#COMUSIC TOP 30 APRIL 2026

It’s springtime in the Rockies and with that comes new releases and outdoor music. Check out the HOT releases at member supported radio around the state.

Jazz is an important and integral part of the Colorado music scene. Denver’s KUVO, known as the Oasis in the City, has been one of the nation’s leading jazz stations for decades. I’m happy to announce that their spins have now been added to the #COMUSIC TOP 30 and the weekly HOT SPINS report.

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. I am retired now. I survive on social security, some pennies and dimes playing out (right?!), and limited savings (that won’t last to the end).

There are monthly costs associated with the show that honestly stretch my insanely limited retirement income, and the loss of my steadiest supporter over the past decade.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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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, 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.

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

#COMUSIC TOP 30 APRIL 2026

(4) 1. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(14) 2. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(18) 3. VELVET DAYDREAM – Smoke & Mirrors LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 4. EVE COFFMAN – Every Mile EP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 5. SHADOW WORK – Something’s Burning SP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(4) 6. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 6. WAXPOOL – Pretend SP Feb-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 7. BEN MARKLEY BIG BAND – Tuesday Morning Feeling LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 8. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(1) 8. CARY MORIN – Pocket of Time LP Feb-26 Spotify / YouTube
(7) 9. MAGOO – What A Life LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 9. WAXPOOL – am I ever gonna see you again? SP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 10. BOBBY WIENS – Focus LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(12) 11. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP Aug-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 11. LAUREN FRIHAUF – The Thread SP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(13) 11. LETTUCE – Cook LP Jul-25 Spotify / YouTube
(9) 12. THE TAMMY SHINE – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(15) 13. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(21) 14. GRANT SABIN – Live at Luu’s LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 15. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(8) 15. MARFA – American Blues SP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(14) 16. THE CROOKED RUGS – Canned Meat / Head Up SP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 16. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – XXV LP Jun-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 17. STEVE KOVALCHECK – Buckshot Blues LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(17) 18. CLAY STREET UNIT – Sin and Squalor LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(20) 18. D.W. DOUCET – American Dust LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(8) 18. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 18. LID DIXON – Postcards from Baton Rouge EP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 19. RUSS HOPKINS BAND – Always Moving Ahead LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(21) 20. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(11) 20. KING CARDINAL – Reviver LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 20. MAY BE FERN – Three of Swords LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 20. MAY BE FERN – 80.5 FM For Your Nighttime Drive EP Apr-26 Spotify / YouTube

88.9 KRFC – 60 titles tracked
(1) 1. CARY MORIN – Pocket of Time LP
(D) 2. LAUREN FRIHAUF – The Thread SP
(D) 3. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP
(3) 3. MAGOO – What A Life LP
(6) 4. GRANT SABIN – Live at LuLu’s LP
(4) 5. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP
(8) 6. THE CROOKED RUGS – Canned Meat / Head Up SP
(R) 7. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP
(D) 8. LID DIXON – Postcards from Baton Rouge EP

INDIE 102.3 – 14 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP
(D) 2. EVE COFFMAN – Every Mile EP
(D) 3. VELVET DAYDREAM – Smoke & Mirrors LP
(D) 4. SHADOW WORK – Something’s Burning SP
(D) 5. WAXPOOL – am I ever gonna see you again? SP

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 30 TITLES TRACKED
(1) 1. MARFA – American Blues SP
(4) 2. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP
(7) 3. WAXPOOL – Pretend SP
(5) 4. JAGUAR STEVENS – Persephone EP
(5) 5. CARLOS & THE CREW – Fantasy SP
(2) 5. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Goin Through the Motions EP
(6) 5. HAYLEY HARKIN – Waters of My Soul SP
(R) 5. MAY BE FERN – Three of Swords LP
(D) 5. MICAH AND THE MIRRORS – Hungry Hungry Heart LP

KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliffe), KOTO (Telluride), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KUVO (Denver), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia) – 40 TITLES TRACKED
(1) 1. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia LP
(D) 2. BEN MARKLEY BIG BAND – Tuesday Morning Feeling LP
(D) 3. BOBBY WIENS – Focus LP
(3) 4. LETTUCE – Cook LP
(2) 5. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP
(D) 5. STEVE KOVALCHECK – Buckshot Blues LP
(R) 6. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – XXV LP
(4) 6. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP
(9) 7. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP
(5) 8. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP

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CP S20 EP15 2026 – NEW MUSIC MONDAY

Airdates SAT APR 25-FRI MAY 03 2026. NEW MUSIC from Finn O’Sulliv an, Faith Eliza, Silent Bear, and Jaguar Stevens.

Milky Way behind the Mule Ears at Big Bend Nat’l Park, Texas. Courtesy of

HI! We just rolled in from over 3000 miles on the road – including a run deep into south Texas; four nights in Big Bend Nat’l Park and a set at the legendary Boathouse in Terlingua.

Claire will be working on photos for weeks, though she did share one with the Milky Way coming up in back of the Mule Ears!

Also on this run, FoCOMX in Fort Collins with my band GOATZ! OVER 3000 miles in April .. wow .. I’m beat … Thanks to Backstage Flash for grabbing this pic of me performing.

Next date = full band, GOATZ!, Roots Music Project, Boulder, MAY 22

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. BUT I’M NOT. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. I am retired now. I survive on social security, some pennies and dimes playing out (right?!), and limited savings (that won’t last to the end).

