Mon, 30 April 2012
Part 1 of my conversation with special guest Ben Amiraujlt as we discuss the growth of craft beer . I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from the Ty Segall Band, Ceremony, Grinderman and Brainiac. Show notes: - Check out Ben's beer blog The Church Key - Many parallels between craft beer world and punk rock - Ben reviews beers on his blog - When will someone invent digitized beer? - Craft beer first boomed in the '90s - Plenty of great small breweries popping up now - Session beer is catching on thanks to Notch - There's a lot of high-alcohol beers now - Ben's gearing up for American Craft Beer Fest in Boston - Social media is raising awareness of craft beer - Local specialty stores hold regular beer tastings - Summer beer is out in April - Beer is economy-proof - Sam Adams has become almost synonymous with craft beer - Dogfish Head has made a big splash in last few years - Comparing Sam Adams to Green Day - Old-school brewers are trying new things: Guinness, Bud, Newcastle - Going on a Guinness kick - To be continued next week - Bonehead of the Week Ceremony - Send Me Your Dreams Grinderman (feat. Matt Berninger) - Evil (Silver Alert Remix) Brainiac - Nothing Ever Changes Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Ty Segall Band song is from the album Slaughterhouse on In the Red Records. Download the song for free from Soundcloud. The Grinderman song is on the album Grinderman 2 RMX on Anti/Epitaph. Download the song for free from Epitonic. The Brainiac song is on the album Hissing Prigs in Static Couture on Touch and Go Records. Download the song for free from Epitonic. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Mon, 23 April 2012
Part 2 of my conversation with special guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the evolution of profanity. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Japandroids, Cloud Nothings, Ceremony and Yukon Blonde. Show notes: - Mother jokes led to popularity of "m-f'er" - Eddie Murphy's Comedian album introduced a whole new world of profanity - Most words have lost shock value - Little girl swearing in "Kick Ass" was shocking - We had more freedom as kids, but kids can access so much more now - Still isn't cool to randomly drop f-bombs in public - Matt: Won't call a female a bitch - Becoming more sensitive about calling your friends gay - Hollywood has become introduced to foul-mouthed Boston Irish characters - Swear words we won't say anymore - Songs with profanity are becoming more commonplace - Comedians have always pushed the boundaries - The Simpsons were once the paragon of rudeness - Violence on TV is no problem, but sex and some profanity is still banned - Cell phones have taken over people's lives - Bonehead of the Week Cloud Nothings - No Sentiment Ceremony - Hysteria Yukon Blonde - Stairway Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Japandroids song is from the album Celebration Rock on Matador Records. Download the song for free from Epitonic. The Ceremony song is on the album Zoo on Matador Records. Download the song for free from Epitonic. The Yukon Blonde song is on the album Tiger Talk on Dine Alone Records. Download the song for free from Chromewaves. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Wed, 18 April 2012
Part 1 of my conversation with special guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the evolution of profanity. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Deer Tick, The Rationales, Wintersleep and Torche. Show notes: - George Carlin summed up the issue of profanity on TV quite nicely - NYPD Blue pushed the boundaries of what you could see on broadcast TV - As kids, we saw a lot of risque stuff on pay cable channels - Sitcoms have to make do with innuendo - Inadvertent f-bombs on awards shows - The "c-word" is offensive here, not so much overseas - The number of f-bombs factors into movie ratings - South Park loves to push network censors - Plot twists are more shocking than language - Tarantino edited the TV version of Pulp Fiction himself - The comfort of casual profanity - Starting young - Controlling your language in polite society - To be continued - Bonehead of the Week Wintersleep - Resuscitate Torche - Reverse Inverted Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Deer Tick song is from the EP Tim on Partisan Records. Download the song for free from Spin. The Wintersleep song is on the album Hello Hum on Roll Call Records. Download the song for free at Wintersleep.com. The Torche song is on the album Harmonicraft on Volcom Entertainment. Download the song for free at Stereogum. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Mon, 9 April 2012
