Friday, December 12, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #610: December 12, 2025

They say the ideal length for a song is 3 minutes, but sometimes it's fun to let things build up and do what they have to do. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played two hours of long songs (7 minutes or longer, except for the last song, which is rather short). It's worth taking the time and digging in, regardless of whether you're the oldest boy. 


Cheer up, pal:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Stone Roses - Fools Gold/The Stone Roses 

Courtney Barnett - Small Poppies/Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Sonic Youth - Cross the Breeze/Daydream Nation

Drive Like Jehu - Sinews/Yank Crime

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - 1% of One/Pig Lib

Sloan - Before I Do/Twice Removed

The Feelies - Find a Way/Time for a Witness


Hour 2

TV On the Radio - Wear You Out/Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

Prince - Let's Pretend We're Married/1999

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain/Maggot Brain

LCD Soundsystem - Us V. Them/Sound of Silver

Yo La Tengo - Sinatra Drive Breakdown/This Stupid World

Built to Spill - Velvet Waltz/Perfect from Now On

Neil Young - Cortez the Killer/Zuma

Absolute Losers - For So Long/In the Crowd


Put it in cruise control and listen to the long jams HERE.

Friday, December 05, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #609: December 5, 2025

It has already been established that time has no meaning anymore. So when I think back to 2005, it's like it just happened. But it was, you know, 20 freakin' years ago. Nevertheless, this week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from good ol' '05 in hour 2. It was a great flashback to last week when I was in my 30s. One thing that hasn't changed is Mr. Pibb and Red Vines equals crazy delicious.


This playlist says eat my digital shorts:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Lemon Twigs - I've Got a Broken Heart/Single

Glitterer - Somebody/erer

S.C.A.B. - I Hate Expectations/Somebody in New York Loves You!

Sharp Pins - I Don't Have the Heart/Balloon Balloon Balloon

Pigeon Pit - Landlord Special/Leash Aggression

The Belair Lip Bombs - If You've Got the Time/Again

The Dears - Tears of a Nation/Life is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful!

Big Bill - Young Men of the World/Sick Myth

Curious Volume - Fidelio/Nothing is Good

Husker Du - Eight Miles High (1/30 at First Ave.)/1985: The Miracle Year

Bass Drum of Death - Never Gonna Drink About You/Six

Pynch - Post Punk New Wave/Beautiful Noise

Militarie Gun - God Owes Me Money/God Save the Gun

Jeff Tweedy - This is How It Ends/Twilight Override

Wednesday - Reality TV Argument Bleeds/Bleeds

The Lemonheads - Cell Phone Blues/Love Chant

Tony Molina - Don't Belong/On This Day

Gouwzee - Cold Roller/Gouwzee


Hour 2: 2005

Sleater-Kinney - The Fox/The Woods

Queens of the Stone Age - Everybody Knows That You Are Insane/Lullabies to Paralyze

The Mars Volta - The Widow/Frances the Mute

The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend/Separation Sunday

Greg Dulli - Early Today (And Later That Night)/Amber Headlights

Spoon - My Mathematical Mind/Gimme Fiction

The White Stripes - Blue Orchid/Get Behind Me Satan

Black Mountain - No Separation/Black Mountain

Broken Social Scene - Our Faces Split the Coast in Half/Broken Social Scene

Bloc Party - Helicopter/Silent Alarm

Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I Love You Less and Less/Employment

Art Brut - Emily Kane/Bang Bang Rock 'N' Roll

Against Me! - Don't Lose Touch/Searching for a Former Clarity

Wolf Parade - Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts/Apologies to the Queen Mary

Okkervil River - Black/Black Sheep Boy


This playlist is going viral!
 

Monday, December 01, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 667: Everything In Its Right Place

 Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we pick our favorite songs released in the 21st century. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

  • We're a quarter through this century
  • Phil: Thought this would be easy but came up with a long list
  • What about a song grabs you?
  • Jay: Original top 10 list was all songs from the 00s
  • Songs that didn't make our top 10
  • Phil: Tribe Called Quest, Vampire Weekend, Meatbodies, Wilco, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, TV On the Radio, Wet Leg, Franz Ferdinand, Michael Kiwanuka, MJ Lenderman, U2, Frances Forever, Patrick Sweeney, Mudcrutch, Sufjan Stevens, Shearwater, Jason Isbell, Songs: Ohia
  • Jay: Radiohead, Bowie, At the Drive-In, Drive-By Truckers, Sloan, Sleater-Kinney, Death from Above 1979, Jay-Z, Hold Steady, Gord Downie, Tragically Hip, Living Colour, Outkast, Wild Flag, White Stripes, PJ Harvey, Parquet Courts, Spoon, M.I.A., Kaiser Chiefs
  • Jay: Found out about a lot of new music from MP3 blogs in the early 00s
  • Phil's #10: Spoon breaks through
  • Song was a cover of a song by The Natural History
  • Jay's #10: Last song from Bowie's iconic farewell album
  • Love the album but it's hard to listen to because of the sadness
  • Phil's #9: Mournful ballad from Mark Lanegan
  • Jay: My favorite Lanegan song
  • Mixing bubblegum and chewing tobacco is a bad idea
  • A duet with Chris Goss of Masters of Reality
  • Jay's #9: A fiery hip hop blast from Run the Jewels and Zach de la Rocha
  • Waiting for their next album; last one was in 2020
  • Phil's #7: Bluegrass turn from Billy Strings
  • Strings is winning over a lot of fans of other genres
  • Phil's #8: Protest song from Drive-By Truckers
  • Band chronicles a lot of real-life injustices
  • Jay's #8: Angry ripper from Superchunk
  • Commentary on the political climate of 2018
  • Sometimes fans don't like the message
  • Jay's #7: White Stripes hit the mainstream
  • Took a year for their third album to become a hit
  • 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.

Friday, November 28, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #608: November 28, 2025

Getting together with the family for Thanksgiving can be difficult for some folks. The travel, the food, the emotions, it can all be a bit much. But that's also what makes it great. And then the day after has its own vibe, involving leftovers, drowsiness, TV and general digestion. Today on Stuck In Thee Garage, I celebrated the whole messy holiday with an hour of music about eating and an hour about the aftermath. Listen to it after sharing a meal with the Green Goblin.


The playlist is taking a quick nap:

Hour 1: Eat

Artist - Song/Album

Ovlov - Eat More (demo)/Buds Demos

Getdown Services - Eat Quiche, Sleep, Repeat/Primordial Slot Machine

Bloodshot Bill and King Khan - Nibble the Pie/Tandoori Knights

A. Savage - Thanksgiving Prayer/Several Songs About Fire

They Are Gutting a Body of Water - American Food/Lotto

Titus Andronicus - Food Fight!/Local Business

Stove - Wet Food/Is Stupider

Electric Six - Talking Turkey/Zodiac

Odds - Eat My Brain/Kids in the Hall Brain Candy soundtrack

Thunderbirds Are Now! - Eat This City/Justamoustache

Mexican Slang - Eating Fettucine with Steve Albini/Blush

Destroyer - Eat the Wine, Drink the Bread/Labyrinthitis

Medium Medium - Hungry, So Angry/The Glitterhouse

The Godfathers - Cold Turkey (Live at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago)/Birth, School, Work, Death (bonus track)

The Upper Crust - Let Them Eat Rock (live)/Entitled

Future of the Left - Eating for None/The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left

Motorhead - Eat the Rich/Rock 'n' Roll


Hour 2: The aftermath

Beck - Pay No Mind (Snoozer)/Mellow Gold

Eels - In My Dreams/Hombre Loco

Sloan - I Dream of Sleep/Steady

Broken Social Scene - Big Couches/Let's Try the After

Bethlehem Steel - Couches/Bethlehem Steel

Grand Archives - Torn Blue Foam Couch/The Grand Archives

Franz Ferdinand - Lazy Boy/Always Ascending

Kiwi Jr. - Football Money/Football Money

Colleen Green - TV/I Want to Grow Up

Sports - Reality TV/All of Something

Country Westerns - TV Light/Country Westerns

Jeff Rosenstock - TV Stars/POST-

Black Flag - TV Party/Damaged

Minutemen - There Ain't Shit on TV Tonight/Double Nickels on the Dime

Cheap Trick - The Ballad of TV Violence (I'm Not the Only Boy)/Cheap Trick

Steely Dan - Black Friday/Katy Lied

Faith No More - Black Friday/Sol Invictus

Palehound - Black Friday/Black Friday


Crank up the leftover rock HERE!

