RECORD OF THE YEAR NOMINEES 2012

Coming up Dec 29-Jan 4, I’ll be airing the BEST OF 2012 on The Colorado Sound.  From now until Dec 20, this is your chance to participate in the outcome.  The “Best Of” the year will be a chart reflecting both spins statewide and your personal votes.  After a handful of attempts to conjure up a poll that made sense to me, I’ve decided to go about this a bit differently.

The following list contains the approximately 200 album titles that I’ve followed statewide in the past year.  Obviously, there may be some crossover year to year, as is usual I think.  Releases in the month of Nov each year do get carried over.

To participate:
1.  Select your TOP 10-20 releases of the year.  (If you don’t have 10 you haven’t been paying attention to what’s up in the scene)
2.  Rank those releases high to low from 1-20 (10 minimum).
3. Email me your list to thecoloradosound@gmail.com

There are likely to be some records NOT on this list.  If you think of one that is deserving of your vote, go ahead and write it into your list.  Remember, these are, by and large, records that got SOME airplay in the past year… but no list is perfect and I may have missed a few.

A note of encouragement … visit the band websites, bandcamp, reverbnation, facebook, pages etc … and when you find records you really like, please support the artist by buying a copy for someone you treasure this season 🙂

4H Royalty – Where UFOs Go To Die
A Mouthful of Thunder – Slow Burn
A Shoreline Dream – “333”
Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight
After Midnight – Hit the Jive Jack
Air Dubai – Be Calm
Amazing Twin – Grown Alone
Andy Ard – How Easy It Is
Andy Flattery & the Afternoons – Night Run EP
Andy Palmer – On the Road to Crazy
Andy Thorn – Fire In The Sky
Anthony Ruptak – Red Mark
Arliss Nancy – Simple Machines
Ashley Raines & the New West Revue – One Trick Mule
Audi Y Zentimiento – Donde Andaras
The Autumn Film – 8 Track Tape
The Babysitters – Have A Seat
Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
Ben Haugland – Point of No Return
Ben Markley – Shadow Valley
Better Than Bacon – Better Than Bacon
Black Postcards – Inception
Blackout Beat Production Company – The Circus House
The Blender Cats – Just Like This
The Blue Rider – Way Out West
Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up
Bonnie and the Beard – Bonnie & the Beard
Bonnie and the Beard – Cascavel
Bop Skizzum – Coloradical
Breathe Carolina – Hell Is What You Make It
Broken Tongues – Crooked Skyline
Bronze – Snake Oil
Carbon Choir – Sakhalin
Catch Bees – Newman’s Open Choir
Charlotte Sass – Lighter Things
Chimney Choir – (ladder)
Chris Daniels – Better Days
Chris Griffin – Now
Chris Kennison – Simply Steel
Chris Malley and Bob Schlesinger – Split Shot
Chris McGarry – Bare Bright Halos
Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years
Churchill – The Change EP
Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You
The Congress – Whatever You Want
Coupstick – Light’s Shadow
The Crags – Big Divide
Craig Corona – About Time
Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
Darryl Purpose – Next Time Around
Dave Richey & Ruined Nation – No Peace of Mind
Dave Sonner – the American Campus
Delta Sonics – Live at Lincoln’s
Dressy Bessy – Summer Singles Volume 1
Ebeniezer & Crooked Hookers – Crooked Hookers
Eef – Bluesalicious
Ending People – Fill Your Lungs
The Epilogues – Cinematics
Eric Gunnison – Trios
Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
Euforquestra – Let Us In
FaceMan – Feeding Time
Fierce Bad Rabbit – Live and Learn
Fingers of the Sun – Sleepy Time EP
Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader
Flobots – The Circle In the Square
Foam Bullets – Looking Out for No. 1
The Fray – Scars and Stories
Fred Hess BIG BAND- Speak
Free Bear – Free Bear
Fresh Jefferson – Soulhawke
Full Belly – New Voice
Galaxies – Letters from Sea
Gasoline Lollipops – Dawn
Georgann Low – Les Progres De L’Amour (Seasons Of Love)
Ghost In the Machine – Reply Hazy
The Ghost of Joseph Buck – The Ghost of Joseph Buck [EP]
Glowing House – Days Run Out
GoldMetalSleeper – S/T
Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
