Doing some backend work on the station … added new cut from Dianne Reeve’s new album today to the morning 6A-11A schedule. Pulled the spins list .. these are the most heard titles right now.
(_____) = date added to rotation.
1. Otis Taylor – Blue Rain In Africa (Oct 03, 13)
2. Jeff Brinkman – Island (Oct 04, 13)
3. Trout Steak Revival – Bell (Dec 29, 13)
4. The Fray – Love Don’t Die (Oct 25, 13)
5. Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Josephina (Jan 23, 14)
6. Elephant Revival – Birds And Stars (Dec 29, 13)
7. The Changing Colors – True Love Knows (Jul 30, 13)
8. 3 Twins – Station On Down The Line (Dec 29, 13)
9. Mosey West – Old Stone (Jan 23, 14)
10. Matt Skinner Band – Ashes To Ashes (Dec 30, 13)
WOW … it’s Feb 5 and I am easily ten days behind schedule on everything. That’s not good when you’re self employed LOL. Hi guys … so, January was an explosive month – what with the weather, a family (I would say reunion, but we’ve never had a full family get-together before) Super Bowl party complete with new smart-tv … and grand-kids and grampa (new spelling courtesy of grand-kids) coming down with the “flu” (whatever that means today). It was a pretty solid month musically speaking, as evidenced by the chart action below. I don’t have much else to share really – I am accepting underwriting/advertising support, so if you or your business is statewide and would like to get some exposure around the state, hit me up. Equally if you’re in an act that would like your record serviced to media and talent buyers around the state. That’s it … next month there should be plenty more news from around the state .. til then… welcome to the show 🙂
Video Picks of the Month
TOP 40 SPINS – January 2014
1. Elephant Revival – These Changing Skies (Its Evolving Records) Folk [August 1, 2013]
2. Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Love Runner (Remington Road Records) Americana [December 21, 2013]
3. Gregory Alan Isakov – The Weatherman (Suitcase Town Music) Folk [June 22, 2013]
4. Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Black Beehive (Shout! Factory) Rock [January 25, 2014]
5. Honey Don’t – Heart Like A Wheel (self) Americana [November 1, 2013]
6. Tennis – Small Sound (Communion Records) Indie/New Alternative pop [November 1, 2013]
7. Mosey West – Bermuda (self) Rock [November 2, 2013]
8. Rob Drabkin – Little Steps EP (self) AAA [August 1, 2013]
9. Changing Colors – Joan & the King (Blank Tape) Folk [April 27, 2013]
10. Josh Dillard – The Bright Light of Shipwreck (self) Folk [June 1, 2013]
11. Various – SpokesBUZZ Compilation IV (SpokesBUZZ) Rock/various [December 14, 2013]
12. The Railsplitters – The Railsplitters (self) Americana [October 1, 2013]
13. Joe Johnson – New West Sound (Blank Tape) Americana/country-folk [August 1, 2013]
14. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony (Cicero Recordings) Indie/New Alternative [November 1, 2012]
15. Austin Young & No Difference – Blue As Can Be (Vizztone) Blues [March 23, 2013]
16. Monocle Band – Monocle Band (self) Folk/folk-rock [September 1, 2013]
17. Nathaniel Rateliff – Falling Faster Than You Can Run (Mod y Vi Records) Folk [September 1, 2013]
18. Drag The River – Drag the River (Xtra Mile Records) Rock [October 1, 2013]
19. Motet – The Motet (self) Urban Contemporary/funk [January 4, 2014]
19. The Wild After – Lesson Learned EP (self) Rock [January 4, 2014]
20. Soul School – Chapter One (self) Urban Contemporary/soul [November 30, 2013]
20. The Patti Fiasco – Small Town Lights (self) Rock [July 23, 2013]
21. Pretty Lights – A Color Map of the World (8 Minutes 20 Seconds) Urban Contemporary/EDM [July 2, 2013]
22. Trout Steak Revival – Flight (self) Bluegrass [November 22, 2012]
23. Finnders & Youngberg – I Don’t Want Love You Won’t Give Until I Cry (Swingfingers Records) Bluegrass [August 1, 2013]
24. Mike Clark & the Sugar Sounds – Round and Round (Blank Tape) Indie/New Alternative [January 19, 2013]
25. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Time (You’re Doing Fine) (self) Blues/rhythm and blues [December 7, 2013]
