New Countdown: Welcome to October!

Walk the Moon

Well here we are in the 10th month. This year is just flying by and the air is getting colder. My thoughts are turning to the Festive Fifty and that email will go out at the end of the month.


For now, enjoy the Alternative goodness :)


Countdown #266

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
Beck
Bleachers featuring Elle King
Cold War Kids
Coleman Hell
Elle King
Florence + the Machine
Neon Trees
The Struts
twenty one pilots
Walk the Moon
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: I Feel More Comfortable Now, I Feel More Comfortable Now

The Struts

After a whirlwind weekend, I'm finally back with a new countdown! To make it up to you, there are two additional tunes on this one! Enjoy!


Countdown #265

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
Beck
Cold War Kids
Coleman Hell
Dessa
Elle King
Florence + the Machine
Mumford & Sons
Sisyphus
Speedy Ortiz
The Struts
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have Blurryface.

Mumford & Sons

Believe it or not, this is a milestone episode!

Enjoy!



Countdown #264

***Featuring***
The Airborne Toxic Event
AWOLNATION
Beck
Cold War Kids
Coleman Hell
Elle King
Florence + the Machine
The Struts
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: Do YOU Know What FIFA Stands For?

Florence + the Machine

We're going to chalk this one being late up to the Labor Day holiday and leave it at that.

But all of that is going to fly out the window when you hear this episode. It's a VERY exciting one :)


Countdown #263

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
Beck
Cold War Kids
Coleman Hell
Elle King
Florence + the Machine
Mumford & Sons
Paramore
The Struts
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: Schedule Shake-Up!

twenty one pilots

Yes. Here this is early. To find out why, listen in!

It's a fun episode and kicks things off for the Fall!

What's your favorite song on the countdown these days? Answer in the comments!


Countdown #262

***Featuring***
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
AWOLNATION
Beck
Cold War Kids
Elle King
Florence + the Machine
Mumford & Sons
The Struts
Taking Back Sunday
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: End of Summer

Aaron Bruno (AWOLNATION)

Well, here we are at the last week of August. I distinctly remember thinking, in the first week of June, that it would be this week before we knew it. And I hate how right I was. But I love the Fall and Winter. So we'll soldier bravely on.


Countdown #261

***Featuring***
The All-American Rejects
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
AWOLNATION
Beck
Cold War Kids
Elle King
Florence + the Machine
Mumford & Sons
The Struts
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: Bastion of Manners

Beck

I think one of the things that herald the downfall of a blog is when the author continually starts posts with "Sorry I'm late on this!" or "It's been a long time since I've posted, but I'm excited to get back into it!" or whatever. So I'm not going to do that.

This is a fun one. High energy!


Countdown #260

***Featuring***
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
AWOLNATION
Beck
Cold War Kids
Elle King
Florence + The Machine
Janis Joplin
Mumford & Sons
The Struts
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors
Yellowcard

New Countdown: Who's the Queeniest of Them All?

Of Monsters and Men

I think this was a pretty fun one. I bet you'll enjoy it!

Let me know if/when you do!


Countdown #259

***Featuring***
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Beck
Cold War Kids
Elle King
Florence + the Machine
Mumford & Sons
Of Monsters and Men
Rufio
Something Corporate
The Struts
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: Sunny Summer Sunday Afternoon

Cold War Kids

Kicking it Bachelor style this weekend, so I went for a relaxed, Sunday afternoon vibe with this one. I wonder how well it came off.

Enjoy!


Countdown #258

***Featuring***
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Beck
Cold War Kids
Elle King
Florence + the Machine
Get Up Kids
Mumford & Sons
Of Monsters and Men
twenty one pilots
Wolf Alice
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: The Episode That Almost Killed Me, or, The Episode That Nearly Wasn't!

Muse

Well this was a tough one! I'm not sure really what happened, but I kept being SO tired at night and then I just kept recording one or two intros and calling it a night. So that's why the dual title. I'm not sure if it almost killed me or if I almost just didn't finish it.

But it's a good one with great tunes and LOTS of Bonus Songs.

And also, even though it feels silly now, Happy Mother's Day!





Countdown #245

***Featuring**
AWOLNATION
B.B. King & Eric Clapton
Beastie Boys
Dar Williams
Death Cab For Cutie
Florence + the Machine
Foo Fighters
Milky Chance
Modest Mouse
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Robert Delong
Taylor Swift
Walk the Moon

New Countdown: Seems Like Old Times...

Milky Chance

Hello. I bet you thought I'd forgotten about you, didn't you? Well that is certainly not the case and we've got another great episode for you to enjoy this week. It's just a day or two...more aged? Like a wine? Yeah, let's go with that.

Oh! Quick correction: in the episode I say that Mumford & Sons were on SNL this past Saturday. That is incorrect. They were on the episode before last, which i believe was the 11th of April.

Enjoy!


Countdown #244

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
Death Cab For Cutie
Florence + the Machine
Foo Fighters
Milky Chance
Modest Mouse
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Robert DeLong
Tracy Chapman
Walk the Moon

New Countdown: The Boy Who Played With Alternative Songs

Walk the Moon

If I'm being honest, this podcast is late because I'm really really into the book I'm reading. And publishing it on time fell slightly below just blasting through it. It's The Girl Who Played With Fire which is the sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. It's super super compelling.

Please don't take my choices to indicate a bad week on the countdown, though. It was definitely a good one. We have such great songs on the show these days. Enjoy!

PS. Have you noticed that a full 60% of the songs on the Top Ten are by artists with names that start with either F or M? Weeeird.


Countdown #243

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
Death Cab For Cutie
Florence + the Machine
Foo Fighters
Milky Chance
Modest Mouse
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Robert DeLong
U2
Walk the Moon

New Countdown: More Than One Big Change This Week!

Muse

Hey, check this out! A post going up at the regularly scheduled time?! This is what I'm talking about!

Hopefully the cover photo doesn't give away any surprises, although, I don't know how it can't. Maybe it'll provide a sense of excitement? Like a teaser for the show!

Enjoy!



Countdown #242

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
Death Cab For Cutie
Florence + the Machine
Foo Fighters
Milky Chance
Modest Mouse
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Robert DeLong
The Smiths
Walk the Moon

New Countdown: I Want to See, Green on the Trees...

Milky Chance

Spring is in the air and so are the magnificent sounds of today's hottest Alternative Songs, according to Billboard! (That's how I think Casey would write my blog post)

So I hope you'll sit back and enjoy these 12 songs (two bonus songs?! has he gone mad??) perhaps with a window open and a gentle spring breeze wafting through your hair.



Countdown #241

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
The Beatles
Death Cab For Cutie
Florence + the Machine
Foo Fighters
George Ezra
Milky Chance
Modest Mouse
Mumford & Sons
New Order
Robert DeLong
Walk the Moon

New Countdown: MOST of the Newest Alternative Hits!

George Ezra

Happy Easter everyone (who celebrates)! I've got Jesus Christ Superstar playing and we're doing all sorts of egg-related activities. Hope you're all having a great day and are ready to enjoy some of the most current Alternative Songs out there today! And Milky Chance, too! ;-)


Countdown #240

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
Death Cab For Cutie
Florence + the Machine
Foo Fighters
George Ezra
Milky Chance
Modest Mouse
Mumford & Sons
Robert DeLong
Talking Heads
Walk the Moon

New Podcast: Well SOMEONE Has to Have Written the Book

Robert De Long

This episode of the podcast is way better than the procrastination I injected into it. I hope you enjoy it!



Countdown #239

***Featuring*** (notice how we have a band from the first 7 letters of the alphabet without missing one this week!)

AWOLNATION
Bleachers
Cage the Elephant
Death Cab For Cutie
Elvis Costello
Florence + the Machine
George Ezra
Milky Chance
Modest Mouse
The Monotones
Robert DeLong
Walk the Moon

New Countdown! Less Ramble! More Rock!

So I made a valiant effort not to ramble this week. And it was tough! There was a lot to talk about! The Grammys were on Sunday and we had some big wins and some performances by people that are currently on our chart! It's a good episode. And it includes....SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE...on this show...tune in, won't you?

Countdown #42

***Featuring***
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Cake
Florence + the Machine
Linkin Park
Middle Class Rut
Mumford & Sons
My Chemical Romance
Neon Trees
Rise Against

Clandestine Countdown Posting

Shh. Don't tell anyone, but I'm posting this very quickly at work. That's how much I love you guys. Elizabeth, I'll buy you some tasty food if you keep this under your hat :)

Quick thing, though. Get this one and last week's soon. Because sometime next week, I have to cancel my box.net account because I can't afford to ACTUALLY subscribe to it! So, yeah. Do some quick downloading this weekend!


Countdown #41

***Featuring***
30 Seconds to Mars
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Cake
Florence + the Machine
Linkin Park
Mumford & Sons
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Peter Murphy
Rise Against

New Countdown with extra parenty goodness!!!

So, my Dad and Stepmom were down visiting the lovely Little Distraction (as I've decided to refer to her) and they were kind enough to join me on this week's podcast! It's lots of fun, but it ran a little long. So I decided to try box.net for my "larger than Fileden can handle" needs. So, the file might not play the way it normally does, but it should download just fine! It's called "Long Version" because I made a shorter version to try to get it into Fileden range, to no avail.

Countdown #40

***Featuring***
30 Seconds to Mars
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Cake
Florence + the Machine
Linkin Park
Mumford & Sons
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Neon Trees
The Psychedelic Furs

Oh yeah. And I do podcasts too :)

I've found myself really looking forward to doing this podcast this week. Not that I'm not normally excited to do it, but this week it's just been something I've been looking forward to. The blog seems like it has new life for me. And I think that it maybe has something to do with Tricia starting her blog. So thanks Tricia!

Countdown #39

***Featuring***
30 Seconds to Mars
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Cake
Florence + the Machine
Linkin Park
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Neon Trees
Sick Puppies
U.S. Royalty