Tue, 7 August 2012
I celebrate six big years of podcasting with part 1 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we discuss our favorite solo artists. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Bob Mould, Ryan Adams, Mike Watt and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Brian contends that Bob Mould's work in Sugar is better than Husker Du; Jay vehemently disagrees - Jay: Elliott Smith went in a different direction after Heatmiser - Are Josh Homme or Dave Grohl considered solo artists? - Jay: Lennon and McCartney both made great albums on their own, but also some clunkers - Jay: Michael Jackson became probably the biggest artist of all time - Ozzy's early solo work was terrific - The ridiculous story behind Sabbath's Born Again album - Paul Simon's still going strong - Phil Collins was huge in the '80s - Brian: Mike Nesmith's early solo work was excellent - Jay: Nick Cave forged a dark path after The Birthday Party - Brian: Ryan Adams made a classic album and several good ones - Mike Watt's soldiered on over the years - Jay: Stephen Malkmus has been consistently good since Pavement - Brian prefers the later Pavement albums - Bonehead of the Week Ryan Adams - Shakedown on 9th Street (live) Mike Watt - Against the '70s (live) Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - (Do Not Feed the) Oyster The Bob Mould song is on the EP Live at the Bottom of the Hill. Download it for free (in exchange for your email address) from New.Official.fm. The Ryan Adams song was recorded live at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston on 2/21/09. Download the song for free at Archive.org. The Mike Watt song was recorded live at the Metro in Chicago on 5/6/95. Download the song for free at Archive.org. The Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks song is from the album Pig Lib on Matador 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 blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Mon, 30 July 2012
Another installment of Driving With Kumar as I discuss the generation gap that exists in pop culture. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Chelsea Light Moving, The XX, Blur and Mean Creek. Show notes: - Recorded on the way to WFNX Boston Accents farewell show in Allston - WFNX has been replaced by The Harbor, a "Variety Hits" station - FNX lasted 29 years - Driving through another torrential rainstorm - Generation gap in music fandom driven by a couple of NPR blog posts - Intern wrote about how she never pays for recorded music - Ignited industry debate, including a battle of blog posts between David Lowery and Dave Allen - Another post had an intern reviewing Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions... - Kid wasn't born when the album came out in 1988 - His love of hip-hop is defined by current artists like Drake - Couldn't relate to PE's intensity - I was struck by the lack of knowledge or interest in older music - Get off my lawn - As a kid, I was fascinated by music that came out in the previous few decades - Much easier now to hear music at a moment's notice - I blame it on sensory overload - You're going to listen to what your friends dig - Can't blame kids for not knowing about older acts - I'm not trying to get my own kids to listen to my music - Enjoy the rhythmic sounds of nature pounding on my car roof - The world is much faster - Technology is advancing at amazing speeds - Rain stops right as I get into the city - Remembering the early MP3 players - Some kids are getting into vinyl and cassettes - Many old pop cultural references are lost on the young - It's not too late for kids to learn about older music - Plenty of great new music out there, too - Bonehead of the Week The XX - Angels Blur - The Puritan Mean Creek - Young & Wild The Chelsea Light Moving song is available for free download from Matador Records. The XX song is on the forthcoming album Coexist on Young Turks. Download the song for free at Epitonic. The Blur song is the B-side of the band's self-released 12-inch Under the Westway. Download the song for free at Epitonic. The Mean Creek song is from the forthcoming album Youth Companion on Old Flame Records. Download the song for free as part of the Boston Accents Funeral Party Soundtrack on Bandcamp. 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 July 2012
