top 30 new albums for Apr 18 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.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Benjamin Shepherd This Was Supposed to Be Temporary self-released
2 boygenius the record Interscope
3 Wednesday Rat Saw God Dead Oceans
4 Pearla Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming Spacebomb
5 Shana Cleveland Manzanita Hardly Art
6 Son Rompe Pera Chimborazo Aya
7 This Is the Kit Careful of Your Keepers Rough Trade
8 The Wilson Springs Hotel Old Thoughts and Memories self-released
9 gnawing Modern Survival Techniques Refresh
10 Honest Debts Can’t Be Trusted self-released
11 Strawberry Moon Habitual Creatures Sockhead
12 Heartworms A Comforting Notion – EP Speedy Wunderground / PIAS
13 Caroline Rose The Art of Forgetting New West
14 Los Bitchos Pah! City Slang
15 Tuelo Am/Fm – EP Minah Management
16 Kosaya Gora Kosogor 2MR
17 Genevieve Artadi Forever Forever Brainfeeder
18 Fever Ray Radical Romantics Mute
19 Screaming Females Desire Pathway Don Giovanni
20 Darling West Cosmos Jansen
21 Bunny Barnes It Goes Like It Goes Bunny Barnes
22 Hello Mary Hello Mary Frenchkiss
23 Clea Anaïs Circle Zero Moorworks
24 Hillary Susz Sexy as Loss – EP self-released
25 LANNDS Music for the Future Run For Cover
26 Adi Oasis Lotus Glow Unity
27 Jackie Mendoza Galaxia de Emociones ZZK
28 Jenn Howard Valiant Women Bathtub Music
29 Sam Casey More Songs About Weed and Toxic Relationships – EP The Confidence Emperors
30 Death Valley Girls Islands in the Sky Suicide Squeeze

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    April 18th, 2023

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top 30 new albums for Mar 7 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.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Algiers Shook Matador
2 Solomane Doumbia Ségou to Lagos MIERUBA
3 Graham Nash Now self-released
4 Shana Cleveland Manzanita Hardly Art
5 Fendika & K-Sanchis Gojo self-released
6 Liv.e Girl In The Half Pearl In Real Life
7 Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want to Turn Into You Perpetual Novice
8 De La Soul Buhloone Mindstate AOI
9 Kala Jula & Gangbé Brass Band Asro Buda Musique
10 Mackenzie Roark Rollin’ High, Feelin’ Low Vocal Rest
11 Roki Mother Axel
12 Dumb Waiter Gauche Gists Ossein
13 Spooky Cool Existential Pie Riot Daddy
14 Special Interest Endure Rough Trade
15 Rikki Rakki Cryin’ in the Uber – Single self-released
16 BlackLiq & ohbliv What Will It Take – EP Man Bites Dog
17 Hotspit Memory of a Mirror Image – EP avery magoruims wonder emporium
18 Ohbliv LewseJoints Twelve self-released
19 Drook Life in Estates – EP Brat Daddy
20 Strawberry Moon Habitual Creatures Sockhead
21 Kadencia En Otro Barrio Maurice Sanabria
22 Butcher Brown Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey Concord Jazz
23 Cassidy Snider & The Wranglers A Good Heartbreak Vocal Rest
24 GA-20 Live In Loveland Colemine
25 Derek Vanderhorst Wildflower self-released
26 shame Food for Worms Dead Oceans
27 Anna B Savage inFLUX City Slang
28 Paul McCann Alter Ego self-released
29 Bud Rokesky Outsider self-released
30 Karyn Michaelson Connections self-released

