New Countdown: June 2020

The Killers

Okay, so I was doing SO well for like 2 months and then all of a sudden I'm behind again. But that's okay! I'll get the episodes out when they come out! This episode also has a special announcement that not even I was aware was going to happen until the last intro of the episode. So look forward to that! And enjoy!

Countdown #418 

*Featuring*

AJR 

The Black Keys

Cage the Elephant

Foo Fighters

Glass Animals 

Grouplove

The Head and the Heart

The Killers 

lovelytheband

Matt Maeson

powfu featuring beabadoobee 

Tame Impala

Twenty One Pilots

Weezer

What's Eating Gilbert

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!: 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 Post!: October 2019!

Illenium & Jon Bellion

Hey Everyone! We're still putting out regular episodes! What a wild ride it's been! I'm so excited to get all caught up and have regularly scheduled monthly episodes. That's going to be so wonderful. Lots of great songs this episode! Which one is your favorite?


Countdown #410

***Featuring***
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Dominic Fike
DREAMERS
Fall Out Boy featuring Wyclef Jean
Green Day
Illenium & Jon Bellion
Lana Del Rey
Matt Maeson
Mumford & Sons
Of Monsters and Men
SHAED
Sublime
twentyonepilots
Weezer

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!: 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: March 2019!

Cage the Elephant

I'm now worried that I spent a lot of this episode referring to it as the February 2019 list. Hopefully not, because NaNoWriMo MARCHES on! (See what I did there?). It's really fun to have given myself a requirement to do these countdowns. I love them a lot. And I hope you do too!


Countdown #403 (March 2019)

***Featuring***
The 1975
Barns Courtney
Bastille & Marshmello
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
flora cash
Judah & the Lion
lovelytheband
Mountain Goats
Muse
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
twentyonepilots
Vampire Weekend
Young the Giant

2014 Year End Countdown!!!

Bastille

Well here we are at the end of another year. It's been a year of breaking bands, for the most part and this countdown reflects that. I think you'll find this is a very enjoyable countdown and I had a lot of fun making it, as well as all of the countdowns this year.

See you next week for the Artists of the Year countdown and then the week after that for the first new countdown of 2015!!!


Year End Countdown

***Featuring***
Arctic Monkeys
Bastille
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Bleachers
Cage the Elephant
Fitz & the Tantrums
KONGOS
Milky Chance
Neon Trees
Vance Joy

New Countdown: Indestructible!!

Milky Chance

Well, we did it. It's finally done. 225 nearly defeated me, but I said, "Nay! I will not let a nasty stomach bug prevent the Alternative Tunes from reaching the ears of my fans! They've worked too hard for too long to keep up with my ramblings for me to quit now! I must create an episode with extra ramblings! Extra windy ramblings!"

And that's just what I did :)

Countdown #225

***Featuring***
alt-J
Bastille
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Fall Out Boy
Foo Fighters
Girls
Hozier
Imagine Dragons
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Milky Chance
Vance Joy

New Countdown: Late Night Inspiration

Kendrick Lamar

For having started as late as I did, this one came together quite quickly and quite easily. That said, this late late night nonsense has got to stop! Buuuut it probably won't.

Happy Sunday, everyone! Don't forget to vote on the Festive Fifty if you haven't already!

Countdown #224

***Featuring***
alt-J
Bastille
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Fall Out Boy
Foo Fighters
Hozier
Kendrick Lamar
Lorde
Milky Chance
Vance Joy

New Countdown: Not Insanity

Big Data

It's a fun countdown this week. It's one that changes up the order of things a little (I mean, the bonus song isn't right at the beginning. Otherwise, you know, i'm not counting down out of order or whatever. That would be insanity.)

I hope you enjoy it!

Oh and don't forget to vote on the Festive Fifty. Look down a couple of posts for more information!

Countdown #223

***Featuring***
alt-J
Bastille
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Fall Out Boy
Foo Fighters
Hozier
Lorde
Milky Chance
Vance Joy

New Countdown: Danny DeVito

Weezer

A chilly November morning with some hot tunes!...would be my synopsis of this song if I were advertising it in a newspaper, or posting it on iTunes. :)

It's a good one this week. Short, but good. Like Danny DeVito.

