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May 1, 2013 · 9:39 am

News Notes and Spins – May 1, 2013

It hasn’t been a good month in our scene, I’m sorry to say. No sooner did we hear about the passing of legendary concert promoter Barry Fey, than we heard that long time scenester and bartender Chris Haney was shot to death while breaking up a fight at a Denny’s in Denver. The Denver Post and Westword have covered these stories admirably, so I won’t attempt to re-cover them here. It all sure did amount to a lot of heartbreak though as we ended the month, that otherwise had lots to celebrate.

Okay it’s official; I took the leap of faith after years of folks asking if they could get The Colorado Sound online…. here’s the whole thing … THE COLORADO SOUND RADIO & TV … of course, like any other broadcaster, it does take funding to keep it on the air – FUNDING AND SPONSORSHIPS.

The show that is heard throughout the state on participating stations will continue to be the hallmark program presenting the hottest new releases every week, as well as choice cuts from over the past 50 years. So, if you want to hear what’s NEW and BREAKING this week – you’ll need to dial up KRFC (Fort Collins), KOTO (Telluride), KDNK (Carbondale/Glenwood Springs), KWMV (Westcliffe), or KFVR (Pueblo).

The stats are looking fine too all the way around … this site generated a new monthly record for the month of April with over 1600 unique page views. The Colorado Sound Live365 in its first month had over 2500 unique page views, and over 1050 stream starts with an average listening time of 17 mins. The record number of streams for one day was 97. The station is capable of handling 500 non-VIP listeners at any one time. Overall, the Colorado Sound finished the month ranked #2282 on Live365 among 5500 stations.

We had ONE person sign up to become a VIP listener. We need 15 a month for the station to pay for itself, or other forms of funding to kick in. Please spread the word; every donation helps. ALSO … the new TOP40 goes live today, and there’s been some adds to other segments.. so do check it out.

My summer sure is shaping up. I’m now booked to be at over 20 events this summer – and just had to turn down another 10 because I just don’t have that many open Friday nights. Next festival on the schedule is Saturday June 1 – Sunday June 2 when I’ll be hosting the CHUN stage at the 42nd Annual CHUN People’s Fair – I think this is my 10th year hosting this stage now. I’ll be in Fort Collins every Thursday night from May 30-August 8 hosting the Thursday Night Live series, capped off by the 25th Annual Bohemian Nights @ New West Fest celebration Aug 16-18. Along the way, I’ll also produce and host the Carbon Valley Music & Spirits Festival on Aug 3rd, featuring The Samples, Face, The Afrosippi Band with Erica Brown, After Midnight Jazz Band, Jeff Brinkman Band, Jaden Carlson, and Jake Miles.

That’s if for me …

STATION NEWS

KGNU is celebrating 35 Years on air May 22nd. We will have an open house all day with birthday cake, ice cream and coffee. Noam Chomsky is speaking at the Central Presbytyrian Church in Denver on Tuesday, May 7th. This is a fundraiser for the station as part of our birthday month and tickets are available at www.kgnu.org.

We will have a special live broadcast of our Blues Legacy program from Cafe Sole (Table Mesa Shopping Center, South Boulder) on Friday, May 17th. The Boulder Blues Trio (John March, Chris Engelmann and Jay Forrest) will be joined by many special guests, including: Colorado music icon Chris Daniels and Denver blues & jazz singer extraordinaire Robert Johnson. Tune in Friday, May 10th, 6:00-9:00 PM.

KOTO is happy to introduce our new Executive Director, Dina Coates Koebler, to radio land! Dina’s extensive background in non-profit management and fundraising makes her the perfect fit. She’s been visiting Telluride from Springfield, IL for years and decided to shake things up and apply for the open position!

Downstairs at 207 North Pine Street, the venerable, purple KOTO house is undergoing a remodel, which will feature more, private office space, a brand-spanking new production room for our KOTO News team and electrical wiring that will no longer be a hazard to our building’s health!

Speaking of news, longtime KOTO News Director Stephen Barrett has, like his idol The King, left the building. We are sad to see him go, but wish him well in his re-invention back East. We hope he’ll return from time to time to be part of our Live Broadcasts of the Telluride Bluegrass and Telluride Blues and Brews Festivals. Taking the reins from Stephen is Laura Colbert, who has tons of experience in public affairs programming in public radio back in New Hampshire (fer damn sher!). Caitlin Ketel joins Laura in the part-time reporter position.

Telluride’s newest festival, The Ride is this July 13 and 14 in our beautiful Telluride Town Park. Headliners include David Byrne and St. Vincent, Rodrigo and Gabriela, Cake, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Steve Earle and much more! The festival is produced in partnership with KOTO-FM. We’d love to see you join in the fun and make The Ride’s second year a smashing success. More info at www.koto.org

I’m Mike Clifford, and I just took over as Music Director here at community radio KRZA Alamosa/Taos (“connecting cultures along the upper Rio Grande) on Monday, 04/29. I’m still working out my exact schedule, but, since I’m doing the morning show, too, I’m usually here from 8am to 9am M-F, if you can get up that early to call. I’ve actually been in the radio business much longer than seems possible, given my youthful, energetic and enthusiastic bearing . In any case, I remember things like getting Fluid records on vinyl from Sub Pop – because we didn’t have CD players at KRUX, in Las Cruces, NM, where I was MD at the time. In any case, I’m excited to be back “in the fray” as Chris K. said (or should that be Fray?), and looking forward to being in touch with folks. Thanks!

TOP 40 SPINS – APRIL 2013

276 titles tracked in March
172 titles were reported as played at least once.
(CC) = Colorado Connection
(D) = album/ep debut on chart
(R) = reenter
[date] = Date added to reporting list

(24) 1. Thom Chacon – Thom Chacon (Pie Records) Americana [6-Mar-13]
(5) 2. Paper Bird – Rooms (self) Indie/New Alternative [16-Feb-13]
(30) 3. The Congress – The Loft Tapes EP (self( Rock/AAA [21-Mar-13]
(3) 4. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony (Cicero Recordings) Indie/New Alternative [1-Nov-12]
(14) 5. WhiteWater Ramble – Roots & Groove (WWR) Americana/jamgrass [16-Feb-13]
(1) 6. The Lumineers – The Lumineers (Dualtone) Americana [1-Mar-12]
(18) 7. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon (Sub Pop) Indie/New Alternative [1-Nov-12]
(2) 8. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone (Telarc) Blues [20-Jan-13]
(13) 9. SHEL – SHEL (Moraine Records / Mad King Records) Pop/crossover [1-Aug-12]
(D) 10. Andy Hackbarth – Treadmill Horses EP (January Records) Pop/adult contemporary [13-Apr-13]
(4) 11. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP (Ruff Shod/Nettwork) Folk [1-Nov-12]
(18) 12. Euforquestra – Let Us In (self) Funk/reggae [1-Apr-12]
(D) 13. Farmington Hill – Bridge to Nowhere (self) Americana/alt-country-rock [30-Mar-13]
(17) 14. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king} (Youngest Daughter Records) Folk/modern pop [1-May-12]
(22) 15. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker (LoS Records) Americana/jamband [1-Apr-12]
(D) 16. Bad Brad & the Fat Cats – Eyes on the Prize (self) Blues [7-Feb-13]
(13) 17. Trout Steak Revival – Flight (self) Bluegrass [22-Nov-12]
(11) 18. Blue Canyon Boys – Next Go Round (self) Bluegrass [16-Jan-13]
(31) 19. Grant Sabin – Anthromusicology (Blank Tape) Rock/blues [10-Jan-13]
(6) 20. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Maestro and the Elephant (self) Rock/AAA [5-Jan-13]
(7) 21. Beautiful Loser Society – The Desperate Promenade (self) Americana/alt-country [5-Jan-13]
(15) 22. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow (Blank Tape) Folk [1-Apr-12]
(D) 23. FaceMan – Talk Talk Talk (self) Rock/AAA [13-Feb-13]
(20) 24. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up (self) Americana/country [1-Jul-12]
(30) 25. Jeff Brinkman Band – Strange (self) Rock/AAA [1-Dec-12]
(9) 26. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I (Greater Than Collective) Indie/New Alternative [1-Sep-12]
(10) 27. Poet’s Row – Poet’s Row (self) Indie/New Alternative [28-Jan-13]
(27) 28. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise (self) Folk [1-Jun-12]
(16) 28. Wire Faces – King Cataract (Hot Congress Records) Rock/ALT [10-Jan-13]
(D) 29. Beki Hemingway – I Have Big Plans For The World (Salt Lady Records) Rock/AAA [20-Apr-13]
(R) 29. Flobots – The Circle In the Square (Shanachie Records) Urban Contemporary [1-Aug-12]
(D) 29. OneRepublic – Native (Mosely/Interscope) Pop [13-Apr-13]
(D) 30. Dennis Wanebo – Running On Gravity (self) Pop/singer-songwriter [20-Feb-13]
(D) 31. Austin Young & No Difference – Blue As Can Be (Vizztone) Blues [23-Mar-13]
(D) 32. Joshua Novak – Ephemeron (self) Rock/ALT [24-Jan-13]
(21) 33. Churchill – The Change EP (A&M/Octone) Rock/AAA [1-Mar-12]
(D) 33. Lisa Bell – The Italian Project (self) Pop/crossover [14-Feb-13]
(D) 33. Take to the Oars – The Bow & the Stern EP (self) Rock/ALT [23-Mar-13]
(16) 34. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade (self) Rock [1-Sep-12]
(R) 35. The Gromet - Barren (self) Rock [1-Nov-12]

DROPPED OUT OF TOP 40 APRIL

Brad Goode – Chicago Red
Catch Bees – Narratives from a Factory Town
Chris Daniels – Better Days
Confluence – I Haven’t Really Been Living
Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader
Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
Kristi Stice – Under the Willow
Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
Mike Clark & the Sugar Sounds – Round and Round
Mosey West – Merica
O’Brien Party of 7 (CC) – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller
Strange Americans – A Royal Battle
The Knew – Man Monster
Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior

APRIL ADDS

a. Tom Collins – Stick & Poke
Andy Hackbarth – Treadmill Horses EP
Andy Palmer – Hazard of the Die
Andy Thomas – Wicked, Dark
Attic Attack – Cloud Clarity & the Color Red
Beki Hemingway – I Have Big Plans For The World
Ben Makinen – The Goliath Beetle & The Ladybug
Cary Morin – Steamline
Churchill – The War Within EP
Dakota Blonde – The Love We Build
Danny Shafer – Wherever You Are
Desirae Garcia – Ill Fitting
Gotta Be Hot – Flash
Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens – The Holy Dogs of Other Days
John Gunther’s Safari Trio – Surrender
OneRepublic – Native
Post Paradise – Digging Secrets
Pretty Lights – Around the Block
Rob Drabkin – Down to Fate
Stoley Thyme – Time Is Possibility
The Changing Colors – Joan & the King
Trubelos – Boomerang Girl
Vices I Admire – Fables

STATION BY STATION

[X] = number of “current” titles reported as played in reporting period. This is so you’ll not only see what the top five records getting the most spins are at any station, but also how many “current year” releases are getting played.

KAFM (Grand Junction) [25]
1. WhiteWater Ramble – Roots & Groove
2. Dennis Wanebo – Running On Gravity
2. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
3. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Maestro and the Elephant
3. Ryan Chrys – A Lick & A Promise

KBUT (Crested Butte) [12]
1. WhiteWater Ramble – Roots & Groove
2. Bad Brad & the Fat Cats – Eyes on the Prize
3. Blue Canyon Boys – Next Go Round
3. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up
3. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP

KDNK (Carbondale) [17]
1. Euforquestra – Let Us In
1. WhiteWater Ramble – Roots & Groove
2. Andy Hackbarth – Treadmill Horses EP
2. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
2. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker

KDUR (Durango) [15]
1. Farmington Hill – Bridge to Nowhere
2. Thom Chacon – Thom Chacon
3. Beautiful Loser Society – The Desperate Promenade
3. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
4. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony

KGNU (Boulder) [27]
1. Paper Bird – Rooms
2. Blue Canyon Boys – Next Go Round
3. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
3. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
3. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone

KRCC (Colorado Springs) [13]
1. Austin Young & No Difference – Blue As Can Be
1. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
2. Desirae Garcia – Ill Fitting
3. Grant Sabin – Anthromusicology
4. Mike Clark & the Sugar Sounds – Round and Round

KRFC (Fort Collins) [>100]
1. Michael Kirkpatrick – Key to My Cage
2. Paper Bird – Rooms
3. Bad Brad & the Fat Cats – Eyes on the Prize
4. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Maestro and the Elephant
5. Thom Chacon – Thom Chacon

KRZA (Alamosa) [5]
1. Jeff Brinkman Band – Strange
1. Lisa Bell – The Italian Project
1. Polarity – King of Hearts
1. Trout Steak Revival – Flight
2. Curtis Fuller – Down Home

KUNC (Greeley) [11]
1. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone
2. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
4. Churchill – The Change EP
4. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}

KUVO (Denver) [11]
1. Brad Goode – Chicago Red
2. Fred Hess BIG BAND – Speak
3. John Gunther’s Safari Trio Surrender
4. Jon Wirtz – Tourist
4. Leslie Brown – Tenderly

KVNF (Paonia) [5]
1. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone
2. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. SHEL – SHEL
4. WhiteWater Ramble – Roots & Groove

OPEN AIR 1340 (Denver) [60]
1. Paper Bird – Rooms
2. Poet’s Row – Poet’s Row
3. Catch Bees – Narratives from a Factory Town
3. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
4. Glowing House – The Down and Out EP

THE COLORADO SOUND [41]
1. The Congress – The Loft Tapes EP
2. Thom Chacon – Thom Chacon
3. Beki Hemingway – I Have Big Plans For The World
3. OneRepublic – Native
4. Paper Bird – Rooms

GENRE/PROGRAM FORMAT

Americana/Alt.country/Bluegrass
1. Thom Chacon – Thom Chacon
2. WhiteWater Ramble – Roots & Groove
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
4. Farmington Hill – Bridge to Nowhere
5. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker

Blues/Rhythm & Blues
1. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone
2. Bad Brad & the Fat Cats – Eyes on the Prize
3. Austin Young & No Difference – Blue As Can Be
4. John Oates Band (CC) – The Bluesville Sessions
5. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs

Dance/Funk/Hip-Hop/Urban Contemporary
1. Euforquestra – Let Us In
2. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
3. Beats Noir! – Where the Sun Goes Down
4. Air Dubai – Be Calm
5. Wheelchair Sports Camp – Where We All Live

Folk/folk-rock/singer-songwriter
1. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
2. SHEL – SHEL
3. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
4. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
5. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow

Indie/New Alternative
1. Paper Bird – Rooms
2. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
3. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
4. Poet’s Row – Poet’s Row
5. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight

Jazz/Instrumental
1. Brad Goode – Chicago Red
2. Leslie Brown – Tenderly
3. Tom Gershwin – Sweet Pastimes
4. Ben Makinen – The Goliath Beetle & The Ladybug
5. gogoLab – Border Patrol

POP / Contemporary Adult / Crossover
1. Andy Hackbarth – Treadmill Horses EP
2. OneRepublic – Native
3. Dennis Wanebo – Running On Gravity
4. Lisa Bell – The Italian Project
5. Rob Drabkin – Down to Fate

ROCK / AAA / ALT / AOR
1. The Congress – The Loft Tapes EP
2. Grant Sabin – Anthromusicology
3. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Maestro and the Elephant
4. FaceMan – Talk Talk Talk
5. Jeff Brinkman Band – Strange

The following releases were serviced to radio/press by Chris “K” Kresge dba Rocky Mountain Music Network
WhiteWater Ramble – Roots & Groove
Andy Hackbarth – Treadmill Horses EP
Bad Brad & the Fat Cats – Eyes on the Prize
Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up
Jeff Brinkman Band – Strange
Dennis Wanebo – Running On Gravity
Lisa Bell – The Italian Project
Ryan Chrys – A Lick & A Promise

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March 4, 2013 · 6:09 pm

KVNF (Paonia) Seeking News Director

Award winning rural service network, KVNF Community Radio, seeks an energetic, experienced and organized journalist to head our growing news department. The department includes a daily newscast, two locally produced weekly magazines, and a strong digital presence. Located in an area with active energy development, agriculture innovation, and public lands dilemmas, there is no shortage of newsworthy topics to cover.

