Genre charts for week ending Oct 11 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BEDOUINE Bird Songs Of A Killjoy Spacebomb
2 SINCERELY, IRIS I’m Not the Same Self-Released
3 KAREN AND HER SORROWS Guaranteed Broken Heart Self-Released
4 MONICA RIZZIO Sunshine Is Free Washashore
5 JUST AROUND THE BEND: SURVIVAL AND REVIVAL IN SOUTHERN BANJO STYLES – MIKE SEEGER’S LAST DOCUMENTARY VARIOUS ARTISTS Smithsonian Folkways
6 MARIEE SIOUX Grief in Exile Night Bloom
7 SAFIA NOLIN xX3m0 $0ng$ 2 $!nG @L0nG 2Xx [EP] Bonsound
8 CRYS MATTHEWS These Old Hands [EP] NewSongs
9 PEARLA Quilting And Other Activities Egghunt
10 LIZZIE NO Vanity Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SAMPA THE GREAT The Return Ninja Tune
2 DANNY BROWN uknowhatimsayin¿ Warp
3 GISTO Self Made Historical
4 COMMON Let Love Loma Vista/Concord
5 ATM ATM [EP] Mass Appeal
6 FLY ANAKIN Holly Water Fat Beats
7 FREDDIE GIBBS AND MADLIB Bandana Keep Cool/RCA/Madlib Invazion/ESGN
8 MIRTAW Vandals MXC
9 NAS Lost Tapes, Vol 2. Def Jam
10 KOOL KEITH Keith Mello

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 EXKNIVES Witches and Skindivers Self-Released
2 APPALLING Inverted Realm Self-Released
3 MUNICIPAL WASTE The Last Rager [EP] Nuclear Blast
4 GOST Valedection Century Media
5 DRUGS OF FAITH Decay Selfmadegod
6 RUSSIAN CIRCLES Blood Year Sargent House
7 SNOW BURIAL Ostrava Prosthetic
8 KMFDM Paradise Metropolis
9 VARICELLA Even Deader Machine Man
10 BLANK HELLSCAPE Blank Hellscape Self-Released

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SNAPPED ANKLES Stunning Luxury The Leaf
2 SEVERED SKIES Dimensions DSBP
3 CLIPPING There Existed An Addiction To Blood Sub Pop
4 TR/ST The Destroyer -2 [Advance Tracks] Grouch/House Arrest
5 MR KITTY Ephemeral Negative Gain
6 ROBERT BUSHINSKY The Breakdown Lane Self-Released
7 HYPNOLOVE Plexus Record Makers
8 DANKMUS It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Blurst of Times. Dankcrest Enterprises
9 SON STEP Fossilillies Grind Select
10 ALISON COTTON The Girl I Left Behind Me [EP] Clay Pipe

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 GARIFUNA COLLECTIVE, THE Aban Stonetree
2 BUDOS BAND, THE The Budos Band V Daptone
3 Y LA BAMBA Entre Los Dos [EP] Tender Loving Empire
4 NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN AND PARTY Live At WOMAD 1985 Real World
5 HOPE MASIKE The Exorcism Of A Spinster WMN
6 ZENOBIA Zenobia [EP] Crammed
7 ALMA AFROBEAT ENSEMBLE Monkey See, Monkey Do Slow Walk
8 BLASSICS, THE Togetherings Odd Funk
9 LUKA PRODUCTIONS Falaw Sahel Sounds
10 RACHID TAHA Je Suis Africaine Believe

    October 12th, 2019

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Oct 4 presents:

The weekly chart reflects the diversity of programming on WRIR. In an average week, WRIR DJs play approximately 1,200 albums (and EPs and singles).

To make it on the list, an album must be released in the past year. Local bands and albums played by more than one DJ are given priority in the rankings.

Below the chart is a list of new albums added to the music library once that information has been compiled. Check back later if it’s not there yet.

1 Mirtaw Vandals MXC
2 Sampa the Great The Return Ninja Tune
3 Jenny Hval The Practice of Love Sacred Bones
4 Imelda Marcos Tatlo Already Dead Tapes
5 Moon Duo Stars Are the Light Sacred Bones
6 Che Apalache Rearrange My Heart Free Dirt
7 Juana Molina Paraguaya Punk – Single Crammed Discs
8 Oh Sees Face Stabber Castle Face
9 Wiki Eggs – Single Wikset Enterprises
10 The Replacements Dead Man’s Pop Rhino/Warner
11 Lucy Dacus Dancing In the Dark – Single Matador
12 The Opioid Era 3 X Dope West Coast Edition Pill Press
13 The Visionary Pulse – EP Dark Dreama
14 Gorrak Gorrak self-released
15 Charles Owens Trio Three and Thirteen Ropeadope
16 Sycho Sid Sunset Drive 2 Mutant Academy
17 Koncept Jack$on Newport 1000s self-released
18 Eliza Battle Like Leaves self-released
19 Petrichor II Custom Made
20 Bigal Harrison Bintage CONTROL Ent.
21 Alessandro Cortini Volume Massimo Mute
22 Brian Crook & The Renderers This World Just Eats Me Up Alive Ba Da Bing!
23 Girl Band The Talkies Rough Trade
24 Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, and Jesse Paris Smith Songs from the Bardo Smithsonian Folkways
25 Thigh Master Now For Example Goner
26 Temples Hot Motion ATO
27 Dori Freeman Every Single Star Blue Hens Music
28 Jonah Tolchin Fires for the Cold Yep Roc
29 Chastity Belt Chastity Belt Hardly Art
30 Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence Sargent House

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    October 5th, 2019

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