Chisos Mountains, Big Bend Nat’l Park, Texas – courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography
Every week, besides the blog post I also work on COLORADO 2026 .. 100 songs from 100 Colorado artists and bands (including those formed here, but since moved to another city). The playlist is capped at 100, so for every new add, I drop one. There’s one on Spotify and one on YouTube . Not everything on COLORADO 2026 finds its way to the show, so there’s lots of new stuff to discover.
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
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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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The Apples in Stereo – Tidal Wave – Tidal Wave EP (1993)
Zuba – You Do Me – Zuba (1993)
(D) Nadine – Jenny (2026)
Marfa – Daisy (2025)
Jobi Riccio – Sweet (radio edit) – Whiplash (2023)
Sunsquabi – Fischer Cat (excerpt)
Packaging – In Your Pocket – Packaging (2025)
The Still Tide – High Wire – Run Out (2017)
Little Trips – Future Nostalgia (2021)
LatinSoul – Mama Pacha (2025)
The Delta Sonics – Just Playin’ (excerpt)
(D) Greg Schochet & Little America – Train Crazy – Wyoming In the Windshield (2026)
Leftover Salmon – Show Me Something Higher – Something Higher (2018)
Jon Wirtz – Country – Tourist (2013)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Runaway Train – Riviera (2002)
The Hillbilly Hellcats – Dead Man’s Party – Rev It Up With Taz (2003)
(D) Gregory Alan Isakov, Sylvan Esso – Fade Into You (2026)
The Velveteers – On and On – A Million Knives (2025)
Robert Shredford – Queen Elizabeth’s Corgis – Robert Shredford (2020)
The Terra Surfers – Nerved Up (excerpt)
Velvet Daydream – Love (radio edit) (2026)
The Motet – Highly Compatible – Death Or Devotion (2019)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Criminal – The Show (2009)
The Railbenders – What You Get (2026)
Ben Parrish – Crankbait (excerpt)
(D) Greg Tanner Harris – who knows – quiet things (2026)
The Reminders – Dust and Bones – Unstoppable (2019)
Kate Farmer – California (2025)
(D) Steve Kovalcheck – Happy Train – Buckshot Blues (2026)
THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE
HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING MAY O3 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 country.
ALL STATIONS + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST – 66 TITLES TRACKED
(2) 1. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP Jan-26
(D) 2. LAUREN FRIHAUF – The Thread / One Thing Always Leads to Another SP Mar-26
(D) 3. BO DEPENA – Rather Move Up LP Nov-25
(R) 3. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP Jan-26
(D) 3. SUN WAY STREET – Who Said I Cared SP Jan-26
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