#COMUSIC TOP 30 SEPTEMBER 2026

September set an all-time record for visits to Colorado Playlist! Harry Tuft tops the month’s Colorado airplay, with Cary Morin moving up from #19-#3.

WOW .. you all are amazing! You set a ALL TIME record for most visits to this website for the month of September. Thank you. And THANK YOU for your support.

Before I get into the meat of the month, I want to remind you and encourage you that our community-public stations are, have, or will soon hold a fundraising membership drive. Because of the loss of federal funding, becoming a sustaining monthly member of your your station helps to keep the station doing what it does best … connect us all in our communities – from music to public affairs and news. I hope you’ll do your part today.

Visit Colorado Music Resources page and find stations that support our scene.

Claire and I have been traveling the past month, hence no posts here and only limited posts on the CP FB pg. I didn’t pull spin data until I got home on the 28th … but what a great month it was.

90 year old Colorado Music Hall of Fame member Harry Tuft put out the 12th solo release of his esteemed career; it debuted at #1 in airplay. Award winning acoustic folk and blues artist Cary Morin moves up to #3 with his newest album Songs From Anguilla.

Don’t forget … check out Colorado 2026: 100 songs from 100 artists/bands on Spotify and YouTube. When one is added, one is cut to keep it at 100.

New releases this past week from Strange Americans, Sera Cahoone, Andy Frasco, Doom Scroll, Juno Rossa, The Galentines, Downey Chase, Covenhoven, Cole Scheifele, Vivian Oblivion, White Rose Motor Oil, Big Richard Band, The Lumineers and High Lonesome … ENJOY!

Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

The Colorado Playlist has been my passion for 20 years. Now retired, the monthly costs of producing the show stretch my limited retirement income — but I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

The show airs statewide on 11 primary stations across 30 FM/LPFM frequencies and is provided at no cost to Colorado community radio stations.

If you’d like to help keep it going, your support is sincerely appreciated. Donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 are preferred, or use the form below. Thank you — sincerely. – chrisk

ABOUT THE #COMUSIC TOP 30 & HOT SPINS

The #COMUSIC TOP 30 and weekly HOT SPINS track Colorado music aired specifically on Colorado non-commercial radio. Other charts include terrestrial and streaming activity outside the state; this is the only chart focused exclusively on in-state radio airplay.

HOW IT WORKS

Every week, I survey airplay from seventeen Colorado community, public and college radio stations, including Colorado Playlist spins. Monthly charts cover the first full survey week ending on Saturday through the final Saturday of the month, with titles tracked for twelve months beginning with the release of the first single from an album or EP.

The charts reflect what those seventeen Colorado stations actually play. That means some genres are represented more heavily than others: Americana, indie and roots music generally receive considerably more non-commercial airplay than metal or rap, while EDM receives limited but growing exposure.

The #COMUSIC TOP 30 and HOT SPINS reflect measurable Colorado radio airplay — nothing more, nothing less.

KAFM, KBUT, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KLZR, KOTO, KSJD, KSUT, KRFC, KRZA, KUVO, 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.

KGNU Boulder, Indie 102.3 and 105.5 The Colorado Sound data is pulled from their websites, or emailed to me each week.

LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
(D) = debut of SP (single), EP or LP release in the TOP 30
(R) = return to the TOP 30 of SP, EP or LP release

Interested in getting your business heard across 30 FM frequencies and other Colorado Playlist assets? Email chriskmusic@gmail.com.
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#COMUSIC TOP 30 SEPT 2026
Dates Tracked: AUG 30–SEPT 26 2026

