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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 EP10 2025

Sand Crane Festival, Alamosa CO March 2025 courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

I’ve been doing some housekeeping and updating recently; have you noticed?

VENUES – FRONT RANGE
VENUES – NOT FRONT RANGE
CONCERT SERIES & FESTIVALS
MUSIC CALENDAR
MUSIC RESOURCES

I’m incredibly happy to announce I’ll be taking part in this year’s FoCoMX. Hope to see you there .. GOAT HUGS!

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT THE COLORADO PLAYLIST

Hi folks. I could use your help, please.

I’m mostly retired now and the costs of producing the show, tracking airplay and maintaining the site are really starting to eat into my monthly retirement income.

Please support by using Venmo at chrisk-2 OR the form at the bottom of this page (I prefer Venmo).

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

starrsguitars.com

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) 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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HOUR 1

Dianne Reeves – Sky Islands – Dianne Reeves (1987)
Dianne Reeves – How High The Moon – I Remember (1991)
(D) Tyler Grant – Goat Canyon Trestle – Flatpicker (2025)
Last Call Romance – One Step Too Close – Double Funeral, Vol. 2 (2023)
Sugar Nova – It’s All Gold (feat. the Main Squeeze) (2025)
The Apples In Stereo – Nobody But You – Travellers In Space And Time (2010)
Sherri Jackson – Time & Time – Sherri Jackson (1997)
Grant Sabin – Work – Work (2024)A
(D) Daniel Rodriguez – El Dorado ( 2025)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Place at the Table – All Out of Angels (2023)
Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand – Witness (2024)
Garrett Sayers Trio – Diatribe – Thinkbox (2017)

HOUR 2

Lannie Garrett feat. Nelson Rangell – Comes Love – Comes Love (1995)
Lannie Garrett – C’est Si Bon – Under Paris Skies (2005)
(D) Racyne Parker & Andy Sydow – Get Close – Will You Go With Me? (2025)
Julian Fulco Perron – All the Lights (2023)
Robert Shredford – Queen Elizabeth Corgis – Robert Shredford (2020)
Jaiel – Bet On Me (feat. Adiel Mitchell) (2024)
Big Gigantic – The Little Things – Brighter Future (2016)
DeVotchKa – Straight Shot – This Night Falls Forever (2018)
Planes Mistaken For Stars – Modern Logic – Do You Still Love Me? (2025)
(P) Christine Alice – All Kinds Of Minds – Wood, Strings & Simple Things (2025)
Alysia Kraft – Little River – First Light (2022)
Clay Street Unit – Engine Trouble (2024)
David Baker Trio – Shiny Stockings – Minus Piano (2019)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

*Lannie Garrett and Christine Alice releases not available

HOT SPINS WEEK MARCH 09-15 2025
ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE including the Colorado Playlist

70 TITLES TRACKED 386 SPINS
(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(2) 2. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP Apr-24
(3) 2. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 3. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(D) 3. LOLITA – My Head f. DMD the Producer SP Feb-25
(D) 3. STILL HOUSE STRING BAND – Still House String Band EP Feb-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 and programs

CP S19 EP09 2025

It was a clear day in Alamosa for the Monte Vista Crane Festival

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT THE COLORADO PLAYLIST

Hi folks. I could use your help, please.

I’m mostly retired now and the costs of producing the show, tracking airplay and maintaining the site are really starting to eat into my monthly retirement income.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 OR use the form at the bottom of this page (I prefer Venmo).

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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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

starrsguitars.com

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) 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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CP S19 EP09 HR1

Judy Roderick – Country Girl Blues – Women Blue (1965)
60,000,000 Buffalo – Country Girl Again – Nevada Jukebox (1972)
(D) Mandy Harvey, Adam Doleac – The Road I’m On (2025)
Dragondeer – Stay High – Across The Waves (2020/2023)
Jeremy Dion – All I See Is You – Bend in the Middle (2025)
The Mercury Project – Higher Ground – Soapbox Jive (2004)
Five Iron Frenzy – Zen & the Art of Xenophobia – Engine of a Million Plots (2013)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Here I Go – Nowhere Next (2024)
(D) Dave Preston – Your Heart (feat. RachelA) (2025)
Angela Heart – Red (2023)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Her Way Out – Her Way Out (2024)
H2 Big Band – You Go To My Head – It Could Happen (2015)

CP S19 EP09 HR2

Zephyr – High Flying Bird – Sunset Ride (1972/2021)
Zephyr – Don’t Come Back – Heartbeat (1981)
(D) Lolita & DMD TheProducer – My Head (2025)
Jobi Riccio – Sweet (radio edit) – Whiplash (2023)
Kyle Emerson – Wise Blood – Dorothy Alice (2017)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Call Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
Safe Boating is No Accident – Dye My Love – Bonus Features (2014)
Psychodelic Zombiez –The Doctor – Things That Are Brown (2015)
Grant Sabin – Headshaker – Work (2024)
(N) The Still House String Band – Thought Police – The Still House String Band (2025)
Tennis – High Road – Young & Old (2012)
The High Hawks – Mother Nature’s Show – Mother Nature’s Show (2024)
Gabriel Mervine – When It’s Sleepytime Down South – Say Somethin’ (2021)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WK MARCH 02-09 2025

