Stuck In Thee Garage #655: October 23, 2026

Basic math can be depressing. Thirty-five years ago was 1991, which was a pretty tumultuous year for rock music (in a good way). But for comparison's sake, in 1991 when we looked back 35 years, it was 1956! Yikes. Nevertheless, this week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Pardoner, Fontaines D.C., Cameron Keiber and Spanish Horses in hour 1 and songs from 1991 in hour 2. Time travel is groovy, man.

This playlist will light your fire:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Pardoner - Canary/Target Practice

Westside Cowboy - Kick Stones (The Boys)/It Goes On

Bodega - Combustible/All Inside Aquarium

Fontaines D.C. - Happy for You/Dopamine Chamber

Darren Hayman - Words Fall Out of Me/I'm Your Team

Anna McClellan - Do You Want Me Like This/South of Dodge

Cameron Keiber - Rockers/The Tide

Johnny Foreigner - The Great Work/Forwards!

The Tubs - Now and Then/Hard Life

Greg Freeman - Loser's Prize/All Set the Bone

Heavens to Betsy - Seek and Hide/Baby's Gone

Roller Dome - Raking Me Over/Still Feral

Slift - The Village/Fantasia

Spanish Horses - Some People/Small Notions EP

Lex Walton - Hipster Runoff/Ultimate Love Forever

Ceremony - Death Destruction Mayhem/Tell Me Your Dream

Today Junior - If You Want to/Stranger Days

Hour 2: 1991

Motorhead - Ramones/1916

Smashing Pumpkins - Bury Me/Gish

Superchunk - Seed Toss/No Pocky for Kitty

School of Fish - 3 Strange Days/School of Fish

Material Issue - Trouble/International Pop Overthrow

Teenage Fanclub - What You Do to Me/Bandwagonesque

Firehose - Down with the Bass/Flyin' the Flannel

Screaming Trees - Bed of Roses/Uncle Anesthesia

Dinosaur Jr. - Puke + Cry/Green Mind

Mudhoney - Into the Drink/Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Matthew Sweet - Thought I Knew You/Girlfriend

The Tragically Hip - Born in the Water/Road Apples

The Feelies - Time for a Witness/Time for a Witness

Pizzicato Five - Twiggy Twiggy/This Year's Girl

De La Soul - Let, Let Me In/De La Soul is Dead

The Nation of Ulysses - Love is a Bull Market/13-Point Program to Destroy America

Swervedriver - Rave Down/Raise

Crank up the show to experience the pre-digital joys of '91 (as well as some cool new stuff)! 

Completely Conspicuous 684: Dark Side of the Tune

Part 1 of my conversation with Phil Stacey about our favorite non-album tracks. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Back after a few months away
• The definition of "B-side" has changed over the decades
• Now a more accurate term is "non-album tracks"
• Sometimes B-sides were more popular than the A-side
• Got more airplay back when FM stations were new and adventurous
• You had to hunt them down because they weren't on the proper albums
• Some bands like U2 would regularly put non-album tracks on B-sides singles
• Sometimes covers, sometimes original songs that didn't make the album
• When CDs became popular, you had longer albums and more of those songs would be included
• Eventually bands released B-side collections; the Who was one of the first with Odds and Sods in the '70s
• So many Beatles classics weren't included on albums
• Phil's honorable mentions: Beatles, Who, Grateful Dead, Matthew Sweet, Phish, R.E.M., The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Pavement, U2, Goose, Prince, Pearl Jam, Talking Heads, Neil Young, Nirvana
• Pavement's "Harness Your Hopes" became their most-streamed song courtesy of Tik Tok
• Jay's HMs: Who, Motorhead, Chris Cornell, Rolling Stones, Dylan, Nirvana, Bowie, Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Sloan, Tragically Hip, Radiohead, Simple Minds, Beatles, Iron Maiden, Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, Beck, Beach Boys, Police, New Order, Cure, Clash, Soundgarden, AIC, Sugar, Joe Jackson, Hendrix, PJ Harvey, Robert Plant, Iggy Pop
• Prince vs. Neil Young for most unreleased material
• Phil's #10
• Jay's #10
• Phil's #9
• Jay's #9
• U2 just announced a stadium tour of South America
• Probably couldn't do that in North America anymore
• Phil's #8
• Jay's #8
• YouTube comments are the worst
• Completely Conspicuous is available wherever you find podcasts. Subscribe and write a review!
• The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #654: October 16, 2026

