Tue, 22 October 2013
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss benefit concerts. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from The So So Glos, Grooms, Black Hearted Brother and Slowdim. Show notes: - Recorded at Casa Breitling before a live studio audience - Breitling's hosting the 2nd annual Community Servings benefit show on Nov. 3 at TT the Bears in Cambridge, Mass. - Featuring K. Heasley of Lilys, Soccer Mom, The Hush Now and Earthquake Party - Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz will provide DJ sets - Providing meals to the chronically ill - Roger Waters held huge benefit show in Berlin in 1990 - Breitling was in Germany at the time - The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was huge in '92 - Two big post-9/11 concerts in NYC - SARS benefit concert in 2003 was the biggest show in Canadian history, with the Stones, AC/DC, Rush - Live 8 in 2005 was actually eight concerts in eight cities on the same day - Pink Floyd reunited with Waters - Did benefits have more impact in the past? - Increased capacity to put on benefit shows now - Hear 'N Aid was the mid-'80s metal version of We Are the World - Featured a ridiculous number of guitar solos - Big charity show in Boston earlier this year after the Marathon bombing - Hot Stove Cool Music started in Boston, now also in Chicago - Recent Crash Safely MS benefit ran four nights in Boston-area clubs - Breitling: Bands and venue make benefits happen by giving their time - Club bookers were a huge help - Plenty of logistics to consider - Last year Community Servings benefit was at Great Scott - Different kind of benefit for Community Servings, reaching a different audience - Get yer tickets now - Bonehead of the Week Music: The So So Glos - Emergency Grooms - I Think We're Alone Now Black Hearted Brother - This is How It Feels
Slowdim - Wishing Well
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The So So Glos song is on the compilation Shaking Through Volume 4. Download the comp for free at Bandcamp. The Grooms song is on the album Infinity Caller on Western Vinyl. Download the song for free at Bandcamp. The Black Hearted Brother song is on the album Stars Are Our Home on Slumberland Records. Download the song for free at Chromewaves.
The Slowdim song is a reworked version of a song on the band's self-titled album. Download the song for free at 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. |
Mon, 14 October 2013
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss the benefit concert he's organizing. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Shearwater, Deer Tick, FIDLAR and Come. Show notes: - Recorded at Casa Breitling before a live studio audience - Breitling's hosting the 2nd annual Community Servings benefit show on Nov. 3 at TT the Bears in Cambridge, Mass. - Featuring K. Heasley of Lilys, Soccer Mom, The Hush Now and Earthquake Party - Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz will provide DJ sets - Olive sniffs the recorder - Get tickets now - Providing meals to the chronically ill - Last year's event featured Johnny Foreigner - Rock benefits have been happening for decades - They seem less impactful now - Live Aid was a huge event in 1985 with shows in Philly and London - Controversy over charity administration - The Concert for Bangaldesh in '71 was the first big charity concert - The Secret Policeman's Ball was run by Amnesty International - Sting's Rock for the Rainforest benefit has been happening for 20+ years - Amnesty International's Conspiracy of Hope was a big deal in 1986 - Breitling: Axl Rose has Vince Neil-itis - To be continued - Bonehead of the Week Music: Shearwater - Fucked Up Life Deer Tick - The Dream's in the Ditch FIDLAR - Got No Money
Come - String (live)
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Shearwater song is on the album Fellow Travelers on Sub Pop. Download the song for free at Stereogum. The Deer Tick song is on the album Negativity on Partisan Records. Download the song for free as part of the Partisan Records Summer/Fall Sampler 2013 on Amazon. The FIDLAR song is on the EP Don't Try on Mom + Pop Music. Download the song for free at Chromewaves.
