Stuck In Thee Garage #650: September 18, 2026

Sometimes you just need to mix things up. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I put the playlist in a blender and came up with two hours of randomly selected songs. It's random, but not as random as Mick Jagger in an Emilio Estevez sci-fi flick.

This playlist is free, Jack:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Pavement - Range Life/Live at the Palace, Hollywood 4/24/94

Ty Segall - Drug Mugger/Mr. Face

Pill - Sin Compromiso/Soft Hell

Kids on a Crime Spree - Overtaken by the Soil/Fall in Love Not in Line

Future of the Left - Stand by Your Manatee/Travels with Myself and Another

Eyelids - Starlight Limelight Machine/The Accidental Falls

The Strokes - Barely Legal/Is This It

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Cameo/Sideways to New Italy

Girlpool - Babygirl and Mental/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2

The Brigands - (Would I Still Be) Her Big Man/Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era

The National - Baby, We'll Be Fine/Alligator

Weezer - Tired of Sex/Pinkerton

Fugazi - Long Division/Live at Irving Plaza, NYC 4/4/95

Danger Doom - Benzie Box (feat. Cee-Lo)/The Mouse and the Mask

Bob Mould - Keep Believing/Silver Age

Ceremony - Years of Love/In the Spirit World Now

Teenage Fanclub - Hold On/Here

Max Webster - Check/Universal Juveniles

Hour 2

Varsity Drag - Knife/Live Owls: Varsity Drag Live on WFMO

Guided By Voices - Eye City/Crystal Nuns Cathedral

Early Man - Four Walls/Closing In

Buffalo Tom - Treehouse (Acoustic)/Bones EP

The Zambonis - The Greatest Season/To Bleed Black and Gold

Pointed Sticks - Shape of Things to Come/Part of the Noise

Stephen Malkmus - Freeze the Saints/Face the Truth

Hooded Fang - Glass Shadows/Venus on Edge

Notches - Sayin'/Normal Demo

Pearl Jam - Don't Gimme No Lip/No Code outtake

Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away/Houses of the Holy

Jason Isbell - In a Razor Town/Sirens of the Ditch

Porridge Radio - Jealousy/Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky

Kathy Valentine - How the West Was Won/Light Years

Gang of Four - You'll Never Pay for the Farm/Content

Iggy Pop - Repo Man/Repo Man soundtrack

The Men - Fire Sermon/Buyer Beware

Hit the futuristic link thingy to be transported to the rock music!

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #649: September 11, 2026

The further we descend into our current state of weirdness, the more the '90s seemed like some sort of quaint dream. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Johnny Foreigner, Ty Segall and Chat Pile in hour 1 and songs from 1996 in hour 2. Get ready to joust!

This playlist is gonna get medieval:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Johnny Foreigner - The Concrete Collar/Forwards!

Ty Segall - Glass/Chrome

Chat Pile - Deep Blue/Who Loves the Sun

Today Junior - Coastlines/Stranger Days

Upper Wilds - Death Song #3/Mercury

Real Numbers - Don't Look Away/Was It Always This Way

Phoebe Bridgers - Kill Me/Lost Weekend

Sweeping Promises - Rapture, Or.../You Say I Romanticize

Velocity Girl - I Don't Care If You Go/1989-1992

Dinosaur Jr. - Read the Room/There Near

Wild Pink - Round of Applause at the End of the World/Still Coming Down

Art d'Ecco - The Death of Indie/Scheele's Green

Radiator Hospital - Can't Help Tryin'/Distorting Time

Public Opinion - When Kevin Gets Free/The Curse of Public Opinion

The Cramps - The Natives Are Restless/Gravest Gravy

Hour 2: 1996

Superdrag - Destination Ursa Major/Regretfully Yours

Spoon - Don't Buy the Realistic/Telephono

Frank Black - Kicked in the Taco/The Cult of Ray

Descendents - When I Get Old/Everything Sucks

D Generation - Scorch/No Lunch

Beck - High 5 (Rock the Catskills)/Odelay

Sloan - A Side Wins/One Chord to Another

Weezer - Pink Triangle/Pinkerton

Lush - Single Girl/Lovelife

Sebadoh - Beauty of the Ride/Harmacy

The Afghan Whigs - Honky's Ladder/Black Love

Soundgarden - Burden in My Hand/Down on the Upside

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lovely Creature/Murder Ballads

Wilco - Outtasite (Outta Mind)/Being There

Pavement - Painted Soldiers/Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy soundtrack

Suede - Trash/Coming Up

R.E.M. - Electrolite/New Adventures in Hi-Fi

Fire up your cable modem to listen to the big show!

Videodrone #26: Knives Out

Videodrone is a weekly(ish) feature looking at music videos from the last half century. 

Knives Out (2001)

The music world was a-changing in the early '00s. The MP3 revolution was quickly putting a dent in physical music sales as the kids were figuring out that you could find just about anything for free on the innernet. That said, music itself was still interesting. 

