Love Songs With Spike Eskin

What makes a good run playlist? Jason Lipshutz of Billboard and Spike discuss what they look for in a run playlist, and go over their’s for Saturday’s Providence Animal Center Bark In The Park. Donate here!

Check out Jason's Spotify playlist and Spike's.

Spike listens to three new songs that Jason Lipshutz of Billboard suggests, and Jason listens to three old songs that Spike suggests. Jason's suggestions are "Blown To Bits" by Charity Bliss, "The Barrell" by Aldous Harding and "Cash S**t" by Megan Thee Stallion. Spike's suggestions are "Love Addict" by Family Force Five, "Late Night Drive" by Daniel Johns and "When The Night Feels My Song" by Bedouin Soundclash.

Which album is better, Hot Fuss or Sam's Town?

Michael Cerio of radio.com joins the podcast to talk about the Video Music Awards, Catfish, Post Malone's crisis, Limp Bizkit's concert catastrophe, the best rap concerts we've seen, and whether J Lo has any good videos.

On this week's Something New, Something Old, Jason Lipshutz of Billboard makes Spike listen to new songs by Robyn, Snail Mail, and Brockhampton, and Spike makes Jason listen to old songs from Silverchair, AM Taxi and Blind Melon. As always, there's a Spotify playlist on lovesongspodcast.com with these songs and every other song we discussed.

We look at the new Nine Inch Nails album Bad Witch and where it sits among the rest of their albums. Once a week Jared Hart and I will talk about a new album from a career artist.

The Blue Album is clearly Weezer's most popular album, but big fans of the band will often times say Pinkterton is their best effort. On this month's (it's going to be monthly) Crowd vs. Cred, Spike and Billboard's Andrew Unterberger talk about the albums.

Radio.com's Michael Cerio joins the show to talk about Demi Lovato's recent fall off the wagon, Made In America's non-move, Taylor Swift's non-committal, Macklemore's non-coolness and Target getting ripped for their CBGB look-a-like.

On this month's Something Old, Something New, Jason Lipshutz of Billboard has Spike listen to songs by Tyga, Ariana Grande, and Mallrat, while Spike has Jason listen to songs by Sunny Day Real Estate, Butch Walker and Warrant.

Andrew Unterberger of Billboard comes on to talk about Billboard's Top 100 Boy Band Songs of All Time list, what is or isn't a boy band, and whether popcorn is an appropriate food to buy and eat at a sporting event.