Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Everybody's Working For the Weekend

So, at work, I'm basically scrambling to get the mountainous pile of stuff to do done before the end of Thursday, as I will be leaving for Florida with my wife and daughter and won't be returning to work until the following Monday.

In a similar situation, I have been stressing (well, not stressing, per se, but concerned) about getting the podcasts from last week and this week recorded and posted. Well, hang the banner because it's MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!

Countdown #65

***Featuring***
The Airborne Toxic Event
AWOLNATION
Coldplay
Death Cab for Cutie
Foo Fighters
Foster the People
Incubus
The Naked and Famous
Sublime with Rome

Monday, July 25, 2011

Somehow playing catch-up already

Well, here's the first of a couple podcasts I'm going to be doing this week! I hope you're enjoying them in the blocks that I'm posting them!

Countdown #64

***Featuring***
The Airborne Toxic Event
Alanis Morrissette
AWOLNATION
Coldplay
Death Cab For Cutie
Foo Fighters
Foster the People
Incubus
The Naked and Famous
Sublime with Rome

Monday, July 11, 2011

The Grand Finale!

Well, it has come to a very surprising end.

I don't want to say more than that, lest I ruin the surprise of what this episode has turned out to be.

Countdown #63

***Featuring***
The Airborne Toxic Event
AWOLNATION
The Black Keys
Coldplay
Death Cab For Cutie
Foo Fighters
Foster the People
Incubus
Sublime with Rome
Wugazi

Welp, here it is!

So, this is the culmination of the rumors and the hearsay!

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Sing in Japanese

I'm excited to hear how this turns out!

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Off The Charts #3: #1 Albums

At first I was worried that this would be immediately shut down by the Man. And maybe it still will be, but I hope not. The thing is, you probably already own all of these songs. So why would you steal them?

I had a blast putting this one together and I hope you have a blast listening to it!

Off The Charts #3: #1 Albums


(A running theme of these episodes has been that I've been talking and talking and talking, so it's another Google Docs link. Let me know if it's not working, but I haven't heard from anyone about the others, so maybe I've learned how to do this right)


(Also, it seems that Blogger has forgotten how to move a word to the next line if it doesn't fit on the line it's on. So, that's annoying and hopefully you won't know what I'm talking about when you're reading this. If you DO know what I'm talking about, I apologize for the weirdness.)


***Featuring***
The Beatles
Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Carole King
Fleetwood Mac
Guns N' Roses
Jay-Z
Jaydiohead
Lauryn Hill
Michael Jackson
Nirvana
Radiohead

Saturday, July 9, 2011

4th Consecutive Day with a New Podcast!

I'm so happy that this is going so well! I hope you're all enjoying and rocking out to all the podcasts this weekend!

This is the Countdown for the week of 7/9. And today's 7/9. Do you know what that means? I'm caught up!! Woohoo!!!! And there's still two more days of podcasts for you to look forward to!

Countdown #62

(This is another long one (there's a particularly long intro...) so let me know if the link's not working!)

***Featuring***
The Airborne Toxic Event
AWOLNATION
The Beggars' Guild
Coldplay
Death Cab for Cutie
Foo Fighters
Foster the People
Incubus
Rise Against
Sublime with Rome

Friday, July 8, 2011

Off The Charts #2: Daytrotter

In preparation for the birthday edition of OTC, I put together a tribute to Daytrotter!

I hope that you enjoy it! I absolutely enjoyed it and I'm so excited about this new show.

Off The Charts #2: Daytrotter

***Featuring***
French Kicks
The Jim Jones Revue
The Morning Benders
Sam Roberts
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
White Rabbits

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Day 2!

Well, here we are on day 2 of the Appetite For Distraction Podcast Marathon (or something like that) which will see a new podcast posted every day at 830 (with the exception of yesterday's when I didn't know that I was doing the 830 thing) until Monday! Today's podcast is....

Countdown #61

***Featuring***
The Airborne Toxic Event
AWOLNATION
Coldplay
Death Cab for Cutie
Foo Fighters
Foster the People
Incubus
Rise Against
Seether
Sublime with Rome
U2

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Off The Charts #1: Sister/Summer

So, here's a new series of podcasts that I've been thinking about doing. It's not the countdown. It's something else. Something...different. I hope you enjoy it

The microphone quality is also different from normal, but thats what you get from setting up and recording on the fly!

Off The Charts #1

(As always, let me know if that link isn't working...)

***Featuring***
Beck
Breakbot
Freestylers
The Japanese War Effort
Kings of Leon
Matt Nathanson
Passion Pit
Peter, Bjorn, and John
Sly & the Family Stone
Sugar Ray
The Who

Russian Roulette (Blog Version) - 5th Round

First of all, Happy Birthday Dad! I'm so stoked that one of these landed on your birthday! You have been instrumental in my musical growth over the years! Not to mention my growth as a man and a human being.

So, today's round goes to the first track on the Joplin In Concert album. It was an album I bought after hearing about how amazing she was and this track absolutely hooked me in to loving her and her amazing voice!

It was recorded on March 2, 1968 when she was with Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Every time I hear this, I am sad that I never got to see her perform in concert. They truly don't make singers like her anymore. Or maybe they do and she was just one of the first, biggest, brightest example!

The R-cubed (see previous round) on this is still pretty low, because I feel like there's not a lot of demand for this kind of recording. It's a pretty common thing, is what I'm saying, so don't worry about little ol' me. :)

Janis Joplin - Down on Me (live) from Joplin In Concert (buy)

Monday, July 4, 2011

Russian Roulette (Blog Version) - 4th Round

I really don't know much about this band that I'm posting for the fourth exciting round of blog Russian Roulette. I know that I got this from I Am Fuel, You Are Friends, along with "Hey Sandy", "As Usual" and "Coronado II", all of which come from the Music from The Adventures of Pete and Pete which was a TV show on Nickelodeon that was the "cool, awkward kid" among all of its contemporaries. "Hey Sandy" was the theme song, but this song is also quite enjoyable.

The Adventures of Pete and Pete was a nice glimpse into middle-class, kooky American life, so it's apropos that this song is showing up on the day we celebrate our Independence Day!

In terms of Russian Roulette Risk ("R-cubed" to those in the know), I would say that this song is fairly safe. I could always be wrong, but, in this instance, I don't think I am. Not a lot of people trying to pirate this kind of music and so it's probably not on too many hot lists...

Polaris - She is Staggering from Music from The Adventures of Pete and Pete (buy)