Chris K's Colorado Playlist

#COMUSIC TOP 30 FEBRUARY 2026

About 70% of the TOP 30 are NEW (D) this month. That’s a lot of new music flowing around our state. Check out the TOP 10 from 88.9 KRFC, INDIE 102.3 and 105.5 The Colorado Sound. plus 11 other Colorado community stations.

Welcome to March! YAY .. one month closer to warm (warmer) temps and outdoor live music. Make sure to check out the calendar, venues (front range, non-front range) and concert series and festival pages (and if you find something wrong, holler).

One interesting aspect of the monthly TOP 30 spins is the percentage of NEW (D) entries compared to those releases that carry over month to month or are re-entries (R). By my reckoning, about seventy percent of the list is (D) NEW each month. That’s a lot of new music every month coming out of our state.

AN ALBUM NOT TO BE OVERLOOKED…

Not all the great albums that come out get noticed in the HOT SPINS or TOP 30 reckonings. One such album came out last July, and I just NOW got to sit down and listen to it front to back – “Life Lessons” by Colorado legends Bill Frisell, Tim O’Brien and Dale Bruning, with help from E-Town’s Nick Forster on a couple songs. It’s not only worth mentions, it’s worth listening to …front to back.

Life Lessons is full of some wonderful surprises, especially their renderings of Sweet Lorraine, and the blues classic Trouble In Mind, sung wonderfully by Tim O’Brien, whose voice is as aged and smooth as a vintage whisky. (Spotify, YouTube).

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HOW THE CHART IS PUT TOGETHER

Every week I survey fifteen Colorado community/public and college stations, plus Colorado Playlist spins on respective stations. The weekly survey period runs from midnight Sunday through the next Saturday.

The monthly survey period starts from the first week, ending with a Saturday. It continues through the last week, which also ends on a Saturday. Titles are linked to its respective YouTube page.

Titles are tracked from the date of release of the first single from an LP/EP, for twelve months. Example: DOR = DEC 2023. I stopped tracking it in NOV 2024 (twelve months).

KAFM, KBUT, KCSU, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KLZR, KOTO, KSJD, KSUT, KRFC, KRZA, KVCU, and KVNF are surveyed via Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay on over three hundred stations and programs around the country.

LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)

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#COMUSIC TOP 30 FEBRUARY 2026 – ALL STATIONS

(15) 1. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia LP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(9) 2. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 3. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 4. OSHA RENEE – Gorgeous SP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 5. E.M.E. – Cover Me SP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 6. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Derailed SP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 6. VOLORES – Shores of Scorpio LP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(R) 7. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP Aug-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 8. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Too Cold to Golf SP Jan-26 (S p otify, YouTube)
(6) 8. LETTUCE – Cook LP Jul-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 8. MARFA – American Blues SP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 9. HOME – Masterpiece SP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 10. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP Dec-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 10. VELVET DAYDREAM – Love SP Dec-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 11. THE GRAHAMS – The Bridge LP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 11. JORDAN BURGETT & RESIDING ELSEWHERE – Romanian Sex Shop SP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 12. JORDAN BURGETT & RESIDING ELSEWHERE – Smell Me SP Dec-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(12) 12. KING CARDINAL – Reviver Sep-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 13. ASON YUGEN – Imaginary Mass SP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(6) 13. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 13. OUR VIOLET ROOM – Villain SP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 14. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(2) 15. THE TAMMY SHINE – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 15. VIVIAN – Crash and Burn SP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(16) 16. A.J. FULLERTON, LAUREN FRIHAUF – “singles” SP Sep-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(8) 16. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(21) 17. PACKAGING – Packaging LP Jun-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(1) 18. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains (Deluxe) LP Feb-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(R) 18. NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND – Night After Night EP Sep-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(13) 19. CLAY STREET UNIT – Sin and Squalor LP Sep-25 (Spotify, YouTube)

88.9 KRFC – 54 TITLES TRACKED
(5) 1. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP NOV-25
(D) 2. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP Dec-25
(D) 3. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Too Cold to Golf SP Jan-26
(1) 4. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP Oct-25
(D) 5. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Derailed SP Jan-26
(D) 5. VOLORES – Shores of Scorpio LP Oct-25
(R) 6. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP Aug-25
(D) 7. GRANT SABIN – Live at LuLu’s LP Jan-26
(R) 8. GIANT WALKING ROBOTS – Headspin EP Apr-25
(D) 9. A BROTHER’S FOUNTAIN – I Felt Something Today SP Jan-26

INDIE 102.3 – 7 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. OSHA RENEE – Gorgeous SP Jan-26
(D) 1. HOME – Masterpiece SP Nov-25
(D) 3. JORDAN BURGETT & RESIDING ELSEWHERE – Romanian Sex Shop SP Oct-25
(D) 4. E.M.E. – Cover Me SP Nov-25
(D) 4. JORDAN BURGETT & RESIDING ELSEWHERE – Smell Me SP Dec-25
(D) 5. ASON YUGEN – Imaginary Mass SP Nov-25
(D) 5. THE TAMMY SHINE – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 30 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. MARFA – American Blues SP Jan-26
(D) 2. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP Jan-26
(R) 3. CHEROKEE SOCIAL – Get To Me SP Aug-25
(2) 3. THE TAMMY SHINE – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25
(D) 4. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25
(3) 4. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Lullaby SP Sep-25
(D) 4. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Too Cold to Golf SP Jan-26
(D) 4. OUR VIOLET ROOM – Villain SP Jan-26
(D) 5. VELVET DAYDREAM – Love SP Dec-25

KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KOTO (Telluride), KLZR (Westcliffe), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia) – 45 TITLES TRACKED
(5) 1. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia LP Oct-25
(D) 2. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP Jan-26
(1) 3. LETTUCE – Cook LP Jul-25
(R) 4. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP Aug-25
(5) 5. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25
(3) 6. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(D) 6. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains (Deluxe) LP Jan-26
(R) 7. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon LP Mar-25
(2) 8. CLAY STREET UNIT – Sin and Squalor LP Sep-25
(D) 9. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP Jan-26

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AIRDATES FEB 21-27 2026. MMMM = Good Carver, Marfa, Emily Scott Robinson & John Paul White, Vivian Oblivion

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The Reals – Anchor – Majestic (2002)
Josh Blue & the Hooligan Stew Revue – Can You Picture That – Hooligan Stew (2016)
(D) Good Carver – Calmer Waters (2026)

A.J. Fullerton – Day’s End – Magnetic Light (2025)
Chris Daniels and the Kings – Sweet Memphis – Blues, With Horns Vol. 1 (2017)
The Lollygags – A Cautionary Tale (2026)
piKziL – Brand New Soul – Songs From My 3rd Life (2016)
The Lumineers – Gale Song – Cleopatra (2016)
West of Fennario – Great Evade (2026)
(D) Marfa – American Blues (2026)

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – You Worry Me – Tearing At The Seams (2018)
Sugar Nova – It’s All Gold (feat. the Main Squeeze) (2025)
Adam Bodine – Swamp Stomp – Scenes of Changery (2021)

16 Horsepower – Coal Black Horses – 16 Horsepower (1995)
Wovenhand – Kicking Bird – Ten Stones (2008)
(N) Emily Scott Robinson, John Paul White – Cast Iron Heart – Appalachia (2026)

GRiZ – Found Your Love – Gemini EP (2025)
Fast Eddy – Take A Look (2022)
Packaging –In Your Pocket (2025)
The Apples In Stereo – Dream About The Future – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
Gabrielle Louise – Don’t Touch Me – The Unending Alteration Of The Human Heart (2020)
Mackenzie Rae & Buckshot Moon – Mule Creek Junction – Lonesome and Free (2026)
(D) Vivian Oblivion – Crash and Burn (2026)

Flobots – The Circle In The Square (2012)
Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
Gabriel Mervine – Say Somethin’ – Say Somethin’ (2021

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WK ENDING FEB 22 2026

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM Community Radio (Grand Junction), KBUT Community Radio (Crested Butte), KDNK Carbondale Community Access Radio (Carbondale), KDUR Community Radio (Durango), KFFR 88.3 FM (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVCU (Boulder, KVNF Mountain Grown Public Radio (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound and Indie1023 (Denver) …

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio, and offering search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations around the count.

(D) = debut HOT SPINS
(R) = re-enter HOT SPINS

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST – 56 TITLES
(3) 1. BIG RICHARD BAND – Pet LP Nov-25
(D) 1. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia LP Oct-25
(D) 2. MARFA – American Blues SP Jan-26
(D) 2. VIVIAN – Crash and Burn SP Jan-26
(R) 3. PACKAGING – Packaging LP Jun-25

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