Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl, released last week, nabbed the number-one spot on Twist & Shout’s best list for the week ending March 1. JJ Cale’s new album Roll On, the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, Tea Leaf Green’s Live at Twist & Shout and Morrissey’s Years of…
Really fun show last night. Rob Burleson — drummer extraordianaire of Lion Sized, d.biddle, the Fire Drills and sometimes Eyes & Ears — filled in for Andy who was off exploring pyramids in Egypt or trying to find a cure for the common cold or something this week. Tall shoes…
Beirut’s new double EP March of the Zapotec grabbed the top at Wax Trax Records last week while the Dark Was the Night compilation, which features Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Beach House, Bon Iver and more, came in second. Local bands Git Some and Eyes & Ears also made the…
Rapper T.I.’s Grammy-nominated album Paper Trail knocked Bobby Valentino off the number one spot on Independent Records top seller list for the week ending February 22. The Fray moved up to the number two spot from number four, while Lil Wayne and Ludacris still remain in the top ten. See…
Morrissey’s new album, Years of Refusal, released last week on Decca, grabbed the top spot on Twist & Shout’s top seller list for the week ending February 22. Andrew Bird, M. Ward and Beirut also performed strong while the Fray’s latest album dropped from its number one position for the…
Here’s this week’s playlists from the other local-centric music shows around your radio dial, including Radio 1190’s long running Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Local’s Only and the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is rebroadcast all over Colorado. If there are any others you’d like to see us track, let…
R&B sensation Bobby Valentino, whose sophomore album The Rebirth hit stores on Tuesday, February 10, grabbed the top spot on Independent Records’ top sellers list for the week of February 16. Potluck and Ne-Yo grabbed the second and third slots while the Fray came on fourth. See the full breakdown…
For the second week in the row, the Fray’s new self-titled album grabbed the number one spot on Twist & Shout’s top seller list. Elsewhere, it’s not too surprising that Robert Plant & Alison Krauss’s Raising Sand,which just won a Grammy for Album of the Year, claimed the second spot,…
At the excellent suggestion of an esteemed reader named Mike — in a why didn’t we think of this before moment — starting today and every week from now on, we’ll be posting the playlists of the other local-centric speciality shows including, Radio 1190’s long running Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Local’s…
We had too much fun on the show last night. Gave away a bunch of cool stuff — tickets to the Bands You Need to Know 2 show tonight at the Marquis and CDs from Lion Sized and A Shoreline Dream — and had a couple of great guests on…
Despite getting a later start because of the hockey game, which, for whatever reason, threw our rhythm of a bit, we had a decent show last night. Great guests: The guys from U.S. Pipe stopped by and gave us some insight into the making of their new record, from recording…
Just a quick heads up in case you happen to tune into Indie 101.5 tonight around 8 p.m. and hear the Avalanche game (or post-game): Don’t be alarmed. We haven’t gone anywhere; we’re just starting the show an hour later tonight because of the hockey game. People sure do love…
Okay, clearly we’re being sarcastic with that headline, for it comes as very little surprise that the Fray captured the top spot at Twist & Shout this week. We’re not privy to the actual SoundScan numbers yet, but suffice it to say, we’re eager to see if interest the act…
Last night’s show went rather well considering that Andy and I both arrived at the station and made it up to the studio literally three minutes before showtime. (Mental note: Leave earlier next week, doofus!) That was all behind the scenes, though. Listening to the playback today, we sound like…
For the second week in a row, Ludacris grabbed the number-one spot on Independent’s top seller’s list (week of Jan. 26 to Feb. 1), beating out Kanye West and Bruce Springsteen and Akon. The full breakdown is listed after the jump…
Bruce Springsteen’s latest album, Working on a Dream, nabbed the number-one spot on Twist & Shout’s top-seller list for the week ending Feb. 1, while Bon Iver’s For Emma Forever Ago album and the Blood Bank EP each landed in the top 10 as well. The full breakdown is listed after the…
Another two hours of playing the best hand-picked local music is in the books. Andy and I got all sorts of chatty last night — I mean, more than usual; seriously we were like a gaggle of grandmas chopping it up in a sewing circle — which meant that we…
Ludacris’s latest release, Theater of the Mind, which was third on Independent’s Jan. 12-18 top seller list, moves up to first for the week of Jan. 19-25. (hed) p.e. made a strong showing last week as well. The full breakdown is listed after the jump…
Animal Collective’s latest album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, which was released last Tuesday on Domino, tops last week’s seller list at Twist & Shout. The band’s June 2 Boulder Theater concert was announced last week as well. Paper Bird, which has been on store’s top sellers list for the last few…
Update: Wednesday night’s show has been posted after the jump.Well, we made it through another show. What are we at, like, seven now? Kind of lost count. Somebody’s keeping track, right? Anyhow, it was a good one, but like I said at the beginning of the show, you’d hardly expect…
(hed) p.e.’s concets in Denver and Colorado Springs last week must’ve fueled sales of the band’s latest album, New World Orphans, which was released January 13, on Suburban Noize Records. Kanye West and Ludacris also made strong showings, as did the Notorious soundtrack, which features cuts by Jay-Z, Jadakiss, Faith…
The Derek Trucks Band’s Already Free, released January 13, on RCA Victor, tops last week’s top seller list at Twist & Shout, while Paper Bird’s Anything Nameless and Joymaking comes in at number three again. The full breakdown is listed after the jump…
