Tag: New music

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)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

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.