The Come song is part of the band's Epitonic Saki Session, which you can download 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. |
Sat, 5 October 2013
Part 3 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1987. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Sebadoh, The Men and The Besnard Lakes. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Jay's #2 album of '87: The Cult's Electric - Used to crank it while working supermarket night shifts - Brian's #2: R.E.M.'s Document - Mike Mills is the band's secret weapon - R.E.M. was burdened by U2 comparisons - Stipe and Mills formed Automatic Baby with U2's Clayton and Mullen - Jay's #1: GNR's Appetite for Destruction - Paved the way for rawer hard rock - Brian's #1: Pixies' Come On Pilgrim EP - New Pixies is okay but nowhere near the old one - Teenage metalhead Jay also dug Joe Satriani's Surfing With the Alien - Enjoying That Metal Show - Terrible moments in '87 music - Jay: Bruce Willis releases an album - Brian: Pink Floyd's post-Waters output - "That's What Friends Are For" - Jay: Terrible movie soundtrack music, like Bob Seger's "Shakedown" - "Shakedown" was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe - Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" - Brian: The death of legendary jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius - The fascinating story of Aaron North (ex-Icarus Line and NIN guitarist) - The Jesus Lizard got a record deal thanks to Kurt Cobain - Next on our hit list: 1980 - Bonehead of the Week Music: Sebadoh - I Will The Men - I Saw Her Face Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Sebadoh song is on the album Defend Yourself on Joyful Noise Recordings. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) as part of the Paste Fall Preview 2013 at NoiseTrade. The song from The Men is on the album Campfire Songs on Sacred Bones Records. Download the song for free at Aquarium Drunkard. The Besnard Lakes song is on the album Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO on Jagjaguwar Records. Download the song for free at 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. |
Thu, 26 September 2013
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1987. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Okkervil River, Beachwood Sparks and Midlake. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Brian: Birth of the cassingle - Inexpensive way to buy singles, B-sides - Brian: Collecting 45s for a jukebox - Jay: 1987 was big for female pop artists - Madonna, Bangles, Belinda Carlisle, Lisa Lisa, Heart - Older songs like "Stand By Me" were re-released - Young Brian bought his first album in '87: The Monkees' Greatest Hits - New Monkees TV show came and went - Jay: Made two top 5 album lists, Then and Now - Jay: Then list (#5 to #1): Def Leppard's Hysteria, INXS's Kick, Cult's Electric, Whitesnake's s/t and U2's Joshua Tree - Whitesnake was the hard rock version of Ringo Starr's All Starr Band - Brian's #5: George Harrison's Cloud Nine, despite Jeff Lynne's heavy handed production - Jay's #5: Husker Du's Warehouse, not their best but still pretty great - Incredible run of albums over a short period - Brian's #4: Prince's Sign o' the Times, maybe his last great album - Jay's #4: Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me; Westerberg's focuses on songwriting and less on aggression - Brian's #4: Tom Waits' Franks Wild Years; did Izzy Stradlin play on this album? - To be continued - Bonehead of the Week Music: Okkervil River - Stay Young Beachwood Sparks - Make It Together Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Okkervil River song is on the album The Silver Gymnasium on ATO Records. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) on Goodbye Summer: ATO Records 2013 Fall Sampler at ATORecords.com. The Beachwood Sparks song is on the album Desert Skies on Alive Naturalsounds Records. Download the song for free at Soundcloud. The Midlake song is on the album Antiphon on ATO Records. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) on Goodbye Summer: ATO Records 2013 Fall Sampler at ATORecords.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. |
Thu, 19 September 2013