Grass It Up – Alabama Tory
Green River Vibe – Sun Comes Up
Greyweather – Greyweather
Gun Street Ghost – One Home
Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
Harry Tuft & Friends – Treasures Untold
The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
Head for the Hills – Live
Hindershot – Curse Us All
I’m With Her – Songs We Said Goodbye To
In the Whale – Cake
Instant Empire – Heavy Hollow
Instant Empire – Instant Empire
J. Miller Band – The Road to Elvado
JD Feighner – JD Feighner [EP]
Jeff Brinkman – Strange
Jeff Finlin – Live Songs for the Ice Age
The Jekylls – The Sweet Factory
Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
John Oates Band (CC) – The Bluesville Sessions
John Statz – Old Fashioned
Johnny Hickman – Tilting
Jon Boland – Lightening In the Wires
Jonny Barber & the Rhythm Razors – Golden Plates
Josh Quinlin Quintet – Mountain Time Standards
Julie Monley Quartet – Straight Up Jazz
Kathryn Mostow – Rich Girl
Katie Glassman – Snapshot
Katie Herzig – The Waking Sleep
Katya Chorover – Big Big Love
Kissing Party – The Hate Album
The Knew – Man Monster
Le Divorce – The Sting and the Light
Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
Leslie Brown – Tenderly
Lifeboat Etiquette – Saboteur
Lindsay & the Lost Caravan – You Don’t Know Me
Lizzie Huffman – Pretty Old Soul
Longest Day of the Year – Turn Into the Ground
The Lumineers – The Lumineers
Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
Mango fan Django – Indigo Dreams
Matt Smiley – Quartet Art
Medic – Grace and Gravity
Meet the Giant – The Polymer EP
Megan Redmond – Dreamland
Mesita – The Coyote
Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees
Mike Marchant – Lost and Found Sound (2008-2011)
The Moetones – Lowbrow
Molina w/ Diles – Name and Town
Monkey Paw Finger – Smokin Banana
Monroe Monroe – Hello Moon
Moors & McCumber – Gravity
Mosey West – Merica
Mr. Anonymous – Champion Sound
Muskeeteer Gripweed – Staight Razor Revival
New Ben Franklins – [peter gabriel]
Oak Creek Band – Oak Creek Band [EP]
Oakhurst – Barrel [EP]
O’Brien Party of 7 (CC) – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller
Octopus Nebula – Through the Next Door
Offbeat Revolution – All Around
Olivia Rudeen – S/T [EP]
Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
Overcasters – Curses/Prayers
Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise
Pina Chulada – Pina Chulada/King Mob Split
Places – No More Wasted Days
The Pretty Sure – Subtle Sabotage
Prettymouth – Satan in Clothes
Rachel James – Not Giving Up [EP]
Raincheck – Raincheck
Rebel Tongue – Movin’ On
Reverend Hooch – Reverend Hooch
Rich With Friends – One Step Closer
Rick Stahl – Harmony House
Rob Drabkin – Rob Drabkin Live
Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons
Robert Wilson Blues Band – 45 RPM
Ronnie Shellist – Trust Is Gone
Rosewood Divine – Rosewood Divine
The Royal – Forever
Russ Hopkins – Space Junk Motel
Ryan Dart – The Shift
Safe Boating Is No Accident – Live Without Dead Time
Sam Lee – Better Half
Saturn Cowboys – Follow the Light to the West
The Say So – The Romantic
School Knights – FRE(EP)
Science Partner – Rocky Mountain News
Shawn Waggoner – Goodbye Raven
SHEL – SHEL
Shirley – From A Bright Clearing
SLP (Sarah Louise Pieplow) – Widow’s Daughter
Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away
SoundRabbit – Don’t Forget to Remember
Spires – S/T [EP]
Stella Luce – Resurrection
Steve Law – Balance
Strange Americans – A Royal Battle
Stray Grass – Written in the Stars
Strip the Stars – S/T [EP]
Stuart Davis – Music For Mortals
SuCh (Su Charles) – Stretch Marks
Susannah Thompson – Watch Me Fly
The Swayback – Double Four Time
Swing Hero – Swing Hero
Taylor Scott & Another Kind Of Magick – Back To Beale Live
Ten Pound Elephant – S/T [EP]
Tennis – Young & Old
Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
Tin Horn Prayer – Grapple the Rails
Trichome – Trichome [EP]
Turn 4 – What You Do About It
Varlet – The Drifter
Vices I Admire – Venom & Pride
Wasteland Hop – Mother Acre
Wheelchair Sports Camp – Where We All Live
Words in Flight – Music Is…
Wovenhand – The Laughing Stalk
The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down

