Tag: Fort Collins music

CP S17 EP15 2023

Monday April 17, 2023 – It’s official. The Colorado Playlist and Clear Vistas Photography are relocating to Grand Junction this summer, 2023. Folks in Northern Colorado will still hear the show every Saturday at 6AM and Sunday at 6PM on 105.5 The Colorado Sound – and all the stations and times elsewhere will stay the same. We’re just physically moving, to experience life on the western slope. So basically, none of us will miss a beat – and the “groove goes on,” according to a song somewhere. Claire will just have more pictures to share.

It also so happens that we’re out of town this weekend, so there is no TOP FIVE. Please enjoy the new songs in the MMMM and let me know what you think.

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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I designed the Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM) as 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.

(D) = debut of a single, ep or lp on the show
(N) = new track from previous (D) ep or lp

Beast – Spaceman – Beast (1969)
Sugarloaf – Don’t Call Us – We’ll Call You (1975)
(D) The Diabolics – Elephant Joe (2023)

Keith Murdock – Gonna Wanna See Her Again – Keith Murdock (2022)
DeVotchKa – Exhaustible – 100 Lovers (2011)
Elektric Animals – Constant Static Noise (2023)
Psychodelic Zombiez – The Healing – S.A.C. (1996)
The Still Tide – Change of Address – Between Skies (2019)
Christopher Morse – Help Me Out – Covering Old Scars EP (2023)
(D) Cowboy Dave – This Kind of Living – Venture South (2023)

Chris Daniels & Hazel Miller – Born Under A Bad Sign – What We Did! (2021)
Erik Lunde – Steel Militia – Water From The Stone (2022)
Dana Landry Quartet – Puttin’ On The Ritz – Standard Elevation (2015)

The Fluid – Our Love Will Still Be There – Glue (1990)
Dressy Bessy – Jenny Come On – Pink Hearts Yellow Moons (1999)
(D) Danno Simpson – Pills and Motorhead (2023)

Mike Clark and the Sugar Sounds – Warm Me Up – Moon Rock (2022)
The Subdudes – Social Aid & Pleasure Club – Behind The Levee (2006)
Deva Yoder – Resting From Their Labors – Be Well (2023)
Zephyr – Sold My Heart – Sunset Ride (1971/remaster 2021)
Jon Snodgrass – Brave With Strangers – Visitor’s Band (2009)
Kind Hearted Strangers – Diesel – Now.here (2023)
(D) Since JulEYE – Weight of the World with Mr. Bugatti & Sarcastik – The Dawn of Since (2023)
Wildermiss – Supermagical (2020)
Euforquestra – Arizona to Georgia – While We Still Got Time (2022)
BTTFLY Quintet – Buried Treasure – Coast (2023)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles present)

Live Music Colorado featuring  LiveMusicMegaSearch™

Q1 2023 TOP 30 + TOP 10 FEBRUARY

March 01, 2023 – February was a spectacular month. More of you visited and checked out more pages and posts than in any February since 2015!

I decided to mix things up a bit this month.

Every Sunday I survey over a dozen community/public and college stations, which includes spins from the Colorado playlist.

The monthly survey period is from the first week ending with a Saturday through the last week ending with a Saturday.  Titles are linked to its respective YouTube page.

The annual new release year begins in November. Of course, there are titles released in October that make the cut, and I do track all titles for a full calendar year after date of release. My yearly spins are pulled and calculated from December through the next year’s November. So, DEC 2022 – NOV 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 and agents to track airplay.

So, what are the most popular titles so far in 2023?

TOP 10 – FEBRUARY 2023

(3) 1. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
(D) 2. NAHKEEM – It Was All A Dream EP (Oct-22)
(D) 2. YONNAS – Feven LP (Nov-22)
(D) 3. JAIEL – the Magical World Of Black Girlhood EP (Apr-22)
(D) 4. KNWLXDGE – Control SINGLE (Dec-22)
(D) 5. WILLIAM DUSAN – Everyday SINGLE (Jun-22)
(D) 6. DUKE JUSTICE – Radio Silence SINGLE (Feb-23)
(7) 7. ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP (Jun-22)
(2) 8. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – In My Garden LP (Nov-22)
(D) 9. CHRIS CART3R – Lost SINGLE (Mar-22)

TOP 30 Q1 2023 (DEC 22 – FEB 23)

