Tag: Middle Class Rock Star

CP S15 EP19 2021

Monday May 10, 2021 – Once again, I’m writing early… I’m off visiting Westcliff and Salida this week. This week’s visits include KLZR Westcliffe where you can hear the show Sundays from 2-4PM and KHEN Salida, which airs the show Saturdays from 5-7PM.

Middle Class Rock Star is a podcast hosted by  Andy Sydow.  Every week or so I feature a 7 to 8 minute segment featuring  a conversation Andy has with some of our scene’s top music makers and industry personalities.  This week’s guest is Mark Oblinger.

TOP FIVE WK END MAY 08 2021

WEST SIDE JOE & THE MEN OF SOUL lead a wholesale change in this week’s TOP FIVE spins, among the thirteen stations surveyed from May 2 through May 8. Their single “Vacate My Heart” is popular too on Spotify with over 11,000 spins. The link is to their Bandcamp page.

The new singles from Cole Scheifele (pronounced “shife-lee”) are at #2 thanks to being featured this month on Indie 102.3. I would imagine other Colorado radio DJs liking Cole, who instantly falls in alongside Gregory Alan Isakov and the introspective sensitive side of Nathaniel Rateliff. His link goes to his artist YouTube page instead of the album, which isn’t due out until July.

  1. WEST SIDE JOE & THE MEN OF SOUL – Keep On Climbin’ LP (Apr-21)
  2. COLE SCHEIFELE – The Hideaways LP (due out Jul-21)
  3. LEFTOVER SALMON – Brand New Good Old Days LP (Mar-21)
  4. FLOBOTS – Roshni SINGLE (Apr-21)
  5. DISCOMFORT CREATURE – Discomfort Creature LP (Apr-21)

TOP 5 and TOP 30 charts are pulled from published spins at 13 Colorado non-profit community/public and college radio stations.  Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations, record promoters and artists are among those most likely to benefit from the detailed search function.

Currently 11 Colorado radio stations utilize Spinitron.

The Mishawaka is a legendary music venue, restaurant and bar located 13.7 miles up the Poudre Canyon Highway (CO 14) in the stunning Poudre Canyon in Bellvue, CO.  THERE ARE SHOWS BOOKED! 

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

(D) = debut LP/EP or single
(N) = new track from previously debuted LP/EP
(P) = Colorado Playlist premier / not available online

Michael Martin Murphey – Wildfire – Blue Sky–Night Thunder (1975)
(D) Reverend Freakchild – Keep On Praying (w Reverend Shawn Amos) – Supramundane Blues (2021)

New Family Dog – 6 Feet Under – Halo (2020)
The Still Tide – High Wire – Run Out (2017)
despAIR Jordan – Train Wrecks of the Great Lakes – Before Your Wings Gave Out (2021)
Five Iron Frenzy – Renegades – Until This Shakes Apart (2021)
Dan Fogelberg – She Don’t Look Back – Exiles (1987)
Firefall – No Way Out – Firefall (1976)
(D) Sydney Clapp – Telling (2021)

Zoe Berman – Edit Delete and Save (2020)
Jeff Finlin – Is This Love – Ballad Of A Plain Man (2008)
Euforquestra – Some Things Are Not Known (2020)

Tim Goodman – New Romeo (1981)
(D) The Burroughs – Zero Sum Game (2021)

Dragondeer – Stay High (2020)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Stuck In Motion – Heavy Diamond Ring (2019)
The Barlow – Longest Days – Horseshoe Lounge (2021)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Look It Here – Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (2015)
Mark Oblinger – Little Bird – High Water Line (2019)
(D) Finn O’Sullivan – Big Shot (f. Declan Kennedy) – These Days EP (2021)

Neoma – Young – Real (2020)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Beautiful – Rocksteady (2010)
Brian Claxton – The Yard – The Yard (2020)

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CP S15 EP18 2021

Monday May 03, 2021 – Once again, I’m writing early, because I attended the Tico Time RV Resort Bluegrass Festival this weekend. Next up is the Tico Time RV Resort Reggae Festival May 13-15.

No TOP FIVE this morning. As soon as I walk in tonight I’ll sit down and build the APRIL TOP 30. Should have it up in a day or two. Of course, since I’m actually writing on Thursday, “today/tonight” is actually four days away. Anyway …

Middle Class Rock Star is a podcast hosted by  Andy Sydow.  Every week or so I feature a 7 to 8 minute segment featuring  a conversation Andy has with some of our scene’s top music makers and industry personalities.  This week’s guest is Hazel Miller.

TOP 5 and TOP 30 charts are pulled from published spins at 13 Colorado non-profit community/public and college radio stations.  Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations, record promoters and artists are among those most likely to benefit from the detailed search function.

Currently 11 Colorado radio stations utilize Spinitron.

The Mishawaka is a legendary music venue, restaurant and bar located 13.7 miles up the Poudre Canyon Highway (CO 14) in the stunning Poudre Canyon in Bellvue, CO.  THERE ARE SHOWS BOOKED! 

PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS – SUPPORT COLORADO MUSIC

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

(D) = debut LP/EP or single
(N) = new track from previously debuted LP/EP
(P) = Colorado Playlist premier / not available online

Dave Matthews Band – Satellite (Live At Red Rocks) – Live at Red Rocks 1995 (1997)
(N) Derek Dames Ohl – Pour It Till My Glass Is Full – Derek Dames Ohl & Friends (2021)

Leftover Salmon – Better Day – High Country (2014)
Andy Frasco – Love is a Gun – Keep On Keepin On (2020)
J-Calvin – Your Soul Knows (2021)
Niceness – What A Day – Realize (2021)
16 Horsepower – Coal Black Horses – 16 Horsepower (1995)
Acoustic Junction – Think About It – Acoustic Junction (1996)
(D) Eolian – Division – Division (2021)

Dressy Bessy – Fearless – Fast Faster Disaster (2019)
Down Time – Take Me to a Place – Hurts Being Alive (2020)
Jon Wirtz – Country – Tourist (2013)

HOUR 2

U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday (Live from Red Rocks) – Sunday Bloody Sunday (1983)
(D) The Crooked Rugs – Let Me Down – IT! (2021)

DeVotchKa – Exhaustible – 100 Lovers (2011)
Augustus – Lights Out – Color TV and Tall Tales (2020)
JoFoKe – Count (2021)
Kyle Emerson – May You Find Peace – Only Coming Down (2020)
Hazel Miller – Better Off With The Blues (1996)
(D) Jay Silence – Rock n Roll – Grandma’s 45s (2021)

The 89s – Apple Of My Eye – Wash Away (2020)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – New World Arisin’ – New World Arisin’ (2017)
Emily Takahashi – Jubilee – Not Spoken (2017)

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CP S15 EP15 2021

Monday April 12, 2021 – BIG shakeup in this week’s TOP 5. There’s only one standing from last week. A.J. Fullerton continues to dominate spins at stations around the state, while Valdez (In the Whale) leaps into the #2 spot on the strength of airplay at Indie 102.3 and 105.5 The Colorado Sound.

John Grant gets an * because technically he’s no longer a resident Colorado artist. The former member of the Denver based band the Czars, who has family in Denver, moved to Iceland several few years ago. But music directors and djs statewide still credit him as a Colorado artist (or at least Colorado connected).

Middle Class Rock Star is a podcast hosted by  Andy Sydow.  Every week or so I feature a 7 to 8 minute segment featuring  a conversation Andy has with some of our scene’s top music makers and industry personalities.  This week’s guest is Caroline Stump.

TOP FIVE April 10 2021

TOP 5 and TOP 30 charts are pulled from published spins at 13 Colorado non-profit community/public and college radio stations.  Currently 11 Colorado radio stations utilize Spinitron. Designed to benefit non-commercial public and college radio stations, record promoters and artists are among those most likely to benefit from the detailed search function.

  1. A.J. FULLERTON – The Forgiver and the Runaway LP (Mar-21)
  2. VALDEZ – Wishbones LP (Apr-20)
  3. * JOHN GRANT – Boy From Michigan SINGLE (Mar-21)
  4. EOLIAN – Division LP (Mar-21)
  5. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Keep On Keepin’ On LP (Apr-20)

The Mishawaka is a legendary music venue, restaurant and bar located 13.7 miles up the Poudre Canyon Highway (CO 14) in the stunning Poudre Canyon in Bellvue, CO.  THERE ARE SHOWS BOOKED! 

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

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(D) = debut LP/EP or single
(N) = new track from previously debuted LP/EP
(P) = Colorado Playlist premier / not available online

HOUR 1

Earth Wind & Fire – That’s the Way of the World – That’s The Way Of The World (1975)
(D) Jason Abbott – Old Ford Truck (2021)

Wendy Woo – The Immigrant – The Immigrant (2019)
Jeff Austin – Simple Truth – The Simple Truth (2015)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Already Gone (2021)
Cary Morin – Nobody Gotta Know – Dockside Saints (2020)
Rare Silk Storm – American Eyes (1985)
Chris Daniels & The Kings – Roadhouse Music – When You’re Cool (1987)
(D) Robert Morrisey – Run Children Run – American Morrisey (2021)

The Railbenders – Hard Road – The Medicine Show (2018)
Jon Snodgrass – Bad New Lands – Tace (2020)
Jason Klobnak – Through Her Eyes – Friends and Family (2018)

HOUR 2

Acoustic Junction – Think About It – Acoustic Junction (1996)
(D) Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Fortune Teller (2021)

The Still Tide – Keep It – Between Skies (2020)
Float Like a Buffalo – The Day – Back From Nowhere (2019)
Antonio Lopez – Roots and Wings – Roots and Wings (2021)
Trout Steak Revival – Through the Pines – The Light We Bring (2020)
(D) Caroline Stump – The Navy’s Coming – Navy (2021)

Taylor Scott Band – Salted Watermelon – All We Have (2019)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Do You Know Thee Enemy? – Unentitled (2011)
Jackson Emmer – Turn Up the Jukebox – Alpine Coda (2020)
Annie Booth – Blues for Narcissism – Wanderlust (2014)

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