ALL STATIONS including the Colorado Playlist
70 TITLES TRACKED 372 SPINS
(D) = debut HOT SPINS (R) = reenter HOT SPINS
(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Flowers SP Feb-25
(2) 3. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 4. GALENTINES – 1140 LP Dec-24
(D) 5. HOLLY LOVELL – Hello Chelsea LP Sep-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 and programs

#COMUSIC TOP 30 FEB 2025

#COMUSIC TOP 30 FEB 2025

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT THE COLORADO PLAYLIST

Hi folks. I could use your help, please.

I’m mostly retired now and the costs of producing the show, tracking airplay and maintaining the site are really beginning to eat into my monthly retirement income.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 OR use the form at the bottom of this page (I prefer Venmo).

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.

SURVEY PERIOD JAN 26-MAR 02 2025

115 TITLES TRACKED 1438 SPINS

(3) 1.  the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. DAVID STARR – Hole in the Page SP Feb-25
(2) 3. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(D) 4. DNA Picasso & Dominique Christiana – LAWLESS: A Love Story LP Oct-24
(D) 5. iies. – Don’t Forget The Dot LP Jul-24
(1) 6. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
(D) 7. Iyanla – Ain’t It (feat. Ymf) SP Mar-24
(22) 8. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 9. wulfsun – Let the Wolves In SP Jan-25
(20) 10. ANDY SYDOW – Night Skin LP Jun-24
(R) 10. BIG RICHARD – Girl Dinner LP Sep-24
(24) 11. piKziL – Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24
(D) 12. the BURROUGHS – Got to Free Your Mind SP Feb-25
(D) 12. REBECCA HART – Meant to me (feat. Tantok) SP Jun-24
(8) 12. TEACUP GORILLA –  Jane Eyre: No Net Ensnares Me LP Jan-25
(25) 13. HUNTER JAMES & THE TITANIC – Stranger Touch SP Dec-24
(D) 14. STILL HOUSE STRING BAND – Still House String Band EP Feb-25
(9) 14. THE CROOKED RUGS – Hear & Now LP Oct-24
(R) 14. THE MOTET – Love Time LP Mar-24
(23) 15.  DRAGONDEER – Jolee SP Sep-24
(10) 15. MEGAN BURTT – Witness LP May-24
(D) 16. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25
(D) 17. N3PTUNE – WMD SP Feb-25
(R) 18. EVA ROSE KING – After Tale LP Sep-24
(R) 19. AMERICAN CULTURE – Hey Brother, It’s Been Awhile LP Mar-24
(4) 20. A.J. FULLERTON – Closer LP Mar-24
(D) 20. CHRISTINE ALICE – Wood, Strings & Simple Things LP Feb-25
(D) 20. MORGAN J COX – THE LIGHT! SP Dec-24
(D) 21. 2MX2 – Dale SP Nov-24
(D) 21. BRENDAN FORREST – Daydreaming Music Fiend LP Dec-24
(D) 21. HOLLY LOVELL – Hello Chelsea LP Sep-24

HOT SPINS FEBRUARY 2025

88.9 KRFC – 42 TITLES – 155 SPINS
(D) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. DZIRAE GOLD – Right On Time LP May-24
(D) 2. GIANT WALKING ROBOTS – Wake Up LP Aug-24
(D) 3. MAX MACKEY – Eyes On the Road LP Oct-24
(2) 3. THE CROOKED RUGS – Hear & Now LP Oct-24

INDIE 102.3 – 12 TITLES – 342 SPINS
(4) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. DNA Picasso & Dominique Christina – LAWLESS: A Love Story LP Oct-24
(D) 3. iies. – Don’t Forget The Dot LP Jul-24
(D) 4. Iyanla – Ain’t It (feat. Ymf) SP Mar-24
(D) 5. wulfsun – Let the Wolves In SP Jan-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 42 TITLES – 382 SPINS
(D) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. 2MX2 – Dale SP Nov-24
(D) 2. CACTUSHEADS – Inferno SP Dec-24
(D) 3. ANIMAL FUTURE – Cluster F#@% SP Jan-25
(D) 3. piKziL – Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24

KAFM, KBUT, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KOTO, KRZA, KSJD, KSUT, KVNF
36 TITLES TRACKED – 230 SPINS
(1) 1. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(D) 2. DAVID STARR – Hole in the Page SP Feb-25
(3) 3. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 4. BIG RICHARD – Girl Dinner LP Sep-24
(D) 4. STILL HOUSE STRING BAND – Still House String Band EP Feb-25