 

Friday, November 21, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #607: November 21, 2025

There are plenty of things in this world that are overrated, overhyped, oversold. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played a bunch of songs that I feel don't get their due (after playing new music from Big Bill, Curious Volume and Shudder to Think in hour 1). It's pretty, pretty, pretty good.


Larry knows what's up:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Big Bill - The Money Store/Sick Myth

Curious Volume - Try/Nothing is Good

Shudder to Think - Playback/Single

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Manny's Ready to Roll/Pogo Rodeo

The Lemonheads - Marauders/Love Chant

The Dears - Dead Contacts/Life is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful!

Middle Mass - The Room Next to Her/Songs for the Sapphire Hare

Snocaps - Cherry Hard Candy/Snocaps

Wednesday - Candy Breath/Bleeds

Guided By Voices - Replay/Thick Rich and Delicious

Tiberius - Felt/Troubadour

Guerilla Toss - Deep Sight/You're Weird Now

Shame - To and Fro/Cutthroat

Algernon Cadwallader - Revelation 420/Trying Not to Have a Thought

Pile - Holds/Sunshine and Balance Beams

Superchunk - Cue/Songs in the Key of Yikes


Hour 2: Underrated

Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me/International Pop Overthrow

Gigolo Aunts - C'mon C'mon/Minor Chords and Major Themes

Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out/Happiness in Magazines

Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation/Blank Generation

The Buzzcocks - Just Lust/Singles Going Steady

X - We're Desperate/Wild Gift

Thin Lizzy - Waiting for an Alibi/Black Rose: A Rock Legend

Judas Priest - The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)/Hell Bent for Leather

Motley Crue - Take Me to the Top/Too Fast for Love

Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot/Employment

Maritime - Paraphernalia/Human Hearts

The Fiery Furnaces - Restorative Beer/Widow City

Johnny Foreigner - Ghost the Festivals/Grace and the Bigger Picture

The Boomtown Rats - Up All Night/Mondo Bongo

The Cars - Cruiser/Shake It Up

Joe Jackson - Kinda Kute/I'm the Man

Graham Parker - Local Girls/Squeezing Out Sparks


Get yer ya-yas out with the playlist, yo!

Friday, November 14, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #606: November 14, 2025

The future ain't all it's cracked up to be. When I was a kid, we were told things would be wondrous and utopian by now, but we're still slogging through the mud, as it were. Oh well, at least we've got cool music. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played hot new jammers from Kiwi Jr., Shudder to Think and The Dears in hour 1 and music about the future in hour 2. It'll make you want to watch a Joe Don Baker movie from 50 years ago. Wait, is that a good thing?


This playlist is as loud as Mitchell's blazer:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Kiwi Jr. - Hard Drive, Ontario/Single
Shudder to Think - Thirst Walk/Single
The Dears - Doom Pays/Life is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful!
Husker Du - Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely (11-3 SLC)/1985: The Miracle Year
Rousers - Party Boy/1979 Sire Session
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Born in the ADs/Pogo Rodeo
White Reaper - Eraser/Only Slightly Empty
Snocaps - Coast/Snocaps
The Belair Lip Bombs - Don't Let Them/Again
Spanish Love Songs - Heavenhead ft. Illuminati Hotties/A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time
Guided By Voices - Phantasmagoric Upstarts/Thick Rich and Delicious
They Are Gutting a Body of Water - RL Stine/Lotto
Jeff Tweedy - No One's Moving/Twilight Override
Militarie Gun - Wake Up and Smile/God Save the Gun
Just Mustard - Silver/We Were Just Here
Ex-Hyena - Details Fade/XX Your Love
Snooper - Pom Pom/Worldwide

Hour 2: The future
John Davis - The Future/Jinx
Jeff Rosenstock - Future is Dumb/Hellmode
Health - Future of Hell/Rat Wars
Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Futurephobic/Data Doom
The Bug Club - Living in the Future/Very Human Features
FACS - You Future/Wish Defense
Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien/OK Computer
Telekinesis - In a Future World/Ad Infinitum
Matthew Sweet - Future Shock/In Reverse
Wolf Parade - Fall Into the Future/Thin Mind
The Black Angels - History of the Future/Wilderness of Mirrors
Kal Marks - The Future/My Name is Hell
Future of the Left - Future Child Embarrassment Matrix/How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident
St. Vincent - Fear the Future/Masseduction
Wild Flag - Future Crimes/Wild Flag
Swearin' - Future Hell/Fall Into the Sun
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me/Future Me Hates Me

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 666: Playing Favorites

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we pick our favorite songs by randomly selected artists. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as"). [NOTE: Something weird is going on with the Libsyn player but the episode definitely exists. You can still download it and it's in all the podcast catchers of choice.]

Show notes:

  • More of our favorites from artists picked out of a hat
  • Phil: Pretenders
  • Overcoming the deaths of half the band
  • Jay: James Brown
  • Love the '70s funk era
  • Prince was able to replicate JB's dance moves in concert
  • Phil: Parquet Courts
  • Built a great catalog over the last 13 years or so
  • Influenced by the late '70s NYC CBGB sound
  • Jay: Beatles
  • How do you pick a single Beatles song?
  • Phil: Sleater-Kinney
  • Powerful band
  • Janet Weiss is a powerhouse drummer
  • Jay: Led Zeppelin
  • Favorite song depends on the day
  • Phil: Prince
  • He could play any style
  • Jay: Hoodoo Gurus
  • Saw them for the first time last year
  • Caught the mid-80s college rock wave
  • Phil: The Police
  • Ghost in the Machine was one of the first albums Phil ever bought
  • Early Police is untouchable
  • Jay: The Clash
  • Political rock that still holds true today
  • Covered a lot of musical ground
  • Phil: R.E.M.
  • Was introduced to the band by his uncle
  • People who jumped off the bandwagon after they went to a major are missing out
  • Jay: Elvis Costello
  • EC has been all over the map musically, but his lyrics are always on point
  • Phil: Squeeze
  • Difford and Tilbrook were great songwriters
  • Amazing string of classic songs
  • Jay: Joe Jackson
  • Easy choice 
  • The first few albums were outstanding
  • Musical chameleon

Completely Conspicuous is available wherever you get 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, November 07, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #605: November 7, 2025

Nobody wants to get old. It just happens. The key is not to act like you're old, or so they tell me. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about getting older in hour 2 (after an hour of new music) and I swear they'll clear up your diabeetus in no time.


This playlist is the right thing to do, and a tasty way to do it:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Middle Mass - Unsettled/Songs for the Sapphire Hare

Courtney Barnett - Stay In Your Lane/Single

Snocaps - Over Our Heads/Snocaps

Sleaford Mods - The Good Life (feat. Gwendoline Christie and Big Special)/The Demise of Planet X

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Salsa Verde/Pogo Rodeo

The Lemonheads - In the Margin/Love Chant

Guided By Voices - (You Can't Go Back to) Oxford Talawanda/Thick Rich and Delicious

Melody's Echo Chamber - Eyes Closed/Unclouded

The Belair Lip Bombs - Hey You/Again

Just Mustard - That I Might Not See/We Were Just Here

Ex-Hyena - Vanishing Edge/XX Your Love

Phantom Wave - Splashed/Echoes Unknown

They Are Gutting a Body of Water - Sour Diesel/Lotto

Militarie Gun - Throw Me Away/God Save the Gun

The Telephone Numbers - Telephone Numbers Theme/Scarecrow II

Steel Beans - Full-Flavored Vibrations/Steel Beans

Sprints - Rage/All That is Over

The Hives - O.C.D.O.D./The Hives Forever Forever the Hives


Hour 2: Older

Genesis Owusu - Old Man/Struggler

The Fall - An Older Lover, Etc./Slates (Live)

Nosferatu D2 - Older, Wiser, Sadder/Older, Wiser, Sadder

Guided By Voices - The Old Grunt/Mag Earwhig!

