Category: Playlists

Plateau Creek sheep by the road

Thank you for stopping by. Every week I hope to bring you some of the best of Colorado music from across the decades, and around the state. I also usually share a new landscape photograph by my life-partner, Claire/Clear Vistas Photography.

There is no current website for Claire’s work. If you see a photo you like and would like to have printed, let me know. Email chriskmusic@gmail.com

Last week I made a couple of adjustments to the Monday Morning Music Meeting and This Week on YouTube. The MMMM still asks for your input, but it’s now just KEEP IT or CUT IT .. no equivocation.

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE features videos ONLY, of songs in this week’s show.

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies.

This show has been my passion for 20 years now. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state.

I more or less retired a couple of years ago. There are monthly costs associated with the show that honestly stretch my limited retirement income now.

Your support is essential and sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) 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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ALMA Seeks Bands for Monumental Battle of the Bands on June 6, 2026
Event Date: Saturday, June 6, 2026
Submission Deadline: April 12, 2026
Contact: Nancy Harris, 719-937-1255 or almaconcerts@gmail.com

ALMA’s Battle of the Bands returns this summer and we’re seeking contestants! The Battle will happen on June 6, 2026, from 4pm-7pm, in Cole Park, Alamosa, CO, in conjunction with RioFest. The victor gets a $1,000 contract to perform at Sundays at Six in Cole Park on August 9, 2026! Five bands will compete and each band will have approximately twenty minutes to WOW the audience and judges. To submit your band for consideration to be in the battle, fill out the submission form at https://www.almaonline.org/battle-bands-wanted/ by April 12, 2026.

ALMA hosted a thrilling Battle of the Bands in June, 2025. The winner of that Battle was A Butter Way, a punk band from Alamosa. This year, five more contestants will battle it out on the stage at Cole Park, for a chance to perform during one of ALMA’s Sundays at Six summer concerts.

Live Music—The Soul of ALMA.

For more information, follow ALMA on Facebook or visit www.almaonline.org
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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 songs. 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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Beast – I Am – Higher and Higher (1970)
Sugarloaf – Tongue In Cheek (radio edit) – Spaceship Earth (1971)
(D) Rob Drabkin – Everything is Better With You (2026)

Leftover Salmon –Let’s Party About It – Let’s Party About It (2025)
Carolyn Shulman – Matter of Time – Grenadine & Kerosene (2021)
Woven Hollow –Ten Feet Under (2026)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Do You Know Thee Enemy? – Unentitled (2011)
DeVotchKa – Transliterator – A Mad & Faithful Telling (2008)
Ronjo V –Gray Skies – Ronjo V (2025)
(D) The Barlow – Factory or Prison (2026)

The Informants – Salvation – Crime Scene Queen (2009)
Marfa – Daisy (2025)
Gabriel Mervine –When It’s Sleepytime Down South – Say Somethin’ (2021)

Boenzee Cryque – Still In Love With You Baby (1967)
Poco – What A Day – Pickin’ Up the Pieces (1969)
(D) Gasoline Lollipops – Derailed (2026)

piKziL – Exit Strategy (2025)
Volores – All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)
Our Violet Room – Villian (2026)
Megan Burtt – Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – The Bargain (2015)
The Still Tide – High Wire – Run Out (2017)
LatinSoul, Joshua Trinidad – Mama Pacha (2025)
(D) King Cardinal – New Addiction – Reviver (2026)

Andy Monley and the High Horses – Drag Me to Hell – Totem (2023)
Sour Magic – Silver Sands (2025)
Brad Goode – St. Louis Blues – Chicago Red (2013)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING FEB 15 2026

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), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVCU (Boulder, 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 count.

(D) = debut HOT SPINS
(R) = re-enter HOT SPINS

ALL STATIONS + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST – 73 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Derailed SP Jan-26
(D) 2. KING CARDINAL – Reviver LP Sep-25
(D) 3. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25
(D) 3. OUR VIOLET ROOM – Villain SP Jan-26
(R) 4. SOUR MAGIC – The Hive LP May-25

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!