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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:PJ Harvey - Shaker Aamer The Moondoggies - Red Eye Wavves - Hippies is Punks King Tuff - Anthem Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The PJ Harvey song was r

Part 1 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 Black Rebel Motorcycle, Quicksand, Rocket From the Crypt and Dinosaur Jr. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Amanda was last on CompCon in October 2010 - Moved to San Francisco a year ago - Launching her own radio station, BFF.fm - Did a radio show at WMWM at Salem State - Found studio space to rent at The Secret Alley - Adventures in Console Purchasing - Have 4-5 DJs lined up to do shows - Possible launch date is Sept. 1, but you can listen to music there now - Best Frequencies Forever - Using word of mouth - Partnering with San Francisco venues and brands - Possible remote broadcasts with DJs from around the world - Focused on underground music - DJs "pay to play" in SF - Hoping to get sponsorships - Still working full-time while getting BFF going - Lifelong dream to start a radio station - SF is a lot more optimistic - Bonehead of the We

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of the first half of 2013 and look ahead to the rest of the year. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Savages, Veronica Falls and Mikal Cronin. Show notes: - Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ - JB: Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - Ripely Pine - Maine native wrote songs while working in video store - JK: The National - Trouble Will Find Me - Still digging into this one - What's the deal with Vampire Weekend? - JB: Slowdim - s/t - "A real nice listen" - JK: Mikal Cronin - MC II - Plays in Ty Segall's band - The Besnard Lakes are an interesting band - JK: New Sabbath is surprisingly non-sucky - Old bands getting eclipsed by cover acts - The Stones should just stop - New Arcade Fire album expected in the fall - JB: New Soccer Mom full-length may be out this year - New music from Earthquake Party and Guillermo Sexo - JK: Looking forward to new Obits album - More new Pixies music on the wa

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of the first half of 2013. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Speedy Ortiz, Radiator Hospital, Kurt Vile and Light Heat. Show notes: - Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ - Rick Moranis has a new album out - Rush's only U.S. top 40 hit was 1982's "New World Man" - Brought to you (not really) by Lagunitas Little Sumpin' Sumpin' - JK: iTunes crashed, lost all playlists and play counts - Spotify recently added music recommendations - Serious signal-to-noise ratio - YouTube's a great source of cool audio and video - JB: A lot of great music from Exploding in Sound label - JB: Ovlov - Am - JK: Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana - Featured on JB's Lilys comp - Many young bands embracing '90s sounds - JB: Krill - Lucky Leaves - Bass-playing singers free up space for guitarists - JK: Palma Violets - 180 - Catchy Britpop that rocks - JB: Radiator Hospital - Something Wild - Album title comes from Jonathan Demme movie -

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we discuss music we've outgrown. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Queens of the Stone Age, The National, Superchunk and Eleanor Friedberger. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Check out Brian's comics podcast The Hour Cosmic - Jay: U2 was favorite band from late '80s to early '90s - Diminishing returns over last 20 years; sick of Bono - Brian: R.E.M. was approaching that territory when they quit - Brian: Done with Metallica - Jay: Musically, haven't dug them since The Black Album - Brian: Want to get back into old (non-Metallica) thrash - Not loving the Cookie Monster vocals - Jay: Once liked Don Henley's solo work, now hate him - Brian: Second incarnation of Aerosmith from 1985-on is terrible - Music got dumb, started working with outside writers - The curse of '80s production techniques - Brian: Not a good time for hard rock recording now; too much compression - Jay: Hair metal lost its appeal quickly - Saw many hair metal s

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we discuss music we've outgrown. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from The Pixies, Obits, Adam Franklin and Bob Mould. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Check out Brian's comics podcast The Hour Cosmic - Will launch Input/Output, a music-themed show, soon - Tracking the different Black Flag reunions - Rollins doesn't sing anymore - Kim Deal leaves Pixies - Rumors of new Pixies recordings (we talked a few days before the new Pixies song dropped) - Music we once loved but have outgrown - Brian: The Offspring (on Jay's list as well) - Somehow grew popular - Jay: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Really, it's Kiedis who hasn't aged well - Awkward moments at Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame inductions - The greatness of Tom Scharpling and The Best Show - The bland rock of Bad Company - Brian drops a bomb with Sonic Youth - Just can't get into them - Jay: Sting has grown tiresome - Big fan of The Police, but in the early '90s, Sting began to suck mightily

