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I've been on the air in Colorado since 1978. The Colorado Playlist is broadcast on 30 FM frequencies in the state. I am also a musician, talent buyer and business consultant. Email me at coloradoplaylist@gmail.com

CP S19 EP21 2025

Blue Mesa Reservoir, Gunnison, CO + Milky Way courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show representing and promoting Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air. Please make donations via venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. 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

We live in a state in love with the music that comes from here. Thanks for being a part of it!
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The Monday Morning Music Meeting courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge.

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.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

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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This week’s show features music not available on any streaming service. Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore’s new album is only available via Bandcamp. Andy Sydow‘s new EP with his live band, the Minor League, is not out yet.

Two other releases of note are also not on streaming services: The Grocery Story Situation on Isle #3 and Concrete Hotel, the new album from the Delta Sonics. So the only place you can hear them is here on the Colorado Playlist.

Rick Derringer – Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo – All American Boy (1973)
Sugarloaf – Tongue In Cheek (radio edit) – Spaceship Earth (1971)
(D) Jay Stott – Econoline Van (2025)
The High Hawks – Somewhere South – Mother Nature’s Show (2024)
Sweet Virginia – Blue Skies – Leaving Again (2022)
The Grocery Story – You Don’t Knock (f. Erik Lunde) – Situation on Isle #3 (2025)
Last Call Romance – One Step Too Close – Double Funeral, Vol. 2 (2023)
Fast Eddy – Take A Look (2022)
piKziL – Along The Dark Horizon (2024)
(D) Taylor Shae – American Dream (2025)
The Velveteers – Charmer And The Snake – Nightmare Daydream (2021)
Dragondeer – Jolee (2024)
Paa Kow – African Lady – Cookpot (2017)

Dan Fogelberg – Longer – Phoenix (1979)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – An American Dream – American Dream (1979)
(D) Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – I’ve Got The Blues – Lost In The Crowd (2025)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Call Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
CITRA – Ocean (2020)
Dr. Joe – Let It Shine – Songs of Joy, Unity and Revolution (2025)
Tennis – Runner – Swimmer (2020)
Musketeer Gripweed – More Than Ever – More Than Ever EP (2021)
The Delta Sonics – Concrete Hotel – Concrete Hotel (2025)
(D) Andy Sydow & the Minor League – Night Skin – Life Goes By EP (2025)
The Copper Children – Pity Party – Strange Illusion (2022)
Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand (Radio Edit) – Witness (2024)
Keith Oxman – The Midgets – A Little Taste (1995)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING MAY 31, 2025

ALL STATIONS, including the Colorado Playlist – 73 titles tracked
(1) 1. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation on Isle #3 LP Oct-24 (not avail online)
(D) 2. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25 (not avail online)
(2) 2. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(5) 3. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Water Is All I See LP May-25
(D) 3. NO DREAMS – Good Life + All Bent Out Of Shape SP Mar-25
(R) 4. piKziL – Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24
(D) 4. TO BE ASTRONAUTS – Sense EP Apr-25

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), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), 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 country.

#COMUSIC TOP 30 MAY 2025

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST IS THE ONLY SHOW REPRESENTING AND PROMOTING COLORADO MUSIC STATEWIDE. YOUR SUPPORT WILL HELP KEEP IT ON THE AIR. PLEASE SUPPORT. MAKE DONATIONS VIA VENMO AT CHRISK-2 OR USE THE DONATION FORM BELOW. And, thank you for supporting. – much love.

If you represent a business that would like my listeners to know about you, email me at coloradoplaylist@gmail.com for details.
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Every week I survey more than a dozen Colorado community/public and college stations, including Colorado Playlist spins on respective stations. The weekly survey period runs from midnight Sunday through the following Saturday. 

The monthly survey period runs from the first week ending with a Saturday through the last week ending with 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, KOTO, KSJD, KSUT, KRFC, KRZA 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)
(*) = No longer lives in Colorado, but counted as long as they got their career started here or there is some other reason to include them. 
(**) = serviced to media in Colorado by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

(D) = DEBUT IN TOP 30
(R) = REENTER TOP 30

You’re most likely to hear Colorado music on one of three stations along the Northern Front Range: Indie 102.3, 105.5 The Colorado Sound and 88.9 KRFC. Their HOT SPINS are listed below.

