top 30 new albums for Sep 7 presents:
top 30 new albums for Sep 7
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 | Lloyd Banks | The Course of the Inevitable | Money By Any Means |
| 2 | Orquesta Akokan | Mi Conga Es De Akokan – Single | Daptone |
| 3 | Nas | King’s Disease II | Mass Appeal |
| 4 | Circuit des Yeux | -Io | Matador |
| 5 | Low | Hey What | Sub Pop |
| 6 | Ty Segall | Harmonizer | Drag City |
| 7 | Prabir Trio | Haanji | self-released |
| 8 | Kanye West | Donda | Def Jam |
| 9 | Tyler, the Creator | CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST | Columbia |
| 10 | Fly Anakin | Pixote | Mutant Academy |
| 11 | Dazy | MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs | Convulse |
| 12 | Lucy Dacus | Home Video | Matador |
| 13 | Faceship | Greatest Hits, Volume 11 | Hangar 11 |
| 14 | Mikrowaves | 20 Up 20 Down | Break Em Off |
| 15 | Def3 & Late Night Radio | Weddings & Funerals | URBNET / Fontana North |
| 16 | Béla Fleck | My Bluegrass Heart | BMG Rights Management (US) LLC |
| 17 | Big Red Machine | How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? | Jagjaguwar |
| 18 | Madi Diaz | History of a Feeling | Anti/Epitaph |
| 19 | Mae Powell | Both Ways Brighter | Park The Van |
| 20 | Joe Troop | Borrowed Time | Free Dirt |
| 21 | Wednesday | Twin Plagues | Orindal |
| 22 | Liars | The Apple Drop | Mute |
| 23 | Torres | Thirstier | Merge |
| 24 | The Halluci Nation | One More Saturday Night | Radicalized |
| 25 | Atmosphere | WORD? – Side A | Rhymesayers |
| 26 | Piroshka | Love Drips and Gathers | Bella Union |
| 27 | Anika | Change | Sacred Bones |
| 28 | Acid Dad | Take It From The Dead | RAS / Greenway |
| 29 | Clairo | Sling | FADER Label / Republic |
| 30 | Evidence | Unlearning, Vol. 1 | Rhymesayers |
Anna C. September 7th, 2021
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Circuit des Yeux, Lloyd Banks, Low, Nas, Orquesta Akokán
Friday Clock Out presents:
(There’s) Always Something There To Remind LJ
Today, LJ will be hosting Friday Clock Out!
He’ll give some love to the upcoming new Low album, HEY WHAT?. And, he’ll dip his toe in to Donda, the new Kanye West album. What does the world do with Kanye West in 2021? I dunno either. Additionally, he has a hot new single to play from Domino Recording Company!
El Jay Friday Clock Out September 3rd, 2021
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: anika, jay & the americans, johnny adams, Kanye, Liars, Low, tyler, tysegall, wet leg
Friday Clock Out presents:
There’s a little man in a little house with a little pet dog and a little pet mouse – L.J. hosts Friday Clock Out!
There’s a little man in a little house
With a little pet dog and a little pet [bunny]
I know where he lives and I visit him
We have Sunday tea, sausages and beans
I know where he lives
‘Cause I know where [Dear Matthew] lives
He was very famous once upon a time
But no one knows even if he’s alive
But I know where he lives and I visit him
In a little hut in [Texas, I think]
I know where he lives
‘Cause I know where [Dear Matthew] lives
And the trees and the flowers are so pretty, aren’t they?
He was very famous once upon a time
And no one cares even if he’s alive (we do)
But I know where he lives and I visit him
In a little hut by the edge of the wood
El Jay Friday Clock Out November 16th, 2018
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: bob dylan, erykah badu, frank sinatra, ives tumor, loose fur, Low, matthew dear, more blood more tracks, neneh cherry, ohmme, television personalities, yoko ono
Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 21 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 21
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 | Idles | Joy as an Act of Resistance. | Partisan |
| 2 | Low | Double Negative | Sub Pop |
| 3 | Mitski | Be the Cowboy | Dead Oceans |
| 4 | Young Scum | Young Scum | Citrus City / Pretty Olivia |
| 5 | Mirah | Understanding | Absolute Magnitude |
| 6 | Guerilla Toss | Twisted Crystal | DFA |
| 7 | Gorillaz | The Now Now | Parlophone |
| 8 | Mothers | Render Another Ugly Method | Anti/Epitaph |
| 9 | Exploded View | Obey | Sacred Bones |
| 10 | Eric Bachmann | No Recover | Merge |
| 11 | Dilly Dally | Heaven | Partisan |
| 12 | Ashes | Good Nothings – EP | Crystal Pistol |
| 13 | Dizzy Mandjeku & Alé Kumá | De Palenque à Matongé | Zephyrus |
| 14 | Butcher Brown | Camden Session | Gearbox |
| 15 | Spiritualized | And Nothing Hurt | Fat Possum |
| 16 | Richard Thompson | 13 Rivers | New West |
| 17 | Manzara | Hello My Name Is … Friend | Nosy Pants |
| 18 | Unmaker | Firmament | self-released |
| 19 | Spooky Cool | Every Thing Ever – EP | Citrus City |
| 20 | Elizabeth Owens | Coming of Age | self-released |
| 21 | We Were Promised Jetpacks | The More I Sleep the Less I Dream | self released |
| 22 | Marc Ribot | Songs of Resistance 1948-2018 | Anti- |
| 23 | Jungle | For Ever | XL |
| 24 | Tirzah | Devotion | Domino |
| 25 | Aphex Twin | Collapse – EP | Warp |
| 26 | Advance Base | Animal Companionship | Run for Cover |
| 27 | Aimee Lay | The Other Side of You | Respectful Lust |
| 28 | Alien Boy | Sleeping Lessons | Tiny Engines |
| 29 | Thalia Zedek Band | Fighting Season | Thrill Jockey |
| 30 | Iron & Wine | Weed Garden – EP | Sub Pop |
Anna C. September 22nd, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Idles, Low, Mirah, Mitski, Young Scum
Friday Clock Out presents:
Apparently, there is no coming back from the South China Sea? I dunno, what am I, a Sea-ologist or something?