(D) 1. HARRY TUFT – Friends, Lovers & Other Strangers LP Spotify/YouTube
(D) 2. EDISON – Your Ghost EP Spotify/YouTube
(19) 3. CARY MORIN – Songs From Anguilla LP Spotify / YouTube
(D) 4. LAUREN FRIHAUF – One Thing Leads to Another SP Spotify/YouTube
(D) 5. ISAIAH CARTER – Dreams of My Nightmares LP Spotify/YouTube
(D) 5. JAIEL – The Blooming Hearts Club LP Spotify/YouTube
(D) 5. THE MANANAS – Love Letter to My Honey / Leopard Lady SP Spotify/YouTube
(D) 5. MOONPOOL – Uppercut SP Spotify/YouTube
(D) 5. PRETTY LIGHTS – A Trip Thru Time Fantastic * Constellation 02 EP Spotify/YouTube
(8) 6. A.J. FULLERTON – Baretone LP Spotify / YouTube
(2) 6. BONNIE PAINE – Unseen LP Spotify / YouTubee
(R) 7. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP Spotify/YouTube
(D) 8. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Let Love Be Enough EP Spotify/YouTube
(1) 8. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP Spotify / YouTube
(14) 9. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Space We Leave LP Spotify / YouTube
(14) 10. THE ANDES – Unwind LP Spotify / YouTube
(R) 10. CARLOS & THE CREW – Follow Me to My Garden EP Spotify/YouTube
(R) 10. CARY MORIN – Pocket of Time LP Spotify/YouTube
(19) 10. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Way Back Home SP Spotify / YouTube
(15) 11. CIAN KRUEGER – First Moon Rising LP Spotify / YouTube
(D) 11. STRANGE AMERICANS – Horse Rider / The Season SP Spotify/YouTube
(R) 12. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – B&B Motel LP Spotify/YouTube
(18) 12. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP Spotify / YouTube
(R) 13. FANCY BITS – Fancy Bits EP Spotify/YouTube
(D) 13. SWEET JESSUP AND THE DIRTY BUCKETS – Bottle of Fools LP Spotify/YouTube
(R) 14. 2MX2 – Si Se Puede LP Spotify/YouTube
(4) 14. MOON HAMMER – Snakey SP  Spotify / YouTube
(D) 15. DYLIRIUM – Two More Weeks LP Spotify/YouTube
(D) 15. ELKA– Husk SP Spotify/YouTube
(D) 15. KATYA GRASSO – Covered In Sand / Gold SP Spotify/YouTube
(D) 15. KEENAN TREVON, DNA PICASSO – Risk It All SP Spotify/YouTube
(D) 15. N3PTUNE – Rotgut SP Spotify/YouTube
(R) 15. SUGAR NOVA – House of the Jaguar LP Spotify/YouTube

88.5 KGNU (Boulder)
(D) 1. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Let Love Be Enough EP
(3) 1. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP
(2) 1. PRAIRIEWOLF – Zone Poems LP
(D) 1. SERA CAHOONE – I’ve Missed You All These Years LP
(R) 1. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP

88.9 KRFC (Fort Collins)
(D) 1. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Let Love Be Enough EP
(4) 2. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Space We Leave LP
(4) 3. A.J. FULLERTON – Baretone LP
(4) 3. CARY MORIN – Pocket of Time LP
(R) 4. 2MX2 – Si Se Puede LP
(D) 4. ELKA, PROJECT TRACTION – Husk SP
(D) 5. ANDY SYDOW – American Verse LP
(R) 5. THE CROOKED RUGS – The Crooked Rugs LP

INDIE 102.3 (Denver)
(D) 1. EDISON – Your Ghost EP
(D) 1. ISAIAH CARTER – Dreams of My Nightmares LP
(D) 1. JAIEL – The Blooming Hearts Club LP
(D) 1. LAUREN FRIHAUF – One Thing Leads to Another SP
(D) 1. THE MANANAS – Love Letter to My Honey / Leopard Lady SP
(D) 1. MOONPOOL – Uppercut SP
(D) 1. PRETTY LIGHTS – A Trip Thru Time Fantastic * Constellation 02 EP

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND (Greeley)
(D) 1. BONNIE PAINE – Unseen LP
(R) 1. CARLOS & THE CREW – Follow Me to My Garden EP
(R) 1. VELVET DAYDREAM – Smoke & Mirrors LP
(R) 1. VERONICA MAY – Lead With Love SP
(1) 2. THE ANDES – Unwind LP
(D) 2. DOOM SCROLL – The Ravine SP
(R) 2. PEPE CETINA – Fabiola (Acustica) SP
(R) 2. SLOW CAVES – Periwinkle SP
(D) 2. THE UPSTAIRS BASEMENT – Same Blood EP
(R) 2. WAXPOOL – Caught Up SP

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. IT IS TRULY APPRECIATED.

#COMUSIC TOP 30 AUGUST 2026

Colorado music deserves to be celebrated. In 2027, that celebration could reach the State Capitol with a resolution recognizing Colorado Musician Day.

What a way to end a month — and begin another! Once again, you set a record for the most views in a month over the past decade. Thank you.

During the 18th Annual Dacono Music & Spirits Festival, I met a wonderful person from the Colorado State Senate. And you know me… get me talking about Colorado music and musicians and I get a little excited. We connected and brainstormed the idea of the Colorado State Senate passing a resolution honoring Colorado musicians.

WELL… turns out, it wasn’t such a crazy idea after all. I learned today that Senator Janice Rich is interested in introducing a resolution recognizing Colorado Musician Day during the 2027 legislative session.

How cool is THAT?!

ABOUT THE #COMUSIC TOP 30 & HOT SPINS

The #COMUSIC TOP 30 and weekly HOT SPINS track Colorado music aired specifically on Colorado non-commercial radio. Other charts include terrestrial and streaming activity outside the state; this is the only chart focused exclusively on in-state radio airplay.

HOW IT WORKS

Every week, I survey airplay from seventeen Colorado community, public and college radio stations, including Colorado Playlist spins. Monthly charts cover the first full survey week ending on Saturday through the final Saturday of the month, with titles tracked for twelve months beginning with the release of the first single from an album or EP.

