genre charts for Jan 24 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 HOLY RIVER Høly River Shockoe Sessions LIVE Shockoe
2 RUTA BEGGARS, THE Ever-Changing MLN
3 CASEY FOUBERT EP 1 Zat-Samuelson
4 ACRE MEMOS A Collection Of Bird Songs Double Yolk
5 COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS Loose Future Fat Possum
6 NIKKI LANE Denim & Diamonds New West
7 JAKE BLOUNT The New Faith Smithsonian Folkways
8 JESSIE BAYLIN Jersey Girl Blonde Rat
9 PEACH AND QUIET Beautiful Thing Self-Released
10 CHRISTINE SWEENEY Heart In A Hurry Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BUTCHER BROWN Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey Concord Jazz/Concord
2 WESTSIDE GUNN 10 (Ten) Griselda
3 COAST CONTRA Apt. 505 Area51/Virgin
4 MONDAY NIGHT AND 3WAYSLIM Good Company AllWeNeed
5 CORMEGA The Realness II Viper
6 HOMEBOY SANDMAN Still Champion Mello
7 JESSE THE TREE Pigeon Man Strange Famous
8 MAASSAI Personal Year 8 Self-Released
9 SMINO Luv 4 Rent Zero Fatigue
10 JID The Forever Story Dreamville/Interscope

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 EARTHLESS Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons Nuclear Blast
2 PERSEFONE Metanoia Napalm
3 WORMROT Hiss Earache
4 BIG BRAVE Nature Morte Thrill Jockey
5 STRIDER Midnight Zen Hexe
6 E L R Vexier Prophecy Productions
7 FULL OF HELL AND PRIMITIVE MAN Suffocating Hallucination Closed Casket
8 SLEEP DEALER Confession Self-Released
9 ACHERONTIA STYX Post Death [EP] Dwarrowdelf
10 OSIAH Chronos [EP] Unique Leader

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DAWN RICHARD AND SPENCER ZAHN Pigments Merge
2 ELAINE HOWLEY The Distance Between Heart And Mouth Touch Sensitive
3 LORD OF THE ISLES Subtle Thoughts Lapsus
4 MARINA HERLOP Pripyat PAN
5 ANOMALIE Galerie Nettwerk
6 MARIA CHIARA ARGIRO Forest City Innovative Leisure
7 CARLOS NINO AND FRIENDS EXTRA PRESENCE International Anthem
8 SIDEWALKS AND SKELETONS Exorcism Self-Released
9 DJ HARRISON Dungeon Sessions [EP] Stones Throw
10 ERNEST HOOD Back To The Woodlands Freedom To Spend

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LIRAZ Roya Glitterbeat
2 PERU SELVATICO VARIOUS ARTISTS Analog Africa
3 JUANITA EUKA Mabanzo Strut
4 BASSIDI KONE Kaira Remote
5 ORCHESTRA GOLD Medicine Self-Released
6 JOAO SELVA Passarinho Underdog
7 MASS KONPA Sans Regret Self-Released
8 FALLY IPUPA Formule 7 Elektra France
9 MAJID BEKKAS Joudour Igloo
10 ENEIDA MARTA Family Azziz

    January 24th, 2023

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genre charts for Sep 27 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MADISON CUNNINGHAM Revealer Verve Forecast
2 ANNA TIVEL Outsiders Mama Bird
3 MS JAYLIN BROWN Take It Easy [EP] Self-Released
4 CATIE LAUSTEN Love to Love to Love [EP] Self-Released
5 ALLISON DE GROOT AND TATIANA HARGREAVES Hurricane Clarice Free Dirt
6 ACCIDENTALS, THE Time Out (Session #2) Self-Released
7 JAKE BLOUNT The New Faith Smithsonian Folkways
8 PHARIS AND JASON ROMERO Tell ‘Em You Were Gold Smithsonian Folkways
9 RANDY PALMER Deeper Water Self-Released
10 BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN “California” [Single] 37d03d

