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 Countdown!: April 2020! (with special guest Lila!)

Billie Eilish

Hey! So, this is what monthly countdowns looks like! We are back with all of the songs that charted in April. And my daughter is here to weigh in on what she thinks of the songs from this month. We had such a fun time recording that this might become an occasional feature. I hope you have as much fun. The "cover art" for this episode is not random as it normally is, but was purposefully selected after Lila correctly pointed out that there's only one female voice in this whole countdown. (Diet Cig has an album you could go preorder, if you were interested....)


Countdown #416

***Featuring***
AJR
AWOLNATION
Billie Eilish
Cage the Elephant
China Crisis
Green Day
Grouplove
Hot Chelle Rae
The Killers
lovelytheband
The Lumineers
Neon Trees
Strung Out
Sub Urban
Tame Impala
twentyonepilots
The Unlikely Candidates

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

New Countdown!: February 2019

Jars of Clay

It's the beginning of NaNoWriMo and all my friends are busy working on their books, I've decided to publish at least one podcast every day of the month, which basically just amounts to starting to release episodes on the weekends. Which is a good, cool thing because if I keep it up, I'll be caught up by the end of the month!


Countdown #402 (February 2019)

***Featuring***
The 1975
Barns Courtney
Billie Eilish
Cage the Elephant
flora cash
Imagine Dragons
Jars of Clay
lovelytheband
Marshmello & Bastille
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
twentyonepilots
Weezer
Young the Giant

New Countdown!: January 2019

Imagine Dragons

Well here it is! The first month of 2019 covered! Haha I think I have things semi-sorted now and I'm hoping (i know i say this all the time, but whatever lol) to start getting these out with more of a quickness, so that we can wrap the year in a caught-up sort of place.

Enjoy!


Countdown #401

***Featuring***
Bastille x Marshmello
Billie Eilish
The Early November
flora cash
Imagine Dragons
lovelytheband
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Panic! At the Disco
twentyonepilots
Weezer

2018 Year End Countdown!!

Portugal. The Man

It's a little late (only.......8 or so months late...) but here it is. The Year-End Countdown for 2018. It's fun to look back at the songs that were hitting the chart hard in 2018 and this was a lot of fun to do! Enjoy!


2018 Year End Countdown

***Featuring***
AJR
Bastille x Marshmello
Foo Fighters
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
Kesha
lovelytheband
Panic! At the Disco
Portugal. The Man
The Struts
Walk the Moon
Weezer

New Countdown: Well, Not "New" In All the Ways, But Certainly in Some of the Ways

Muse

Hey. Here is a countdown of the songs that were on the Alternative Songs Top 10 in December 2018. Relevant? Probably not. But it's a batch of good, fun tunes and I think you might enjoy them a lot! Hit play and see if I'm right!


Countdown #400 (Oh also it's the 400th episode! Hahaha)

***Featuring***
AJR
Billie Eilish
flora cash
Imagine Dragons
The Interrupters
lovelytheband
Marshmello & Bastille
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Panic! At the Disco
The Revivalists
twentyonepilots
Wugazi

New Countdown (November 2018): Quote Unquote

lovelytheband

We're doing some more catch up this episode and this time it's November 2018! Good songs, an artist of the month I know very little about and hopefully the establishment of a momentum to keep these things coming!


Countdown #399 (November 2018)

***Featuring***
AJR
Bastille & Marshmello
Cap'n Jazz
Flora Cash
Imagine Dragons
The Interrupters
lovelytheband
Mumford & Sons
Panic! At the Disco
The Revivalists
twentyonepilots

New Countdown (October 2018): Eyes on the Prize

twentyonepilots. I just realized how appropriate this is for October

Hey. So the last time you heard me on this show, I was talking about switching up the format a little bit to catch up. Well this is the first episode of that and I think it went fairly well. I'm hoping to get these out with a fair amount of regularity, then get back to doing week-by-week. But holding this format in my back pocket if I might need it. Enjoy!


Countdown #398: October 2018

***Featuring***
AJR
Bastille & Marshmello
Dennis Lloyd
Imagine Dragons
The Interrupters
lovelytheband
Mike Mictlan
Mumford & Sons
Panic! At the Disco
The Revivalists
twentyonepilots
Walk the Moon
Weezer

New Countdown: Two Different Armstrongs!

