with homeless people for kicks, while Schyffert and Cyrus chime in with shouted gang backing vocals. It's all quite insanely catchy.
The lyrics were actually a cultural mix-up by Schyffert. "It was a misunderstanding from me," he told Melody Maker when asked what a "slobo babe" was. "I heard 'Slobo' was a nickname for Chelsea girls. Hobo Humpin' Sloane Babe would have been right."
Calling themselves Whale, the trio decided to make a video for the song on the cheap and somehow were able to get director Mark Pellington, who was already well known for directing Pearl Jam's "Jeremy," R.E.M.'s "Drive" and U2's "One." He was agreeable and told Schyffert he was directing a commercial on a Thursday and Friday, but they could use the gear over the weekend to film the video before he had to return it.
It's a gloriously bizarre affair, with Berg singing the song while inspecting a group of shirtless men and boys. She's got braces and is licking a lollipop. Meanwhile, Cyrus and Schyffert are jumping around with guitars chanting the chorus: "You hobo humpin' slobo babe/Get it off, get off, get off of me!" Cyrus is just wearing shorts while Schyffert is wearing a flowery dress and the whole thing is supremely silly and fun.
The video became an instant hit on MTV Europe, so much so that it won Best Video at the first MTV Europe Music Awards in November 1994, beating out instant classics like the Beasties' "Sabotage." Over on this side of the pond, the song wasn't as big of a hit but it was played on MTV's 120 Minutes regularly and on stations like KROQ in Los Angeles. But the real mark of success for the video was getting the Beavis and Butt-head stamp of approval (see below). That's where I first saw the video and it made an immediate impression on me. That impression, of course, was "WTF?"
"Hobo" reached #24 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart and #102 on the Singles chart in the U.S., faring better on the European charts. It was re-released in 1995 when Whale's debut album We Care came out and hit #15 on the U.K. Singles chart. Trip-hop icon Tricky co-produced a few of the songs, but the album didn't fare well. A follow-up, All Disco Dance Must End in Broken Bones, came and went in 1998 and the band split up the next year.
But 32 years later, "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" remains a memorable one-hit wonder.
We like it loud on Stuck In Thee Garage, but sometimes it's good to mix it up. This week, I played songs about quiet in hour 2 of the show (after playing new music from Social Distortion, the Mountain Goats and Telehealth in hour 1). That doesn't mean the songs themselves were quiet; some were quite the opposite. At any rate, I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
This playlist is quiet. Maybe a little too quiet:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Social Distortion - Born to Kill/Born to Kill
Drakulas - Garbage Strike/Midnight City
Weird Nightmare - Never in Style/Hoopla
The Mountain Goats - Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds/Days
Cola - Forced Position/Cost of Living Adjustment
Telehealth - Cost of Inaction/Green World Image
Broken Social Scene - Only the Good I Keep/Remember the Humans
The Laughing Chimes - Trapeze Baby/Behind Your Blue Fields
The Lemon Twigs - Fire and Gold/Look for Your Mind!
Conscious Pilot - Internet Support/Human Poultry
Gottlieb - Optimized Child/The Far Fallen Fruit
Dread Spectre Council - Raven/Thetans
Pope - Song Two/BFM
Kim Gordon - Dirty Tech/PLAY ME
Sub*T - Standing Room/How My Own Voice Sounds
Body Shop - Exit Drill/Sex Body
Hour 2: Quiet
Phantom Handshakes - Quiet Quit/Sirens at Golden Hour
Shame - Quiet Life/Cutthroat
Cloud Nothings - Silence/Final Summer
Dyr Faser - Reductive Silence/Impressions
Smashing Pumpkins - Quiet/Siamese Dream
Fews - Quiet/Into Red
Mark Lanegan - Radio Silence/Somebody's Knocking
Pedro the Lion - Quietest Friend/Phoenix
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Our Quiet Whisper/All in Good Time
Bob Mould - The Silence Between Us/District Line
The Beths - Silence is Golden/Expert in a Dying Field
When you start thinking about the passage of time too closely, it can get a little overwhelming. For example, it has been 45 years since 1981, which is kinda nuts, but when you realize that 45 years before THAT was 1936, that's really unnerving. All of which is to say I played songs from 1981 in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage this week (after playing new music from Drakulas, Conscious Pilot, Cola and the Lemon Twigs in hour 1). It's most definitely o-tay!