This week, I revisit an old mix tape I made many moons ago. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week. Show notes: - In episode 141, I discussed the early mix tapes I made as a kid - A few years ago, started writing about mix tapes in my blog - Looking back at Summer of Loud, a tape I recorded in '94 - Previous year was pretty rough, but things were looking up in '94 - Switched jobs and apartments at about the same time - 1994 was a good year for alt rock - I still listen to this mix from time to time - Bonehead of the Week Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Mon, 2 April 2012
Part 2 of my conversation with special guest Jay Breitling as we discuss earworms. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Best Coast, The Dandy Warhols, OFF! and The Melvins. Show notes: - Recorded on St. Patrick's Day at Chez Breitling - Kids' music can implant evil melodies in your brain - Pop music is a good gateway for music fans - Hall and Oates wrote the catchiest damn songs - We are in the post-ironic age - Breitling buys a Daryl Hall song - Good rock showing up on late night talk shows - Parents' easy-listening music ends up living in your head: Neil Diamond, Sinatra, Neil Sedaka - Tracing the roots of Charlie Rich's hit "The Most Beautiful Girl" - Kumar: Supertramp's Breakfast in America lives on in my mind' - The Who's Face Dances was more like a Townshend solo album - Watching an awesome Mclusky video featuring cats - Bonehead of the Week The Dandy Warhols - Sad Vacation OFF! - King Kong Brigade The Melvins - The War on Wisdom Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Best Coast song is from the forthcoming album of the same name on Mexican Summer. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) from Best Coast. The OFF! song is on the band's self-titled album on Vice. Download the song for free at Pitchfork. The Melvins song is on the EP The Bulls and the Bees courtesy of Scion AV. Download the EP for free from Scion AV. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Tue, 27 March 2012
Part 1 of my conversation with special guest Jay Breitling as we discuss earworms. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Titus Andronicus, At the Drive-In, Sleater-Kinney and Spoon. Show notes: - Recorded on St. Patrick's Day at Chez Breitling - Not referring to Ceti eels from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Kumar: Recently haunted by crappy songs from Styx and Foreigner - The search for Early Dog - Breitling has memories of the ol' shower radio - Ronnie Montrose, R.I.P. - Chloe B. makes an appearance - Kumar: "Smoke on the Water" banishes most earworms - Sometimes earworms can be good - Advertising can create earworms by playing songs repeatedly - On Jon Papelbon's new entrance music for the Phillies - Kumar: Crappy soundtrack songs from the '80s return to haunt me - Scientific research on earworms - Rebecca Black's "Friday" - Keith Richards on business acumen - To be continued - Bonehead of the Week At the Drive-In - Pattern Against User Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One Spoon - The Fitted Shirt Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Titus Andronicus song is from the Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol 1. Download the mixtape for free from the band's Tumblr. The Sleater-Kinney song is on the album All Hands on the Bad One on Kill Rock Stars. Download the song for free from Epitonic. The Spoon song is on the album Girls Can Tell on Merge Records. Download the song for free from Epitonic. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Mon, 19 March 2012
Part 2 of my conversation with special guest Ric Dube about bootlegs. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and live music from Fugazi, fIREHOSE and Warren Zevon. Show notes: - Check out Ric's latest project, Trademark of Quality - Bootlegs would get bootlegged - Plenty of boots of concerts from radio and TV broadcasts - When Napster emerged, bottom dropped out of bootleg market - U2's Achtung Baby demos were stolen, ended up on bootlegs - Ric has an early Men at Work bootleg, just because - The Legend of Norm De Plume - Pretenders bootleg has song from the Castaways at the end to fill space on the vinyl - Bands used to re-record tracks on their live albums in the '70s - Lots of good early Beck boots out there - Ric: Searching for a long lost Elvis Costello bootleg - Bonehead of the Week fIREHOSE - For the Singer of REM (live at Ancienne Belgique) Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money (live at The Record Plant)
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Fugazi song is from a show recorded at Irving Plaza in New York on 4/3/95. Download the song for free from the Live Music Archive. The Warren Zevon song is on from a set recorded live at The Record Plant in Sausalito, CA, on 7/27/78. Download the song for free from the Live Music Archive. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Mon, 12 March 2012