Imagine Dragons

And so we reach the end of September 2018. But fear not, we're going to be switching things up for the next couple of episodes and I'm very excited about it. Here's a fun thing, I didn't come up with this new plan until a couple of days before I recorded the intro for lovelytheband, so when you listen to me before that on the show, you know something that I don't. And then stay tuned to the last intro to hear what the plan actually is.


 Countdown #397

***Featuring***
AJR
Death Cab for Cutie
Dennis Lloyd
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
The Interrupters
lovelytheband
Louis Armstrong
Panic! At the Disco
Rancid
Walk the Moon
Weezer

New Countdown: (What a) Wonderful Episode!

Death Cab for Cutie

Boy there are some good new songs on this one. One of them is PARTICULARLY exciting to me. And then the songs that are still on there from weeks prior are all still very good as well. Enjoy!


Countdown #396

***Featuring***
AJR
Death Cab For Cutie
Dennis Lloyd
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
The Interrupters
lovelytheband
Louis Armstrong
Panic! At the Disco
Sam Cooke
Walk the Moon
Weezer

New Countdown: VERY Loose Definition of the Word "Blues"

twenty one pilots

We're back with another countdown and this time we have a plan. It's a plan that lets us off the hook a little bit but which also relieves a lot of stress that we were feeling about the prospect of catching up. Stress that apparently makes us speak in the plural 3rd person. How fun! Enjoy the episode. It goes places!


Countdown #395

***Featuring***
AJR
Death Cab For Cutie
Dennis Lloyd
Fall Out Boy
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
Louis Armstrong
lovelytheband
Muse
twenty one pilots
Walk the Moon
Weezer

New Countdown: So Duet Already!

lovelytheband

We've got some lovely old school duets in our bonus songs this week and the really funny thing is that, even though I'm going to put both participants (because why wouldn't I?) you won't know which song it is that I'm playing! Enjoy!!



Countdown #394

***Featuring***
AJR
Death Cab For Cutie
Dennis Lloyd
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
lovelytheband
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
Muse
twentyonepilots
Walk the Moon
Weezer

New Countdown: Countdown? More like GET Down!

Foster the People

I feel like there are a lot of songs (and bonus songs) on this week's countdown that are designed to get you moving! So take this one out on the dance floor and cut a rug! Then take those rug pieces and give them to someone who collects things cut in half! They'll love it! And you'll love making it!


Countdown #393

***Featuring***
AJR
Death Cab For Cutie
Dennis Lloyd
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
Juice Wrld
Louis Armstrong
lovelytheband
Panic!At the Disco
twentyonepilots
Walk the Moon
Weezer

New Countdown: Chill Songs for Chilly Air!

311

Here is an episode with some very chill music. I mean there's some decidedly UNchill music, too, but I made the decision to pick some chill bonus songs for you, so enjoy!


Countdown #392

***Featuring***
311
AJR
Bastille
Dennis Lloyd
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
lovelytheband
Panic! At the Disco
twentyonepilots
Walk the Moon
Weezer

New Countdown: What a Coincidence!

Bastille Pumpkin by @NelllieHope12 mentioned in the episode

It's wild, the things that happen to crop up when you're doing this podcast. I made a last minute change to one of the bonus songs and happened to pick a song with a connection to one of the songs on the countdown that I didn't consider until I was doing the introduction for it. So weird! Look forward to hearing the astonishment in my voice!


Countdown #391

***Featuring***
311
AJR
Bastille
Dennis Lloyd
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
lovelytheband
Panic! At the Disco
twentyonepilots
Walk the Moon
Weezer

New Countdown: Let's Make Sure We're Covered

Bastille

This has been another episode that has been a long time coming, but I think you're going to see a lot more episodes very soon, so watch this space. And enjoy this episode! It's a very good one with a lot of very great songs!


Countdown #390

***Featuring***
311
AJR
Bastille
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
lovelytheband
Panic! At the Disco
Toto
twentyonepilots
Two Feet
Walk the Moon
Weezer