Stuck In Thee Garage #232: July 27, 2018

The moon may be just a satellite of our Earth, but it's been a source of fascination for songwriters for decades. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about the moon in hour 2.

This playlist needs to phone home:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Ovlov - Half Way Fine/TRU
Slothrust - Double Down/The Pact
Chastity - Children/Death Lust
Lithics - Specs/Mating Surfaces
Goon - Merchant Hall/Dusk of Punk - Happy Omen
Mourn - Fun at the Geysers/Sorpresa Familia
Death Bells - Echoes/Single
Gold Muse - Sterling/Single
Soft Science - There/Maps
John Parish - Sorry for Your Loss (feat. PJ Harvey)/Bird Dog Dante
Tony Molina - Nothing I Can Say/Kill the Lights
Arthur Buck - American Century/Arthur Buck
Jim James - Throwback/Uniform Distortion
Bodega - Jack in Titanic/Endless Scroll
Tombstones in Their Eyes - Take Me Away/Nothing Here
Teenage Wrist - Black Flamingo/Chrome Neon Jesus
Smokescreens - Used to Yesterday/Used to Yesterday
Jo Passed - You, Prime/Their Prime
Poptone - This is the Pops/Poptone

Hour 2: Moon
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon/Bark at the Moon
Sugar - Man on the Moon/Copper Blue
Thin Lips - Gemini Moon/Divorce Year
Camper Van Beethoven - The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon/Telephone Free Landslide Victory
Steve Gunn - Full Moon Tide/Eyes on the Lines
Iceage - Against the Moon/Plowing Into the Field of Love
Wilco - Black Moon/The Whole Love
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Jesus of the Moon/Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Grinderman - Man in the Moon/Grinderman
Reeves Gabrels - Bad Moon Rising/The Sacred Squall of Now
David Bowie - Moonage Daydream/The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Duran Duran - New Moon on Monday/Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon/Ocean Rain

Completely Conspicuous 493: Stick It to the Man

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite music of the first half of 2018. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ
- Our top 5 albums of the year so far
- JB's #5
- Post-rock quartet from Philly
- JK's #5
- A New Year's gift
- Channeling post-election angst
- JB's #3
- Hook-laden pop from Kevin Kline's kid
- JK's #4
- Back to basics from power pop masters
- JK's #3
- Hot rawk from a dependably excellent band
- JB's #2
- Sprawling lo-fi indie folk
- JK's #2
- Came out of left field
- Punchy power pop
- JB's #1
- Exhilarating release for this band's Saddle Creek debut
- JK's #1 and JB's #4
- Very political record
- Please save us, Fugazi
- JB: Still surprised at the lack of political music

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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 #231: July 20, 2018

Going solo is a rock rite of passage. Nearly every successful band has seen members go their own way to release their own music. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs by solo artists in hour 2. The more, the merrier. It's a good listen.

This playlist is in high fidelity:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Dilly Dally - I Feel Free/Heaven
Body Type - Arrow/Arrow
Mourn - Divorce/Sorpresa Familia
Bodega - How Did This Happen?/Endless Scroll
Dentist - Corked/Night Swimming
Idles - Daniel Nedelko/Joy as an act of resistance
Nine Inch Nails - God Break Down the Door/Bad Witch
Arthur Buck - I Am the Moment/Arthur Buck
Jim James - Yes to Everything/Uniform Distortion
Paul McCartney - Come On to Me/Egypt Station
The Damned - Standing on the Edge of Tomorrow/Evil Spirits
The Menzingers - Toy Soldier/Single
Delicate Steve - American Ruse (feat. Wayne Kramer)/Single
Teenage Wrist - Dweeb/Chrome Neon Jesus
Albert Hammond Jr. - Screamer/Francis Trouble
Parquet Courts - Total Football/Wide Awake!

Hour 2: Solo
A.C. Newman - Miracle Drug/The Slow Wonder
Chris Cornell - Flutter Girl/Euphoria Morning
Dave Grohl - How Do You Do/Touch soundtrack
Adam Franklin - Seize the Day/Bolts of Melody
Jarvis Cocker - Caucasian Blues/Further Complications
Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out/Happiness in Magazines
Bob Mould - Star Machine/Silver Age
J Mascis x Kim Gordon - Slow Boy/CONS EP Vol. 3
Jason Loewenstein - Circles/At Sixes and Sevens
Frank Black - Pie in the Sky/Teenager of the Year
Greg Dulli - Early Today (and later that night)/Amber Headlights
Jesse Malin and the St. Marks Social - Black Boombox/Love It to Life
Gordon Downie - 11th Fret/Battle of the Nudes
Willy DeVille - It's So Easy/Miracle
Stiv Bators - Make Up Your Mind/Disconnected
Mark Lanegan Band - Sideways in Reverse/Bubblegum
Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd./New York
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Coma Girl/Streetcore
Paul Westerberg - Drop Them Gloves/PW & the Ghost Gloves Cat Wing Joy Boys

Completely Conspicuous 492: Count It Off, Smart Guy

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite music of the first half of 2018. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ
- On to the top 10
- JB's #10
- Side project of the late Scott Hutchison
- JK's #10
- Welcome return of alt-rock faves
- The laid-back recording style of Steve Albini
- JB's #9
- Ambient music via Philly
- JK's #9
- Boston alt-rock icons back with a vital new record
- JB's #8 and JK's #7
- Another fine album from an Aussie rocker
- JK's #8
- The evolution of a band's sound
- JB's #7
- No new Johnny Foreigner release, but this works
- JB's #6
- Minimal electronic act from the city of Brotherly Love
- Good chillout music
- JK's #6
- A solid solo release from another alt-rock legend
- Surprising political bent on a few songs
- 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.