Established in 1979, KVNF offers a professional and supportive work environment in a 6,000 square foot, inspiring state-of-the art broadcast facility. Headquartered in the town of Paonia, and serving a vast swath of western Colorado, the area is an outdoor person’s dream. From spectacular alpine vistas to sandstone canyons and world class river rafting KVNF’s listening area offers high quality living. For a complete description please visit our website www.kvnf.org. No Phone calls please. KVNF is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to a fair and diverse workplace.\

Terms: Full time, salary, pay DOE

KVNF is looking for someone to build upon our existing local news effort—improve the breadth and depth of our content, strengthen existing community relationships, and make KVNF even more of a news resource for Colorado’s Western Slope. The News Director plays a key role in shaping the voice and direction of KVNF’s local news, providing leadership to ensure the evolution of high journalistic standards and quality content.

Description: The News Director is in charge of the News Department at KVNF. The ND is responsible for overseeing the editorial agenda of the News Department, creating the daily local newscast, identifying and reporting on news stories in the local community, monitoring other media sources, assigning stories to and editing volunteer/freelance reporters and supervising other news staff. KVNF’s broadcast community includes seven counties and 10,000 square miles of Colorado’s rural Western Slope.

The News Director serves as a member of the Editorial Policy Review Committee.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Essential News Duties:

Develop KVNF’s daily local newscast (Monday-Friday). Prepare daily newscast from a variety of sources, including original reporting
Report, record and/or edit news spots, interviews, and news features for broadcast
Select material most pertinent to the KVNF audience, and organize this material into appropriate format for newscast. Edit news material for content and length
Train, assign and edit volunteers and freelancers within the News Department
Continue training and working with morning host(s)
Post and maintain news content on KVNF’s Core Publisher website
Produce, host and edit KVNF’s weekly public affairs program.
Alternate producing monthly call-in show with Program Director.
Monitor and schedule breaking news from NPR and local sources. Create and schedule promos for these special broadcasts.
Meet deadlines and be responsible for completing assigned duties on time
Provide up-to-the-minute emergency news coverage when needed
Provide live updates and information during elections
Engage with the community as a professional, respectful representative of KVNF

Other Duties:

Help maintain and sign-out production equipment for staff and volunteers
Assist with remote broadcasts, live performances and interviews as needed
Assist in fundraising efforts and community outreach such as membership drives and events when needed. Will include occasional nights/weekends
Assist with office operations: answering phone, public relations, station tours and on-air hosting as needed
Attend and participate in all general staff meetings

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

At least 2 years experience in radio and/or print journalism; demonstrated reporting skills (work samples required)
Knowledge of Western issues (water, energy, agriculture, public lands)
Strong interest in local news and public affairs
Strong verbal and writing skills
Ability to prioritize tasks, practice effective time management and work independently
Ability to work well with a large and diverse group of volunteers, as well as other staff and freelancers
On-air skills and knowledge of broadcast and digital recording equipment
Computer skills a must (Microsoft Office, PC Platform, email, web); digital editing experience required
Web and social media skills/experience preferred
Community radio and/or nonprofit experience a plus

Application requirements:

Resume
Cover letter
Two letters of reference
Three (3) work samples (radio and/or print)

Applications must be submitted by mail. No Phone calls. Position is open until filled.

KVNF Community Radio

News Director Search

PO Box 1350

Paonia, CO 81428

KVNF is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to a fair and diverse workplace.

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March 3, 2013 · 5:11 pm

NEWS NOTES and SPINS – March 1, 2013

Sunday March 3rd. I’m a couple of days behind schedule. Could just be the three days that February was shorted at birth. After successfully blowing up the Y-T-D stats for unique visits in January, we lost some ground in February. That’s cool, we still had over 40 unique visits a day on average here – not counting the activity that takes place at my FB page.

I’ve been reworking a couple of the other pages here – notably the Rocky Mountain Music Network page, which is where you can find a listing of the records I’ve sent to radio and print media in CO on behalf of artists since 2008. Very happy to announce that the new Lisa Bell and WhiteWaterRamble releases are on the list for this year. There are a few more pending so stay tuned for those.

There were 28 new adds in February. There were 27 in January. At this rate we’d wind up with 330-360 releases being tracked for the year … which is about right. Estimates being what they are, “we” (those of us who talk about such things) think there’s about 500 records a year released in the state from an estimated 2000 acts (from solo to full orchestra). 12 of the 28 debuts wound up in the TOP 40 most spun in February… more will likely show up in the TOP 40 for March. I was very happy to see my friend Jon Wirtz’s new record “Tourist” do so well OTB (out of the box). I think his debut at #7 may be the highest debut for a jazz record I’ve ever logged.

On a personal note: I have entered a new phase in my life. I’ve long wondered if I could enjoy a physical fitness lifestyle.. biking, working out, eating “good” (healthy) foods, not drinking, not smoking, etc … So I hit the switch in my brain and embarked on a new lifestyle. And no, I didn’t give up the green .. a goat does need one vice LOL. But you are likely to see me out biking this spring and summer with some buddies – or at the gym … I started at 172-174. I’m at 161 five weeks in with a goal by Aug 1 of 145-148 and a goal by the time I hit 60 (two more years) of either a running marathon or a bike marathon. Question: can 60 year olds rock a sixpack? Hmmm… guess we’ll find out. Live healthy my friends .. catch you on the airwaves or at a show.

Do take a 30 minute break from the day and enjoy my video picks of the month.

STATION NEWS

March 1st marks the end of an era at KUNC (Greeley). Nancy D’Albergaria, KUNC’s Development Director since January, 2008, is retiring. Though Nancy has been on staff for only 5 years, her involvement with the station dates back to the early 90’s, when she began as a volunteer, along with her husband Thom and their children Sean and Ann.

Nancy soon became a member of the KUNC Community Advisory Board, and served as its chair. In February 2001, Nancy co-chaired the Friends of KUNC group that raised $2 million in 20 days to purchase KUNC’s license from the University of Northern Colorado, creating Community Radio For Northern Colorado (CRNC) and ensuring that KUNC continued as an independent station.

She went on to serve on the board of CRNC from 2001-2007, including a term as board chair. Nancy’s commitment and many contributions to KUNC over the years have been invaluable in creating the station that we are today. We wish her well as she embarks on her future travels.

Carrie Saldo will be joining KUNC and RMPBS starting April 1st, as an an arts and culture reporter (in conjunction with Rocky Mountain PBS and KUVO). For the past 2 years Carrie has been the host, writer and producer of “Connecting Point” – a nightly, 30 minute interview program on PBS member station WGBY-TV in Springfield, MA. Carrie also spent 3 years at WAMC public radio in Albany, NY as the Berkshire Bureau Chief.

Luke Runyon of Aspen Public Radio will officially be joining KUNC as their first Agribusiness Reporter on Monday, March 11th (in conjunction with Harvest Public Media, a network of stations across the midwest that does Grassroots reporting on food, fuel and field (http://harvestpublicmedia.org/). Luke spent the past 18 months working in Aspen covering general assignment, environmental and land use stories. He is already a familiar voice on our airwaves because of our collaboration with RMCR (Rocky Mountain Community Radio) and He’s also been featured on NPR several times.

Sally Kane, executive director for KVNF (Paonia), is stepping down from her position in June to look for new life opportunities. In her email out to RMCR (Rocky Mountain Community Radio) stations, Sally writes “We’ll be posting for my replacement and for a news position in the next couple of weeks. I’m still here for awhile so this won’t be the last you hear from me…” Sally first appeared on the air at KVNF when she was a high school student in 1980, and has long been considered one of RMCR’s brightest executive directors. Founded in 1979, starting with 10 watts of power in a garage on a mesa overlooking the town of Paonia, KVNF has grown to serve parts of 6 rural counties with two transmitters and seven translators and thousands of watts of power.

BREAKING NEWS ADDED an hour AFTER I published …. thanks to Andrew Schneider for the update. KRFC Development Director Danielle Hastings announced her resignation at the end of January. She is now at FoCoMA now as their full time seasonal marketing/communications and volunteer person. KRFC is now looking for a full time Development Director. Full details and downloadable application at http://www.krfcfm.org/about-krfc/jobs/. Essentially, this is a full time, 40 hour gig that pays $30,000 a year + commission to the right person. The successful candidate should have a minimum of a Bachelors degree in a related field and/or relevant experience, with experience generating operating revenues in a corporate, nonprofit or institutional setting. Knowledge of the public radio mission and its diverse audience is an advantage, as is demonstrated success in fundraising and/or grant writing for nonprofit programs along with demonstrated success in community and professional networking. The application deadline is March 14.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY … here I thought that only one station in Colorado was having a 10 year birthday party — and lo and behold there are two. Happy 10th birthday to KHEN (Salida) and KRFC (Fort Collins).

Locally-focused community radio, KRFC, hit Ft. Collins airwaves on March 1, 2003. KRFC will be hosting their 10th birthday party on April 6th featuring Great American Taxi, Mama Lenny & The Remedy, and a double dose of Michael Kirkpatrick from The Holler!

KHEN held their 10th birthday party in a new location in Salida on March 2nd. Don’t know what those folks are up to down there, but the website at http://www.khen.org hasn’t been updated since late last summer. Hope they get it fixed so we can all enjoy knowing what they’re playing..

MONTHLY TOP VIDEO PICKS

featuring Esther Sparks, Lisa Bell, The Lumineers, Kyle James Hauser, OneRepublic, Meniskus, Broken Tongues (7 videos = 30 minutes)

TOP 40 SPINS FEB 2013

When you look at the Station By Station listing you’ll notice ["x" number titles reported]. This is so you’ll not only see what the top five records getting the most love at a station are, but also how many “current year” releases are getting played. For February there were 290 titles tracked. 180 titles were reported as played at least once.
(CC) = Colorado Connection
(D) = album/ep debut on chart
(R) = reenter
[date] = Date added to reporting list

(3) 1. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony (Cicero Recordings) Indie/New Alternative [1-Nov-12]
(2) 2. Fierce Bad Rabbit – The Maestro and the Elephant (self) Rock/Adult Alternative [5-Jan-13]
(D) 3. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone (Telarc) Blues [20-Jan-13]
(1) 4. The Lumineers - The Lumineers (Dualtone) Americana [1-Mar-12]
(4) 5. Jeff Brinkman – Strange (self) Rock/Adult Alternative [1-Dec-12]
(15) 6. Elephant Revival - It’s Alive EP (Ruff Shod/Nettwork) Folk [1-Nov-1]
(D) 7. Jon Wirtz – Tourist (self) Jazz [31-Jan-13]
(D) 8. A Boy and His Kite – A Boy and His Kite (self) Indie/New Alternative [7-Jan-13]
(8) 9. Beautiful Loser Society – The Desperate Promenade (self) Americana/country-rock [5-Jan-13]
(15) 10. Flobots – The Circle In the Square (Shanachie Records) Urban Contemporary/alternative hip-hop [1-Aug-12]
(D) 11. Blue Canyon Boys – Next Go Round (self) Bluegrass [16-Jan-13]
(R) 12. Churchill – The Change EP (A&M/Otone) Rock/adult alternative [1-Mar-12]
(30) 13. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up (self) Americana/classic country [1-Jul-12]
(R) 13. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm (self) Americana/country [1-Mar-12]
(D) 14. Bad Brad & the Fat Cats – Eyes on the Prize (self) Blues [7-Feb-13]
(20) 15. Beats Noir! – Where the Sun Goes Down (self) Urban Contemporary/alternative hip-hop [1-Oct-12]
(D) 16. Joshua Novak – Ephemeron (self) Rock/alternative [24-Jan-13]
(6) 17. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade (self) Rock [1-Sep-12]
(31) 18. A Shoreline Dream – “333″ (self) Rock/alterative [12-Sep-12]
(7) 18. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I (Greater Than Collective) Indie/New Alternative [1-Sep-12]
(27) 19. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king} (Youngest Daughter Records) Folk/pop [1-May-12]
(D) 20. Abi Robins – Such A Mess (Morning Bird Records) Indie/New Alternative [30-Jan-13]
(14) 21. Sera Cahoone (CC) - Deer Creek Canyon (Sub Pop) Folk [1-Nov-12]
(23) 22. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow (Blank Tape) Folk [1-Apr-12]
(R) 23. SHEL - SHEL (Moraine Records / Mad King Records) Folk [1-Aug-12 2012]
(29) 24. Land Lines – Land Lines (self) Indie/New Alternative [24-Nov-12]
(D) 25. Catch Bees – Narratives from a Factory Town (On Joyful Wings) Indie/New Alternative [6-Feb-13]
(10) 26. You, Me and Apollo – S/T [EP] (self) Indie/New Alternative [1-Dec-12]
(11) 27. Chris Daniels – Better Days (self) Americana/country, folk [1-Jul-12]
(D) 27. gogoLab - Border Patrol (self) Jazz/soundtrack [7-Feb-13]
(D) 28. A Mouthful of Thunder – Slow Burn (self) Indie/New Alternative [1-Jan-12]
(D) 29. Dennis Wanebo – Running On Gravity (self) Folk/singer-songwriter [20-Feb-13]
(24) 29. Rob Drabkin – Little Steps EP (self) Rock/AAA [19-Jan-13]
(R) 30. 4H Royalty – Where UFOs Go To Die (self) Alt-country-rock [1-Jun-12]
(27) 31. Bad Weather California - Sunkissed (Family Tree) Indie/New Alternative [1-Feb-12]
(D) 32. Lisa Bell – The Italian Project (self) POP/crossover/adult contemporary [14-Feb-13]
(19) 32. The Gromet - Barren (self) Rock/AAA [1-Nov-12]
(R) 32. Tyler Ward – Hello. Love. Heartache. (self) POP/dance/R&B [1-Nov-12]
(R) 33. Achille Lauro - Flight or Flight (Hot Congress Records) Indie/New Alternative [1-Mar-12]
(31) 33. Grant Sabin – Anthromusicology (Blank Tape) Rock/blues-rock [10-Jan-13]

FEB ADDS
Abi Robins – Such A Mess
Bad Brad & the Fat Cats – Eyes on the Prize
Brad Goode – Chicago Red
Catch Bees – Narratives from a Factory Town
Dennis Wanebo – Running On Gravity
Drop Switch – Thin the Herd EP
Esther Sparks & the Whiskey Remedy – Back to Life
FaceMan – Talk Talk Talk
Fox Steet Allstars – Tough Talk
Glass Delirium – Diamond Lullabies
gogoLab – Border Patrol
Jeremy Dion – Golden Some Days
Jesse Manley – A Path Through the Dark
Jon Wirtz – Tourist
Lisa Bell – The Italian Project
Meniskus – Stowaway
Mountain Standard Time – Sunny
Paper Bird – Rooms
P-Nuckle – The System
Poet’s Row – Poet’s Row
Rebecca Folsom – Reunion
Reno Divorce – Lover’s Leap
Rob Roper – The Other Side of Nowhere
Ryan Chrys – A Lick & A Promise
The Centennial – Nervous System
Thief River – Southbound to Nowhere
Uncommoners – Time and Other Tricks
WhiteWater Ramble – Roots & Groove

STATION BY STATION

KAFM (Grand Junction) [20 titles reported]
1. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone
2. Blue Canyon Boys – Next Go Round
2. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
3. Beautiful Loser Society – The Desperate Promenade
4. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

KBUT (Crested Butte) [12 titles reported]
1. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
2. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up
2. Jeff Brinkman – Strange
2. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
3. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm

KDNK (Carbondale) [24 titles reported]
1. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
2. John Oates Band (CC) – The Bluesville Sessions
2. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker

