SPINITRON – Chris K's Colorado Playlist

#COMUSIC TOP 30 NOVEMBER

For the first time in a very long (and out of my memory), I did not do a TOP 30 (OCT). Here’s what was HOT in NOVEMBER around the state.

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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.

#COMUSIC TOP 30 NOVEMBER 2025

(2) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP (Mar-25)
(D) 2. BEST MAN – People Pleaser LP (May-25)
(D) 3. AUTUMNAL – the seed becomes exposed LP (Sep-25)
(D) 4. THE PHOTO ATLAS – Hello Hospital EP (Aug-25)
(16) 5. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP (Mar-25)
(D) 6. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP (Oct-25)
(D) 7. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP (Sep-25)
(22) 8. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – XXV LP (Jun-25)
(21) 9. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP (Jan-25)
(7) 9. MAY BE FERN – Three of Swords LP (Sep-25)
(D) 9. RO$$AY – Denver, Tokyo SP (Oct-25)
(D) 10. DARREN GARVEY – Feel For You SP (Sep-25)
(1) 11. PACKAGING – Packaging LP (Jun-25)
(D) 12. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia / Dirt Bag Saloon SP (Oct-25)
(15) 12. RUSS HOPKINS BAND – Always Moving Ahead LP (Sep-25)
(D) 13. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP (Aug-25)
(R) 14. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP (Feb-25)
(13) 15. A.J. FULLERTON, LAUREN FRIHAUF – Slow Killer / Bitter Song / Expectations / I Don’t Wanna Grow Up SP (Sep-25)
(R) 16. SUGAR BRITCHES – Terrified And Aroused SP (Jul-25)
(D) 17. 2MX2 – Excandalo SP (Sep-25)
(10) 18. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP (Feb-25)
(D) 18. BLANKSLATE – Lookout Mountain Charley LP (Jun-25)
(22) 18. COVENHOVEN – The Color of the Dark LP (Apr-25)
(D) 18. SCOTT REDNOR BAND – Where You Wanna Go feat. John Popper SP (Oct-25)
(D) 18. VOLORES – the Huntress SP (Oct-25)
(D) 19. AUGUSTUS – Matchbox SP (Jun-25)
(D) 19. BIG GIGANTIC – Fluorescence LP (Jun-25)
(R) 19. CHRISTINE ALICE – Wood, Strings & Simple Things LP (Feb-25)
(21) 19. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Lullaby SP (Sep-25)
(R) 19. QUESO RA – Glass SP (May-25)
(D) 19. WEST OF FENNARIO – Stone Fountain Serenade SP (Jul-25)

88.9 KRFC – 53 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP (Oct-25)
(4) 2. RUSS HOPKINS BAND – Always Moving Ahead LP (Sep-25)
(4) 3. A.J. FULLERTON, LAUREN FRIHAUF – Slow Killer / Bitter Song / Expectations / I Don’t Wanna Grow Up SP (Sep-25)
(5) 4. SUGAR BRITCHES – Terrified And Aroused SP (Jul-25)
(11) 5. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP (Sep-25)
(8) 6. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – XXV LP (Jun-25)
(2) 7. MAY BE FERN – Three of Swords LP (Sep-25)
(3) 8. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP (Mar-25)
(3) 9. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP (Feb-25)
(10) 10. SLOW CAVES – I Wanna Bite / Periwinkle SP (Oct-25)

INDIE 102.3 – 16 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. BEST MAN – People Pleaser LP (May-25)
(D) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP (Mar-25)
(D) 2. THE PHOTO ATLAS – Hello Hospital EP (Aug-25)
(D) 3. AUTUMNAL – the seed becomes exposed LP (Sep-25)
(D) 4. RO$$AY – Denver, Tokyo SP (Oct-25)
(9) 5. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP (Jan-25)
(4) 6. CHEAP PERFUME – Don’t Care. Didn’t Ask LP (Aug-25)
(4) 6. PACKAGING – Packaging LP (Jun-25)
(1) 7. LOS TOMS – Tube Theory LP (Jan-25)