The Colorado Sound – V4 EP46 Dec 2012

First week of December … just a couple of new cuts this week … Lion Drome and Briffault got me new tracks in time for this week’s show … and I got a cut deeper into new Wovenhand and Tyler Ward releases.  The video feed this week is 9 songs, about 40 mins (give or take), and features a sample of the new Lion Drome, along with Tennis, Tin Horn Prayer, Sixteen Horsepower, Wovenhand, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club Live at OpenAir 1340, The Astronauts, Bad Weather California, and Tyler Ward.  Enjoy 🙂

VIDEO

PLAYLIST

Flash Cadillac “Hot Summer Girls” from Sons of the Beaches (1975)
Firefall “Livin’ Ain’t Livin’” from Firefall (1976)
(D) Lion Drome “Curve of the Earth” from Curve of the Earth (2013)
Swing Hero “Basement” from Swing Hero (2012)
Places “Doesn’t Matter What I Say” from No More Wasted Days (2012)
Eef “I Ain’t Gonna Wait Forever” from Bluesalicious (2012)
Bonnie and The Clydes “Feel The Wheels Turn” from Wrong Side Up (2012)
The Gromet “Skip Your Stone” from Barren (2013)
Love.45 “Super Hero” from Love.45 (1999)
(D) Briffault “Wood and Stoney Oceans” from Wood and Stoney Oceans (2013)
Tennis “High Road” from Young and Old (2012)
Tin Horn Prayer “All’s Well That Ends Well” from Grapple the Rails (2012)
The Swayback “Double Four Time” from Double Four Time (2012)
Ben Haugland “Point of No Return” from The Point Of No Return (2012)
Sixteen Horsepower “Single Girl” from Folklore (2002)
(N) Wovenhand “King O King” from Laughing Stalk (2012)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club “No Doubt About It” from Unentitled (2011)
The Knew “Major Nights” from Man Monster (2012)
In The Whale “Shall Not Be Moved” from Cake (2012)
El Toro de la Muerte “God Alone” from Dancer These Days (2011)
(D) Taarka “Wandering” from Adventures in Vagabondia (2013)
Susannah Thompson “Geddy Song” from Watch Me Fly (2012)
The Astronauts “Baja” from Movin’ (American Surf and Sand Album) (2011)
Bad Weather California “I’ll Reach Out My Hand” from Sunkissed (2012)
Oak Creek Band “2012 (Quetzalcoatl)” from 2012 (Quetzalcoatl) (2012)
Fierce Bad Rabbit “Hard to Say” from Spools of Thread (2010)
(N) Tyler Ward “Keeping Secrets” from Hello. Love. Heartbreak (2012)
Adam Stern “Alchemical Rooms” from Twang Shui (2009)

News Notes and Spins – December 1, 2012

Goat Jan 2012December 1, 2012 — we are now 28 days away from our Best of 2012 show on the Colorado Sound, which will air the week of  Dec 29-Jan 4 around the state.   Over the next week or so I will put up a poll so that you can pick your favorites of the past year – NOV’11-NOV’12.  I’ll take those results, add it to the list of favs by some “secret” local industry insiders, and then add them to the spins database to come up with the TOP 40 of 2012.  Should be fun.

