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CP S19 EP22 2025

Mesa Lake, Grand Mesa, Colorado, 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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Two of this week’s featured (N) new tracks, The Delta Sonics Brand New Clown, and Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore‘s I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But The Blues, are not available on Spotify or YouTube. Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore‘s album is only available on Bandcamp. The Delta Sonics have not yet released their latest online.

Earth, Wind & Fire – That’s the Way of the World – That’s The Way Of The World (1975)
(N) Delta Sonics – Brand New Clown – Concrete Hotel (2025)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Face Down in the Moment – The Future (2022)
The Motet – Something Better – Love Time (2024)
The Reminders – Dust and Bones – Unstoppable (2019)
Braddigan – Walls – Watchfires (2005)
A.J. Fullerton – Wild Peace – Magnetic Light (2025)
(N) Leftover Salmon, Del McCoury – Twisted Pine – Let’s Party About It (2025)
Post Truth Serum – The Discotheque – Modern Victims (2020)
Fast Eddy – In Too Deep – To the Stars (2024)
Andrew Vogt – Trashcan Timmy (Does It Again) – Optimistic Infinity House (2024)

Sugarloaf – Green Eyed Lady – Sugarloaf (1970)
(D) The Cody Sisters – All the Quiet People – All the Quiet People (2025)
Chris Daniels & the Kings – I Need Some Good Luck Bad (f. Freddi Gowdy) – 40: Blues with Horns Volume II (2024)
Wildermiss – Supermagical (2020)
Zoe Berman – Fast Forward (2025)
Petals of Spain – Daydream (2016)
Five Iron Frenzy – It Was a Dark & Stormy Night – Engine of a Million Plots (2013)
The Barlow – High Spirits – High Spirits (2025)
(N) Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But The Blues – Lost In The Crowd (2025)
Andy Frasco & the U.N. – I’ve Got a Long Way to Go – Keep On Keepin On (2020)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Glorious Full Moon – Her Way Out (2024)
Keith Oxman, Jeff Jenkins, Todd Reid, Mark Simon – Khalid – This One’s For Joey (2022)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WK ENDING JUNE 7, 2025

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE inc. spins on the Colorado Playlist
73 TITLES TRACKED 341 SPINS
(2) 1. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(D) 2. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(1) 2. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation on Isle #3 LP Oct-24
(D) 3. TEAM NONEXISTENT – Teeth LP Oct-24
(D) 3. BLANKSLATE – Paper Ducks / Spare Parts SP Jun-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 around the country.

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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).

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.

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 ASTRONAUTS – Sense EP Apr-25
(D) 4. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Water Is All I See LP May-25
(D) 5. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – Restorative 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 SUNBEAMS – Into the Starless Night LP Mar-25
(D) 8. THE DIRTY TURKEYS – Cowboy Caravan LP Apr-25
(D) 9. THE RIVER ARKANSAS – Tin 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. MOTA – Hot Box SP Apr-25
(D) 18. ROOTBEER RICHIE & THE REVEILLE – Never 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 TITANIC – Weekend Holds SP Mar-25
(R) 22. THE CROOKED RUGS – Hear & 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 MARTINEZ – Time Passes SP Jul-24
(10) 25. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(R) 26. ANDY SYDOW – Night 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 ASTRONAUTS – Sense EP Apr-25
(D) 2. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Water Is All I See LP May-25
(D) 3. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – Restorative 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 MARTINEZ – Time 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 S18 EP39 2024

The Milky Way, the Comet, and Venus setting over Escalante Canyon, courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

Have you been to “COLORADO 2024” on Spotify? (sorry non-Spotify users) one hundred songs from one hundred artists/bands. When it hits one hundred, it’s one in one out. Every week, I tally the spins for each track. Here’s what was hot this past week. And it’s MUCH different than the radio spins posted below.

(1) 1. OneRepublic – Hurt
(2) 2. The Fray – Time Well Wasted
(3) 3. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Heartless
(4) 4. Jeremiah Fraites (Lumineers), Gregory Alan Isakov – No Surprises
(7) 5. Lucy Daydream – Tear Me Down

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.

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Dean Reed – Our Summer Romance (1962)
Gary Stites – Lonely for You (1959)
(D) The Regular – All My Friends Are Gone and They’re Never Ever Ever Coming Back (2024)
Euforquestra – Arizona to Georgia – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Zoe Berman – Edit Delete and Save – Freezing Heat EP (2021)
Frail Talk – little al – little al (2024)
The String Cheese Incident – Stay Through – Song In My Head (2014)
SHEL – The Battle of Evermore – SHEL (2012)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Call Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
(N) The Motet – Something Better (2024)
Dafna – Valentine – I Love You (2020)
Daniel Rodriguez – Mixtape – Vast Nothing (2023)
(N) Andrew Vogt – Behave – Optimistic Infinity House (2024)

16 Horsepower – Coal Black Horses – 16 Horsepower (1995)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Hold On – Slim Cessna’s Auto Club (1995)
(D) The John Magnie Project – Far Country (feat. Erik Lunde) – Grocery Story (2024)
Tierro Band with Bridget Law – Opening (feat. Xerephine) – Everlasting Dance (2023)
Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand – Witness (2024)
Churchill – Change – The War Within EP (2013)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Wipeout Turn – New World Arisin’ (2017)
Jeff Cramer – Lost in the Catacombs – Forever Morning (2024)
(D) Covenhoven – Only Time Can Tell (2024)
Faith Eliza – Animal Like Me (2022)
Alysia Kraft – Little River – First Light (2022)
Glenn Miller – In the Mood – In the Mood (1939)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles avail)

HOT SPINS WK OCT 20-26 2024

spinitron.com

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.

ALL SURVEYED STATIONS STATEWIDE – 67 TITLES TRACKED
*includes spins on the Colorado Playlist
(1) 1. *NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP Apr-24
(2) 2. *MEGAN BURTT – Witness LP May-24
(4) 3. LO FI HO HUM – Garage Pop LP Aug-24
(D) 3. THE MILK BLOSSOMS – Open Portal LP Oct-24
(D) 4. *ANDREW VOGT – Optimistic Infinity House LP Jul-24
(D) 4. *JEFF CRAMER – Forever Morning: Pt. 1 LP Aug-24
(4) 4. KAYLA MARQUE – Midheaven LP AUG-24
(R) 4. WIREDOGS – Middle Life EP Sep-24

105.5 The Colorado Sound & The Colorado Playlist Present

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