KDUR (Durango) [22 titles reported]
1. Beautiful Loser Society – The Desperate Promenade
2. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Maestro and the Elephant
3. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
3. The Epilogues – Cinematics
4. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed

KGNU (Boulder) [17 titles reported]
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Blue Canyon Boys – Next Go Round
3. Chris Daniels – Better Days
4. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
4. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm

KRFC (Fort Collins) [>100 titles reported]
1. Fierce Bad Rabbit – The Maestro & the Elephant
2. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches & Hugs
3. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone
4. Wire Faces – King Cataract
5. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

KRCC (Colorado Springs) [12 titles reported]
1. A Shoreline Dream – “333″
1. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
2. Mike Clark & the Sugar Sounds – Round and Round
2. Grant Sabin – Anthromusicology
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

KRZA (Alamosa) [4 titles reported]
1. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
1. Jeff Brinkman – Strange
1. Trout Steak Revival – Flight
2. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
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KSJD (Cortez) [3 titles reported]
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Beautiful Loser Society – The Desperate Promenade
3. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
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KUNC (Greeley) [13 titles reported]
1. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
1. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone
2. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
3. Churchill – The Change EP
3. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}

KUVO (Denver) [6 titles reported]
1. Brad Goode – Chicago Red
2. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
3. Tom Gershwin – Sweet Pastimes
4. Polarity – King of Hearts
5. Jon Wirtz – Tourist

KVNF (Paonia) [7 titles reported]
1. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. Chris Coady – From Down Here
3. Darryl Purpose – Next Time Around
3. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony

OPEN AIR 1340 (Denver) [67 titles reported]
1. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
2. Wire Faces – King Cataract
3. Land Lines – Land Lines
4. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
4. The Centennial – Nervous System

The Colorado Sound [57 titles reported]
1. Fierce Bad Rabbit – The Maestro and the Elephant
2. Jon Wirtz – Tourist
3. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
3. gogoLab – Border Patrol
3. Jeff Brinkman – Strange

GENRE/PROGRAM FORMAT

Americana/Alt.country/Alt.country-rock
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Beautiful Loser Society – The Desperate Promenade
3. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up
3. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
4. Chris Daniels – Better Days

Blues/Rhythm & Blues
1. Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone
2. Bad Brad & the Fat Cats – Eyes on the Prize
3. Boa & the Constrictors – Married to the Blues
4. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away
5. Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band f/Erica Brown – Tangled Road

Dance/Funk/Hip-Hop/Urban Contemporary
1. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
2. Beats Noir! – Where the Sun Goes Down
3. Tyler Ward – Hello. Love. Heartache.
4. Air Dubai – Be Calm
4. Drop Switch – Thin the Herd EP

Folk/folk-rock/singer-songwriter
1. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
2. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
3. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
4. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
5. SHEL – SHEL

Indie/New Alternative
1. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
2. A Boy and His Kite – A Boy and His Kite
3. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
4. Abi Robins – Such A Mess
5. Land Lines – Land Lines

Jazz/Instrumental
1. Jon Wirtz – Tourist
2. gogoLab – Border Patrol
3. Brad Goode – Chicago Red
4. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
5. Mango fan Django – Indigo Dreams

POP / Contemporary Adult / Crossover
1. Dennis Wanebo – Running On Gravity
1. Rob Drabkin – Little Steps EP
2. Lisa Bell – The Italian Project
2. Tyler Ward – Hello. Love. Heartache.
3. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down

ROCK / AAA / ALT / AOR
1. Fierce Bad Rabbit – The Maestro and the Elephant
2. Jeff Brinkman – Strange
3. Churchill – The Change EP
4. Joshua Novak – Ephemeron
5. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade

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December 1, 2012 · 6:25 pm

News Notes and Spins – December 1, 2012

December 1, 2012 — we are now 28 days away from our Best of 2012 show on the Colorado Sound, which will air the week of Dec 29-Jan 4 around the state. Over the next week or so I will put up a poll so that you can pick your favorites of the past year – NOV’11-NOV’12. I’ll take those results, add it to the list of favs by some “secret” local industry insiders, and then add them to the spins database to come up with the TOP 40 of 2012. Should be fun.

Last month I addressed the idea that some artists who grew up here and have since moved away are still a part of the “sound” of Colorado – if not in fact, then at least in origin. To that, I have added a new designation, (CC), to denote a Colorado Connection. That may be someone like Sera Cahoone who moved to Seattle several years ago, or Tia Fuller who moved to New Jersey. Some folks have lobbied that I also include in that designation recordings from local studios of artists who are not specifically a part of the scene here. That’s an interesting one — I’ll mull it over during the next month or so.

Much thanks to new stations that have added or will be adding THE COLORADO SOUND — http://www.post303radio.com and KVNF (Paonia). KVNF will be airing the show as fill in programming for the next couple of months, before integrating it into to their regular programming in February 2013, according to station program director Ali Lightfoot. Watch my Facebook page for announcements on when the show will be available in that part of the state. (edit: see schedule for days, times, and stations)

In other station news: KBUT (Crested Butte) writes in the “…public affairs program “The West Elk Word” is back up and running through the winter. Tune in Saturdays at noon for news & notes, people & places, music & the arts, recreation, and mountain culture talk straight from the heart of the West Elk Mountains. Dal Dearmin has joined the KBUT staff as General Manager. Dal brings years of community radio experience from KSFR in Santa Fe. KBUT is more than thrilled to welcome Dal to the Gunnison Valley. We’re also kicking the music blog back into gear with regular postings about popular new music on the KBUT shelves.”

I’m trying something new again this month for the monthly YouTube and Spotify feeds … The YouTube feed features 7 cuts coming in at about 30 mins and includes Paper Bird, SHEL, Rob Drabkin, Liza Oxnard, Mega Gem, The Gromet, and Roniit. The Spotify feed is about the same length (39 mins) and includes debut releases in November from Darryl Purpose, Elephant Revival, The Gromet, The Hollyfelds, Polarity, Sera Cahoone, Ten Pound Elephant, Trout Steak Revival, and Tyler Ward. Enjoy.

TOP 40 TITLES NOVEMBER 2012

(267 titles tracked / 150 titles reported as played)
(LM) TM Genre/format [added]
(D) = debut, first time on chart
(R) = re-entered chart

(1) 1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers (Dualtone) Indie/New Alternative [Mar-12]
(D) 2. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon (Sub Pop) Folk [Nov-12]
(21) 3. Flobots – The Circle In the Square (Shanachie Records) Hip Hop/alternative [Aug-12]
(D) 4. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony (Cicero Recordings) Indie/New Alternative [Nov-12]
(23) 5. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior (Mack Avenue) Jazz [Sep-12]
(28) 6. Jeff Brinkman – Strange (self) Rock/adult alternative [Aug-12]
(31) 7. SHEL – SHEL (Moraine Records / Mad King Records) Folk [Aug-12]
(4) 8. Chris Daniels – Better Days (self) Americana/country, folk [Jul-12] *
(15) 9. The Swayback – Double Four Time (self) Rock/alternative [Mar-12]
(3) 10. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I (Greater Than Collective) Indie/New Alternative [Sep-12]
(9) 11. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade (self) Rock [Sep-12]
(5) 12. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years (self) Americana/jamgrass [Sep-12] *
(8) 12. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle (self) Rock/alt-country-rock (Jun-12)
(22) 13. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away (self) Blues/folk-blues [Aug-12] *
(10) 14. The Epilogues – Cinematics (Greater Than Collective) Rock/indie/alternative [Oct-12]
(18) 15. Wovenhand – The Laughing Stalk (Sounds Familyre) Indie/New Alternative [Sep-12]
(D) 16. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP (Ruff Shod/Nettwork) Folk [Nov-12]
(2) 17. Bop Skizzum – Coloradical (self) Urban Contemporary/funk [Sep-12]
(17) 18. Tennis – Young & Old (Fat Possum) Indie/New Alternative [Feb-12]
(16) 19. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king} (Youngest Daughter Records) Folk/pop [May-12]
(D) 20. The Gromet – Barren (self) Rock [Nov-12]
(24) 21. Ending People – Fill Your Lungs (Cash Cow Productions) Indie/New Alternative [Aug-12]
(R) 22. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband (Telarc) Blues [Jan-12]
(14) 23. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow (Blank Tape) Folk/folk-rock [Apr-12]
(7) 24. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker (LoS Records) Americana/jamband [Apr-12]
(19) 25. I’m With Her – Songs We Said Goodbye To (Boss Koala Records) Folk/Americana [Oct-12]
(D) 26. Honkytonk Homeslice – Just Passin’ Thru (SCI Fidelity) Americana/country-rock [Nov-12]
(R) 27. Tin Horn Prayer – Grapple the Rails (self) Rock/alternative [Aug-12]
(D) 28. Polarity – King of Hearts (Tapestry) Jazz [Nov-12]
(D) 29. The Hollyfelds – Title Stealers (self) Americana/country [Nov-12]
(31) 30. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s (self) Americana/alt-country [Jan-12]
(R) 31. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up (self) Americana/classic country [Jul-12]
(29) 31. O’Brien Party of 7 (CC) – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller (Howdy Skies Music) Folk/country-folk [Jun-12]
(R) 32. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise (self) Folk/modern folk [Jun-12]
(D) 33. Calder’s Revolvers – Steady By Your Side (self) Rock [Nov-12]
(12) 33. Churchill – The Change (A&M/Octone) Rock/folk-rock [Mar-12]
(13) 33. Katie Glassman – Snapshot (self) Americana [Jan-12] *
(D) 34. Mega Gem – Colors of the West (self) Indie/New Alternative [Nov-12]
(D) 34. Ten Pound Elephant – Ten Pound Elephant EP (self) Urban Contemporary/neo-funk/hip hop [Oct-12]
(R) 35. Euforquestra – Let Us In (self) World [Apr-12]

ADDED: NOV 2012
Aakash Mittal Quartet – Thumbs Up EP
Alan & Martin – Only Boys Back Then
Calder’s Revolvers – Steady By Your Side
Darryl Purpose – Next Time Around
DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
Grant Sabin – Anthromusicology
Honkytonk Homeslice – Just Passin’ Thru
Idlewhile Band – Live at the Walnut Room Vol 1
John William Davis – Dead Simple, Vol. 1: You Talk Funny
Julie Hoest – Never Far
Mega Gem – Colors of the West
Monroe Monroe – Interiors
Nu Mundo – Our Song
Polarity – King of Hearts
Rob Roper – The Other Side of Nowhere
Ron Miles, Bill Frisell & Brian Blade – Quiver
Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
Susan Walton – January Trees
The Gromet – Barren
The Hollyfelds – Title Stealers
Trout Steak Revival – Flight
Tyler Ward – Hello. Love. Heartache.
Willie Houston – Willie Houston Live

FELL OUT OF TOP 40 NOVEMBER 2012
6. The Knew – Man Monster
11. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight
13. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
20. Beats Noir! – Where the Sun Goes Down
25. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right
26. Longest Day of the Year – Turn Into the Ground
27. The Congress – Whatever You Want
28. Chris Malley and Bob Schlesinger – Split Shot
29. Chimney Choir – (ladder)
29. Raincheck – Raincheck
30. Petals of Spain – Late Night Visitor
31. Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader (self) Indie/New Alternative [May-12]
32. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
33. Science Partner – Rocky Mountain News
34. Head for the Hills – Live

STATION BY STATION

KAFM (Grand Junction)
1. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years
2. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
3. SHEL – SHEL
4. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost
5. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

KBUT (Crested Butte)
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days
1. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
1. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
2. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

KDNK (Carbondale) *HOT SPINS*
DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
Elephant Revival – It’s Alive EP
Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller

KDUR (Durango)
1. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
2. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
2. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
3. Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader
4. Air Dubai – Day Escape

KGNU (Boulder)
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Chris Daniels – Better Days
3. Calder’s Revolvers – Steady By Your Side
3. Katie Glassman – Snapshot
3. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker

KRCC (Colorado Springs)
1. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
2. A Shoreline Dream – “333″
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
4. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
5. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade

KRFC (Fort Collins)
1. Julie Hoest – Never Far
2. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
3. Jeff Brinkman – Strange
4. Darryl Purpose – Next Time Around
5. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade

KSJD (Cortez)
1. Katya Chorover – Big Big Love
1. SHEL – SHEL
2. Tennis – Young & Old
2. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
2. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down

KUNC (Greeley)
1. Sera Cahoone (CC) – Deer Creek Canyon
2. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down
3. Churchill – The Change EP
3. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
4. Catch Bees – Newman’s Open Choir

KUVO (Denver)
1. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
2. Polarity – King of Hearts
3. Eric Gunnison – Trios
4. Fred Hess BIG BAND – Speak
5. Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees

KVNF (Paonia)
1. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
4. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
4. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow

Open Air 1340 (Denver)
1. Wovenhand – The Laughing Stalk
2. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
2. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
3. The Gromet – Barren
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

The Colorado Sound
1. Jeff Brinkman – Strange
2. Flobots – The Circle in the Square
3. I’m With Her – Songs We Said Goodbye To
4. Bop Skizzum – Coloradical
4. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle

BY GENRE/PROGRAM FORMAT

Americana/Alt.country/Alt.country-rock
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days
2. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years
3. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
4. Honkytonk Homeslice – Just Passin’ Thru
5. The Hollyfelds – Title Stealers

Blues/Rhythm & Blues
1. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away
2. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
3. Grant Sabin – Anthromusicology
4. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
5. Robert Wilson Blues Band – 45 RPM

Dance/Funk/Hip-Hop/Urban Contemporary
1. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
2. Bop Skizzum – Coloradical
3. Ten Pound Elephant – Ten Pound Elephant EP
4. Beats Noir! – Where the Sun Goes Down
5. Wheelchair Sports Camp – Where We All Live

Indie/New Alternative
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony
3. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
4. Wovenhand – The Laughing Stalk
5. Tennis – Young & Old

Jazz
1. Tia Fuller (CC) – Angelic Warrior
2. Polarity – King of Hearts
3. Raincheck – Raincheck
4. Shirley – From A Bright Clearing
5. After Midnight – Hit the Jive Jack

Pop/Adult Contemporary
1. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You
2. Cassie Taylor – Blue
3. Charlotte Sass – Lighter Things
3. The Fray – Scars and Stories
3. OneRepublic – Feel Again [single]

Rock/AAA/AOR/Modern Rock
1. Jeff Brinkman – Strange
2. The Swayback – Double Four Time
3. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
4. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle
5. The Epilogues – Cinematics

* = serviced to radio by Rocky Mountain Music Network/Chris Kresge

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November 1, 2012 · 12:52 pm

News Notes and Spins – Nov. 1, 2012

Tia Fuller, Katie Herzig, Sera Cahoone, Corey Harris, Jill Sobule, Phillip Bailey, and India.Arie, among others, all have one thing in common… they are all original Colorado natives who moved to other places… Sera to Seattle. Tia to NYC. Katie to Nashville. India.Arie to Atlanta, Philip and Jill to Los Angeles… Corey first to Maine and then to Virginia. They’re not the only ones — artists move to or move from here all the time. Dan Fogelberg, Joe Cocker, John Denver, Glenn Frey, John Oates, Richie Furay, Stephen Stills, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Tommy Bolin, and countless others have lived here… some for a couple of years, others longer; some are still here.

No one has told the story better than legendary former local rock critic, radio dj, local music historian and author, and current Colorado Music Hall of fame director G. Brown, whose book “Colorado Rocks!: A Half-Century of Music in Colorado” is a must have for anyone even casually interested in what’s gone on here musically much of the past 60 years now. Expect to pay a few times what it originally sold for however. The book has been out of print for at least a few years now and very good to excellent condition editions can run you $50-75 +/- …I’ve seen wrapped editions listed for upwards of $125.