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1987. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Guillermo Sexo, Natural Velvet and Speedy Ortiz. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Different perspectives: Brian was 5 in 1987, Jay was in college - Brian: The impact of La Bamba, movie about Richie Valens - Kicked off a roots rock revival - Jay: Big year for alternative rock - Breakout year for R.E.M., The Cure, The Cult - Jay: Making the transition from metalhead to alt-rock fan - No regional radio anymore - Brian: CDs started catching on, especially when Beatles catalog was released - CDs provided definitive versions of albums - Became easier to make mixtapes - Jay: Huge year for U2 with The Joshua Tree - Landing tickets for U2 in '87 was no easy feat - Brian: GNR's Appetite for Destruction actually paved the way for hair metal's demise - Harked back to sleazier sounds of '70s garage rock - Jane's Addiction seemed dangerous back then - Guitar music was moving in different directions - To be continued - Bonehead of the Week Music: Guillermo Sexo - Fall Lens Natural Velvet - Dark Inertia Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Guillermo Sexo song is on the album Dark Spring on Midriff Records. Download the song for free at Soundcloud. The Natural Velvet song is on the EP Salome with the Head of John the Baptist. Download the EP for free at Bandcamp. The Speedy Ortiz song is on the band's Epitonic Saki Session. 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. |
Thu, 12 September 2013
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we discuss actors turned singers. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Sebadoh, Mind Spiders and Diarrhea Planet. Show notes: - Recorded at More Lost Time world HQ - John Travolta's music career was dragged out over three albums - "All Strung Out on You" could've been a Velvet Underground outtake - Co-writer Nino Tempo had an illustrious acting career as an extra - Burt Reynolds made an album in '73 - Burt reads from his childhood diary - Ric serves up crap on my podcast, not his - Adam West's novelty record - Other actors who made albums: Telly Savalas, Ted Knight - Plenty of musicians who became actors: Kris Kristofferson, Jagger, Bowie - Mark Wahlberg and Justin Timberlake have done well as actors - Actors turned musicians: Kevin Bacon, Bruce Willis, Keanu Reeves, Russell Crowe, Steven Seagal, Don Johnson - Rick James produced Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time" - Eddie had already moved from comedian to movie star - In "Boogie Nights," Dirk Diggler thinks he's got musical talent - Murphy and Michael Jackson teamed up in '93's "Whatzupwitu" - Corey Feldman's musical aspirations - Ric's list of actresses who shouldn't make records - Jodie Foster made an album when she was a kid - Bonehead of the Week Music: Sebadoh - State of Mine Mind Spiders - Make Make Make Make Diarrhea Planet - Separations The Sebadoh song is on the forthcoming album Defend Yourself on Joyful Noise Recordings. Download the song for free at Soundcloud. The Mind Spiders song is on the forthcoming album Inhumanistic on Dirtnap Records. Download the song for free at LargeheartedBoy. The Diarrhea Planet song is on the album I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams on Infinity Cat Recordings. Download the song for free at Amazon MP3. 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. |
Wed, 4 September 2013
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we discuss actor-turned-singer David Soul's massive 1977 hit song. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Mean Creek, Los Campesinos and Shearwater. Show notes: - Recorded at More Lost Time world HQ - David Soul, aka Hutch from "Starsky and Hutch," just turned 70 - "Don't Give Up on Us" hit #1 in April 1977 - Soul started out as a folk singer - "Don't Give Up on Us" in the same vein as wuss rock by Bread, Dan Hill, Manilow - Ric: Soul was on Private Stock Records, which churned out pop hits - Label run by Larry Uttal, who was previously a hitmaker for Bell Records - Private Stock master tapes were all lost after label went bankrupt - Soul just had the one hit - The B-side was weird song called "Black Bean Soup" that sounded like old Robert Palmer - John Travolta was another actor with a record deal in the '70s - Travolta was a teen idol after "Welcome Back, Kotter" and "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble"; pre-Saturday Night Fever and Grease - Big single was "Let Her In," even schmaltzier than the David Soul song - No vocal range whatsoever - "Rack jobbers" were big business; putting records in racks in drugstores and supermarkets for impulse shoppers - To be continued - Bonehead of the Week Music: Mean Creek - Cool Town Los Campesinos - What Death Leaves Behind Shearwater - I Luv the Valley OH! The Mean Creek song is on the forthcoming album Local Losers on Old Flame Records. Download the song for free at Soundcloud. The Los Campesinos song is on the forthcoming album No Blues on Wichita Recordings. Download the song for free at Soundcloud. The Shearwater song is on the album Fellow Travelers on Sub Pop. Download the song for free at Sub Pop. 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. |
Tue, 27 August 2013