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we present our ideas for rebooting classic sitcoms. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from METZ, Majical Cloudz, Speedy Ortiz and Murray A. Lightburn. Show notes: - Recorded at More Lost Time world HQ - Jay: Movie reboot of Laverne and Shirley starring Emma Stone and Ellen Page - Set at a Seattle microbrewery - AV Club's Random Roles feature is terrific - Ric: Sets Happy Days in 1991 Seattle, called Dazed and Abused - Jason Everman's strange trip - Let it go, Dave Mustaine - Jay: Bosom Buddies reimagined with dudes dressing as women in drag - Ric's take on Hangover 3 - Dueling Mork and Mindy remakes - Ric: Get Robin Williams to play older Mork - Jay: Alien lands in Portland, followed around by documentary crew - What the hell is the Modern Family documentary about? - Arnold does great commentary tracks - Ric: Leave It to Cheever - Partridge Family reboot with the Kardashians - The new Jay Leno Show - Ric still wants to make the reality show B

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we present our ideas for rebooting classic sitcoms. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Speedy Ortiz, Hunx and His Punx, Moon King and Mikal Cronin. Show notes: - Recorded at More Lost Time world HQ - Ric beats a cybersquatter at his own game - Ric wants to reboot American Idol - "Celebrity Barrel Jumping" - Tom Scholz of the band Boston is into "freestyle figure skating" - Ric: Judges would be voted off each season by fans - Show would have weekly winner like Jeopardy - Chuck Barris was talent show pioneer with The Gong Show - Jay: Reimagined take on Sanford and Son starring Indian father and son convenience store owners - Stretch of minority-themed sitcoms in the '70s - UPN network had several black sitcoms in the '90s - The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer was comedic look at slavery - All in the Family could never air today; people are too sensitive - The late '60s scourge of "interracial touching" - Recent Cheerios commercial with inte

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Lewandowski as we discuss our status as outsider sports fans in the Boston area. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from David Byrne and St. Vincent, Overseas, John Vanderslice and Stephen Malkmus. Show notes: - Recorded on a sweaty night in Beverly, Mass. - Boston went from Loserville to Titletown - The legend of Wayne Gretzky started when he was a kid - Jay: Rooted for the Patriots when they were horrible - Supporting our teams has been a mostly futile endeavor - Jay: Reliving the Leafs' horrible choke against Boston - Big sporting events somehow lead to idiots rioting - NFL games are much more fun when you watch at home - Jay: Still go to college hockey games - Brian wept when his team won college lacrosse championship - Jay: I want to see the Leafs win the Stanley Cup before I die - Brian roots for New England Revolution - Jay: Watching the Leafs in the playoffs is a tense, miserable experience - Brian: Still hoping Sabres and Bills will win

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Brian Lewandowski as we discuss our status as outsider sports fans in the Boston area. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Fidlar, Eddie Spaghetti, TV on the Radio and Archers of Loaf. Show notes: - Recorded on a sweaty night in Beverly, Mass. - Brian changed his standup name to Brian Gerard - Experimented with different names - We both grew up elsewhere and moved to New England - Rooting for non-Boston teams - Brian grew up in Buffalo, is a big Sabres and Bills fan - We're used to our teams losing - Buffalo also had an NBA team in the '70s - Brian moved to Kentucky as a kid - Jay moved to southeastern Washington state - Nobody there knew what hockey was at the time - Jay: Right after we moved away, a junior hockey team moved to the area - Jay: Never a fan of the Montreal Canadiens - The magic of Don Cherry - Cherry was played by Jared Keeso in a couple of Canadian miniseries - Brian roots for the Atlanta Braves because he lived there for a while -