Last month I addressed the idea that some artists who grew up here and have since moved away are still a part of the “sound” of Colorado – if not in fact, then at least in origin.  To that, I have added a new designation, (CC), to denote a Colorado Connection.  That may be someone like Sera Cahoone who moved to Seattle several years ago, or Tia Fuller who moved to New Jersey.  Some folks have lobbied that I also include in that designation recordings from local studios of artists who are not specifically a part of the scene here.  That’s an interesting one — I’ll mull it over during the next month or so.

Much thanks to new stations that have added or will be adding THE COLORADO SOUND — http://www.post303radio.com and KVNF (Paonia).  KVNF will be airing the show as fill in programming for the next couple of months, before integrating it into to their regular programming in February 2013, according to station program director Ali Lightfoot.  Watch my Facebook page for announcements on when the show will be available in that part of the state. (edit: see schedule for days, times, and stations)

In other station news: KBUT (Crested Butte) writes in the “…public affairs program “The West Elk Word” is back up and running through the winter.  Tune in Saturdays at noon for news & notes, people & places, music & the arts, recreation, and mountain culture talk straight from the heart of the West Elk Mountains.  Dal Dearmin has joined the KBUT staff as General Manager.  Dal brings years of community radio experience from KSFR in Santa Fe.  KBUT is more than thrilled to welcome Dal to the Gunnison Valley.  We’re also kicking the music blog back into gear with regular postings about popular new music on the KBUT shelves.”

I’m trying something new again this month for the monthly YouTube and Spotify feeds … The YouTube feed features 7 cuts coming in at about 30 mins and includes Paper Bird, SHEL, Rob Drabkin, Liza Oxnard, Mega Gem, The Gromet, and Roniit.  The Spotify feed is about the same length (39 mins) and includes debut releases in November from Darryl Purpose, Elephant Revival, The Gromet, The Hollyfelds, Polarity, Sera Cahoone, Ten Pound Elephant, Trout Steak Revival, and Tyler Ward.  Enjoy.

TOP 40 TITLES NOVEMBER 2012

(267 titles tracked / 150 titles reported as played)
(LM) TM Genre/format [added]
(D) = debut, first time on chart
(R) = re-entered chart