This playlist is wookin' pa nub:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Drakulas - White Off Your Nose/Midnight City
Conscious Pilot - Face Down/Human Poultry
Gottlieb - What Are You Worth/The Far Fallen Fruit
Cola - Hedgesitting/Cost of Living Adjustment
Broken Social Scene - Relief/Remember the Humans
Dread Spectre Council - Hooves & Cloves/Thetans
Ian Sweet - Criminal Kissing/Shiverstruck
The Laughing Chimes - Zephyr/Behind Your Blue Fields
The Lemon Twigs - Nothin' But You/Look For Your Mind!
Weird Nightmare - Where I Belong/Hoopla
Pope - Newboi/BFM
Sub*T - Mirror Image/How My Own Voice Sounds
King Tuff - Invisible Ink/MOO
Body Shop - Fallacies/Sex Body
The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Emo Band/Acknowledge Kindness
Metric - Leave You On a High/Romanticize the Dive
Heavenly - Skep Wax/Highway to Heavenly
Hour 2: 1981
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Version)/Single
The Specials - Ghost Town/Single
Pete Shelley - Homosapien/Homosapien
The Stranglers - Golden Brown/La Folie
Romeo Void - Never Say Never/Benefactor
Black Flag - Rise Above/Damaged
X - We're Desperate/Wild Gift
The Gun Club - For the Love of Ivy/Fire of Love
The Cars - I'm Not the One/Shake It Up
Gang of Four - Cheeseburger/Solid Gold
Prince - Controversy/Controversy
Van Halen - Push Comes to Shove/Fair Warning
Billy Squier - Lonely is the Night/Don't Say No
The Kinks - Destroyer/Give the People What They Want
Videodrone is a weekly feature looking at music videos from the last half century.
I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) (1993)
By the time the 1993 rolled around, there was a lot going on. Grunge was omnipresent (you could get the whole look at K-mart for short money), alt-rock was on the charts, hip hop and new jack swing was all over MTV. It hardly seemed like the right time for a comeback from a sweaty, theatrical 300-pound singer who peaked 16 years earlier, but that's exactly what happened.
Meat Loaf (aka Marvin Lee Aday) started performing in the late '60s with his first band Meat Loaf Soul, opening for Them and Question Mark and the Mysterians and later (under the band name Floating Circus) opening for the Who, the Stooges, MC5 and the Grateful Dead. He joined the Los Angeles production of Hair, did some recording for Motown and also acted in plays, including the original cast of The Rocky Horror Show.
In 1972, he started working with songwriter Jim Steinman on an album called Bat Out of Hell, but they didn't get serious about it until a few years later when Meat Loaf decided to focus on music exclusively. They struggled to find a record label, but talked Todd Rundgren into producing and playing guitar on the album, which was adapted from a rock musical based on Peter Pan that Steinman had written. They were finally signed by Cleveland International Records, a subsidiary of Epic, and was released in October 1977.
The initial response to Bat Out of Hell was indifference. It was full of long, bombastic, wordy songs that didn't connect with label execs, but got a good response from radio programmers. A Toronto rock station, CHUM-FM, started playing songs from the album in January 1978 and listeners were enthusiastic. Similarly, videos made for some of the songs generated interest in the U.K. and Australia. Eventually, the U.S. caught on and "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" became a huge hit. I remember hearing it on the radio all the time in sixth grade, complete with the Phil Rizzuto baseball play-by-play and the sexual innuendo.
Eventually, Bat Out of Hell sold over 43 million copies worldwide, certified 14x platinum in the U.S. alone. It's one of the biggest selling albums of all time. But Meat Loaf struggled to follow it up. He lost his voice after constant touring and drug use, so he turned to acting and cleaned up before recording 1981's Dead Ringer. The album was also written by Steinman, but it struggled in the U.S. (although it did hit #1 in the U.K.). Loaf had a falling out with Steinman and put together the next album without him, but it did even worse, failing to chart at all in the U.S. Adding to this, Meat Loaf had money struggles and faced 45 lawsuits totaling $80 million, which led to him filing for personal bankruptcy.
After a few more album duds, Meat Loaf and Steinman made up and started working on Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, which was released in September 1993. They went back to worked on the first album, releasing operatic and over-the-top rock as exemplified by the first single, "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)." Like "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," the new single featured Meat Loaf duetting with a female singer. And like that song, the singer from the recording did not appear in the video; on "Paradise," original singer Ellen Foley was replaced in the video by Karla DeVito.
