It's part 1 of my Zoomified conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of 2020.

Show notes:

  • Recorded via Zoom

  • This podcast is not affiliated in any with MovieFone.

  • The first time in nine years that we're not talking the year in rock in the same room

  • No live shows after early March

  • Breitling last saw Hallelujah the Hills at Great Scott last November, Kumar saw Drive-By Truckers at Somerville Theater in March

  • Devastating economic impact on all the non-musicians who work to put concerts together

  • If approved, Save Our Stages act would aid live venues

  • Many independent Boston-area venues have already closed

  • Great Scott may reopen in a new location

  • No touring means no income for many smaller artists

  • Streaming royalties need to be updated and increased

  • The Breitlings enjoyed Strange Brew recently

  • Plenty of livestreams, free, for charity and for profit

  • Bandcamp Friday has been a good way to help out artists

  • Online radio has been fun

  • Breitling is doing a show with a couple of fellow Wesleyan DJs called Parcheesi Redux

  • Parcheesi Redux Thursday (along with the other shows) is on Mixcloud

  • Kumar's show, Stuck In Thee Garage, is in its 7th year on BFF.fm

  • Great way to discover new music

  • Our favorite music

  • Breitling's picks from the midyear that didn't make his top 10: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Soft Pink Truth, Gigi Masin, Peel Dream Magazine, Mandarina Duck, Destroyer

  • Kumar's midyear picks that didn't make final top 10: Flat Worms, Dogleg, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Drakulas, Car Seat Headrest

  • More Breitling on-the-bubble picks: Susie Derkins, Hum, Coriky, Mountain Goats, Milky Wimpshake, Somerset Thrower, Nothing, METZ, Bob Mould, The Brother Kite, Paper Birch

  • More Kumar honorable mention picks: Psychedelic Furs, Kestrels, Fontaines D.C., Pearl Jam, Lo Tom, Disheveled Cuss, Emerald Comets/Ex-Hyena

  • Next week: We count down our top 10 albums

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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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