(1) 1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers (Dualtone) Indie/New Alternative [Mar-12]
(D) 2. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon (Sub Pop) Folk [Nov-12]
(21) 3. Flobots – The Circle In the Square (Shanachie Records) Hip Hop/alternative [Aug-12]
(D) 4. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony (Cicero Recordings) Indie/New Alternative [Nov-12]
(23) 5. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior (Mack Avenue) Jazz [Sep-12]
(28) 6. Jeff Brinkman – Strange (self) Rock/adult alternative [Aug-12]
(31) 7. SHEL – SHEL (Moraine Records / Mad King Records) Folk [Aug-12]
(4) 8. Chris Daniels – Better Days (self) Americana/country, folk [Jul-12] *
(15) 9. The Swayback – Double Four Time (self) Rock/alternative [Mar-12]
(3) 10. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I (Greater Than Collective) Indie/New Alternative [Sep-12]
(9) 11. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade (self) Rock [Sep-12]
(5) 12. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years (self) Americana/jamgrass [Sep-12] *
(8) 12. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle (self) Rock/alt-country-rock (Jun-12)
(22) 13. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away (self) Blues/folk-blues [Aug-12] *
(10) 14. The Epilogues – Cinematics (Greater Than Collective) Rock/indie/alternative [Oct-12]
(18) 15. Wovenhand – The Laughing Stalk (Sounds Familyre) Indie/New Alternative [Sep-12]
(D) 16. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP (Ruff Shod/Nettwork) Folk [Nov-12]
(2) 17. Bop Skizzum – Coloradical (self) Urban Contemporary/funk [Sep-12]
(17) 18. Tennis – Young & Old (Fat Possum) Indie/New Alternative [Feb-12]
(16) 19. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king} (Youngest Daughter Records) Folk/pop [May-12]
(D) 20. The Gromet – Barren (self) Rock [Nov-12]
(24) 21. Ending People – Fill Your Lungs (Cash Cow Productions) Indie/New Alternative [Aug-12]
(R) 22. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband (Telarc) Blues [Jan-12]
(14) 23. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow (Blank Tape) Folk/folk-rock [Apr-12]
(7) 24. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker (LoS Records) Americana/jamband [Apr-12]
(19) 25. I’m With Her – Songs We Said Goodbye To (Boss Koala Records) Folk/Americana [Oct-12]
(D) 26. Honkytonk Homeslice – Just Passin’ Thru (SCI Fidelity) Americana/country-rock [Nov-12]
(R) 27. Tin Horn Prayer – Grapple the Rails (self) Rock/alternative [Aug-12]
(D) 28. Polarity – King of Hearts (Tapestry) Jazz [Nov-12]
(D) 29. The Hollyfelds – Title Stealers (self) Americana/country [Nov-12]
(31) 30. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s (self) Americana/alt-country [Jan-12]
(R) 31. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up (self) Americana/classic country [Jul-12]
(29) 31. O’Brien Party of 7 (CC) – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller (Howdy Skies Music) Folk/country-folk [Jun-12]
(R) 32. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise (self) Folk/modern folk [Jun-12]
(D) 33. Calder’s Revolvers – Steady By Your Side (self) Rock [Nov-12]
(12) 33. Churchill – The Change (A&M/Octone) Rock/folk-rock [Mar-12]
(13) 33. Katie Glassman – Snapshot (self) Americana [Jan-12] *
(D) 34. Mega Gem – Colors of the West (self) Indie/New Alternative [Nov-12]
(D) 34. Ten Pound Elephant – Ten Pound Elephant EP (self) Urban Contemporary/neo-funk/hip hop [Oct-12]
(R) 35. Euforquestra – Let Us In (self) World [Apr-12]

ADDED: NOV 2012
Aakash Mittal Quartet – Thumbs Up EP
Alan & Martin – Only Boys Back Then
Calder’s Revolvers – Steady By Your Side
Darryl Purpose – Next Time Around
DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
Grant Sabin – Anthromusicology
Honkytonk Homeslice – Just Passin’ Thru
Idlewhile Band – Live at the Walnut Room Vol 1
John William Davis – Dead Simple, Vol. 1: You Talk Funny
Julie Hoest – Never Far
Mega Gem – Colors of the West
Monroe Monroe – Interiors
Nu Mundo – Our Song
Polarity – King of Hearts
Rob Roper – The Other Side of Nowhere
Ron Miles, Bill Frisell & Brian Blade – Quiver
Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
Susan Walton – January Trees
The Gromet – Barren
The Hollyfelds – Title Stealers
Trout Steak Revival – Flight
Tyler Ward – Hello. Love. Heartache.
Willie Houston – Willie Houston Live

FELL OUT OF TOP 40 NOVEMBER 2012
6. The Knew – Man Monster
11. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight
13. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
20. Beats Noir! – Where the Sun Goes Down
25. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right
26. Longest Day of the Year – Turn Into the Ground
27. The Congress – Whatever You Want
28. Chris Malley and Bob Schlesinger – Split Shot
29. Chimney Choir – (ladder)
29. Raincheck – Raincheck
30. Petals of Spain – Late Night Visitor
31. Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader (self) Indie/New Alternative [May-12]
32. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
33. Science Partner – Rocky Mountain News
34. Head for the Hills – Live

