Muse grabs top spot at Twist and Shout

Muse’s The Resistance, released last week on Warner Bros., debuted at the top spot on Twist & Shout’s top seller list for the week ending September 20. Mark Knopfler’s latest effort, Get Lucky, and Rodrigo y Gabriela’s new release, 11:11, grabbed the second and third slots respectively while Porcupine Tree…

Jay-Z top seller at Independent Records again

Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3, the rapper’s follow-up to his two previous Blueprint albums, nabbed the first slot on Independent’s top sellers list for the week ending September 20. Kid Cudi’s latest effort, Man on the Moon and Lil Boosie’s Superbad came in second and third while Drake and Megadeth rounded…

Mark Knopfler grabs top spot at Bart’s CD Cellar

Mark Knopfler’s sixth studio album Get Lucky, released last week on Warner Bros., nabbed the top spot at Bart’s CD Cellar in Boulder while Muse’s latest effort, The Resistance, debuted at the second slot for the week ending September 20. The String Cheese Incident keyboardist Kyle Hollingsworth grabbed the number…

Raekwon top seller at Wax Trax

Raekwon’s latest effort, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2, grabbed the top spot at Wax Trax while HEALTH’s Get Color came in second for the week ending September 20. Muse’s The Resistance, released last week on Warner Bros., nabbed the third spot while Pearl Jam’s Backspacer and Polvo’s In Prism…

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, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the…

Jay-Z grabs top spot at Independent Records

Blueprint 3, Jay-Z’s highly anticipated follow-up to his two previous Blueprint albums, grabbed the top spot at Independent Records while Raekwon’s latest effort, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 came in second for the week ending September 13. Insane Clown Posse’s Bang! Pow! Boom!, which was the top seller last,…

Beatles albums dominate top sellers at Twist and Shout

There was a whole a Beatles mania happening at Twist & Shout last Wednesday when the remastered versions of the Fab Four’s catalog were released. People lined up before the store was open and the store was sold out of the The Beatles Mono Box Set fifteen minutes after opening…

Pissed Jeans top seller at Wax Trax for fourth week in a row

Pissed Jeans latest effort, King of Jeans, continues to dominate the Wax Trax’s top sellers list by grabbing the number one for the fourth week in a row while the Local Anesthetic and Rocky Mountain Low compilations moved up to the second and third slots respectively for the week ending…

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, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the…

Insane Clown Posse top seller at Independent Records

Insane Clown Posse’s Bang! Pow! Boom!, released last week on Psychopath, grabbed the top spot on Independent’s charts while new releases from Trey Songz and Whitney Houston came in second and third for the week ending September 6. Twista’s Category F5 was knocked down to the fourth slot after hanging…

Cross Canadian Ragweed grabs top spot at Twist and Shout

Cross Canadian Ragweed’s Happiness and All Other Things, released last week on Universal South, grabbed the top spot at Twist & Shout while the Black Crowes latest effort, Before the Frost came in second for the week ending September 6. Drive-By Truckers’ The Fine Print, Whitney Houston’s I Look to…

Pissed Jeans top seller at Wax Trax for third week in a row

Pissed Jeans nabbed the top slot at Wax Trax for the third week in a row while Pictureplane’s Dark Rift moved up to the second slot from the seventh spot last week. The Fine Print, Drive-By Truckers new collection of oddities and rarites, debuted at number three, Apples in Stereo’s…

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*, KQMT’s Mountain Homegrown Show, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the Colorado…

Matisyahu top seller at Twist and Shout

Matisyahu’s Light, released last week on Sony, grabbed the top spot while Boulder Acoustic Society’s in store performance last week might have helped Punchline, which has some insanely cool packaging, nab the second slot for the week ending August 30. Arctic Monkeys’ Humbug, Imogen Heap’s Ellipse and Ingrid Michaelson’s Everybody,…

Twista top seller at Independent Records again

Twista continues to dominate Independent’s charts and grabbed the top spot for the third week in a row while Mr. Capone-E’s latest effort, Diary of a G, debuted at the second slot for the week ending August 30. Eminem’s Relapse and Matisyahu’s Light, released last week on Sony, nabbed the…

Pissed Jeans grabs top spot at Wax Trax again

Pissed Jeans’ King of Jeans grabbed the number one spot on Wax Trax’s top seller list the second week in a row while Arctic Monkeys’ Humbug, released last week on Domino, came in second for the week ending August 30. Dead Weather, Modest Mouse and Jay Reatard rounded out the…

Third Eye Blind grabs top spot at Twist and Shout

Third Eye Blind’s fourth studio album, Ursa Major, released last week on Megaforce, topped Twist & Shout’s charts for the week ending August, 23. Brendan Benson, who was releasing his own albums years before joining the Raconteurs, debuted at the number three slot with his latest effort, My Old Familiar…

Twista continues to dominate at Independent Records

Eminem dominated Independent’s charts for quite a few weeks after the release of Relapse, but Twista’s Category F5 knocked Relapse down to the number two slot for the second week in a row. Fabolous and Tech N9ne continued to be strong sellers while Third Eye Blind’s Ursa Major, released last…

Pissed Jeans top seller at Wax Trax

Pissed Jeans’ King of Jeans, released last week on Sub Pop, grabbed the top spot at Wax Trax for the week ending August 23. Magnolia Electric Co., Greymachine, Pictureplane and the Dead Weather also earned slots in the top five. Rocky Mountain Low and Local Anesthetic compilations continue to be…

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 long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the Colorado Wave*, which is…

Twista top seller at Independent Records again

Twista’s Category F5 topped the charts at Independent Records for the second week in a row while Eminem’s Relapse, which has also been a strong seller, nabbed the second slot for the week ending August 16. Slaughterhouse, Behemoth and Jeremih rounded out the top five. See the full breakdown after…

Chris Gaffney tribute top seller at Twist and Shout

Since Twist and Shout hosted an autograph signing with Dave Alvin at the L2 Arts and Culture Center, it might have helped push the Chris Gaffney tribute, Man of Somebody’s Dream, to the top of the store’s best sellers for the week ending August 16. After Gaffney died last year,…