By the time Friday rolls around, the weight of the world can weigh heavy on your shoulders. Not that it goes away on the weekends, but at least you get a little break before the work week starts to grind you down again. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Westside Cowboy, Bodega, Roller Dome and Slift in hour 1 and songs about everything in hour 2. They'll help you pick up the pace while you're getting some supplies.

I'll be taking this playlist and whatever cash you got:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Westside Cowboy - Pin Up Boys/It Goes On

Bodega - Weather Me/All Inside Aquarium

Spike Fuck - Getting Sober/Evidence

Roller Dome - Wrecked/Still Feral

Death Valley Girls - Plant Magic/Welcome to Earth

Slift - Waiting Man/Fantasia

Anna McClellan - Drank Earlier/South of Dodge

Greg Freeman - Decade/All Set the Bone

Pet Fox - Avoidant/Balance

Slow Pulp - Red Car/Melodie

C.O.F.F.I.N. - Sleep In It/Out in Oslo

Adult DVD - Jesus Christ Supercar/Adult DVD

Gilla Band - Giraffe/Pugnello

The Van Pelt - Linens Should Be Freshly Pressed/Remain Obscure

Gurriers - Today is Not Enough/Nobody's Coming to Save You

Smug Brothers - Blitz Meridian/Pinhole to Vortex

Hour 2: Everything

Charm School - Boycott Everything Everywhere/Debt Forever

Dinosaur Jr. - Everything at Once/There Near

Superchunk - Everything Hurts/Misfits & Mistakes: Singles, B-Sides & Strays 2007-2023

Descendents - Everything Sux/Everything Sucks

Husker Du - Every Everything/Flip Your Wig

Faith No More - Everything's Ruined/Angel Dust

Johnny Foreigner - The End and Everything After/Waited Up 'Til It Was Light

Kaiser Chiefs - Everything is Average Nowadays/Yours Truly, Angry Mob

Spoon - Everything Hits at Once/Girls Can Tell

Sloan - Everything You've Done Wrong/One Chord to Another

A Tribe Called Quest - Everything is Fair/The Low End Theory

Speedy Ortiz - Everything's Bigger/Real Hair

Piebald - Location is Everything/If It Weren't for Venetian Blinds It Would Be Curtains for Us All

Radiohead - Everything in Its Right Place/Kid A

David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away/Blackstar

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Over Everything/Lotta Sea Lice

Listen to everything by bonking the link!

Stuck In Thee Garage #653: October 9, 2026

Writers are often advised to write what they know. The same could apply for songwriters, and sometimes what they write about is music itself. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from C.O.F.F.I.N., Pet Fox, the Van Pelt and Gilla Band in hour 1 and songs about music in hour 2! It's like that time you got George Clinton to play at your college in the '90s.

This playlist is Piven-free:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

C.O.F.F.I.N. - Think Bad/Out in Oslo

Pet Fox - Balance/Balance

The Van Pelt - Kris is Riding Horses in Ojai/Remain Obscure

Adult DVD - Do As I Please/Adult DVD

Greg Freeman - Totaled/All Set the Bone

Gilla Band - Placeholder/Pugnello

Gurriers - Party Lines/Nobody's Coming to Save You

Green Star - Lush/Silver + Dust

Avery Friedman - You Move/Single

Protomartyr - The Old Hotel/Hotel Usona

Shudder to Think - Something to Do/Who Sent You?