Occasionally, an album from one of these artists shows up on our monthly charts. Most recently it’s been Tia Fuller’s wonderful new album “Angelic Warrior,” which features resident and native jazz great Dianne Reeves on one vocal track, “Body and Soul.” Katie Herzig’s latest has shown up here and there as well the past year, as has the O’Brien Party of Seven release that features former Colorado resident Tim O’Brien with sister and current Colorado residents Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore and their kids.

Columbine High School (Littleton) graduate Sera Cahoone is an accomplished singer-songwriter on the Sub Pop label out of Seattle, where she moved when she was 21. Her latest, “Deer Creek Canyon” has been picking up some spins at KUNC and KRCC and I have no doubt will continue to pick up spins throughout the state in the coming couple of months.

The question is always, do we include those who grew up here as kids, went to our local schools, and maybe our colleges and universities, and then moved on to other places? KUNC’s music director, Benji McPhail, made it a point – when he emailed me that they had put Sera’s new album in rotation as a Colorado artist release. Sera’s new album, “Deer Creek Canyon” is all about the place she grew up, and where her mom still lives. Sera may have moved to Seattle years ago, as a young woman seeking her own life and stories, but has remained a much loved native Coloradoan with a great musical story of her own to tell – largely influenced by her life and experiences here.

Still, some folks contend that unless an artist is actually living here and contributing to the live music scene they cannot justifiably be considered a “local” artist. IF that’s the case there are a lot of acts we would have to consider as long gone and no longer local… including the likes of the Apples in Stereo (Kentucky) or Slim Cessna (Rhode Island) or Todd Park Mohr (Chicago) … hmmmm … yeah, no.

Speaking of Coloradoans who were not born here, but were raised here, went to school here, and are as much as part of who we are as anyone – legendary jazz guitarist, Denver East High School grad, and University of Northern Colorado alum Bill Frisell (born in Baltimore) has teamed up with local jazz trumpeter and Denver University alum Ron Miles (born in Indianapolis) for an exquisite album called “Quiver.” As adventurous as it is, I expect it will do well with jazz djs around the state in November and December – watch for it.

STATION NEWS:

OpenAir 1340 on air personality and web director Brandee Castle has left her post at Colorado Public Radio. CPR will be listing her open position on their employment page within the next couple weeks. However, she will still be involved with OpenAir in some capacity in the future so it’s not a true goodbye.

OpenAir’s First Birthday Bash will take place at the Hi-Dive in Denver on November 9th at 9pm. Meet the OpenAir hosts and catch live performances from A. Tom Collins, Flashbulb Fires, and Bonnie and the Beard. Since OpenAir launched on Oct. 31, 2011, more than 80 bands, most of which have Colorado ties, have visited CPR’s Performance Studio to record their music and talk with OpenAir hosts, making them a leader in promoting music from here in Colorado on broadcast radio.

KBUT (Crested Butte) has hired a new general manager/executive director.

Okay — Time for an experiment. I got served notice recently that it would be nice if I linked each entry to a website where folks could check out the music … that’d be a bit more time consuming than I’d prefer, so here’s a link to a playlist I have up on Spotify that features a lot of this month’s Top 40 most spun titles. You will need a Spotify account for this to work.

VIDEO PLAYLIST This month’s video playlist begins with a classic from Victoria Woodworth, recorded at Caribou Ranch in 1980. It also includes a new video and song from Jeff Finlin, a new video from Chris Daniels, along with Flobots, The Yawpers, The Epilogues, Churchill, SHEL, Sofie Reed, a live performance video from Leftover Salmon, Achille Lauro, and Petals of Spain.

TOP 40 TITLES OCTOBER 2012

(278 titles tracked / 159 titles reported as played)
(LM) TM Genre/format [added]
(D) = debut, first time on chart
(R) = re-entered chart

(2) 1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers (Dualtone) Indie/New Alternative [Mar-12]
(13) 2. Bop Skizzum – Coloradical (self) Urban Contemporary / Modern Rock [Sep-12]
(D) 3. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I (Greater Than Collective) Indie/New Alternative [Sep-12]
(4) 4. Chris Daniels – Better Days (self) Americana / AAA [Jul-12] *
(12) 5. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years (self) Americana / bluegrass [Sep-12] *
(14) 6. The Knew – Man Monster (self) Alternative Rock / AOR [Jun-12]
(3) 7. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker (LoS Records) Americana/AAA [Apr-12]
(R) 8. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle (self) AOR / AAA [Jun-12]
(1) 9. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade (self) AOR / AAA / Alternative Rock [Sep-12]
(D) 10. The Epilogues – Cinematics (Greater Than Collective) Indie/New Alternative [Oct-12]
(22) 11. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight (Hot Congress Records) Indie/New Alternative [Mar-12]
(16) 12. Churchill – The Change EP (A&M/Octone) AAA/adult alternative [Mar-12]
(5) 13. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm (self) Americana/alt-country-rock [Mar-12]
(18) 13. Katie Glassman – Snapshot (self) Americana /country-swing [Jan-12] *
(15) 14. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow (Blank Tape) Folk/Americana [Apr-12]
(8) 15. The Swayback – Double Four Time (self) Alternative/Modern Rock [Mar-12]
(7) 16. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king} ( Youngest Daughter Records) Folk/Americana [May-12]
(27) 17. Tennis – Young & Old (Fat Possum) Indie/New Alternative [Feb-12]
(D) 18. Wovenhand – The Laughing Stalk (Sound Familyre) Indie/New Alternative [Sep-12]
(D) 19. I’m With Her – Songs We Said Goodbye To (Boss Koala Records) Americana/AAA [Oct-12]
(D) 20. Beats Noir! – Where the Sun Goes Down (self) Urban Contemporary / Modern Rock [Oct-12]
(25) 21. Flobots – The Circle In the Square (self) Urban Contemporary / Modern Rock [Aug-12]
(9) 22. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away (self) Blues [Aug-12] *
(D) 23. Tia Fuller – Angelic Warrior (Mack Avenue) Jazz [Sep-12]
(10) 24. Ending People – Fill Your Lungs (Cash Cow Productions) Indie/New Alternative [Aug-12]
(R) 25. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons (Mockingbird Records) Americana/country-folk [May-12] *
(R) 26. Longest Day of the Year – Turn Into the Ground (self) Americana/alt-country-rock [Nov-11]
(R) 27. The Congress – Whatever You Want (self) AAA/AOR [Apr-12]
(D) 28. Chris Malley and Bob Schlesinger – Split Shot (self) Jazz [Oct-12]
(21) 28. Jeff Brinkman – Strange (self) AAA/AOR [Aug-12]
(20) 29. Chimney Choir – (ladder) (self) AAA/Adult Alternative [Mar-12]
(6) 29. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller (Howdy Skies Music) AAA/Americana [Jun-12]
(22) 29. Raincheck – Raincheck (Dazzle Recordings) Jazz [May-12]
(31) 30. Petals of Spain – Late Night Visitor (self) AAA [Sep-11]
(R) 31. Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader (self) Indie/New Alternative [May-12]
(11) 31. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s (self) Americana/alt-country [Jan-12]
(23) 31. SHEL – SHEL (Moraine Records / Mad King Records) Folk/AAA [Aug-12]
(R) 32. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs (self) Rhythm and Blues (Apr-12)
(D) 33. Science Partner – Rocky Mountain News (Hot Congress Records) Indie/New Alternative [Sep-12]
(R) 34. Head for the Hills – Live (self) Americana/bluegrass [May-12]

ADDED: OCTOBER 2012
Beats Noir! – Where the Sun Goes Down
Boa & the Constrictors – Married to the Blues
Bonnie and the Beard – Cascavel
Bronze – Snake Oil
Calder’s Revolvers – Steady By Your Side
Chris Malley and Bob Schlesinger – Split Shot
Elephant Revival – It’s Alive
Gasoline Lollipops – Dawn
Greyweather – Greyweather
I’m With Her – Songs We Said Goodbye To
Jill Brzezicki – The Horizon
Jonny Barber & the Rhythm Razors – Golden Plates
Leslie Brown – Tenderly
Meet the Giant – The Polymer EP
Polarity – King of Hearts
Prettymouth – Satan in Clothes
Rich With Friends – One Step Closer
School Knights – FRE(EP)
Shawn Waggoner – Goodbye Raven
Stray Grass – Written in the Stars
String Cheese Incident – Can’t Wait Another Day [single]
Ten Pound Elephant – Ten Pound Elephant EP
The Babysitters – Have A Seat
The Epilogues – Cinematics
Trichome – Trichome EP

FELL OUT OF TOP 40 OCTOBER 2012
7. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
13. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You
17. El Toro De La Muerte – Dancer These Days
19. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
20. The Moetones – Lowbrow
24. The Royal – Forever
26. Mosey West – Merica
28. John Oates Band – The Bluesville Sessions
29. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up
30. Katie Herzig – The Waking Sleep
30. Susannah Thompson – Watch Me Fly
31. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost
32. Carbon Choir – Sakhalin
32. Fred Hess Big Band – Speak
32. Lindsay & the Lost Caravan – You Don’t Know Me

STATION BY STATION

KAFM (Grand Junction)
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
3. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years *
4. 4H Royalty – Where UFOs Go To Die

KBUT (Crested Butte)
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. Halden Wofford & the HI Beams – Live at Hodi’s
4. Katie Glassman – Snapshot *
5. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm

KDNK (Carbondale) HOT SPINS
Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller
The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
The Lumineers – The Lumineers

KDUR (Durango) HOT SPINS
A Shoreline Dream – “333″
Air Dubai – Be Calm
Euforquestra – Let Us In
Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
The Moetones – Lowbrow

KGNU (Boulder)
1. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
3. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
3. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}

KRCC (Colorado Springs)
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. Mango fan Django – Indigo Dreams
2. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
2. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
3. Chris Daniels – Better Days *

KRFC (Fort Collins)
1. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
4. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up
4. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons *

KUNC (Greeley)
1. The Lumineers - The Lumineers
2. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
2. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down
3. Catch Bees – Newman’s Open Choir
3. Churchill – The Change EP

KUVO (Denver)
1. Tia Fuller – Angelic Warrior
2. Fred Hess Big Band – Speak
3. Eric Gunnison – Trios
3. Polarity – King of Hearts
4. Raincheck – Raincheck

KVNF (Paonia)
1. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
2. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
2. The Swayback – Double Four Time
3. Andy Thorn – Fire In The Sky
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

OPEN AIR 1340 (Denver)
1. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
2. Wovenhand – The Laughing Stalk
3. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
4. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
5. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

The Colorado Sound
1. Bop Skizzum – Coloradical
2. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle
3. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years *
3. I’m With Her – Songs We Said Goodbye To
4. Beats Noir! – Where the Sun Goes Down

BY GENRE/PROGRAM FORMAT

Americana/Alt.country/Alt.country-rock
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
2. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years *
3. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
4. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
4. Katie Glassman – Snapshot *

Blues/Rhythm & Blues
1. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away *
2. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
3. Eef – Bluesalicious
4. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
5. John Oates Band – The Bluesville Sessions

Dance/Funk/Hip-Hop/Urban Contemporary
1. Bop Skizzum – Coloradical
2. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
3. Rebel Tongue – Movin’ On
3. Ten Pound Elephant – Ten Pound Elephant EP
4. Air Dubai – Be Calm

Folk/folk-rock/singer-songwriter
1. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
2. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
3. I’m With Her – Songs We Said Goodbye To
4. Chimney Choir – (ladder)
5. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller

Indie/New Alternative
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
3. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight
4. Tennis – Young & Old
5. Ending People – Fill Your Lungs

Jazz
1. Tia Fuller – Angelic Warrior
2. Chris Malley and Bob Schlesinger – Split Shot
3. Raincheck – Raincheck
4. After Midnight – Hit the Jive Jack
5. Fred Hess Big Band – Speak

Pop/Adult Contemporary
1. Petals of Spain – Late Night Visitor
2. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You
3. Places – No More Wasted Days
4. Petals of Spain – Lady Luck [single]
5. The Royal – Forever

Rock/AAA/AOR/Modern Rock
1. The Knew – Man Monster
2. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle
3. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
4. The Epilogues – Cinematics
5. Churchill – The Change EP

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October 1, 2012 · 9:17 am

News Notes and Spins – October 1 2012

EDIT 10/7/2012: Welcome Radio 1190 back into the mix …. they got their Sept spins to us a bit late, but we’ll take em … see station spins below.

Happy autumn. We are now about 90 days away from posting our annual Best Of the Year poll – generated by the top scoring records of the year with the results from polling regional radio djs, music journalists and assorted Colorado music fans. I would imagine we’ll see a couple dozen new releases before we close things off on Dec 1 — so if you’re in the process of getting an album out, now is the time.

Speaking of new releases – watch for Opie Gone Christmas #4 to come out this fall – Jake Schroeder called me to say that they were working feverishly on getting it done soon – and it will include the incomparable Dianne Reeves, Chris Daniels and others.

Happy B-day Chris Daniels who turned 60 on Sept 29 …

…Jake also let me know that 99.5FM The Mountain (KQMT) has canceled Mountain Homegrown, the wonderful Colorado music program he hosted the past 9 years. The station cited budget reasons for discontinuing the program that was on every Monday night at 10PM.

KDUR has a new music director, Stella Dickson. Reach out to her and say hi. KDUR is very dedicated to airing Colorado music, so getting to know Stella is important <hint>
KDUR
1000 Rim Drive
Durango, CO, 81301
970.247.7288
http://www.kdur.org

TOP 40 TITLES – September 2012

(250 titles tracked / 144 titles reported as played)
(LM) TM Genre/format [added]
(D) = debut, first time on chart
(R) = re-entered chart

(D) 1. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade (self) Rock [Sep-12]
(3) 2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers (Dualtone) Indie/New Alternative/folk-rock [Mar-12]
(14) 3. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker (LoS Records) Americana/AAA/jamband [Apr-12]
(1) 4. Chris Daniels – Better Days (self) Americana/AAA/country, folk [Jul-12] *
(21) 5. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm (self) Americana/country-rock [Mar-12]
(5) 6. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller (Howdy Skies Music) Folk/country-folk [Jun-12]
(7) 7. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed (Family Tree) Indie/New Alternative/rock [Feb-12]
(2) 7. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king} (Youngest Daughter Records) Folk/pop-folk [May-12]
(13) 8. The Swayback – Double Four Time (self) Rock/alternative [Mar-12]
(4) 9. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away (self) Blues/folk-blues [Aug-12] *
(23) 10. Ending People – Fill Your Lungs (Cash Cow Productions) Indie/New Alternative/rock [Aug-12]
(32) 11. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s (self) Americana/alt-country [Jan-12]
(D) 12. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years (self) Americana/jamgrass [Sep-12] *
(D) 13. Bop Skizzum – Coloradical (self) Pop/funk [Sep-12]
(R) 13. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You (self) Pop/country crossover [Feb-12]
(26) 14. The Knew – Man Monster (self) Rock/alternative [Jun-12]
(12) 15. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow (Blank Tape) Folk [Apr-12]
(10) 16. Churchill – The Change (Wire Bird) Rock/AAA/folk-rock [Mar-12]
(R) 17. El Toro De La Muerte – Dancer These Days (self) Rock [Aug-11]
(22) 18. Katie Glassman – Snapshot (self) Americana/country [Jan-12] *
(R) 19. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband (Telarc) Blues [Jan-12]
(R) 20. Chimney Choir – ladder (self) Folk/folk-rock [Mar-12]
(D) 20. The Moetones – Lowbrow (self) Rock/garage [Sep-12]
(D) 21. Jeff Brinkman – Strange (self) Rock/AAA [Aug-12]
(R) 22. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight (Hot Congress) Indie/New Alternative [Mar-12]
(R) 22. Raincheck – Raincheck (Dazzle Recordings) Jazz [May-12]
(D) 23. SHEL – SHEL (Moraine/Mad King Records) Folk (Aug-12)
(D) 24. The Royal – Forever (self) Pop/rock [Sep-12]
(D) 25. Flobots – The Circle In the Square (Shanachie Entertainment) Rock/alternative/hip-hop [Aug-12]
(11) 26. Mosey West – Merica (self) Rock [Apr-12]
(18) 27. Tennis – Young & Old (Fat Possum) Indie/New Alternative/pop [Feb-12]
(D) 28. John Oates Band – The Bluesville Sessions (WBA Records) Blues [Aug-12]
(20) 29. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up (self) Americana/classic country [Jul-12]
(R) 30. Katie Herzig – The Waking Sleep (Mercer Street Records) Pop/adult contemporary [Dec-11]
(D) 30. Susannah Thompson – Watch Me Fly (self) Rock/acoustic rock [Sep-12]*
(6) 31. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost (self) Rock/jamband [Oct-11]
(R) 31. Petals of Spain – Late Night Visitor (self) Pop/AAA [Sep-11]
(R) 32. Carbon Choir – Sakhalin (self) Rock/alternative [Apr-12]
(R) 32. Fred Hess Big Band – Speak (Alison Records) Jazz [Aug-12]
(R) 32. Lindsay & the Lost Caravan – You Don’t Know Me (self) Rock/acoustic rock [Feb-12]

