PUBLICATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS & ARTIST RESOURCES
303 Magazine — Features New Colorado Music You Should Know, along with regular reviews, interviews and music coverage.
5280 Magazine — Music — Colorado music features, interviews, reviews and concert coverage.
Backline — A national nonprofit based in Denver connecting music-industry professionals and their families with mental-health and wellness resources, including a 24/7 crisis-support line.
BandWagon Magazine — A Northern Colorado publication covering live music, arts, entertainment, nightlife and community.
Bohemian Foundation — Supports music in Northern Colorado through youth programs, artist and music-business development, grants and live performances. Its Bohemian Nights programming showcases emerging and established Colorado musicians.
Bringing Music to Life — A statewide nonprofit that collects, repairs and awards gently used musical instruments to under-resourced Colorado school music programs.
Colorado Blues Society — Supports Colorado blues artists and fans through event listings, education, promotion and community programs.
Colorado Music Business Organization — COMBO offers networking, education and support resources for Colorado musicians, music-business professionals and music-scene supporters.
Colorado Music Foundation — Builds and supports a thriving Colorado music community through music education, performance opportunities and career-development resources.
Colorado Music Hall of Fame — Celebrates Colorado’s music heritage and inspires its future through a museum, educational programming, induction concerts and events.
Colorado Music Experience — A nonprofit preserving Colorado music history through archival resources, stories, exhibits and educational programs.
Fort Collins Musicians Association / FoCOMA — Supports Northern Colorado musicians through networking, education and events because music changes lives.
Holy Fool — A Colorado nonprofit supporting working musicians through coaching, professional development, equipment lending, microgrants and house shows.
Indie Music Alliance — A music-industry directory and network connecting independent artists with venues, media and other music professionals, including an extensive Colorado directory.
Levitt Pavilion Denver — A nonprofit outdoor amphitheater in Denver’s Ruby Hill Park that builds community through concerts, artist development and music-industry workforce programs. Levitt presents more than 50 concerts and community events annually and showcases more than 40 Colorado artists each season.
MAPS — Mr. Anonymous Philanthropic Society — A Vail-based nonprofit supporting artists through live and recorded sessions, collaboration, professional resources and music-industry guidance.
The Music District — A Fort Collins gathering hub, workspace and creative community where musicians can develop their art, learn the business and share skills.
POPBOPROCKTILUDROP — Colorado Local Index — An index devoted to Colorado records and artists, with an emphasis on releases from the 1950s and 1960s.
Rocky Mountain Highway Music Collaborative / MeadowGrass — A Colorado Springs nonprofit presenting MeadowGrass and creating performance opportunities for musicians throughout the Pikes Peak region.
Roots Music Project — A nonprofit Boulder music community with a mission to amplify live music through performance and artist development.
Sonic Guild — Tour Support Grants — Sonic Guild no longer operates a standalone Colorado chapter, but its Tour Support Grant program continues to provide touring assistance to eligible Colorado musicians.
Summit Musicians Relief Fund — SMRF — A Summit County nonprofit assisting local musicians facing significant medical, financial or social hardships.
Swallow Hill Music — Offers music lessons, presents concerts and provides music education in under-resourced Denver-area communities.
Westword — Music — Denver’s independent source for local music news, interviews, reviews and concert coverage.
Youth on Record — Empowers young creatives to achieve their artistic, personal and academic best by employing Colorado musicians and artists as coaches and mentors.
DENVER / NORTHERN COLORADO PUBLIC & COMMUNITY RADIO
88.9 FM KRFC — Fort Collins / Northern Front Range — Where The Colorado Playlist began in 2006. Independent DJs regularly feature Colorado releases, live in-studio sessions and local artists; programming often leans Americana and singer-songwriter.
105.5 The Colorado Sound — Greeley / Northern Front Range — A music-discovery station with extensive Colorado airplay and daily local-music features. Chris K’s Colorado Playlist airs Sunday at 10 p.m. Mountain Time.
Indie 102.3 — Denver / statewide — CPR’s independent-music service highlights Colorado artists through The Local 303 and More From the Local 303. Also heard in Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Fort Collins, Vail, Carbondale and Glenwood Springs.
KGNU — Boulder / Denver — Independent community radio featuring diverse local and global music, public affairs and voices often overlooked by other media.
KUVO Jazz — Denver — Public radio featuring jazz, Latin jazz and blues, with Colorado artists and live performances in the mix.
STATIONS THAT AIR THE COLORADO PLAYLIST
The Colorado Playlist is currently broadcast by 12 stations across 30 FM/LPFM frequencies in Colorado.
KAFM — Grand Junction
KDNK — Carbondale
KFFR — Winter Park
KHEN — Salida
KJAC / The Colorado Sound — Northern Colorado / Denver
KLZR — Westcliffe
KOTO — Telluride
KOYC — Pueblo
KRZA — Alamosa
KSJD — Cortez / Four Corners
KSUT — Ignacio / Durango
KUNC — Greeley / Northern Colorado
Chris K's Colorado Playlist 
To whom it may concern,
My name is James Harper and I am in a local band based out of Denver CO and we go by the 303 Movement. Over the last year we have created a pretty well known buzz about us and as of last thursday we just released our first full length album “All In” at the Bluebird Theater. I was wondering how we possibly get a blogger to look at us or even get a review on our album? If there is any chance of us working together please let us know! We look forward to hearing from you.