Catholic Action - Yr Old Dad/Celebrated by Strangers

Boygenius - Letter to an Old Poet/The Record

La Fille - Everyday Feels Like I'm Getting Older/Alright Already

The Clean - Getting Older/Compilation

Spider Bags - My Old Lady/Live on WFMU 6/13/15

Stephen Malkmus - Old Jerry/Pig Lib bonus track

Eels - In My Younger Days/End Times

Wilco - When You Wake Up Feeling Old/Summerteeth

Pulp - Help the Aged/This is Hardcore

Sloan - Dignified and Old/Recorded Live at a Sloan Party

Teenage Fanclub - Older Guys/Thirteen

Bob Mould - Silver Age/Silver Age


Take yer Metamucil and crank up the playlist HERE! 


Monday, November 03, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 665: Choose Your Fighter

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we pick our favorite songs by randomly selected artists. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

  • Phil's idea: Blind rankings
  • We each pick 10 artist names out of a hat and name a favorite song for each
  • Phil picks names from N-Z, Jay gets A-M
  • No prep time for our answers
  • Phil: Velvet Underground
  • Plenty to choose from
  • Trying not to choose popular songs
  • Jay: B-52s
  • They made the "no play list" at Jay's wedding
  • Great catalog of bangers
  • Phil: Talking Heads
  • Band had different phases
  • Mixed Afro rhythms, funk and skronky guitar from Adrian Belew
  • New David Byrne album is good
  • Jay: Living Colour
  • Band played many different styles well
  • They still bring the heat
  • Phil: Neil Young
  • A musical chameleon
  • Amazing solo or with Crazy Horse (or other backing bands)
  • Jay: Grateful Dead
  • Easy choice
  • Always had a favorite song by them
  • 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.

Friday, October 31, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #604: October 31, 2025

Some people don't like Halloween: Too commercialized, too scary, too whatever. I'm not one of those people. I love it. I don't love it so much that I'm going to join the throngs of people in Salem tonight, but I enjoy the general vibe of the season. And part of that is putting together two hours of Halloween-adjacent songs for Stuck In Thee Garage. There's a wide assortment of songs about ghosts, goblins, evil and assorted other mayhem. Best enjoyed with a nice chianti and some fava beans.


Check out the playlist, Clarice:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

X - Devil Doll/More Fun in the New World

The Gun Club - Ghost on the Highway/Fire of Love

The Jam - Ghosts/The Gift

Eldridge Rodriguez - The Ghost of Emily Post/Atrophy

Hallelujah the Hills - Confessions of an Ex-Ghost/Bootleg: Live 12/15/23 at the Sinclair

Boeckner - Ghost in the Mirror/Boeckner!

Ghost Party - Ghost Moves/Ghost Moves

TV On the Radio - Let the Devil In/Return to Cookie Mountain

Concrete Blonde - The Beast/Bloodletting

Peter Murphy - The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (And That Which Cannot Be Repeat)/Deep

Alien Sex Fiend - Now I'm Feeling Zombified/Curse

The Raveonettes - Dead Sound/Lust Lust Lust

L7 - Ouija Board Lies/Scatter the Rats

Queens of the Stone Age - The Evil Has Landed/Villains


Hour 2:

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

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden/Live After Death

Dio - Don't Talk to Strangers/Holy Diver

Metallica - Am I Evil?/Garage Days Re-Revisited

Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' at Midnight/My Baby Walked Off (Sun Records 1951-1953)

Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage/Unchained

South San Gabriel - Of Evil/For Evil /Dual Hawks

Thee Oh Sees - Withered Hand/Mutilator Defeated at Last

Faith No More and Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. - Another Body Murdered/Judgment Night soundtrack

Soundgarden - Beyond the Wheel/Ultramega OK

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire/The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies/Billion Dollar Babies

The Afghan Whigs - Tonight/Congregation


Crank up the soundtrack and howl at the moon or something!

Friday, October 24, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #603: October 24, 2025

Every so often, it's fun to look back at a year in the distant past and see what was going on. It's scary to think that 2010 qualifies as one of those years, but it was 15 years ago! Among the new developments that year were the iPad, Game of Thrones and Angry Birds. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2010 in hour 2 and they're as kickass as I remember, so that's good, right?


Prepare for battle with the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Weird Nightmare - Forever Elsewhere/Single

They Are Gutting a Body of Water - The Chase/LOTTO

Steel Beans - Throwin' Stones/Steel Beans

Katy and the Null Sets - F*** Me!/Troublemaker

Militarie Gun - Fill Me With Paint/God Save the Gun

Weakened Friends - NPC (ft. Buckethead)/Feels Like Hell

Snooper - Relay/Worldwide

Geese - Trinidad/Getting Killed

Phantom Wave - Wanton/Echoes Unknown

The Telephone Numbers - Scarecrow/Scarecrow II

Jeff Tweedy - KC Rain (No Wonder)/Twilight Override

Trapper Schoepp - Mad, Mad, Mad (Sweet Salvation)/Osborne

Wednesday - Pick Up That Knife/Bleeds

KISS - Strutter/Alive!

KISS - Detroit Rock City/Destroyer

Ace Frehley - New York Groove/Ace Frehley


Hour 2: 2010

Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring/Romance is Boring

Grinderman - Worm Tamer/Grinderman 2

Les Savy Fav - Let's Get Out of Here/Root for Ruin

Superchunk - My Gap Feels Weird/Majesty Shredding

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Gimme the Wire/The Brutalist Bricks

Black Mountain - Let Spirits Ride/Wilderness Heart

The Henry Clay People - Switch Kids/Somewhere on the Golden Coast

The Hold Steady - Rock Problems/Heaven is Whenever

The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang/American Slang

The New Pornographers - Your Hands (Together)/Together

Wintersleep - Encyclopedia/New Inheritors

Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressure/Expo 86

LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls/This is Happening

Spoon - Got Nuffin/Transference

Drive-By Truckers - Drag the Lake Charlie/The Big To-Do

Titus Andronicus - No Future Part Three: Escape from No Future/The Monitor


Dude, this thing claims I have mail and/or a playlist.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Bringing It All Back Home

I've been pretty distracted today. Sure, I've been working, but I'm still riding high from the Toronto Blue Jays' amazing ALCS Game 7 win last night that has propelled them into the World Series. They're underdogs against the well-heeled LA Dodgers, but there's a reason they don't just award the championship to a team without playing the games.

The Jays' success this year has reinvigorated my interest in baseball. It had been waning in recent years thanks to lackluster Jays performances, culminating in 2024's horrendous last-place finish. Add to that my rapidly shrinking attention span, which made watching a full baseball game a very rare occurrence. I watched parts of the World Series last fall between the Dodgers and Yankees, but if you're not a fan of those teams, you tend to get sick of seeing them spending their way to success every season (moreso the Dodgers than the Yankees, who haven't won a title since 2009).

I paid more attention to hockey, which has always been my favorite sport, and football. But this season, after a slow start, the Jays started to play better and by midseason, were starting to make some noise in the AL East. I've been a subscriber to MLB.tv for years so I could watch Jays games and in June, I started paying closer attention to the team and actually watching full games. On Canada Day (July 1 for the uninitiated), the Jays beat the Yankees 12-5, with George Springer hitting a grand slam in the 7th to put the Jays ahead. They swept the four games in that series and took over first place in the division, which they managed to hold onto for the rest of the season.

The team was different than past editions. Even though they had stars like Springer, Vlad Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette, the Jays received contributions from players up and down the lineup and were winning in different ways. New hitting coach David Popkins helped them become a much tougher team at the plate, striking out less and wearing down pitchers. The pitching staff, while not flashy, was efficient and effective. At the trade deadline, the big acquisition was former Cy Young winner Shane Bieber (who was coming off Tommy John surgery) and high-leverage relievers Louis Varland and Seranthony Dominguez. Manager John Schneider ran the team calmly and confidently and the players seemed to have a closer bond than past editions.

In the East, the Jays were battling the Yankees and the Red Sox, who were also armed with strong pitching staffs and potent offenses. After a September swoon, the Jays finished the season with four straight wins, including a sweep of Tampa Bay, to hold onto first; they had the same record as New York but held the head-to-head tiebreaker. 

That earned them a bye in the Wild Card round. Toronto played the Yankees in the best-of-5 AL Divisional Series and despite having a week off, their bats pounded the NY pitchers into submission. The Jays won the series 3-1 and played the Seattle Mariners in the AL Championship Series. The M's, who entered MLB in the same year as Toronto (1977) but had never been to the World Series, started strong by completely shutting down the Jays offense in the first two games on Toronto's home turf. But the Jays, led by their superstar Guerrero, went to Seattle and took two of three. They still came back to Toronto for game 6 trailing 3-2 in the series, but they won the last two games to win the right to play the Dodgers. 

