#COMUSIC TOP 30 JUNE 2026

The monthly TOP 30 represents what’s getting aired by independent DJs on sixteen community/public listener powered non-commercial radio stations around Colorado.

I sometimes get asked why a certain band or artist or genre of music isn’t represented in the COMUSIC HOT SPINS REPORT and the TOP 30…

Some genres simply don’t get much, if any, terrestrial radio airplay, at least at non-commercial outlets. Bands like OneRepublic are vastly more popular on streaming services and commercial outlets, for example, than bands like the Lumineers and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats. You won’t find much metal or rap on these stations either, and EDM gets a passing glance.

What you see in the reports is what sixteen community powered radio stations in the state air enough to be counted.

HOW THE CHART IS PUT TOGETHER

Every week I survey sixteen 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 Spotify and 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)

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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#COMUSIC TOP 30 JUNE 2026

(D) 1. FANCY BITS – Fancy Bits EP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 1. TROUBLE’S BRAIDS – Tarantula EP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 2. DYLANOVUS – déjà vu / footprint SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 3. LOOK AT FIONA. – fionafionafio LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(18) 4. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 5. BOBBY WIENS – Focus LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 6. VOLORES – Shores of Scorpio LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(9) 7. RYAN DART – If Love Don’t Break You LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(7) 8. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 8. SMEAR – Close to You SP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(19) 9. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP Aug-25 Spotify / YouTube
(15) 10. EDISON – Million Horses SP Apr-26 Spotify / YouTube
(8) 10. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(5) 10. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 11. 2MX2 – Si Se Puede LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(12) 11. BEN MARKLEY BIG BAND – Tuesday Morning Feeling LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 11. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Way Back Home SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 11. REVEREND FREAKCHILD – Blues & Spirituals / Hymn Hustler LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 12. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(16) 12. LAUREN FRIHAUF – The Thread SP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 13. LETTUCE – Cook LP Jul-25 Spotify / YouTube
(7) 13. STEVE KOVALCHECK – Buckshot Blues LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 14. CLAY STREET UNIT – Sin and Squalor LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 15. FINN O’SULLIVAN – The Tape LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 15. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Fade Into You (Feat. Sylvan Esso) SP Apr-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 15. HAYLEY HARKIN – Befriend the Beast LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 15. ROAD PONY – Roll the Dice SP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 16. THE BURROUGHS – Make You Sweat SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 16. MTN LION – Stealth LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(16) 17. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube

88.9 KRFC TOP 10
(D) 1. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(4) 2. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(1) 2. RYAN DART – If Love Don’t Break You LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 3. D.W. DOUCET – American Dust LP
(D) 4. FANCY BITS – Fancy Bits EP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 4. HAYLEY HARKIN – Befriend the Beast LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(6) 4. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP
(7) 5. AUBREY DALE – Fireweed LP
(6) 5. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP
(D) 5. LID DIXON – Postcards from Baton Rouge EP

INDIE 102.3 – HOT SPINS FOR JUNE
(D) 1. TROUBLE’S BRAIDS – Tarantula EP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 2. DYLANOVUS – déjà vu / footprint SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 3. LOOK AT FIONA. – fionafionafio LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND TOP 10
(D) 1. FANCY BITS – Fancy Bits EP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 2. PEPE CETINA – Fabiola (Acustica) SP
(D) 2. REVEREND FREAKCHILD – Blues & Spirituals / Hymn Hustler LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 3. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Goin Through the Motions EP
(D) 3. SMEAR – Close to You SP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(1) 4. CARLOS & THE CREW – Keep It Together SP Feb-26 Spotify / YouTube
(2) 4. EDISON – Million Horses SP Apr-26 Spotify / YouTube
(3) 5. CHEROKEE SOCIAL – Concentration SP
(6) 5. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Way Back Home SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 6. DOWNEY CHASE – A Room In Motion LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT – TRULY APPRECIATED!

CP S20 EP24 2026 + THE MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING, VIDEOS & HOT SPINS WK END JUNE 28

AIR DATES: JUNE 27-JULY 03 2026. THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE = 11 studio and live videos. Live video performances from The Sweet Lillies, Fierce Bad Rabbit, Giant Walking Robots, The Reminders, and Stillhouse Junkies.

Fairyland, Bryce National Park, UT, April 2026. Courtesy Clear Vistas Photography.

I’m writing this on Sunday afternoon. The edge of CO and UT is our backyard and a major reason we moved to Grand Junction in 2024 – to be closer to some of the best dark sky conditions in the country. Bryce Nat’l Park in Utah is one of the most surrealistically beautiful places in the US. Claire captured this week’s featured shot when we traveled there in April for a long weekend.

The fires you may have read or heard about over the weekend were within ten to twenty miles from our home in Grand Junction, to the south and west.