The charts reflect what those seventeen Colorado stations actually play. That means some genres are represented more heavily than others: Americana, indie and roots music generally receive considerably more non-commercial airplay than metal or rap, while EDM receives limited but growing exposure.

The #COMUSIC TOP 30 and HOT SPINS reflect measurable Colorado radio airplay — nothing more, nothing less.

KAFM, KBUT, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KLZR, KOTO, KSJD, KSUT, KRFC, KRZA, KUVO, 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.

KGNU Boulder, Indie 102.3 and 105.5 The Colorado Sound data is pulled from their websites, or emailed to me each week.

LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
(D) = debut of SP (single), EP or LP release in the TOP 30
(R) = return to the TOP 30 of SP, EP or LP release

Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

The Colorado Playlist has been my passion for 20 years. Now retired, the monthly costs of producing the show stretch my limited retirement income — but I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

The show airs statewide on 11 primary stations across 30 FM/LPFM frequencies and is provided at no cost to Colorado community radio stations.

If you’d like to help keep it going, your support is sincerely appreciated. Donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 are preferred, or use the form below. Thank you — sincerely. – chrisk

Interested in getting your business heard across 30 FM frequencies and other Colorado Playlist assets? Email chriskmusic@gmail.com.
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#COMUSIC TOP 30 AUGUST 2026
Dates Tracked: JULY 26–AUG 30 2026

(4) 1. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 2. BONNIE PAINE – Unseen LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 2. NEON THE BISHOP – From This Height / Long Way Down SP Aug-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 3. CLEANER – Don’t Choke / Beer Creep SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 4. BROTHERS OF BRASS – Street Life, Vol. 2 LP Nov-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 4. MOON HAMMER – Snakey SP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 4. SLEEP CLUB – Dweller LP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 5. MLDY – Not ur girfriend SP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(15) 6. THE CROOKED RUGS – The Crooked Rugs LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(6) 7. FINN O’SULLIVAN – The Tape LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(11) 8. A.J. FULLERTON – Baretone LP Jul-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 9. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25 Spotify / YouTube
(15) 10. CARLOS & THE CREW – Keep It Together SP Feb-26 Spotify / YouTube
(3) 11. REVEREND FREAKCHILD – Blues & Spirituals / Hymn Hustler LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(15) 12. HAYLEY HARKIN – Befriend the Beast LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(7) 13. RYAN DART – If Love Don’t Break You LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 14. THE ANDES – Unwind SP Jul-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 14. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Space We Leave LP Aug-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 15. CIAN KRUEGER – First Moon Rising LP Jul-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 16. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(9) 16. MAY BE FERN – Three of Swords LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(13) 17. CLAY STREET UNIT – Sin and Squalor LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 17. INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP Feb-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 17. k8ie – Classified EP Aug-26 Spotify/ YouTube
(12) 18. AUBREY DALE – Fireweed LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 18. DEAD PIONEERS – Wagon Burner LP Feb-26 Spotify / YouTube
(7) 18. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 19. BRAD GOODE QUINTET – Live Your Dream (Live at North Street Cabaret) LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 19. CARY MORIN – Songs From Anguilla LP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(15) 19. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Way Back Home SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(8) 19. KAMIKAZE PROM NIGHT – Holy Diamond Blue LP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(1) 19. LILY NOVA – Pure Intentions / Flashlight SP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 19. REARVIEW – Webs SP Feb-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 19. ROAD PONY – Hang Your Weary Heart On Me SP Jul-26 Spotify / YouTube
(14) 19. VELVET DAYDREAM – Smoke & Mirrors LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube

88.5 KGNU BOULDER
(D) 1. JAKE LEG – No One Lives Here Anymore SP
(D) 2. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP
(D) 2. PRAIRIEWOLF – Zone Poems LP
(D) 2. REVEREND FREAKCHILD – Blues & Spirituals / Hymn Hustler LP
(D) 3. THE DIRTY TURKEYS – Under Your Spell EP
(D) 3. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP

88.9 KRFC FORT COLLINS
(2) 1. RYAN DART – If Love Don’t Break You LP
(D) 2. k8ie – Classified EP
(7) 3. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP
(7) 4. A.J. FULLERTON – Baretone LP
(D) 4. CARY MORIN – Songs From Anguilla LP
(D) 4. ROAD PONY – Hang Your Weary Heart On Me SP
(D) 4. CARY MORIN – Pocket of Time LP
(1) 4. THE CROOKED RUGS – The Crooked Rugs LP
(D) 4. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Space We Leave LP

INDIE 102.3 DENVER / NoCO
(D) 1. NEON THE BISHOP – From This Height / Long Way Down SP
(D) 2. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP
(D) 3. CLEANER – Don’t Choke / Beer Creep SP
(D) 4. BROTHERS OF BRASS – Street Life, Vol. 2 LP
(D) 4. MOON HAMMER – Snakey SP
(D) 4. SLEEP CLUB – Dweller LP

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND GREELEY / NoCO
(D) 1. THE ANDES – Unwind SP
(D) 2. HAYLEY HARKIN – Befriend the Beast LP
(D) 3. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Way Back Home SP
(D) 3. REARVIEW – Webs SP
(3) 4. EDISON – Seeing Double SP
(1) 4. REVEREND FREAKCHILD – Blues & Spirituals / Hymn Hustler LP

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. IT IS TRULY APPRECIATED.