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BUTCHER BROWN Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey Concord Jazz/Concord
2 SAMPA THE GREAT As Above, So Below Loma Vista/Concord
3 TY SORRELL HomeGrown Free Dirt
4 DANGER MOUSE AND BLACK THOUGHT Cheat Codes BMG
5 ROC MARCIANO AND THE ALCHEMIST The The Elephant Man’s Bones ALC
6 DOECHII she/her/black bitch [EP] Top Dawg/Capitol
7 JESSE THE TREE Pigeon Man Strange Famous
8 FLAGBOY GIZ I Got Indian In My Family Self-Released
9 DJ KHALED God Did We The Best/Epic
10 TONE CHOP AND FROST GAMBLE For The Crown [EP] Self-Released

Loud

Not enough new music was played in this genre to generate a chart.

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 TEGH AND ADEL POURSAMADI Ima ایما Injazero
2 700 BLISS Nothing To Declare Hyperdub
3 FAUST Punkt Bureau B
4 NAKED FLAMES Miracle in Transit Dismiss Yourself
5 TENKA Hydration Métron
6 RACHIKA NAYAR Heaven Come Crashing NNA Tapes
7 YUNG BAE Groove Continental: Side A Arista
8 BIRD’S EYE BATANG Flood Format Self-Released
9 X/O Chaos Butterfly Precious Metals
10 OHMA Between All Things Colorfield

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LEE SCRATCH PERRY King Scratch: Musical Masterpieces From The Upsetter Ark-ive Trojan
2 WGANDA KENYA Africa 5000 Vampisoul
3 VIEUX FARKA TOURE AND KHRUANGBIN Ali Dead Oceans/Secretly Group
4 AL-QASAR Who Are We Glitterbeat
5 ROBERTO LOPEZ Ritual [EP] Curura
6 WESLI Tradisyon Cumbancha
7 ALHAJI WAZIRI OSHOMAH World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife Of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah Luaka Bop
8 14 MAGNIFICOS BAILABLES VARIOUS ARTISTS Vampisoul
9 GYEDU-BLAY AMBOLLEY “Yekor Ye A Yeaba” [Single] Agogo
10 TIMPANA “Pajaro” [Single] Sounds & Colours

    September 27th, 2022

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top 100 new albums for WRIR in 2020 presents:

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

1 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
2 Sa-Roc The Sharecropper’s Daughter Rhymesayers
3 Positive No Kyanite Little Black Cloud
4 En Attendant Ana Juillet Trouble in Mind
5 Phoebe Bridgers Punisher Dead Oceans
6 Keleketla! Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
7 Addy Eclipse Topshelf
8 Deau Eyes Let It Leave Egghunt
9 Porridge Radio Every Bad Secretly Canadian
10 Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin FlySiifu’s Lex
11 Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia
12 Big No Big No self-released
13 Nas King’s Disease Mass Appeal
14 Moses Sumney græ Jagjaguwar
15 Johnny Ciggs Lighters and Lightbulbs Gritty City
16 Algiers There Is No Year Matador
17 Sneeze Self-Titled self-released
18 SAULT UNTITLED (Black Is) Forever Living Originals
19 Run The Jewels RTJ4 Jewel Runners / BMG
20 Melenas Días Raros Trouble in Mind
21 Horse Lords The Common Task Northern Spy
22 Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters Epic
23 Waxahatchee Saint Cloud Merge
24 True Body Heavenly Rhythms for the Uninitiated Funeral Party
25 Fontaines D.C. A Hero’s Death Partisan / Fontana North
26 Angelica Garcia Cha Cha Palace Spacebomb
27 Thundercat It Is What It Is Brainfeeder
28 Shabaka and the Ancestors We Are Sent Here By History Impulse!
29 Moaning Uneasy Laughter Sub Pop
30 Megan Thee Stallion Good News 300 Entertainment
31 gnawing Shaky – EP Refresh
32 Coriky Coriky Dischord
33 Action Bronson Only For Dolphins Loma Vista
34 Og Illa Richmond Renegade HLGNLIFE / Gritty City
35 Jake Blount Spider Tales Free Dirt
36 Deerhoof Future Teenage Cave Artists Joyful Noise
37 Blu & Exile Miles Fat Beats
38 Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes What Kinda Music Beyond The Groove / Blue Note
39 OOIOO nijimusi Thrill Jockey
40 Mourn Self Worth Captured Tracks
41 Man Man Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between Sub Pop
42 Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide Rhymesayers
43 Westside Gunn Pray for Paris Griselda
44 Trapcry Dangerous 1986
45 The Birthday Massacre Diamonds Metropolis
46 Smyth Knight North Chesterfield Kidz At Play
47 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Sideways to New Italy Ivy League / Sub Pop
48 Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today Domino
49 OHMME Fantasize Your Ghost Joyful Noise
50 Julianna Barwick Healing Is a Miracle Ninja Tune
51 Inter Arma Garbers Days Revisited Relapse
52 Eliza Juno Do Tree Lobsters Experience Love Eliza Juno; self-released
53 Deradoorian Find the Sun Anti/Epitaph
54 Big Baby Fizzy Cola – EP self-released
55 Zhé Aqueen The Hypnomonic Album Heye Vibez
56 Yves Tumor Heaven To a Tortured Mind Warp
57 THICK 5 Years Behind Epitaph
58 Spectres Nostalgia Artoffact
59 Six Organs of Admittance Companion Rises Drag City
60 RVG Feral Fire
61 Prof Powderhorn Suites Ineffable
62 Moemaw Naedon Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
63 Homeboy Sandman Don’t Feed the Monster Mello Music Group
64 Hamerkop Remote Drag City
65 Flat Worms Antarctica GOD?
66 Christine and the Queens La vita nuova – EP Because Music
67 Chris Brown Slime & B Chris Brown Entertainment/300 Entertainment/RCA
68 Cable Ties Far Enough Poison City
69 Atmosphere The Day Before Halloween Rhymesayers
70 U.S. Girls Heavy Light 4AD
71 The Magnetic Fields Quickies Nonesuch
72 Tame Impala The Slow Rush Island / Interscope / Fiction / Caroline
73 Sweeping Promises Hunger for a Way Out Feel It
74 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
75 Moses Boyd Dark Matter Exodus
76 Lomelda Hannah Double Double Whammy
77 Kosha Dillz Nobody Cares Except You Rapperfriends
78 Kenny Mason Angelic Hoodrat self-released
79 Jeff Parker Suite for Max Brown International Anthem
80 IDLES Ultra Mono PTKF; Partisan / Liberator Music
81 Holy Fuck Deleter Last Gang
82 Gumming Overripe Vinyl Conflict
83 FM Skyline Liteware 100% Electronica; Crystal Pistol
84 Fight Cloud Thoughts Aligned self-released
85 Colin Phils Trust/Fall Post.
86 Busta Rhymes Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God The Conglomerate Entertainment, Inc. / EMPIRE
87 Anjimile Giver Taker Father/Daughter
88 Adrianne Lenker songs 4AD
89 vv III self-released
90 The Beths Jump Rope Gazers Carpark
91 Testament Titans of Creation Nuclear Blast
92 Peel Dream Magazine Agitprop Alterna Slumberland
93 Open Mike Eagle Anime, Trauma and Divorce Auto Reverse
94 Lithics Tower of Age Trouble In Mind
95 Kelly Lee Owens Inner Song Smalltown Supersound
96 Isobel Campbell There is No Other… Cooking Vinyl Limited
97 FACS Void Moments Trouble In Mind
98 Evidence Unlearning – Single Rhymesayers
99 Justis Bratt LHPS (Radio Edit) – Single Hollywood Starstruck
100 BlackLiq x Ohbliv The Best – Single No Other Way