Game 7s are rare and important since they're do-or-die situations. The Jays had only been in one before, losing the 1985 ALCS to the Kansas City Royals. Last night's game didn't start much better, as Seattle's pitchers didn't allow much after the first inning and the M's held a 3-1 lead going into the 7th. But then the Jays were able to put runners on second and third for Springer, who was limping after getting hit in the kneecap by a 96-mph fastball in game 5. He then turned the game on its head by drilling a 1-0 pitch into the left field stands for a 4-3 Jays lead as the stadium exploded. One of the biggest homers in team history and the Jays made it hold up, with closer Jeff Hoffman striking out the side to finish the game in the 9th.

The Jays are now going to their first World Series since 1993, when they beat the Phillies on a walk-off 3-run homer by Joe Carter for their second consecutive championship. I was watching it by myself in my rented room in a house in Middleton. The Jays had a dominant team that season and I thought it would just keep going. I was 26 at the time. They didn't make the playoffs again until 2015! And now they're finally back in the World Series. 

I know that given what's going on in the world right now, sports can seem pretty trivial to get worked up over. But I've always been a huge sports fan and dammit, it's a good distraction. I'm not getting overconfident about the Jays' chances against Shohei Ohtani (who they famously courted a few offseasons ago before he signed with LA) and crew, but I've seen stranger things happen. There have been plenty of major upsets over the years, so why not now? Hopefully I'll be in a good mood about this stuff in a week's time; game 1 of the World Series is Friday in Toronto (they actually had a better record than LA). Hope springs eternal!

Friday, October 17, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #602: October 17, 2025

I'm more of a letters and words person myself, but numbers are important for many reasons. I don't buy into all that numerology stuff, but I did play songs with numbers in hour 2 this week on Stuck In Thee Garage. But don't tell Mr. Roper because he tends to frown on that sort of thing (and also just about everything else).


This playlist will come and knock on your door:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Weakened Friends - Tough Luck (Bleed Me Out)/Feels Like Hell

Steel Beans - Big Dumb/Steel Beans

Snooper - Star*69/Worldwide

Sharp Pins - I Wonder Where You Hide All Your Love/Single

Peel Dream Magazine - Seek and Destroy/Taurus

Neko Case - Destination/Neon Grey Midnight Green

Geese - Bow Down/Getting Killed

Wednesday - Bitter Everyday/Bleeds

The Telephone Numbers - Pulling Punchlines/Scarecrow II

Rocket - Another Second Chance/R is for Rocket

Cardinals - Masquerade/Masquerade

Sloan - Congratulations/Based on the Best Seller

Emerald Comets - Lost Books/Dreamnight

SONS - Magic Mirror/Hallo

Pynch - Microwave Rhapsody/Beautiful Noise

Sprints - Need/All That is Over


Hour 2: Numbers

Lupo Citta - 1-2 Zero/Lupo Citta

The Kills - 103/God Games

Topographies - 1959/Interior Spring

Fugazi - Joe No. 1/Repeater

Protomartyr - 3800 Tigers/Formal Growth in the Desert

Jeff Rosenstock - 9/10 /POST-

METZ - 99/Up On Gravity Hill

PJ Harvey - 50ft Queenie/Rid of Me

Mister Goblin - Six Flags America/Four People in an Elevator and One of Them is the Devil

The Twilight Singers - Forty Dollars/Powder Burns

Mission of Burma - 13/The Obliterati

Shudder to Think - 9 Fingers on You/Pony Express Record

The Foxboro Hot Tubs - 27th Ave Shuffle/Stop Drop and Roll!!!

A.C. Newman - 35 in the Shade/The Slow Wonder

Misfits - 20 Eyes/Walk Among Us

Spacemen 3 - 2:35 (Feedback Version)/Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to

Brainiac - 70 Kg Man/Hissing Prigs in Static Couture

Queens of the Stone Age - 3's & 7's/Era Vulgaris


Rock the playlist on the ones and twos, homeslice.

Friday, October 10, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #601: October 10, 2025

It may feel like time has no meaning anymore, but in reality, we have plenty of ways to mark the passage of the years. Music gives us plenty of mile markers, so this week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I've got decade-specific rock blocks in hour 2 (and plenty of new music in hour 1). Put your ear to the door!


This playlist will see you on the Lido Deck:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

SONS - Somehow/Hallo

Snooper - Guard Dog/Worldwide

Sprints - Descartes/All That Is Over

Bass Drum of Death - Can't Taste You All/Six

Trapper Schoepp - Satan is Real (Satan is a Sackler)/Osborne

Garbage - Chinese Fire Horse/Let All That We Image Be the Light

The Telephone Numbers -Be Right Down/Scarecrow II

Peel Dream Magazine - The Band from Northampton/Taurus

Frog - Spanish Armada VAR. XV/The Count

Geese - Taxes/Getting Killed

Midlake - The Ghouls/A Bridge to Far

Jeff Tweedy - Lou Reed Was My Babysitter/Twilight Override

Tony Molina - FC '23/On This Day

White Reaper - Freakshow/Only Slightly Empty

Guerilla Toss - When Dogs Bark/You're Weird Now

Absolute Losers - You Never Say That You Love Me/In the Crowd

Sloan - Capitol Cooler/Based on the Best Seller


Hour 2: Decade-specific rock blocks

2010s

Savages - Evil/Adore Life

Ovlov - Nu Punk/am

Fucked Up - Ship of Fools/David Comes to Life

2000s

The Hold Steady - Navy Sheets/Stay Positive

Sleater-Kinney - The Fox/The Woods

Elvis Costello - 45/When I Was Cruel

1990s

Rocket From the Crypt - Eye On You/RFTC

Helmet - Wilma's Rainbow/Betty

A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario/The Low End Theory

1980s

Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump/Paul's Boutique

The Smithereens - Behind the Wall of Sleep/Especially for You

The B-52s - Song for a Future Generation/Whammy!

1970s

The Police - Truth Hits Everybody/Outlandos D'Amour

Blue Oyster Cult - This Ain't the Summer of Love/Agents of Fortune

War - Me and Baby Brother/Deliver the Word

T. Rex - Telegram Sam/The Slider


Check out the playlist, exciting and new!

Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 664: Time Stand Still

This week, I'm joined by fellow podcast pioneer Brian Salvatore as we discuss the first 20 years of podcasting. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

  • Brian: First heard about podcasts in 2004
  • Started making the FrankBlack.net Podcast in 2006
  • Jay: Got my first iPod in 2004 and then learned about podcasts
  • Brian: The internet was so much better 20 years ago
  • Great for digging into niche interests
  • Jay and Brian met through the Frank Black podcast in 2010 and realized that Brian lived near Jay's brother-in-law
  • Jay: The start of CompCon in 2006
  • Always loved radio but never worked at the college station
  • First few years were just me talking about pop culture
  • Eventually started bringing on guests after a few years
  • Podcasting got an early boost when Apple started a podcast directory
  • Early podcasts I listened to were by Adam Curry, Ricky Gervais
  • Marc Maron started his podcast in 2009 and is airing his last episode next week
  • Now everybody's got a podcast
  • Brian: Before podcasts, blogging was a thing
  • Brian produces podcasts for other people in addition to his own
  • Podcasting never became a career for us, just a hobby
  • But some people have made lots of money from them
  • Brian: Not much innovation in the podcast space lately
  • Music podcasts were hampered by copyright issues
  • Podcast networks started popping up
  • Conan O'Brien created a great podcast after his TV talk show went away
  • Podcasting is much more interesting than commercial radio these days
  • Brian: Grew up loving radio, especially WFMU
  • Jay: College radio is still good, but commercial radio blows
  • DJs used to be dependable arbiters of taste
  • Now everything's heavily formatted
  • Jay: Been doing my own radio show on BFF.fm for the last 12 years
  • Brian co-owns a sports podcast company
  • People have trouble committing to a show once they start it
  • Listening habits have changed
  • Jay: Currently listen to WTF, The Best Show, sports shows about Toronto teams, The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers
  • Brian: Election Profitmakers, Song Exploder, Never Not Funny, Conan, Indiecast, Who Cares About the Rock Hall?, Mets podcasts
  • So much content to wade through
  • Just like with music; it's much easier to release an album now but there's so much out there
  • Tough to make it as a musician now
  • Podcasts have gone beyond a niche thing
  • Jay: I love listening to audio
  • The value of playing songs people haven't heard a zillion times
  • Every celebrity has a podcast
  • Will podcasts go back to the indie days at some point?
  • Jay: I do two podcasts for work
  • The bubble will burst at some point
  • AI could have a strange, negative effect
  • Connections formed via podcasting
  • Brian: Start a podcast, people

Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple 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 03, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #600: October 3, 2025

Milestones can be fun. Sticking it out for 600 episodes over the course of 13+ years is an accomplishment. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Sloan, Neko Case, Jeff Tweedy and Trapper Schoepp in hour 1 and songs about emptiness in hour 2. Keep riding, Danny.


