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

New Countdown: Counting Fundamentals

Fitz & the Tantrums

I'm really proud about how early this is coming out and really eager to try to pull the reins back on my procrastination and get this thing publishing with some sort of regularity again!

So enjoy the show and stick around until the end to witness me talk at length about a fact that is 100% wrong. And then watch me backpedal. Seriously, it's in the last 20 seconds of the last intro. And it's hilarious :)


Countdown #297

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
blink-182
Cold War Kids
Farewell Flight
Fitz & the Tantrums
Kaleo
The Lumineers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Strumbellas
The Struts
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: Equal Opportunity Angst

Boy have we got some great tunes for you this week. Some shake-ups and some break-ups. (I don't know what that means: "break-ups", but it sounded good for the rhyme...

Next week marks the beginning of the 2016 Appetite For Distraction Songs of Summer, and I , for one, am VERY excited with how things are leading into that competition!

Enjoy the show!


Countdown #296

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
blink-182
Cold War Kids
Empire of the Sun
Fitz & the Tantrums
The Grates
The Lumineers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Strumbellas
The Struts
twenty one pilots

New Countdown: I've Been Thinking Too Much (Help Me)

The Struts

The title of this post, in case you were worried, just comes from my having had that part of that song in my head when I was typing it. Not a cry for help, just a bit of sing-a-long!

It's a VERY exciting show this week, I think you'll agree, so I'll let you get to it! Enjoy!


Countdown #295

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
blink-182
Cold War Kids
Empire of the Sun
Fitz & the Tantrums
The Lumineers
Miike Snow
P.O.S featuring Moncelas Boston & Sophia Eris
The Strumbellas
The Struts
twenty one pilots
Vampire Weekend

New Countdown: Gary Puckett and the AWOLNATION (or, The Str...'s Episode)

twenty one pilots

Well we are cooking with grease over here at the AFDAT10C. Two podcasts out in less than a week? Are you kidding me? I am not kidding you. And they're good. And the music is good. And dare I say, the intros are good, too!

So I hope you enjoy the episode in all it's silliness. Believe me, things get a little silly in this one :)


Countdown #294

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
Cold War Kids
Empire of the Sun
Fitz & the Tantrums
The Lumineers
Miike Snow
Nothing But Thieves
The Strokes
The Strumbellas
The Struts
twenty one pilots
Vampire Weekend

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: Posted by a Sleep-Hungry Zombie!

Coldplay

My birthday was quite enjoyable and my son's was as well! We had his party today (even though his b-day was on Thursday) and so I'm feeling super tired. My sister and I stayed up way too late last night, got up to take the little guy to the Little Gym and then partied and partied. But this is a very enjoyable countdown, if you ask me!

Countdown #207

***Featuring***
Arctic Monkeys
Bastille
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Bleachers
Bon Iver
Coldplay
Fitz  & the Tantrums
Jack White
KONGOS
Vance Joy

New Countdown: Looking Forward to Remembering When

Bon Iver circa 2011

It's a big week around our household and so the air is crackling with excitement. Some of us are turning 1 and some of us are turning more than 1. It's all very confusing as to who's turning what.

I'll be doing the Birthday podcast again this year, so that means my birthday will be spent saving blog posts by people and then sorting through them and seeing which songs I like best and all of that. I love it, even if it can be a little daunting.

It's a good countdown this week and I really hope you enjoy it. These are always the episodes I love best. The ones in the middle of summer when the songs are the most nostalgia inducing. Someday we'll hear "Do I Wanna Know" and think "Ah, that takes me back to the summer of...was it 2014? Those were the days..." and it'll be great :)

Countdown #206

***Featuring***
Alan Wilkis
Arctic Monkeys
Bastille
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Bleachers
Bon Iver
Fitz & the Tantrums
Jack White
KONGOS
The Temper Trap
Vance Joy

New Countdown: Missed Connection

Bleachers

Happy Birthday to America and my Dad!

It's a great countdown this week. New albums to look at. New songs to listen to. And a surprising connection between this blog and one of the bands on the countdown!!

Countdown #205

***Featuring***
Alan Wilkis
Arctic Monkeys
Bastille
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Bleachers
Bon Iver
Fitz & the Tantrums
Jack White
KONGOS
Vance Joy

New Countdown: Brain Revolt

Bear Hands

Started very strong on this one, but then I started falling all over my tongue as it got later and later and my brain began to revolt in favor of sleep. Silly brain.

As I mention in the episode, this week marks the halfway mark of the year so I guess it's a "the year's half started/the year's half over" sort of situation. Pick a side!

Countdown #204

***Featuring***
Arctic Monkeys
Bastille
Bear Hands
Big Data featuring Joywave
The Black Keys
Bleachers
Cage the Elephant
Fitz & the Tantrums
Jack White
KONGOS