Tag: FEBRUARY 2026

Welcome to March! YAY .. one month closer to warm (warmer) temps and outdoor live music. Make sure to check out the calendar, venues (front range, non-front range) and concert series and festival pages (and if you find something wrong, holler).

One interesting aspect of the monthly TOP 30 spins is the percentage of NEW (D) entries compared to those releases that carry over month to month or are re-entries (R). By my reckoning, about seventy percent of the list is (D) NEW each month. That’s a lot of new music every month coming out of our state.

AN ALBUM NOT TO BE OVERLOOKED…

Not all the great albums that come out get noticed in the HOT SPINS or TOP 30 reckonings. One such album came out last July, and I just NOW got to sit down and listen to it front to back – “Life Lessons” by Colorado legends Bill Frisell, Tim O’Brien and Dale Bruning, with help from E-Town’s Nick Forster on a couple songs. It’s not only worth mentions, it’s worth listening to …front to back.

Life Lessons is full of some wonderful surprises, especially their renderings of Sweet Lorraine, and the blues classic Trouble In Mind, sung wonderfully by Tim O’Brien, whose voice is as aged and smooth as a vintage whisky. (Spotify, YouTube).

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HOW THE CHART IS PUT TOGETHER

Every week I survey fifteen Colorado community/public and college stations, plus Colorado Playlist spins on respective stations. The weekly survey period runs from midnight Sunday through the next Saturday. 

The monthly survey period starts from the first week, ending with a Saturday. It continues through the last week, which also ends on 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, KLZR, KOTO, KSJD, KSUT, KRFC, KRZA, KVCU, 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)

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#COMUSIC TOP 30 FEBRUARY 2026 – ALL STATIONS

(15) 1. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia LP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(9) 2. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 3. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 4. OSHA RENEE – Gorgeous SP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 5. E.M.E. – Cover Me SP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 6. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Derailed SP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 6. VOLORES – Shores of Scorpio LP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(R) 7. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP Aug-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 8. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Too Cold to Golf SP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(6) 8. LETTUCE – Cook LP Jul-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 8. MARFA – American Blues SP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 9. HOME – Masterpiece SP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 10. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP Dec-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 10. VELVET DAYDREAM – Love SP Dec-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 11. THE GRAHAMS – The Bridge LP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 11. JORDAN BURGETT & RESIDING ELSEWHERE – Romanian Sex Shop SP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 12. JORDAN BURGETT & RESIDING ELSEWHERE – Smell Me SP Dec-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(12) 12. KING CARDINAL – Reviver Sep-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 13. ASON YUGEN – Imaginary Mass SP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(6) 13. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 13. OUR VIOLET ROOM – Villain SP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 14. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(2) 15. THE TAMMY SHINE – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 15. VIVIAN – Crash and Burn SP Jan-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(16) 16. A.J. FULLERTON, LAUREN FRIHAUF – “singles” SP Sep-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(8) 16. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(21) 17. PACKAGING – Packaging LP Jun-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(1) 18. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains (Deluxe) LP Feb-26 (Spotify, YouTube)
(R) 18. NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND – Night After Night EP Sep-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(13) 19. CLAY STREET UNIT – Sin and Squalor LP Sep-25 (Spotify, YouTube)

88.9 KRFC – 54 TITLES TRACKED
(5) 1. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP NOV-25
(D) 2. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP Dec-25
(D) 3. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Too Cold to Golf SP Jan-26
(1) 4. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP Oct-25
(D) 5. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Derailed SP Jan-26
(D) 5. VOLORES – Shores of Scorpio LP Oct-25
(R) 6. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP Aug-25
(D) 7. GRANT SABIN – Live at LuLu’s LP Jan-26
(R) 8. GIANT WALKING ROBOTS – Headspin EP Apr-25
(D) 9. A BROTHER’S FOUNTAIN – I Felt Something Today SP Jan-26

INDIE 102.3 – 7 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. OSHA RENEE – Gorgeous SP Jan-26
(D) 1. HOME – Masterpiece SP Nov-25
(D) 3. JORDAN BURGETT & RESIDING ELSEWHERE – Romanian Sex Shop SP Oct-25
(D) 4. E.M.E. – Cover Me SP Nov-25
(D) 4. JORDAN BURGETT & RESIDING ELSEWHERE – Smell Me SP Dec-25
(D) 5. ASON YUGEN – Imaginary Mass SP Nov-25
(D) 5. THE TAMMY SHINE – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 30 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. MARFA – American Blues SP Jan-26
(D) 2. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP Jan-26
(R) 3. CHEROKEE SOCIAL – Get To Me SP Aug-25
(2) 3. THE TAMMY SHINE – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25
(D) 4. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25
(3) 4. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Lullaby SP Sep-25
(D) 4. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Too Cold to Golf SP Jan-26
(D) 4. OUR VIOLET ROOM – Villain SP Jan-26
(D) 5. VELVET DAYDREAM – Love SP Dec-25

KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KOTO (Telluride), KLZR (Westcliffe), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia) – 45 TITLES TRACKED
(5) 1. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia LP Oct-25
(D) 2. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP Jan-26
(1) 3. LETTUCE – Cook LP Jul-25
(R) 4. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP Aug-25
(5) 5. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25
(3) 6. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(D) 6. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains (Deluxe) LP Jan-26
(R) 7. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon LP Mar-25
(2) 8. CLAY STREET UNIT – Sin and Squalor LP Sep-25
(D) 9. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP Jan-26

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