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    March 7th, 2023

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top 30 new albums for Jan 24 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.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Shana Cleveland Manzanita Hardly Art
2 Stereolab Pulse of the Early Brain Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp
3 Sadie Phases self-released
4 Frankie Cosmos Inner World Peace Sub Pop
5 Fievel Is Glauque Flaming Swords MATH Interactive
6 Butcher Brown Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey Concord Jazz
7 Westside Gunn 10 EMPIRE
8 Høly River Høly River Shockoe Sessions LIVE Shockoe
9 Ryan Kent Dying Comes With Age Rare Bird
10 The Ruta Beggars Ever-Changing MLN
11 Casey Foubert EP 1 zat-samuelson
12 Ernie Vincent Original Dap King self-released
13 Marlody I’m Not Sure at All Skep Wax
14 Orchestra Gold Medicine Orchestra Gold
15 Acre Memos A Collection of Bird Songs Double Yolk
16 Richard Dawson The Ruby Cord Weird World
17 Jambinai Apparition – EP Bella Union
18 La Femme Teatro Lúcido Disque Pointu
19 Big Joanie Back Home Kill Rock Stars
20 Aoife Nessa Frances Protector Partisan
21 Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn Pigments Merge
22 Tegan and Sara Crybaby Mom+Pop
23 Courtney Marie Andrews Loose Future CMA
24 Dungen En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog Mexican Summer
25 Nikki Lane Denim & Diamonds New West
26 Alvvays Blue Rev Polyvinyl
27 Melody’s Echo Chamber Unfold Weird World
28 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down Secretly Canadian
29 Jake Blount The New Faith Smithsonian Folkways
30 Jessie Baylin Jersey Girl Missing Piece

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    January 24th, 2023

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 13 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 Sinkane Dépaysé City Slang
2 Esther Rose You Made It This Far Father/Daughter Records
3 Parsnip When the Tree Bears Fruit Trouble in Mind
4 Nas The Lost Tapes 2 Mass Appeal Records
5 Shana Cleveland Night of the Worm Moon Hardly Art
6 Oh Sees Face Stabber Castle Face
7 Dori Freeman Every Single Star Blue Hens Music
8 Black Belt Eagle Scout At the Party with My Brown Friends Saddle Creek
9 Tinariwen Amadjar Anti/Epitaph;Wedge
10 Chris Forsyth All Time Present No Quarter
11 Transylvania Stud White Witch Independent
12 Future Projektor Terma Independent
13 Patrick Bates Salad Days – EP Verses Records
14 Book of Wyrms Remythologizer Twin Earth Records
15 Swordplay Paperwork Audio Recon
16 Petrichor II Custommademusicva
17 Benjamin Shepherd Hold the Line Benjamin Shepherd
18 Prayer Group Eudean – EP Independent
19 New Lions End Story – EP Independent
20 Ki:Theory Centrifugal – EP Kringer Records
21 Sammi Lanzetta Ceiling Mirror 6131 Records
22 Hex Machine Cave Painting Minimum Underdrive
23 Butt Bad Sex self-released
24 Enforced At the Walls Independent
25 Sleepwalkers Ages Spacebomb Records LLC
26 Katie Dahl Wildwood Leaky Boat Records
27 Zachary Lucky Midwestern self-released
28 Twin Peaks Lookout Low Pod / Inertia Music / Space 44
29 The Silence Metaphysical Feedback Drag City Records
30 Common Let Love Loma Vista Recordings

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    September 14th, 2019

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    Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution    August 26th, 2019

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Top 30 new albums for week ending June 14 presents:

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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.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Tacocat This Mess Is a Place Sub Pop
2 Vic Spencer Things Change I Don’t Old Fart Luggage
3 Positive No Teenage Waistline – Single Dromedary
4 Cate Le Bon Reward Mexican Summer
5 Shana Cleveland Night of the Worm Moon Hardly Art
6 Jamila Woods LEGACY! LEGACY! Jagjaguwar
7 She Keeps Bees Kinship Ba Da Bing!
8 C Keys & Kazi Keys 2 Kazi Below System
9 Your Old Droog It Wasn’t Even Close Gogul Mogul
10 The Mountain Goats In League with Dragons Merge
11 The National I Am Easy to Find 4AD
12 Earth Full upon Her Burning Lips Sargent House
13 Faye Webster Atlanta Millionaires Club Secretly Canadian
14 Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation Sacred Dreams Rocket
15 Omen Stones Omen Stones self-released
16 Benjamin Shepherd Hold the Line self-released
17 ohbliv Give Thanks Fat Beats
18 Prayer Group Eudean self-released
19 Copperhead Copperhead self-released
20 Shormey Boogie Tape, Vol. 1 – EP Citrus City
21 Membranes What Nature Gives… Nature Takes Away Cherry Red
22 Pixx Small Mercies 4AD
23 Bill Callahan Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest Drag City
24 Stef Chura Midnight Saddle Creek
25 Peter Perrett Humanworld Domino
26 Palehound Black Friday Polyvinyl
27 SACRED PAWS Run Around the Sun Merge
28 The Gotobeds Debt Begins at 30 Sub Pop
29 Mavis Staples We Get By Anti/Epitaph
30 Pronoun i’ll show you stronger Rhyme & Reason

