CP S19 EP21 2025

Blue Mesa Reservoir, Gunnison, CO + Milky Way courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

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The Monday Morning Music Meeting 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) 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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This week’s show features music not available on any streaming service. Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore’s new album is only available via Bandcamp. Andy Sydow‘s new EP with his live band, the Minor League, is not out yet.

Two other releases of note are also not on streaming services: The Grocery Story Situation on Isle #3 and Concrete Hotel, the new album from the Delta Sonics. So the only place you can hear them is here on the Colorado Playlist.

Rick Derringer Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo – All American Boy (1973)
Sugarloaf Tongue In Cheek (radio edit) – Spaceship Earth (1971)
(D) Jay Stott Econoline Van (2025)
The High HawksSomewhere South – Mother Nature’s Show (2024)
Sweet VirginiaBlue Skies – Leaving Again (2022)
The Grocery StoryYou Don’t Knock (f. Erik Lunde) – Situation on Isle #3 (2025)
Last Call RomanceOne Step Too Close – Double Funeral, Vol. 2 (2023)
Fast Eddy – Take A Look (2022)
piKziL Along The Dark Horizon (2024)
(D) Taylor ShaeAmerican Dream (2025)
The Velveteers Charmer And The Snake – Nightmare Daydream (2021)
Dragondeer Jolee (2024)
Paa Kow African Lady – Cookpot (2017)

Dan FogelbergLonger – Phoenix (1979)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band An American Dream – American Dream (1979)
(D) Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore I’ve Got The Blues – Lost In The Crowd (2025)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night SweatsCall Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
CITRA Ocean (2020)
Dr. JoeLet It Shine – Songs of Joy, Unity and Revolution (2025)
Tennis Runner – Swimmer (2020)
Musketeer Gripweed More Than Ever – More Than Ever EP (2021)
The Delta Sonics Concrete Hotel – Concrete Hotel (2025)
(D) Andy Sydow & the Minor League Night Skin – Life Goes By EP (2025)
The Copper Children Pity Party – Strange Illusion (2022)
Megan Burtt Drugstore Brand (Radio Edit) – Witness (2024)
Keith OxmanThe Midgets – A Little Taste (1995)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING MAY 31, 2025

ALL STATIONS, including the Colorado Playlist – 73 titles tracked
(1) 1. THE GROCERY STORY Situation on Isle #3 LP Oct-24 (not avail online)
(D) 2. DELTA SONICS Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25 (not avail online)
(2) 2. LEFTOVER SALMONLet’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(5) 3. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Water Is All I See LP May-25
(D) 3. NO DREAMS Good Life + All Bent Out Of Shape SP Mar-25
(R) 4. piKziL Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24
(D) 4. TO BE ASTRONAUTSSense EP 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) …

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#COMUSIC TOP 30 MAY 2025

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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).

KAFMKBUTKCSUKDNKKDURKFFRKOTOKSJDKSUTKRFCKRZA 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 102.3105.5 The Colorado Sound and 88.9 KRFC. Their HOT SPINS are listed below.

TOP 30 MAY 2025
SURVEY PERIOD MAY 01-31 2025
111 titles tracked, 1699 spins

(1) 1.  the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. NO DREAMS Good Life + All Bent Out Of Shape SP Mar-25
(D) 3. TO BE ASTRONAUTSSense EP Apr-25
(D) 4. CLAIRE HEYWOODWater Is All I See LP May-25
(D) 5. GRAVEYARD CHOIRRestorative Art LP Nov-24
(2) 6. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 7. BRUHA H.E.X.D EP Mar-25
(D) 7. SALADS AND SUNBEAMSInto the Starless Night LP Mar-25
(D) 8. THE DIRTY TURKEYSCowboy Caravan LP Apr-25
(D) 9. THE RIVER ARKANSASTin Years LP Apr-25
(D) 10. LEFTOVER SALMON Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(9) 11. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation in Aisle #3 LP Mar-25
(3) 12. THE GALENTINES – 1140 LP Dec-24
(R) 13. piKziL Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24
(16) 14. DELTA SONICS Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25
(13) 15. LOLITA – My Head f. DMD the Producer SP  Feb-25
(D) 16. 2MX2 Por Aqui Por Alla SP Apr-25
(D) 17. MR. MOTAHot Box SP Apr-25
(D) 18. ROOTBEER RICHIE & THE REVEILLENever Needed Me LP Oct-24
(10) 19 HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Don’t Go it Alone SP Mar-25
(D) 20. ZOE BERMAN Fast Forward/ Vitamin D SP Apr-25
(11) 21. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(D) 21. HUNTER JAMES & THE TITANICWeekend Holds SP Mar-25
(R) 22. THE CROOKED RUGSHear & Now LP Oct-24
(15) 23. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(19) 24. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Harboring Pearls LP Mar-25
(R) 24. THE BARLOW High Spirits SP Feb-25
(R) 25. ISAAC MARTINEZTime Passes SP Jul-24
(10) 25. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(R) 26. ANDY SYDOWNight Skin LP Jun-24

