Love Songs With Spike Eskin

We’re all stuck inside, so Jason Lipshutz from Billboard and Spike made a playlist with songs about the end of the world, disease, and talked about every single one of them. Follow Jason on Twitter @JasonLipshutz.

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. 

Spike and Jason Lipshutz of Billboard go through their top five pieces of music from 2018 (albums and songs are eligible). Music from Sorority Noise, Amy Shark, Travis Scott, the 1975, Christine and The Queens, Hop Along, Amos Lee, Wild Pink, and Kim Petras are included. 

Jason Lipshutz of Billboard joins to talk about new songs he suggested from Sheck Wes, Noah Cyrus, and Fucked Up, and old songs Spike suggested from Leaders Of The New School, Too Much Joy, and Blue October. As always, a spotify playlist of all songs discussed is available at lovesongspodcast.com.

Which Killers album is better, the more popular Hot Fuss, or the Springsteen-esque Sam's Town? On crowd vs. cred this month Spike and Andrew Unterberger talk about the two albums, their influences, and what has made The Killers such a successful live act.

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. 

We talk about some of our favorite music of 2017 with Jason Lipshutz of Billboard. Artists include Julia Michaels, Lil Uzi Vert, Bleachers, Brand New, The XX, Noah Cyrus, Priests, Dua Lipa, Moses Sumney, HAIM, Linkin Park, Manchester Orchestra, The Front Bottoms, Dark Rooms, SZA, Niall Horan, Stormzy, Migos, and The Killers.

Brand New is a fantastic band that put out a fantastic new album called Science Fiction. I talk about that album with UPROXX's Steven Hyden. We also discuss his book 'Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me' and his upcoming book 'Twilight Of The Gods.'

Billboard Senior Associate Editor Andrew Unterberger joins the podcast to talk about the life of Chester Bennington, and the legacy he leaves with Linkin Park. 

Candlebox lead guitar player Brian Quinn talks about his Philly history, joining Candlebox and the history of his former band Octane. 

Brian C. Grubb, editor at large for UPROXX and co-host of the TV Avalanche Podcast, joins Love Songs to talk about the finale of HBO's The Leftovers, and the series as a whole. 

The Ringer's Michael Baumann talks about how he got to The Ringer, and we give our top five space movies since the year 2000.

Philadelphia's best tattoo artist and owner of Art Machine Productions in Philadelphia Tim Pangburn joins the podcast to talk about whether tattooing is an art or a craft, what he won't tattoo, what he will, his sobriety and why he loved doing a tattoo of Neil DeGrasse Tyson riding a turtle.

John Barchard discusses how he built and has grown the Go Birds podcast, and lot of assorted music things. 

Matt Farley wrote and recorded the Love Songs theme song, but that's just one of over 20,000 songs he's written and recorded.