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CP S19 EP18 2025

Hiking in Glade Park / Balanced Rock. Courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show representing and promoting 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

We live in a state in love with the music that comes from here. Thanks for being a part of it!
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Here’s this week’s MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING comes courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge.

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.

Acoustic Junction – Penny For Your Thoughts – Love It For What It Is (1991)
The Samples – When It’s Raining – No Room (1992)
(N) Zoe Berman – Vitamin D – Zoe Berman LIVE in STUDIO (2025)
Big Dopes – Moon Car (2024)
Jesus Christ Taxi Driver – Diabolical Catholic – Lick My Soul (2023)
Teresa Suydam – Lost Bird – Lost Bird (2024)
DeVotchKa – The Common Good – 100 Lovers (2011)
Churchill – The War Within – The War Within EP (2013)
The Lumineers – So Long – Automatic (2025)
(N) The River Arkansas – Good Time Traveler – Tin Years (2025)
Foxfeather – End of My Rope – Nature of Things (2021)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Her Way Out – Her Way Out (2024)
Nitecap – Plátanos – Plátanos (2024)

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Viceroy Filter King – Always Say Please And Thank You (2000)
The Railbenders – Crazy Train – Showdown (2001)
(D) Mr. Mota – Hot Box (2025)
A.J. Fullerton – Sorry You’re Blue – Closer (2024)
Dragondeer – Mirage à Trois – Across The Waves (2023)
Holly Lovell – Hello Chelsea – Hello Chelsea (2025)
The Burroughs – Step Into the Music (2018)
Paper Bird – To the Light – Paper Bird (2016)
Andy Sydow – In Love and a Hard Luck Sayer – Night Skin (2025)
(N) The Dirty Turkeys – Undercover Billionaire – Cowboy Caravan (2024)
Bevin Luna – Masquerade – Madison and Angelus (2022)
American Culture – Let It Go (feat. Midwife) – Hey Brother, It’s Been A While (2024)
Keith Oxman – For Darcy and Lenny – Doing All Right (2009)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WK ENDING MAY 11, 2025

ALL STATIONS STATWIDE inc. Colorado Playlist
80 titles tracked, 368 spins
(4) 1. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(2) 2. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 3. MR. MOTA – Hot Box SP Apr-25
(D) 4. THE DIRTY TURKEYS – Cowboy Caravan LP Apr-25
(R) 5. ANDY SYDOW – Night Skin LP Jun-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

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CP S19 EP17 2025

Colorado singer-songwriter Jill Sobule passed away at 66 in a Minnesota house fire, with memorial plans pending later this summer.

News hit us hard this past weekend when we learned that native Colorado singer-songwriter, Jill Sobule, passed away on May 01, at the age of 66, in a house fire in Minnesota. She was scheduled to perform the next night at Swallow Hill Music in Denver, where she learned to play guitar as a teenager.

Although not inducted, The Colorado Music Hall of Fame is planning a memorial for Jill later this summer.

I NEED YOUR HELP, PLEASE. The Colorado Playlist is the only show representing and promoting Colorado music statewide. Your support is now critical 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

We live in a state in love with the music that comes from here. Thanks for being a part of it!
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Here’s this week’s MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING comes courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge.

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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Lothar and the Hand People – Midnight Ranger – Space Hymn (1969)
Sugarloaf – ‘Round & ‘Round (1973)
(D) Zoe Berman – Fast Forward (2025)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Like Lightning (2024)
Rob Drabkin – My Train is Coming – City Lights & Country Sides (2025)
Julian Fulco Perron – Not So Fast – In My Garden (2022)
The Apples In Stereo – Same Old Drag – New Magnetic Wonder (2007)
piKziL – Exit Strategy (2025)
(D) The River Arkansas – Nothin’ Goin’ My Way – Tin Years (2025)
Leftover Salmon – Blue Railroad Train (feat. Billy Strings) – Grass Roots (2023)
Jack Hadley – The Blues Made Me Strong Again – the St. Louis Sessions Volume II (2024)
Wil Swindler’s Elevenet – Universe B – Universe B (2010)

The Rainy Daze – That Acapulco Gold (1967)
The Fantastic Zoo – Light Show (1969)
(D) The Dirty Turkeys – Oo-De-Lally – Cowboy Caravan (2025)
Fast Eddy – In Too Deep – To the Stars (2024)
Five Iron Frenzy – Renegades – Until This Shakes Apart (2021)
The Galentines – Rear View Mirror – 1140 (2025)
Megan Burtt – Real Thing – The Bargain (2015)
Big Gigantic – Got The Love – Brighter Future (2016)
The Motet – Something Better – Love Time (2024)
(D) 2MX2 – Por Aqui Por Alla (2025)
ILLENIUM – Story of My Life feat. Trippie Redd (2022)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Glorious Full Moon – Her Way Out (2024)
Adam Bodine – Surface Service – Scenes of Changery (2021)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING MAY 4, 2025

REPORT FROZEN THIS WEEK
(2) 1. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(4) 2. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(6) 3. CHELLA & THE CHARM – Happy Hour EP Mar-25
(3) 3. THE GALENTINES – 1140 LP Dec-24
(6) 4. TINY TOMBOY – Psychic Scar LP 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

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#COMUSIC TOP 30 APRIL 2025

THE COLORADO PLAYLIST IS THE ONLY SHOW REPRESENTING AND PROMOTING COLORADO MUSIC STATEWIDE. YOUR SUPPORT IS NOW CRITICAL TO KEEPING IT ON THE AIR. MAKE DONATIONS VIA VENMO AT CHRISK-2 OR USE THE DONATION FORM BELOW. And, thank you for supporting. – much love.

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 – 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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