top 30 new albums for Jul 12 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 Quelle Chris Deathfame Mello Music Group
2 Spooky Cool Time Will Tell – Single self-released
3 Beyoncé Break My Soul – Single Parkwood Entertainment
4 NO BS! Brass Undying self-released
5 Ms. Jaylin Brown Take it Easy – EP self-released
6 Halfcast Return Neck Beard
7 Deau Eyes Legacies Tone Tree Music / Subflora
8 Justin Golden Hard Times and a Woman self-released
9 Dumb Waiter Gauche Gists Ossein
10 Ryan Kent Dying Comes With Age Rare Bird Lit
11 Naima Bock Giant Palm Sub Pop
12 Petrol Girls Baby Hassle
13 J.Rocc A Wonderful Letter Stones Throw
14 The Slocan Ramblers Up the Hill and Through the Fog self-released
15 Fashion Club Scrutiny felte
16 Brian Jackson This Is Brian Jackson BBE Music
17 Tanika Charles Papillon de Nuit: The Night Butterfly Record Kicks
18 Ibibio Sound Machine Electricity Merge
19 Nilüfer Yanya PAINLESS ATO / Fontana North
20 Fly Anakin Frank Lex
21 Caroline No Caroline No Grapefruit
22 Pale Blue Eyes Souvenirs Full Time Hobby
23 Mick Trouble It’s Mick Troubles Second LP Emotional Response
24 Jack Harlow Come Home The Kids Miss You Generation Now/Atlantic
25 Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers pgLang/Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath/Interscope
26 Danger Mouse & Black Thought Cheat Codes BMG
27 Noori & His Dorpa Band Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast Ostinato
28 Strawberry Moon Control – Single Bobo Studios
29 Lil Baby In A Minute – Single Quality Control Music/Motown
30 ODESZA The Last Goodbye (feat. Bettye LaVette) – Single Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune

(more…)

    July 12th, 2022

Posted In: Charts

Tags: , , , ,

Top 30 new albums for week ending Oct 11 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 Spooky Cool Every Thing Ever – EP Citrus City
2 Steve Gunn The Unseen In Between Matador
3 Faux Ferocious Pretty Groovy Burger
4 Sunwatchers Illegal Moves Trouble in Mind
5 Femi Kuti One People One World Knitting Factory
6 Alpheus Light of Day Liquidator
7 Low Double Negative Sub Pop
8 Mekong Xpress & The Get Fresh Horns Common Knowledge EggHunt
9 Dom Flemons Black Cowboys Smithsonian Folkways
10 Gulp All Good Wishes E.L.K.
11 Debrider Gift Horse self-released
12 Unmaker Firmament self-released
13 Butcher Brown Camden Session Gearbox
14 Boygenius Boygenius – EP Matador
15 The Ar-Kaics In This Time Wick / Daptone
16 Aerica Lauren Summer Forever self-released
17 Eiko Ishibashi The Dream My Bones Dream Drag City
18 Marie Davidson So Right – EP Ninja Tune
19 Exdreams Physical Contact exdreams
20 Chemtrails Cuckoo Split – EP PNKSLM
21 Zoe Boekbinder Shadow Zoe Boekbinder
22 Polly Panic Losing Form Polly Panic
23 My Brightest Diamond A Million and One Rhyme & Reason
24 Black Masala Trains And Moonlight Destinies self-released
25 David Benedict The Golden Angle self-released
26 Alien Sex Fiend Possessed Cherry Red
27 The Sha La Das Love in the Wind Daptone
28 June West June West Broken Circles
29 Chersea In Limbo Fierce Panda Canada
30 Gretta Ray hERE aND nOW self-released

(more…)

    October 12th, 2019

Posted In: Charts

Tags: , , , ,

Top 30 new albums for week ending Jan 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.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Spooky Cool Every Thing Ever – EP Citrus City
2 Steve Gunn The Unseen In Between Matador
3 Faux Ferocious Pretty Groovy Burger
4 Sunwatchers Illegal Moves Trouble in Mind
5 Femi Kuti One People One World Knitting Factory
6 Alpheus Light of Day Liquidator
7 Low Double Negative Sub Pop
8 Mekong Xpress & The Get Fresh Horns Common Knowledge EggHunt
9 Dom Flemons Black Cowboys Smithsonian Folkways
10 Gulp All Good Wishes E.L.K.
11 Debrider Gift Horse self-released
12 Unmaker Firmament self-released
13 Butcher Brown Camden Session Gearbox
14 Boygenius Boygenius – EP Matador
15 The Ar-Kaics In This Time Wick / Daptone
16 Aerica Lauren Summer Forever self-released
17 Eiko Ishibashi The Dream My Bones Dream Drag City
18 Marie Davidson So Right – EP Ninja Tune
19 Exdreams Physical Contact exdreams
20 Chemtrails Cuckoo Split – EP PNKSLM
21 Zoe Boekbinder Shadow Zoe Boekbinder
22 Polly Panic Losing Form Polly Panic
23 My Brightest Diamond A Million and One Rhyme & Reason
24 Black Masala Trains And Moonlight Destinies self-released
25 David Benedict The Golden Angle self-released
26 Alien Sex Fiend Possessed Cherry Red
27 The Sha La Das Love in the Wind Daptone
28 June West June West Broken Circles
29 Chersea In Limbo Fierce Panda Canada
30 Gretta Ray hERE aND nOW self-released

