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The Colorado Sound S8|EP03

b-day pic(Sunday, Jan 19, 2014) WOW you guys blew up my FB page yesterday wishing me happy b-day.  Thank you 🙂 I’m not really here today (I am but I’m not).  It’s my oldest daughter’s birthday.  It’s also NFL Championship Sunday – the Final Four  (yep, I’m a total NFL devotee).  “Yesterday” was my b-day (today actually), and I did two sound gigs – one for School of Rock and one for Bluezhouse.  Watching all the birthday wishes come in blows me away… I am truly blown away.

Seem’s Andy Rok is pretty serious about retiring Bop Skizzum.  Bop Skizzum will be playing it’s final show on February 14th.

And, the original Subdudes (John Magnie, Steve Amadee, Johnny Ray Allen, and Tommy Malone) have reunited.  They’ve got two Colorado shows on the books.  In the meantime, John Magnie and Steve Amadee have a new Fort Collins act going called Young Ancients that also features the incredible Cary Morin on guitar and vocals.  Cary is in Memphis this week representing Colorado in the solo/duo category at the International Blues Challenge (IBC Memphis).  Greeley’s Bad Brad & the Fat Cats is also in Memphis representing in the band category. Wow .. hellova week, huh?

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK

The Kinetix have a new album ready to release.  These guys have gone through some interesting changes over the past several years.  This is their latest incarnation.  Long way from the “jamband” I first heard of four (five) years ago now?  

PLAYLIST S8|EP03 Jan 2014

Sugarloaf “Colorado Jones” from Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You (1975)
Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids “Did The Boogie (With Your Baby)” from Best of Flash Cadillac and The Continental Kids (2010)
The Belle Jar “Union Station” from Union Station (2013)
Patrick Dethlefs “The Farther You Go” from Fall & Rise (2012)
Patti Fiasco “Small Town Lights” from Small Town Lights (2013)
Soul School “I Would Do Anything” from Chapter One (2014)
The Fray “All At Once” from How to Save A Life (2005)
(D) Justin Roth “Rise” [single] (2013)(N) Drag the River “Wichita Skyline” from Drag The River (2013)
(N) Joe Johnson “Warriors Mine” from New West Sound (2013)
Mama Lenny and the Remedy “In Danger” from Time (You’re Doing Fine) (2014)
Kenny Perkins “Last Goodbye” from Wild Frontier (2011)
Jim Stranahan “Hip Street” from Free For All (2010)
Dan Fogelberg “Rhythm of the Rain” from The Very Best of Dan Fogelberg (2001)
John Oates Band “Sittin’ On Top of the World” from The Bluesville Sessions (2012)
Five Iron Frenzy “It Was A Cold and Stormy Night” from It Was A Cold and Stormy Night (2011)
My Body Sings Electric “Living Proof” from Changing Color (2011)
(N) The Motet “Rich in People” from The Motet (2014)
Bop Skizzum “Say Something” from Say Something (2013)
(N) Megan Burtt & Covenhoven “Fools Gold” from In Good Company (2013)
Bad Weather California “When You Smile” from Sunkissed (2012)
Matt Skinner Band “I’ll Keep Loving” from Native Stranger (2013)
C.W. McCall “Black Bear Road” from CW McCall’s Greatest Hits (1993)
(N) The Wild After “The Ship and the Sea” from Lesson Learned EP (2014)
Andy Hackbarth “Windmills” from Treadmill Horses (2013)
Raincheck “Boogalues” from Raincheck (2012)

Goat, Where Do I Submit?

4 emails and/or phone conversations and/or personal conversations this week all involving the same thing:  Goat, where do I submit?  In a Facebook conversation recently, I broke down the primary types of performance events regionally.

1. Bars/restaurants (think Oskar Blues, Baker Street Pub, Bar SS, Road 34, Ziggies, Eck’s Saloon, etc)
2. Theaters/concert venues (think Herman’s Hideaway, Fox, Aggie, Ogden, Fillmore, Pepsi Center, Red Rocks, Taste of Denver)
3. Private Events (weddings, parties, etc)
4. Municipal Events (Arvada Harvest Festival, Broomfest, Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival, Bohemian Nights @ New West Fest, Colorado State Fair, Boulder County Fair, etc)
5. Festivals (ticketed …Rocky Grass, Telluride Bluegrass, Warped Tour, etc)

Most of us who have played locally know how to reach out to the local bars, and smaller theaters/concert venues.  That’s the bread and butter stuff… But, too often I hear confusion beyond that, hence the “goat, where do I submit?”   Beyond that question is “how do I submit, and to whom?”

There is no single best way to approach this challenge.  A large number of the folks who buy talent statewide do not have the level of technical sophistication at their finger tips to find out who’s who and what do they do, so they rely on their sphere of influence in their communities.  That sphere of influence includes local community radio and members of other local media who might be familiar with bands in the region.

Six years ago the question had to do with getting Colorado music on radio, and out to media in general.  I think we’ve done a good job of working on that puzzle with the media service package.  This past year, right at about 30 titles were sent out to radio, tv, and print media statewide.  Many of those albums received some airplay in some markets around the state.  Beginning this month, I’m adding a new service, sending packages to municipal event buyers around the state.

Buyers will be making all their buying decisions between now and April.  If you’d like to be in the game, now’s the time to do it.  For more information, please email me at chriskmusic@gmail.com.

PS:  no metal, hardcore, loud rock, or rap.  Thank you.