  1. EUFORQUESTRA – While We Still Got Time LP (Jun-22)
  2. ALYSIA KRAFT – First Light LP (Jun-22)
  3. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Channels EP (May-22)
  4. JULIAN FULCO PERRON – In My Garden LP (Nov-22)
  5. TRAVIS MCNAMARA – Moon Calendar LP (Mar-23)
  6. THE LUMINEERS – Brightside LP (Jan-22)
  7. MIKE CLARK & THE SUGAR SOUNDS – Moon Rock LP (Mar-22)
  8. VINCE HERMAN – Enjoy the Ride LP (Nov-22)
  9. TENNIS – Pollen LP (Jan-23)
  10. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – Small Towns LP (Sep-22)
  11. MOJOMAMA – We Are One LP (Jun-22)
  12. IZCALLI – Rebirth LP (Jul-22)
  13. BARBARA – Escape Artist LP (Sep-22)
  14. WILDERMISS – W.I.F.I. SINGLE (Aug-22)
  15. BEVIN LUNA – Madison and Angelus LP (Jun-22)
  16. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Nightmares LP (Oct-22)
  17. HERO TALBOT – Butterscotch LP (Oct-22)
  18. TRASH. – Ghosts EP (Dec-22)
  19. ANTIBROTH – Antibroth LP (Sep-22)
  20. CHLOE SOUTHERN – Last Man on Earth EP (Nov-22)
  21. GRIMMLY – Happiest  SINGLE (Dec-22)
  22. MUSKETEER GRIPWEED – Long Past Time LP (Sep-22)
  23. NAHKEEM – It Was All A Dream EP (Oct-22)
  24. YONNAS – Feven LP (Nov-22)
  25. JAIEL – the Magical World Of Black Girlhood EP (Apr-22)
  26. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – Toward the Fray LP (Jan-22)
  27. KNWLXDGE – Control SINGLE (Dec-22)
  28. DARCY NELSON – Bad SINGLE (Sep-22)
  29. LETTUCE – Unify LP (Jun-22)
  30. WILLIAM DUSAN – Everyday SINGLE (Jun-22)

REVIEW: JEFF FINLIN – SOUL ON THE LINE

You cannot imagine how excited I was to get some kind of message – via the Innerwebs or some otherworldly means – that Jeff Finlin, “Fin” as he’s known locally in Fort Collins, put out a new album. I mean, I was so excited my heart jumped. I immediately dived into the entire album and haven’t stopped listening since.

You can’t find this album on SPOTIFY – yet. The published release date is June 24. HOWEVER – the album was released on May 19 via Continental Record Services out of the Netherlands on Bandcamp.

Produced by Jeff Finlin.
Recorded By Darren Raddach at Stout Studios, Fort Collins, CO.
Jeff Finlin – Drums, electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, percussion, piano
Taylor Tessler – Bass
Joe V. Mcmahan – Electric guitars
Eben Grace – Electric guitars
Eric Straumanis – Electric guitars
Brian Keller – Horns, accordion

Jeff Finlin’s legacy goes back decades. In my case it’s two decades since I first heard his music. Ever since then I have anxiously and quietly pleaded, cajoled and otherwise stamped my goat hoofs for something new.

After all, for as prolific as Jeff as been in his career –  13 critically acclaimed records – I honestly thought another album would never come my way. Silly me; Jeff has basically put out an album every few years. The last, The Guru in the Girl (2017), was a measly five years ago – an eternity it seems in Jeff’s catalogue.

Soul On the Line doesn’t move far from Jeff’s established Americana trad folk-rock style that travels nicely in the car with the likes of John Hiatt, Levon Helm or Bob Dylan. A literary mastermind, Jeff’s songs have taken us on an journey of life filled with vivid imagery. In the lead single, “…we walk the line, years repeating all our tears and time. Compromise our patron saint …hangin’ out with our Soul On the Line.”

Throughout the album, Jeff touches on issues that as he’s said are about “…these extreme and harrowing times we currently live in. Everything about our existence seems to be hanging in the balance.”

In What Went Wrong he ponders, “We all get tired of waiting, waiting on ourselves, so then we go and settle, set our feet in something else and then wonder why we can’t feel nothing here at all; and we’re stuck here on the telephone …wondering what went wrong.”

The songs on this album are not about the hope for the future. Jeff’s reflections and voice are those of an aged muse, tired and worn out from the battering waves of the very life that has inspired so many of his greatest stories in song and verse.

Jeff’s Northern Colorado friends and worldwide fans will love and adore and cherish this album as yet another intimate chapter in our friend’s collection. I’d suggest first timers visit earlier albums like Epinonymous, his highly acclaimed fourth album, before diving into this one.