The Colorado Sound’s My5 – September 2019

September 9, 2019

You’ll be cooler and smarter once you read The Colorado Sound’s My5. The top things in music, Colorado, film and more – from Jon Batiste’s new Jazz Record featuring members of Lake Street Dive and Iggy Pop’s The Stooges self-titled turning 50 to Ken Burns making you a country music fan, read up on what’s piqued the interest of 105.5 The Colorado Sound’s DJ’s each month!

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Single Review: Gingerbomb – Wildfire

August 1, 2018

Getting a 5-piece, all-redhead band with members from New York, Denver and Los Angeles together is an accomplishment. Colorado songstress Megan Burtt has wrangled such a group, aptly named: Gingerbomb. LA via NYC producer/drummer Ryan Vaughn and engineer/multi-instrumentalist Zach Berkman along with Burtt, vocalist / keyboardist Sara Dee and bassist Casey Sidwell join forces for the project with a maturity that defies any red-headed stepchild jokes critics might conjure. They kicking off the Bohemian Nights New West Fest in Fort Collins August 11th, 2018.

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105.5 The Colorado Sound – Top Picks You Should Hear In July

July 1, 2018

Lake 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.

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