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

This show has been my passion for 20 years. Over the years it has been mostly self-funded, with some financial help from Starr’s Guitars and a few others here and there. It was enough to cover the cost of operations, but nothing more. Since retiring from full time work, the cost of the show has had a significant impact on my 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 GENUINELY 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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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. 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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Acoustic Junction – Oh Me Oh My – Strange Days (2000)
The Samples – Radio Song – Return To Earth (2001)
(D) Alysia Kraft, Veronica May – Learn that Groove (2026)

Deva Yoder – Stories (2025)
The Sweet Lillies – Words – Equality (2023)
Jesus Christ Taxi Driver – Too Cold for Golf – Taxi the Rich (2026)
Dango Rose – Singularity (radio edit) – The Forgotten Years EP VOL. Two (2022)
Fierce Bad Rabbit – Chasing After Things ( We Don’t Know The Names) – Spools of Thread (2011)
The Lumineers – Big Shot – Brightside (2021)
Wildermiss – Kiss the Weeds (2026)
(N) Dianne Reeves – Tequila Mockingbird – Star Child (2026)

2MX2 – El Desmadre (2024)
Giant Walking Robots – What You See (2025)
Ellyn Rucker – Blues for Big Scotia – Ellyn (1988)

Girard – Hello Operator – Girard (1976)
Tommy Bolin – Bustin’ Out – For Rosey – Private Eyes (1976)
(D) Cary Morin – It Matters to You Now – Songs From Anguilla 2026 (2026)

Joe Johnson – Interstate Lovesick Song – Morgantown (2018)
Jaguar Stevens – Persephone – Dead Miner’s Daughter (2026)
MaryLynn Gillaspie – Matte Kudasai – Secret Language (2022)
The Reminders – Dust and Bones – Unstoppable (2019)
Gracie Bassie – One (2026)
(N) Chantil Dukart – Show Me What Love Is – Chantil Dukart & the Dukes of Art (2026)

Stillhouse Junkies – Moonrise Over Ridgway – Small Towns (2022)
Aubrey Dale – ‘Til the Cows Come Home (2025)
Eric Lilley Trio – Scrapple From the Pineapple – Swing Set (2025)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE – LIVE AND IN THE STUDIO

11 studio and live performance videos this week.  Live on stage or in the studio videos this week from: The Sweet Lillies live on GFF, Fierce Bad Rabbit live at the Triple Nickel Tavern, Colorado Springs, Giant Walking Robots live at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, The Reminders NPR Tiny Desk contest, Stillhouse Junkies live on Red Barn Radio.

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING JUNE 28.

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.

ALL STATIONS + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST
(R) 1. FANCY BITS – Fancy Bits EP
(R) 2. LAUREN FRIHAUF – The Thread SP
(R) 3. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP
(D) 3. smear – Close to You SP
(D) 4. BOBBY WIENS – Focus LP

THANK YOUR SUPPORT. SINCERELY APPRECIATED.

CP S20 EP23 2026 + THE MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING, VIDEOS & HOT SPINS WK END JUNE 21

AIR DATES: JUNE 20-26 2026. THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE = 11 studio and live videos. Live video performances from Zoe Berman, the String Cheese Incident, Tennis, The Dirty Turkeys, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Yonder Mountain String Band and the Stillhouse Junkies.

Colorado National Monument, looking northeast across the Grand Valley to the Bookcliff Mountains, Mt. Garfield and the Grand Mesa – courtesy Clear Vistas Photography.

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

This show has been my passion for 20 years. Over the years it has been mostly self-funded, with some financial help from Starr’s Guitars and a few others here and there. It was enough to cover the cost of operations, but nothing more. Since retiring from full time work, the cost of the show has had a significant impact on my 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
__________________

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. 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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The Doppler Effect – God Is Alive In Argentina (1967)
The Moonrakers – I’m All Right (1964)
(D) Randy Miles – Dandelion – Chaos & Commotion (2026)

Zoe Berman – Vitamin D (2025)
Stylie – Wicked Ones – Smooth Sailing (2024)
Sunsquabi – Dexter’s Day (excerpt)
King Cardinal – Waste My Time – Reviver (2026)
The String Cheese Incident – Sirens – Untying the Not (2003)
Izcalli – Solo Se Morir – IV (2018)
Marfa – Little Lowdown (2026)
The Terra Surfers – Nerved Up! (excerpt)
(N) Sugar Nova – Desert Dancing – House of the Jaguar (2026)

Tennis – My Emotions Are Blinding – Yours Conditionally (2017)
The Dirty Turkeys – Red Dog – Cowboy Caravan (2025)
Bobby Weins – Morning Run – Focus (2026)

The Fluid – She Don’t Understand – Purplemetalflakemusic (1992)
The Apples In Stereo – Questions And Answers – Her Wallpaper Reverie (1999)
(D) Smear – Close to You (2026)

2MX2 – Por Aqui Por Alla (2025)
YaSi – Guilty (2021)
The Delta Sonics – Just Playin’ (excerpt)
Lauren Frihauf – The Thread (2026)
Megan Burtt – The Bargain – The Bargain (2015)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Do You Know Thee Enemy? – Unentitled (2011)
Graveyard Choir – Stone – The Wake (2025)
Maddy O’Neal & CloZee – Zest Please (excerpt)
(N) Fancy Bits – Check Ins – Fancy Bits EP (2026)

Yonder Mountain String Band – Complicated – The Show (2009)
Stillhouse Junkies – Down the Line – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon (2025)
Steve Kovalcheck – Game of Life – Ghost Orchid (2022)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE – LIVE AND IN THE STUDIO

11 studio and live performance videos this week. Live video performances from Zoe Berman from the recording session for Vitamin D, the String Cheese Incident from Electric Forest, Tennis live in the studio, The Dirty Turkeys live at The Velvet Elk Lounge in April, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club live at the Bluebird Theater, Yonder Mountain String Band at Red Rocks and the Stillhouse Junkies on KRFC radio’s Live@Lunch.

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING JUNE 21.

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.

ALL STATIONS + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST
(R) 1. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia LP
(D) 2. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Fade Into You (feat. Sylvan Esso) SP
(D) 3. LOOK AT FIONA. – fionafionafio LP
(D) 3. STEVE KOVALCHECK – Buckshot Blues LP
(D) 4. AMY MARTIN – Bones LP

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT – IT IS SINCERELY APPRECIATED.