New Countdown: January 2021!

 

24kGoldn and Iann Diorr

It's taken a little big to get this one out, but it's finally done. I think that this experiment with the Hot Rock  & Alternative Songs chart has been a success and I am planning on continuing it into 2022. Now. Let's see how many 2021 countdowns I can get out before then!

Countdown #424

***Featuring***

24kGoldn featuring iann dior
AJR
All Time Low featuring Blackbear
Billie Eilish
Clairo
Diet Cig
Glass Animals
Juice WRLD x Marshmello
Machine Gun Kelly x Marshmello
Machine Gun Kelly & Halsey
Taylor Swift

New Countdown: 2020 Year End Countdown!

Machine Gun Kelly

 Well, here it is! The Year-End Countdown for 2020! I've had it done for a little bit, but for whatever reason, it has taken me a while to actually sit down and post it. But here it is! And it's chockablock full of music! Enjoy!

2020 Year End Countdown

***Featuring***

AJR
All Time Low featuring blackbear
Billie Eilish
Blue October
Cage the Elephant
Foo Fighters
The Killers
Machine Gun Kelly x blackbear
Matt Maeson
Tame Impala
twentyonepilots
Wallows featuring Clairo

New Countdown!: May 2020

Grouplove

Hey everyone! Well we made it through another month (basically) and so there's another batch of songs from Alternative Radio to listen to! We'll be back next month. Stay safe and healthy. And also, I hope it's very clear that at Appetite For Distraction, we firmly support Black Lives Matter and want swift justice for George Floyd and every other Black human being that has been murdered by police officers. The system is broken and we need to fix it.


Countdown #417

***Featuring***
AJR
Billie Eilish
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Glass Animals
Green Day
Grouplove
The Killers
lovelytheband
Neon Trees
Powfu featuring beabadoobee
Stephen Lynch
Tame Impala
twentyonepilots

New Countdown!: April 2020! (with special guest Lila!)

Billie Eilish

Hey! So, this is what monthly countdowns looks like! We are back with all of the songs that charted in April. And my daughter is here to weigh in on what she thinks of the songs from this month. We had such a fun time recording that this might become an occasional feature. I hope you have as much fun. The "cover art" for this episode is not random as it normally is, but was purposefully selected after Lila correctly pointed out that there's only one female voice in this whole countdown. (Diet Cig has an album you could go preorder, if you were interested....)


Countdown #416

***Featuring***
AJR
AWOLNATION
Billie Eilish
Cage the Elephant
China Crisis
Green Day
Grouplove
Hot Chelle Rae
The Killers
lovelytheband
The Lumineers
Neon Trees
Strung Out
Sub Urban
Tame Impala
twentyonepilots
The Unlikely Candidates

New Post!: March 2020! (CAUGHT. UP!)

The Lumineers

WE DID IT!!! This episode marks the official last episode I can feasibly do before the end of April. I'm feeling like I'm in a prime position to keep current with a monthly countdown show and I'm excited to do it. Thanks for hanging in with me as I've worked to get current. See you in April!!!


Countdown #415

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
Billie Eilish
Cage the Elephant
Green Day
Grouplove
The Killers
The Lumineers
Meg Myers
MxPx
Neon Trees
Sub Urban
twentyonepilots
The Unlikely Candidates
White Reaper

New Post!: February 2020!

Coldplay

Well here we are! As of my hitting Publish on this post, I will be caught up on Countdowns....until the day you're reading it, but I'll be current. And that feels amazing. Thanks for sticking with me as I've figured out how to make this show I love doing work in the current life I have. Enjoy the eclectic sounds that made the chart this month!


Countdown #414

***Featuring***
Absofacto
AWOLNATION
Billie Eilish
Catfish & the Bottlemen
Coldplay
Fall Out Boy
Green Day
The Lumineers
Meg Myers
SHAED
Spoon
Sub Urban
twentyonepilots
The Unlikely Candidates
White Reaper

New Post!: January 2020!

Kimya Dawson

Well here we are in 2020! As I write this I have both January and February episodes done! I'll be posting this one now and then February's on Tuesday! So watch this space! This is a fun episode with lots of great songs! Enjoy!


Countdown #413

***Featuring***
Absofacto
AWOLNATION
Billie Eilish
Catfish & the Bottlemen
Coldplay
eels
Kimya Dawson
Local Natives
Meg Myers
SHAED
twentyonepilots
The Unlikely Candidates
White Reaper

New Post! 2019 Year End Countdown

Panic! At the Disco

2019 comes to a close and, as usual, we are counting down the top charting songs of the year. Pay no attention to the fact that it's March. We're getting there! I love Year End Countdowns and this one is a very good one, with more than a couple of surprised in store for you! Enjoy!


2019 Year End Countdown

***Featuring***
Bastille
Billie Eilish
Cage the Elephant
Coldplay
Lana Del Rey
The Lumineers
Marshmello
morgxn featuring Walk the Moon
Of Monsters and Men
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
twentyonepilots

New Post!: December 2019

Local Natives

And so we come to the end of the year! Do you all understand how CLOSE we are to catching up? The answer is: very close! I hope you enjoy this one. There are some gems that cropped up at the very end of the year that are worth checking out!


Countdown #412

***Featuring***
Absofacto
Billie Eilish
Catfish & the Bottlemen
Coldplay
Local Natives
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Meg Myers
Rex Orange County
SHAED
twentyonepilots
Weezer
White Reaper

New Post!: November 2019!