Countdown #222

***Featuring***
alt-J
Bastille
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Fall Out Boy
Foo Fighters
Hozier
Milky Chance
St. Vincent
Vance Joy
Weezer

New Countdown: Are you more of an Adam Duritz kind of person? Or More of an Adam DON'Tritz kind of person?

Vance Joy

It's funny. This episode takes a long time to get to the first song and then the first song is really long, but this one ended up shorter than last weeks, somehow. I think it's a lack of reading FULL REVIEWS for many of the songs.

Both ways of doing things ends in entertaining podcasts, in my opinion, though, so either way works for me!

Happy "Fall Back", everyone!

Countdown #221

***Featuring***
alt-J
Bastille
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Counting Crows
Fall Out Boy
Hozier
Lorde
Milky Chance
Vance Joy
Weezer

New Countdown: And so shutters shut and so and also.

Vance Joy

So, right before I went to bed last night, I tweeted: "I'm going to wager that my podcast this week is the only one that starts with Rise Against and ends with Gertrude Stein"

And I think that pretty much covers it.

Enjoy the journey! (No songs by Journey appear on this episode)


Countdown #220

***Featuring***
alt-J
Arctic Monkeys
Bastille
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
The Dirty Heads
Gertrude Stein
Hozier
Milky Chance
Rise Against
Vance Joy
Weezer

New Countdown: From Off the Wall to Right Smack Dab in the Middle of the Wall

The Black Keys

Ok, so based off the title, you might be thinking this podcast has some early solo era Michael Jackson and maybe Pink Floyd singing "Hey You." And you'd be well within your rights to think that. But it is sadly not the case. Although it occurs to me now that those two albums were out right around the same time, which is weird to me.

No, the title just is referring to the range of song on the countdown this week. Sometimes the really kooky songs are immediately followed by songs that are 100% safe. There's nothing wrong with either category and I think the show is helped by a healthy serving of both!

Enjoy!

Countdown #219

***Featuring***
alt-J
Arctic Monkeys
Bastille
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
The Dirty Heads
Hozier
Jonnie Common
Milky Chance
Weezer
Vance Joy

New Countdown: Sleepy James and the Undying Hit Song

Vampire Weekend, ca. 2013

This one's going up a little late. We've had quite the Sunday morning, so I didn't really have time to post it this morning and I didn't have the energy to post it last night. I think I mention it in one of the intros that I was SUPER tired this week. I'm really hoping it didn't translate to the intros. The music is really good regardless and I think the episodes might be redeemed by that fact.

There's an unprecedented event this week on the chart, so you definitely want to tune in!

Countdown #215

***Featuring***
alt-J
Arctic Monkeys
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Coldplay
The Dirty Heads
Hozier
Milky Chance
Vampire Weekend
Vance Joy
Weezer

New Countdown: Yay! Long sleeves!!

Milky Chance

I don't know what is doing it, but I am SO excited for the chillier weather this year. This morning, I let the dog out and felt a little nip in the air and was like "oh boy! maybe i can wear LONG sleeves today!!" so weird.

I touch on the impending autumn a little in the show as well as talking about all the normal stuff. Songs, artists, trends, all the usual stuff. Enjoy!!

Countdown #214

***Featuring***
alt-J
Bastille
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Coldplay
The Dirty Heads
Hozier
Milky Chance
Vampire Weekend
Vance Joy
Weezer

New Countdown: School's Back For Autumn

alt-J

Fall is here. Ring the bell. It's so crazy that it's already September. It feels like the year is flying by, but at the same time it feels like we have a whole bunch more year left to go. One of the thing I love about the charts is not knowing what songs are going to be on it in the upcoming weeks and months. By Christmas, who knows what we'll be listening to? I find that super exciting!

Countdown #213

***Featuring***
alt-J
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Bleachers
Coldplay
The Dirty Heads
Jack Johnson
KONGOS
Milky Chance
Vampire Weekend
Vance Joy
Weezer