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    June 15th, 2019

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Jun 7 presents:

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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.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Tacocat This Mess Is a Place Sub Pop
2 Shana Cleveland Night of the Worm Moon Hardly Art
3 Positive No Teenage Waistline – Single Dromedary
4 Drugdealer Raw Honey Mexican Summer / MAGNIPH / Hostess
5 Darkthrone Old Star Peaceville
6 Jamila Woods LEGACY! LEGACY! Jagjaguwar
7 Reigning Sound Abdication… For Your Love Merge
8 Grace Ives 2nd Dots Per Inch Music
9 Lovenloops Bev Lives On – EP self-released
10 Minor Poet The Good News – EP Sub Pop
11 Benjamin Shepherd Hold the Line self-released
12 Shormey Boogie Tape, Vol. 1 – EP Citrus City
13 Lobo Marino @Appalachian South Folklife Center – EP Lobo Marino
14 SACRED PAWS Run Around the Sun Merge
15 Willie Nelson Ride Me Back Home Legacy
16 French Vanilla How Am I Not Myself? Danger Collective
17 Earth Full upon Her Burning Lips Sargent House
18 Flying Lotus Flamagra Warp
19 Bambi Lee Savage Berlin-Nashville Express Hoof & Antler
20 Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble Where Future Unfolds International Anthem
21 Mavis Staples We Get By Anti/Epitaph
22 Ellis Paul The Storyteller’s Suitcase Rosella
23 Middle Kids New Songs for Old Problems – EP Domino
24 Juan Wauters Introducing Juan Pablo Captured Tracks
25 Nils Lofgren Blue with Lou Cattle Track Road
26 TK & The Holy Know-Nothings Arguably OK Mama Bird
27 Sebadoh act surprised Dangerbird
28 Clinic Wheeltappers and Shunters Domino
29 Operators Radiant Dawn Last Gang
30 Olden Yolk Living Theatre Trouble In Mind

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    June 8th, 2019

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Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:

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    Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution    May 13th, 2019

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Top 30 new albums for week ending May 10 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.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Drahla Useless Coordinates Captured Tracks
2 Tacocat This Mess Is a Place Sub Pop
3 Priests The Seduction of Kansas Sister Polygon
4 Norma Tanega Sad About The Times Anthology
5 Shana Cleveland Night of the Worm Moon Hardly Art
6 The Mountain Goats In League with Dragons Merge
7 Show Me the Body Dog Whistle Loma Vista
8 Angel Metro Dark Days Bright Lights self-released
9 Hackensaw Boys A Fireproof House of Sunshine – EP Free Dirt
10 Inter Arma Sulphur English Relapse
11 Monday Night Scomaha, Vol. 1 AllWeNeed
12 NDEFRU Foreign Local – EP Blue Ether Sound
13 Yatra Death Ritual Grimoire
14 The Mystery Lights Too Much Tension! Wick
15 Catfish and the Bottlemen The Balance Universal-Island
16 Unwed Sailor Heavy Age Current Taste
17 RGD Million Reasons Serious Machines
18 Craig Finn I Need a New War Partisan
19 L7 Scatter the Rats Blackheart
20 Wand Laughing Matter Drag City
21 The Yawpers Human Question Bloodshot
22 Daniel Norgren Wooh Dang Superpuma
23 Anna Tivel The Question Fluff and Gravy
24 Ivy Mairi Polarity – EP Bruce Trail
25 Emily Reo Only You Can See It Carpark / Hostess
26 FONTAINES D.C. Dogrel Partisan / Fontana North
27 The Budos Band V Daptone
28 Partner Saturday the 14th – EP Father/Daughter
29 Brutus Nest Hassle
30 Little Simz Grey Area AGE 101

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    May 11th, 2019

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Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:

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    Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution    April 29th, 2019

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