New Countdown!: Snowed In

Yeah, I named today's post after the Hanson Christmas album. So what? Snow what? No no. Not that :)

I recorded this podcast before, during, and after shoveling my arms off. Listen to my chipper voice at the beginning when I didn't know just how much snow it was going to end up being. So cute!



Countdown #278

***Featuring***
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Death Cab For Cutie
Fleet Foxes
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Nothing But Thieves
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Silversun Pickups
twenty one pilots
Vance Joy
X Ambassadors

Festive Fifty 2011 Top Ten

Each day this week, in anticipation of the deadline for voting on the Festive Fifty 2012 Shortlist, I'll be listening to the Contrast Podcast Festive Fifties of yore (2012's will be the 6th!) and trying to track down the videos of the Top 5!

The big drama of last year was the battle for the #1 spot between the HUGE POP HIT and the underground indie rocker. It worked out the way these things usually do, but it was so close for most of the voting period. We have something similar going on this year. It's a real nailbiter. :)

You can listen to the 2011 Festive Fifty here: (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

10. Wilco - I Might
9. M83 - Midnight City
8. Half Man Half Biscuit - Fun Day in the Park
7. Wooden Shjips - Lazy Bones
6. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

5. Dawes - A Little Bit of Everything

4. Radiohead - Lotus Flower

3. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks

2. The Lovely Eggs - Don't Look at Me (I Don't Like It)

1. Adele - Rolling in the Deep

Festive Fifty 2008 Top Ten

Each day this week, in anticipation of the deadline for voting on the Festive Fifty 2012 Shortlist, I'll be listening to the Contrast Podcast Festive Fifties of yore (2012's will be the 6th!) and trying to track down the videos of the Top 5!


By the 2nd year of the Festive Fifty, I was ready. I had my list set to go before the call came for submissions and I even knew a lot of the songs on the shortlist! This was the year when I actually found new bands to love having only heard them on the Festive Fifty. I'm thinking specifically of Frightened Rabbit.


You can listen to the 2008 Festive Fifty here: (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

10. Portishead - The Rip
9. MGMT - Electric Feel
8. British Sea Power - No Lucifer
7. Flight of the Conchords - Business Time
6. British Sea Power - Waving Flags

5. Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

4. Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines

3. Elbow - Grounds for Divorce

2. MGMT - Time to Pretend

1. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal