Top 30 new albums for week ending Oct 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.

1 Drahla Useless Coordinates Captured Tracks
2 Kim Gordon No Home Record Matador
3 Olivia Jean Night Owl Third Man
4 The Hecks My Star Trouble In Mind
5 Toxic Moxie Falkonia self-released
6 The Wimps Plasma self-released
7 Slump Flashbacks from Black Dust Country Feel It
8 Sammi Lanzetta Ceiling Mirror 6131
9 Camp Howard Cañón Egghunt
10 Downhaul Before You Fall Asleep Refresh
11 Enforced At the Walls WAR
12 Plunky & Oneness Afroclectic N.A.M.E. Brand
13 Illiterate Light Sweet Beast – EP Atlantic
14 Shormey Boogie Tape, Vol. 1 – EP Citrus City
15 Rebekah Rafferty and The Wakes Aging Up – EP self-released
16 Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ Warp
17 Big Thief Two Hands 4AD
18 Bob Bradshaw Queen of the West Fluke
19 Erthlings Indigo – EP Future Classic
20 Tegan and Sara Hey, I’m Just Like You Sire
21 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Ghosteen Ghosteen Ltd
22 Kacy & Clayton Carrying On New West
23 Rituals of Mine SLEEPER HOLD Carpark
24 Sofia Talvik Paws of a Bear Makaki Music
25 Alexa Rose Medicine for Living Big Legal Mess
26 Sui Zhen Losing, Linda Dot Dash
27 Kate Teague Kate Teague Muscle Beach
28 Brittany Howard Jaime ATO / Fontana North
29 Fix Fix – EP KIllroom
30 Snoh Aalegra -Ugh, those feels again Artium / AWAL

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    October 19th, 2019

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Aug 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 Toxic Moxie BRATCORE (VCR cover) – Single self-released
2 Manzara Hello My Name Is … Friend Nosy Pants
3 Oh Sees Smote Reverser Castle Face
4 Mitski Be the Cowboy Dead Oceans
5 Kenneka Cook Moonchild American Paradox
6 Young Scum Young Scum Citrus City
7 Guerilla Toss Twisted Crystal DFA
8 Shannon Shaw Shannon In Nashville Easy Eye Sound
9 Songs From The Road Band Road to Nowhere Lucks Dumpy Toad
10 Phantastic Ferniture Phantastic Ferniture Polyvinyl
11 Preoccupations New Material Jagjaguwar
12 Wimps Garbage People Kill Rock Stars
13 The Beths Future Me Hates Me Carpark
14 Calicoco Float Dadstache
15 Noisia & Two Fingers Dzjengis – Single Division
16 Bad Magic What’s Wrong with My Eyes? self-released
17 Ohbliv Retrospective Paxico
18 Jason Jenkins Quartet Live @ The Barrel Thief self-released
19 Spooky Cool Every Thing Ever – EP Citrus City
20 Mass Gothic I’ve Tortured You Long Enough Sub Pop
21 Nothing Dance on the Blacktop Relapse
22 Death Cab for Cutie Thank You for Today Atlantic
23 Dizzy Baby Teeth Royal Mountain
24 CoCo O’Connor This Ol’ War Satarah
25 Glenn Jones The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works For 6 & 12 String Guitar Thrill Jockey
26 Still Corners Slow Air Wrecking Light
27 Jeremy & the Harlequins Remember This Yep Roc
28 Indigo Girls Live with the University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra Rounder
29 Basement Revolver Heavy Eyes Sonic Unyon
30 Hawks and Doves From a White Hotel Jullian

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    August 25th, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Oct 20 presents:

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    October 21st, 2017

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Top 30 for Jul 11-17 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Clair Morgan New Lions & the Not-Good Night Egghunt
2 Get In The Car Get In The Car self-released
3 Nelly Kate Woodshedding self-released
4 Toxic Moxie VHS Box Set self-released
5 Naked Pictures Nudes self-released
6 Money Chica Echo En Mexico Vampisoul
7 Joe Battan Call My Name Vampisoul
8 The Wimps The Wimps Bad Grrrl
9 Jeremy D. Simmons Pie in the Sky Elephant Ear
10 Tanya Donelly Swan Song Series American Laundromat
11 The Coathangers Nosebleed Weekend Suicide Squeeze
12 TacocaT Lost Time Hardly Art
13 Blood Orange Freetown Sound Domino
14 Miramar Dedication to Sylvia Rexach Barbes
15 Kristin Kontrol X-Communicate Sub Pop
16 Andy Shauf The Party Anti-
17 Kevin Morby Singing Saw Dead Oceans
18 Bob Mould Patch the Sky Merge
19 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity ATO
20 Frankie Cosmos Next Thing Bayonet
21 The Claypool Lennon Delirium Monolith of Phobos ATO
22 William Tyler Modern Country Merge
23 Aloha Little Windows Cut Right Through Polyvinyl
24 Whitney Light Upon the Lake Secretly Canadian
25 Cate Le Bon Crab Day Drag City
26 Fruit Bats Absolute Loser Easy Sound
27 Mystery Lights The Mystery Lights Wick
28 BADBADNOTGOOD IV Innovative Leisure
29 Omar I Want It to Be Freestyle
30 case/lang/veirs case/lang/veirs Anti-

