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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top 30 new albums for Aug 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 The Vibrators We Vibrate – Single Warner / X5
2 Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia
3 Zhé Aqueen The Hypnomonic Album Heye Vibez
4 Andre Abujamra Alma Nao Tem Cor – Multi 25 – single Tratore
5 Hoboknife Wig of Flies self-released
6 VV III self-released
7 Richmond Avant Improv Collective (RAIC) Häxan (Cinema Paradiso Vol. I) Thirsty Leaves Music
8 Big Baby Fizzy Cola EP Big Baby
9 Addy Eclipse Topshelf
10 The Beths Jump Rope Gazers Carpark
11 Bad Moves Untenable Don Giovanni
12 Pert Near Sandstone Rising Tide Pert Near Music
13 Night Glitter Night Glitter Nine Mile
14 Galore Galore Rocks In Your Head
15 Moemaw Naedon Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
16 Modern Nature Annual Bella Union
17 Denison Witmer American Foursquare Asthmatic Kitty
18 Alice Bag Sister Dynamite In The Red
19 Harrow Fair Sins We Made Roaring Girl / Fontana North
20 Big Loser Love You, Barely Living Black Numbers
21 Saro Lynch-Thomason & Sam Gleaves I Have Known Women: Songs by Si Kahn Celebrating Women’s Lives and Struggles Strictly Country
22 Moses Sumney græ Jagjaguwar
23 Melenas Días Raros Trouble In Mind
24 David Haerle Death Valley Edendale
25 Deante’ Hitchcock BETTER ByStorm Entertainment/RCA
26 X ALPHABETLAND Fat Possum
27 Melkbelly Pith Wax Nine
28 Yves Tumor Heaven To a Tortured Mind Warp
29 Six Organs of Admittance Companion Rises Drag City
30 Angelica Garcia Cha Cha Palace Spacebomb

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    August 11th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for July 14 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 Phoebe Bridgers Punisher Dead Oceans
2 Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia
3 Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience To Know Without Knowing Agogo
4 Fight Cloud Thoughts Aligned Fight Cloud
5 Sufjan Stevens The Ascension Asthmatic Kitty
6 Trapcry Stay Up 1986
7 Public Enemy State of the Union (STFU) – Single Enemy
8 Khruangbin Mordechai Dead Oceans
9 Calibro 35 Momentum Record Kicks
10 Lido Pimienta Miss Colombia Anti-
11 Deau Eyes Let It Leave Egghunt
12 Keleketla! Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
13 Calvin Presents Here. (feat. Sam Reed) – Single self-released
14 Damaged Bug Bug on Yonkers Castle Face
15 Fontaines D.C. A Hero’s Death Partisan / Fontana North
16 THICK 5 Years Behind Epitaph
17 BAD MOVES Untenable Don Giovanni
18 Dirty Projectors Flight Tower – EP Domino
19 Marlon Craft Work From Home – EP Sony Music
20 Moemaw Naedon Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
21 Camille Delean Cold House Burning New Habitat
22 Owen The Avalanche Big Scary Monsters
23 Céu APKÁ! Six Degrees
24 Future Punx 2020 2020 Anniversary
25 Don Bryant You Make Me Feel Fat Possum
26 Run The Jewels RTJ4 Jewel Runners
27 OHMME Fantasize Your Ghost Joyful Noise
28 Sports Team Deep Down Happy Bright Antenna
29 Modern Nature Annual Bella Union
30 No Age Goons Be Gone Drag City

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    July 14th, 2020

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