Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite indie rock of 2016.

Show notes:

• We are not Moviefone

• Rough year for musician deaths

• Trump's top 3 albums

• A return to protest music?

• Clicky Clicky HQ is fully Alexa-ized

• The kids love the vinyl (well, the hipsters do, anyway)

• Albums are back, sort of

• Crowdfunding albums is becoming more prevalent

• Breitling's bubbling under albums: A Giant Dog, Thin Lips, Bent Shapes, Yr Poetry, Pinegrove, Horse Jumper of Love, Guillermo Sexo, California Snow Story

• Kumar's: Used Cassettes, Savages, Dino Jr., Radiohead, Split Single, Preoccupations, Descendents, Johnny Foreigner, Terry Malts, Hallelujah the Hills, Kristin Hersh, I Don't Cares, Nick Cave, Gord Downie, PJ Harvey

• Downie teamed with comics artist Jeff Lemire on combo album/graphic novel

• Breitling's #10

• Cold Pumas back with a hot new release

• Kumar's #10

• Possibly the last Tragically Hip album

• Different sound courtesy of producers Kevin Drew and Dave Hamelin

• Breitling's #9

• Boston's Strange Passage reminds of early Ride

• 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. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.