With "I'd Do Anything," the female vocals were done on the album by Lorraine Crosby, who was credited as "Mrs. Loud" in the liner notes. But in the video, the female protagonist was played by model Dana Patrick, who lip-synched Crosby's vocals.
On the album, "I'd Do Anything" is 12 minutes long, but it's cut down for the video to a concise 7:48. Directed by Michael Bay, who replaced original director David Fincher after the latter's proposed $1.7 million budget was rejected, the video was filmed for $750,000. Apparently, Bay and Fincher had feuded in their music video directing days before becoming big-name movie directors; Fincher later worked with Meat Loaf in 1999's Fight Club.
The video was based on Beauty and the Beast and The Phantom of the Opera, with Meat Loaf made up to look like a hulking deformed beast who is on the run from police and hiding out in a castle. He comes across a beautiful woman in the woods and drama ensues; meanwhile, the police are on his trail. And then (spoiler alert), they embrace and Meat Loaf transforms back into a human and they ride off into the distance on his motorcycle.
The song never really specifies the one thing he wouldn't do for love, leaving that up to the listener's imagination.
It's not an exaggeration to say the video was in constant rotation on MTV at the time. Power ballads were big business, as Aerosmith and countless hard rock bands had discovered over the previous decade or so. The song was getting played to death on top 40 radio as well, becoming Meat Loaf's first and only #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100. It also topped the U.K. Singles Chart and was the best-selling single of 1993 in the U.K.; indeed, it went #1 in 28 countries. Meat Loaf won a Grammy award for the song as well.
Bat Out of Hell II sold over 14 million copies worldwide and this time, Meat Loaf was able to sustain his success a little better. His 1995 release Welcome to the Neighborhood went platinum in the U.S. and had some top 40 singles. He continued to release new albums and tour over the next few decades, including Bat Out of Hell III in 2006. His last album was released in 2016. He died in 2022 at age 74.
If nothing else, Meat Loaf's career proved that doing your own thing comes back into style every 15 years or so.
We typically steer clear of religious talk in these here parts, but this week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about religion in hour 2 (after playing new hotness from the likes of Weird Nightmare, Dread Spectre Council and Sub*T in hour 1). It's good stuff! Take it from Uncle Baby Billy.
He's not asking for the world here:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Weird Nightmare - Headful of Rain/Hoopla
Dread Spectre Council - Summon the Sparks/Thetans
Pope - No One (Kiss for a Treat)/BFM
Sub*T - Overcomplicate/How My Own Voice Sounds
Body Shop - Limits/Sex Body
The Orielles - Wasp/Only You Left
Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize - Parasite (Nine Inch Noize version)/Nine Inch Noize
Brother Ali - Another Country/Single
Gottlieb - Pipe Bomb/The Far Fallen Fruit
The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Heaven of Love/Acknowledge Kindness
The Bevis Frond - Romany Blue/Horrorful of Heights
Motorists - Scattered White Horses/Never Sing Alone
Metric - As If You're Here/Romanticize the Dive
Snail Mail - Butterfly/Ricochet
Gladie - Talk Past Each Other/No Need to Be Lonely
Courtney Barnett - Another Beautiful Day/Creature of Habit
Hour 2: Religion
Guided By Voices - Fly Religion/Universe Room
Fucked Up - Divining Gods/Another Day
Jesse Malin - God is Dead (feat. Agnostic Front)/Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin
Tunde Adebimpe - God Knows/Thee Black Boltz
Militarie Gun - God Owes Me Money/God Save the Gun
Bad History Month - God is Luck/God is Luck
The Kills - God Games/God Games
Los Campesinos! - Holy Smoke (2005)/All Hell
Beach Boys - Our Prayer/The Smile Sessions
The Afghan Whigs - I'll Make You See God/How Do You Burn?
Sugar - Tilted/Beaster
Motorhead - (Don't Need) Religion (live)/Another Perfect Day
The Flaming Lips - God Walks Among Us Now/In a Priest Driven Ambulance
Eldridge Rodriguez - The Girl Who Made God/Slightest of Treason
Yves Tumor - God is a Circle/Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Simply Consume
Hallelujah the Hills - God is So Lonely Tonight/Single