Cage the Elephant

I'm so excited! This is a great episode and we are getting very very close to caught up! I can hardly believe it. I hope you all have been enjoying these episodes. I think they're fun overviews of different things that happen during a month of Alternative Radio!


Countdown #411

***Featuring***
Absofacto
Billie Eilish
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Coldplay
DREAMERS
Green Day
Illenium & Jon Bellion
Lana Del Rey
Meg Myers
SHAED
Sublime
Suzanne Vega
twentyonepilots
Weezer
White Reaper

New Countdown!: September 2019!

Well the first thing that we have to take care of is the fact that I skipped August's Artist of the Month. So we do a little backtracking on that front, but then we have a bunch of new songs and one BIG Grammy winner! Enjoy!


Countdown #409

***Featuring***
Billie Eilish
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Dominic Fike
Green Day
Illenium & Jon Bellion
Lana Del Rey
Matt Maeson
Of Monsters and Men
Paramore
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
Sublime
twentyonepilots

New Countdown!: August 2019!

SHAED

We're back on track for what I hope to be a regular release schedule which will have us current by the end of March! I hope you enjoy this one. There are lots of great songs on the countdown for this month. Plus! Results of the Songs of Summer chart I kept last year!


Countdown #408

***Featuring***
AJR
Bastille
Billie Eilish
Cage the Elephant
Dominic Fike
The Head and the Heart
Lana Del Rey
The Lumineers
Matt Maeson
Of Monsters and Men
Panic! At the Disco
Reel Big Fish
SHAED
Yellowcard

New Countdown: July 2019!

Matt Maeson

Well, if anything, we could say that July was pretty Sublime. Eh? Eh? But seriously, this is an excellent and fairly quick episode. It's chock full of excellent tunes. Some old, some new, and some new covers of old stuff. Enjoy!


Countdown #407

***Featuring***
AJR
Billie Eilish
Dominic Fike
Half Alive
The Head and the Heart
Lana Del Rey
Lumineers
Matt Maeson
Of Monsters and Men
Panic! At the Disco
Pearl Jam
SHAED
Sublime

New Countdown!: June 2019!

Billie Eilish

We're entering summer and the artist picture for this month could not be more appropriate, as you'll find out! Enjoy!


Countdown #406

***Featuring***
AJR
The Ataris
Billie Eilish
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Catfish & the Bottlemen
Half Alive
The Head and the Heart
The Lumineers
Mumford & Sons
Of Monsters & Men
Oliver Tree
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
twentyonepilots

New Countdown!: May 2019

SHAED

Hey hey hey! I haven't quite let NaNoWriMo defeat me yet! Sure, I'm very behind, but I'm still trucking along and I hope you're still along for the ride with me! This is a short one, but a very fun one :)



Countdown #405 (May 2019)

***Featuring***
AJR
Billie Eilish
The Black Keys
BLUE BIRD
Cage the Elephant
Catfish & the Bottlemen
Imagine Dragons
lovelytheband
The Lumineers
Oliver Hurt
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
twentyonepilots

New Countdown!: April 2019

Taking Back Sunday

NaNoWriMo continues this weekend! Saturday's episode is all about the songs that were on the Top Ten in April of 2019 and an especially NON-Saturday Artist of the Month. It's a good episode with some new ones as well as some old favorites.


Countdown #404 (April 2019)

***Featuring***
Barns Courtney
Bastille & Marshmello
Billie Eilish
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Catfish & the Bottlemen
Imagine Dragons
lovelytheband
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
Taking Back Sunday
twentyonepilots
Vampire Weekend
Young the Giant

New Countdown!: February 2019

Jars of Clay

It's the beginning of NaNoWriMo and all my friends are busy working on their books, I've decided to publish at least one podcast every day of the month, which basically just amounts to starting to release episodes on the weekends. Which is a good, cool thing because if I keep it up, I'll be caught up by the end of the month!


Countdown #402 (February 2019)

***Featuring***
The 1975
Barns Courtney
Billie Eilish
Cage the Elephant
flora cash
Imagine Dragons
Jars of Clay
lovelytheband
Marshmello & Bastille
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
twentyonepilots
Weezer
Young the Giant

New Countdown!: January 2019

Imagine Dragons

Well here it is! The first month of 2019 covered! Haha I think I have things semi-sorted now and I'm hoping (i know i say this all the time, but whatever lol) to start getting these out with more of a quickness, so that we can wrap the year in a caught-up sort of place.

Enjoy!


Countdown #401

***Featuring***
Bastille x Marshmello
Billie Eilish
The Early November
flora cash
Imagine Dragons
lovelytheband
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Panic! At the Disco
twentyonepilots
Weezer

New Countdown: Well, Not "New" In All the Ways, But Certainly in Some of the Ways

Muse

Hey. Here is a countdown of the songs that were on the Alternative Songs Top 10 in December 2018. Relevant? Probably not. But it's a batch of good, fun tunes and I think you might enjoy them a lot! Hit play and see if I'm right!


Countdown #400 (Oh also it's the 400th episode! Hahaha)

***Featuring***
AJR
Billie Eilish
flora cash
Imagine Dragons
The Interrupters
lovelytheband
Marshmello & Bastille
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Panic! At the Disco
The Revivalists
twentyonepilots
Wugazi