Best Colorado Music – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

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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 – MARCH 30-APRIL 26 2025
109 titles tracked, 1358 spins

(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(2) 2. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP (Oct-24)
(18) 3. THE GALENTINES – 1140 LP (Dec-24)
(D) 4. CHELLA & THE CHARM – Happy Hour EP (Mar-25)
(D) 4. ELKA – Cold Feet, Soft Landing EP (Mar-25)
(D) 5. COVENHOVEN – The Color of the Dark LP (Apr-25)
(D) 6. MACHETE MOUTH – 120k SP (Aug-24)
(D) 7. TINY TOMBOY – Psychic Scar LP Feb-25
(4) 8. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Flowers SP (Feb-25)
(D) 9. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation in Aisle #3 LP Mar-25
(15) 10. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Don’t Go it Alone SP (Mar-25)
(18) 10. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP (Sep-24)
(17) 11. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP (Feb-25)
(D) 12. DAVID STARR – Hole in the Page/Lonesome Train SP (Feb-25)
(R) 12. GIANT WALKING ROBOTS – Wake Up LP (Aug-24)
(D) 13. CO-STANZA – Daykiller SP (Mar-25_
(20) 13. LOLITA – My Head f. DMD the Producer SP (Feb-25)
(9) 14. GRANT SABIN – Work LP (Aug-24)
(3) 15. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP (Mar-25)
(10) 15. The BURROUGHS – Got to Free Your Mind SP (Feb-25)
(R) 15. THE PATTI FIASCO – Ouroboros EP (May-24)
(R) 16. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP (Jan-25)
(D) 17. ERIC LILLEY TRIO – Swing Set LP (Feb-25)
(16) 17. HUNTER JAMES & THE TITANIC – Stranger Touch SP (Dec-24)
(8) 18. BIG RICHARD – Girl Dinner LP (Sep-24)
(D) 18. BISON BONE – Lean EP (Apr-25)
(D) 19. BARBARA – For Good Measure SP (Jun-24)
(D) 19. CHARLIE STEVENS – Tomorrow Starts Today SP (Apr-25)
(D) 19. CIPRIANO BAND – Oh Cocoa LP (Mar-25)
(22) 19. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Harboring Pearls LP (Mar-25)

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

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The Monday Morning Music Meeting is a way for you to let me know what you think of new music emerging from around the state. Results enter into which cuts stay in rotation, and which cuts make the final “best of” list.

HOUR 1

Dianne Reeves – Hesitation – Welcome To My Love (1982)
Rare Silk – New York Afternoon – New Weave (1983)
(D) Slopeside – San Luis Valley – Oleander Heart (2024)
Kind Hearted Strangers – Diesel – Now.here (2023)
Little Trips – Too Hot to Hold – Little Trips (2023)
The Czars – Drug – The Ugly People Vs The Beautiful People (2001)
Mojomama – The Big Easy – Red White and Blues (2018)
Calvin Locklear – Wet Cement – No Particular Plan (2024)
(D) Ryan Chrys & the Rough Cuts – Tonight, A Party! (2024)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hk3JK9bHB-M%3Fsi%3DbhvDGvvX_BbnlCm4

Drag The River – Not That Kind – Drag The River (2013)
The Motet – Natural Light (2023)
Tony Exum Jr – My Name is Tony (2019)

HOUR 2

Freddi Henchi and the Soulsetters – Funky To The Bone – Crown Princes Of Funk: The Last Set (1972)
Freddi Henchi Band – Get Up Off the Funk – Freddi Henchi Band (1981)
Barstool Messiah – Ain’t Your Fool (feat. Erica Brown) (2022)
iZCalli – One Last Time – Rebirth (2022)
Angie Stevens & The Beautiful Wreck – North Star (2024)
Otis Taylor – Ten Million Slaves – Recapturing The Banjo (2008)
Leftover Salmon – House of Cards – Something Higher (2018)
Jobi Riccio – Sweet – Whiplash (2023)
(N) Cary Morin – Montana Sky – Innocent Allies (2023)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xn0-uuCvdE8%3Fsi%3D56otP6QfNvWMxOPe

Jeff Finlin – East by West – The Tao of Motor Oil (2010)
Dragondeer – Mirage à Trois – Across The Waves (2023)
Keith Oxman – All Dudes – Doing All Right (2009)

#COMUSIC HOT SPINS WK FEB 11-18 2024

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist, 105.5 The Colorado Sound, Indie 102.3, 88.9 KRFC and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay at more than 300 stations and programs around the country.

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered TOP 5
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = NOT LIVING IN COLORADO, but counted as long as they were born and/or raised here, or 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) 1. BIG HEAD TODD & THE MONSTERS – Her Way Out SP (Jan-24)
(2) 2. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones LP (Apr-23)
(3) 3. CLAYGO – Dreamz Turnt Cold LP (Mar-23)
(D) 4. CASEY PRESTWOOD – Where Am I Going It’s Where I’ve Always Been LP (Feb-24)
(D) 4. PROJECT NAY & DJ K TONE – Bring It In Denver LP (Aug-23)
(R) 4. THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT – Lend Me a Hand LP Jun-23

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries%3Fsi%3Drcc-RJ1DOkiHV0tc%26list%3DPLjTLYGkfkx3poHPecTZ6hjZ5pEEvWah9B