ADDED: SEPTEMBER 2012
A Shoreline Dream – 333
Air Dubai – Be Calm
Black Postcards – Light At the End
Bop Skizzum – Coloradical
Chris McGarry – Bare Bright Halos
Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years
Esme Patterson – All Princes, I
Julie Monley Quartet – Straight Up Jazz
Olivia Rudeen – S/T [EP]
OneRepublic – Feel Again [single]
Science Partner – Rocky Mountain News
Stella Luce – Resurrection
Stuart Davis – Music For Mortals
Susannah Thompson – Watch Me Fly
The Moetones – Lowbrow
The Royal – Forever
The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
Tia Fuller – Angelic Warrior
Words in Flight – Music Is…
Wovenhand - Laughing Stalk

FELL OUT OF TOP 40 SEPTEMBER 2012
8. Lionel Young Band – On Our Way to Memphis
15. The Jekylls – The Sweet Factory
16. Arliss Nancy – Simple Machines
17. Tin Horn Prayer – Grapple the Rails
25. Places – No More Wasted Days
26. Musketeer Gripweed – Straight Razor Revival
26. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down
27. Overcasters – Curses/Prayers
27. You Me and Apollo – Cards with Cheats
28. Cassie Taylor – Blue
28. The Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco
29. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Live and Learn
30. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons *
31. The Don’ts and Be Carefuls – Sun Hits
31. Hindershot – Curse Us All
31. Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
32. FaceMan – Feeding Time

STATION BY STATION

KAFM (Grand Junction)
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
4. Longest Day of the Year – Turn Into the Ground
5. 4H Royalty – Where UFOs Go To Die

KBUT (Crested Butte)
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
2. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
3. Andy Thorn – Fire In The Sky
3. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

KDNK (Carbondale) HOT SPINS
The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation
The Lumineers – The Lumineers
Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}

KDUR (Durango)
1. The Swayback – Double Four Time
2. The Moetones – Lowbrow
3. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
4. Fingers of the Sun – Sleepy Time EP
5. Air Dubai – Day Escape

KOTO (Telluride)
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Mosey West – Merica
3. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
3. Grant Farm - The Grant Farm
4. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away *

KGNU (Boulder)
1. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
3. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost
3. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow

KRCC (Colorado Springs)
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. Mango fan Django – Indigo Dreams
3. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
3. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
4. El Toro De La Muerte – Dancer These Days

KRFC (Fort Collins)
1. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
2. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
3. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
4. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
5. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away *

KUNC (Greeley)
1. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation
1. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down
2. SHEL – SHEL
3. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
4. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

Open Air 1340 (Denver)
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. The Knew – Man Monster
3. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
4. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
5. Ending People – Fill Your Lungs

Radio 1190 (Boulder)
1. Tennis – Young & Old
2. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
3. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise
4. Don’ts and Be Carefuls – Sun Hits
5. Le Divorce – The Sting and the Light

The Colorado Sound
1. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
2. Bop Skizzum – Coloradical
3. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years *
3. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You
3. Jeff Brinkman – Strange

BY GENRE/PROGRAM FORMAT

Americana/Alt.country/Alt.country-rock
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
3. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
4. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
5. Chris Thompson & Coral Creek String Band – Forty Years *

Blues/Rhythm & Blues
1. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away *
2. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
3. John Oates Band – The Bluesville Sessions
4. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
5. Papa Juke – Out Of The Blues

Dance/Funk/Hip-Hop/Urban Contemporary
1. Bop Skizzum – Coloradical
2. Flobots – The Circle In the Square
3. Rebel Tongue – Movin’ On
4. Air Dubai – Be Calm
5. JD Feighner – JD Feighner [EP]

Folk/folk-rock/singer-songwriter
1. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation
2. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
3. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
4. Chimney Choir – (ladder)
5. SHEL – SHEL

Indie/New Alternative
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
3. Ending People – Fill Your Lungs
4. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight
5. Tennis – Young & Old

Jazz
1. Raincheck – Raincheck
2. Fred Hess Big Band – Speak
3. Ben Haugland – Point of No Return
4. Tia Fuller – Angelic Warrior
5. Mango fan Dango – Indigo Dreams

Pop/Adult Contemporary
1. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You
2. The Royal – Forever
3. Katie Herzig – The Waking Sleep
4. Petals of Spain – Late Night Visitor
5. Cassie Taylor – Blue

Rock/AAA/AOR/Modern Rock
1. The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
2. The Swayback – Double Four Time
3. The Knew – Man Monster
4. Churchill – The Change
5. El Toro De La Muerte – Dancer These Days

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September 1, 2012 · 10:50 am

News, Notes & Spins – September 1, 2012

Happy September As the concert season begins its wind-down to the last few in October, I expect we’ll begin to see more releases coming out. So, September-November are very important months as we also wind down the new release year and begin thinking about our favorite albums of the year – in anticipation of our year-end best of charts. Hope you’ve been keeping track here and at your favorite stations around the state. Picking this year’s best of is going to be tough. While the total number of records to cross my desk is less than a year ago at this time, the quality of the releases this year has so far been pretty freaking amazing. Good luck in picking your favorites. The deadline for new record submissions for best of 2012 consideration will be October 31, giving those records at least enough time to get reviewed and/or played around the state for our annual panel of print music critics, radio personalities, and select industry purveyors.

No reports this month from KBUT (Crested Butte), KDUR (Durango), Radio 1190 (Boulder) and KUVO (Denver). KDUR and Radio1190 staff have been busy with new admissions to their respective schools, and some of the KBUT staff took well deserved summer vacations. A rare report from KSJD (Cortez/Mancos) – thanks to the on-air folks there for spinning enough Colorado titles to show up this month Much love to those folks. Other stations regionally have been very busy with administration/managment changes. Here are a few job openings regionally.

POSITION: Program Director
KAFM Community Radio
Grand Valley Public Radio Company, Inc.
1310 Ute Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81501, 970/241-8801

General Description: This job description does not list all of the duties of the job. The Program Director (PD) is responsible for all on air operations. Duties include selection, supervision, training and nurturing of on-air staff as well as ensuring the technical operations and legal compliance . The PD ensures all programming for KAFM including music, news, community affairs and Spanish language programming is of the highest quality and and is consistent and reflective of KAFM’s mission. Reporting to the Executive Director and the Board of Directors, the PD is part of the station’s management team.

Job Status: 25 – 30 hours per week
Part-Time Salary – 25-30 Hours per week
Salary: Commensurate with experience.
Benefits: nine paid holidays, 14 paid vacation days, Employee Assistance Program, KAFM is an equal opportunity employer

POSITION: Part-time news reporter. KOTO Community Radio, Telluride.

Duties include news writing, reporting, on-air shifts and other duties as assigned. We are seeking a competent dynamic team member. Twenty hours per week to start with potential for growth. Please submit cover letter, resume and work samples to: news@koto.org. No phone calls please. KOTO is an equal opportunity employer.

POSITION: San Miguel Educational Fund seeks an Executive Director for KOTO Community Radio.

The ED will report to the board of directors and will be responsible for all aspects of administration including financial management, planning, fundraising, public radio grant compliance and customer relations. The ED will represent SMEF to corporate and foundation funders, donors, partners, subscribers and the community at large. A minimum of five years non-profit and/or public radio management required. Salary commensurate with experience.Please submit cover letter and resume to Board President Todd Creel: todd@telluriderealestate.net No phone calls please. KOTO is an equal opportunity employer.

TOP 40 TITLES – August 2012

(313 titles tracked / 146 titles reported as played)
(LM) TM Genre/format [added]
(D) = debut, first time on chart
(R) = re-entered chart

(1) 1. Chris Daniels – Better Days (self) Americana/country-folk [Jul-12] *
(5) 2. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king} (Youngest Daughter Records) Americana/folk [May-12]
(3) 3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers (Dualtone) Indie/New Alternative [Mar-12]
(D) 4. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away (self) Blues/folk-blues [Aug-12] *
(8) 5. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller (Howdy Skies Music) Americana/country-folk [Jun-12]
(22) 6. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost (self) Americana/roots rock [Oct-11]
(6) 7. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed (Family Tree) Indie/New Alternative [Feb-12]
(R) 8. Lionel Young Band – On Our Way to Memphis (self) Blues [Aug-11]
(R) 9. Longest Day of the Year – Turn Into the Ground (self) Americana/alt-country [Nov-11]
(R) 10. Churchill – The Change EP (Wire Bird) Rock/folk-rock [Mar-12]
(25) 11. Mosey West – Merica (self) Rock [Apr-12]
(10) 12. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow (Blank Tape) Americana/folk-rock [Apr-12]
(9) 13. The Swayback – Double Four Time (self) Rock [Mar-12] 2012
(2) 14. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker (LoS Records) Americana/jamband [Apr-12]
(11) 15. The Jekylls – The Sweet Factory (self) Americana [Mar-12]
(12) 16. Arliss Nancy – Simple Machines (Suburban Home) Rock/alt-country-rock [May-12]
(D) 17. Tin Horn Prayer – Grapple the Rails (Paper + Plastick Records) Rock/alternative [Aug-12]
(4) 18. Tennis – Young & Old (Fat Possum) Indie/New Alternative [Feb-12]
(R) 19. Carbon Choir – Sakhalin (self) Rock [Apr-12]
(22) 20. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up (self) Americana/country [Jul-12]
(21) 21. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm (self) Americana/country-rock [Mar-12]
(16) 22. Katie Glassman – Snapshot (self) Americana [Jan-12] *
(D) 23. Ending People – Fill Your Lungs (Cash Cow Productions) Indie/New Alternative [Aug-12]
(R) 24. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight (Hot Congress Records) Indie/New Alternative [Mar-12]
(24) 25. Places – No More Wasted Days (self) Pop/rock [Jan-12]
(R) 26. Muskeeteer Gripweed – Staight Razor Revival (self) Rock/southern rock [Apr-12]
(13) 26. The Knew – Man Monster (self) Rock [Jun-12]
(R) 26. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down (self) Pop/rock [Jul-11]
(27) 27. Overcasters – Curses/Prayers (self) Rock [Mar-12]
(24) 27. You Me and Apollo – Cards with Cheats (self) Indie/New Alternative [2011]
(R) 28. Cassie Taylor – Blue (Hypertension) Pop/blues [Aug-11]
(R) 28. The Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco (self) Rock/country-rock [Jul-11]
(29) 29. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Live and Learn (self) Indie/New Alternative [Nov-11]
(17) 30. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons (Mockingbird Records) Americana/country-folk [May-12] *
(R) 31. The Don’ts and Be Carefuls – Sun Hits (self) Indie/New Alternative [Oct-11]
(R) 31. Hindershot – Curse Us All (Hot Congress Records) Indie/New Alternative [Feb-12]
(R) 31. Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends (Fellow Creature Recordings) Folk [May-12]
(R) 32. FaceMan – Feeding Time (self) Rock/alternative [Feb-12]
(7) 32. Halden Wofford & the HI Beams – Live at Hodi’s (self) Americana/alt-country [Jan-12]
(19) 32. The Congress – Whatever You Want (self) Rock [Apr-12]

ADDED August 2012
Ending People – Fill Your Lungs
Flobots – The Circle In the Square
Fred Hess Big Band – Speak
Free Bear – Free Bear
Gun Street Ghost – One Home
Jeff Brinkman – Strange
The Moetones – Lowbrow
Rosewood Divine – Rosewood Divine
SHEL – SHEL
Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away *
The Blue Rider – Way Out West
Tin Horn Prayer – Grapple the Rails

FELL OUT OF TOP 40 AUGUST 2012
14. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
15. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise
17. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons *
18. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You (self)
20. Raincheck – Raincheck
20. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle
22. Dressy Bessy – Summer Singles Volume 1
22. Johnny Hickman – Tilting
23. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
23. The Say So – The Romantic
25. Snake Rattle Rattle Snake – Sineater
26. Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader
28. Amazing Twin – Grown Alone
30. Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees
31. Glowing House – Days Run Out
32. Oakhurst – Barrel
33. Beats Noir! – 13 Tracks From The Dark Side Of The Beat
33. Ben Haugland – Point of No Return

TRACKING UNDER THE TOP 40 August 2012
4H Royalty – Where UFOs Go To Die
A Mouthful of Thunder – Slow Burn
A Shoreline Dream – Losing Them All To This Time
a. Tom Collins – OH NO!
Air Dubai – Day Escape
Amazing Twin – Grown Alone
Andy Palmer – Sometime Around
Andy Thorn – Fire In The Sky
Anthony Ruptak – Red Mark
Ashley Raines & the New West Revue – One Trick Mule
The Autumn Film – 8 Track Tape
Bare Bones – Bare Bones
Beats Noir! – 13 Tracks From The Dark Side Of The Beat
Better Than Bacon – Better Than Bacon
Black Postcards – Inception
Blackout Beat Production Company – The Circus House
The Blue Rider – Way Out West
Bonnie & the Beard – Bonne & the Beard
Broken Tongues – Crooked Skyline
Cary Morin – Sing It Louder
Catch Bees – Newman’s Open Choir
Chimney Choir – (ladder)
Chris Kennison – Simply Steel
Constitution – Wrestling with the Daylight
Curious Ghost – A Curious Ghost Pt 1
Dave Richey & Ruined Nation – No Peace of Mind
Delta Sonics – Live at Lincoln’s
Dressy Bessy – Summer Singles Volume 1
El Toro De La Muerte – Danger These Days
Euforquestra – Let Us In
Fingers of the Sun – Fingers of the Sun
Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader
Flobots – The Circle In the Square
Fool For A Song – Fool for a Song [EP]
Force Publique – Force Publique
The Fray – Scars and Stories
Fred Hess Big Band – Speak
Free Bear – Free Bear
Gauntlet Hair – Gauntlet Hair
Glowing House – Days Run Out
Grant Sabin – The Homesick EP
Grass It Up – Alabama Tory
Gun Street Ghost – One Home
Harry Tuft & Friends – Treasures Untold
Hearts In Space – Already Gone
Holler! – Gratitude
Honey Gitters – Poor Gitters’ Almanack
I Am The Dot – A Collection of Songs (2008-2011)
Ian Cooke – Fortitude
Instant Empire – Heavy Hollow
Instant Empire – Instant Empire
J. Miller Band – The Road to Elvado
Jeff Brinkman – Strange
Jeff Finlin – Live Songs for the Ice Age
Jim Stranahan – Free For All
John Statz – Old Fashioned
Johnny Hickman – Tilting
Jon Boland – Lightening In the Wires
Kailin Yong Peace Project Trio – Gravity Free
Katie Herzig – The Waking Sleep
Katya Chorover – Big Big Love
Kentucky Parlor Pickers – Barn Burner
Kissing Party – The Hate Album
Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
Mesita – The Coyote
Mike Marchant – Indulgent Space-Folk Vol. 3: Binary Beach
Mike Marchant – Lost and Found Sound (2008-2011)
Mombi – The Wounded Beat
Monroe Monroe – Hello Moon
Moors & McCumber – Gravity
New Ben Franklins – [peter gabriel]
Oakhurst – Barrel [EP]
Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
Papa Juke – Out Of The Blues
Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise
Petals of Spain – Late Night Visitor
Princess Music – Roger Tranquility
Rebel Tongue – Movin’ On
Reckless Red – Reckless Red
Reverend Hooch – Reverend Hooch
Rick Stahl – Harmony House
Rob Drabkin – Rob Drabkin Live
Robert Wilson Blues Band – 45 RPM
Ronnie Shellist – Trust Is Gone
Rose Hill Drive – Americana
Rosewood Divine – Rosewood Divine
Ryan Dart – The Shift
Safe Boating Is No Accident – Live Without Dead Time
SAUNA – The Teen Angst Tape
Science Partner – Rocky Mountain News
SHEL – SHEL
Snake Rattle Rattle Snake – Sineater
Spring Creek – Hold On Me
Still City – Brittle Bones
Strange Americans – A Royal Battle
Strip the Stars – S/T [EP]
Tom Hagerman – Idle Creatures
Turn 4 – What You Do About It
Varlet – The Drifter
Wasteland Hop – Mother Acre
Wendy Woo Band – Austerity
Wheelchair Sports Camp – Where We All Live
The Yawpers – Capon Crusade
The Yawpers – Savage Blue