I’m going to kick off today’s drive time show with an indulgently long song from Low’s last album, 2015’s Ones and Sixes. From there, the show will zig-zag between styles and genres in an almost absurd and ugly manner because, well, it’s fun and good music is good music and genres are someone else’s box, man.
El Jay Friday Clock Out August 31st, 2018
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: Blood Orange, carmen mcrae, clock, drive time, friday, interpol, Low, Ones and Sixes, out, sinatra
Friday Clock Out presents:
Definitely not Low and definitely not in a state of disarray.
Based of the first four songs that have been released from it thus far, Low’s next album, Double Negative, promises to be a stunner. This evening’s show will feature the latest single from the album, “Disarray,” which was released on the 16th of this month.
El Jay Friday Clock Out August 24th, 2018
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: Double Negative, Friday Clock Out, It's Immaterial, LJ, Low, Subpop, Young Fathers
Friday Clock Out presents:
“Everything I think I know is just static on the radio” and LJ
Static on the Radio
Jim White
Three A.M. I’m awakened
By a sweet summer rain
Distant howling of a passing Southbound coal train
Was I dreaming
Or was there someone just lying here Beside me in this bed?
Am I hearing things?
Or in the next room
Did a long forgotten music box just start playing?
And I know (it’s a sin putting words in the mouths of the dead)
And I know (it’s a crime to weave your wishes into what they said)
And I know (only fools venture where them spirits tread)
Cause I know (every word, every sound bouncing ’round my head)
Is just static on the radio
(Everything I think I know is just static on the radio)
Now there’s a church house
About a stone’s throw down
From this place where I been staying
It’s Sunday morning
And I’m sittin’ in my truck
Listening to my neighbor sing
Ten years ago I might have joined in
But don’t time change those inclined
To think less of what is written
Than what’s wrote between the lines?
Cause I know (dreams are for those who are asleep in bed)
And I know (it’s a sin putting words in the mouths of the dead)
Cause I know (for all my ruminations I can’t change a thing
Still I hope (there’s others out there who are listening)
To the static on the radio
(Everything I think I know is just static on the radio
Static on the radio
(Ain’t praying for miracles, I’m just down on my knees)
Static on the radio
(Listening for the song behind everything I think I know)
Static on the radio
(Everything I think I know is just static on the radio)
Songwriters: Michael Pratt
Static on the Radio lyrics © BMG Rights Management US, LLC
El Jay Friday Clock Out June 22nd, 2018
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: Beach House, hungry freaks daddy, jim white, LJ, Low, m.i.a., niblett, scout
Friday Clock Out presents:
Spit / Earth : Huckleberry Finn, Alfred E. Neuman, Howdy Doody and L.J.
“The artwork is a figurative sculpture based on Huckleberry Finn, Alfred E. Neuman, and Howdy Doody. It’s a cartoony, life-size figure that’s almost like a piece of sports equipment. It has six points around the body, and it’s rudimentarily animated from three of these points. It’s similar to other characters I’ve used in my films, but it’s ultimately a new character. It also has eyes, which are video screens with special glass lenses on top. It’s able to make eye contact with viewers […]. The character goes between anger and pain. Animated content plays in the video screens that serve as its eyes, along with live video footage I’ve shot. Formally, it’s extremely glossy, reflective.” Jordan Wolson on “Colored Sculpture”
El Jay Friday Clock Out June 15th, 2018
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: Father John Misty, Friday Clock Out, Kanye, LJ, Low, Megadeth, new, Supertramp