Tag: Denver music

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)

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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)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles are available)

CP S17 EP40 2023

A midsummer Milky Way in Fort Garland, CO courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

MONDAY NOV 5, 2023 – Welcome to the 2024 new release year. Folks of a certain age might recall when new model year cars were introduced in the fall, while current year models were still on showroom floors. Sorta the same.

In about five weeks you’ll start seeing annual Best Of lists being published. Here in about two weeks I will put up the 14th Annual Colorado Playlist Fan and Listener Polls for 2023. The annual Best Of show will run DEC 30 thru JAN 05. I’ll post up the poll results and 2023 spins chart on JAN 01, 2024.

#COMUSIC TOP SPINS OCT 29-NOV 05

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. ALYSIA KRAFT – Electric Blooms EP (Jun-23)
(1) 1. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones  LP (Apr-23)
(D) 2. KEVIN DOOLEY – Band O’ Gypsys LP (Sep-23)
(2) 2.  KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(D) 2. REBECCA FOLSOM – Sanctuary LP (Mar-23)
(D) 2. TEJON STREET CORNER THIEVES – You Rascal You SP (Oct-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.

PLAYLIST CP S17 EP40

HOUR 1
Dusty Drapes – Cielito Lindo – The Red Album (1981)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Baby’s Got A Hold On Me – Hold On (1987)
(D) The Dollhouse Thieves – Take Me Down (2023)
LVDY – Begin Again – The Woods (2022)
Robert Shredford – Queen Elizabeth Corgis – Robert Shredford (2020)
Bryce Menchaca – Flower Painted Black – Salt (2023)
Lionel Young Band – Blues & Boogie Woogie – On Our Way to Memphis: The IBC Sessions (2011)
Otis Taylor – Walk Right In – Recapturing The Banjo (2008)
Blood Brothers 303 – Moon Is My Mistress (2023)
(D) Sarah Christine – Share A Pillow (feat. Jackie’s Boy) (2023)
OneRepublic – A.I. (feat. Peter Gabriel) – Oh My My (2016)
One Flew West – Holes In My Jeans (2022)
BTTRFLY Quintet – Marauders – Coast (2023)

HOUR 2
Red Rock Roosters – Circuit Rider – Altitude Is Everything (1998)
(D) In Plain Air – A View From the End Of A Dream (2023)
Big Gigantic x GRIZ – Open Your Mind (2022)
Wildermiss – Carry Your Heart – Lost With You EP (2017)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Place at the Table – All Out of Angels (2023)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Criminal – The Show (2009)
Tennis – My Emotions Are Blinding – Yours Conditionally (2017)
VOLORES – All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)
(D) Romero – Afterglow (Staring At the Sky) (2023)
Kyle Emerson – I Can Change – Only Coming Down (2020)
Faith Eliza – Fighter (2022)
The Motet – Nachez – Breathe (1999)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

#COMUSIC TOP 20 OCTOBER + 2023

NOVEMBER 01, 2023 – Izcalli broke into the yearly TOP 20 and there were eighteen debuts (D) in October. And for the first time, I separated out the single releases (SP) not yet tied to an EP or LP.

*Strawberry Runners made their way, all the way, to (D) #3 for October. Band founder, Emi Night, moved to Denver from Indiana and started Strawberry Runners in 2013. Emi currently lives in Philadelphia. Hence the * in front of their name.

ABOUT THE CHARTS

Every Sunday I survey over a dozen community/public and college stations. The monthly survey period is from the first week ending with a Sunday, through the last week ending with a Saturday.  Yearly spins are pulled and calculated from December through the next November.

The annual new release year begins in November, although there are some released in October that make the cut. I track all titles for a full calendar year from the official date of release of the first single.

Titles are linked to its respective YouTube page. Don’t forget to visit Chris K’s Colorado Playlist Channel for the largest collection of Colorado music, going back over a decade.

Your donation will VERY HONESTLY HELP to keep this going. Please. Donate below or via Venmo at chrisk-2.