    December 29th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for Dec 1 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 Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin FlySiifu’s Lex
2 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
3 Shame Water In the Well – Single Dead Oceans
4 clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned Sub Pop
5 Billy Bacci Band Paint on It MB
6 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
7 Deau Eyes Let It Leave Egghunt
8 Melodic Kayobi – EP The Enrich Brand
9 Trapcry Dangerous 1986
10 Kokoroko Baba Ayoola – Single Brownswood
11 Eric Slick Wiseacre self-released
12 Naked Pictures W I D E Cheap Cuts
13 She TRL 2004 – EP Brat Daddy
14 GULL Relative Stranger self-released
15 Gumming Overripe Vinyl Conflict
16 Tim Barry Live 2018 Chunksaah
17 Haircut Cake – EP 11 PM
18 The Cribs Night Network Sonic Blew
19 Anna McClellan I Saw First Light Father/Daughter
20 David Nance Staunch Honey Trouble In Mind
21 Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide Rhymesayers
22 Various Artists Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 Captured Tracks
23 Various Artists Closer to Heaven: a Tribute to Ed Ackerson Susstones
24 Atmosphere The Day Before Halloween Rhymesayers
25 MOURN Self Worth Captured Tracks
26 Jeremy Ivey Waiting out the Storm Anti/Epitaph
27 Fleet Foxes Shore Anti/Epitaph
28 OSEES Protean Threat Castle Face
29 The Mountain Goats Getting Into Knives Merge
30 Mipso Mipso Rounder

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    December 1st, 2020

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top 30 new albums for Nov 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.

1 Busta Rhymes Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God The Conglomerate Entertainment, Inc. / EMPIRE
2 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
3 clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned Sub Pop
4 Shemekia Copeland Uncivil War Alligator
5 Mr. Bungle The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo Ipecac
6 Adrianne Lenker songs 4AD
7 Og Illa Richmond Renegade HLGNLIFE
8 Action Bronson Only For Dolphins Loma Vista
9 Smyth Knight North Chesterfield Kidz At Play
10 TOBACCO Hot Wet & Sassy Ghostly International
11 Romero Honey – Single Cool Death
12 Quintron & Miss Pussycat Goblin Alert Goner
13 Juana Molina ANRMAL (Live in México) Crammed Discs
14 She Trl 2004 – EP Brat Daddy
15 GULL Relative Stranger self-released
16 Inter Arma Garbers Days Revisited Relapse
17 Atmosphere The Day Before Halloween Rhymesayers
18 Mourn Self Worth Captured Tracks
19 Raye Zaragoza Woman in Color Rebel River
20 Susan Pepper The Prettiest Bird Ballad
21 Jim White Misfit’s Jubilee Loose Music
22 Suuns Fiction – EP Secret City
23 ela minus acts of rebellion Domino
24 The Luxembourg Signal The Long Now Shelflife
25 Garmarna Förbundet Season of Mist
26 Felix Hatfield False God Fangbite
27 Open Mike Eagle Anime, Trauma and Divorce Auto Reverse
28 Yo La Tengo Sleepless Night – EP Matador
29 The Budos Band Long In The Tooth Daptone
30 Emmy the Great April/月音 Bella Union

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    November 10th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for 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.