After the success of 1997's OK Computer, Radiohead was primed to supplant U2 and R.E.M. as the biggest band in the world. But Thom Yorke and co. resisted that pull and moved in a different direction with 2000's Kid A, eschewing the conventional guitar-driven sound of their first three albums for an experimental, electronic-focused sound that divided fans who were looking for OK Computer 2. Frontman Thom Yorke wrote abstract lyrics, taking phrases that he cut and reassembled randomly. And the band released no singles and did very little press.

Despite all this, Kid A debuted at #1 in the U.K. and became the band's first chart-topping album in the U.S. as well. Critics loved it. As it turned out, Radiohead had an album's worth of songs left over from the Kid A sessions and released them in May 2001 under the name Amnesiac.

The second single from the album was "Knives Out," a creepy, pensive song that didn't resemble the rest of the album with its Johnny Marr-esque guitar lines. According to Consequence of Sound, Yorke's lyrics were about cannibalism, "the idea of the businessman walking out on his wife and kids and never coming back" and "the thousand-yard stare when you look at someone close to you and you know they're gonna die." 

The video was directed by Michel Gondry, who had filmed videos for Bjork, Thomas Dolby, Sinead O'Connor, Foo Fighters, Daft Punk and the Rolling Stones. He soon became a film director, with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind being the most notable. He was going through a breakup at the time he filmed "Knives Out"; the video featured Yorke grieving in a hospital room as his partner, played by Emma de Caunes, who is being operated on as if she were the patient in the game Operation. It also features the couple on a train and later, Yorke as a mouse. 

Gondry later said making the video was a terrible experience. "I showed [Yorke] a storyboard and every single detail: He was completely excited and happy for it--and then, it turned out, they all criticize me for being selfish and putting my own views on it and my own introspection...It did not go smoothly, but if it went smoothly, it would be mediocre," he said in an interview with The Playlist.

The video was made in one shot, with Yorke and de Caunes rushing from scene to scene. In an interview with Rebel, Gondry said the video was based on his experiences with his girlfriend dealing with leukemia and then later when they broke up. The video is trippy for sure, fitting the unsettling vibe of the song and keeping the viewer guessing as to what's actually going on.

The song was a hit in the U.K., reaching #13 on the U.K. Singles chart and #1 in Canada. Meanwhile, Amnesiac debuted at #1 on the U.K. Albums chart and #2 on the Billboard 200. The song has been covered by the Flaming Lips, Christopher O'Riley and Brad Mehldau, and the title would later go on to inspire Rian Johnson's film of the same name.

Twenty-five years later, Amnesiac stands out as a classic album and "Knives Out" continues to enchant the listener.

Stuck In Thee Garage #648: September 4, 2026

Birthdays come and go, but it's important to celebrate them appropriately. This week marks the 13th birthday of Stuck In Thee Garage and BFF.fm. It's strange to think I've been doing this for so long, but that kind of applies to everything I do, I suppose. Anyway, it's been a blast to watch the station grow into a San Francisco institution (soon to get its own spot on the terrestrial radio dial) and I've enjoyed making close to 1,300 hours of radio (yikes!). 

To celebrate, I've got new music from Pardoner, Dinosaur Jr. and Upper Wilds in hour 1 and songs about teenagers in hour 2. Time for a super soft birthday party!

Party's happening, Daryl:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Pardoner - Twisted/Target Practice

Dinosaur Jr. - Blowin' Up/There Near

Upper Wilds - Fever/Mercury

Queens of the Stone Age - Insignificant Other/Perfecth

The Afghan Whigs - Loose Talk/Soft Control

Andre Cymone - The Resurrection/The Resurrection of Funk

The Mountain Goats - Candlebox/Days

James Wavey - When Did the Lights Go Out/Sleepers Break

Gurriers - Nothing Happens Twice/Nobody's Coming to Save You

Ceremony - Dark Summer/Tell Me Your Dream

French Film - Let Go of Precious Things/Yours + Five

Chelsea Wolfe - Seethe/The Dark

Sweeping Promises - Does He Want to Be the Weatherman?/You Say I Romanticize

Kiwi Jr. - Painting After Painting/Blowin' Up

Yard Act - Tall Tales/You're Gonna Need Some Music

Bondo - Bondo/Bondo

Hour 2: Teenagers

The Twilight Singers - Teenage Wristband/Blackberry Belle

The Hold Steady - Teenage Liberation/Boys and Girls in America B-side

David Bowie - Teenage Wildlife/Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

Fortune House - Teenage Brain/Single

Cameron Keiber - Landmine Teen/Nurser

Ghost Party - Teenage Shaman/Ghost Moves

Joel Plaskett Emergency - Drunk Teenagers/Ashtray Rock

The Exploding Hearts - Teenage Faces/Shattered

FACS - Teenage Hive/Void Moments

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Surreal Teenagers/Wig Out at Jagbags

The Dambuilders - Teenage Loser Anthem/Ruby Red

Near Beer - Teenage Shit/Sleeping is for Suckers

Ladyhawk - Teenage Love Song/Ladyhawk

Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot/Daydream Nation

Light this candle by cranking the show up NOW!