Newb...I mean NEW Countdown

I realized when recording this one that there are a lot of bands that are either touring in support of, or in the process of making, their debut albums. It'd be fun to see a show with all of them together. And I think it would work, genre-ically. If I win the lottery, I will host an annual year end concert with all of the bands that made the countdown, but have only released one album (LP) at most. What would I call it?

ANYways....

Countdown #130

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
Atlas Genius
AWOLNATION
The Black Keys
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
Mumford and Sons
Muse
Passion Pit
R.E.M.
Youngblood Hawke

New Countdown: Thanksgiving Bonus Edition!

Yeah I went kind of crazy on the bonus songs, but I'm very thankful for all of you listeners and I will not apologize! I'm sorry, but that's just who I am ;-)

I'm very interested to see if I can remember all of the artists featured on this episode. Let's find out together, shall we?

Countdown #129

***FEATURING***
Alex Clare
AWOLNATION
The Black Keys
The Deep Vibration
Descendents
Grouplove
Imagine Dragons
Led Zeppelin
The Lumineers
Mumford & Sons
Muse
My Morning Jacket
Passion Pit
Sly and the Family Stone
Third Eye Blind
Youngblood Hawke

New Countdown: Strong Start. And then it was after midnight :)

Yeah, I really shouldn't do these podcasts so late. I really let myself spool out the ramble on this one. But I think it's actually ok. Just make sure you listen to it at like 12:30 am. :)

Countdown #128

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
AWOLNATION
The Black Keys
Grouplove
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Passion Pit
R.E.M.
Youngblood Hawke

New Countdown: Hey! I can't find nothin on the radio!

So. Now it's November, huh? Well that means we have a new Best Alternative Album Grammy Winner to start poring over. And it's a good one. You'll see :)

This is a fun one, you guys.

Countdown #127

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
AWOLNATION
The Black Keys
fun.
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Passion Pit
R.E.M.
Youngblood Hawke

New Countdown: A Little Shilling, A Lot of Rock

Yeah, I ask for money for a cause on this one. But only like twice, so it's like you barely notice! :)

It's a fun episode (as usual!) and I think you're going to enjoy it.

Countdown #126

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
AWOLNATION
The Black Keys
fun.
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
Mumford and Sons
Muse
Of Monsters and Men
P.O.S
Passion Pit

New Countdown! 1/8 of the way to 1000!

Haha it's the little milestones in life, isn't it?

Whoa. Here's a weird thought. When I started this podcast, Matthew from Song by Toad was where I was, podcast-count-wise. That's pretty amazing to me, even if it means absolutely nothing to you :)

Hope your Fall is going well and that you're enjoying the countdowns!

Countdown #125

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
AWOLNATION
The Black Keys
fun.
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
Mumford and Sons
Muse
Of Monsters and Men
Passion Pit
Sinéad O'Connor

New Countdown! On Time! Woohoo!

Well, we're back on track this week and so I'm feeling very good about that :)

Man, I love doing this countdown. Every time I listen to the American Top 40 reruns from the 70's, I feel like I'm listening to a colleague.

By the way, a great birthday/Christmas gift for me would be a copy of the AT40 from my birthweek. Or something. I would love to have on demand access to them. But maybe they would lose some of their luster.

Anyways, here's the show!

Countdown #124

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
AWOLNATION
The Black Keys
fun.
Imagine Dragons
The Killers
The Lumineers
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Passion Pit

New Countdown: Sometimes Not As Easy As 1, 2, 3

Sometimes, family comes first, you guys.....and, of course, it shouldn't come down to that if I was planning well....which I wasn't. But we all slip sometimes, right? .....Right?

Anywho, the fall weather has taken a chilly turn and I am just LOVING it!

Countdown #123 (see why the title?)

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
AWOLNATION
The Black Keys
fun.
Imagine Dragons
The Killers
The Lumineers
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Passion Pit
Sinéad O'Connor

New Countdown! Goodbye September!

Autumn is being kind of a tease this week, but I am anticipating blustery chilly days and it's going to be soooo nice. :)

I'm down in Virginia Beach this weekend and, boy, it sure is nice to have a laptop that doesn't need to be attached to a power cord (aka not a laptop). You guys, I think laptops might be the future of business on the go. Spread the word. ;-)

Countdown #122

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
AWOLNATION
The Black Keys
fun.
Green Day
Imagine Dragons
The Killers
The Lumineers
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Nirvana

New Countdown: Loving This Fall Weather

Happy Fall Everyone! Hope your Equinox was spectacularly Autumnal!

It's another great countdown this week. We say goodbye to a feature that we've been doing for around 2 years now and we prepare for a feature we'll be doing for just about 2 years! It's past, present and future around here, folks!

Countdown #121

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
The Black Keys
fun.
Green Day
Imagine Dragons
The Killers
Linkin Park
The Lumineers
Mumford & Sons
Muse

New Countdown! Feeling SO good!