STATION BY STATION

KAFM (Grand Junction)
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
4. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
4. The Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco

KDNK (Carbondale)
1. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
1. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation
2. Cassie Taylor – Blue
2. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
2. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}

KGNU (Boulder)
1. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
2. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
3. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
3. Katie Glassman – Snapshot *
3. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation

KRCC (Colorado Springs)
1. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. El Toro De La Muerte – Danger These Days
3. Cassie Taylor – Blue
3. J. Miller Band – The Road to Elvado

KRFC (Fort Collins)
1. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up
2. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
3. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
4. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
5. Lionel Young Band – On Our Way to Memphis

KSJD (Cortez/Mancos)
1. The Moetones – Lowbrow
2. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down
3. Chris Daniels – Better Days
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
4. Katya Chorover – Big Big Love

KUNC (Greeley)
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
1. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down
2. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation
3. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
3. Katie Herzig – The Waking Sleep

OPEN AIR 1340 (Denver)
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
1. Ending People – Fill Your Lungs
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
3. Snake Rattle Rattle Snake – Sineater

The Colorado Sound
1. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
1. Danielle Ate the Sandwich – {like a king}
2. Arliss Nancy – Simple Machines
2. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
2. Churchill – The Change

BY GENRE/PROGRAM FORMAT

Americana/Alt.country/Alt.country-rock
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
2. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost
3. Longest Day of the Year – Turn Into the Ground
4. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
5. The Jekylls – The Sweet Factory

Blues/Rhythm & Blues
1. Sofie Reed – Simplicity Chased Trouble Away *
2. Lionel Young Band – On Our Way to Memphis
3. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
4. Cary Morin – Sing It Louder
5. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs

Folk/folk-rock/singer-songwriter
1. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
2. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation
3. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
4. Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
5. Glowing House – Days Run Out

Dance/Funk/Hip-Hop/Urban Contemporary
1. Air Dubai – Day Escape
1. Rebel Tongue – Movin’ On
2. Wheelchair Sports Camp – Where We All Live
3. Beats Noir! – 13 Tracks From The Dark Side Of The Beat
4. Force Publique – Force Publique

Indie/New Alternative
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
3. Tennis – Young & Old
4. Ending People – Fill Your Lungs
5. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight

POP/Adult Contemporary
1. Places – No More Wasted Days
2. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down
3. Cassie Taylor – Blue
4. The Fray – Scars and Stories
4. Petals of Spain – Late Night Visitor

Rock/AAA/AOR/Modern Rock
1. Churchill – The Change
2. Mosey West – Merica
3. The Swayback – Double Four Time
4. Arliss Nancy – Simple Machines
5. Tin Horn Prayer – Grapple the Rails

* = serviced to radio by Chris Kresge dba Rocky Mountain Music Network

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August 1, 2012 · 6:43 am

News, Notes & Spins – August 1, 2012

I am brain dead right now. It’s been one crazy major event after another all summer, with two more to go – The 5th Annual Carbon Valley Music Festival that I produce for the city of Dacono (Aug 4), and then three days of Bohemian Nights at New West Fest a week later in Fort Collins.

Anyone who’s into live music – and especially festivals that feature locally homegrown and groomed acts – are in the right place here in Colorado. It really is a very remarkable place. I don’t get off the Front Range too often, so I don’t know about all the events that take place in our mountain locales… but those along the Front Range are treated to a number of great events every year, culminating in what has become the premiere festival concert event for Colorado acts – Bohemian Nights at New West Fest in Fort Collins (Aug 10-12) featuring a veritable who’s who of Colorado talent including this sampling -> Air Dubai, Allegaeon, Arliss Nancy, Bad Weather California, Bunny Gang (featuring Nathen Maxwell of Flogging Molly), Cassie Taylor & the Soul Cavalry, Chad Price, Chuck Pyle, Danielle Ate the Sandwich, Delta Sonics, Devotchka, DubSkin, Euforquestra, Fierce Bad Rabbit, Future Jazz Project, Great American Taxi, Haunted Windchimes, John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light, Juno What?!, Katie Glassman Quintet, Kyle Hollingsworth Band, Liz Barnez, Megan Redmond, Mosey West, Musketeer Gripweed, Rob Drabkin, Selasee and Fafa Family, Shakedown Street, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, The Lionel Young Band, The Patti Fiasco, The Swayback, Wendy Woo … and fo’reals many many others (some 90 in all I believe).

And since this column is about Colorado Music & Radio – a big ovation to KRFC Fort Collins for broadcasting many of the sets live on the air during this year’s 3 day event.

I’m equally as proud and enthusiastic about the one day event we put on in Dacono – For our 5th annual event we’ve added a Colorado ONLY spirits tasting and competition event (including among others 303 and Breckenridge distilleries) – and a youth music, arts and entertainment venue of its own focused on youth performances and education. The inaugural venue this year will be very music focused, and presented partly by the wonderful Colorado Blues Society who will be presenting music educators Ronnie Shellist and Dan Treanor … our main stage show features the Lionel Young Band, 3 Twins Broadband, Quemando, Buckner Funken Jazz, Katie Glassman Quintet, Bad Brad & the Fat Cats, and the Danny Meyer Trio.

It was an unusually slow month for new titles. I had to look at Aug 2 2011 to confirm – but yeah, we only had about 1/3 as many new titles added this year as last. No reason that I can figure out either. It’s just been a slow year for new releases it seems. By this time last year, I was tracking 348 current titles. This year I’m tracking 302. That looks like about a 12% dropoff Y-T-D. The upside there is that there are more Colorado titles being reported as played. July 2012=157 titles reported as played vs. 136 in July 2011. That may be partly due to the number of reporting stations, and the emergence of Open Air 1340 on the scene the past year – regardless, it’s great to see so many wonderful titles getting played around the state.

Speaking of new stations reporting – welcome back Radio 1190 (Boulder). The station is under new management, since former GM Mike Flanagan moved onto Open Air 1340 – and they’ve got a new music director who is very excited about sharing what Colorado titles they’re supporting on air. To submit for airplay consideration, reach out to …

Melissa Cisewski
Music Director
Radio 1190 KVCU
melissa@radio1190.org
303-492-7405

KBUT (Crested Butte) is happy to announce the hiring of its new General Manager, Jerry Lunsford. Jerry brings extensive experience in community radio, most recently with KWMR in West Marin, California. Coloradoans may be familiar with Jerry as the longtime organizer of Camp Runamuck at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

KHEN (Salida) has begun a planned multi-year collaboration with the CSO (Colorado Symphony Orchestra) to bring Colorado’s highest quality classical music to the Salida area. The events will include a special daytime concert and other music education opportunities for local public-, private- and home-schooled children. The collaboration reinforces KHEN’s role as a vital community asset and voice, and enhances Salida’s reputation as a destination to hear the finest classical music. It also enables the CSO to move towards becoming a truly statewide orchestra in Colorado, serving all citizens. The collaboration further aligns perfectly with, and augments, Salida’s new Creative District, one of only two such districts in the state. To complement and promote the concert series, a new KHEN radio program dedicated exclusively to recordings of the CSO, is currently being developed and is planned to begin sometime this fall. Watch for details. For more information, contact KHEN at 719-539-1069. KHEN website = http://www.khen.org/

TOP 40 TITLES – July 2012

(302 titles tracked / 157 titles reported as played)
(LM) TM
(D) = debut, first time on chart
(R) = re-entered chart

(D) 1. Chris Daniels – Better Days (self) Americana/country-folk/bluegrass [Jul-12] *
(5) 2. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker (LoS Records) Americana/jamgrass [Apr-12]
(1) 3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers (Dualtone) Indie/New Alternative [Mar-12]
(6) 4. Tennis – Young & Old (Fat Possum) Indie/New Alternative/pop [Feb-12]
(2) 5. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king} (Youngest Daughter Records) Folk/pop-folk [May-12]
(4) 6. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed (Family Tree) Indie/New Alternative [Feb-12]
(3) 7. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s (self) Americana/alt-country [Jan-12]
(4) 8. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller (Howdy Skies Music) Folk/Americana [Jun-12]
(12)9. The Swayback – Double Four Time (self) Rock/alternative [Mar-12]
(12) 10. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow (Blank Tape) Folk/folk-rock [Apr-12]
(16) 11. The Jekylls – The Sweet Factory (self) Americana/pop [Mar-12]
(15) 12. Arliss Nancy – Simple Machines (Suburban Home) Rock/southern rock [May-12]
(D) 13. The Knew – Man Monster (self) Rock/alternative [Jun-12]
(9) 14. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband (Telarc) Blues [Jan-12]
(11) 15. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise (self) Folk/modern [Jun-12]
(30) 16. Katie Glassman – Snapshot (self) Americana [Jan-12] *
(8) 17. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons (Mockingbird Records) Americana/country [May-12] *
(33) 18. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You (self) Pop/country crossover [Feb-12]
(18) 19. The Congress – Whatever You Want (self) Rock/roots rock [Apr-12]
(R) 20. Raincheck – Raincheck (Dazzle Recordings) Jazz [May-12]
(D) 20. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle (self) Rock/alt-country-rock [Jun-12]
(13) 21. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm (self) Americana/country-rock [Mar-12]
(D) 22. Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up (self) Americana/classic country [Jul-12]
(D) 22. Dressy Bessy – Summer Singles Volume 1 (Kindercore) Indie/New Alternative/pop [Jul-12]
(R) 22. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost (self) Americana/roots rock [Oct-11]
(D) 22. Johnny Hickman – Tilting (self) Rock/roots rock [Jun-12]
(28) 23. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs (self) Blues/rhythm & blues [Apr-12]
(10) 23. The Say So – The Romantic (self) Rock/alternative [Jun-12]
(R) 24. You Me and Apollo – Cards with Cheats (self) Indie/New Alternative [2011]
(R) 24. Places – No More Wasted Days (self) Pop/rock [Jan-12]
(20) 25. Mosey West – Merica (self) Rock/roots rock [Apr-12]
(25) 25. Snake Rattle Rattle Snake – Sineater (self) Indie/New Alternative [Sep-11]
(20) 26. Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader (self) Indie/New Alternative [May-12]
(29) 27. Overcasters – Curses/Prayers (self) Rock/alternative [Mar-12]
(R) 28. Amazing Twin – Grown Alone (Hot Congress Records) Indie/New Alternative [Apr-12]
(R) 29. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Live and Learn (self) Indie/New Alternative [Nov-11]
(22) 30. Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees (Dazzle Recordings) Jazz/large band [Apr-12]
(D) 31. Glowing House – Days Run Out (self) Indie/alternative/folk [Jun-12]
(R) 32. Oakhurst – Barrel (self) Americana/jamgrass [Jan-12]
(32) 33. Beats Noir! – 13 Tracks From The Dark Side Of The Beat (self) Hip-hop/rock/alternative [Jul-11]
(26) 33. Ben Haugland – Point of No Return (Dazzle Recordings) Jazz [Jun-12]

ADDED July 2012
Andy Ard – How Easy It Is
Bonnie & The Clydes – Wrong Side Up
Chris Daniels – Better Days
Dressy Bessy – Summer Singles Volume 1
Eef – Bluesalicious
Instant Empire – Heavy Hollow
Jeff Bostic – Crutch [single]
Petals of Spain – I Gotta Know [single]

FELL OUT OF TOP 40 JULY 2012
7. Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
17. Chimney Choir – (ladder)
19. Carbon Choir – Sakhalin
21. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
23. Longest Day of the Year – Turn Into the Ground
23. The Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco
24. SHEL – When the Dragon Came Down
27. Churchill – The Change
30. Catch Bees – Newman’s Open Choir
31. Muskeeteer Gripweed – Staight Razor Revival
32. Better Than Bacon – Better Than Bacon
32. FaceMan – Feeding Time

TRACKING UNDER THE TOP 40
3 Twins Broadband – Cry at the Movies / How Couldya Not [singles] *
4H Royalty – Where UFOs Go To Die
A Mouthful of Thunder – Slow Burn
A Shoreline Dream – Losing Them All To This Time
a. Tom Collins – OH NO!
Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight
After Midnight – Hit the Jive Jack
Air Dubai – Day Escape
Andy Ard – How Easy It Is
Andy Palmer – Sometime Around
Andy Thorn – Fire In The Sky
Anthony Ruptak – Red Mark
Ashley Raines & the New West Revue – Begin
The Autumn Film – 8 Track Tape
Bare Bones – Bare Bones
Better Than Bacon – Better Than Bacon
Blackout Beat Production Company – The Circus House
Bonnie & the Beard – Bonne & the Beard
Broken Spoke – Before There Were Easy Riders
Broken Tongues – Crooked Skyline
Carbon Choir – Sakhalin
Cary Morin – Sing It Louder
Cassie Taylor – Blue
Catch Bees – Newman’s Open Choir
Chimney Choir – (ladder)
Churchill – The Change
Delta Sonics – Live at Lincoln’s
Don’ts and Be Carefuls – Sun Hits
Driftwood Fire – How to Untangle a Heartache
Eef – Bluesalicious
El Toro De La Muerte – Danger These Days
Eric Gunnison – Trios
Euforquestra – Let Us In
Fingers of the Sun – Sleepy Time EP
The Foot. – Cloud Control EP
Force Publique – Force Publique
The Fray – Scars and Stories
Full Belly – New Voice
Gauntlet Hair – Gauntlet Hair
Grant Sabin – The Homesick EP
Harry Tuft & Friends – Treasures Untold
Hazel Miller Band – Coming to You Live… From KUVO
Head for the Hills – Live
Hearts In Space – Already Gone
Hindershot – Curse Us All
The Holler! – Gratitude
Honey Gitters – Poor Gitters’ Almanack
I Am The Dot – A Collection of Songs (2008-2011)
Ian Cooke – Fortitude
In the Whale – Cake
Instant Empire – Heavy Hollow
Instant Empire – Instant Empire
Jaden Carlson – Tell Me What You See
Jami Lunde – Big Black Birds
JD Feighner – JD Feighner [assorted singles]
Jeff Bostic – Crutch [single]
Jeff Finlin – Live Songs for the Ice Age
Jim Stranahan – Free For All
Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
John Oates Band – The Bluesville Sessions
John Statz – Old Fashioned
Juno What?! – Late Night Live
Kathryn Mostow – Rich Girl *
Katie Herzig – The Waking Sleep
Katya Chorover – Big Big Love
Kevin Dooley – Moonlight Highway *
Kissing Party – The Hate Album
Le Divorce – The Sting and the Light
Lionel Young Band – On Our Way to Memphis
Lizzie Huffman – Pretty Old Soul
Longest Day of the Year – Turn Into the Ground
Matt Smiley – Quartet Art
Medic – Grace and Gravity
Megan Redmond – Dreamland
Mesita – The Coyote
Mike Marchant – Indulgent Space-Folk Vol. 3: Binary Beach
Mike Marchant – Lost and Found Sound (2008-2011)
Mombi – The Wounded Beat
Moon Duo – Mazes
Moors & McCumber – Gravity
Mr. Anonymous – Champion Sound
Muskeeteer Gripweed – Staight Razor Revival
New Ben Franklins – [peter gabriel]
Papa Juke – Out Of The Blues
Petals of Spain – I Gotta Know [single]
Petals of Spain – Lady Luck [single]
Poet’s Row – Exquisite Corpse
Pretty Sure – Subtle Sabotage
Princess Music – Roger Tranquility
Rachel James – Not Giving Up [EP]
Raven and the Writing Desk – Bonedale [EP]
Rebel Tongue – Movin’ On
Robert Wilson Blues Band – 45 RPM
Ronnie Shellist – Trust Is Gone
Rose Hill Drive – Americana
Russ Hopkins – Space Junk Motel
Safe Boating Is No Accident – Live Without Dead Time
Sam Lee – Better Half
SAUNA – The Teen Angst Tape
Science Partner – Rocky Mountain News
SHEL – When the Dragon Came Down
SoundRabbit – Don’t Forget to Remember
Spring Creek – Hold On Me
Sun Red – Breathes Ages
Swing Hero – Swing Hero
Talk All Night – Oxen Aux Out
Turn 4 – What You Do About It
Varlet – The Drifter
Wasteland Hop – Mother Acre
Wendy Woo Band – Austerity
Wheelchair Sports Camp – Where We All Live
The Whiskey Bottles – Ain’t No Crime
The Yawpers – Savage Blue

In order to be tracked I need to have a copy of the album, ep, or single, in physical and/or digital format. Pls send to Rocky Mountain Music Network 1208 Macoy Ct. Dacono, CO 80514 or email me at chriskmusic@gmail.com.