The shiny playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Sloan - Baxter/Based On the Best Seller

Absolute Losers - Kiss of Death/In the Crowd

Tony Molina - Violets of Dawn/On This Day

White Reaper - Blink/Only Slightly Empty

Geese - Half Real/Getting Killed

GANS - I Think I Like You/Good for the Soul

Trapper Schoepp - Wildfire/Osborne

Neko Case - Wreck/Neon Grey Midnight Green

Jeff Tweedy - Forever Never Ends/Twilight Override

Wednesday - Wound Up Here (By Holdin' On)/Bleeds

Bass Drum of Death - Pick Em Up Put Em Down/Six

Guerilla Toss - Life's a Zoo/You're Weird Now

Shame - Screwdriver/Cutthroat

The Hives - The Path of Most Resistance/The Hives Forever Forever the Hives

Gouwzee - Faulty Vessels/Gouwzee

Duncan Lloyd - I'm On It/Unwound

Algernon Cadwallader - Revelation 420/Trying Not to Have a Thought


Hour 2: Emptiness

The Bevis Frond - Empty/Focus on Nature

Daniel Romano - Empty Husk/Finally Free

TVOD - Empty Boy/Party Time

Savak - Empty Age/SQUAWK!

Ratboys - Empty/The Window

Ekko Astral - Head Empty Blues/Pink Balloon

Superchunk - Void/I Hate Music

Mary Bell - Empty Puppet/Mary Bell

Radiator Hospital - Half Empty/Play the Songs You Like

Bethlehem Steel - Empty Room/Bethlehem Steel

Family Video - Empty Bed/Places to Sleep

Sunset Rubdown - The Empty Threats of Little Lord/Shut Up I Am Dreaming

Eric's Trip - My Chest is Empty (Part 2)/Live at Vermonstress 1992

Los Campesinos - Hung Empty/Sick Scenes

Trashlord - Empty Cloud/ Trashlord/Strange Mangers split

Those Pretty Wrongs - Empty City/Those Pretty Wrongs

Shearwater - Empty Orchestra/The Great Awakening


Bonk the link for rock awesomeness!



Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 663: Shadow Dancing

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about songs we hate to love. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

  • Our top 10 songs we hate to love in no particular order
  • Phil: A song from the infamous Great White
  • One of the many bands who tried to sound like Zeppelin
  • Jay: Rupert Holmes somehow got cheesier than the "Pina Colada Song"
  • Classic AM gold shizz
  • Phil: A big hit for the Carpenters
  • Originally written for a bank commercial
  • Jay: Monster disco one-hit wonder from Patrick Hernandez
  • Phil: Britney with an earworm
  • Jay: Raspy pop smash from Kim Carnes
  • Crossed over to MOR stations that our parents listened to
  • Phil: Digging into the Jefferson Starship ballads
  • Marty Balin got on the wrong side of the Hell's Angels at Altamont
  • Jay: Phil Collins did a lot of soundtrack music in the '80s in addition to everything else
  • A patented Collins Angry Ballad
  • Phil digs that calypso beat in one of Lionel Richie's biggest hits
  • Richie was one of the driving forces behind "We Are the World"
  • Jay: A synth pop cover of "Lean On Me"
  • Phil: Secretly loved the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack as a kid
  • Yvonne Elliman sang backups on several Clapton albums
  • Jay: Non-English hit by Falco
  • Only German-language #1 song in America
  • Phil: Frankie Valli's disco song in Grease
  • Written by Barry Gibb, who was unstoppable in the late '70s
  • Jay: Early '70s soft rock jam from Albert Hammond
  • Phil: John Mayer's wuss rock moment
  • More familiar with his work in Dead and Co.
  • Jay: Rediscovered recently his love of Little River Band
  • Australian purveyors of catchy dad rock
  • Original members lost the rights to the band name
  • Phil: Shout out to the Weather Girls
  • Catchy and co-written by Paul Shaffer
  • Jay: Another huge hit from the Queen of Disco, Donna Summer
  • Phil: An apparently ironic love ballad from the Captain and Tennille
  • Jay: Another hit from the Gibb family, this time younger brother Andy
  • Too much cocaine, apparently

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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.

Friday, September 26, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #599: September 26, 2025

You have questions? On Stuck In Thee Garage this week, we have songs that ask questions in hour 2, in addition to new music from GANS, Bass Drum of Death, Wednesday and Guerilla Toss in hour 1. As for answers, well, you're on your own.


Actually, the playlist has all the answers you need:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

GANS - A Fool/Good for the Soul

Bass Drum of Death - Phantom Drip/Six

Geese - 100 Horses/Getting Killed

Wednesday - Townies/Bleeds

Guerilla Toss - Krystal Ball/You're Weird Now

Selve - Strange Romance/Breaking Into Heaven

Bloom Effect - Hide/Oscilon

Halloween - Crown/Shadow House

Gouwzee - I Teach Frankenstein/Gouwzee

Shame - After Party/Cutthroat

The Hives - Paint a Picture/The Hives Forever Forever the Hives

Algernon Cadwallader - Shameless Faces (Even the Guy That Made the Thing Was a Piece of Shit)/Trying Not to Have a Thought

The Beths - Ark of the Covenant/Straight Line Was a Lie

Superchunk - Care Less/Songs in the Key of Yikes

Emerald Comets - Queen of Waves/Dreamnight

Chemical - T.A.O./Chemical


Hour 2: Questions

Living Colour - Who Shot Ya/Shade

PJ Harvey - Who the Fuck?/Uh Huh Her

Mudhoney - Who You Drivin' Now?/Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Flaming Lips - Are You a Hypnotist??/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

The Big Sleep - Are You Ready (For Love)?/Son of the Tiger

The Dears - Who Are You, Defenders of the Universe/No Cities Left

Talking Heads - Who Is It?/Talking Heads '77

Bodega - How Did This Happen?/Endless Scroll

Fishbone - ? (Modern Industry)/Fishbone

Wolf Parade - Who Are Ya/Cry Cry Cry

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Who Do You Love?/Living With the Living

Sloan - Who Loves Life More?/Action Pact

Mannequin Pussy - Who Are You/Patience

Diet Cig - Who Are You/Do You Wonder About Me?

Black Sabbath - Who Are You?/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

David Lee Roth - Ladies' Nite in Buffalo?/Eat 'Em and Smile


Perhaps you can crank up the rock here? 

Monday, September 22, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 662: Songs We Hate to Love

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about songs we hate to love. Listen to the episode below (download directly or right click and "save as"). 

Show notes:

  • Surprised at how good the Who were in concert despite their advanced age
  • Songs we hate to love, not necessarily guilty pleasures
  • Things we were embarrassed to say we liked when we were in school
  • Most of our picks were from when we were kids
  • Jay: I liked hard rock and metal and would never admit I liked poppier stuff like Duran Duran
  • Jay: In doing research, I discovered there was a "rock" version of the Lord's Prayer that was a minor hit in 1973
  • Phil: ABBA wrote some pop classics
  • When REO Speedwagon had that one huge album
  • AOR was huge in the early '80s
  • Jay: I loved KISS's disco song, but never got into the band
  • Phil: Listened to a lot of Manilow as a kid
  • Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" captured that swinging '60s vibe
  • The pop goodness of the Association
  • Phil: The band Boston has been played to death in these parts, but they had their moment
  • Controversial choice: Phil likes the worst Genesis song
  • Dumb song, dumb video
  • When Eddie Murphy became a pop star
  • Phil also likes Crazytown's hit
  • Released at the height of nu metal/rap rock
  • Jay: Begrudgingly liked Animotion's big hit
  • First album Jay had as a kid was by Glen Campbell
  • Campbell wasn't a typical country singer
  • Jay: Got into some of Paul Simon's mid-70s solo work
  • Getting into early Loverboy deep cuts
  • Billy Joel wrote a lot of bad songs, but a few good ones
  • Jay: Always a big fan of "Rump Shaker"
  • ABC was good at the foppish synth pop
  • Jay: I hate everything about Smash Mouth except their first single
  • Totally dig one George Michael song above all others
  • Late '70s pop blast from M
  • Foreigner struck gold with catchy rock jams
  • To be continued

Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple 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, September 19, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #598: September 19, 2025

The world is full of trickery. Liars, con artists, people trying to pull one over on someone else. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Gouwzee, Tigersin Cairo and Yawn Mower in hour 1 and songs about trickery in hour 2. It's going for the long con.