26. 3 Twins – De Nada (Sleeping Elephant Music) Americana/N’Orleans funk [June 20, 2013]
27. Head for the Hills – Blue Ruin (self) Bluegrass [June 1, 2013]
28. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone (Telarc) Blues [January 20, 2013]
29. Matt Skinner Band – Native Stranger (Tapedero Productions) Americana/country [November 9, 2013]
30. Jeff Brinkman Band – Strange (self) Rock/AAA [December 1, 2012]
31. Grant Sabin – Anthromusicology (Blank Tape) Rock/blues-rock [January 10, 2013]
31. Megan Burtt & Friends – In Good Company: Vol I: The Colorado Sessions (N/A) POP/various [November 1, 2013]
32. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Rocky Mountain Honky Tonk (self) Americana/alt-country-rock [July 7, 2013]
33. Katey Laurel – Periscope (self) POP/adult contemporary [August 1, 2013]
34. Chimney Choir – (compass) (self) Folk/indie [June 1, 2013]
35. Arthur Lee Land – Cracked Open (self) Rock/AAA [November 1, 2012]
35. Katie Glassman & Snapshot – Dream A Little Dream (self) Americana/western swing [November 30, 2013]
35. Land Lines – Land Lines (self) Indie/New Alternative [November 24, 2012]
ADDED DEC ’13/JAN ’14
Aspen Hourglass – S/T [EP]
Bad Brad & the Fat Cats – Take A Walk With Me
Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Black Beehive
Brad Fitch – Columbine Blue
David Wiatrolik – Dave and The Gin Mill Gipsies
Fierce Bad Rabbit – Do You Want Me Now? [single]
Five Iron Frenzy – Engine of a Million Plots
Jane Thatcher Band – Hunter’s Lonlieness Fool [EP]
John Runnels – Echoes
Katie Glassman & Snapshot – Dream A Little Dream
Knocean – S/T
Lissa Hanner – My Colorado
Madam Sin – Madam Sin
Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Time (You’re Doing Fine)
Medic – Wake Me Up [single]
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Love Runner
The Motet – The Motet
The Samples – America
Shatterproof – Discord Harmony
Soul School – Chapter One
Sound|Studies – Smoke and Mirrors [single]
Swim Through Frequencies – Rhythm of Complacency
Various – SpokesBUZZ Compilation IV
Vinnie Maniscalco – TaKillYa [single]
Walker Shellist – Readyset
The Wild After – Lesson Learned EP
STATION BY STATION
KAFM (Grand Junction) [21]
1. Honey Don’t – Heart Like a Wheel
2. Elephant Revival – These Changing Skies
3. Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band f/Erica Brown – Tangled Road Again
4. Monocle Band – Monocle Band
5. Kristina Murray – Unravelin’
KBUT (Crested Butte) [14]
1. Pretty Lights – A Color Map of the World
2. Head for the Hills – Blue Ruin
2. The Railsplitters – The Railsplitters
3. Chimney Choir – (compass)
3. Elephant Revival – These Changing Skies
KDNK (Carbondale) [27]
1. Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Black Beehive
1. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
1. Honey Don’t – Heart Like A Wheel
1. Pretty Lights – A Color Map of the World
2. Aakash Mittal Quartet – Ocean
KDUR (Durango) [n/a]
1. The Railsplitters – S/T
2. Thee Dang Dangs – For the People
3. Mosy West – Bermuda
4. The Hollyfelds – Title Stealers
5. Confluence – I Haven’t Really Been Living
KGNU (Boulder) [22]
1. Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Love Runner
2. Elephant Revival – These Changing Skies
3. 3 Twins – De Nada
4. Blue Canyon Boys – Next Go Round
5. Finnders & Youngberg – I Don’t Want Love You Won’t Give Until I Cry
KRCC(Colorado Springs) [14]
1. Elephant Revival – These Changing Skies
2. Austin Young & No Difference – Blue As Can Be
2. Changing Colors – Joan & the King
2. Joe Johnson – New West Sound
2. Josh Dillard – The Bright Light of Shipwreck
KRFC (Fort Collins) [>100]
1. Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore – Love Runner
2. Mama Lenny and the Remedy – Time (You’re Doing Fine)
2. Various artists – Spokesbuzz Volume 4
3. Megan Burtt & Friends – In Good Company
4. Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Black Beehive
KRZA (Alamosa) [10]
1. Finnders & Youngberg – I Don’t Want Love You Won’t Give Until I Cry
1. The Railsplitters – The Railsplitters
2. Cassie Taylor – Out of My Mind
2. Dr. Izzy Band – Blind and Blues Bound
2. Gabrielle Louise – The Bird in My Chest
KSUT (Ignacio) [10]
1. Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Black Beehive
1. Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Love Runner
2. Elephant Revival – These Changing Skies
2. Lawn Chair Kings – Zombies Wake!
2. Yonder Mountain String Band – EP13
KUNC(Greeley) [12]
1. Gregory Alan Isakov – The Weatherman
1. Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Love Runner
2. Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Black Beehive
3. Rob Drabkin – Little Steps EP
4. Elephant Revival – These Changing Skies
KVNF(Paonia) [15]
1. Honey Don’t – Heart Like A Wheel
2. Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Black Beehive
3. Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Love Runner
4. Paper Bird – Rooms
4. Rob Drabkin – Little Steps EP
OPEN AIR 1340 (Denver) [14]
1. Nathaniel Ratefliff – Falling Faster Than You Can Run
2. Gregory Alan Isakov – The Weatherman
3. Chimney Choir – (compass)
3. Elephant Revival – These Changing Skies
4. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
The Colorado Sound[42]
1. Motet – The Motet
1. The Wild After – Lesson Learned EP
2. Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Love Runner
3. Drag The River – Drag the River
3. Mosey West – Bermuda
GENRE/PROGRAM FORMAT
Americana / Alt-country / Bluegrass
1. Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Love Runner
2. Honey Don’t – Heart Like A Wheel
3. The Railsplitters – The Railsplitters
4. Joe Johnson – New West Sound
5. Trout Steak Revival – Flight
Blues / Rhythm & Blues
1. Austin Young & No Difference – Blue As Can Be
2. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Time (You’re Doing Fine)
3. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone
4. Walker Shellist – Readyset
5. Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band f/Erica Brown – Tangled Road Again
Folk / folk-rock / singer-songwriter
1. Elephant Revival – These Changing Skies
2. Gregory Alan Isakov – The Weatherman
3. Changing Colors – Joan & the King
3. Josh Dillard – The Bright Light of Shipwreck
4. Monocle Band – Monocle Band
Indie / New Alternative
1. Tennis – Small Sound
2. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
3. Mike Clark & the Sugar Sounds – Round and Round
4. Land Lines – Land Lines
5. Paper Bird – Rooms
Jazz / Instrumental
1. Maxwell Hughes – Only in Dreams
2. Jon Wirtz – Tourist
3. David Wiatrolik – Dave and The Gin Mill Gipsies
4. Josh Quinlan Quartet – Open Space
5. Square Peg – Searching
Pop / Adult Contemporary / Crossover
1. Megan Burtt & Friends – In Good Company: Vol I: The Colorado Sessions
2. Katey Laurel – Periscope
3. Andy Hackbarth – Treadmill Horses EP
4. Justin Roth – Rise [single]
5. Katie Herzig – Secret Road As Heard On TV, Volume 1 [comp]
Rock / AAA / ALT / AOR
1. Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Black Beehive
2. Mosey West – Bermuda
3. Rob Drabkin – Little Steps EP
4. Various – SpokesBUZZ Compilation IV
5. Drag The River – Drag the River
Urban Contemporary / EDM / Hip Hop / Soul
1. Motet – The Motet
2. Soul School – Chapter One
3. Pretty Lights – A Color Map of the World
4. Bop Skizzum – Say Something [single]
5. Whiskey Blanket – From the Dead of Dark
(Sunday, Jan 12, 2014) I love Sundays – especially during football season, and especially during the playoffs. The early game is on in the background as I sit and reflect on the week and this week’s music. Music does come before football with me LOL.
I had an interesting experience this weekend. A fellow musician began saying that radio is dead, that no one listens to radio anymore… and that more people listen to streaming radio ala Pandora, and satellite radio via Sirius than listen to “corporate radio” broadcast via terrestrial (conventional) technology. Oh boy … anyone who knows me at all knows how I handled this discussion LOL.
