Category: MMMM (New Music)

CP S17 EP43 2023

A stormy day on Mesa Verde courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

MONDAY NOV 27, 2023 – I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend with close friends and/or family. Of course, I spent my weekend getting the 14th Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll launched. Make sure to get your votes in before DEC 21.

I track monthly spins from the first Sunday in a month, through the final Saturday in the month, so NOV’s spin counts finished this past Saturday. I’ll get the monthly TOP 20 out in a few days.

#COMUSIC TOP SPINS NOV 19-25 2023

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist, 105.5 The Colorado Sound, Indie 102.3, 88.9 KRFC  and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay around the country.

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered TOP 5
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = Colorado expats, as long as they were born and/or raised here, or got their career started here or there is some other reason to include them. 
** = serviced to media in Colorado by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

(3) 1. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones  LP (Apr-23)
(2) 2. ALYSIA KRAFT – Electric Blooms EP (Jun-23)
(1) 3. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – All Out of Angels LP (Sep-23)**
(5) 4. BISON BONE – 40 Grit EP (Aug-23)
(R) 4. LEFTOVER SALMON – Grass Roots LP (May-23)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

www.starrsguitars.com

The Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) is a way for you to let me know what you think of new music emerging from around the state. Results enter into which cuts stay in rotation, and which cuts make the final “best of” list.

CP S17 EP43 2023 PLAYLIST

Acoustic Junction – Think About It – Acoustic Junction (1996)
(N) Wood Belly – Pockets of Gold – Cicada (2023)
Leftover Salmon – Two Highways – High Country (2015)
Everybody Loves an Outlaw – Still Waiting (2022)
Bryce Menchaca – Social Toll – Salt (2023)
Wildermiss – Carry Your Heart – Lost With You EP (2017)
The Motet – Rich In People – The Motet (2014)
N3ptune, Rusty Steve – Shadow SP (2023)
(D) Mark Oblinger – Lead the Way (Bessie’s Eyes) – The River EP (2024)
Judy Roderick – Country Girl Blues – Women Blue (1965)
Leslie Tom – Tequila After Midnight SP (2022)
Annie Booth Sextet – Coming Home Again – Alpenglow (2022)

The Winebottles – Human Being – Ride My Pony (1995)
(N) Kiltro – Errasuriz – Underbelly (2023)
Oko Tygra – West Coast (is burning) (2022)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) (2020)
Rodney Rice – Rabbit Ears Motel – Rodney Rice (2023)
The Still Tide – High Wire – Run Out (2017)
Euforquestra – Solutions – Fire (2014)
Alysia Kraft – Electric Blooms (2023)
(D) Andy Sydow – Cause for Concern (Orchestral Version) (2023)
Post Truth Serum – The Discotheque – Modern Victims (2020)
Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts – Seein’ You Tonight (feat. Lauren Michaels) – Tears and Blades (2022)
Steve Kovalcheck – Homecoming – Ghost Orchid (2022)

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CP S17 EP42 2023

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, Colorado courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

NOVEMBER 20, 2023 – Happy Thanksgiving Week. The first holidaze gift of the season arrived last week, when Big Head Todd and the Monsters dropped the first single from their upcoming new album, that I’ve waited for now over a year. It’s part of this week’s MMMM, below.

I’ll post up the 14th Colorado Playlist Fan and Listener Poll next Monday.

#COMUSIC TOP SPINS NOV 12-18 2023

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist, 105.5 The Colorado Sound, Indie 102.3, 88.9 KRFC  and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay around the country.

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered TOP 5
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = Colorado expats, as long as they were born and/or raised here, or got their career started here or there is some other reason to include them. 
** = serviced to media in Colorado by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

(1) 1. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – All Out of Angels LP (Sep-23)**
(2) 2. ALYSIA KRAFT – Electric Blooms EP (Jun-23)
(4) 3. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones  LP (Apr-23)
(3) 4. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(D) 5. BISON BONE – 40 Grit EP (Aug-23)
(R) 5. DRAGONDEER – Across the Waves LP (Jun-23)**

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

www.starrsguitars.com

The Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) is a way for you to let me know what you think of new music emerging from around the state. Results enter into which cuts stay in rotation, and which cuts make the final “best of” list.