STATION BY STATION

KAFM (Grand Junction)
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
3. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
4. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
5. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller

KBUT (Crested Butte)
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
3. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost
3. Katie Glassman – Snapshot *

KDNK (Carbondale) HOT SPINS
Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
Halden Wofford & the HI Beams – Live at Hodi’s
Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller

KDUR (Durango)
1. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
2. Halden Wofford & the HI Beams – Live at Hodi’s
3. 4H Royalty – Where UFOs Go To Die
3. The Swayback – Double Four Time
4. The Lumineers – The Lumineers

KGNU (Boulder)
1. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
1. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
2. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost
3. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
3. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}

KRCC (Colorado Springs)
1. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
2. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
3. A Shoreline Dream – Losing Them All To This Time
3. Broken Spoke – Before There Were Easy Riders
3. El Toro De La Muerte – Danger These Days

KRFC (Fort Collins)
1. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
2. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
2. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
2. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
3. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons *

KUNC (Greeley)
1. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
2. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller
3. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
4. Tennis – Young & Old

KUVO (Denver)
1. Eric Gunnison – Trios
2. Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees
3. Ben Haugland – Point of No Return
4. Matt Smiley Quartet – Quartet Art
4. Raincheck – Raincheck

OPEN AIR 1340 (Denver)
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
2. Tennis – Young & Old
3. The Congress – Whatever You Want
4. Dressy Bessy – Summer Singles Volume 1
5. Overcasters – Curses/Prayers

RADIO 1190 KVCU (Boulder)
1. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise
2. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight
3. The Don’ts and Be Carefuls – Sun Hits
3. Poet’s Row – Exquisite Corpse
3. You Me and Apollo – Cards with Cheats

The Colorado Sound
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days*
2. The Jekylls – The Sweet Factory
2. The Knew – Man Monster
3. Arliss Nancy – Simple Machines
4. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You

BY GENRE/PROGRAM FORMAT

Americana/Alt.country/Alt.country-rock
1. Chris Daniels – Better Days *
2. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
3. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
4. The Jekylls – The Sweet Factory
5. Katie Glassman – Snapshot *

Blues/Rhythm & Blues
1. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
2. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
3. Lionel Young Band – On Our Way to Memphis
4. Papa Juke – Out Of The Blues
5. Cary Morin – Sing It Louder

Folk/folk-rock/singer-songwriter
1. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
2. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller
3. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
4. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise
5. Glowing House – Days Run Out

Dance/Funk/Hip-Hop/Urban Contemporary
1. Beats Noir! – 13 Tracks From The Dark Side Of The Beat
2. Broken Tongues – Crooked Skyline
3. Rebel Tongue – Movin’ On
4. Wheelchair Sports Camp – Where We All Live
5. Air Dubai – Day Escape

Indie/New Alternative
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Tennis – Young & Old
3. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
4. Dressy Bessy – Summer Singles Volume 1
5. You Me and Apollo – Cards with Cheats

Jazz
1. Raincheck – Raincheck
2. Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees
3. Ben Haugland – Point of No Return
4. Hazel Miller Band – Coming to You Live… From KUVO
5. After Midnight – Hit the Jive Jack

POP/Adult Contemporary
1. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You
2. Places – No More Wasted Days
3. Megan Redmond – Dreamland
4. The Fray – Scars and Stories
4. Rachel James – Not Giving Up [EP]

ROCK/AAA/AOR/Modern Rock
1. Arliss Nancy – Simple Machines
2. Strange Americans – A Royal Battle
3. The Swayback – Double Four Time
4. The Knew – Man Monster
5. Johnny Hickman – Tilting

*serviced to CO media by Rocky Mountain Music Network

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July 2, 2012 · 6:04 am

News, Notes and Spins – July 1, 2012

We are now officially half way through 2012. I always wind up thinking what’s tracking HOT for the year about now … what are going to be the top releases of 2012 before anything new breaks big after the summer season. So far, the following records are leading the score board.

The Lumineers – #1 in June, May, April and March spins. “The Lumineers” has been the most successful national export of Colorado music this year, so far, followed somewhat closely by Tennis‘ latest “Young and Old.” The album has managed a top 10 position in July, and top 4 going back to March and has placed the band in some pretty impressive national spotlights. Otis Taylor is among the handful of top 5 acts so far in 2012 also. “Otis Taylor’s Contraband” manages a top 10 finish this month, with top 5 finishes in each of the preceding four months.

So far in the first six months, other releases that have managed to make a significant impact statewide have been those by Danielle Ate the Sandwich, Bad Weather California, Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams, Longest Day of the Year, and Leftover Salmon. I also expect we’ll see the O’Brien Party of 7 extend their top 5 debut this month into a top 5 or 10 release for the year.

STATION NEWS AND NOTES

No word yet from KAFM (Grand Junction) on their search for a new program director.

Regional market vet Benji McPhail has been named music director and on air host at national top 20 ranked public radio station KUNC (Greeley). Benji recently had been doing weekends at Open Air 1340 (Denver), preceded by stints at KGNU (Boulder), KCUV (Denver), KKPL/99.9 The Planet (Fort Collins), and KBCO – now well over more than a decade doing radio regionally. Within only a couple of weeks since arriving at KUNC, the on-air sound has changed noticeably.

Long gone are the days when only marginally popular styles of sedate classical and down tempo acoustic music dominated KUNC’s set lists – today it’s a much more steady dose of records that would likely make many critics best of lists from throughout the past 40+ years – emphasis on current/contemporary adult . Benji has great ears … and with just him and Wendy Wham on the mics, the mid-day energy has noticeably brightened as a result of a more contemporary focus on the music …and Benji’s many years on the air regionally at more commercially oriented stations.

KUNC has supported some regional artists throughout the years – especially favoring the likes of guitarists Dave Beegle and Jerry Palmer out of Loveland and Fort Collins … and singer songwriters such as NoCo residents Wendy Woo and Liz Barnez. And I know that Benji has supported music from here in Colorado at every stop he’s made, going back to when we first met in 2001 and he was the program director at KKPL. Benji has settled into one very classy deal with KUNC … this will be fun to listen to.

Check out their playlists now – http://kunc.org/programs/kunc-music

In somewhat less happy news – legendary market PD John Hayes is out as program director at KRFC (Fort Collins). The board of directors executive committee decided to not retain John – reversing the board decision in 2010 to install a professional programming staff.

In a letter to its members, executive director Brian Hughes says the station will go back to a programming committee approach – a direction that was abandoned by a previous board; “…the duties of the Program Director will be distributed between key volunteers (Genre Captains/ Programming Committee) BOD Committee (Community Advisory Board) and ED.”

The Community Advisory Board cannot determine policy for the station, and cannot be made up of volunteers at the station, so it won’t have any skin in the game other than to provide feedback to the board of directors on if the station is meeting the needs of the market that the station serves.

In the past many months, the most noticeable change at KRFC has been the move from block programming, with almost nothing but specialty shows during prime time hours of 6A-6P, to a broader “mix” format. The other most noticeable change has been a somewhat dramatic increase in how much Colorado music has been aired. KRFC stands out today as one of the top 2 stations in the state where it comes to how much Colorado music they broadcast.

John Hayes has been a professional colleague and friend of mine for many many years. We competed against each other as programmers working literally across the street from each other back in the late 80s… he at KTCL, I at KSQI (K-SKY). He was also the program director for Jack FM, part of the group that also launched KCUV in Denver. I don’t doubt one bit we’ll be hearing his voice on a frequency or online sometime soon.

In one last bit of news this month – welcome KDUR (Durango) to the group of reporting stations from around the state. I got to spend some time with music director / interim program director Jon Lynch recently on the phone. He was very excited about the Colorado acts that make their way to Durango – and shared that there are lots of titles he doesn’t have and would like — they’ve got a “bin” in the control room for Colorado music, and the on air personalities do love to dig into it. So, get thee some music to Jon and the crew at KDUR (Durango). Good to have Durango repped now on the list …

TOP 40 MOST SPUN TITLES – June 2012
(312 titles tracked / 136 titles reported as played)
(LM) TM
(D) = debut, first time on chart
(R) = re-entered chart

(1) 1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers (Dualtone) Folk/rock/pop
(3) 2. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king} (Youngest Daughter Records) Folk/pop
(11) 3. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s (self) Americana/alt-country
(7) 4. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed (Family Tree) Indie/New Alternative
(D) 4. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller (Howdy Skies Music) Folk
(2) 5. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker (LoS Records) Americana/rock
(4) 6. Tennis – Young & Old (Fat Possum) Indie/New Alternative/pop
(10) 7. Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends (Fellow Creature Recordings) Folk
(D) 8. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons (Mockingbird Records) Americana/country
(5) 9. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband (Telarc) Blues
(D) 10. The Say So – The Romantic (self) Rock/alternative
(26) 11. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise (self) Folk
(23) 12. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow (Blank Tape) Folk/rock
(26) 12. The Swayback – Double Four Time (self) Rock/alternative
(9) 13. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm (self) Americana/roots rock
(13) 14. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight (Hot Congress Records) Indie/New Alternative
(D) 15. Arliss Nancy – Simple Machines (Suburban Home) Rock
(R) 16. The Jekylls – The Sweet Factoy (self) Americana/rock
(R) 17. Chimney Choir – (ladder) (self) Folk/folk-rock
(22) 18. The Congress – Whatever You Want (self) Rock/roots rock
(R) 19. Carbon Choir – Sakhalin (self) Rock/alternative
(19) 20. Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader (self) Indie/New Alternative
(6) 20. Mosey West – Merica (self) Rock/roots rock
(14) 21. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5 (self) Bluegrass/country
(21) 22. Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees (Dazzle Recordings) Jazz
(24) 23. Longest Day of the Year – Turn Into the Ground (self) Americana/alt-country-rock
(R) 23. The Patti Fiasco – The Patti Fiasco (self) Rock/Americana
(R) 24. SHEL – When the Dragon Came Down (Mad King Records) Folk
(R) 25. Snake Rattle Rattle Snake – Sineater (Suburban Homes) Indie/New Alternative
(D) 26. Ben Haugland – Point of No Return (Dazzle Recordings) Jazz
(27) 27. Churchill – The Change (Wire Bird) Folk/folk-rock
(12) 28. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs (self) Rhythm and blues
(R) 29. Overcasters – Curses/Prayers (self) Rock
(25) 30. Catch Bees – Newman’s Open Choir (On Joyful Wings) Indie/New Alternative
(15) 30. Katie Glassman – Snapshot (self) Americana
(24) 31. Muskeeteer Gripweed – Staight Razor Revival (self) Rock/blues
(R) 32. Beats Noir! – 13 Tracks From The Dark Side Of The Beat (self) Hip Hop
(26) 32. Better Than Bacon – Better Than Bacon (self) Rock
(R) 32. FaceMan – Feeding Time (self) Rock
(17) 33. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You (self) Contemporary adult Pop/country crossover

DROPPED OUT OF TOP 40 IN JUNE
8. Rob Drabkin – Rob Drabkin Live (self)
16. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost
18. Instant Empire – Instant Empire (self)
20. Grass It Up – Alabama Tory (self)
22. Harry Tuft & Friends – Treasures Untold (Manasses Records)
27. Eric Gunnison – Trios (Synergy Music)
28. Gauntlet Hair – Gauntlet Hair (self)
28. Wendy Woo Band – Austerity (Woo Music)
28. You Me and Apollo – Cards with Cheats (self)
29. Jeff Finlin – Live Songs for the Ice Age (Bent Wheel)
30. Euforquestra – Let Us In (self)
30. Lionel Young Band – On Our Way to Memphis (self)
31. Raincheck – Raincheck (Dazzle Recordings)
32. The Yawpers – Savage Blue EP (Adventure Records)

ADDED JUNE 2012
Andy Flattery & the Afternoons – Night Run
Ben Haugland – Point of No Return
Bonnie & the Beard – Cascavel
Fingers of the Sun – Sleepy EP
Johnny Hickman – Tilting
New Ben Franklins – [peter gabriel]
O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation: The Songs of Roger Miller
Offbeat Revolution – All Around
Patrick Dethlefs – Fall and Rise
Russ Hopkins – Space Junk Motel
SoundRabbit – Don’t Forget to Remember (The singles)
Strange Americans – A Royal Battle
SuCh (Sue Charles) – Stretch Marks
The Knew – Man Monster
The Love Royale – Another Winter [single]
The Say So – The Romantic

STATION BY STATION

KAFM (Grand Junction)
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation
2. The Swayback – Double Four Time
3. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
4. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm

KDNK (Carbondale) [HOT SPINS]
Danielle Ate the Sandwich – {like a king}
Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation
OtisTaylor – Contraband
The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow

KDUR (Durango)
1. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
2. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
3. The Crags – Big Divide
4. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
5. Snake Rattle Rattle Snake – Sineater

KGNU (Boulder)
1. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
2. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost
2. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation
3. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
3. Lionel Young Band – On Our Way to Memphis

KRCC (Colorado Springs)
1. The Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
2. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
3. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
4. Grant Sabin – The Homesick EP

KRFC (Fort Collins)
1. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
2. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
3. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
4. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons
5. Cary Morin – Sing It Louder

KUNC (Greeley)
1. Tennis – Young & Old
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
4. Kathryn Mostow – Rich Girl
4. Mosey West – Merica

KUVO (Denver)
1. Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees
2. Ben Haugland – Point of No Return
3. Shirley – From A Bright Clearing
4. Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear
4. Eric Gunnison – Trios

KVNF (Paonia)
1. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
3. Rob Drabkin – Rob Drabkin Live
4. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5

Open Air 1340 (Denver)
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
3. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
4. The Congress – Whatever You Want
5. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed

The Colorado Sound
1. Robert Cline, Jr – All the Right Reasons*
2. The Say So – The Romantic
3. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation
4. Overcasters – Curses/Prayers
4. The Jekylls – The Sweet Factory
*serviced to media by Rocky Mountain Music Network

BY GENRE/PROGRAM FORMAT

Americana/Alt.country/Alt.country-rock
1. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s
2. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
3. Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons
4. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
5. The Jekylls – The Sweet Factory

Blues/Rhythm & Blues
1. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
2. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
3. Lionel Young Band – On Our Way to Memphis
4. Cary Morin – Sing It Louder
5. Papa Juke – Out Of The Blues

Folk/folk-rock/singer-songwriter
1. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
2. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation
3. Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
4. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise
5. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow

Dance/Funk/Hip-Hop/Urban Contemporary
1. Beats Noir! – 13 Tracks From The Dark Side Of The Beat
2. Broken Tongues – Crooked Skyline
2. JD Feighner – Feel the Way I Do [single]
3. Rebel Tongue – Movin’ On
4. Wheelchair Sports Camp – Where We All Live

Indie/New Alternative
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
3. Tennis – Young & Old
4. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight
5. Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader

Jazz
1. Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees
2. Ben Haugland – Point of No Return
3. Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear
3. Shirley – From A Bright Clearing
4. Raincheck – Raincheck

POP / Alternative Adult Contemporary
1. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You
2. Andy Flattery & the Afternoons – Night Run EP
2. SoundRabbit – Don’t Forget to Remember
3. Charlotte Sass – Lighter Things
3. Petals of Spain – Late Night Visitor

ROCK / AAA / AOR
1. The Say So – The Romantic
2. The Swayback – Double Four Time
3. Arliss Nancy – Simple Machines
4. The Congress – Whatever You Want
5. Carbon Choir – Sakhalin

News Notes & Spins – June 1 2012

Last month I focused my personal editorial on the fact that, statewide, community/public radio programmers are broadly unaware of music from here in Colorado – a predicament I believed might ultimately only be addressed by legislation dictating the level of local content on our over-the-air broadcast stations …much in the same vein as Canada’s mandate that 35% of their content be Canadian.