    July 18th, 2016

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Top 30 for Jun 13-26 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Clair Morgan New Lions & the Not-Good Night EggHunt
2 Toxic Moxie VHS Box Set self-released
3 Get in the Car Get in the Car self-released
4 Camp Howard Camp Howard Crystal Pistol / Citrus City / Bad Grrrl
5 Bandrew In the Meantime self-released
6 Kingbees The Big Rock Omnivore
7 Marissa Nadler Strangers Sacred Bones Records
8 Doll Baby Polliwog EP self-released
9 The So So Glos Kamikaze Votiv
10 Various Artists Heartworn Highways Soundtrack Light in the Attic
11 Imaginary Sons Don’t Impress Me Bossy Lil Thing
12 Miramar Dedication to Sylvia Rexach Barbès
13 Empty Houses Daydream Sargent House
14 Anthony Joseph Caribbean Roots Heavenly Sweetness / Strut
15 Lisa Prank Adult Teen Father/Daughter
16 Kaleo A/B New Elektra
17 Vexine Little Sin Zap
18 Sunwatchers Sunwatchers Castle Face
19 TacocaT Lost Time Hardly Art
20 Spray Paint Feel the Clamps Goner
21 Honey Radar Blank Cartoon What’s Your Rupture?
22 Andy Shauf The Party Anti-
23 PUP The Dream is Over SideOneDummy
24 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity ATO
25 Frankie Cosmos Next Thing Bayonet
26 Whitney Light Upon the Lake Secretly Canadian
27 Summer Cannibals Full of It Kill Rock Stars
28 Steve Gunn Eyes on the Lines Matador
29 Cate Le Bon Crab Day Drag City
30 Andrew Bird Are You Serious Loma Vista

    June 27th, 2016

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The Church of the Ecstatic presents:

freddie
I had been planning this playlist for Pride month ages ago, but this week it became especially important.  A personal and emotional show for me, focusing on gender and LGBT issues and artists – especially artists that opened my eyes and inspired me through the years.  No matter your identity or orientation, stand tall.  Much love to you all!

    The Church of the Ecstatic    June 16th, 2016

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Top 30 for May 16-22 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Clair Morgan New Lions & the Not-Good Night EggHunt
2 Toxic Moxie VHS Box Set self-released
3 The Wimps The Wimps BadGrrrl
4 Manatree Manatree Egghunt
5 NO BS! Brass Band Brass Knuckles self-released
6 ZOMBI Shape Shift Relapse
7 A Giant Dog Pile Merge
8 TacocaT Lost Time Hardly Art
9 My Darling Fury Aches self-released
10 Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool XL
11 Beth Orton 1973 [single] Anti-
12 The Suffers The Suffers Rhyme & Reason
13 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity ATO
14 Ra Ra Riot Need Your Light Barsuk
15 TEEN Love Yes Carpark
16 Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds La Araña es la Vida In the Red
17 Sunflower Bean Human Ceremony Fat Possum
18 Charles Bradley Changes Daptone
19 Aurora All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend Glassnote
20 Thao & The Get Down Stay Down A Man Alive Ribbon Music
21 Jessy Lanza Oh No Hyperdub
22 Hurry Guided Meditation Lame-O
23 Hazmat Modine Extra-Deluxe-Supreme Barbes
24 Ry X Dawn Loma Vista
25 Oscar Cut and Paste Wichita
26 Bleached Welcome the Worms Dead Oceans
27 Allen Stone Radius (Deluxe Edition) ATO
28 Autolux Pussy’s Dead 30th Century
29 Casey Mecija Psychic Materials self-released
30 Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros PersonA Community Music