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of the first half of 2012. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Future Carnivores, Mark Lanegan Band, Soccer Mom and Dinosaur Jr. Show notes: - Recorded at Clicky Clicky World HQ - Kumar: New Van Halen album much better than expected - Breitling: Future Carnivores brings a new wave sound - Breitling enjoys the Eddie Money jams - Forced to listen to Starship - Kumar: Check out the book I Want My MTV - Kumar: Lanegan goes way beyond straightahead rock - Breitling: Ride tribute comp features Boston acts - Get Geddy Lee on the show - Kumar: Digging the new Rush album - New Metric album is strong - Heavy Blanket features Mascis with guitar instrumentals - Ty Segall was not in Under Siege 2 - Breitling: Looking forward to new release from Everyone Everywhere - Breitling: New band called Dikembe (no relation to Mutombo) recalls mid-90s emo - New Dino Jr. due out in the fall - Kumar: Need to check out new Future of the Left, Henry Clay People - Kumar's "skeptible" of Spin's Twitter reviews - Bonehead of the Week Mark Lanegan Band - The Gravedigger's Song Soccer Mom - Dreams Burn Down Dinosaur Jr. - Watch the Corners The Future Carnivores song is a demo from the band's forthcoming second album. Download the song for free from ClickyClickyMusic.com. The Mark Lanegan Band song is on the album Blues Funeral on 4AD. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) at MarkLanegan.com. The Soccer Mom song is on the compilation NOFUCKINGWHERE. Download the song for free at ClickyClickyMusic.com. The Dinosaur Jr. song is from the forthcoming album I Bet on Sky on Jagjaguwar 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 blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Mon, 16 July 2012
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of the first half of 2012. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Golden Gurls, Cloud Nothings, Autochrome, Torche, Karl Hendricks Trio and Guided By Voices. Show notes: - Recorded at Clicky Clicky World HQ - Kumar: New Smashing Pumpkins ain't bad - Breitling: Golden Gurls do not feature Bea Arthur but do rock - Kumar: High on Fire brings metallic fury - Kumar: Check out Henry Rollins' great radio show - Breitling: Former Books leader Zammuto released terrific album - Kumar: Cloud Nothings are young and really good - Breitling: Boston act Autochrome brings the post-punk - WFNX's demise will result in two streaming stations - Kumar: Torche is heavy and poppy - Breitling: Check out Big Science - Dumb band name: The Internet - Kumar: Japandroids unleash unbridled fury - Breitling: Karl Hendricks Trio back with another great record - Kumar: GBV returns with the classic lineup - Breitling: Infinity Girl debut features quality shoegaze - Bonehead of the Week Cloud Nothings - No Future/No Past Autochrome - We Are the System Torche - Kicking Karl Hendricks Trio - The Men's Room at the Airport Guided By Voices - The Unsinkable Fats Domino Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Golden Gurls song is from the album Typo Magic. Download the song and the album for free at GoldenGurls.Bandcamp.com. The Cloud Nothings song is on the album Attack on Memory on Carpark Records. Download the song for free at Epitonic. The Autochrome song is on the album Separation Realms. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) at Bandcamp. The Torche song is from the album Harmonicraft on Volcom Entertainment. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) at TorcheMusic. The Karl Hendricks Trio song is on the album The Adult Section on Comedy Minus One Records. Download the song for free from Comedy Minus One. The Guided By Voices song is on the album Let's Go Eat the Factory on Guided By Voices Records. Download the song for free at GBVDigital.com. 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 July 2012
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Christian Douglass as we talk about the state of the book industry. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from The Henry Clay People, Japandroids, The Hives and Wye Oak. Show notes: - Recorded in Beverly, Mass. - Christian: So many good books go undiscovered - Kindles and other e-readers have people reading - Attitudes towards owning music and books change as folks get older - Jay: My kids are still reading books - The debate over digital media and artist royalties rages on in music industry - Different revenue models: Amanda Palmer raised over $1 mil on Kickstarter for new album - That won't work for artists without huge followings, though - The popularity of oral histories - Crafting an oral history involves skill in selecting right quotes, telling a story - "Narrative non-fiction" is an interesting sub-genre - Bonehead of the Week Japandroids - The Nights of Wine and Roses The Hives - High School Shuffle Wye Oak - Spiral Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Henry Clay People song is from the album Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives on TBD Records. Download the song for free at HenryClayPeople.com. The Japandroids song is on the album Celebration Rock on Polyvinyl Records. Download the song for free at Epitonic. The Hives song is on the album Lex Hives on Disques Hives. Download the song for free at RCRDLBL. The Wye Oak song is from the Adult Swim Singles Series. 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 blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Mon, 2 July 2012