COLORADO PLAYLIST S20 EP33 2026 + MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING + THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

AIRDATES: AUG 2-SPT 04 2026
CUT IT OR KEEP IT: Harry Tuft, Cary Morin, Dylirium, Keenan TreVon, The Polish Ambassador
THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE: Captured Live – Big Head Todd and the Monsters, DeVotchKa, Gasoline Lollipops, Katya Grasso, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Wood Belly, Zephyr

The Flat Tops at sunset .. courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

This may the last post until Sept 28 or even a week later .. I’m taking some vaca time. Claire and I are taking a three week road trip out to Emerald Isle NC. Along the way, I intend to play some open mics where I can find them in Memphis and NC .. while Claire shoots more great night time landscapes and more.

I’ll be playing a few shows on the Front Range in October.
OCT 13 – Songwriters at the Speakeasy (Denver) – donations accepted
OCT 15 – GOATZ at Magic Rat (Fort Collins) – free show
OCT 16 – GOATZ at the Stage at Bricks (Longmont) – free show

The rising sun on Emerald Isle NC, September 2025 by Clear Vistas Photography.

Have you checked out COLORADO 2026 on SPOTIFY or YOUTUBE? 100 songs / 100 artists and bands. When I add something, something gets cut to cap the playlist at 100. Not everything there makes the show, so check it out. Some will make the annual COLORADO PLAYLIST FAN & LISTENER POLL later in NOV/DEC.

The newest adds from: Dead Pioneers, Edison, The Fretliners, Heavy Diamond Ring, Holdfast., GRiZ, Jobi Riccio, N3ptune, Strange Americans

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community since 1998.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year releases. I’m currently tracking 285 current year releases for the weekly HOT SPINS REPORT.

Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.

Harry Tuft – You Gonna Quit Me – Across the Blue Mountains (1976)
(D) Harry Tuft – San Francisco Bay Blues – Friends, Lovers & Other Strangers (2026)

Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go It Alone – Wildflower Lane (2025)
Wood Belly – Play Me Out – Cicada (2023)
The Andes – Unwind – Keep It Together (2026)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Josephina – Black Beehive ( 2014)
Ambar Lucid – Get Lost In the Music (2021)
Volores – The Huntress – Shores of Scorpio (2026)
(N) Cary Morin – Another Place – Songs From Anguilla (2026)

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Love Don’t – The Future (2022)
Dave Gruisin Trio – Love Letters – Kaleidoscope (1965)

Zephyr – Sun’s a Risin’ Zephyr – Deluxe Edition (2014) (1969)
(D) Dylirium – Follow My Shadow – Live Your Life (2026)

Dango Rose – Singularity (radio edit) – The Forgotten Years EP VOL. Two (2022)
the Patti Fiasco – Love Letter – Juicy EP (2024)
Katya Grasso – Covered In Sand (2026)
DeVotchKa – Contrabanda – 100 Lovers (2011)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – This Is How We Do Things In The Country – The Bloudy Tenent Truth Peace (2004)
Gasoline Lollipops – Way Back Home (2026)
(D) Keenan TreVon, DNA Picasso – Risk it All (2026)

Hello Dollface – Warrior Of Light (2015)
piKziL = Exit Strategy (2025)
(D) The Polish Ambassador – The Bigger Bounce (2026)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING AUGUST 30, 2026

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), 
KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KGNU (Boulder), 
KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC (Fort Collins), 
KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), 
KUVO (Denver), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia), 
105.5 The Colorado Sound (Greeley), 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 country.

𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 + 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓
(D) 1. Graveyard Choir – The Space We Leave LP
(R) 2. Velvet Daydream – Smoke & Mirrors LP
(D) 3. The Andes – Plenty of Room SP
(R) 4. Clay Street Unit – Sin and Squalor LP
(3) 4. Jobi Riccio – Face the Feeling LP
(D) 4. The Nershis – I Drive Me Crazy / Colorado Bluebird Sky SP
(D) 5. Bluebook – Holy Rider SP
(3) 5. Bonnie Paine – Unseen LP

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! IT’S TRULY APPRECIATED.