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

New Countdown: A Joke So Nice, I Used It Twice (and Now Thrice!)

I'm a little late in posting this one because my sister graduated from college this weekend! Isn't that nuts?1 Remember when she graduated from High School? I was already 2 years into doing this podcast and I did a flashback countdown of songs from the first week of June from the week *I* graduated from High School. If I'd been on my game this week, I would have done a similar Flashback Countdown for this week in 2005, when i graduated from College. Oh well! Live and learn :)

I just realized that I missed celebrating the 6th anniversary of the podcast. It's crazy that I've been doing this for more than half a decade!


Countdown #293

***Featuring***
AWOLNATION
Cold War Kids
Empire of the Sun
Kings of Leon
The Lumineers
Miike Snow
Nothing But Thieves
The Strumbellas
The Struts
twenty one pilots
The Wombats

New Countdown: Hundreds of Millions of Times

The Strumbellas

It's the last countdown of April and I am ready for summer to start. The other day I thought about setting up my Song of the Summer spreadsheet, but then I was like, "Dude. Just be patient."

I think these songs are great and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. What songs are you loving on the countdown these days?


Countdown #292

***Featuring***
Bon Iver
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Empire of the Sun
Holly Miranda
The Lumineers
Miike Snow
Nothing But Thieves
The Strumbellas
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: The Stone Temple Pilots of the 2010's

twenty one pilots

I wonder when the last band with more than 5 members was one the top ten. Could it have been recently and we just didn't know it? How many people are in Of Monsters and Men? [Looks it up] ok it looks like they DID have 6 members but one of them left to go back to school. So, maybe First Album OMAM was the last time? I only mention it because it feels like we've had a lot of duos recently.

Enjoy this new episode of THIS podcast and then head over HERE and listen to a new podcast that I just launched with my best friend Erin!


Countdown #291

***Featuring***
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Cory Branan
Empire of the Sun
Flight of the Conchords
The Lumineers
Miike Snow
Nothing But Thieves
The Strumbellas
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: Two Brothers

Plastic Animals

Another week of great alternative tunes counted down from 10 to 1 for your enjoyment! I can just feel summer bubbling under the surface, waiting to burst forth and shower us in memorable (and also perhaps not so memorable) tunes!


Countdown #290

***Featuring***
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Empire of the Sun
Foals
The Lumineers
Miike Snow
Nothing But Thieves
Plastic Animals
The Strumbellas
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: Eventually, Everyone Goes Disco

Yuck

A pretty fun countdown this week! Spring is in the air and we're rocking out! Enjoy!


Countdown #289

***Featuring***
Ben Folds featuring Regina Spektor
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Empire of the Sun
Foals
The Lumineers
Nothing But Thieves
The Strumbellas
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors
Yuck

New Countdown: Two Gross!

X Ambassadors

Not much to say this week, enjoy the show!


Countdown #288

***Featuring***
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Empire of the Sun
Foals
Kings of Leon
Lightspeed Champion
Nothing But Thieves
The Strumbellas
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: Not Their First Rodeo

Cage the Elephant

In this thrilling episode of the AFDAT10C, our daring hero keeps thinking songs are from debut albums, a mistake that could prove to be his undoing! All this and a reverse rock block. DON'T MISS IT.

I think I missed my calling writing promotional television commercials :)

Enjoy!


Countdown #287

***Featuring***
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Empire of the Sun
Foals
MGMT
Nothing But Thieves
The Strumbellas
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: 1000 Posts!!!

Cold War Kids

Well on one hand I'm really proud of my accomplishment of reaching 1000 blog posts. On the other hand, it's taken almost just shy of 9 years, but I mean there were a couple of years before the podcast started that I didn't do very much blogging at all.

So here is the 1000th post, which serves as home base for the 286th podcast. My how far we've come!


Countdown #286

***Featuring***
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Empire of the Sun
Foals
Kings of Leon
Nothing But Thieves
The Strumbellas
A Tribe Called Quest
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors

New Countdown: Late Night

Nothing But Thieves

You know, it's been a long time since I've posted so late. Wowee. Haha. I hope that you guys enjoy this one, because it's great.


Countdown #285

***Featuring***
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Coldplay
Empire of the Sun
Foals
Nothing But Thieves
Sean Lennon
The Strumbellas
twenty one pilots
X Ambassadors