Special Countdown: 12 Years of Last.fm (Part 4) (#20-11)

Counting Crows ca 1994

I'm back with another installment of the countdown of the Top 50 artists that I listened to from 2/14/06-2/14/18. This episode is the much-anticipated Bottom 10 of the Top 20.


12 Years of Last.fm (Part 4)

***Featuring***
Ben Folds
Cartel
Counting Crows
Fall Out Boy
Green Day
Kanye West
Less Than Jake
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Flashback Countdown #7 (1995)

Pearl Jam (1995)

I'm at Podcon as this is being published and I thought it would be fun to take a look back 22 years to this week in 1995. It was definitely a great week on the chart. Future Grammy Nominees and Hot 100 Top Ten songs abound!

Big thanks to my friend Amity for getting me a copy of the Folk Implosion song!

Enjoy!


Flashback Countdown #7 (1995)

***Featuring***
Bush
The Folk Implosion
Goo Goo Dolls
Joan Osborne
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Rentals
Seven Mary Three
Smashing Pumpkins
The Toadies

New Countdown: Less Guitars, More Guitar Feelings

Imagine Dragons

It's another great episode of the Countdown. We move into a new month (though not the month you might expect!) and talk about the lack of guitar riffage on the chart these days.

Enjoy!


Countdown #353

***Featuring***
Bad Veins
Cage the Elephant
Imagine Dragons
Judah and the Lion
The Killers
Portugal. The Man
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Revivalists
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Vance Joy
Weezer

2016 Artists of the Year

Red Hot Chili Peppers

So here we are in 2017 and it's time for another Artists of the Year countdown. A LOT of familiar faces that got shoved into the bottom 10 of the Top 20. So it makes for a very interesting list. I hope you enjoy it and I'll see you very soon for our RSP (Reg. Sched. Prog.)


2016 Artists of the Year

***Featuring***
Barenaked Ladies
Blink-182
Bob Dylan
Leslie Odom Jr.
Modern Baseball
New Found Glory
NOFX
P.O.S
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ruth B.
The White Stripes

2016 Year End Countdown

Cold War Kids

Well, I'm back! I knew when I left that I would be probably coming back with the Year End Countdown and so it has come to pass! I'm really feeling refreshed and jazzed about doing this podcast and I hope you're all be jazzed about joining me!

Fully half of the year end countdown is taken up by two bands. I bet you can guess at least one of them!

Enjoy


2016 Year End Countdown

***Featuring***
Bear Hands
Blink 182
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Kaleo
The Lumineers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: The Live(ish) Punk Edition

Kaleo

It's time for another countdown and this week we have one (almost two!) live punk songs, so I titled the whole blog post after it! Because I'm in charge around here!

Enjoy!


Countdown #312

***Featuring***
Bastille
Bishop Briggs
Blink-182
Cage the Elephant
Green Day
The Head and the Heart
Kaleo
Phantogram
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Starting Line
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: New Legacy

The Lumineers

What an interesting show we have this week! Listen in amazement as my voice gradually clears from the haze of sleep :)

Hear me realize that my bonus song should be different, IN REAL TIME!

But most of all....Enjoy :)




Countdown #311

***Featuring***
311
Bastille
Bishop Briggs
Blink 182
Cage the Elephant
Green Day
The Head and the Heart
Kaleo
The Lumineers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Starting Line
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: Good Griefs

Kaleo

As we start September's countdowns, we find ourselves with a new Artist of the Month, and a NEW NUMBER ONE! Get stoked! Wooo!

Enjoy :)


Countdown #310

***Featuring***
Bastille
Beck
Bishop Briggs
Blink 182
Cage the Elephant
Foo Fighters
Green Day
Kaleo
The Lumineers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Starting Line
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: Goodbye Summer, Goodbye August

The Lumineers

We are getting caught up and we're starting that by finishing August! This is a fun one and it also contains the Top Ten Alternative Songs of the Summer as calculated by yours truly! I think you're gonna like it a lot!



Countdown #309

***Featuring***
Bastille
Beck
Bishop Briggs
Blink 182
Bob Dylan
Cage the Elephant
Kaleo
The Lumineers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
twenty one pilots
The White Stripes
Young the Giant

New Countdown: Step Inside My Hyundai

The White Stripes

This is an episode I did mostly in one sitting, which is something I haven't done since the night of the 2015 Grammy Awards. Sometimes the spirit really moves me and today is one of those times! Which is awesome!

So, enjoy! There are some GREAT tunes to listen to.


Countdown #308

***Featuring***
Bastille
Beck
Bishop Briggs
Blink 182
Cage the Elephant
Fitz & the Tantrums
Kaleo
The Lumineers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
twenty one pilots
The White Stripes

New Countdown: Truly Alternative

Bishop Briggs

It's time for another episode of Alternative hits! I was thinking that so few of these songs are what would typically be thought of as "Alternative" in the 90's definition. And I think that's a very good thing.

