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105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured Artists105.5 The Colorado Sound – Top Picks You Should Hear In SeptemberOn their 9th studio album, Death Cab For Cutie continues the sound that started bringing them fans 20 years ago. Rich Costey’s ethereal production keeps Ben’s light & dream-like vocals out front so we can hear the nuances in his thought-provoking lyrics. Brooklyn’s Josh Karpeh (aka Cautious Clay) is a 25-year-old artist with a very clear sonic vision. He made a splash earlier this year with his debut EP Blood Type and a quick follow up with the Resonance EP in June. Charley Crockett is a troubadour in the truest sense of the word. Crockett left home in his teens, hopping railroad cars and busking on the streets to earn his keep. He even spent a year in Paris before returning to his native Texas. In the late 90’s and early 2000’s, The Rock*A*Teens were a band you liked so as to be cooler than your Pavement & Liz Phair-loving friends. Over their 5 albums, no band has combined the ethos of indie rock, rockabilly, and punk better. Hailing from the thriving music neighborhood of Cabbagetown in Atlanta, GA, their influence has been crucial to indie rock.BandWagon Magazine · Sep 27, 2018

105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured Artists105.5 The Colorado Sound – Top Picks You Should Hear In AugustSparrow is Ashley Monroe’s 4th album, a record that shows the Nashville singer-songwriter heading in a new direction. Since 2014, Mike Peters, lead singer for The Alarm, has taken on ‘re-imagining’ some of his band’s catalog for 30th-anniversary tributes. Reflecting the world today is the angle Peters takes on the new Alarm album “=” (pronounced “Equals”). Iggy Pop, one of the grandfathers of punk, continually collaborates with interesting musicians; musicians one would not expect Iggy to venture into the studio with. But perhaps that’s his point.BandWagon Magazine · Aug 1, 2018

105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured Artists105.5 The Colorado Sound – Top Picks You Should Hear In JulyLake Street Dive vocalist Rachael Price says she’s this generation’s heir apparent to Bonnie Raitt. You’ll hear it in the torch of “I Can Change” and the defiant grit of “Good Kisser.” Their seventh album Free Yourself Up proves this is no novelty act. Dr. Dog’s new album Critical Equation is the band’s first album of new material in over 5 years. On his third solo album, Call The Comet, Johnny Marr seems at long last to have found his voice, literally. It’s rare to have the first song you record top the charts, but that’s exactly what happened to Alice Merton.BandWagon Magazine · Jul 1, 2018

105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured Artists105.5 The Colorado Sound – Top Picks for June, 2018If you’re going to be born Alejandro Rose-Garcia, and want to stand out in the music world, it makes sense you’d adopt a stage moniker given to you by friends at a campfire when you’re all coming up with Indian guide names. Whether he liked the name or not, Alejandro became firmly attached to Shakey Graves after the massive success of “Dearly Departed” with former Paper Bird member Esmé Patterson singing along. On this 5th full-length CD, I got the feeling Shakey opened his mind to aural possibilities. In December he Tweeted “Next album. New sound. Sell your suspenders.”BandWagon Magazine · Jun 1, 2018

105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured Artists105.5 The Colorado Sound – Top Picks you should hear in MayJoshua Hedley’s Mr. Jukebox is one of the most anticipated releases of 2018. Hedley has been a fixture around the Nashville music scene for years. He holds a standing gig at Robert’s Western Wear and has become affectionately nicknamed “The Mayor of Lower Broad” for being in such high demand as a player for almost every genre of music. Glen Hansard spent many years making and playing music before that Oscar-winning film Once.BandWagon Magazine · May 1, 2018

105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured Artists105.5 Colorado Sounds Top Picks: April 2018Ron – Little Steven, Soulfire If you’re waiting for that next Springsteen album to come out, I have the next best thing for you.BandWagon Magazine · Apr 1, 2018

105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured Artists105.5 The Colorado Sound: Top Picks – February 2018Ron – Calexico, The Thread That Keeps Us On the 15-track new Calexico album, I can hear the almost-30-year musical history Joey Burns and John Convertino have between them.BandWagon Magazine · Mar 1, 2018

105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured Artists105.5 The Colorado Sound – Top Picks You Should HearRon – Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul January 22 was the 50th anniversary of Aretha Franklin’s Lady Soul album.BandWagon Magazine · Feb 1, 2018

105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured Artists105.5 The Colorado Sound – Picks for 2018Get hip to Alex Lahey now before she’s playing SNL. Actress and musician Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Serge Gainsbourg, arguably one of France’s most revered musicians) has released an achingly pretty pop album Rest.” “It’s evident in the opening track off “Milano,” Luppi’s tribute to Milan in the ‘80s which spotlights the decadence and deviance of the time. The city was alive, and the possibilities appeared endless. The track, “Soul and Cigarette,” shares this optimism opening with the whimsical sounds of a glockenspiel and containing lush lyrics rich with imagery.BandWagon Magazine · Jan 1, 2018

105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured Artists105.5 The Colorado Sound – Top Picks For ListeningRON: Chris Daniels and The Kings with Freddi Gowdy What can you say about a 40-year friendship and waiting 30 years for a #1 album?BandWagon Magazine · Dec 1, 2017