The prevailing argument against that idea is that Canada’s law is national and not something that in general we have to worry about in the US – as the VAST amount of music being aired is from the US … and that on a state by state basis, there would be no way for most states to implement such a mandate on their broadcast stations, since most states don’t have sufficient content to make the idea fly.

Since last month’s rant I’ve given this issue considerable thought. I’ve experimented a bit and asked a question or two – all in an effort to find a way to address this issue without more government intervention, something I am wary of in the least and generally opposed to in principle. I found two issues to be prevalent, knowledge and access.

There is no simple way for on-air programmers to discover Colorado talent. There is no website such as a Reverbnation or MySpace for Colorado, specifically dedicated to the music of our state, and no easy way to sort artists by state at Reverbnation, Bandcamp, or other online music services. Further, content would have to be filtered for language, something a lot of artists don’t think of when posting content online – since they obviously don’t have to. There are no language prohibitions online.

Solving the knowledge dilemma is not easy. Locally, it would mean that someone at a station has to be hip to what’s going on statewide, and then be able to educate on-air djs/programmers. Even if a centralized Colorado specific version of something like MySpace were created, it would require that programmers know about it – not something that most djs would do, I’m sorry to say.

Most programmers, especially those who are “older” I’ve discovered, are more interested in playing stuff from their personal collections, than searching out new music they are not familiar with. So, what if we who are in the business of getting people to know “force-fed” product to individual djs, by sending it to them directly; would that help in some measurable way? It’s possible, and something worth considering as more and more independent programmers appear resistant to playing what exists in station libraries, instead preferring what they discover themselves.

The other issue is access. Physical or digital? I asked that question of the music and program directors at stations around the state …the answer? Both. Most stations are not yet outfitted to easily catalog and air digital content. Most have not yet digitized their physical product sufficiently enough to do away with their existing cd libraries. And most find that their djs (especially their older djs) are uncomfortable with trying to access and air digitized content with existing studio “dj assist” software – preferring the older technologies such as compact discs, cassette tapes, and vinyl records.

One option that’s been floated is the idea of creating a cloud based solution, enabling one or more stations to access content they already own or can access and share collectively. This as opposed to needing large hard drives and specialized software on site to deal with large collections – in some cases, collections that contain over 50,000 album titles.

Interestingly, however, it seems that most of the djs at those stations have internet access, a laptop, or some other tool used to collect, store, and play digital content, leading further I believe to the individualization of the content being broadcast. Some djs I’ve learned are streaming content from online services – something that station management may have to look into as a possible violation of DMCA rules. It is an interesting idea however – it just makes me wonder what the legal ramifications are.

All that said – we are among the lucky places where local content receives as much notice and airplay as it does here in Colorado – and for which I personally am very grateful. Thank you to all the programmers, music directors, and on-air talent who take the time and make the effort to support … much love my friends.

In station news this month –

Check out the music blog at KWMV (Westcliffe) … http://musicblog.kwmv.org/ or easily access it by a big red button on their homepage at www.kwmv.org. They also have a new late night dj show with one of the Custer County Youth Radio alumni, The Midnight Hour with Cameron “Carmine” Kessler on Saturday morning from midnight to 2 a.m.

Lindsay Isbell, the music director at KSJD (Cortez) writes in this month: “We have moved! We are now thrilled to be working and broadcasting from our new home at the corner of Main and Market streets in downtown Cortez.” The new [physical/street] address is 2 E. Main St. Cortez, CO 81321. However, all mail should be sent to P. O. Box 116 in Cortez.

Tedi Gillespie at KAFM (Grand Junction) reports that “I have now been named Executive Director. I was serving as Interim for 4 months and now they’ve made it official and permanent.” The station got a power increase to 300 watts last November and a second phase of improvements will mean renovations to the control and production studios. Tedi also reports that KAFM will be looking for a Program Director in the near future.

From Sally Kane, executive director at KVNF in Paonia: KVNF has been selected to be an incubator station for the Association of Independents in Radio “Localore” grant. Our project is called “iseechange.” It’s an experiment in citizen science reporting. We’re hosting a community conversation with citizens and scientists talking about what’s changing in their backyards and across the state with regard to weather and climate. Julia Kumari Drapkin is the multi media producer who joined our station for a year to coordinate the project. The content is available to be shared with RMCR (Rocky Mountain Community Radio) stations statewide. More info is available at http://www.kvnf.org/.

TOP 40 MOST SPUN TITLES – May 2012
(303 titles tracked / 146 titles reported as played)
(LM) TM / [date added]
(D) = debut, first time on chart
(R) = re-entered chart

(1) 1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers (Dualtone) Indie/New Alternative [Mar-12]
(16) 2. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker (LoS Records) Americana/rock [Apr-12]
(D) 3. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king} (Youngest Daughter Records) Folk [May-12]
(2) 4. Tennis – Young & Old (Fat Possum) Indie/New Alternative [Feb-12]
(3) 5. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband (Telarc) Blues [Feb-12]
(8) 6. Mosey West – Merica (self) Rock/alt-country-rock [Apr-12]
(5) 7. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed (Family Tree) Indie/New Alternative [Feb-12]
(D) 8. Rob Drabkin – Rob Drabkin Live (self) Rock/adult [May-12]
(13) 9. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm (self) Americana/rock [Mar-12]
(D) 10. Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends (Fellow Creature Recordings) Folk [May-12]
(9) 11. Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Live at Hodi’s (self) Alt-country [Jan-12]
(12) 12. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs (self) Blues/rhythm and blues [Apr-12]
(20) 13. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight (Hot Congress Records) Indie/New Alternative [Feb-12]
(21) 14. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5 (self) Bluegrass/country [Apr-11]
(25) 15. Katie Glassman – Snapshot (self) Americana [Feb-12]
(14) 16. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost (self) Rock/roots [Oct-11]
(R) 17. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You (self) Pop/country crossover [Feb-12]
(D) 18. Instant Empire – Instant Empire (self) Indie/New Alternative [Apr-12]
(D) 19. Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader (self) Indie/New Alternative [May-12]
(D) 20. Grass It Up – Alabama Tory (self) Bluegrass [May-12]
(24) 21. Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees (Dazzle Recordings) Jazz [Apr-12]
(18) 22. The Congress – Whatever You Want (self) Rock [Apr-12]
(29) 22. Harry Tuft & Friends – Treasures Untold (Manasses Records) Folk [Nov-11]
(D) 23. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow (Blank Tape) Folk [Apr-12]
(10) 24. Longest Day of the Year – Turn Into the Ground (self) Americana/alt-country [Nov-11]
(11) 24. Musketeer Gripweed – Staight Razor Revival (self) Rock/blues/southern rock [Apr-12]
(29) 25. Catch Bees – Newman’s Open Choir (On Joyful Wings) Indie/New Alternative [Feb-12]
(D) 26. Better Than Bacon – Better Than Bacon (self) Rock/jamband [Apr-12]
(D) 26. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise (self) Folk [May-12]
(17) 26. The Swayback – Double Four Time (self) Rock [Feb-12]
(19) 27. Churchill – The Change EP (Wire Bird) Folk/folk-rock [Feb-12]
(22) 27. Eric Gunnison – Trios (Synergy Music) Jazz [Feb-12]
(27) 28. Gauntlet Hair – Gauntlet Hair (self) Indie/New Alternative [Sep-11]
(R) 28. Wendy Woo Band – Austerity (Woo Music) POP/adult [Jun-11]
(R) 28. You Me and Apollo – Cards with Cheats (self) Indie/New Alternative [Aug-11]
(D) 29. Jeff Finlin – Live Songs for the Ice Age (Bent Wheel) Rock/singer-songwriter [Apr-12]
(23) 30. Euforquestra - Let Us In (self) Alternative Adult/reggae/funk/world [Mar-12]
(26) 30. Lionel Young Band – On Our Way to Memphis (self) Blues [Aug-11]
(D) 31. Raincheck - Raincheck (Dazzle Recordings) Jazz [May-12]
(29) 32. The Yawpers – Savage Blue EP (Adventure Records) Rock/alt-country-rock [Jan-12]

DROPPED OUT OF TOP 40 May 2012
6. The Jekylls – The Sweet Factory
7. Katya Chorover – Big Big Love
15. Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee
19. Broken Tongues – Crooked Skyline
22. Eric Gunnison – Trios
28. Fierce Bad Rabbit – Live and Learn EP
29. John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – Beautiful Empty
30. Blackout Beat Production Company – The Circus House
31. John Oates – Mississippi Mile
31. Spring Creek – Hold On Me
32. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Unentitled
33. Josh Quinlin Quintet – Mountain Time Standards
34. Carbon Choir – Sakhalin
34. Kentucky Parlor Pickers – Barn Burner
34. Spires – S/T EP

ADDED MAY 2012
3 Twins Broadband – Cry at the Movies / How Couldya Not [single]
Andy Flattery & the Afternoons – Night Run EP
Ben Haugland – Point of No Return
Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
Delta Sonics – Live at Lincoln’s
Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader
Grass It Up – Alabama Tory
Head for the Hills – Live
Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
Katie Herzig – The Waking Sleep
Matt Smiley – Quartet Art
McCumber & Moors – Gravity
Molina w/ Diles – Name and Town
New Ben Franklins – [peter gabriel]
O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller
Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise
Raincheck – Raincheck
Rob Drabkin – Rob Drabkin Live
Robert Cline, Jr. – All the Right Reasons
Shirley – From A Bright Clearing
The Ghost of Joseph Buck – The Ghost of Joseph Buck
The Knew – Major Nights [single]
Xiren – Not A Love Song [single]

STATION BY STATION

KAFM (Grand Junction)
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. Halden Wofford & the HI Beams – Live at Hodi’s
4. Better Than Bacon – Better Than Bacon
4. Mosey West – Merica

KBUT (Crested Butte)
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
2. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost
2. Halden Wofford & the HI Beams – Live at Hodi’s

KDNK (Carbondale) [HOT SPINS]
Haunted Windchimes – Live at the Western Jubilee
Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
The Swayback – Double Four Time
Wendy Woo Band – Austerity

KGNU (Boulder)
1. O’Brien Party of 7 – Reincarnation, The Songs of Roger Miller
2. Lionel Young Band – On Our Way to Memphis
3. Katie Glassman – Snapshot
3. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
3. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband

KRCC (Colorado Springs)
1. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
2. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
3. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
4. Moors & McCumber – Gravity
4. Tennis – Young & Old

KRFC (Fort Collins)
1. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
2. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
3. Mosey West – Merica
4. Muskeeteer Gripweed – Staight Razor Revival
5. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker

KUNC (Greeley)
1. The Lumineers – The The Lumineers
2. Kathryn Mostow – Rich Girl
2. Mosey West – Merica
3. Wendy Woo Band – Austerity
4. Driftwood Fire – How to Untangle a Heartache

KUVO (Denver)
1. Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees
2. Eric Gunnison – Trios
3. Ben Haugland – Point of No Return
4. Raincheck – Raincheck
5. Adam Bodine Trio – Up ‘N Hear

KVNF (Paonia)
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
3. Better Than Bacon – Better Than Bacon
4. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5

Open Air 1340 (Denver)
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
3. Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
4. Flashbulb Fires – Gasconader
5. Overcasters – Curses/Prayers

The Colorado Sound
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. Danielle Ate the Sandwich – {like a king}
2. Rob Drabkin – Rob Drabkin Live
3. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight
4. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed

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BY GENRE/PROGRAM FORMAT

Americana/Alt.country/Alt.country-rock
1. Leftover Salmon – Aquatic Hitchhiker
2. Grant Farm – The Grant Farm
3. Halden Wofford & the HI Beams – Live at Hodi’s
4. Katie Glassman – Snapshot
5. Great American Taxi – Paradise Lost

Blues/Rhythm & Blues
1. Otis Taylor – Otis Taylor’s Contraband
2. Delta Sonics – Live at Lincoln’s
3. Mama Lenny & the Remedy – Punches and Hugs
4. Lionel Young Band – On Our Way to Memphis
5. John Oates Band – The Bluesville Sessions

Bluegrass
1. Finnders & Youngberg – FY5
2. Grass It Up – Alabama Tory
3. Spring Creek – Hold On Me
4. Head for the Hills – Live
5. Dave Richey & Ruined Nation – No Peace of Mind

Folk/folk-rock/singer-songwriter
1. Danielle Ate The Sandwich – {like a king}
2. Joe Sampson – Kill Our Friends
3. Harry Tuft & Friends – Treasures Untold
4. Haunted Windchimes – Out with the Crow
5. Patrick Dethlefs – Fall & Rise

Dance/Funk/Hip-Hop/Urban Contemporary
1. Beats Noir! – 13 Tracks From The Dark Side Of The Beat
2. Rebel Tongue – Movin’ On
3. Wasteland Hop – Mother Acre
3. Wheelchair Sports Camp – Where We All Live
4. Broken Tongues – Crooked Skyline

Indie/New-Alternative
1. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
2. Tennis – Young & Old
3. Bad Weather California – Sunkissed
4. Achille Lauro – Flight or Flight
5. Instant Empire – Instant Empire

Jazz
1. Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra – Sharks & Manatees
2. Eric Gunnison – Trios
3. Raincheck – Raincheck
4. H2 Big Band – You’re It!
4. Shirley – From A Bright Clearing

POP / Alternative Adult Contemporary
1. Coles Whalen – I Wrote this for You
2. Wendy Woo Band – Austerity
3. Katie Herzig – The Waking Sleep
4. Megan Redmond – Dreamland
4. Zach Heckendorf – The Cool Down

ROCK / AAA / AOR
1. Mosey West – Merica
2. Rob Drabkin – Rob Drabkin Live
3. The Congress – Whatever You Want
4. Muskeeteer Gripweed – Staight Razor Revival
5. Better Than Bacon – Better Than Bacon

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TOP 5 VIDEOS

1. The Lumineers – Ho Hey

2. Tennis – Deep In the Woods

3. Zach Heckendorf – All The Right Places

4. Great American Taxi – Poor House

5. The Epilogues – The Fallout

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