Dialed In: This week’s local music radio playlists

Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show, KBCO’s Local…

Joanna Newsom top seller at local record stores

Have One of Me, Joanna Newson’s three-disc set released on Drag City last week, debuted strong at Albums on the Hill and Wax Trax for the week ending February 28. Sade’s Soldier of Love continues to hold the top spot at Independent Records while Johnny Cash’s American VI: Ain’t No…

Dialed In: This week’s local music radio playlists

Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show*, KBCO’s Local…

Moving Units: Sade grabs top spot at local stores again

While there weren’t any clear winners across the board at local stores for the week ending February 21, Sade’s Soldier of Love did grab the top spots at Independent Records and Twist & Shout for the second week in a row. Beach House’s Teen Dream and Yeasayer’s Odd Blood were…

Moving Units: Sade top seller at local stores

Soldier of Love, Sade’s first album in a decade, grabbed the top spots at Independent Records and Twist & Shout, while coming in at second at Albums on the Hill for the week ending February 14. Yeasayer’s Odd Blood, released last week on Secretly Canadian, and Spoon’s Transference, which came…

Dialed In: This week’s local music radio playlists

Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show, KBCO’s Local…

Dialed In: This week’s local music radio playlists

Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show*, KBCO’s Local…

Dialed In: This week’s local music radio playlists

Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown*, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show, KBCO’s Local…

Moving Units: Spoon still strong seller at local record stores

Although Spoon’s latest effort, Transference, didn’t have quite the pull it did the week it came out, it was still a strong a seller among local record stores for the week ending January 31. Magnetic Fields’ Realism, released last week on Nonesuch had a decent debut, and Vampire Weekend’s Contra…

Dialed In: This week’s local music radio playlists

Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show, KBCO’s Local…

Young Money still on top at Independent Records

While Vampire Weekend’s Contra is dominating the charts nationally and locally, it came in second to Young Money’s We Are Young Money, which has held the number one slot at Independent Records for a month now. Snoop Dogg’s Malice N Wonderland, meanwhile, and Gucci Mane’s State vs. Radric Davis and…

Vampire Weekend top seller at Albums on the Hill

Vampire Weekend’s sophomore effort, Contra, released last week on XL, grabbed the top spot at Albums on the Hill for the week ending January 17. The reissue of Ween’s The Pod came in second, while OK Go’s latest, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, released last week on Capitol,…

Dialed In: This week’s local music radio playlists

Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown*, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show, KBCO’s Local…

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis grab top spot at Wax Trax

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis nabbed the top spot at Wax Trax this week with their evocative score of John Hillcoat’s film The Road, based the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. Tracks from the soundtrack also appear on the two-CD White Lunar, a compilation of the duo’s soundtrack work…

Vampire Weekend on top at Twist and Shout

Vampire Weekend’s Contra, released last week on XL, follow-up to its 2008 self-titled debut, was one of the most highly anticipated records of the new year, so it’s no surprise the album claimed the top slot at Twist & Shout for the week ending January 17. Blakroc’s self-titled debut, Phoenix’s…

Young Money tops charts at Independent for third week in a row

Although Lil Wayne is heading to prison next month after pleading guilty to gun charges, the rapper’s gotta be pretty damn happy with how well Young Money’s We Are Young Money is selling. It’s number twelve on Billboard’s Top 200, and locally, it’s on top of Independent’s top sellers for…

Dan Auerbach grabs top spot at Albums on the Hill

Black Keys’ singer Dan Auerbach and Edward Sharp & the Magnetic Zeros nabbed the first and second spots at Albums on the Hill for the week ending January 10. The singer Lhasa, who passed away on January 1 at the age of 37, had two albums in the top ten,…

KKHi compilation tops charts at Twist and Shout. Again.

Folks around here clearly love their smooth jazz. How else to explain the second volume of KKHi’s Smooth Sound of Colorado comp, featuring Walter Beasley, Craig Chaquico and Euge Groove, among others, being back at number one at Twist & Shout this past week?Them Crooked Vultures’ self-titled debut and Phoenix’s…

Boris top seller at Wax Trax

Japanese-based Boris grabbed the top spot at Wax Trax with its psychedelic opus Boris At Last – Feedbacker, while Saviours’ Accelerated Living, which was released in October on Kemado, came in second. Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown Vol. 3, meanwhile, continues to be a strong seller and nabbed the third spot,…

Dialed In: This week’s local music radio playlists

Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show, KBCO’s Local…