#COMUSIC TOP 30 JUNE 2024

Every week I survey more than a dozen Colorado community/public and college stations, including Colorado Playlist spins on respective stations. The weekly survey period runs from midnight Sunday through the following Saturday. 

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

Titles are tracked from the date of release of the first single from an LP/EP, for twelve months. Example: DOR = DEC 2022. I stopped tracking it in NOV 2023 (twelve months).

KAFM, KBUT, KCSU, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KOTO, KSJD, KSUT, KRFC, KRZA and KVNF are surveyed via Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay on over three hundred stations and programs around the country.

LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
(*) = No longer lives in Colorado, but counted as long as they 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

Approximately 97 titles were aired at least one time on one station somewhere in Colorado in June. You’re most likely to hear Colorado music on one of three stations along the Northern Front Range: Indie 102.3, 105.5 The Colorado Sound and 88.9 KRFC. Their HOT SPINS are listed below.

(1) 1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
(D) 2. BRITT DEVENS – Here I Go Again LP (Jul-23)
(D) 3. LADY GANG – Brave Traveler LP (May-24)
(D) 4. BRIANNA STRAUT – La Mano Pt II LP (Feb-24)
(D) 5. MACHU LINEA – INVASION LP (Feb-24)
(D) 5. SAM BOSCH – Skinny Dipping in the Baptismal Fountain LP (Apr-24)
(D) 5. SOPHIA ELIANA – Pears & Honey LP (Feb-24)
(D) 6. YUGS – Mona SP (May-24)
(D) 7. DOGTAGS – Sumn Bout Roses SP (Feb-24)
(D) 8. CHASE CAVANAUGH – Cemeteries at Sundown SP (Apr-24)
(9) 9. A.J. FULLERTON – Closer LP (Mar-24)
(D) 9. DESPAIR JORDAN – Fire and the Ocean Floor SP (Mar-24)
(16) 10. MAMA LENNY & THE REMEDY – Everybody Wants Some SP (May-24)
(10) 11. BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS – Her Way Out LP (Nov-23)
(D) 12. ANDY SYDOW – Follow the Rain Down SP (Jun-24)
(D) 12. VALDEZ – Hide & Seek SP (May-24)
(D) 13. GRACE DEVINE – Faded Film SP (Jan-24)
(D) 13. GRACE DEVINE – Florida Woman SP (Apr-24)
(D) 13. MR. KNOBS – Forgive Me SP (Feb-24)
(D) 14. MR. KNOBS – Buttercup (Steve Lamos Remix) SP Aug-23
(D) 15. MEGAN BURTT – Electricity SP (May-24)
(11) 16. CARY MORIN – Innocent Allies LP (Oct-23)
(D) 16. EARL NELSON & THE COMPANY – Drinkin’ Muddy Water EP (Mar-24)
(D) 16. THOM LAFOND – Lawless LP (Feb-24)
(D) 17. DRESSY BESSY – Teenage FBI SP (Apr-24)
(R) 18. ED MOZINGO – Ground Score EP (Sep-23)
(D) 19. ERIC GOLDEN – Heartache In My Chest SP (May-24)
(R) 20. THE MOTET – Natural Light SP (Aug-23)
(18) 21. CASS CLAYTON – Midnight In A Bottle LP (May-24)
(D) 22. BIG DOPES – Moon Car SP (Apr-24)
(D) 22. JAKE LEG – Fire on the Prairie LP (Apr-24)