This playlist is on the grift:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Gouwzee - Rude Student/Gouwzee

Shame - Cowards Around/Cutthroat

The Hives - Legalize Living/The Hives Forever Forever the Hives

Algernon Cadwallader - noitanitsarcorP/Trying Not to Have a Thought

Duncan Lloyd - Lightning Bottle/Unwound

Yawn Mower - Rascal/Just Can't Wait to Die

Tigers in Cairo - My Saving Face/Single

Chemical - Rookie of the Year/Chemical

Dead Tooth - Bare Bones/Dead Tooth

Viagra Boys - The Bog Body/Viagr Aboys

PUP - Shut Up/Who Will Look After the Dogs?

Mclusky - Juan Party System/The World is Still Here and So Are We

Civic - Amissus/Chrome Dipped

Coffin Prick - Shortly Forgotten Pleasure/Lost Enchantment

Hallelujah the Hills - Hits Get Hard (9 of Spades)/DECK: Spades

Pulp - Slow Jam/More


Hour 2: Trickery

Helium - Pat's Trick/The Dirt of Luck

King Khan - Fool Like Me/Three Hairs and You're Mine

Superchunk - Like a Fool/Foolish

Nadine Shah - Fool/Fast Food

Ozzy Osbourne - Fool Like You/The Ultimate Sin

Judas Priest - Deceiver/Sad Wings of Destiny

Van Halen - Fools/Women and Children First

Rollins Band - Fool/Weight

The Jesus Lizard - Monkey Trick/Goat

Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster/The Eternal

Run DMC - It's Tricky/Raising Hell

Jack White - What's the Trick?/Fear of the Dawn

Dead Meadow - The Great Deceiver/Old Growth

Mad Season - River of Deceit/Live at the Moore, Seattle 4/29/95


No fooling: Here's the playlist!

Friday, September 12, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #597: September 12, 2025

The further we get away from the '90s, the quainter they seem. But there was a lot of cool stuff going on. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I kept things modern in hour 1 with new music from Shame, Algernon Cadwallader and Emerald Comets and then went retro with songs from 1995 in hour 2. It brings the heat!


This playlist is over the top like Pacino:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Shame - Cutthroat/Cutthroat

Algernon Cadwallader - Hawk/Trying Not to Have a Thought

Emerald Comets - Dreamnight/Dreamnight

Coffin Prick - Spy vs. Spy/Loose Enchantment

Duncan Lloyd - Gothic Pill/Unwound

The Hives - Enough is Enough/The Hives Forever Forever the Hives

Spoon - Guess I'm Fallin' in Love/Single

The Beths - Take/Straight Line Was a Lie

Humour - Die Rich/Learning Greek

Yawn Mower - Speedboat!/I Just Can't Wait to Die

Superchunk - Climb the Walls/Songs in the Key of Yikes

Lifeguard - Under Your Reach/Ripped and Torn

Ty Segall - The Big Day/Possession

Tropical Fuck Storm - Dunning Kruger's Loser Cruiser/Fairyland Codex

Subsonic Eye - Why Am I Here/Singapore Dreaming

Illuminati Hotties - 777/Nickel on the Fountain Floor


Hour 2: 1995

The Amps - Tipp City/Pacer

Boss Hog - Punkture/Boss Hog

PJ Harvey - C'mon Billy/To Bring You My Love

Jawbreaker - I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both/Dear You

Foo Fighters - Alone + Easy Target/Foo Fighters

Rocket From the Crypt - Burnt Alive/Scream, Dracula, Scream!

Pavement - Fight This Generation/Wowee Zowee

Radiohead - (Nice Dream)/The Bends

Mike Watt - Chinese Firedrill/Ball-Hog or Tugboat?

Matthew Sweet - Walk Out/100% Fun

Rancid - You Don't Care Nothin'/...And Out Come the Wolves

The Pursuit of Happiness - Save the Whales/Where's the Bone

Neil Young - I'm the Ocean/Mirror Ball

Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay/Electr-o-Pura

Railroad Jerk - Bang the Drum/One Track Mind

Guided By Voices - Motor Away/Alien Lanes


Heat things up by cranking the playlist RIGHT HERE, holmes.

Friday, September 05, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #596: September 5, 2025

When you become an adult, you tend not to get too excited about birthdays because they signify getting a year older. But dammit, they're still a big deal. This week, I celebrated Stuck In Thee Garage's 12th birthday (along with the station, BFF.fm) with two hours of rock goodies, including new music from Spoon, the Hives, the Beths and Sloan in hour 1 and songs about buildings and architecture in hour 2. It's enough to make you want to call the Ghostbusters (in a good way).


Unwrap the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Spoon - Chateau Blues/Single

Sloan - No Damn Fears/Based on the Best Seller

The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever the Hives/The Hives Forever Forever the Hives

The Beths - No Joy/Straight Line Was a Lie

Duncan Lloyd - Laugh So Loud/Unwound

Absolute Losers - In the Crowd/In the Crowd

Superchunk - Everybody Dies/Songs in the Key of Yikes

The Warlocks - A Duel Between You and I/The Manic Excessive Sounds of

Pile - A Loosened Knot/Sunshine and Balance Beams

Chemical - Eurotrash/Chemical

Shaki Tavi - Peeler/Minor Slip

Osees - Infected Chrome/Abomination Revealed at Last

Alexei Shishkin - Ode to Carl Dennis/Good Times

Coffin Prick - Follow You Where You're Talking/Loose Enchantment

Autocamper - Linnean/What Do You Do All Day?

Dead Tooth - Hollywood Carradine/Dead Tooth


Hour 2: Buildings and architecture

Los Campesinos! - There Are Listed Buildings/Romance is Boring

Kids On a Crime Spree - Karl Kardel Building/Fall in Love Not in Line

Generationals - Beggars in the House of Plenty/State Dogs: Singles (2017-18)

Redd Kross - Bubblegum Factory/Third Eye

The Dead Weather - Bone House/Horehound

Michael Penn - Big House/March

Commodores - Brick House/Commodores

Gang of Four - It's Her Factory/At Home He's a Tourist

LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk is Playing at My House/LCD Soundsystem

The Rolling Stones - Factory Girl/Beggars Banquet

Drive-By Truckers - Life in the Factory/Southern Rock Opera

Pardoner - Hammer Factory/Came Down Different

The Stooges - Fun House/Fun House

R.E.M. - Disturbance at the Heron House/Document

The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers/Brill Bruisers

Talking Heads - Don't Worry About the Government/Talking Heads '77


Blow out the candles and crank up the playlist here!

Friday, August 29, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #595: August 29, 2025

Lights, camera, action! This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Absolute Losers, Superchunk and Yawn Mower and a tribute to the late Brent Hinds in hour 1, followed by songs from an imaginary movie soundtrack in hour 2. Even sounds good when you watch it on TV.


