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My favorite function of last.fm is that it allows me to comprehensively tabulate my charts at the end of (or rather, beginning of) each year. Here are my top 15 albums by 2014 play count, along with my top 10 tracks (actually, there are fourteen because of several ties).

How much crossover did I have with your charts last year? As always, I'd love to know your thoughts, so please share them in the comments section!

You can check out the rundown of my top forty most-listened artists (and thoughts on each) over at my group's message board.…

Ten years ago, on 12/20/14, the first episode of "Steven's Untitled Rock Show" debuted on Fuse.

I wrote and produced the first 350 episodes, and kept detailed records while at the helm.

To celebrate the anniversary, I pulled my files and created a Spotify playlist featuring every single song that we played at least ten times during my tenture, in descending order from our most-played track: I'm Not Okay (I Promise) by My Chemical Romance (with 36 appearances).

I hope you'll check out the full list: http://spoti.fi/1xyznoT

All told, it includes 123 songs, runs 7.5 hours, and features 76 artists,…

Oh, how time flies! Believe it or not, December 20 will mark the TENTH anniversary of the debut of "Steven's Untitled Rock Show" on Fuse.

To mark the occasion (and to clear out some room in my closet), I'm going to hook up ten of my Twitter followers and/or last.fm friends with some of the last unused SURS promo swag in existence:

- Five (5) ladies' tank tops (sizes S and M only), and

- Five (5) of the original "God Save The Rock" promo posters from 2004. For good measure, I'll also throw in a guitar-shaped Fuse keyring/bottle opener…

My favorite thing about January 1 every year is checking out last.fm to see the final tally of my scrobbles for the year. Here's the list of the 15 albums I listened to most in 2013, as well as the top 10 tracks (15 songs total, since there were several ties).

Once I've had time to pull together comments and details on my Top 40 artists of the year, I'll post it on the discussion board in my "proBRUCEr and friends" group here: http://www.last.fm/group/proBRUCEr+and+friends.

I'd love to hear how much overlap there was with your own charts, so feel free…

At the beginning of the year, I got the go-ahead to do something I’ve wanted to do for ages: raid the Fuse tape library and repackage some of their classic interviews into artist-specific episodes. It was a long project to sort out, but I’m stoked with the results, which just started rolling out!

This From the Vault episode is for all of you Fall Out Boy fans who want to stroll down memory lane with the men I affectionately call FOBbits

Also currently available for your viewing pleasure, are episodes featuring Paramore, The All-American Rejects, Gym Class Heroes…

Over the past six months, we've been scouring the Fuse tape library to create a new archive-based digital series featuring tons of classic interviews with your favorite bands, and the first batch of episodes are available now!

For starters, here's the From the Vault episode featuring Paramore, and we've got more available now from Fall Out Boy, The All-American Rejects, Gym Class Heroes, and 30 Seconds to Mars.

We'll also have more coming soon from Taking Back Sunday, Thrice, Motion City Soundtrack, Thursday, Against Me!, Killswitch Engage, My Chemical…

I was lucky enough to score some sit-down time with The Jealous Sound when they swung through New York on their tour behind the reunion record “A Gentle Reminder,” and it's finally been posted online!

Blair and crew discussed how their ‘big brother’ Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters, Sunny Day Real Estate) was largely responsible for pulling the band out of mothballs, how TJS put together the new batch of songs, the emotions the band goes through immediately before and immediately after their shows, and much more.

I hope you’ll check it out and share with…

I'm sure most of you reading this also weren't lucky enough to hit Austin, Texas for this year's South by Southwest, but at least you can get a taste with some insights from Valient Thorr, We Are The In Crowd, Cloud Nothings, Other Lives, and The Jealous Sound.

Check it out the video on the discussion board over at http://www.last.fm/group/proBRUCEr+and+friends, and join the group while you're there!

If you're into it the clip, I hope you'll take a second to give it a thumbs up or a comment on YouTube and/or share it with your…

I sat down with four fifths of Every Time I Die a few weeks back, and have posted two chunks of our chat: one on their reaction to old pal and tourmate Sonny Moore winning Grammys as Skrillex (and the intense abuse he's faced online), and one discussing the new record, Steve's return visit as bassist, and a funny anecdote about doing yet another summer on the Vans Warped Tour!

I hope you'll check out both video clips in the latest two posts on the discussion board over at http://www.last.fm/group/proBRUCEr+and+friends, and join the group while you're there.

If you're into…

In all of my travels, I had somehow never met any of the guys from A Day To Remember until this week, when vocalist Jeremy McKinnon sat down to chat with me for a spell during a day off from their arena tour opening for Rise Against. Stoked that he made some time for us!

Here's a chunk of chat covering writing and recording the follow up to What Separates Me From You with former bandmate Tom Denney, the upcoming video for “2nd Sucks” (and a celebrity cameo ADTR are very excited about), the band’s current lawsuit…