Category: blog posts
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Radio 1190’s Listeners’ Favorite Albums of 2015
You voted – here are the results! Take a look at your top 25 albums of 2015.
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Tune in this Christmas for our Hip Hop Holidays playlist!
This Christmas we’ll be playing hip hop all day, classic and contemporary, and even some holiday hip hop tunes mixed in! Make sure to tune in at AM 1190 or streaming from right here on our website.
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Concert Review: Graveyard @ Summit Music Hall, 12/8/15
Graveyard is a hard rock/ blues rock four piece from Gothenburg, Sweden. Since the groups inception in 2006 they have been making quality rock in the same vain as groups such as Witchcraft and Kadavar. Graveyard was touring the album Innocence and Decadence which came out on September 25th, 2015 on Nuclear Blast records. Innocence…
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Radio 1190’s 2015 Staff Albums of the Year
Dan Burney (Social Media/RPM)1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress2. Girlpool – Before The World Was Big3. Björk – Vulnicura4. Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden Of Delete5. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly6. Nils Frahm – Solo7. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufield – Never Were The Way She Was8. Ought…
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On Air Next 12.10.15
Finals are almost here! It’s the most wonderful time of the year. We are kidding. We hate finals as much as you do. But that also means that it’s list season. We are putting together a compiled listener year-end list. Log on to radio1190.org or visit our Facebook/Twitter and submit your top 10 albums of…
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Submit your Top 10 Albums of the Year for our Listener’s Top Albums List!
We’ll soon be letting you know what we thought of 2015 in music, but we want to hear what YOU think! Submit your top 10 below to cast your votes, and stay tuned for our 1190 Listeners’ Top Albums as well as our Staff Choices and the Official Radio 1190 Top 100! http://goo.gl/forms/kZc6B6HQNz
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Special guest Jerry Granelli on Radio 1190 tomorrow (12/9) at 11 am
Multi-instrumentalist Jerry Granelli will join Elijah Jarocki for an interview Wednesday, December 9th at 11am. Granelli has been a jazz pioneer since the 1960’s, experimenting with electronic instrumentalists and cultivating the San Francisco psychedlic scene alongside Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. A longtime teacher with a passion for education, Jerry will bring his talents…
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Charts: 11/30 – 12/7
1. JOANNA NEWSOM – Divers 2. JAMES FERRARO – Skid Row 3. FUZZ II – In The Red 4. SHOCKING PINKS – Dance The Dance Electric 5. MARTIN COURTNEY – Many Moons 6. PREFUSE 73 – Rivington Nao Rio [Expanded] 7. SPORTS – All Of Something 8. PICTUREPLANE – Technomancer 9. NEON INDIAN – Vega…
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On Air Next: 12.3.15
It’s almost finals! Get ready for never ending pots of coffee, all-nighters and irrational emotional breakdowns! But before that happens, join Radio 1190 this Thursday, December 3rd at Buchanan’s Coffee Pub for another Locals Live featuring Justin Root. Show starts at 7pm and it is completely free! Support local music! Since the beginning of music,…
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December CD of the Month: Various Artists – Parallelogram
by James Calvet Since the beginning of music, different musicians have collaborated to make art. When this happens, the strengths and weaknesses of each musician are exposed and the results are usually unpredictable and exciting. Whether the musicians get together to compose a highly intricate piece or strip off the restrictions and improvise together, their…
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New Animal Collective album on the way!
Out on February 19th! The album is titled “Painting With” and will feature collaborations from Colin Stetson and John Cale, as well as 3 cover songs – one for Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Geologist – as well as 3 different covers, each featuring a painting of a band member by Brian Degraw.
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On The Grid – Your Guide to Winter’s Early Throes
Brr, cold much? Spouting about the weather may be pedestrian, but the first gusts of the real winter ahead may unfortunately mean many are hunkering down. Alas, do not be one of them, refrain from neglect of your local live scene, your tightly-knit collective that still comes out to dance when a little white stuff…
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The Menzingers @ Summit Music Hall – November 17th
by Lane Speas Doors opened at 6:00PM for the Menzingers show at Summit Music Hall on Tuesday November 17th 2015. The show had four acts total with three opening bands leading up to The Menzingers. In order of appearance the opening acts were Restorations, Pianos Become the Teeth, and mewithoutYou. The night consisted of hours…
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On Air Next 11.19
Much like you and your family Radio 1190 will be celebrating Thanksgiving! Tune in on Thursday Nov 26th for our “Plymouth Rock Playlist”. We will be going back to where it all began by playing an awesome selection of electric blues and early rock music. Then on Friday Nov 27 we will be playing “Live…
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Hangout Festival Tickets On Sale Now!
Check out the just announced lineup to next year’s Hangout Fest, featuring Run the Jewels, Silversun Pickups, and Alabama Shakes! Located on the sunny Gulf Shores of Alabama, get your tickets at http://hangoutmusicfest.com/
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Charts 11/17 – 11/24
1. JOANNA NEWSOM – Divers 2. SPORTS – All Of Something 3. ALEX BLEEKER AND THE FREAKS – Country Agenda 4. PICTUREPLANE – Technomancer 5. YAWPERS – American Man 6. WAX IDOLS – American Tragic 7. APPRENTICE DESTROYER – Glass Ceiling Universe 8. FUZZ II – In The Red 9. NEON INDIAN – Vega Intl…
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Heartless Bastards Nov. 3rd @ Bluebird Theater
The Heartless Bastards are a five-piece garage/ country rock band out of Cincinnati, Ohio. The group stopped at the Bluebird theater on Tuesday November 3rd touring the new album Restless Ones out on Partison Records. In accompaniment of the Heartless Bastards was a trio from Brooklyn, New York called Slothrust. I arrived at the Blue Bird…
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On Air Next: 11/12
Come join Radio 1190 tomorrow at 7pm at Buchanan’s Coffee pub on the hill for another edition of Locals Live! Tomorrow we will be hosting the ambient-folk duo Latlaus Sky. It’s a free show so come out and enjoy great coffee and support local music! Longtime icon of the Denver DIY scene Travis Egedy, also…
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Hinds @ Larimer Lounge
The night of October 22, Larimer Lounge was invaded by the casual, relaxed and chilly indifference of Hinds. This garage pop-rock girl band formed in 2011 in Madrid came to Denver as part of their 2015 American tour. Their concert brought me back to my home country, Spain. It is not that they sang in…
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Flaural, Scary Drugs + Freaky North @ The Hi-Dive
Scary Drugs have proven themselves over the last couple months as one of Denver’s youngest and most formidable live acts. This show was no exception. Cascading guitar lines and vocal melodies swirled around the band as they delivered another spot-on performance. Mathrock, emo, postpunk—Scary Drugs wrap a ton of influences up in a delightfully listenable package.…