STATION BY STATION

christhompsonKAFM (Grand Junction)
1. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years
2. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
3. SHEL – SHEL
4. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost
5. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

Better Days CoverKBUT (Crested Butte)
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days
1. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
1. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
2. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

devotchka_live with CO symKDNK (Carbondale) *HOT SPINS*
DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller

devotchka_live with CO symKDUR (Durango)
1. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
2. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
2. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
3. Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader
4. Air Dubai – Day Escape

lumineersKGNU (Boulder)
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Chris Daniels – Better Days
3. Calder’s Revolvers – Steady By Your Side
3. Katie Glassman – Snapshot
3. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker

sera cahoone_deer creekKRCC (Colorado Springs)
1. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
2. A Shoreline Dream – “333”
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
4. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
5. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade

Julie-Hoest-300KRFC (Fort Collins)
1. Julie Hoest – Never Far
2. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
3. Jeff Brinkman – Strange
4. Darryl Purpose – Next Time Around
5. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade

katya chorover big big loveKSJD (Cortez)
1. Katya Chorover – Big Big Love
1. SHEL – SHEL
2. Tennis – Young & Old
2. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
2. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down

sera cahoone_deer creekKUNC (Greeley)
1. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
2. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down
3. Churchill – The Change EP
3. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
4. Catch Bees – Newman’s Open Choir

tia fuller_angelicKUVO (Denver)
1. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
2. Polarity – King of Hearts
3. Eric Gunnison – Trios
4. Fred Hess BIG BAND – Speak
5. Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees

bad wx cali kissedKVNF (Paonia)
1. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
4. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
4. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow

wovenhand_laughing stalkOpen Air 1340 (Denver)
1. Wovenhand – The Laughing Stalk
2. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
2. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
3. The Gromet – Barren
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

jeff brinkman_strangeThe Colorado Sound
1. Jeff Brinkman – Strange
2. Flobots – The Circle in the Square
3. I’m With Her – Songs We Said Goodbye To
4. Bop Skizzum – Coloradical
4. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle

BY GENRE/PROGRAM FORMAT

Better Days CoverAmericana/Alt.country/Alt.country-rock
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days
2. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years
3. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
4. Honkytonk Homeslice – Just Passin’ Thru
5. The Hollyfelds – Title Stealers

sofie reed simplicityBlues/Rhythm & Blues
1. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away
2. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
3. Grant Sabin – Anthromusicology
4. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
5. Robert Wilson Blues Band – 45 RPM

Flobots_circleDance/Funk/Hip-Hop/Urban Contemporary
1. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
2. Bop Skizzum – Coloradical
3. Ten Pound Elephant – Ten Pound Elephant EP
4. Beats Noir! – Where the Sun Goes Down
5. Wheelchair Sports Camp – Where We All Live

sera cahoone_deer creekFolk/folk-rock/singer-songwriter
1. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
2. SHEL – SHEL
3. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
4. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
5. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow

lumineersIndie/New Alternative
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
3. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
4. Wovenhand – The Laughing Stalk
5. Tennis – Young & Old

tia fuller_angelicJazz
1. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
2. Polarity – King of Hearts
3. Raincheck – Raincheck
4. Shirley – From A Bright Clearing
5. After Midnight – Hit the Jive Jack

coles whalen I wrote this for youPop/Adult Contemporary
1. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You
2. Cassie Taylor – Blue
3. Charlotte Sass – Lighter Things
3. The Fray – Scars and Stories
3. OneRepublic – Feel Again [single]

jeff brinkman_strangeRock/AAA/AOR/Modern Rock
1. Jeff Brinkman – Strange
2. The Swayback – Double Four Time
3. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
4. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle
5. The Epilogues – Cinematics

* = serviced to radio by Rocky Mountain Music Network/Chris Kresge