Enjoy!


Countdown #307

***Featuring***
Bastille
Bishop Briggs
Blink 182
Cage the Elephant
Fitz & the Tantrums
Kaleo
The Lumineers
P.O.S
Red Hot Chili Peppers
twenty one pilots
The White Stripes

New Countdown: August When It's an Adjective

Cage the Elephant

And we're into August now! The big reveal of the first Artist of the Month happens in this episode (for those of you who don't regularly read the blog...)!!!

It's a good one and it has new Dessa in it. So I mean, what are you waiting for? Me to stop writing things? Oh, ok.


Countdown #306

***Featuring***
Bastille
Bishop Briggs
Blink 182
Cage the Elephant
Dessa
Fitz & the Tantrums
Kaleo
The Lumineers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
twenty one pilots
The White Stripes

New Countdown: Beating Sinead at Her Own Game

Fitz & the Tantrums

We're finishing up the episodes for July and moving into August, so we get one last week of songs from the week I was born!

Enjoy!


Countdown #305

***Featuring***
Bastille
Bishop Briggs
Blink 182
Cage the Elephant
Fitz & the Tantrums
Kaleo
Irene Cara
The Lumineers
The Police
Red Hot Chili Peppers
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: Streaks Come to an End

Bishop Briggs

Man, there is a lot of danceable music on this episode. It wouldn't surprise me if you got halfway through it and found yourself inexplicably shaking your moneymaker. Let me know if this is the case!

Enjoy!


Countdown #304

***Featuring***
Bishop Briggs
Blink 182
Cage the Elephant
Fitz & the Tantrums
Kaleo
The Kinks
The Lumineers
Michael Jackson
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Strumbellas
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: Sisyphus

Cage the Elephant

Another great show with some great contemporary Alternative hits and also a couple of hits from 1983!

Enjoy!


Countdown #303

***Featuring***
Bishop Briggs
blink 182
Cage the Elephant
Fitz & the Tantrums
Kajagoogoo
Kaleo
KONGOS
The Lumineers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Strumbellas
Styx
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: Many Roads to the Top

Red Hot Chili Peppers

We've got a great episode this week. One that I think you'll enjoy from the very beginning to the very end. So make sure you don't let me down by not enjoying it at some point. Ok? Ok. Let's do this.



Countdown #302

***Featuring***
Bishop Briggs
Blink-182
Cage the Elephant
David Bowie
Fitz and the Tantrums
Kaleo
KONGOS
The Lumineers
Michael Jackson
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Strumbellas
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: Eight Lines of Uhh's

Kaleo

And so we start my birthmonth. And I know it's nearly halfway through my birthmonth, but dude, months are super short, so lay off me :)

I've got a fun bonus song rule for the month that I think you'll enjoy very much!

So let's dig into the start of the SECOND 300 episodes!


Countdown #301

***Featuring***
Billy Idol
Blink-182
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Fitz & the Tantrums
Kaleo
KONGOS
The Lumineers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Strumbellas
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: A Countdown Went to CCC

The Strumbellas

Well, here we are, folks. Countdown #300. It's been a long ride and it just keeps on going. I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am! Also, I was so proud of this blog post's title. I double checked to make sure that I had my Roman numerals correct. And I did!


Countdown #300

***Featuring***
Blink-182
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Descendents
Fitz & the Tantrums
Kaleo
KONGOS
The Lumineers
Panic! At the Disco
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Strumbellas
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: Triumphant Returns!

Cold War Kids

I'm getting this one up somewhat earlier this week because I'm going down to Richmond for the weekend. I'm seeing friends, family, and meeting new friends!

So I will be on this radio show called Sound Gaze at 11 am on Saturday (6/25) so here's the link if you're interested. If you aren't able to listen live, I believe that the episodes are archived at that same link! So, enjoy!

We've got some great music on this episode too, so your music dance card is filling up fast!



Countdown #299

***Featuring***
Arthur Russell
blink-182
Cold War Kids
Doomtree
Fitz & the Tantrums
Kaleo
KONGOS
The Lumineers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Strumbellas
The Struts
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: Recording Proximity

Fitz & the Tantrums (6/13/16)
Photo Credit: Megan Cox

Well, I learned something very important this week: Recording in my office, I need to speak up, because I don't sit as close to the microphone. So I'm worried you're either not going to be able to hear me or you're going to have my vocals turned up to an appropriate level and will blow your ears out with the music. Either way, I hope you like what you hear....for as long as you CAN hear!

Isn't that picture great? My friend Marc's friend and coworker Megan took it!


Countdown #298

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
blink-182
Cold War Kids
Fitz & the Tantrums
Kaleo
Leslie Odom, Jr.
The Lumineers
Not Drowning, Waving
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Strumbellas
The Struts
twenty one pilots