Part 1 of my conversation with special guest Ric Dube as we discuss bootlegs. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and live music from Mission of Burma, The Minutemen and The Dirtbombs. Show notes: - Check out Ric's latest project, Trademark of Quality - Powered by BBQ - TMOQ doesn't have actual bootlegs, but features essays about them - Bootlegs comprise anything not released by a record company - Jay: Discovered bootlegs and imports in record stores in the '80s - Ric: First boot was a Springsteen live set from '81 - Jay: First boot was a Zeppelin live box set - Both sound terrible - Ric: Most bootlegs he owns are of The Replacements - A lot of originally bootlegged 'Mats B-sides have turned up on official reissues - Jay: Bought Prince's Black Album in late '80s from bootleg tape vendor at UNH - Ric made cassette sleeves in early '90s for bootlegs with manga images - Ric: Recorded bootlegs at live shows - Also sold VHS tapes - Jay: Had a list of bootlegs for sale in early '80s - Used to get bootlegs from the old Rockit Records stores in '80s and '90s - Ric: Pitching your bootleg wares to record stores - Now there's countless boots available for free online - To be continued - Bonehead of the Week The Minutemen - One Reporter's Opinion/Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing (live at The Blue Note) The Dirtbombs - Ode to a Black Man (live at The Blind Pig) Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Mission of Burma song is from a live set recorded at WERS-FM on 9/21/80. Download the song for free from the Live Music Archive. The Dirtbombs song is on from a show recorded live at The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, MI, on 7/15/05. Download the song for free from the Live Music Archive. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Mon, 5 March 2012
Part 2 of my conversation with special guest Mike Heyliger as we discuss the whole New York vs. Boston thing. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Torche, Brendan Benson, White Rabbits and Sun Kil Moon. Show notes: - Check out Mike's blog Popblerd - It's all about efficiency - NYC's got the advantage for things to do after 2 a.m. - Everything closes up early in Boston - Jay: Mid-week club shows are tough when you have kids - Green Day's ready for Vegas - Boston has a ton of great small rock clubs - NYC has a better assortment of R&B and hip hop shows - The undeniable greatness of The Roots - Duran Duran's long and winding career - Mike had the Duran Duran board game as a kid - Mike: Rudy Giuliani cleaned up NYC in early '90s - The Northeast has a certain intensity - Boston's a good place to live - Beer's a whole lot cheaper than in NYC bars - Bonehead of the Week Brendan Benson - Bad For Me White Rabbits - Temporary Sun Kil Moon - Sunshine in Chicago Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Torche song is on the band's forthcoming album Harmonicraft on Volcom Entertainment. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) from TorcheMusic. The White Rabbits song is on the album Milk Famous on TBD Records. Download the song for free at RCRDLBL. The Sun Kil Moon song is on the album Among the Leaves on Caldo Verde Records. Download the song for free at Epitonic. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Tue, 28 February 2012
Part 1 of my conversation with special guest Mike Heyliger as we discuss the transition of moving to the Boston area. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Gorillaz, Boots Electric, Andrew Bird and Mike Doughty. Show notes: - Check out Mike's blog Popblerd - Mike grew up in New York, moved to Boston in 2008 - Slow adjustment - Mike: Every time I go back, I like NY less - Slower pace in Boston, except for the drivers - Jay: Even slower pace in NH - Mike: Occasionally gets crap for wearing Yankees gear - Not a ton of diversity in Boston - Jay: Toronto is extremely diverse - Still plenty of racism to go around - The world's a lot different than it was 30 years ago - Mike: Boston music scene is better than NYC's - Good selection of clubs - Mike's broken $100 ticket barrier to see Prince, Stevie Wonder, Janet Jackson, Jay-Z/Kanye - To be continued - Bonehead of the Week Boots Electric - I Love You All the Thyme Andrew Bird - EyeonEye Mike Doughty - Na Na Nothing Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Gorillaz song is courtesy of Converse. Download the song for free from Converse. The Andrew Bird song is on the album Break It Yourself on Mom and Pop Records. Download the song for free at NoiseTrade. The Mike Doughty song is on the album Yes and Also Yes on Snack Bar Records. Download the song for free at Insound. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
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