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 30 TITLES TRACKED
(1) 1. MARFA – Daisy SP (Nov-24)
(1) 1. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP (Sep-25)
(3) 2. 2MX2 – Excandalo SP (Sep-25)
(10) 3. VOLORES – the Huntress SP (Oct-25)
(7) 4. DARREN GARVEY – Feel For You SP (Sep-25)
(3) 4. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Lullaby SP (Sep-25)
(9) 4. MAY BE FERN – Three of Swords LP (Sep-25)
(9) 4. PACKAGING – Packaging LP (Jun-25)
(7) 4. QUESO RA – Glass SP (May-25)
(4) 4. WEST OF FENNARIO – Stone Fountain Serenade SP (Jul-25)

KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio/Durango), KVNF (Paonia) – 43 TITLES TRACKED
(4) 1. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – XXV LP (Jun-25)
(1) 1. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP (Mar-25)
(3) 2. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP (Feb-25)
(D) 3. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia / Dirt Bag Saloon SP (Oct-25)
(9) 3. NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND – Night After Night SP (Sep-25)
(9) 4. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP (Mar-25)
(9) 5. CLAY STREET UNIT – Where Have You Gone? / Let’s Get Stoned SP (Sep-25)
(7) 6. DAVID STARR – Must Be Blue LP (Feb-25)
(7) 6. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP (Aug-25)
(8) 7. BIG RICHARD – Girl Dinner LP (Jan-25)
(5) 7. LETTUCE – Gold Tooth / Rising to the Top SP (Jul-25)

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CP S19 EP30 2025

Summertime Milky Way over Lake San Cristobal, Lake City courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community for 25 years.

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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THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air. I make this show available at no cost to the stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. 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
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Stephen Stills – Colorado – Manassas (1971)
(D) Cole Schiefele – In Case You Ever Come Around (2025)

The Motet – Thinkin Too Much – Thinkin Too Much (2024)
Dressy Bessy – I’m Still Here (2021)
Andy Eppler – Don’t Say My Name – Valley of the Sin Eaters (2025)
The Mercury Project – Refuge – Soapbox Jive (2004)
Megan Burtt – Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – The Bargain (2015)
Tennis – 12 Blown Tires – Face Down In the Garden (2025)
(N) Analog Son – Insatiable f. Adryon de Leon – Keep It Coming (2025)

Gregory Alan Isakov – The Fall – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
Sugar Nova with G. Love & Special Sauce – Cool Me Down (2024)
Adam Bodine – Jacuzzi Marinade – Ribbons for Pigs (2025)

Babyface – Stone Cold – Babyface (1975)
Freddi Henchi and the Soulsetters – Fire – Crown Princes Of Funk: The Last Set (1972)
(D) Daniel Rodriguez, Wesley Schultz – Dig A Lover’s Grave – Dig A Lover’s Grave EP (2025)

Claire Heywood – Alone Woman – Water is All I See (2024)
N3ptune – Black Horse (radio edit) – Renaissance (2022)
Andy Frasco & The U.N. – Try Not to Die (2025)
The Czars – What I Can Do For You – Before…But Longer (2008)
Katie Herzig – Walk Through Walls (2014)
Deva Yoder – Stories (2025)
(D) Big Samir, South of France – Running Out of Time (2025)

Wellington Bullings – Because I Want To (2020)
Dragondeer – Jolee (2024)
Paa Kow – African Lady – Cookpot (2017)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles avail)

HOT SPINS WK ENDING AUG 10 2025

ALL STATIONS including spins on the Colorado Playlist – 74 titles tracked
(D) 1. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(D) 1. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25
(D) 2. MYSTEE – Forget Me Not EP Jul-25
(D) 3. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Dig A Lover’s Grave EP Jul-25
(2) 3. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 3. mon cher – Lush (ft. Best Man) SP Jun-25