Here’s the final installment of my top 40 for 2011. Hopefully you’ve found a few potential new favorites on the list. Have a wonderful holiday season and a terrific New Year … and let’s all hope for more great music in 2012!
Matthew Sweet
Modern Art
(Missing Piece Group)
At first listen, the [...]
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Mates of State
Mountaintops
(Barsuk Records)
On their seventh CD, the Connnecticut-based husband-wife duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel offer ten songs loaded with melody, hooks, and emotion. Over the spare keyboards and clattering rimshots of “Unless I’m Led,” Gardner sings about finding her way through the woods with the help of [...]
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DeVotchKa
100 Lovers
(Anti- Records)
This Denver-based quartet blends a wide variety of Mediterranean and Eastern European musical styles into its pop. On its sixth full-length album, 100 Lovers, the band delivers its most consistently tuneful set to date. Guitarist Nick Urata sings tales of romance either gone wrong (“The words come easily, [...]
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If you get any iTunes gift cards this holiday season, here are a few suggestions, as to what you might download with them. I managed to review most of these albums for this site during the year, but a few of them slipped under my radar (or beyond the time I had for writing) until [...]
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KRCC’s Delvin Neugebauer reviews new releases from AM & Shawn Lee, Blood Orange, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Dum Dum Girls, Hercules & Love Affair, Chris Joss, Matthew Sweet, Mates of State and Trombone Shorty. All the albums reviewed are recent additions to KRCC’s music library. Tune in to any of the Music Mix programs [...]
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Young Galaxy released their album, Shape Shifting, last February. It contains two amazing tracks, “We Have Everything” and “Peripheral Visionaries.” This two-part music-video experience, created by Montreal-based visual artist Sinbad Richardson, is the story of Jennifer, who looks like Grimace from the McDonald’s commercials. Jennifer works at a factory while dreaming of a more [...]
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KRCC’s Delvin Neugebauer reviews new releases from Battles, Black Lips, Bootsy Collins, The Donkeys, Marianne Faithfull, Fonda, Foster the People, Kids on a Crime Spree and The Yes We Cans, as well as the Rave On Buddy Holly compilation. All the albums reviewed are recent additions to KRCC’s music library. Tune in to any of [...]
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KRCC’s Delvin Neugebauer reviews new releases from Amor de Días, Daedelus, Hunx and His Punx, My Morning Jacket, Thurston Moore, Sloan and Wild Hares. All the albums reviewed are recent additions to KRCC’s music library. Tune in to any of the Music Mix programs on KRCC to hear selections from these new releases.
Amor de [...]
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KRCC’s Delvin Neugebauer reviews new releases from Beastie Boys, Lloyd Cole, Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi, Dum Dum Girls, The Feelies, Sarah Jaffe and The Watson Twins. All the albums reviewed are recent additions to KRCC’s music library. Tune in to any of the Music Mix programs on KRCC to hear selections from these new [...]
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KRCC’s Delvin Neugebauer reviews new releases from The Antlers, David Bazan, Hammerstadt, Parts & Labor, Raphael Saadiq and tUnE-yArDs. All the albums reviewed are recent additions to KRCC’s music library. Tune in to any of the Music Mix programs on KRCC to hear selections from these new releases.
The Antlers
Burst Apart
(Frenchkiss [...]
KRCC’s Delvin Neugebauer reviews new releases from Blue Sky Black Death, Fleet Foxes, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, Booker T. Jones, The Kills, Shannon & the Clams and Poly Styrene, as well as the Positively Pikes Peak compilation. All the albums reviewed are recent additions to KRCC’s music library. Tune in to any of [...]
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KRCC’s Delvin Neugebauer reviews new releases from Bibio, The Curious Mystery, Dengue Fever, Erland & the Carnival, Bob Geldof, Meat Puppets, Thao & Mirah and TV On The Radio. All the albums reviewed are recent additions to KRCC’s music library. Tune in to any of the Music Mix programs on KRCC to hear selections from [...]
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KRCC’s Delvin Neugebauer reviews new releases from Bass Drum of Death, Bill Callahan, Crystal Stilts, Elbow, The Joy Formidable, The Smithereens, Those Darlins and Wagon Christ. All the albums reviewed are recent additions to KRCC’s music library. Tune in to any of the Music Mix programs on KRCC to hear selections from these new releases.
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KRCC’s Delvin Neugebauer reviews new releases from Burn the Maps, The Head and the Heart, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Keren Ann, Low, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Raveonettes and STRFKR. All the albums reviewed are recent additions to KRCC’s music library. Tune in to any of the Music Mix programs [...]
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KRCC’s Delvin Neugebauer reviews new releases from Brave Irene, The Fleshtones, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, J Mascis, Jonny and Kurt Vile. All the albums reviewed are recent additions to KRCC’s music library. Tune in to any of the Music Mix programs on KRCC to hear these new releases.
Brave Irene
Brave Irene
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KRCC’s Delvin Neugebauer reviews new releases from British Sea Power, Cake, Gang of Four, The Low Anthem, New York Dolls, The Strokes and Twin Shadow. All the albums reviewed are recent additions to KRCC’s music library. Tune in to the Music Mix on KRCC to hear these new releases.
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KRCC’s Delvin Neugebauer reviews new releases from Acrylics, Beady Eye, Cut Copy, DeVotchKa, Noah & the Whale and R.E.M. All the albums reviewed are recent additions to KRCC’s music library. If you’d like to hear something from one of these new releases, feel free to call KRCC during any of the music-mix shows and make a request!
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7th Annual Blues Under The Bridge – July 20th, 2013
WATERMELON SLIM & THE WORKERS, JOHN HAMMOND, BLUES CARAVAN W/ JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR, THE SLIDE BROTHERS, D.B. REILLY, and THE JUST US LEAGUE
www.BluesUnderTheBridge.com for festival information
KRCC Member tickets on sale for $25. General Public tickets on sale for $35. VIP tickets $91.50. Day of show tickets $40 at the west gate. Tickets available through www.TicketFly.com or at KRCC.
Pre-festival Party Friday July 19th from 5-8pm at the Wyndham Grand Mining Exchange with Watermelon Slim, and Big Jim Adams!
Pre-festival shows at Jack Quinns with:
BJ Estares and Route 66 on Wednesday July 17th at 7:30pm!
The Delta Sonics with Al Chesis on Thursday July 18th at 7:30pm!
Austin Young on Friday the 19th at 9pm!
KRCC presents TAB BENOIT
Colorado Springs, City Auditorium
Wednesday, July 31st~ Tickets on sale soon ~
KRCC presents ARLO GUTHRIE
Pikes Peak Center
Saturday July 13, 2013 8pm
reserved seating through Ticketswest.com
KRCC presents DIANA KRALL
Pikes Peak Center
Wednesday, September 25th 7:30pm
reserved seating through Ticketswest.com
KRCC presents IRA GLASS
Pikes Peak Center, Saturday October 12th, 2013 8pm
KRCC member pre-show meet and greet opportunity 6:30-7:30pm – pre-show meet and greet tickets available for $40 to members ONLY at the station.
Advance KRCC member tickets on sale now through August 2nd through www.TicketsWest.com. Enter member promo code and click find.
General Public tickets on sale August 2nd, 2013
KRCC presents BONNIE RAITT
Pikes Peak Center
Wednesday, October 16th 8pm
reserved seating through Ticketswest.com