Watch out for hippies:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Mastodon - March of the Fire Ants/Remission

Mastodon - Oblivion/Crack the Skye

Mastodon - The Motherload/Once More 'Round the Sun

Absolute Losers - At the Same Time/In the Crowd

Superchunk - No Hope/Songs in the Key of Yikes

The K's - Rat Poison/Pretty on the Internet

Yawn Mower - New Years at the Airport/I Just Can't Wait to Die

Chemical - Ritual Protocol/Chemical

Getdown Services - James Bay's Hat/Primordial Slot Machine

Humour - Plagiarist/Learning Greek

Shaki Tavi - Trees/Minor Slip

The Warlocks - Stars on Sunset/The Manic Excessive Sounds of

Pile - An Opening/Sunshine and Balance Beams

Osees - Coffin Wax/Abomination Revealed at Last

Titus Andronicus - Fatal Flaw/The Worst of My Birthdays: Live in Brooklyn 7/28/15


Hour 2: Soundtrack to an imaginary movie

Van Halen - D.O.A./Van Halen II

Halford - The One You Love to Hate (feat. Bruce Dickinson)/Resurrection

Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules/Mob Rules

Tony Molina - The Way Things Are/Dissed and Dismissed

Frank Black and Teenage Fanclub - The Man Who Was Too Loud/The John Peel Session EP

Silkworm - Dust My Broom/In the West

Lene Lovich - New Toy/New Toy EP

Uncle Tupelo - Gun/Still Feel Gone

Urge Overkill - The Break/Exit the Dragon

Gerry Rafferty - Right Down the Line/City to City

Elliott Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing/ Either/Or

Magnolia Electric Co. - The Dark Don't Hide It/What Comes After the Blues

Silver Jews - Send in The Clouds/American Water

Oceanator - The Last Summer/Nothing's Ever Fine

Pere Ubu - Street Waves/The Modern Dance

Coaches - That Not This/Shush


Let's all go to the lobby and crank up the playlist!

Friday, August 22, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #594: August 22, 2025

Memory can be a tricky thing. Sometimes you can trust it, sometimes you can't. One thing you can trust is that this week's installment of Stuck In Thee Garage, featuring songs about memory in hour 2, is pretty kickass. This is the case even if you're an Innie carrying balloons down an endless corporate hallway.


 

This playlist has been severed:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

IDLES - Rabbit Run/Caught Stealing soundtrack

Osees - Sneaker/Abomination Revealed at Last

Pile - Deep Clay/Sunshine and Balance Beams

Getdown Services - Dog Dribble/Primordial Slot Machines

Humour - Neighbours/Learning Greek

Chemical - Subliminal Arrow/Chemical

The K's - The Bends (Here We Go Again)/Pretty on the Internet

Shaki Tavi - Lip/Minor Slip

Dead Tooth - Jack Dawson/Dead Tooth

Mal Blum - I'm So Bored/The Villain

Tiberius - It Has to Be True/Troubadour

The Warlocks - We Are All Lost/The Manic Excessive Sounds of

Daniel Romano - (Gone Is) All But a Quarry of Stone/Live in Oslo

Titus Andronicus - Bastards of Young (feat. Craig Finn)/The Worst of My Birthdays: Live in Brooklyn 7/28/15


Hour 2: Memory

Public Image Ltd. - Memories/Second Edition

Restorations - This Guy Does Not Remember You/Restorations

Hallelujah the Hills - I Remember This (King of Clubs)/DECK: Clubs

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Memory Lane/Primary Colours

Yo La Tengo - Can't Forget/Fakebook

Mission of Burma - Forget/Vs.

Green River - Baby, Help Me Forget/Live at Sunset Tavern, Seattle 7/10/08

Mini Mansions - Forget Your Name/Guy Walks Into a Bar...

Mike Krol - Wasted Memory/Power Chords

Washer - Forget Everything/All Aboard

TUNS - My Memories/Duly Noted

The Flashing Lights - The Patient You Forgot to See/Where the Change Is

The Dambuilders - I Forget Myself/Ruby Red

Dinosaur Jr. - Forget the Swan/Dinosaur

Soundgarden - Tears to Forget/Screaming Life

Hot Snakes - Gar Forgets His Insulin/Suicide Invoice

Iron Maiden - Remember Tomorrow (live)/Best of the B-Sides

Marnie Stern - Working Memory/The Comeback Kid


Get on that elevator and crank up the rock!

Friday, August 15, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #593: August 15, 2025

Radio shows are all about programming, picking just the right music to go together in a cohesive package. But sometimes it's fun to let chaos reign. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played two hours of songs picked at random and if I do say so myself, it's a pretty great and varied show. Kinda like that time Conan whipped up some meth for the Breaking Bad folks.


Mix it up good:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Black Halos - Disbelief/We Are Not Alone

Protomartyr - You Always Win (feat. Kelley Deal)/Consolation EP

The Heavy - No Time/The House That Dirt Built

Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather (live 5/5/84)/Defenders of the Faith 30th Anniversary Edition

Fu Manchu - Moving in Stereo/We Must Obey

The Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me/Time Won't Let Me

The Breeders - Sinister Foxx/Title TK

Blues Magoos - (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet/Psychedelic Lollipop

Bob Mould - Little Glass Pill/Beauty & Ruin

The Faces - You're So Rude/A Nod is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse

Thalia Zedek - Cranes/Perfect Vision

The Comfies - That's What She Gets/Close to Me

The Afghan Whigs - Algiers/Live at the Barby 2/24/15

Husker Du - She Floated Away/Warehouse Rehearsals 8/5/86

Courtney Barnett - Aqua Profunda!/Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit

Tricky Woo - Sad Eyed Woman/Sometimes I Cry


Hour 2

Solids - Wait It Out/Else

Ty Segall - Lone Cowboys/First Taste

The Gun Club - She's Like Heroin to Me/Fire of Love

Palm - You Are What Eats You/Trading Basics

Deer Tick - Forgiving Ties/Emotional Contracts

Mark Lanegan - Down in the Dark/The Winding Sheet

The Harbinger Complex - I Think I'm Down/Single

Spoon vs. Adrian Sherwood - The Devil & Mister Jones (Adrian Sherwood Reconstruction)/Lucifer on the Moon vs. On-U-Sound

Andrew Bird - Yawny and the Apocalypse/Armchair Apocrypha

Sports Team - Margate/Making Hay EP

Gordon Downie - Chancellor/Coke Machine Glow

Savak - Christo's Peers (Soon We'll Be Floating)/Cut Ups

Jay-Z - Politics as Usual/Reasonable Doubt

King Khan and the Shrines - No Regrets/The Supreme Genius of...

Minutemen - Political Nightmare/3-Way Tie for Last

Beck - Gamma Ray/Modern Guilt


Shuffle your way to rock glory with the playlist, dood!

Friday, August 08, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #592: August 8, 2025

Disasters happen. Here, there and everywhere. Whether it's insane weather events or unimaginable accidents, disasters are lurking around every corner. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about disasters in hour 2. It'll sink your cruise ship!

The playlist won't sink:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Tiberius - Tag/Troubadour

Autocamper - Again/What Do You Do All Day?

Stereolab - Electrified Teenybop!/Instant Holograms on Metal Film

Dead Tooth - Minds Eye/Dead Tooth

Rye Coalition - Wingwalker/Paid in Full

Lifeguard - Like You'll Lose/Ripped and Torn

Jeff Tweedy - Enough/Twilight Override

Kurt Vile and Luke Roberts - Slow Talkers '22/Classic Love EP

Hallelujah the Hills - Too High to Say Hello (7 of Diamonds)/DECK: Diamonds

Ecce Shnak - Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy (live)/Backroom Sessions

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Out of the Flesh/Trash Classic

Shark? - Skelaeton (Big Opinions)/A Simple Life

Civic - Poison/Chrome Dipped

Wet Leg - Jennifer's Body/Moisturizer

Hotline TNT - Break Right/Raspberry Moon

The Bug Club - The Sound of Communism/Very Human Features


Hour 2: Disasters

The Go Team - T.O.R.N.A.D.O./Rolling Blackouts

Run the Jewels - Holy Calamafuck/RTJ4

Girl Friday - Earthquake/Androgynous Mary

Sebadoh - Fantastic Disaster/Bubble and Scrape

Ben Kweller - Ann Disaster/On My Way

The Von Bondies - Earthquake/Love, Hate and Then There's You

Shudder to Think - Earthquakes Come Home/Pony Express Record

The Besnard Lakes - Disaster/The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse

The Tragically Hip - Nautical Disaster/Day For Night

Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood/Live in Athens 1987

Drive-By Truckers - Tornadoes/The Dirty South

The Smile - Open the Floodgates/A Light for Attracting Attention

Kim Gordon - Earthquake/No Home Record

Alvvays - After the Earthquake/Blue Rev

Diet Cig - Flash Flood/Do You Wonder About Me?

The Dirtbombs - Earthquake Heart/Dangerous Magical Noise


The playlist might just blow up!