The Colorado Sound S8|EP02

therealpickygrumpyoldgoat(Sunday, Jan 12, 2014) I love Sundays – especially during football season, and especially during the playoffs.  The early game is on in the background as I sit and reflect on the week and this week’s music.  Music does come before football with me LOL.

I had an interesting experience this weekend.  A fellow musician began saying that radio is dead, that no one listens to radio anymore… and that more people listen to streaming radio ala Pandora, and satellite radio via Sirius than listen to “corporate radio” broadcast via terrestrial (conventional) technology.  Oh boy … anyone who knows me at all knows how I handled this discussion LOL.

A DISCLAIMER:  I listen to Internet-radio primarily .. and really only to The Colorado Sound Live365.  I listen to it in the car via smartphone technology on an unlimited data plan from Verizon, and while I’m working out at the gym via the in-house broadband access.   I do, also, listen to terrestrial radio.  I listen to sports/talk during football season and public/community radio at other times.

It is true that ” In 2011, one-third of all Americans (34%), or 89 million people, said they listened to either streaming of AM/FM stations, Internet-only services, such as Pandora, or both in the previous month.”  (Source:  http://stateofthemedia.org/2012/audio-how-far-will-digital-go/audio-by-the-numbers/)

Digitaltrends.com noted that “…audiences aged between 13 and 35 spent roughly as much time listening to online radio and streaming music services as they did traditional AM and FM radio.  The same isn’t true for older listeners, with AM/FM radio still managing to account for 41 percent of weekly music listening…” (Source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/study-younger-listeners-stream-as-much-as-listen-to-radio/#ixzz2qDSk8BTp)

So, before we declare radio dead …

a) all radio is corporate.  there are no exceptions.  Pandora is corporate.  Sirius is corporate.  All terrestrial radio stations are corporate, including public and community radio stations, which are incorporated under non-profit corporation status..  Some corporations are more centrally managed, while some have more diffuse forms of management with greater local control and/or autonomy.  I press this because the impression seems to be that Pandora and Sirius are not “corporate radio.” Sirius does not allow for independent access in programming as it is functionally a monopoly.  Pandora‘s music database is pre-screened and filtered before being made available to the public for personal mixing, and then only within the constraints of their music genealogy algorithms.

b) Radio is radio regardless of technology, but not all technologies are equal in reach.  There are three primary means of broadcasting today:  Terrestrial (conventional) AM & FM.  Satellite (a quasi-monopoly held by the Sirius Corporation).  Internet.   Terrestrial radio has the greatest share of actual listenership to available audience.  Satellite and Internet have the deepest reach in terms of geography, and therefore potential available audience.  Terrestrial radio is firmly established in car dashboards, the primary place we listen to radio of any kind.  Satellite radio is second in terms of in dash access.  Internet is just now coming online, but is years away from being ubiquitous in our transportation devices since it requires greater efficiency and availability of broadband Internet access.

c) Terrestrial radio is still #1 in technology and listenership …

We’re still years away from AM/FM technology being “dead.”  FM radio is still the dominant way we get exposed to new music, and news and local events.  We are quite far away from Internet having the kind of reach that will allow rural users efficient access.  If you live in a metro area with good data plans for your car or smartphone you’re ahead of the game…. you and your friends may be using conventional technology less than you were, or not at all anymore.  But, I’ll make the bet that even the staunchest deniers turn on the car radio more than once a week 😉

If radio is dead have I finally hit zombie status??  (where’s Maris the Great when you need a ghoul?)

VIDEO PICK OF THE WEEK:

What a week for video releases!  New videos were added from Katey Laurel, Matthew Moon, Fierce Bad Rabbit, Kronen, and Mama Lenny & the Remedy.   Katey Laurel comes in first with the official video for her “hit” Hurricane – which seems to the tell the story of being in the “hurricane” of emotions during an especially difficult time in a relationship between a husband and a wife.  

PLAYLIST S8|EP02 

(D) – Debut:  the first time a NEW album, ep, or single is aired.
(N) – New track from a previously debuted album or ep

Big Head Todd & The Monsters “Rosalita (f. John Popper)” [single] (2012)
Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams “All Along the Watchtower” from Live @ Hodis (2012)
Drew Emmitt “Tangled Up In Blue” from Freedom Ride (2002)
(D) Vinnie Maniscalco “TaKillYa” [single] (2013) Places “Honesty” from No More Wasted Days (2012)
Katey Laurel “Hurricane” from Periscope (2014)
Jeff Brinkman “Ordinary Day” from Strange (2012)
(D) Rachel and the Ruckus “Could Be Tonight” [single] (2013)
SHEL “On My Way” from SHEL (2012)
Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra “Zen and The Art of Samba” from Sharks And Manatees (2012)
Acoustic Junction “Every Heart” from Strange Days (2000)
Reed Foehl “Wolves” from Once An Ocean (2009)
(N) Mosey West “Hurricane Eyes” from Bermuda (2014)

Monocle Band “Falling” from Monocle Band (2013)
Leftover Salmon “Sing Up To The Moon” from Aquatic Hitchhiker (2012)
Soul School “Out of Your League” from Chapter One (2014)
Flobots “White Flag Warrior” from Survival Story (2010)
Rachel & the Kings “Not Giving Up” from Tonic (2013)
Soul Merchants “Crowns of Glory” from Soul Merchants (2007)
Fierce Bad Rabbit “Do You Want Me Now?” [single] (2014)
(N) Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore “Train Home” from Love Runner (2014)
Dan Treanor & African Wind “Mercy” from Mercy (2005)
The Motet “Afro Disco Beat” from Instrumental Dissent (2007)