    May 23rd, 2016

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Top 30 for Apr 25 – May 1 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Imaginary Sons Don’t Impress Me Bossy Lil’ Thing
2 Toxic Moxie VHS Box Set self-released
3 The Wimps The Wimps Bad Grrrl
4 Lucy Dacus No Burden EggHunt
5 Camp Howard Camp Howard Citrus City / Crystal Pistol / Bad Grrrl
6 PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project Vagrant / Island
7 Wire Nocturnal Koreans Pink Flag
8 Cate Le Bon Crab Day Drag City
9 M. Ward More Rain Merge
10 TEEN Love Yes Carpark
11 Parquet Courts Human Performance Rough Trade
12 Thao & the Get Down Stay Down A Man Alive Ribbon Music
13 Pity Sex White Hot Moon Run for Cover
14 Free Cake For Every Creature Talking Quietly of Anything with You Double Double Whammy
15 The Coathangers Nosebleed Weekend Suicide Squeeze
16 Higher Authorities Neptune Domino
17 Chelsea Wolfe Hypnos b/w Flame Sargent House
18 Kyle Craft Dolls of Highland Sub Pop
19 Rogue Wave Delusions of Grand Fur Easy Sound
20 Woods City Sun Eater in the River of Light Woodsist
21 Teleman Brilliant Sanity Moshi Moshi
22 Prince Rama X-treme Now Carpark
23 Summer Cannibals Say My Name [single] Kill Rock Stars
24 Summer Twins Limbo Burger
25 Petra Haden Imaginaryland [reissue] Bar/None
26 Lucius Good Grief Mom + Pop
27 Laura Gibson Empire Builder Barsuk
28 The Bonnevilles Arrow Pierce My Heart Alive Naturalsound
29 Melaena Cadiz Sunfair Misra
30 Michelle Blades Polylust Midnight Special

    May 2nd, 2016

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Top 30 for Mar 21-27 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Quilt Plaza Mexican Summer
2 Charles Bradley Changes Daptone
3 Thao & The Get Down Stay Down A Man Alive Ribbon
4 Shopping Why Choose FatCat
5 Toxic Moxie VHS Box Set self-released
6 Bob Mould Patch the Sky Merge
7 Rokia Traoré Né So Nonesuch
8 The James Hunter Six Hold On! Daptone
9 Joy Formidable Hitch self-released
10 Bombino Azel Partisan
11 The Bonnevilles Arrow Pierce My Heart Alive
12 Aziza Brahim Abbar el Hamada Glitterbeat
13 The KVB …Of Desire Invada
14 Mothers When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired Grand Jury
15 The Spook School Try to be Hopeful Fortuna POP!
16 The Suffers The Suffers Rhyme & Reason
17 Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression Loma Vista / Concord
18 Wild Nothing Life of Pause Captured Tracks
19 Esperanza Spalding Emily's D+Evolution Concord
20 Savages Adore Life Matador
21 Thermals Hey You [single] Saddle Creek
22 Dreamtime Dreamtime [reissue] Captcha / Cardinal Fuzz
23 Fatima Al Qadiri Brute Hyperdub
24 Brackish Water Jamboree Brackish Water Jamboree Riverrock
25 Sidestepper Supernatural Love Real World
26 Mavis Staples Livin' on a High Note Anti-
27 Laney Jones Laney Jones self-released
28 Eerie Wanda Hum Beyond Beyond is Beyond
29 Gazebos Die Alone Hardly Art
30 Lucy Dacus No Burden EggHunt

    March 28th, 2016

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Top 30 for Mar 14-20 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Lucy Dacus No Burden Egghunt
2 Foals What Went Down Warner Bros.
3 Lianne La Havas Blood Warner Bros.
4 Lobo Marino We Hear the Ocean Bad Friends
5 Toxic Moxie VHS Box Set self-released
6 Sula Bassana Shipwrecked Sulatron
7 Palm Trading Basics Exploding in Sound
8 Sidestepper Supernatural Love Real World
9 Alabama Shakes Sound & Color ATO
10 Coathangers Nosebleed Weekend Suicide Squeeze
11 Teen Love Yes Carpark
12 Esperanza Spalding Emily's D+Evolution Concord
13 Cavum ebb//flow Bad Grrrl
14 Big Quiet Big Quiet self-released
15 Mary Lattimore At the Dam Ghostly International
16 Suffers The Suffers Rhyme & Reason
17 Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression Loma Vista,Rekords Rekord
18 Quilt Plaza Mexican Summer
19 Animal Collective Painting With Domino
20 Ra Ra Riot Need Your Light Barsuk
21 M. Ward More Rain Merge
22 Wild Nothing Life of Pause Captured Tracks
23 Sunflower Bean Human Ceremony Fat Possum
24 Heron Oblivion Heron Oblivion Sub Pop
25 Waco Brothers Going Down In History Bloodshot
26 Savages Adore Life Matador
27 Prince Rama X-treme Now Carpark
28 La Sera Music for Listening to Music to Polyvinyl
29 Charles Bradley Changes Daptone
30 Pete Yorn ArrangingTime Capitol

    March 21st, 2016

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