1 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
2 Sa-Roc The Sharecropper’s Daughter Rhymesayers
3 Kurt Vile Speed, Sound, Lonely KV – EP Matador
4 Ghouli Nothing – EP DAM
5 Dee-1 and Murs He’s the Christian, I’m the Rapper Mission Vision Music / Murs 316
6 Quintron & Miss Pussycat Goblin Alert Goner
7 Eric Slick Wiseacre self-released
8 Hoboknife Wig of Flies self-released
9 Fly Anakin The 8’s (2015-2018) Mutant Academy
10 Gregory Darden Soils self-released
11 Gumming Overripe Vinyl Conflict
12 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
13 FM Skyline JPEG Jamz 100% Electronica
14 The Flavor Project Food for Thought Reeverb Entertainment
15 The Ar-Kaics Ar-Kives: Volume 1 Dig!
16 Jeremy Ivey Waiting out the Storm Anti- / Epitaph
17 Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz This Mortal Farce EP self-released
18 Kevin Morby Sundowner Dead Oceans
19 Tomberlin Projections – EP Saddle Creek
20 Juana Molina ANRMAL (Live in México) Crammed Discs
21 Open Mike Eagle Anime, Trauma and Divorce Auto Reverse
22 Low Cut Connie Private Lives Contender
23 Cut Worms Nobody Lives Here Anymore Jagjaguwar
24 Seth Bogart Men on the Verge of Nothing Wacky Wacko
25 The Budos Band Long in the Tooth Daptone
26 Tank and the Bangas Friend Goals Verve Forcast
27 Cej Friend of the Sky Gnosong
28 Ivan & Alyosha Ivan & Alyosha Nettwerk
29 Paris Safe Space Invader Guerrilla Funk
30 Rilo Kiley Rilo Kiley Little

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    October 27th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for Oct 20 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 BlackLiq x Ohbliv The Best – Single No Other Way
2 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
3 Westside Gunn Who Made the Sunshine? Griselda
4 Sa-Roc The Sharecropper’s Daughter Rhymesayers
5 Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca N’Dona Pointe Mopiato
6 Deerhoof Love-Lore Joyful Noise
7 The Budos Band Long in the Tooth Daptone
8 Calvin Presents Here. (feat. Sam Reed) – Single self-released
9 Bill Callahan Gold Record Drag City
10 Landshapes Contact Bella Union
11 Iochroma The Hideous Triumphs of Form and Function self-released
12 Trapcry Stay Up (Longer Deluxe) 1986
13 GULL Relative Stranger self-released
14 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
15 LJ & the Sleeze Keepin’ it Sleezy self-released
16 FM Skyline JPEG Jamz 100% Electronica
17 Deli Rowe Girl on the Beat, Vol. 1 Liberated Soul
18 Outer World Fixed Like A Painting self-released
19 Noah Page ABBA: a thing I made you self-released
20 Red Rum Club The Hollow of Humdrum Modern Sky UK
21 Low Cut Connie Private Lives Contender
22 Optic Sink Optic Sink Goner
23 Cut Worms Nobody Lives Here Anymore Jagjaguwar
24 Kosha Dillz Nobody Cares Except You Rapperfriends
25 Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche I Can Still Hear You StorySound
26 Quintron & Miss Pussycat Goblin Alert Goner
27 Sylvan Esso Free Love Loma Vista
28 Hen Ogledd Free Humans Weird World
29 Night Club Die Die Lullaby Gato Blanco
30 Future Islands As Long As You Are 4AD

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    October 20th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for Oct 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 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
2 Naked Pictures W I D E Cheap Cuts
3 Dumb Waiter Tsk JUJU
4 She Trl 2004 – EP Brat Daddy
5 Alex the Astronaut The Theory of Absolutely Nothing Minkowski
6 Throwing Muses Sun Racket Fire
7 League of Space Pirates Space Pirates – Single self-released
8 Mourn Self Worth Captured Tracks
9 Gumming Overripe Vinyl Conflict
10 Tyler Childers Long Violent History Hickman Holler/RCA
11 Keep Keep – EP Citrus City
12 Dehd Flower of Devotion Fire Talk
13 Wax Chattels Clot Flying Nun
14 Lefthnd Ad Mausoleum American Paradox
15 Spacebomb House Band X: Kernel Eternal Spacebomb
16 Eric Slick Wiseacre Slick
17 Lonely Rooms Until We Have To Fuzzycat
18 ShotClock Side A – EP Say-10
19 Alex Jonestown Massacre Run-On Death Sentence Hail Peyton
20 Armwood No Filter Through The Vortex self-released
21 Loud Night Mindnumbing Pleasure Vinyl Conflict
22 Hewolf Into the Darkness… – EP self-released
23 Ruth Good Haunt – EP Citrus City
24 Outer World Fixed Like A Painting self-released
25 Valkyrie Fear Relapse
26 Sufjan Stevens The Ascension Asthmatic Kitty
27 Fleet Foxes Shore Anti- / Epitaph
28 Action Bronson Only For Dolphins Loma Vista
29 Anjimile Giver Taker Father/Daughter
30 Gillian Welch Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 2 Acony