88.9 KRFC – 42 TITLES TRACKED FOR MAY
(D) 1. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation in Aisle #3 LP Mar-25
(1) 2. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 3. CHARLIE STEVENS Tomorrow Starts Today LP Apr-25
(R) 3. GRANT SABIN Work LP Aug-24
(2) 4. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24

INDIE 102.3 – 16 TITLES TRACKED FOR MAY
(D) 1. NO DREAMS Good Life + All Bent Out Of Shape SP Mar-25
(D) 1. TO BE ASTRONAUTSSense EP Apr-25
(D) 2. CLAIRE HEYWOODWater Is All I See LP May-25
(D) 3. GRAVEYARD CHOIRRestorative Art LP Nov-24
(D) 4. BRUHA H.E.X.D EP Mar-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 39 TITLES TRACKED FOR MAY
(3) 1. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(D) 1. ISAAC MARTINEZTime Passes SP Jul-24
(R) 1. piKziL Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24
(D) 2. CACTUSHEADS – Inferno SP Dec-24
(D) 2. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Harboring Pearls LP Mar-25

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CP S19 EP09 2025

It was a clear day in Alamosa for the Monte Vista Crane Festival

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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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CP S19 EP09 HR1

Judy Roderick Country Girl Blues – Women Blue (1965)
60,000,000 Buffalo Country Girl Again – Nevada Jukebox (1972)
(D) Mandy Harvey, Adam DoleacThe Road I’m On (2025)
Dragondeer Stay High – Across The Waves (2020/2023)
Jeremy DionAll I See Is You – Bend in the Middle (2025)
The Mercury Project Higher Ground – Soapbox Jive (2004)
Five Iron Frenzy Zen & the Art of Xenophobia – Engine of a Million Plots (2013)
Yonder Mountain String Band Here I Go – Nowhere Next (2024)
(D) Dave PrestonYour Heart (feat. RachelA) (2025)
Angela HeartRed (2023)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters Her Way Out – Her Way Out (2024)
H2 Big Band You Go To My Head – It Could Happen (2015)

CP S19 EP09 HR2

Zephyr High Flying Bird – Sunset Ride (1972/2021)
Zephyr Don’t Come Back – Heartbeat (1981)
(D) Lolita & DMD TheProducer My Head (2025)
Jobi Riccio Sweet (radio edit) – Whiplash (2023)
Kyle EmersonWise Blood – Dorothy Alice (2017)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats Call Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
Safe Boating is No Accident Dye My Love – Bonus Features (2014)
Psychodelic ZombiezThe Doctor – Things That Are Brown (2015)
Grant Sabin Headshaker – Work (2024)
(N) The Still House String Band Thought Police – The Still House String Band (2025)
Tennis High Road – Young & Old (2012)
The High HawksMother Nature’s Show – Mother Nature’s Show (2024)
Gabriel MervineWhen It’s Sleepytime Down South – Say Somethin’ (2021)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WK MARCH 02-09 2025

ALL STATIONS including the Colorado Playlist
70 TITLES TRACKED 372 SPINS
(D) = debut HOT SPINS (R) = reenter HOT SPINS
(1) 1. the LUMINEERSAutomatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV Flowers SP Feb-25
(2) 3. THE VELVETEERS A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 4. GALENTINES 1140 LP Dec-24
(D) 5. HOLLY LOVELLHello Chelsea LP Sep-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) …

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