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CP S18 EP06 2024

A February view across the valley / Grand Junction / Courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

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The Monday Morning Music Meeting 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.

HOUR 1

Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Flander’s Fields – Another Mayberry (1989)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Her Way Out (2024)
(D) Rene Moffatt – Stuck Inside – All My Revelations (2024)

Dango Rose – Life’s Too Short (2021)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Friday Night – The Brightest Light EP (2020)
In Plain Air – A View From the End Of A Dream (2023)
Zephyr – I’m Not Surprised – Sunset Ride (1971/2021)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – No Doubt About It – Unentitled (2011)
Gasoline Lollipops – Blood On the Bluegrass (2024)
(D) Duncan Coker – Nashville Dream – Duncan Coker (2024)

Leftover Salmon – Show Me Something Higher – Something Higher (2018)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – I’m On Your Side – The Future (2022)
Big Brooklyn – Send It To Me – Everyone Everywhere (2022)

HOUR 2

The String Cheese Incident – Resume Man – Born On The Wrong Planet (1996)
The String Cheese Incident – One More Time – Lend Me A Hand (2023)
(D) Casey Prestwood – Out of Place – Where Am I Going It’s Where I’ve Always Been (2024)

The Lumineers – Where We Are – Brightside (2022)
Megan Burtt – Restless – The Bargain (2015)
The Sweet Lillies – Words – Equality (2023)
Dianne Reeves – Softly As In A Morning Sunrise – I Remember (1991)
The Subdudes – Poor Man’s Paradise – Street Symphony (2007)
Brothers Keeper – He Left You (f. John Popper) (2023)
(D) Blue Mesa – You and I (2024)

Flobots – The Rose And The Thistle – The Circle In The Square (2012)
Tierro Band with Bridget Law – Opening (feat. Xerephine) – Everlasting Dance (2023)
Gerald Albright – Slam Dunk – Slam Dunk (2014)

#COMUSIC HOT SPINS WK FEB 04-10 2024

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 at more than 300 stations and programs around the country.

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered TOP 5
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = NOT LIVING IN COLORADO, but counted 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

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE – 68 TITLES TRACKED
includes spins on the Colorado Playlist
(R) 1. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(1) 2. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones  LP (Apr-23)
(D) 3. CLAYGO – Dreamz Turnt Cold LP (Mar-23)
(R) 3. LAST CALL ROMANCE – Double Funeral, Vol. 2 LP (Apr-23) **
(D) 4. NELO – Street Preacher SP (Oct-23)

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I Still Get Goosebumps When I Hear New Music

An article in Vice, entitled Why Doesn’t Music Give Me Goosebumps Anymore?” written from the perspective of a 29 year old, got me thinking.

I’m not a typical music consumer – I “sell” music – I explore – I breath new music – I am a radio show producer, a musician, a talent buyer and promoter – and NEW MUSIC still gives me goosebumps.

The author doesn’t reflect anecdotally either, inviting Tom ter Bogt from the University of Utrech to answer some questions. Tom conducts research into the development of music taste and youth culture and he does make some points worth considering.

I’ve known for years, for example, that when people hit the ripe old age of 24, they become largely disinterested in new music and from that point forward tend to rely on revisiting music and musicians they heard between the ages of 14-22. Research confirms it.

I’ve always suspected, without empirical proof, that even when someone does like something new, it’s connected to music and feelings from when we were 14-22.

Much of today’s music is based on styles that preceded it – and much of what older 50-70 year olds recall as “classic rock.” So I would think some Gen X and Boomers might like some new music.

The Colorado Playlist fanbase is largely 35-54, hardly what you’d call an age range for new music lovers. The average professional musician in the US is 44, according to Alan B. Krueger, author of Rockonomics: what the music industry can teach us about economics (and our future). I have to assume then, by way of correlation, that a lot of the fans of the Colorado Playlist are at least semi-professional musicians (?)

So what is it that gives me goosebumps? As a musician I can say that there’s intense excitement in performing or recording. It’s when I hear a well written and arranged song, sung with sincere emotion that the hair follicles start to twitch.

It’s when I sense the excitement in the music that I feel excited myself. That’s when the hair follicles become goosebumps and I’m reminded of why and how I fell in love with music to begin with as a child.

CP S13 EP11 2019

Monday March 11, 2019

I have news for you, but it’s embargoed until tomorrow – which means I can’t publish it ’til then. 😉

We are well on the way to setting another record for logged new releases .. we’re not even through the first quarter of the year, and I’ve logged over 60 new releases for 2019.  At this pace, we’ll log over 240 for the year.  Here’s the current list.