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    October 13th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for Oct 6 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 IDLES Ultra Mono Partisan / Liberator Music
2 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
3 Sufjan Stevens The Ascension Asthmatic Kitty
4 Action Bronson Only For Dolphins Loma Vista
5 Nas King’s Disease Mass Appeal
6 Bill Callahan Gold Record Drag City
7 SUUNS FICTION – EP Joyful Noise / Secret City
8 Cabbage Amanita Pantherina Brassica
9 Naked Pictures W I D E self-released
10 Fly Anakin The 8’s (2015-2018) Mutant Academy
11 ShotClock Side A – EP self-released
12 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
13 Positive No Kyanite Little Black Cloud
14 Ruth Good Haunt – EP Citrus City
15 Outer World Fixed Like A Painting self-released
16 Talk Me Off Cursed Smartpunk
17 Radio B. All Art Ain’t Pretty The Association Of Great Minds
18 Red Sammy That Raging Heart Red Sammy
19 Ric Robertson Strange World – EP Free Dirt
20 Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon Noon Megaplum / ATO
21 The Mommyheads New Kings of Pop Fanfar!
22 Telco My Name Is Not Kaiser – EP telco
23 Alex Rasmussen Make It Real – EP Lovely Ruckus
24 Lomelda Hannah Double Double Whammy
25 Josiah Johnson Every Feeling on a Loop Anti- / Epitaph
26 Marques Martin Brave & Afraid Operator
27 Hey, King! Be Still – EP Anti- / Epitaph
28 The Wilderness Until Tomorrow self-released
29 Jabee This World Is So Fragile and Cruel I’m Glad I Got You Grand Union Media
30 The Milwaukees The Calling Mint 400

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    October 6th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for Sep 29 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 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
2 Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia
3 Nubya Garcia SOURCE Concord Jazz
4 Osees Protean Threat Castle Face
5 Tyler Childers Long Violent History Hickman Holler
6 Deau Eyes Let It Leave Egghunt
7 Positive No Kyanite Little Black Cloud
8 Sweeping Promises Hunger for a Way Out Feel It
9 Usher Bad Habits – Single Brand Usher
10 Evidence Unlearning – Single Rhymesayers
11 Eric Slick Wiseacre Slick
12 Lance Bangs Whammy – EP Citrus City
13 Dumb Waiter Tsk JUJU
14 She TRL 2004 – EP self-released
15 Trapcry Stay Up (Longer Deluxe) 1986
16 Flung Shaky But My Hair Is Grown Citrus City / Topshelf
17 GULL Relative Stranger self-released
18 Strike Anywhere Nightmares of the West Pure Noise
19 Loud Night Mindnumbing Pleasure Vinyl Conflict
20 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
21 The Flavor Project Food for Thought Reeverb Entertainment
22 Tim Heidecker Fear of Death Spacebomb
23 Sleepless Void Fear self-released
24 Various Artists Stay Home Drunk Dial
25 Venal Flesh Die In Summer self-released
26 Haircut Cake – EP self-released
27 Newscaster 3.612574 self-released
28 Jyoti Mama, You Can Bet! eOne Music / SomeOthaShip Connect
29 Bill Callahan Gold Record Drag City
30 Marques Martin Brave & Afraid Operator

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    September 29th, 2020

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