 

Monday, August 04, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 661: Shakin' All Over

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

  • Jay: Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust tour in 1973
  • Never saw Bowie
  • Phil: Grateful Dead's famous Cornell show 5/8/77
  • The Holy Grail for Deadheads
  • Jay: Canadian art rock weirdos Max Webster in southern Ontario 8/9/79
  • Band split up in 1981 as singer-guitarist Kim Mitchell went solo
  • Opened for Rush in the U.S. in the mid- to late '70s
  • Phil: The Stones at the Boston Garden, 1972
  • Jagger and Richards were arrested in Providence and Boston mayor bailed them out in time for the Garden show
  • Mick Taylor era was notable
  • Jay: Van Halen at Oakland Arena in June 1981
  • A few songs were captured on video; VH fans have hoped for more
  • Phil: Zeppelin at Berkeley, Calif., September 1971
  • Touring before their fourth album was released
  • Playing some of their acoustic songs
  • Jay: SST legends Husker Du at the Channel in Boston 9/30/84
  • In the middle of a killer stretch of albums; this one was for Zen Arcade
  • Two classic albums were released the next year
  • Phil: Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East in 1971 
  • Original lineup including Duane Allman
  • Jay and Phil: The Who live at University of Leeds on Valentine's Day 1970
  • Played a show at Hull the following night
  • We're going to see the Who at Fenway later this month
  • Band was at the literal peak of their powers
  • First release of Live at Leeds was only six songs
  • Longer versions have come out; full set was 33 songs
  • No video of this show unfortunately

Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple 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, August 01, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #591: August 1, 2025

Things were interesting in 1980. Coming out of the '70s, everything seemed so shiny and new and exciting, even if they really weren't. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I've got songs from 1980 in hour 2 (following an hour of new music from Nine Inch Nails, Dead Tooth, Tiberius and Autocamper, among others). It'll make you hear things, if you know what I mean.


Danny isn't here, but the playlist is:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me to Be/Tron: Ares soundtrack

Dead Tooth - You Never Do Shit/Dead Tooth

Rye Coalition - Bullet Train to Vegas/Paid in Full

Tiberius - Sag/Troubadour

Autocamper - Map Like a Leaf/What Do You Do All Day?

Daniel Romano - Long Mirror of Time/Live in Oslo

Turnstile - Dull/Never Enough

Kurt Vile & Luke Roberts - Hit of the Highlife/Classic Love EP

Sly & the Family Stone - I Ain't Got Nobody/The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967

Mal Blum - Cool Guy/The Villain

Wet Leg - Don't Speak/Moisturizer

Subsonic Eye - My iPhone Screen/Singapore Dreaming

Momma - Ohio All the Time/Welcome to My Blue Sky

(T-T)b - The Kick/Beautiful Extension Cord

The Convenience - Cafe Style/Like Cartoon Vampires

TVOD - Wells Fargo/Party Time

Pretty Rude - Call Me, Ishmael/Ripe


Hour 2: 1980

Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song/Signals, Calls and Marches

X - The Unheard Music/Los Angeles

The Feelies - Moscow Nights/Crazy Rhythms

Joy Division - Twenty-Four Hours/Closer

David Bowie - When You're Young/Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

The Clash - Somebody Got Murdered/Sandinista!

The Police - Voices Inside My Head/Zenyatta Mondatta

Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers/Melt

XTC - Respectable Street/Black Sea

Adam and the Ants - Antmusic/Kings of the Wild Frontier

The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom/I Just Can't Stop It

The Cars - Down Boys/Panorama

AC/DC - Shake a Leg/Back in Black

Motorhead - Shoot You in the Back/Ace of Spades

Van Halen - Tora! Tora!/Women and Children First

Van Halen - Loss of Control/Women and Children First


Tony's busy cranking up the playlist, Mrs. Torrance.


Monday, July 28, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 660: When Schlitz Rocked America

Celebrating 19 years of podcasting with part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

  • On to our top 10 shows
  • Phil's are in chronological order, Jay's in no particular order
  • Phil: Neil Young and Pearl Jam on their short Euro tour, 8/26/95 in Dublin
  • PJ standing in for Crazy Horse
  • The Velvet Sundown, lame AI band
  • Jay: The Clash from June 1980 at Hammersmith Palais
  • 31 songs from throughout their career
  • The Clash opened for the Who on the Schlitz Rocks America tour
  • Apparently Schlitz was once a big name in beer
  • Phil: Stevie Ray Vaughan on 9/21/85 at the Capitol Theatre
  • Jay: PJ Harvey on the Rid of Me tour in '93
  • Saw her on the next tour in '95
  • Phil: Talking Heads on the Speaking in Tongues tour in Oct. 1983 in Billerica, Mass.
  • Jay: I would've picked the 1980 tour with Adrian Belew on guitar
  • Jay: Living Colour at TT the Bears in Cambridge, Mass. in the summer of '88
  • Taped the show off the radio simulcast on WBCN
  • Killer show before the band blew up the next year
  • Phil: U2 on the War tour in March 1983
  • Jay: Prince's Purple Rain tour at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse
  • Prince was the biggest musician in the world at the time
  • Phil: The Pretenders at the Paradise in Boston in 1980
  • The band's original lineup was so good
  • Jay: Went with a December 1981 Pretenders show in France
  • To be continued

Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple 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, July 25, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #590: July 25, 2025

There are legends, and there are LEGENDS. Ozzy Osbourne was one of the latter. For 55 years, the man was an icon, trendsetter and all-around lunatic. On Stuck In Thee Garage this week, I paid tribute to the Ozzman in hour 2, after a set of new music from the likes of Sloan, Laura Jane Grace and Daniel Romano in hour 1. Take a big bite!


You can't kill this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Sloan - Dream Destroyer/Based on the Best Seller

Laura Jane Grace - Active Trauma/Adventure Club

Daniel Romano - Pride of Queens/Live in Oslo

Mal Blum - Killer/The Villain

Wet Leg - Pillow Talk/Moisturizer

Hallelujah the Hills - Camouflage Band-Aid (3 of Clubs)/DECK: Clubs

The Fall - New Face in Hell/Grotesque (After the Gramme) Live

Hotline TNT - Where U Been?/Raspberry Moon

Pulp - My Sex/More

Queens of the Stone Age - Suture Up Your Future/Alive in the Catacombs

Jeanines - Coaxed a Storm/How Long Can It Last

Lightheaded - The Lindens The Lindens The Lindens!/Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!

Savak - Child's Play/SQUAWK!

The Bug Club - Blame Me/Very Human Features

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Conducting Experiments/Trash Classic

Lifeguard - T.L.A./Ripped and Torn


Hour 2: Ozzy

Black Sabbath - Behind the Wall of Sleep/Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral/Paranoid

Black Sabbath - After Forever/Master of Reality

Black Sabbath - Changes/Vol. 4

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Black Sabbath - Killing Yourself to Live/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Ozzy Osbourne - Suicide Solution/Blizzard of Ozz

Ozzy Osbourne - No Bone Movies/Blizzard of Ozz

Ozzy Osbourne - Believer/Diary of a Madman

Ozzy Osbourne - S.A.T.O./Diary of a Madman

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon/Bark at the Moon

Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark/The Ultimate Sin


Crank up the playlist, people!


Monday, July 21, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 659: Journey Through the Past

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

  • We're taking advantage of time machine technology
  • That time Zebra opened for their own Zep cover band
  • We're listing specific shows
  • So many great artists to choose from
  • YouTube makes it easier to see a lot of shows you missed
  • Honorable mentions
  • Jay: Surprise show by the Stones at a small Toronto club in '77
  • Two shows were turned into a live album decades later
  • Phil: Bob Marley and the Wailers in London, Monterey Pop, Bowie on Diamond Dogs tour, Sleater-Kinney in Berkeley, James Brown at the Boston Garden in '68, Beatles in Hamburg or the rooftop set, Prince on Purple Rain tour, Phish in '98, Steely Dan in '74  
  • Jay: JB at the Soul Train studios in '73, the Police in '79, Iggy and the Stooges in '73, Zeppelin in '70, Mission of Burma's first farewell in '83, Drive Like Jehu in '94, Black Sabbath in '70, Iron Maiden in '81 with their original singer
  • The Police jumped on the new wave bandwagon and brought energy and skill to it
  • Sabbath's had interesting line items in their recording budget
  • Shout out to CompCon intern Lily
  • To be continued

Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple 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, July 18, 2025

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 #610: December 12, 2025

They say the ideal length for a song is 3 minutes, but sometimes it's fun to let things build up and do what they have to do. This week ...