  1. CASS CLAYTON – Midnight In A Bottle LP (May-24)
  2. BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS – Her Way Out LP (Nov-23)
  3. MIKE FINDERS AND SPIDERCAT – Breaking Like A New Day LP (Jun-24)
  4. WOOD BELLY – Cicada LP (Jul-23)
  5. THE HIGH HAWKS – Mother Nature’s Show LP (Jan-24)
  6. JACK HADLEY – The St. Louis Sessions, Vol. II LP (Mar-24)
  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
  2. LADY GANG – Brave Traveler LP (May-24)
  3. BRIANNA STRAUT – La Mano Pt II LP (Feb-24)
  4. BRITT DEVENS – Here I Go Again LP (Jul-23)
  5. MACHU LINEA – INVASION LP (Feb-24)
  6. SAM BOSCH – Skinny Dipping in the Baptismal Fountain LP (Apr-24)
  7. SOPHIA ELIANA – Pears & Honey LP (Feb-24)
  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
  2. VALDEZ – Hide & Seek SP (May-24)
  3. A.J. FULLERTON – Closer LP (Mar-24)
  4. BIG DOPES – Moon Car SP (Apr-24)
  5. BEAR & THE BEASTS – Bones SP (Apr-24)
  6. CORSICANA – Kept LP (Oct-23)
  7. COVENHOVEN – Staring at the Sun SP (Nov-23)

CP S15 EP25 2021

Monday June 21, 2021 — Happy first day of summer, officially and happy Father’s Day (yesterday). One of the things I’ve been working on doing is learning where and when you’re listening to this show. If you haven’t answered the poll I put up last week I’d appreciated it if you did.

Speaking of polls … every week I post up the MMMM with your chance to let me know if you like the new songs or not. It’s kinda sorta important because the annual listener poll is based on on your responses. Bands that flood the polls with positive responses are known and accounted for.

This week’s MMMM includes the latest from Slow Caves who should easily pick up post-COVID, along with a new soul single from Boulder’s Dechen Hawk and the debut of Bryan Gisburne, who spent most of the past twenty years in the wilderness. (Bryan’s album was serviced to media by Rocky Mountain Music Network LLC, the parent company of the Colorado Playlist).

Two of this week’s TOP 5 #COMUSIC spins are from artists and bands with members who WERE physically living in CO but no longer do so …

John Grant, formerly of the Denver based band the Czars, now lives in Iceland and leads this week’s TOP 5.

Speaking of former Colorado resident musicians, Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon and Great American Taxi) and Chad Staehly (Great American Taxi) make the TOP 5 with the High Hawks debut that also includes Colorado musicians Brian Adams (Great American Taxi) and Will Trask (Jaden Carlson Band, Arthur Lee Land) along with honorary Coloradoan Tim Carbone. Vince now lives in Nashville and Chad lives in Wisconsin.

Dressy Bessy hits the TOP 5 in its first week on the airwaves. John and Tammy decided to release the single independently, telling me they didn’t have a new album ready for their label and wanted to get something out for their fans.

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 Reno Divorce front-man Brent Loveday

TOP FIVE WK END JUNE 19 2021

  1. JOHN GRANT – Boy From Michigan LP (Mar-21)
  2. WEST SIDE JOE & THE MEN OF SOUL – Keep On Climbin’ LP (Apr-21)
  3. CARY MORIN – Dockside Saints LP (Jul-20)
  4. DRESSY BESSY – I’m Still Here SINGLE (Jun-21)
  5. THE HIGH HAWKS – Talk About That LP (Nov-20)

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.

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

HOUR 1

Chicago (f. Beach Boys) – Wishing You Were Here – Chicago VII (1974)
(D) Nathaniel Rateliff – Mavis – Live at Red Rocks / September 20, 2020 (2021)

Daniel Rodriguez – Colorado – Sojurn of a Burning Sun (2020)
Trout Steak Revival – I Am – Spirit to the Sea (2017)
Five Iron Frenzy – Renegades – Until This Shakes Apart (2021)
Duke Justice – The Turn (2021)
Dianne Reeves – Testify – Bridges (1999)
Freddi Henchi Band – I Love You Baby (f. Larry Wilkens) – Freddi Henchi Band (1981)
(D) Bryan Gisburne – Lord I’m Gone – Midwinter (2021)

Chimney Choir – An Alternate Life – (light shadow) (2020)
Churchill – Change – Change EP (2012)
Jason Klobnak – My August Auburn – Friends and Family (2018)

HOUR 2

Mojo Nixon – I’m In Love with Your Girlfriend – Mojo & Skid (1985)
(D) Dechen Hawk – Lady Devine (2021)