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Christian Douglass as we talk about the state of the book industry. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from The Corin Tucker Band, The Raveonettes, Stars and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Show notes: - Recorded in Beverly, Mass. - In this age of distraction, it's amazing that people read books at all - Christian: Education system may be to blame for lack of reading - Fiction is still a valuable commodity - Jay: Fun to see my kids get into reading - Christian: Treating reading like a workout - Multi-tasking all day makes one less inclined to read later - Authors were once treated like movie stars - "Fifty Shades of Grey" started as Twilight fan fiction - Many best-sellers are autobiographies of celebs - Christian: Historical fiction is exciting - Working on a new project, a "novel in stories" - Looking at African-Americans attracted to Russian promise of equality - Also working on novel about a murder in rural Alaska - All about plot - Success comes at the sentence level - Many parallels to the music industry - Bonehead of the Week The Raveonettes - Observations Stars - The Theory of Relativity The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Black Mold Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Corin Tucker Band song is from the forthcoming album Kill My Blues on Kill Rock Stars. Download the song for free at Stereogum. The Raveonettes song is from the band's forthcoming album Observator on Vice Records. Download the song for free at Stereogum. The Stars song is on the forthcoming album The North on ATO Records. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) at StarstheNorth.com. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion song is from the band's forthcoming album Meat and Bone on Boombox/Mom + Pop. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) at Pitchfork.com. 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, 25 June 2012
Guest Ric Dube and I dig deep and analyze two '70s rock classics. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Redd Kross, Chelsea Light Moving and Cat Power. Show notes: - Recorded in Shrewsbury, Mass. - Check out Ric's podcast More Lost Time - Digging into Meat Loaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" - Irony-free, over-the-top theatrics - Song is in three parts - Jay: Remember as a kid thinking it was risque - Paradise turns out to be hell - Jim Steinman was known for ridiculously long song titles - Song goes from rockabilly to disco in the middle, with Phil Rizzuto mixed in - The debate over third base - Ellen Foley's odd career - Third section tries to emulate punk - The strange allure of Robby Benson - Meat Loaf's acting career - Part 2: "Brother Louie" by Stories - A classic '70s one-hit wonder - Stories actually had well-known musicians in band - Louie was whiter than white - Super catchy chorus - Ric: This was a "Neapolitan relationship" - The lesson was about equal opportunity sexing - Why is the name Louie popular in songs? - Did Jeff Lynne swipe the ELO string sound from this song? - Bonehead of the Week Chelsea Light Moving - Burroughs Cat Power - Ruin Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Redd Kross song is from the forthcoming album Researching the Blues on Merge Records. Download the song for free at Stereogum. The Chelsea Light Moving song is from the band's forthcoming album on Matador Records. Download the song for free at Stereogum. The Cat Power song is on the album Sun on Matador Records. 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, 18 June 2012
Part 2 of my conversation with filmmaker Eric Green as we discuss his documentary about V66, the short-lived Boston music video channel. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Mission of Burma, David Byrne and St. Vincent, Metric and Ceremony. Show notes: - Recorded in Cambridge, Mass. - Eric's documentary is called Life on the V - V66 was on the air from 2/85 to 9/86 - Response to the topic has been great - Doc is almost finished - Music docs are in vogue - Rumors that MTV was keeping an eye on V66 - Eric resisted the classic Behind the Music structure - V66 was based in Worcester, Mass.; bands would visit before concerts there - 9-year-old Eric got on the air with a phoned-in joke - Cable TV was much different in the '80s; still hadn't made it to many rural areas - Memories of USA Network's Night Flight video show - Music docs: Stop Making Sense vs. The Last Waltz - When V66 played Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" video, they took MTV logo out - Eric received a lot of fan submissions of V66 videos on VHS tapes - Bonehead of the Week David Byrne and St. Vincent - Who Metric - Artificial Nocturne Ceremony - I Don't Wanna Be Learned/I Don't Wanna Be Tamed Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Mission of Burma song is from the forthcoming album Unsound on Fire Records. Download the song for free at Rolling Stone. The David Byrne and St. Vincent song is from the forthcoming album Love This Giant on 4AD. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) at Stereogum. The Ceremony song is an unreleased track available for free download at Noisey. 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, 11 June 2012
Part 1 of my conversation with filmmaker Eric Green as we discuss his documentary about V66, the short-lived Boston music video channel. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from The Walkmen, Beachwood Sparks, King Tuff and Superchunk. Show notes: - Recorded in Cambridge, Mass. - Eric's documentary is called Life on the V - V66 was on the air from 2/85 to 9/86 - UHF station that reached throughout New England - Cable still hadn't reached many towns - There were other music video shows including Friday Night Videos on NBC - Videos had been around for awhile but didn't catch on until MTV arrived - V66 introduced a lot of new music, played diverse styles - We both watched it as kids - Run DMC's "King of Rock" was most requested song on V66 - Boston bands were given more attention: Del Fuegos, Til Tuesday, New Man - Ex-radio guy John Garabedian started V66 - Station did non-music programming likes sports, weather - MTV began adding different programs in late '80s - Eventually, V66 was sold to Home Shopping Network - Something like V66 could never happen today - Eric worked at Fuse, the video station out of NYC - Began making documentary in 2008; almost done - Did many interviews with former V66 staff, as well as viewers - Collected footage from fans - Talked to musicians inspired by the station - V66 teamed up with local radio stations on events - To be continued - Bonehead of the Week Beachwood Sparks - Sparks Fly Again King Tuff - Bad Thing Superchunk - Misfits & Mistakes Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Walkmen song is from the album Heaven on Fat Possum Records. Download the song for free at Epitonic. The King Tuff song is on the band's self-titled album on Sub Pop. Download the song for free at Sub Pop. The Superchunk song is on the EP Leaves in the Gutter on Merge 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 blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek. |
Tue, 5 June 2012
Part 2 of my conversation with special guests Nick Lorenzen and Mike Piantigini as we discuss the death of rock radio. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from The Henry Clay People, Archers of Loaf, Codeine and Los Campesinos. Show notes: - Radio now competes with iPods, digital radio, Spotify - The anticipation factor with new music is gone - Cell phone video has changed the live experience - Music has become background noise - We don't pay attention as closely to new music - As people get older, some lose that connection to music - Mike: Music education came from hanging out at college radio station - Remembering the old Boston rock station WCOZ - In praise of WFMU - Nick: Listened to a lot of classic rock on stations like WAAF - Satellite radio is a factor - Jay: First listened to CHUM-AM in Toronto, then got into the FM rock stations - Canadian Content Rule was in effect: Lots of April Wine, Chilliwack, Triumph - Nick and Mike played in the great rock band Lump - College radio is still great, especially WMBR, the MIT station - Only Boston rock stations left are WZLX, WAAF, The River (WXRV) - Jay: Pretty much listened to WFNX all the time during the '90s - Younger music fans may not feel the loss of FNX - Used to be fun to listen to radio in other parts of country - Bonehead of the Week Archers of Loaf - Dead Red Eyes Codeine - Median (Peel session) Los Campesinos - Tiptoe Through the True Bits Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Henry Clay People song is from the band's forthcoming album Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives on TBD Records. Download the song for free at Soundcloud. The Codeine song is a previously unreleased track from a Peel session available on the reissue of Barely Real on Numero Group. Download the song for free from Stereogum. The Los Campesinos song is a non-album track released by the band for free download from its website. 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. |
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