Category: Charts

CP S19 EP36 2025

OCT 06, 2025. Monday Morning Music Meeting = new music from Rene Moffatt, King Cardinal, and LVDY. Keep em or cut em?

A view from the Grand Mesa in Western Colorado, courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

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.

I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

THANKS to Roots Music Festival for supporting the show!

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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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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Mollie O’Brien – Brown Eyed Handsome Man – Big Red Sun (1998)
The Subdudes – Sarita – Primitive Streak (1996)
(D) Russ Hopkins Band – If Only You – Always Moving Ahead (2025)
Rootbeer Richie & The Reveille – Without You – Never Needed Me (2024)
White Rose Motor Oil – Trouble Or Nothing – The Gift Of Poison (2023)
Vivian Oblivion – Animals (2025)
Kyle Emerson – Sun In Your Eyes – Dorothy Alice (2017)
Paper Bird – Sunday – Paper Bird (2016)
Tennis – 12 Blown Tires – Face Down In the Garden (2025)
(D) Rene Moffatt – Our Love Will Be A Voice (2025)

Mike Clark and the Sugar Sounds – Jet Black Cadillac – Moon Rock (2022)
Claire Heywood – Alone Woman – Water is All I See (2024)
Wil Swindler’s Elevenet – Universe B – Universe B (2010)

Freddi Henchi and the Soulsetters – Funky To The Bone – Dance (1972)
Zephyr – Sierra Cowgirl – Sunset Ride (1972) REMASTERED 2021
(D) King Cardinal – Waste My Time (2025)

2MX2 – Dale (2024)
Five Iron Frenzy – So We Sing – Until This Shakes Apart (2021)
Andy Eppler – Don’t Say My Name – Valley of the Sin Eaters (2025)
Zuba – Imagine Freedom – The New Cruelty (1996)
Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene – Summer Wine – I Make My Own Luck (2018)
The Barlow – High Spirits – High Spirits (2025)
(D) LVDY – Fleeting (2025)

Magic Beans – Sweet Thang – Slice of Life (2021)
Sugar Nova – Darkness Turns to Dawn (2024)
Nitecap – Things of That Nature – Things of That Nature (2024)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING OCT 5, 2025

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.

ALL STATIONS + COLORADO PLAYLIST
(D) 1. PATRICK DETHLEFS – Patty LP Jun-25
(R) 2. GALENTINES – 1140 LP Dec-24
(R) 3. EVA ROSE KING – After Tale LP Feb-25
(R) 4. DEVA YODER – Stories SP May-25
(D) 4. MACKENZIE RAE & BUCKSHOT MOON – Lonesome and Free LP Jul-25
(R) 4. ROB DRABKIN – City Lights & Country Sides LP Mar-25
(1) 5. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill The Architect LP Mar-25
(D) 6. PACKAGING– Packaging LP June-25
(D) 7. CHEAP PERFUME – Don’t Care. Didn’t Ask. LP Aug-25
(10) 7. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25

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#COMUSIC TOP 30 SEPT 2025

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP PLEASE

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

If you represent a business and 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.

(10) 1. SOUR MAGIC – Silver Sands SP May-25
(3) 2. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(1) 3. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 4. JD THE M.C. – Product of the World LP May-25
(D) 5. INAIAH LUJAN – All I Want To Do Is Cry SP Oct-24
(D) 6. IDLE FREAKS – Freakshow LP Mar-25
(D) 6. THE HARDLY NEVERS – Rabbit In A Dogs Bed SP Feb-25
(D) 6. THE SAVAGE BLUSH – Mapachtli SP Feb-25
(D) 7. myriadD.F. – Don’t Sleep SP Jul-25
(20) 8. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(14) 9. ANALOG SON – Keep It Coming LP Jan-25
(12) 10. BIG GIGANTIC – Fluorescence LP Jun-25
(D) 11. PINK FUZZ – Animal SP Jul-25
(R) 12. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – Restorative Art LP Nov-24
(9) 13. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(D) 13. SWEET VIRGINIA – Sweet Virginia EP Jun-25
(20) 14. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25
(D) 14. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Lullaby SP Sep-25
(D) 15. ANIMAL FUTURE – Get To You SP Jul-25
(22) 15. CHEROKEE SOCIAL – Lakota SP Oct-24
(R) 15. GALENTINES – 1140 LP Dec-24
(12) 15. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Wildflower Lane LP Mar-25
(22) 15. QUESO RA – Glass SP May-25
(R) 15. ROOTBEER RICHIE & THE REVEILLE – Never Needed Me LP Oct-24
(2) 15. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25
(D) 15. WEST OF FENNARIO – Stone Fountain Serenade SP Jul-25
(R) 16. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Harboring Pearls LP Mar-25
(D) 16. KYLE HARVEY – Neon Lights Are Good for the Blues SP Sep-25
(19) 16. LETTUCE – Gold Tooth / Rising to the Top SP Jul-25
(R) 16. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation on Isle #3 LP Oct-24