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss some of our favorite compilation albums. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Speedy Ortiz, Thee Oh Sees, Mikal Cronin and The Melvins. Show notes: - Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ - Drinkin' beer and talking rock - Check out JB's new comp, And I Forgot a Long Time Ago How You Feel - Covers of early period Lilys songs - JK: Three basic types of comps, not including soundtracks - Tribute, genre and benefit comps - No Alternative came out in '93 - We learn more about Lance Diamond - During the Goo Goo Dolls' last days of non-suckage - Part of Red Hot series - JB: Red Hot and Bothered was the indie rock version - JK: Deadicated was a Grateful Dead tribute featuring the likes of Jane's Addiction, Elvis Costello, Lyle Lovett - Taping songs off the radio - JK: The Bridge was a great Neil Young tribute featuring alt-rock artists like Pixies and Sonic Youth - Lots of tribute comps came out in early '90s - Now there are string

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss the new Lilys tribute compilation he curated. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Pet Milk, Infinity Girl and The Weaks. Show notes: - Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ - JB's writing for new music site Vanyaland - Breitling's second compilation; first one came out a year ago - Comp's called And I Forgot a Long Time Ago How You Feel - Covers of early period Lilys songs - Found bands from Boston and beyond who were Lilys fans - Would have liked to do this comp first - Great response to Nofuckingwhere, the first comp - Ride's management contacted JB - Future .38 Special comp? - Shout out to our good friend Mike Piantigini - Why aren't we getting free beer? - JB also organized a great benefit show last November - Starting to plan next benefit for Community Servings - JB's doing some promo for the comp - Hasn't talked to Lilys leader Kurt Heasley about the comp - Last four songs come from album Eccsome the Photon Band - Would

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we dissect a swingin' episode of I Dream of Jeannie. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from At the Drive-In, Shellac and Jawbox. Show notes: - Recorded at More Lost Time world HQ - Watch the episode along with us at the CompCon YouTube channel - Season 2 of I Dream of Jeannie, episode aired in April 1967 - Larry Hagman, R.I.P. - Did Americans really throw "mod parties"? - Pre-Summer of Love '67 - Barbara Eden hasn't really done anything else - Young Dabney Coleman makes a cameo - Bill Daily plays the George Costanza-esque sidekick - Sitcom lies are so badly written - This show was a clear ripoff of Bewitched - Jay breaks out his Paul Lynde impression - Trying to create a new dance craze - Unrelated sight gag in the kitchen - Imagining a darker turn of events - Much of the episode was people dancing - Dube: Too much plot and not enough going on - The whole master-servant theme was odd - Dube goes off on Kate Hudson - Modern version would make

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we dissect a not-so-classic episode of the Brady Bunch. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from The Gories, King Khan and Mind Spiders. Show notes: - Recorded at More Lost Time world HQ - Watch the episode along with us at the CompCon YouTube channel - Season 5 of the Brady Bunch, episode aired in January 1974 - Brady Bunch producer used the show to air a pilot for a spinoff - Ken Berry was the "star" - Berry was in Disney movies, F Troop, failed pilots, later Mama's Family - Show's kind of a bummer - Brady Bunch audience must have been annoyed by lack of Bradys - Gotta love the racial platitudes - Where are the blue kids? - The mini-Warriors - Berry teaches the kids the ol' soft shoe - Snobby racist neighbor character - Groovy Greg Brady makes an appearance - Dube makes gratuitous Arkancilliopoulos reference - Pilot was never picked up - Norman Lear was doing cutting edge racial humor; this show, not so much - Bonehead of the Week Music:The Go

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we dissect a classic mid-1970s song from a Canadian music legend. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Sloan and Stars. Show notes: - Recorded at More Lost Time world HQ - Dissecting Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Song's a total downer, no pun intended - Based on a true life incident in 1975 - Sounds like Lightfoot put the Wikipedia entry to music - Checking out the early '70s Canadian band Lighthouse - Sounds like the Guess Who or Blood, Sweat and Tears - Lightfoot's "Sundown" is a much better song - Ric: A little like Velvet Underground's "Loaded" - Frank Chacksfield, the king of elevator music - Making slow '70s songs even slower - Pat Boone and Paul Anka later made entire albums covering hard rock songs - Anne Murray dominated Canadian radio in the '70s - Canadian content rule meant a third of music on the radio had to be Canadian - A random song from The Randoms to wash the MOR crap away - Teenage Head was an O