James Harper
303 Movement
No Reverb? The Denver Post’s music blog reviews more live shows than anyone else in Colorado.
denverpost.com/reverb
thanks for the heads up … it is now done and fixed 🙂 —- chrisk/goat
what about rockymountainhighway.com? short on blogging but long on Front range Music calendar.
Hi Sound Folks,
How are you? Hope all is well. I represent an artist out of Colorado who is interested in being a part of your site, be it a review, interview or coming out to a show. Please let me know if you’d like more info on him and his music and I’ll gladly send that over for your to review and hopefully we can get something going!
Thank you,
Kendra
Hi Kendra — pls forward me a link to your artist’s website, reverbnation page, facebook or bandcamp.. Pls do not send a myspace link – I don’t go there anymore. —- thank you … goat
Hi Goat,
Thanks for the great sound last night. I really appreciate it. And thanks for turning me on to your Colorado Music and Radio site. Very cool.
I want to follow up with the new Signel-Z CD Io Rise. This is the 5-piece original jazz/MoJa/eclectic instrumental group (watch for the Vocal Edition – recording coming soon). Here is a link for a preview, I will get a CD to you soon too: http://www.reverbnation.com/signelz
FYI: I play guitar with Signel-Z and bass with Signel-Z Vocal Edition and GOT and Martian Acres.
Kind regards,
Steve
Please include notemote.com in your links as a free website for artists to market their goods and services, post events, write blogs i.e. articles to include their lyrics …
Hey! This is a band from Fort Collins, making waves in the South right now… check em out…
Covergeist is a band created by Aliens from planet Nibiru that have mutated into human form for the purpose of taking over the world and enslaving the human race with sound.
haha.
just kidding.
Covergeist is just a band that rocks.
Justin is the singer and guitar player. He is from Colorado and has quite an interesting story. He was the intern on Taylor Swift’s first album, was a childhood big-shot starring in things like a Power Rangers underwear commercial, Justin lived in Brazil, worked in studios all over Nashville, and eventually got fired from one studio for playing Billy Gibbons (ZZTop) guitar. Justin is one of the most recognizable songwriters and personalities in Nashville. Some love him, some hate him, but everyone has a story about the lead singer of Covergeist. Justin is also a political activist, poet, painter, potter, pot head and spiritual guru. He is very friendly passionate and personable, yet easily annoyed and explosively spontaneous, regularly destroying the set at shows. One can recall the tale of when after becoming frustrated with the sound, he not only broke his instrument, but proceeded to topple the piano of the following act. Nonetheless, he has made lots of friends and enemies in acting this way, all in the name of Rock and Roll.
There is an ever-rotating cast of bass players. In the 4 years Covergeist has been a band they have had over 10 bass players. Big ones, small ones, fat ones, dorky ones, good ones, bad ones. The most likely cause for the circus sideshow of characters playing for Covergeist is that most people simply can’t handle David’s height or Justin’s pre-madonna attitude and extreme work-aholic behavior.
Not only is David the drummer of Covergeist, but many people believe he is the next great drummer in Rock N Roll. His skill is like a love child of Keith Moon and John Bonham getting eaten alive by Amazonian Piranhas. And all that nasty sound comes from his custom sparkling pink drum set with gigantic toms and celestial cymbals. David is full of energy and he regularly jumps up on his drum thrown screaming and knocks over his kit, all the while never missing a beat and always on tempo. He is tall. So tall the American Government has classified him as the last of the Giant Race. In fact, David is so tall that he could’ve been a NBA basketball player but he realized his true love was knitting, but after a freak sewing accident in the mountains of Tibet, he took up the drums and the rest is history. Don’t let his ravishing good looks deceive you ladies, he is a monster behind the drums whose only comparison could be Animal from Sesame Street… and no he will not play Wipeout for $20… but he WILL play Moby Dick for a blow job and a Irish Car Bomb. One of his greatest feats was during a show in Nashville when a Batchelorette party came to a Covergeist show and actually ripped his underwear off and he finished the set naked. Other than that he is a wholesome family man.
believe it or not… everything above is true.
and if you don’t believe it… then $%^& you.
Check out the band online!
facebook.com/covergeist
soundcloud.com/covergeist
twitter.com/covergeist
great sounds!
Hi, Colorado Sound. I’m part of an Americana band called Young Valley allll the way from Jackson, Mississippi. We’re playing the Lion’s Lair March 6th with Greasy Species and Bib Tucker & the Liar’s Club, and I’m looking for good places to drop a little press release, other business about our band and our upcoming Denver debut.
We’re some Southern gents in a four-piece group that likes to take an old Gary Stewart country ballad, spice it up with a little Tex-Mex groove, and rough all the edges with some twangy guitar licks and lots of yelling . Our songs tend to be about the Devil, Jesus, drugs, alcohol, all of our sad broken hearts and the ones we’ve broken along the way, and of course, our great state, Mississippi.
We’ve been called a lot of shit. Twangy Gnar. Boogie Woogie. Assholes, but it’s good, it’s honest, and you’ll find something you like.
welcome to Colorado.