Tagged: blackkeys + grouplove

Bottle Rock Music & Arts Festival has revealed the full lineup for its inaugural edition, set for May 10th-12th in Napa Valley, California. Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Furthur, and Zac Brown Band top the bill, appearing alongside The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Black Crowes, Jane's Addiction, Primus, Dirty Projectors, Iron & Wine, Andrew Bird, Sharon Van Etten, Best Coast, Ben Harper, Mavis Staples, Cake, The Wallflowers, Bad Religion, Grouplove, Justin Townes Earle, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and Michael Franti & Spearhead, among others. Festival passes go [...]

Well, here's the THIRD Year End Countdown. It's hard to believe I'm ending my third year of doing this podcast. Pretty nuts. I'm super stoked to see the results of all the year-end polls I've been voting in. That's my excitement for the week. What's yours? I hope you enjoy this YEC and that you'll join me next week for the Artists of the Year Countdown. Oh, also, in the last seconds of the last intro, please enjoy the sound of my dog vigorously scratching herself. 2012 Year End Countdown [...]

#35: The Head and the Heart @ Forecastle [Original Post] I'd heard a song or two by Head and the Heart going into their show at Forecastle, but I'll admit that I was really just seeing them because there wasn't a lot of competition for their time slot at Forecastle. But just like what happens [...]

Hey guys, I hope you weren't too heartbroken when you saw my post this morning. And then I hope you didn't wait around all day, clicking refresh to see if I posted the new countdown. I mean, if you did, I'm very flattered and I thank you very much for your kind and much appreciated devotion....but I really do hope you did something more with your day... Anyway, it's kind of a two-for-one countdown this week and you'll see what I mean when you listen to the episode! See you next week, guys! Countdown [...]

My wife and child are sleeping as I type this up. We're all in the same room and I'm super happy that my computer doesn't make loud noise like a typewriter. Wouldn't that be horrible? It would be completely unreasonable for me to be typing this with two people trying to sleep. But that's not the case, so here we are. It's a good, fun episode this week and I hope you enjoy it! Countdown #131 [...]

Yeah I went kind of crazy on the bonus songs, but I'm very thankful for all of you listeners and I will not apologize! I'm sorry, but that's just who I am ;-) I'm very interested to see if I can remember all of the artists featured on this episode. Let's find out together, shall we? Countdown #129 ***FEATURING*** Alex Clare AWOLNATION The Black Keys The Deep Vibration Descendents Grouplove Imagine Dragons Led Zeppelin The Lumineers Mumford & Sons Muse My Morning Jacket Passion Pit Sly and the Family Stone [...]

Yeah, I really shouldn't do these podcasts so late. I really let myself spool out the ramble on this one. But I think it's actually ok. Just make sure you listen to it at like 12:30 am. :) Countdown #128 ***Featuring*** Alex Clare AWOLNATION The Black Keys Grouplove Imagine Dragons The Lumineers Mumford & Sons Muse Passion Pit R.E.M. Youngblood Hawke

Ok, maybe not EVIL, per se. Or at least not to most people. Some people will find no irony in my Post Title and will think it is completely accurate. Others are going to have a fun, dancy time. I always know an idea for the podcast is a good one when I get a wicked little smile on my face. And Friday, when I thought of doing this, I got that little smile. :-D For those of you keeping score at home, this is [...]

This week I resurrect a bonus song concept that I bet you'd forgotten! But, then again, you probably don't live your life with bonus song concepts floating around in your head. Or do you?!?! No hunky teen TV star this week (Sorry Erin, but I can have you EXPECTING it, you know?) just pure, unadulterated, genre-ally hazy Alternative Songs! Countdown #116 ***Featuring*** Alex Clare The Black Keys fun. Green Day Grouplove Imagine Dragons The Killers Linkin Park The Lumineers Of Monsters and Men

I am so early in getting this episode done. Usually I have some idea about where the songs are the following week so I can arrange to play things or whatever to accommodate that, but that is not the case this week. My friend Erin says that these Countdown posts don't really have a lot of content aimed at her. In the interest of rectifying that: Maybe the prospect of more [...]