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

TOP 20 OCTOBER 2023

(1) 1. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones LP (May-23)
(2) 2. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(D) 3. *STRAWBERRY RUNNERS – Strawberry Runners LP (Aug-23)
(D) 4. CRLO – Call Me When Your Heart Remembers EP (Sep-23)
(D) 5. RO$$A¥ – Messenger Who Shot Back LP (Jul-23)
(D) 6. *WILDERMISS – Gettin’ Old Rock & Roll SP (Jul-23)
(D) 7.  BRYCE MENCHACA – Salt EP (Aug-23)
(D) 8. DRAGONDEER – Across the Waves LP (Jun-23) **
(3) 9. BIRDS OF PLAY – Birdsongs of the American West LP (Aug-23)
(D) 9. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – As It Was SP (Jul-23)
(D) 10. JENNY SHAWHAN – You Got the Magic LP (Aug-23)
(D) 10. THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Lend Me a Hand LP (Jun-23)
(4) 11. *THE WOOD BROTHERS – Heart Is the Hero LP (Feb-23)
(D) 12. BONNIE & TAYLOR SIMS – Bonnie & Taylor Sims LP (Jun-23)
(D) 13. SARAH CHRISTINE – All In SP (Aug-23)
(D) 13. WALDEN – Daydreams SP (Sep-23)
(D) 14. DOLLHOUSE THIEVES – Take Me Down SP (Aug-23)
(D) 14. ego n friends – IBIZA (That’s Ok) SP (Sep-23)
(D) 14. ego n friends – ZUKO (feat. Thinh Can) SP (Mar-23)
(D) 14. LADY LOS – Honey Do SP (Nov-22)
(D) 14. LADY LOS – HOTBOX (feat. Nelo) SP (Aug-23)
(D) 14. *WILDERMISS – Identify It! SP (Jul-23)

TOP 20 DEC ’22-OCT ’23

(3) 1. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones LP (May-23)
(2) 2. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(1) 3. *THE WOOD BROTHERS – Heart Is the Hero LP (Feb-23)
(4) 4. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Vast Nothing LP (Mar-23)**
(5) 5. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)**
(6) 6. VOLORES – Ages LP (Mar-23)
(7) 7. ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP (Jun-22)
(9) 7. LEFTOVER SALMON – Grass Roots LP (May-23)
(8) 8. THE BURROUGHS – Honey Imastar LP (Jun-23)
(10) 9. *BILL FRISELL – Four LP (Nov-22)
(13) 10. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & the NIGHT SWEATS – Buy My Round/What If I SP (May-23)
(11) 11. TRAVIS MCNAMARA – Moon Calendar LP (Mar-23)
(12) 12. MUSKETEER GRIPWEED – Long Past Time LP (Sep-22)
(18) 13. DRAGONDEER – Across the Waves LP (Jun-23) **
(14) 13.  JULIAN FULCO PERRON – In My Garden LP (Nov-22)
(15) 14. DEVA YODER – Be Well LP (Feb-23)
(16) 15. *VINCE HERMAN – Enjoy the Ride LP (Nov-22)
(19) 16. SUGAR NOVA – Halogen LP (May-23)
(17) 17. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Channels EP (May-22)
(D) 17. IZCALLI – One Last Time SP (Feb-23)

TOP 20 SINGLES DEC ’22-OCT ’23

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & the NIGHT SWEATS – Buy My Round/What If I SP (May-23)
  2. IZCALLI – One Last Time SP (Feb-23)
  3. BROTHERS KEEPER – He Left You feat. John Popper SP (23-Jan)
  4. OKO TYGRA – West Coast (is burning) SP (22-Oct)
  5. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – All the Lights SP (23-Mar)
  6. ANGELA HEART – Red SP (23-Jun)
  7. 2MX2 – Arriba y Abajo SP (23-Jun)
  8. *WILDERMISS – W.I.F.I. SP (22-Aug)
  9. OKO TYGRA – Better Without You SP (22-Nov)
  10. N3PTUNE & RUSTY STEVE – Shadow SP (23-Jun)
  11. PLUTINOS – Last to Know SP (22-Nov)
  12. *WILDERMISS – Gettin’ Old Rock & Roll SP (23-Jul)
  13. THE DESERT FURS – Existing Just for Fun SP (23-Feb)
  14. 2MX2 – El Desmadre SP (23-Feb)
  15. CONRAD MATA – Hog SP (22-Nov)
  16. DANNO SIMPSON – Pills and Motorhead SP (22-Dec)
  17. HOLDFAST – Everything Wrong SP (23-Jan)
  18. LOLITA – Chi-chi Suelta SP (22-Dec)
  19. ADRIENNE O – You Don’t Want My Love SP (Nov-22)
  20. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – About Love SP (Aug-23)**