88.9 KRFC – 51 TITLES TRACKED
(2) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(R) 1. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation on Isle #3 LP Oct-24
(R) 2. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(R) 3. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Harboring Pearls LP Mar-25
(R) 4. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(D) 4. CIRCLING GIRL – Only My Veins Know LP Jul-25

INDIE 102.3 – 9 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. JD THE M.C. – Product of the World LP May-25
(D) 2. INAIAH LUJAN – All I Want To Do Is Cry SP Oct-24
(1) 2. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 3. IDLE FREAKS – Freakshow LP Mar-25
(D) 3. THE HARDLY NEVERS – Rabbit In A Dogs Bed SP Feb-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 20 TITLES TRACKED
(R) 1. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – Restorative Art LP Nov-24
(D) 2. ANIMAL FUTURE – Get To You SP Jul-25
(1) 2. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(1) 2. CHEROKEE SOCIAL – Lakota SP Oct-24
(D) 2. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Lullaby SP Sep-25
(R) 2. GALENTINES – 1140 LP Dec-24
(R) 2. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Wildflower Lane LP Mar-25
(1) 2. QUESO RA – Glass SP May-25
(R) 2. ROOTBEER RICHIE & THE REVEILLE – Never Needed Me LP Oct-24
(D) 2. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25

KAFM, KBUT, KDNK, KFFR, KOTO, KRZA, KSJD, KSUT, KVNF – 36 TITLES TRACKED
(1) 1. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(R) 2. TYLER GRANT – Flatpicker SP Jan-25
(R) 3. THE MAGIC BEANS – Impendo Destructo LP Dec-24
(D) 4. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(2) 4. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25

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CP S19 EP35 2025

Some of the best of Colorado from the past to the present. New music from Jeremy Facknitz, Mackenzie Rae & Buckshot Moon, Patrick Dethlefs, and Cil.

YIKES! Taking a vacation and deciding to not do any business at all sure did put me behind the proverbial eight-ball … lots of catching up to do this week. Claire’s photo this week is probably the last Milky Way shot of the season. We sure were not dressed for this shot of the rising Milky Way with the setting moon over Bonham Reservoir on the Grand Mesa in Western Colorado. It got a bit colder than we expected and neither of us brought warm weather clothing! YIKES! But the changing fall colors during the day made it worth the trip.
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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.

I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

THANKS to Roots Music Festival for supporting the show!

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
__________________

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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Beast – Spaceman – Beast (1969)
Poco – What A Day – Pickin’ Up the Pieces (1969)
(D) Jeremy Facknitz – Burn the Maps (2025)

Dragondeer – Jolee (2024)
The Infamous Stringdusters – Toward the Fray – Toward the Fray (2022)
Deva Yoder – Stories (2025)
Wovenhand – Long Horn – The Laughing Stalk (2012)
Tierro Band with Bridget Law – Charity – Allurement (2019)
Rob Drabkin – My Train is Coming – City Lights & Country Sides (2025)
(D) Mackenzie Rae & Buckshot Moon – Red Wine for Whiskey – Lonesome and Free (2025)

Euforquestra – Show Me The Way – While We Still Got Time (2022)
The Fray – Same Thing – The Fray Is Back (2024)
Dave Gruisin Trio – Love Letters – Kaleidoscope (1965)

Judy Roderick – Country Girl Blues – Women Blue (1965)
Lothar and The Hand People – Machines – Presenting Lothar and the Hand People (1968)
(N) Patrick Detlefs – Smooth Wreck – Patty (2025)

Marfa – 66 (2024)
Augustus – Kick the Doors Down – Color TV and Tall Tales (2020)
Eva Rose King – Snapshot feat. Taylor Ashton – After Tale (2025)
Gregory Alan Isakov – Caves – Evening Machines (2018)
The Knew – Bang the Drum – Man Monster (2012)
The Galentines – Rear View Mirror – 1140 (2025)
(D) CIL – Something Like This (2025)

Claire Heywood – Letter Day (2020)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Glorious Full Moon – Her Way Out (2024)
Matt Skellenger – Connectivity – Subspace Transmission (2023)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING SEPT 28 2025

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.

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE
(5) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
(D) 2. PINK FUZZ – Animal SP Jul-25
(R) 2. SWEET VIRGINIA – Sweet Virginia EP Jun-25
(R) 3. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25
(D) 4. KYLE HARVEY – Anywhere But Here LP Sep-25

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