Haha I really am overselling the blogpocalypse of it all. Hope your expectations are sky high!!!! So, this was a good episode with some fun changes. New songs. And a discussion on input volume levels!!! Seriously, though, I need your feedback. I explain before and after I intro #5, so please let me know! Countdown #114 ***Featuring*** Alex Clare The Black Keys Foo Fighters fun. Green Day Grouplove Imagine Dragons Linkin Park Of Monsters and Men The Offspring Silversun Pickups

It went pretty well. I got used to the new version of Audacity. I only started talking before it was recording like twice and I'm pleased with the lack of excess background noise. Overall, I'm quite happy to be using the laptop for this! Countdown #113 ***Featuring*** Alex Clare The Black Keys fun. Grouplove Imagine Dragons Linkin Park Of Monsters and Men The Offspring Silversun Pickups Southbound Drive Walk the Moon

I do spend a large majority of my time in this episode reading, and then reacting to, a bad review of the new Offspring album. But it's certainly not the whole time and I think that I make some attempt to explain why the review bugged me. This may be the last post I write on K's laptop! I have a new laptop (birthday-related present) sitting over there and when I hit "publish" on this puppy I'm going to go over and bust it out! Countdown #112 ***Featuring*** Alex Clare [...]

...Because exclamation points and 1's are on the same key! Hilarious. It's a good countdown this week. And for you "Punchy Intro" fans, the last 4 intros were recorded POST-MIDNIGHT!!! Countdown #111 ***Featuring*** The Black Keys fun. Gotye Gotye featuring Kimbra Grouplove Imagine Dragons Linkin Park M83 Of Monsters and Men The Offspring Silversun Pickups

Even though I'm writing this post at 10:58pm on the night before it goes up, it's only because we were at Rehoboth Beach all day and I only just got home. Seriously, doing the intros on the iPhone is tres unstressful and they tend to get me down recording quicker. I hope it's not because I'm sacrificing content... If I am, bear with me as I grow accustomed to this new way of doing things and then bear with me again when I get my new laptop and then everything will be great. When you see [...]

I won't go into the explanation of the title on here, but suffice it to say, I have a great new way of making these things and I'm very excited about it! It's a pretty standard countdown this week, which is to say, FANTASTIC. Enjoy everyone! Countdown #109 ***Featuring*** The Black Keys fun. Gotye featuring Kimbra Grouplove Imagine Dragons Linkin Park M83 Of Monsters and Men The Offspring Silversun Pickups Smashing Pumpkins

Oftentimes, I do this podcast and I feel like only my family is going to hear it and it doesn't matter what I find on the Internet, I'm pretty much alone. And then I hear back from the lovely people over at Having Said That and I realize that there are ACTUAL people out there that I've not met and they might notice if I talk about them! It's a wonderful feeling of connectedness. I mention them again on this episode. Don't be jealous :) Countdown #108 ***Featuring*** The Black [...]

Did I almost forget about this week's countdown? No. Did I almost not get it recorded? Yes. That happened. Sometimes having a life outside of the blog is so inconvenient! ;-) Big shoutout to Having Said That in this episode. Let's just say I tried something. I don't know if it's something i'm going to continue to try or what. I guess we'll have to see. [...]

Wasn't the Flashback last week fun? I wonder if people who didn't graduate that year got as much nostalgia from it as I did. I hope you enjoyed it in either case. We're back to present day this week and there's a bit of movement to come back to. I can't believe we're going into the THIRD summer of these countdowns. I love it. Countdown #106 ***Featuring*** The Black Keys fun. featuring Janelle Monae Gotye featuring Kimbra Grouplove Imagine Dragons Linkin Park M83 Neon Trees Of Monsters and [...]

Hey all! Hope you are enjoying Memorial Day weekend! It's supposed to be nice where I live and I hope that it is nice where you live! Enjoy this countdown. I think that if you're looking for punchy, you're going to find it in the first 3 or 4 intros. Just a little tip! See you next week for a Flashback Countdown! We'll count down the top 10 from the first week of June 2001. Here's this week's countdown: Countdown #105 ***Featuring*** The Black Keys fun. [...]