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss our society's obsession with the apocalypse. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Marnie Stern, The Superman Revenge Squad Band, Radstewart and Thee Oh Sees. Show notes: - Recorded at Chez Phillion - Neil Gaiman's American Gods may someday become an HBO series - Seven stories keep getting retold - When authors can't finish their series - John Irving writes last line of a novel first - Writing novels vs. screenplays - Barrier to entry in moviemaking was cost of film, with books was publishing - Now you can self-publish online - Matt's film Certainly Never was screened at Massachusetts Independent Film Festival - The satisfaction of slamming down a phone is gone - Fun at the Boston "Nerd Prom," aka ComiCon - Nerds rule the world - Why does The Hobbit require a movie trilogy? - When reality and satire are easily confused - Outrage-powered culture - Viagra has created an army of horny geezers - Hopefully we won't have to deal with the End Times - Bonehead of the Week Music: The Superman Revenge Squad Band - A Funny Thing You Said Radstewart - Beer Swindlers Thee Oh Sees - Castiatic Tackle The Marnie Stern song is part of the Adult Swim Singles Program 2013. Download the song for free at Adult Swim. The Superman Revenge Squad Band song is a single released on Audio Antihero. Download the song for free at Bandcamp. The Radstewart song is the EP Whig Crooks and Beer Swindlers on Alcopop. Download the song for free at Soundcloud. The Thee Oh Sees song is on the album Warm Slime on In the Red 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. |
Mon, 19 August 2013
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss our society's obsession with the apocalypse. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Nine Inch Nails, Obits, Girls Against Boys and Wavves. Show notes: - Recorded at Chez Phillion - Obsessing over the end of the world is nothing new - Harold Camping boldly predicted the end date in 2011...twice - Heaven's Gate cult committed mass suicide in '97 - Kirk Cameron and the Rapture - Recent apocalyptic movies include This is the End and Pacific Rim - Disaster movies have done big business for decades - Matt's dog doesn't dig doomsday discussion - Zombies are all the rage - Matt recommends Peter Heller's post-apocalyptic thriller "The Dog Stars" - Matt: Are all our best stories about the end of the world? - In the '80s, fears of nuclear annihilation - Lots of crazy natural disasters happening - Fears of a virus wiping out mankind - Stephen King's "The Stand" explored these issues in '78 - Japanese monster movies came after the A-bomb - Miami face eater - Making money off doomsday preppers - Sales of bunkers, food, weapons, etc. - Religious "Chick tracts" designed to freak people out - To be continued - Bonehead of the Week Music: Obits - Spun Out Girls Against Boys - It's a Diamond Life Wavves - I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl The Nine Inch Nails song is on the forthcoming album Hesitation Marks on Columbia. The song is available for free download at Amazon. The Obits song is on the album Bed & Bugs on Sub Pop. Download the song for free at Sub Pop. The Girls Against Boys song is the band's first new music in a decade. Download the song for free at Stereogum. The Wavves song is on the EP Life Sux on Ghost Ramp. Download the song for free at 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. |
Thu, 8 August 2013
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Amanda Guest as we discuss the new online radio station she's launching. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from PJ Harvey, The Moondoggies, Wavves and King Tuff. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Launching her own radio station, BFF.fm - Taking back real radio - Hope to bring back the college radio experience - KUSF is trying to stay alive - Amanda: College radio had a huge impact - Amanda lives within walking distance of rock clubs in SF - Already had discussions with venues about sponsoring shows - Starting with seven DJs - One DJ in Massachusetts pre-recording shows - Even before launch, BFF.fm has generated a lot of enthusiasm - Amanda: Work full-time gig so she can do this during her spare time - Bonehead of the Week Music: The Moondoggies - Red Eye Wavves - Hippies is Punks King Tuff - Anthem The PJ Harvey song was recorded in support of Shaker Aamer, the last British prisoner being held in Guantanamo Bay prison. The song is available for free download at Soundcloud. The Moondoggies song is on the album Adios I'm a Ghost on Hardly Art. Download the song for free at HardlyArt. The Wavves song is a bonus track on the album Afraid of Heights on Warner Bros. Download the song for free at Epitonic. The King Tuff song is on his self-titled album on Sub Pop. 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. |
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