Fifty Dollar Friend – Not Thinking About You – In Black and White (2020)
Megan Burtt – Restless – The Bargain (2015)
The Barlow – Hard Livin’ – Horseshoe Lounge (2021)
Reno Divorce – Hopeless and Dopeless – Live In Berlin (2021)
Brent Loveday & the Dirty Dollars – Shut Up and Drive – Hymns for the Hardened (2019)
(D) Slow Caves – Before I Leave (2021)

The Still Tide – Give Me Time – Run Out (2017)
Achille Lauro – Lightning – Flight or Flight (2012)
Brian Claxton – The Yard – The Yard (2020)

CP S15 EP12 2021

MONDAY MARCH 22, 2021 – In Colorado music history — that’s something you hear at the top of each hour of the show. This week it was Elton John’s Philadelphia Freedom that was highlighted in HR1.

Elton was a regular at Caribou Ranch Recording Studio in the early 70s. His 4th #1 hit was written during an eight day recording session for Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy, but did not appear on that album.

Instead, it appears on his 1977 Greatest Hits album. He wrote the song for Billie Jean King while she and her team, the Philadelphia Freedoms, were in Denver for a tennis league playoff series. More at Colorado Music Experience.

You ever try to learn something new on the fly? WordPress decided to get rid of the classic editor I’ve been using for 12 years. LMAO. This hurts a little, since I’ve resisted using the newer format in favor of what I’ve known. Oh well.

Let’s try something new this week. Instead of a poll asking if you like a song or not, beginning this week the question will be, “What’s Your Favorite This Week?” See following the Monday Morning Music Meeting (MMMM).

New music this week from Pie Lombardi, Wheelchair Sportscamp, Aaron Bibelhauser & FY5, and Kind Dub f. Sarah Joelle.

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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 Colorado Music Hall of Fame member Chris Daniels.

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.

TOP FIVE MARCH 20 2021

TOP 5 and TOP 30 charts are culled from published spins at 13 Colorado non-profit community/public and college radio stations.  Currently 11 Colorado radio stations utilize Spinitron.

  1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF – Redemption SINGLE (Dec-20)
  2. LADY GANG – Full Throttle LP (Feb-21)
  3. ELLSWORTH – Ellsworth LP (Jan-21)
  4. A.J. FULLERTON – The Forgiver and the Runaway LP (Mar-21)
  5. ANDY SYDOW – Wicked Dreams EP (May-20)

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

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

HOUR 1

Elton John – Philadelphia Freedom (1974)
(D) Pie Lombardi – Some People (2021)

Whippoorwill – Eventide – The Nature of Storms (2020)
The Still Tide – Give Me Time – Run Out (2017)
King Cardinal – Damn This Old Machine (2021)
Five Iron Frenzy – Renegades – Until This Shakes Apart (2021)
Braddigan – Customs – The Captive (2007)
Leftover Salmon – Sing Up to the Moon – Aquatic Hitchhiker (2012)
(D) Wheelchair Sports Camp – YESS I’m a MESS (2021)

Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Glow – New World Arisin’ (2017)
Bison Bone – Pack It Up – Find Your Way Out (2020)
Jon Wirtz – Watching The World Wake Up – Tourist (2013)

HOUR 2

Stephen Stills – Circlin’ – Illegal Stills (1975)
(D) Aaron Bibelhauser & FY5 – Time In And Out (2021)

Rodney Rice – Don’t Look Back – Same Shirt, Different Day (2020)
The Copper Children – Roots – Speaking In Spirits (2019)
Sarah Slaton – Get Up (2021)
Wildermiss – Hell or High Water – In My Mind (2020)
Chris Daniels & The Kings – All For The Love Of Lill – Louie Louie (2001)
(D) Kind Dub – Stay Kind (feat. Sarah Joelle) (2021)

Fierce Bad Rabbit – Matter of Time – The Maestro and the Elephant (2012)
DeVotchKa – Angels – This Night Falls Forever (2018)
Art Lande – A Decimeister Winds Up – Resist the Eel Panda (2020)

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