Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite music of the year so far. Show notes: - Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ - Plenty of great rock music, but not on the charts - It's all about playing live; rock radio exposure is nonexistent - Billy Squier still gets the airplay - Nobody's figured out how to make money from streaming music - Get pumped for Husker Du bootleg box set - More rock deaths: Berry, Cornell, Allman, Geils - Rise in musical activism - Albums we want to hear - Breitling: Ride, Palehound, Wet Trident - Kumar: Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett, Ted Leo, Buffalo Tom, Queens of the Stone Age, Deer Tick, LCD Soundsystem - Bubbling under albums - Breitling: Tara Jane O'Neil, Opin, The xx - Lubec's coming to Boston in August - Kumar: Chastity Belt, Bash and Pop, Cloud Nothings, White Reaper, At the Drive-In, Black Lips - Our favorite albums so far - JB: Spirit of the Beehive combines psych and shoegaze - JK: Run the Jewels keeps on rolling - Zach de la Rocha's hardcore past - JB: Yr Poetry is a Johnny Foreigner side project - JK: Japandroids bring the rock anthems - JB: Different sound for Pile - JK: More anthems from Los Campesinos! - Cello vs. violin - To be continued 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. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

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