(more…)

    January 5th, 2019

Posted In: Charts

Tags: , , , ,

Top 30 new albums for week ending Aug 31 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 Spooky Cool Every Thing Ever – EP Citrus City
2 Blood Orange Negro Swan Domino
3 The War and Treaty Healing Tide Strong World Entertainment
4 Natalie Prass The Future and the Past ATO
5 Boygenius boygenius Matador
6 Shadow Age Shadow Age – EP Native Of The North
7 Pain in the Yeahs Dopamine Noir self-released
8 Cordovas That Santa Fe Channel ATO
9 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom+Pop / Marathon / Milk!
10 Steve Barton Tall Tales and Alibis Sleepless Music
11 Shannon Shaw Shannon In Nashville Easy Eye Sound
12 OHMME Parts Joyful Noise
13 Neil & Liam Finn Lightsleeper Inertia / PIAS
14 Ty Segall & White Fence Joy Drag City
15 Wax Idols Happy Ending Etruscan Gold
16 The Beths Future Me Hates Me Carpark
17 Bill and the Belles Dreamsongs, Etc. Jalopy
18 The Band Of Heathens A Message from the People Revisited self-released
19 Young Scum Young Scum Citrus City
20 Prabir Trio Small Town Blues – EP self-released
21 Piranha Rama Piranha Rama Trrrash
22 Fly Anakin & Big Kahuna OG Life & Times of BigFly – EP Mutant Academy
23 Manatree Engines self-released
24 Steady Holiday Nobody’s Watching Barsuk
25 Interpol Marauder Matador
26 Idles Joy as an Act of Resistance. Partisan
27 Wild Nothing Indigo Captured Tracks
28 Benjamin Francis Leftwich I Am With You Dirty Hit
29 Honyock El Castillo Friendship Fever
30 Nothing Dance on the Blacktop Relapse

(more…)

    September 1st, 2018

Posted In: Charts

Tags: , , , ,

Top 30 new albums for week ending Aug 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 Spooky Cool Every Thing Ever – EP Citrus City
2 Manzara Hello My Name Is … Friend Nosy Pants
3 Beach House 7 Sub Pop
4 Bad Magic what’s wrong with my eyes? self-released
5 Piranha Rama Piranha Rama Trrrash
6 Kenneka Cook Moonchild American Paradox
7 Manatree Engines self-released
8 Estrons You Say I’m Too Much, I Say You’re Not Enough Gofod
9 The Hare and Hoofe Voyager – EP self-released
10 Guerilla Toss Twisted Crystal DFA
11 Murder by Death The Other Shore Bloodshot
12 Eliza Gilkyson Secularia Red House
13 Shannon & the Clams Onion Easy Eye Sound
14 La Luz Floating Features Hardly Art
15 Gabbie Rotts Pink Drink Season self-released
16 Young Scum Young Scum Citrus City
17 Saw Black Water Tower Crystal Pistol
18 Natalie Prass The Future and the Past ATO
19 Andy Jenkins Sweet Bunch Liberator Music / Spacebomb
20 Marcus Tenney Quartet Moment – EP American Paradox
21 Jason Jenkins Quartet Live @ The Barrel Thief self-released
22 Ollen Home Less self-released
23 Windhand Eternal Return Relapse
24 Nickelus F Stuck AGM
25 Free Cake For Every Creature The Bluest Star Double Double Whammy
26 Lemon Bucket Orkestra If I Had The Strength Six Degrees
27 Lucero Among the Ghosts Liberator Music
28 Denzel Curry TA13OO Loma Vista
29 Echo Courts Room with a View Refresh
30 Mariel Buckley Driving in the Dark self-released

(more…)

    August 11th, 2018

Posted In: Charts

Tags: , , , ,

Top 30 new albums for week ending Dec 8 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

(more…)

    December 9th, 2017

Posted In: Charts

Tags: , , , , ,

Top 30 new albums for week ending Oct 27 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

(more…)

    October 28th, 2017

Posted In: Charts

Tags: , , , , ,