Part 2 of my conversation with guest James Gralian about the post-lockout NHL. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from The Hush Now, Guided By Voices, Iceage and Game Theory. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - NHL surprises this season include talented teams struggling: Detroit, Philly, Nashville, Tampa - Philadelphia's long stretch of bad goaltending - Gotta love Ilya Bryzgalov - Toronto-Detroit will be in Winter Classic next year - Chicago's been the best team in the league by far - The long, strange journey of Ray Emery - Jay: Making the case for the Leafs - Pittsburgh messes with success, keeps winning - Realignment kicks in next season - Playoff hockey is the best - James picks a team to root for when the Avs don't make it - Jay: Just happy to see Leafs in playoffs - Players rarely stay on same team for entire career - Rooting for dirty teams - NHL has come back strong from lockout - Fighting in hockey at most levels - Bonehead of the Week Music:The Hush Now - Marathon Monday Guide

Part 1 of my conversation with guest James Gralian about the post-lockout NHL. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Beck, Buffalo Tom, Dinosaur Jr. and Titus Andronicus. Show notes: - Recorded last weekend via Skype - Last spoke in October before NHL lockout began - Season relaunched in mid-January and is wrapping up in next few weeks - Definitely some bitterness when the NHL came back - James' many online efforts - JG: Playing hockey has deepened my appreciation for the sport - NHL teams sign plenty of undrafted college players - Georges Vezina was known as the Chicoutimi Cucumber - Jack Falla wrote some great hockey books - JK: I was mad at both sides after the lockout - Ended up getting satellite package and following the Leafs anyway - Greed is a given in pro sports - The Leafs fired their GM right before season started - Now they're on the verge of making playoffs for first time in 9 years - JK remembers the Leafs' 1993 playoff run - JK: Not a fan of the shootout - Rough year for

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion about our narcissistic society. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Thee Oh Sees, Fidlar, The Kills and Drive Like Jehu. Show notes: - Anybody can have a show or self-publish a book - Everybody's a photojournalist now - Online commenters are the worst - Talk radio callers are moving online - Onion AV Club comment sections can be great - Matt: Arguing on the Internet makes everyone dumber - So easy to hit "send" - Begging for RTs from celebs on Twitter is pathetic - The ridiculousness of Google Glass - How much information do you really need? - Can you watch a movie or TV show without checking your phone? - Staying off social media to avoid spoilers - The need to live tweet TV shows - The moviegoing experience sucks - Matt can go entire days without dealing with a live human - Bonehead of the Week Music:Thee Oh Sees - Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster Fidlar - Gimme Something The Kills - Future Starts Slow Drive Like Jehu - Caress Completely C

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion about our narcissistic society. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from JEFF the Brotherhood, Le Butcherettes, Sleater-Kinney and Ty Segall. Show notes: - Narcissism is on the rise - Recent study looks at the Internet "narcissism epidemic" - We are part of the problem - We're more likely to take photos of injustice than actually help out - Matt works from home, posts on Facebook to get social interaction - Some people need to post status updates of their every move - Gay marriage debate has been ubiquitous on social media - Linked In endorsements: What's the point? - Matt's creepy clown photo - Creating a false impression through upbeat self-promotion - Selfies are everywhere - People will do anything to get on TV - Reality TV has never been more popular - MySpace was a mess - Googling yourself is a common activity - Matt's IMDB page - To be continued - Bonehead of the Week Music:JEFF the Brotherhood - Shredder Le Butcherettes - Henry Don'

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we wrap up the CompCon Awards. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Magnolia Electric Co., Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile and Dump. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Worst Album by Best Band - Mid-'90s Van Halen was really bad - George Harrison had some questionable releases in early '80s - The Clash's Cut the Crap was like a parody of the band - Best Album by Worst Band - The Strokes: One-hit-album wonder? - Jay: Give the band Live credit for somehow having a career - Best Non-Guitar Solo - Jay: Looked at instruments other than drums - Plenty of great bass solos over the years - Best Live Album - Stones played faster on Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out - J. Geils Band were an amazing live act - Sore Thumb Award for song that doesn't fit on album it's on - What's the deal with skits on hip-hop albums? - Best Moustache in Rock - Jeff "Skunk" Baxter had a classic 'stache - Zappa was defined by his 'stache - Bonehead of the Week Music:Magnolia Electric