There are monthly costs associated with the show that honestly stretch my insanely limited retirement income, and the loss of my steadiest supporter over the past decade.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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THE MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING WILL BE BACK SOON

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 songs. 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.
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Peter Nalty and the Jinns – Whirlwind – The Jinns (1989)
Paul Galaxy and the Galactix – Road Dog – Slingshot (2004)
(D) Finn O’Sullivan – Alice (radio edit) – The Tape (2026)

Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
A.J. Fullerton – Oh Frustration (2022)
Lynn Patrick – When You Find What You’re Looking For (excerpt)
Ryan Dart – Dirt Road Woman – If Love Don’t Break You (2026)
King Cardinal – Runaway (2022)
Carolyn Hunter – Comedown (2022)
Volores – Shores of Scorpio – Shores of Scorpio (2026)
Maddy O’Neil & Clozee – Zest Please (excerpt)
(D) Silent Bear – Cheyenne (The Bald Eagle) (2026)

The Lumineers – So Long – Automatic (2025)
The Jason Klobnak Quartet – Dad’s Game – Friends & Family (2018)

The Wood Brothers – Snake Eyes – Paradise (2015)
Michael Trent – Bad Luck – The Winner (2010)
(D) Faith Eliza – Monsters (2026)

GRiZ – Found Your Love – Gemini EP (2025)
2MX2 – El Desmadre (2024)
Sunsquabi – Dexter’s Day (excerpt)
Emily Scott Robinson – Dirtbag Saloon – Appalachia (2026)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Damaged One – New World Arisin’ (2017)
The Yawpers – American Man – American Man (2015)
The Delta Sonics – Backtrackin Again (excerpt)
(D) Jaguar Stevens – Thunderbird – Dead Miner’s Daughter (2026)

Sweet Virginia – Blue Skies – Leaving Again (2022)
Sugar Nova – It’s All Gold (feat. the Main Squeez) (2025)
Keith Oxman – Afreaka – Glimpses (2018)

HOT SPINS (frozen) – TOP 30 dropping on MAY 01

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), 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.

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THE COLORADO PLAYLIST 2006-2026 – MUSICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Roadtrippin through Utah … March 2026

20 SEASONS is a long time to do something. The Colorado Playlist got its start in April 2006 at 88.9 KRFC in Fort Collins. Since then it has been broadcast by over a dozen community based radio stations in our state, covering over 30 FM frequencies in Colorado and Taos, New Mexico.

This week’s show is just some of the musical highlights over the past 20 seasons. I’m sure we can all point to what I didn’t fit in …but there’s only room for about twelve tracks an hour and there have been thousands of releases.

I hope you enjoy this week’s show.

AND WE’RE OFF AGAIN!! – NO POST APRIL 13 and likely not APRIL 20 either, since Claire and I are heading south for a couple of weeks on a nighttime photo expedition (yeah, she’s still filtering through shots from our Bryce trip, LOL).

I’m happy to say that I added spins from the Jazz Oasis in the City, KUVO, this week. It means a lot to see some of our great jazz artists getting some love in the city.

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. BUT I’M NOT. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. I am retired now and there are monthly costs associated with the show that honestly stretch my insanely limited retirement income.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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Every week I hope to bring you some of the best of Colorado music from across the decades, and around the state. I also usually share a new landscape photograph by my life-partner, Claire/Clear Vistas Photography.

There is no current website for Claire’s work. If you see a photo you like and would like to have printed, let me know. Email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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THE MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING WILL BE BACK IN MAY

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 songs. 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.
__________________

DeVotchKa – I Cried Like a Silly Boy – Curse Your Little Heart (2006)
Born In The Flood – If this thing should spill – If this thing should spill (2007)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Wheel – Whimper and Wail – Desire and Dissolving Men (2007)
OneRepublic – Apologize – Dreaming Out Loud (2007)
Flobots – Handlebars – Fight With Tools (2008)
Lynn Patrick – When You Find What You’re Looking For (excerpt)
Chris Daniels – Better Days – Better Days (2012)
Churchill – The War Within – The War Within EP (2013)
Pretty Lights – Yellow Bird – A Color Map of the Sun (2013) (radio edit)
The Lumineers – Ho Hey – The Lumineers (2012)
Justin Lansing – Ghost Town (excerpt)
The Velveteers – Charmer And The Snake – Nightmare Daydream (2021)
Jobi Riccio – Sweet (radio edit) – Whiplash (2023)
Marfa – Daisy (2025)
Euforquestra – Instant Coffee – Fire (2014)

Rose Hill Drive – Cool Cody – Rose Hill Drive (2006)
Gregory Alan Isakov – Big Black Car – This Empty Northern Hemisphere (2009)
The Apples In Stereo – Dance Floor – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
Five Iron Frenzy – It Was a Dark & Stormy Night – Engine of a Million Plots (2013)
Sunsquabi – Pangolin (excerpt)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – S.O.B. – Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (2015)
Big Gigantic – Brighter Future – Brighter Future (2016)
The Motet – So High – Totem (2016)
Cary Morin – Nobody Gotta Know – Dockside Saints (2020)
Ben Parrish – Crankbait (excerpt)
Wildermiss – Supermagical (2020)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) (2020)
Leftover Salmon – Let’s Party About It – Let’s Party About It (2025)
Ron Miles – Binder – Rainbow Sign (2020)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING APRIL 5 2026

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), 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 count.

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

𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 + 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 – 60 TITLES TRACKED
(𝐑) 1. Emily Scott Robinson – Appalachia LP Oct-25 (americana)
(D) 2. Jesus Christ Taxi Driver – Tax the Rich LP Jan-26 (rock, alternative)
(2) 3. Magoo – What A Life LP Oct-25 (jamband)
(𝐃) 4. Bobby Wiens – Focus LP Mar-26 (jazz)
(𝐑) 4. The Tammy Shine – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25 (rock, pop, indie)

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