Welcome to Bears. Beats. Battlestar Galactica. the show where I talk occasionally, but only the music matters. Today we’re connecting the Foo Fighters to Anne Frank. Stay tuned for awesome music!

We’re kicking off the show with the Foo Fighters‘ Learn to Fly and going from there. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl joined Nirvana as a drummer after a long succession of others and stayed with the band until the death of Kurt Cobain. In honor of one of the best bands of the 90’s, we’ll be playing Nirvana‘s Smells like Teen Spirit. Rumour Has It Dave Grohl has been quoted in interviews praising Adele and her skill as a musician. Adele has often had her music featured in TV shows, such as Grey’s Anatomy and Glee. Glee is the show that really seemed to help Belgian artist Gotye take off in the US. Gotye’s Somebody that I Used to Know features New Zealand singer-songwriter Kimbra, whose song Settle Down was recently featured in a Victoria’s Secret commercial. Who else has had a song featured in a commercial lately? Alex Clare‘s dub-step-esque song Too Close is currently in a commercial for Internet Explorer.

Up next, we’ll feature another Brit, Eliza Doolittle and her song Pack Up. Eliza Doolittle was born Eliza Sophie Caird, but uses the former as a stage-name, much like Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi uses the stage name Kid Cudi for all of his works. Kid Cudi‘s song The Ruler and The Killer was on the Hunger Games soundtrack “Songs from District 12 and Beyond.” That song and the  album it was on were produced by T-Bone Burnette, who worked closely with our next artist, Alison Krauss, when they were writing songs for the movie Cold Mountain. Alison Krauss and Robert Plant teamed up in 2007 for the album Raising Sand. From that album, here’s Gone Gone Gone.

While we’re on songs with repetitive titles, let’s listen to Love Love Love by singer-songwriter Tristan Prettyman. That song title has also been used by Icelandic indie-folk band Of Monsters and Men. Their song Little Talks gained a lot of airplay over the summer. The song’s call and response style has been used in pop music to great effect. One powerful song that has also used this style is 9 Crimes by Irish artist Damien Rice. We’ll keep it Celtic with a song by Scottish Folk singer Julie Fowlis and her song Tha mo ghaol air àird a’ chuain. This Gaelic song was featured heavily in the trailers for the movie “Brave,” as was the song Shipping out to Boston by Massachusetts natives The Dropkick Murphys. The song has been used repeatedly in movies and videogames, such as NHL 11. The Black Keys’ Howlin’ for you was also part of NHL 11’s soundtrack, but as we played that last week, we’ll have to play Lonely Boy by The Black Keys instead!

The Black Keys were musical guests on Saturday Night Live Season 37 in 2011, but our next artist was a guest long before them. In 1976, during SNL Season 1, folk singer Gordon Lightfoot was a guest. While he didn’t play The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on the show, it’s by far his most popular song. The song is written about the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior. So what are other songs written about historical events? How about Holland, 1945 by Neutral Milk Hotel. The song, like many of the others on the album, is about Holocaust victim Anne Frank.