Top 30 new albums for week ending Apr 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

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Natalie Prass The Future and the Past ATO
2 Frankie Cosmos Vessel Sub Pop
3 Kenneka Cook Moonchild American Paradox
4 Doll Baby Hell Block – EP EggHunt
5 Speedy Ortiz Twerp Verse Carpark
6 PRhyme PRhyme 2 PRhyme 2
7 Dr. Octagon Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation Bulk / Caroline
8 Caroline Rose LONER New West
9 Hank Wood and the Hammerheads Hank Wood and the Hammerheads Toxic State
10 Kyle Craft Full Circle Nightmare Sub Pop
11 Ty Segall Freedom’s Goblin Drag City
12 David Byrne American Utopia Nonesuch
13 The Ex 27 passports Rough Trade
14 St. Vincent Masseduction Loma Vista
15 Imagine Dragons Evolve Interscope
16 Ms. Jaylin Brown Vulnerable self-released
17 The Purge The Bad Ideas We Build Worlds self-released
18 Saw Black Water Tower Crystal Pistol
19 Koncept Jack$on The Tale of the Mutant Root Mutant Academy
20 Millz The NorthFace, Vol 1. self-released
21 Gumming Human Values self-released
22 Yeni Nostalji Yeni Nostalji self-released
23 Unknown Mortal Orchestra Sex & Food Jagjaguwar
24 Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog Saddle Creek
25 Brazilian Girls Let’s Make Love Six Degrees
26 Drinks Hippo Lite Drag City
27 The Damned Evil Spirits Search and Destroy / Spinefarm
28 The Aces When My Heart Felt Volcanic Red Bull
29 Prof Pookie Baby Rhymesayers
30 MIEN MIEN Rocket

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    April 21st, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Mar 30 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

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    March 31st, 2018

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Top 30 for week ending Feb 10 presents:

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    February 11th, 2017

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Top 30 for Jul 25-31 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 The Julie Ruin Hit Reset Hardly Art
2 Summer Cannibals Full of It Kill Rock Stars
3 Grass Panther Vignette Nosey Pants
4 The Wimps The Wimps Bad Grrrl
5 Doll Baby Polliwog self-released
6 Avers Omega/Whatever EggHunt
7 Naked Pictures Nudes self-released
8 Camp Howard Camp Howard Citrus City / Bad Grrrl / Crystal Pistol
9 Young Magic Still Life Carpark
10 Mitski Puberty 2 Dead Oceans
11 White Lung Paradise Domino
12 Frankie Cosmos Next Thing Bayonet
13 Juju Juju Sunrise Ocean Bender
14 Badbadnotgood IV Innovative Leisure
15 Puro Instinct Autodrama Manifesto Records
16 Kristin Kontrol X-Communicate Sub Pop
17 The Thermals We Disappear Saddle Creek
18 Dinner Psychic Lovers Captured Tracks
19 Bob Mould Patch the Sky Merge
20 Greys Outer Heaven Carpark
21 Sonny & the Sunsets Moods Baby Moods Polyvinyl
22 Minor Victories Minor Victories Fat Possum
23 Parquet Courts Human Performance Rough Trade
24 Steve Gunn Eyes on the Lines Matador
25 Andrew Bird Are You Serious Loma Vista
26 The Amazing Ambulance Partisan
27 Whyte Horses Pop or Not Self Released
28 Lydia Loveless Longer [single] Bloodshot
29 Hashish A Product of Hashish Subliminal Sounds
30 Globelamp The Orange Glow Wichita

    August 1st, 2016

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