Stuck In Thee Garage #230: July 13, 2018

It's inevitable when you live in a four-season area: During the winter, we pine for warm weather, and during the summer when things get hot and sweaty, we wish for things to cool down. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about coldness in hour 2 in an attempt to cool things down a tad.

Mister Ten Below could come in handy right about now:

The frosty playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Mourn - Doing It Right/Sorpresa Familia
Virginia Wing - Be Released/Ecstatic Arrow
The Black Tones - Plaid Pants/Single
Spiritualized - A Perfect Miracle/And Nothing Hurt
Nova Flares - Gut Splinter/Nova Flares
Soft Science - Sooner/Maps
Nicholas Merz - Bulled Rose/The Limits of Men
Tony Molina - Look Inside Your Mind-Losin' My Touch/Kill the Lights
Fred Abong - Rattler/Homeless
Protomartyr - You Always Win (feat. Kelley Deal)/Consolation EP
La Luz - The Creature/Floating Features
Speedy Ortiz - Backslidin'/Twerp Verse
The Rock*A*Teens - Turn and Smile/Sixth House
Poptone - Ball of Confusion/Poptone
Billy & Dolly - Setting Sun/Five Suns

Hour 2: Cold
Monkeywrench - Cold Cold World/Clean as a Broke-Dick Dog
Guided By Voices - 14 Cheerleader Coldfront/Propellor
The Pink Mountaintops - Cold Criminals/Axis of Evol
Beck - Cold Brains/Mutations
Ween - Cold Blows the Wind/The Mollusk
The Gun Club - Cold Drink of Water/Fire of Love
Death From Above - Freeze Me/Outrage is Now!
East River Pipe - Cold Ground/We Live in Rented Rooms
Throwing Muses - Colder/House Tornado
The Cure - Cold/Pornography
Arcade Fire - Cold Wind/Six Feet Under Vol. 2: Everything Ends
Brendan Benson - Cold Hands (Warm Heart)/The Alternative to Love
Screaming Trees - Cold Rain/Even If and Especially When
Boss Hog - Ski Bum/Boss Hog
Thin Lizzy - Cold Sweat/Thunder and Lightning
Van Halen - Stay Frosty/A Different Kind of Truth

Completely Conspicuous 491: Chart Fatigue

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite music of the first half of 2018. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ
- The sudden album drop: Drake, Kanye, Beyonce/Jay Z, Rosenstock
- Who needs major labels?
- Charts are meaningless when the kids just stream music
- Country may be the biggest selling genre right now
- Pop tours are struggling
- The flipside of convenience
- YouTube as last resort for streaming
- The floppy disk as music storage device
- Package tours now mix up genres and eras
- Breitling: "I imagine the Wang is sizable"
- Our favorite music: The bubbling unders...or also-rans
- Breitling: Ben Leiper, Kamasi Washington, Speedy Ortiz, GAS
- Kumar: Ty Segall, Hot Snakes, Screaming Females, La Luz, Poptone, Beach House, Janelle Monae, Painted Doll, Judas Priest
- 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.

Stuck In Thee Garage #229: July 6, 2018

The great philosopher Thomas Keifer once wrote, "Don't know what you got till it's gone." That was certainly the case with the year 2008, which seemed like a big pile of dung at the time, but in retrospect, doesn't look so bad now. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2008 in hour 2 and it was quite an enjoyable set of rock jams if I do say so myself.

It was the kind of year that said, "How do you do, fellow kids?"

This playlist is totally not a middle-aged narc:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Red Baraat (feat. Heems) - Sound the People/Sound the People
Protomartyr - Wait/Consolation EP
Poptone - Christian Says/Poptone
The Rock*A*Teens - Lady MacBeth/Sixth House
Eternal Summers - Contenders/Every Day It Feels Like I'm Dying...
The Autumn Stones - Mandatory Love/Emperor Twilight
Calpurnia - City Boy/Scout EP
Dude York - Moon/Moon
Deap Vally - Get Gone/Get Gone
Stars - Ship to Shore/Single
Nine Inch Nails - Ahead of Ourselves/Bad Witch
Smashing Pumpkins - Solara/Single
Tombstones in Their Eyes - Silhouette/Nothing Here
The Oysters - I Don't Want Anyone to be Around Me/Single
*repeat repeat - Everybody's Falling Love/Floral Canyon
Tony Molina - Jasper's Theme/Kill the Lights
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The Hammer/Hope Downs

Hour 2: '08
The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer/Stay Positive
King Khan and the Shrines - Torture/The Supreme Genius of...
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Cold Son/Real Emotional Trash
The Gutter Twins - The Stations/Saturnalia
TV on the Radio - Dancing Choose/Dear Science
The Dirtbombs - I Hear the Sirens/We Have You Surrounded
Black Mountain - Stormy High/In the Future
Ladyhawk - Corpse Paint/Shots
Sloan - Believe in Me/Parallel Play
The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution/Consolers of the Lonely
Drive-By Truckers - Daddy Needs a Drink/Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Eagles of Death Metal - Anything 'Cept the Truth/Heart On
The Raveonettes - Dead Sound/Lust Lust Lust
Frightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off/The Midnight Organ Fight
Dead Meadow - What Needs Must Be/Old Growth
Jay Reatard - Always Wanting More/Matador Singles '08