Anthony Ruptak – A Place That Never Changes Album
Bison Bone – Take Up the Trouble Album
Blue Street Walls – Like A Child Album
Bonnie and The Clydes – Hold On Me Single
Brent Loveday and the Dirty Dollars – Hymns for the Hardened Album
Brianna Straut – La Mano EP EP
Brothers Keeper – Gypsy King Single
Coral Creek – Free Dog Album
Corsicana – Perennial Album
Daniel Rodriquez – Colorado Single
Daniel Rodriquez – Johnny Single
DBUK – Songs Nine Through Sixteen Album
Don Chicharron – Don Chicharron Album
E.M.K. – To the Room (feat. Coco Bean) Single
Eminence Ensemble – Real News Album
Float Like A Buffalo – Back From Nowhere Album
Foxfeather – Come and Get Me Single
Gasoline Lollipops – Broken Single
Goodnight Freeman – Yugen Album
The Haunted Windchimes – Sleepy Baby Album
Hello Mountain – Transcend Album
Hunter James & the Titantic – The Z-Axis Album
Instant Empire – Don’t Worry Emily Album
Jeff Jenkins Organization – In Blue Album
Jeremy Dion – More Lately Album
John Bunzli – IV Album
Kaitlyn Williams – Sunset Album
Kerry Pastine & the Crime Scene – I Make My Own Luck EP
Lola Rising – Gravity Single
Lucas Wolf – Falling Into Place Album
Lucy Daydream – Awake & Dreaming Album
Luna Shade – Birds of a Feather Album
Mama Magnolia – Mama Magnolia Pt. 1 Album
Mawule – What Love Doesn’t Look Like Single
Michal Menert & the Pretty Fantastics – From the Sea Album
The MOSSGATHERERS – The MOSSGATHERERS Album
Motet – Death or Devotion Album
Nelsen – The Wind Album
Nikki Giron – Heart Behind Bars EP
Oxeye Daisy – Wicked Game Single
Plutinos – Plutinos Album
Reed Foehl – American Miles Single
Ryan Dart – Drifter’s Heart Album
Silver & Gold – Color Album
Slow Caves – Falling Album
Steve Skinner Band with Erica Brown – Self-Made Woman Single
String Cheese Incident – SCI Sound Lab Radio EP
Sugar Britches – Don’t Make Her A Mixtape Yet You Idiot Album
The Symbols – Catching Fire Album
Taylor Scott – All We Have Album
Thom Chacon – Blood In the USA Album
Thom Sumbler & the Exceptions – There’s One In Every Crowd Album
Veronique Van Pelt – Nonesuch EP
Various artists – Color Red Sampler Comp
Wendy Woo – The Immigrant Album
White Rose Motor Oil – Suburban Horses Album
The Yawpers – Human Question Album

105.5 The Colorado Sound & the Colorado Playlist Present:

Covenhoven with Kid Reverie – Friday, April 19 at E-Town Hall (Boulder)

The Gasoline Lollipops Fri, April 12 Aggie Theater (Fort Collins)

Kyle Emerson Fri, April 5 Lost Lake Lounge (Denver)

SLOW CAVES (Album Release) / One Flew West / Gestalt – Saturday March 23 at Globe Hall (Denver)

The Subdudes for 2 shows Washington’s FoCo – Friday, April 5 and Boulder Theater – Saturday, April 6

FOR MORE SHOWS SEE COLORADOSOUND.ORG

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VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

Another of the outstanding pop singer-songwriters from our region, Andy Hackbarth spends most of his year playing cruise ships for a living.  According to his website, his upcoming new album, “Sex Robots, out May 24th, is perhaps Hackbarth’s most diverse effort yet, from the tranquil ache of an electro-pop-inspired opening track (U Don’t Have 2 Wait) to the EP’s epic finale (Sex Robots— a Bohemian Rhapsody-esque song complete with an extended orchestral section, robot noises, and a bass clarinet solo). The EP is rounded out by jazz whiz-kid Peter Sommer and Megan Burtt, Denver’s darling of the singer/songwriter scene.”

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

Let me know if there’s something you think I should play.  Email coloradoplaylist@gmail.com

(D) = debut LP/EP or single
(N) = new track from previously debuted LP/EP
(P) = Colorado Playlist exclusive premier

HOUR 1

Acoustic Junction “Think About It” from Acoustic Junction (1996)
(D) Taylor Scott Band “Curiosity” from All We Have (2019)

Lonesome Days “Chasin’ Down the Whiskey” from The Lonesome Days (2017)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats “Look It Here” from Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats (2015)
(N) Wendy Woo “The Immigrant” from The Immigrant (2019)

Lucy Daydream “Red” from Awake & Dreaming (2019)
Chris Daniels & the Kings “All For the Love of Lill” from Louie, Louie (1993)
Churchill “Made a List” from Change EP (2012)
Silver And Smoke “Sting Like a Bee” from 30P (2018)
(D) Head for The Hills “Darkness Meets the Day” from Say Your Mind EP (2019)

Still Tide “Give Me Time” from Run Out (2019)
piKziL “Can’t Get Started” from Songs from My 3rd Life (2016)
Dana Landry Quartet “Pure imagination” from Standard Elevation (2015)

HOUR 2

Beast“Ev’ry Man Hears Different Music” from “Beast” (1969)
(D) Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Come On” (2019)

Ghost Tapes “The Lock” from Ghost Tapes (2017)
Patti Fiasco “Saved by Rock and Roll” from Saved By Rock and Roll (2016)
(N) Float Like A Buffalo “The Day” from Back From Nowhere (2019)

Don Chicharron “Sabado Gigante” from Don Chicharron (2019)
Apples in Stereo “Can You Feel It?” from New Magnetic Wonder (2007)
Achille Lauro “Lighting” from Flight or Flight (2012)
(D) Inaiah Lujan “I’m Away” (2019)

Yonder Mountain String Band “How ’bout You?” from Yonder Mountain String Band (2006)
Trout Steak Revival “i am” from Spirit to the Sea (2017)
Scott Martin “Pam” from Alone At Sunset (2018)