Keller Williams – Freeker By the Speaker – Laugh (2002)
(N) VOLORES – Carrion – Ages (2023)
Kick and the Hug – Girl You’ve Changed – Ladies & Gentlemen (2022)
Alexa Wildish – The Well – Alexa Wildish EP (2020)
Leftover Salmon – Blue Railroad Train (feat. Billy Strings) – Grass Roots (2023)
Chuck Pyle – Keep it Simple – Higher Ground…songs of colorado (2007)
Andy Monley & the High Horses – Drag Me To Hell – Totem (2023)
(D) Shady Oaks – Broken Mirrors (2024)
Claire Heywood – Letter Day (2020)
Euforquestra – Show Me the Way – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Adam Bodine – Swamp Stomp – Scenes of Changery (2021)

Bob Dylan – Shelter From The Storm – Hard Rain (1976)
(D) Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Crush (2024)
YaSi – Guilty – Coexist With Chaos EP (2021)
Daniel Rodriguez – Brother John – Sojurn of a Burning Sun (2020)
Blankslate – Bell Station – Summer On A Salt Flat (2023)
Dressy Bessy – Anyone Can See – Holler and Stomp (2008)
The Blue Rider – Lightning – Year of the Horse (2016)
The Motet – Natural Light (2023)
(D) GRiZ – In This World – Ouroboros (2023)
Elektric Animals – Reckless (2020)
Erik Lunde – Steel Militia – Water From The Stone (2022)
Steve Denny Trio – You Stepped Out of a Dream – Life in New York (2020)

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CP S17 EP41 2023

NOV 13, 2023 – Lifetime Achievement .. don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere until 2026 😉 That said, thank you for being a fan of the show and thank you to KJAC aka 105.5 The Colorado Sound for recognizing me this way. It really means a lot after 45 years working in Colorado music and broadcasting. Check out all the winners of the 2nd Colorado Sound Music Awards.

I started working on the 14th Colorado Playlist Fan/Listener Poll this weekend. I expect to launch it on Friday NOV 24.

#COMUSIC TOP SPINS NOV 05-11 2023

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist, 105.5 The Colorado Sound, Indie 102.3, 88.9 KRFC  and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay around the country.

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered CHART
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = Colorado expats, as long as they were born and/or raised here, or got their career started here or there is some other reason to include them. 
** = serviced to media in Colorado by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

(D) 1. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – All Out of Angels LP (Sep-23)**
(1) 2. ALYSIA KRAFT – Electric Blooms EP (Jun-23)
(2) 3. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(1) 4. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones  LP (Apr-23)
(R) 5. VOLORES – Ages LP (Mar-23)

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

www.starrsguitars.com

The Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) is a way for you to let me know what you think of new music emerging from around the state. Results enter into which cuts stay in rotation, and which cuts make the final “best of” list.

CP S17 EP41 2023

Sugarloaf – Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You – Don’t Call Us We’ll Call You (1975)
Sugarloaf – Colorado Jones – Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You (1975)
(N) Kevin Dooley – Northern Boy – Band of Gypsys (2023)
The Copper Children – Pushin’ On – Strange Illusion (2022)
Jeremy Facknitz – There’s No Going Home Again (feat. Serenity Holloway) – Smilin’ At the Future (2023)
Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene – Under Your Spell – City of Love (2019)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Do You Know Thee Enemy? – Unentitled (2011)
Daniel Rodriguez – Mixtape – Vast Nothing (2023)
(N) Heavy Diamond Ring – When You’re Away (feat. Nathaniel Rateliff) – All Out of Angels (2023)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Boom Boom – Beautiful World (1997)
The Infamous Stringdusters – I Didn’t Know – Toward the Fray (2022)
Matt Skellenger – The Lion’s Tooth – Subspace Transmission (2023)

Firefall – Headed for a Fall – Undertow (1980)
Zephyr – Mad Dog – Heartbeat (1981)
(N) Wood Belly – Alamosa Rain – Cicada (2023)
Alysia Kraft – Cold Mountain – First Light (2022)
Silver and Smoke – Sting Like A Bee – 30P EP (2018)
Dragondeer – New Dawn Get Down – Across The Waves (2023)
Rose Hill Drive – Cool Cody – Rose Hill Drive (2006)
Reed Foehl – Wolves – Once An Ocean (2009)
Brothers Keeper – He Left You (f. John Popper) (2023)
(N) Sugar Nova – Somebody To Love (2023)
piKziL – Can’t Get Started – Songs From My 3rd Life (2016)
Jyemo Club – Issa Ting feat. the Reminders (2022)
Jon Wirtz – Watching The World Wake Up – Tourist (2013)

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