The War on Drugs - Who's That/Single

Smug Brothers - Kind Enough to Share the Drop/Pinhole to Vortex

Joel Cusumano - Stigmata/Appendix

Slow Pulp - Entertainer/Melodie

Upper Wilds - Dark Road/Mercury

Hour 2: Music

Van Halen - Little Guitars/Diver Down

Ty Segall - Break a Guitar/Ty Segall

Thrush Hermit - Songs for the Gang/Clayton Park

Talking Heads - Electric Guitar/Fear of Music

The Hold Steady - Certain Songs/Almost Killed Me

Sloan - Waiting for Slow Songs/Between the Bridges

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Writing Songs/Still Clouds at Noon

Thelonious Monster - ...And the Rest of the Band/Baby...You're Bummin' My Life Out in a Supreme Fashion 

Hunx & His Punx - Baby of the Band/Hardly Released: Bedroom Recordings, Demos, Rarities, Unreleased, and Widely Ignore Material

Peel Dream Magazine - Back in the Band/Pad

Thom Yorke - Dawn Chorus/ANIMA

Blinker the Star - The Band is Back in Town/Juvenile Universe

Colleen Green - Natural Chorus/Cool

Horsegirl - The Guitar is Dead 3/Versions of Modern Performance

Kathy Valentine - Guitar, Talk, Love and Drums/Light Years

Sleater-Kinney - Words and Guitar/Dig Me Out

Nirvana - Verse Chorus Verse/No Alternative

Fire up the celestial jukebox by bonking the link!

Stuck In Thee Garage #652: October 2, 2026

According to the experts, we're in the midst of a loneliness epidemic. The American Psychiatric Association says 30% of American adults experience loneliness at least once a week and 10% feel lonely every day. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Smug Brothers, Krill and Shudder to Think in hour 1 and songs about being alone in hour 2.

This playlist is talkin' to you:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Smug Brothers - Eureka Minor/Pinhole to Vortex

Krill - Dominate/Secret Language

Shudder to Think - Who Sent You?/Who Sent You?

Protomartyr - Exalted Eagles/Hotel Usona

Joel Cusumano - 7 x 7/Appendix

The Afghan Whigs - 77/Soft Control

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Bad Poetry in Bed/True Love Daydream EP

Miley - Different Religion (feat. Model/Actriz)/Bass Persuades

Kristin Hersh - Dark Eyed Junco/Sugar on Blackstone

The Tubs - Stoop to Me/Hard Life

Today Junior - Keep On Pushing Me/Stranger Days

Ty Segall - Black Paint/Chrome

Public Opinion - Closed Captioning/The Curse of Public Opinion

Johnny Foreigner - The Sacking of Fairhill House/Forwards!

French Film - Rabbit Foot/Yours + Five

Wild Pink - Still Coming Down/Still Coming Down

Beck - It Ends Right Here/Ride Lonesome

Hour 2: Alone

Split System - Alone Again/Vol. 2

Jack White - All Alone Again/Frozen Charlotte

The Cure - Alone/Songs of a Lost World

Husker Du - Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely/Candy Apple Grey

Foo Fighters - Alone + Easy Target/Foo Fighters

Living Colour - Leave It Alone/Stain

Titus Andronicus - Lonely Boy/The Most Lamentable Tragedy

The Smithereens - Alone at Midnight/Especially for You

The Replacements - If Only You Were Lonely/For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986

Silver Jews - Honk If You're Lonely/American Water

Jeff Rosenstock - Beers Again Alone/We Cool?

Ducks Ltd. - How Lonely Are You?/Modern Fiction

Mick Jagger - Lonely at the Top/She's the Boss

La Luz - Lonely Dozer/Floating Features

Ty Segall - The Loner/Fudge Sandwich

Bonk the link and crank up the show in your isolation chamber!