It's getting to be Fall again, folks, and I couldn't be more stoked. The possible cold I was feeling never actually materialized and that is such a nice little gift.

And we have another debut on the chart this week! And we're keeping the rundown of the bottom 10 that I've been doing! Everything's coming up Milhouse!

Countdown #120

***Featuring***

Alex Clare

The Black Keys

fun.

Green Day

Imagine Dragons

The Killers

Kings of Leon

Linkin Park

The Lumineers

Mumford & Sons

Muse

Countdown 119

I'm worried that I'm starting to come down with something, so I'm going to make this quick. Here's a new countdown! It's a great one!

Think healthy thoughts for me!

Countdown #119

***Featuring***
Air Traffic Controller
Alex Clare
fun.
Green Day
Imagine Dragons
The Killers
Linkin Park
The Lumineers
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Of Monsters and Men

New Countdown: Your Labor Day 2012 Fix For Alternative Music

It's another lovely day in the neighborhood of Alternative music. I hope that you have all enjoyed the first half of the three-day weekend (or, if you're going back to work tomorrow, the first half of the two-day weekend) and that you're ready for some great tunes!

Countdown #118

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
fun.
Green Day
Grouplove
Imagine Dragons
The Killers
Linkin Park
The Lumineers
Mumford and Sons
Of Monsters and Men

WARNING: This Week's Countdown Contains Nearly 11 minutes of Evil

Ok, maybe not EVIL, per se. Or at least not to most people. Some people will find no irony in my Post Title and will think it is completely accurate. Others are going to have a fun, dancy time. 

I always know an idea for the podcast is a good one when I get a wicked little smile on my face. And Friday, when I thought of doing this, I got that little smile. :-D

For those of you keeping score at home, this is the first podcast published in the era in which my sister goes to college. That's something for the trivia books, people.

Countdown #117

***Featuring***

Alex Clare

The Black Keys

fun.

Green Day

Grouplove

Imagine Dragons

The Killers

Linkin Park

The Lumineers

Of Monsters and Men

New Countdown, Old Bonus Segment

This week I resurrect a bonus song concept that I bet you'd forgotten! But, then again, you probably don't live your life with bonus song concepts floating around in your head. Or do you?!?!

No hunky teen TV star this week (Sorry Erin, but I can have you EXPECTING it, you know?) just pure, unadulterated, genre-ally hazy Alternative Songs!

Countdown #116

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
The Black Keys
fun.
Green Day
Grouplove
Imagine Dragons
The Killers
Linkin Park
The Lumineers
Of Monsters and Men

Countdown #115: NEW NEW NEW

I am so early in getting this episode done. Usually I have some idea about where the songs are the following week so I can arrange to play things or whatever to accommodate that, but that is not the case this week. 

My friend Erin says that these Countdown posts don't really have a lot of content aimed at her. In the interest of rectifying that:

Maybe the prospect of more of
the same will entice you back :)

Meanwhile, over here, we'll have the countdown. You might think that there's a lot of new stuff on this one. You're right.

Countdown #115

***Featuring***

Alex Clare

The Black Keys

fun.

Green Day

Grouplove

Imagine Dragons

The Killers

The Lumineers

Of Monsters and Men

New Countdown! BLOGPOCALYPSE BEGINS

Haha I really am overselling the blogpocalypse of it all. Hope your expectations are sky high!!!!

So, this was a good episode with some fun changes. New songs. And a discussion on input volume levels!!! Seriously, though, I need your feedback. I explain before and after I intro #5, so please let me know!

Countdown #114

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
The Black Keys
Foo Fighters
fun.
Green Day
Grouplove
Imagine Dragons
Linkin Park
Of Monsters and Men
The Offspring
Silversun Pickups

Countdown #113: First Countdown with the New Laptop!

It went pretty well. I got used to the new version of Audacity. I only started talking before it was recording like twice and I'm pleased with the lack of excess background noise. Overall, I'm quite happy to be using the laptop for this!

Countdown #113

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
The Black Keys
fun.
Grouplove
Imagine Dragons
Linkin Park
Of Monsters and Men
The Offspring
Silversun Pickups
Southbound Drive
Walk the Moon

Countdown 112: In Defense of The Offspring (kind of)

I do spend a large majority of my time in this episode reading, and then reacting to, a bad review of the new Offspring album. But it's certainly not the whole time and I think that I make some attempt to explain why the review bugged me.

This may be the last post I write on K's laptop! I have a new laptop (birthday-related present) sitting over there and when I hit "publish" on this puppy I'm going to go over and bust it out!

Countdown #112

***Featuring***
Alex Clare
The Black Keys
fun.
Grouplove
Imagine Dragons
Linkin Park
Of Monsters and Men
The Offspring
Silversun Pickups
Walk the Moon