A DISCLAIMER: I listen to Internet-radio primarily .. and really only to The Colorado Sound Live365. I listen to it in the car via smartphone technology on an unlimited data plan from Verizon, and while I’m working out at the gym via the in-house broadband access. I do, also, listen to terrestrial radio. I listen to sports/talk during football season and public/community radio at other times.
a) all radio is corporate. there are no exceptions. Pandora is corporate. Sirius is corporate. All terrestrial radio stations are corporate, including public and community radio stations, which are incorporated under non-profit corporation status.. Some corporations are more centrally managed, while some have more diffuse forms of management with greater local control and/or autonomy. I press this because the impression seems to be that Pandora and Sirius are not “corporate radio.” Sirius does not allow for independent access in programming as it is functionally a monopoly. Pandora‘s music database is pre-screened and filtered before being made available to the public for personal mixing, and then only within the constraints of their music genealogy algorithms.
b) Radio is radio regardless of technology, but not all technologies are equal in reach. There are three primary means of broadcasting today: Terrestrial (conventional) AM & FM. Satellite (a quasi-monopoly held by the Sirius Corporation). Internet. Terrestrial radio has the greatest share of actual listenership to available audience. Satellite and Internet have the deepest reach in terms of geography, and therefore potential available audience. Terrestrial radio is firmly established in car dashboards, the primary place we listen to radio of any kind. Satellite radio is second in terms of in dash access. Internet is just now coming online, but is years away from being ubiquitous in our transportation devices since it requires greater efficiency and availability of broadband Internet access.
c) Terrestrial radio is still #1 in technology and listenership …
We’re still years away from AM/FM technology being “dead.” FM radio is still the dominant way we get exposed to new music, and news and local events. We are quite far away from Internet having the kind of reach that will allow rural users efficient access. If you live in a metro area with good data plans for your car or smartphone you’re ahead of the game…. you and your friends may be using conventional technology less than you were, or not at all anymore. But, I’ll make the bet that even the staunchest deniers turn on the car radio more than once a week 😉
If radio is dead have I finally hit zombie status?? (where’s Maris the Great when you need a ghoul?)
VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK:
What a week for video releases! New videos were added from Katey Laurel, Matthew Moon, Fierce Bad Rabbit, Kronen, and Mama Lenny & the Remedy. Katey Laurel comes in first with the official video for her “hit” Hurricane – which seems to the tell the story of being in the “hurricane” of emotions during an especially difficult time in a relationship between a husband and a wife.
PLAYLIST S8|EP02
(D) – Debut: the first time a NEW album, ep, or single is aired.
(N) – New track from a previously debuted album or ep
Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Rosalita (f. John Popper)” [single] (2012) Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams “All Along the Watchtower” from Live @ Hodis (2012) Drew Emmitt “Tangled Up In Blue” from Freedom Ride (2002) (D) Vinnie Maniscalco “TaKillYa” [single] (2013) Places “Honesty” from No More Wasted Days (2012) Katey Laurel “Hurricane” from Periscope (2014) Jeff Brinkman “Ordinary Day” from Strange (2012) (D) Rachel and the Ruckus “Could Be Tonight” [single] (2013) SHEL “On My Way” from SHEL (2012) Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra “Zen and The Art of Samba” from Sharks And Manatees (2012) Acoustic Junction “Every Heart” from Strange Days (2000) Reed Foehl “Wolves” from Once An Ocean (2009) (N) Mosey West “Hurricane Eyes” from Bermuda (2014)
Monocle Band “Falling” from Monocle Band (2013) Leftover Salmon “Sing Up To The Moon” from Aquatic Hitchhiker (2012) Soul School “Out of Your League” from Chapter One (2014) Flobots “White Flag Warrior” from Survival Story (2010) Rachel & the Kings “Not Giving Up” from Tonic (2013) Soul Merchants “Crowns of Glory” from Soul Merchants (2007) Fierce Bad Rabbit “Do You Want Me Now?” [single] (2014) (N) Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore “Train Home” from Love Runner (2014) Dan Treanor & African Wind “Mercy” from Mercy (2005) The Motet “Afro Disco Beat” from Instrumental Dissent (2007)
Chris K's Colorado Playlist 