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#COMUSIC TOP 30 JULY 2025

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The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air. I make this show available for no cost to the stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

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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 JULY 2025
SURVEY PERIOD
118 titles tracked

(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. HOLOGRAPHIC AMERICAN – The Grace of Animals LP Oct-24
(9) 3. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(D) 4. POVI – Ritual SP Apr-25
(8) 5. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(4) 6. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(D) 7. THE DIRTY TURKEYS – Cowboy Caravan LP Apr-25
(D) 8. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon LP Mar-25
(D) 9. KEENAN TREVON – haha (feat. Skizzy Mars) SP Mar-25
(D) 9. SWEET VIRGINIA – I Don’t Know / Redman / Mr Wright SP Jun-25
(D) 10. ZOE BERMAN – Fast Forward / Vitamin D SP Apr-25
(D) 11. AHJZAE DALLAS – Kill My Paranoia EP Dec-24
(D) 11. AHJZAE DALLAS – Turning Heads SP May-25
(D) 11. KEENAN TREVON – babygirl (demo) SP Apr-25
(R) 12. ROOTBEER RICHIE & THE REVEILLE – Never Needed Me LP Oct-24
(D) 13. CITRA – Long Way Around SP Jun-25
(14) 14. SOUR MAGIC – Silver Sands SP May-25
(18) 15. DEAD PIONEERS – PO$T AMERICAN SP Jan-25
(19) 15. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25
(7) 16. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(18) 16. TENNIS – Face Down in The Garden LP Feb-2
(D) 17. BIG GIGANTIC – Fluorescence LP Jun-25
(D) 17. KYLE HOLLINGSWORTH – All We Are SP Jun-25
(D) 17. TAYLOR SHAE – American Dream SP May-25
(D) 17. THE RIVER ARKANSAS – Tin Years LP Apr-25
(R) 18. 2MX2 – Dale SP Nov-24
(D) 18. ANDY EPPLER – Valley of the Sin Eaters EP Jun-25
(D) 18. ASH REDHORSE & THE MIDNIGHT SUNS – Songs of Sirens LP Apr-25
(R) 18. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(R) 18. THE CROOKED RUGS – Hear & Now LP Oct-24
(D) 18. ROB DRABKIN – City Lights & Country Sides LP Mar-25
(12) 18. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation on Isle #3 LP Oct-24

88.9 KRFC (Fort Collins / NoCO) – 42 titles tracked
(2) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(5) 2. DEAD PIONEERS – PO$T AMERICAN SP Jan-25
(D) 3. SWEET VIRGINIA – I Don’t Know / Redman / Mr Wright SP Jun-25
(D) 4. ASH REDHORSE & THE MIDNIGHT SUNS – Songs of Sirens LP Apr-25
(6) 5. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(1) 6. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation on Isle #3 LP Oct-24
(4) 7. CHRISTINE ALICE – Wood, Strings & Simple Things LP Feb-25
(R) 8. LEASHY – Pump the Bellows SP May-25
(3) 9. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(8) 9. CHARLIE STEVENS – Tomorrow Starts Today LP Apr-25
(D) 9. SOUR MAGIC – The Hive LP May-25

INDIE 102.3 (Denver) – 8 titles tracked
(R) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. HOLOGRAPHIC AMERICAN – The Grace of Animals LP Oct-24
(D) 3. POVI – Ritual SP Apr-25
(R) 4. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 5. KEENAN TREVON – haha (feat. Skizzy Mars) SP Mar-25
(D) 6. AHJZAE DALLAS – Kill My Paranoia EP Dec-24
(D) 6. AHJZAE DALLAS – Turning Heads SP May-25
(D) 6. KEENAN TREVON – babygirl (demo) SP Apr-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND (Greeley / NoCO) – 32 titles tracked
(2) 1. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(D) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(D) 1. QUESO RA – Glass SP May-25
(R) 2. BISON BONE – Lean EP Apr-25
(R) 2. CHEROKEE SOCIAL – Lakota SP Oct-24
(R) 2. FLUTTER – Standing On A Corner SP Apr-25
(2) 2. JUNIPER BLUE – Stick Around SP Apr-25
(D) 2. LOLITA – My Head f. DMD the Producer SP Feb-25
(1) 2. N3PTUNE – WMD SP Feb-25
(D) 2. NATHANIEL RILEY – Hands SP Apr-25
(2) 2. ROOTBEER RICHIE & THE REVEILLE – Never Needed Me LP Oct-24
(D) 2. SOUR MAGIC – The Hive LP May-25

KAFM, KBUT, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KOTO, KRZA, KSJD, KSUT, KVNF – 49 titles tracked
(1) 1. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(D) 2. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon LP Mar-25
(2) 3. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(4) 4. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(D) 5. CloZee & LSDREAM LSZEE: ENIGMA MIXTAPE LP Jun-25
(3) 6. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(5) 7. BIG RICHARD – Girl Dinner LP Sep-24
(D) 7. CLAY STREET UNIT – Where Have You Gone / Let’s Get Stoned SP Apr-25
(7) 7. DAVID STARR – Must Be Blue LP Feb-25

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CP S19 EP28 2025

Black Canyon of the Gunnison (pre-fire), courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community for 25 years.

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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THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing 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
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Mollie O’Brien – Denver To Dallas – Big Red Sun (1998)
Otis Taylor – Naggin’ Woman Blues – When Negroes Walked the Earth (1997)
(N) Stillhouse Junkies – Down the Line – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon (2025)

Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Glorious Full Moon – Her Way Out (2024)
Elektric Animals – Reckless (2020)
The Motet – Something Better – Love Time (2024)
Cary Morin – Nobody Gotta Know – Dockside Saints (2020)
The Samples – Warm & Sunny – Black & White (2004)
Hunter James and the Titanic – Stranger Touch – IV (2025)
(D) Eli Rey – Come Over (2025)

Heavy Diamond Ring – Already Gone – The Brightest Light EP (2021)
Dragondeer – Jolee (2024)
Ellyn Rucker – Can’t Get Out of This Mood – NOW (2003)

Five Iron Frenzy – Oh, Canada – Our Newest Album Ever! (1997)
The Apples In Stereo – Questions And Answers – Her Wallpaper Reverie (1999)
(N) Gasoline Lollipops – Tennessee Nights – Kill the Architect (2025)

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Call Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
Foxfeather – End of My Rope – Nature of Things (2021)
Zoe Berman – Fast Forward (2025)
The Still Tide – Change of Address – Between Skies (2019)
The String Cheese Incident – Can’t Wait Another Day – Song In My Head (2014)
The Dirty Turkeys – Red Dog – Cowboy Caravan (2025)
(D) Sweet Virginia – I Don’t Know (2025)

Fast Eddy – Take A Look – Take A Look (2022)
2MX2 – Dale (2024)
Keith Oxman – (I’ve Got) Beginners Luck – East of the Village (2017)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WK ENDING JULY 20 2025

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE including spins on the Colorado Playlist – 64 titles tracked
(1) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(D) 2. SWEET VIRGINIA – I Don’t Know / Redman / Mr Wright SP Jun-25
(1) 3. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 3. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon LP Mar-25
(R) 4. THE DIRTY TURKEYS – Cowboy Caravan LP 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.

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