TOP 30 MAY 2025
SURVEY PERIOD MAY 01-31 2025
111 titles tracked, 1699 spins

(1) 1.  the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. NO DREAMS – Good Life + All Bent Out Of Shape SP Mar-25
(D) 3. TO BE ASTRONAUTS – Sense EP Apr-25
(D) 4. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Water Is All I See LP May-25
(D) 5. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – Restorative Art LP Nov-24
(2) 6. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 7. BRUHA – H.E.X.D EP Mar-25
(D) 7. SALADS AND SUNBEAMS – Into the Starless Night LP Mar-25
(D) 8. THE DIRTY TURKEYS – Cowboy Caravan LP Apr-25
(D) 9. THE RIVER ARKANSAS – Tin Years LP Apr-25
(D) 10. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(9) 11. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation in Aisle #3 LP Mar-25
(3) 12. THE GALENTINES – 1140 LP Dec-24
(R) 13. piKziL – Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24
(16) 14. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25
(13) 15. LOLITA – My Head f. DMD the Producer SP  Feb-25
(D) 16. 2MX2 – Por Aqui Por Alla SP Apr-25
(D) 17. MR. MOTA – Hot Box SP Apr-25
(D) 18. ROOTBEER RICHIE & THE REVEILLE – Never Needed Me LP Oct-24
(10) 19 HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Don’t Go it Alone SP Mar-25
(D) 20. ZOE BERMAN – Fast Forward/ Vitamin D SP Apr-25
(11) 21. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(D) 21. HUNTER JAMES & THE TITANIC – Weekend Holds SP Mar-25
(R) 22. THE CROOKED RUGS – Hear & Now LP Oct-24
(15) 23. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(19) 24. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Harboring Pearls LP Mar-25
(R) 24. THE BARLOW – High Spirits SP Feb-25
(R) 25. ISAAC MARTINEZ – Time Passes SP Jul-24
(10) 25. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(R) 26. ANDY SYDOW – Night Skin LP Jun-24

88.9 KRFC – 42 TITLES TRACKED FOR MAY
(D) 1. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation in Aisle #3 LP Mar-25
(1) 2. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 3. CHARLIE STEVENS – Tomorrow Starts Today LP Apr-25
(R) 3. GRANT SABIN – Work LP Aug-24
(2) 4. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24

INDIE 102.3 – 16 TITLES TRACKED FOR MAY
(D) 1. NO DREAMS – Good Life + All Bent Out Of Shape SP Mar-25
(D) 1. TO BE ASTRONAUTS – Sense EP Apr-25
(D) 2. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Water Is All I See LP May-25
(D) 3. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – Restorative Art LP Nov-24
(D) 4. BRUHA – H.E.X.D EP Mar-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 39 TITLES TRACKED FOR MAY
(3) 1. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(D) 1. ISAAC MARTINEZ – Time Passes SP Jul-24
(R) 1. piKziL – Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24
(D) 2. CACTUSHEADS – Inferno SP Dec-24
(D) 2. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Harboring Pearls LP Mar-25

CP S19 EP20 2025

Lightning over Mesa Verde, Colorado, courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show representing and promoting Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air. Please make donations via venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. 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

We live in a state in love with the music that comes from here. Thanks for being a part of it!
____________________

The Monday Morning Music Meeting courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge.

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.

Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

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.

Chris Daniels and the Kings – All For The Love Of Lill – Louie Louie (2001)
The Samples – We All Move On – Here And Somewhere Else (1998)
(N) The River Arkansas – People Call Me Crazy – Tin Years (2025)
Elektric Animals – Dreaming/Wishing – A Bear and the Bull (2024)
The Sweet Lillies – Words – Equality (2023)
The Patti Fiasco – Love Letter – Juicy EP (2024)
The String Cheese Incident – Stay Through – Song In My Head (2014)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Beautiful – Rocksteady (2010)
Sugar Nova – It’s All Gold (feat. the Main Squeeze) – It’s All Gold (2025)
(D) Leftover Salmon – Big Wheel – Let’s Party About It (2025)
Faith Eliza – Call the Healer (2023)
Saint Somebody – To the Victor – Saint Somebody (2024)
The Jason Klobnak Quartet – S.I.K. – Friends & Family (2018)

Five Iron Frenzy – Oh, Canada – Our Newest Album Ever! (1997)
Judge Roughneck – Rude One – Rude One’s Money Making Scheme (1997)
(N) Tennis – 12 Blown Tires – Face Down In the Garden (2025)
Teresa Suydam – Good Condition (2024)
YaSi – World Is Burning – Coexist With Chaos EP (2021)
John Magnie’s Grocery Story – Far Country (f. Erik Lunde) – Situation on Isle #3 (2025)
Daniel Rodriguez – Brother John – Sojurn of a Burning Sun (2020)
Rebecca Folsom – Mercy – Sanctuary (2023)
The Barlow – It Ain’t Mine – High Spirits (2025)
(D) Deva Yoder – Stories (2025)
Megan Burtt – The Bargain – The Bargain (2015)
Clay Street Unit – Engine Trouble (2024)
Ron Miles – Queen Of The South – Rainbow Sign (2020)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING MAY 18, 2025

ALL STATIONS, including the Colorado Playlist – 73 titles tracked
(R) 1. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation on Isle #3 LP Oct-24
(D) 2. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(D) 3. THE BARLOW – High Spirits SP Feb-25
(3) 4. TO BE ASTRONAUTS – Sense EP Apr-25
(3) 5. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Water Is All I See LP May-25
(D) 5. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – Restorative Art LP Nov-24

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), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), 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 country.