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!: September 2020

 

Alkaline Trio

 Well this episode was just full of questions, wasn't it? Aren't you excited to listen? Could you possibly answer the first question if the second one was applicable? Can you believe we're almost caught up to current??

Countdown #421

***Featuring***

AJR

Alkaline Trio

All Time Low featuring blackbear

Bastille featuring Graham Coxon

Dayglow

The Head and the Heart

The Killers

Machine Gun Kelly 

Matt Maeson

Metallica

The Strokes 

twentyonepilots

Wallows featuring Clairo

Weezer

Countdown 420 Overflow post

 This is an overflow post related episode 420

Countdown 419 Label Overflow Post

 This links to Episode 419 (July 2020)

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 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 Artists of the Year!

The Wonder Years

Here we are again for another glorious Artists of the Year countdown. I love it so much and this one is an EXCELLENT one. Great songs, but also songs that point to specific events in the year, which is just what you want in an AOTY countdown, you know?


2019 Artists of the Year Countdown

***Featuring***
Barenaked Ladies
The Beatles
blink-182
Cast of Hamilton
Fall Out Boy
Gin Blossoms
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
The Mountain Goats
New Found Glory
Pearl Jam
Taylor Swift
The Wonder Years

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!: 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!: 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

link to countdown 403

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

2018 Artists of the Year

Bob Dylan, 1965

ANOTHER ONE! That's right another podcast from this guy right here (me, not Bob). I am feeling absolutely on fire with podcasting right now and I'm hoping that it lasts!

This is the Artists of the Year Countdown for 2018 and there are some surprises in here, let me tell you. Of course if you look down at the "Featuring" section, some of it will be ruined, but I think you'll still enjoy it a lot!



2018 Artists of the Year

***Featuring***
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Barry Adamson
The Beatles
Blink-182
Bob Dylan
Dessa
Echo and the Bunnymen
Fall Out Boy
New Found Glory
NOFX
Rx Bandits
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2018 Year End Countdown!!

Portugal. The Man

It's a little late (only.......8 or so months late...) but here it is. The Year-End Countdown for 2018. It's fun to look back at the songs that were hitting the chart hard in 2018 and this was a lot of fun to do! Enjoy!


2018 Year End Countdown

***Featuring***
AJR
Bastille x Marshmello
Foo Fighters
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
Kesha
lovelytheband
Panic! At the Disco
Portugal. The Man
The Struts
Walk the Moon
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