top 30 new albums for Oct 19 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 Atmosphere WORD? Rhymesayers
2 Joyner Lucas Your Heart (feat. J. Cole) – Single Twenty Nine
3 Dead Finks The Death and Resurrection of Johnathan Cowboy Urge
4 Fly Anakin Pixote Mutant Academy
5 Matthew E. White K Bay Domino
6 The Felice Brothers From Dreams to Dust Yep Roc
7 Sankofa The Floodgates Making Music with Dope Friends
8 Ships in the Night First Light – Single Cleopatra
9 Bronze Nazareth & Roc Marciano Ekphrasis Fat Beats
10 Juçara Marçal Delta Estácio Blues QTV
11 Bomba Estéreo Deja Sony Music Latin; Sony US Latin
12 Ant The Symbol Ant Hasn’t Heard of You, Either Vintage Youth
13 Gutterwall Seeing it From Zero Ground Zero Etching Tin
14 Karmah Richmond State of Mind – EP self-released
15 NDEFRU & Fan Ran Richmond Gas Gritty City
16 Fuggin Doe Ratchet AF Hitzville
17 LJ & the Sleeze Put Something Sleezy Between Your Legs – EP Eight Ball Record$
18 Junnie Mac Peace, Mercy & Blessings Monsta Inc & Purple Republic
19 Faceship Greatest Hits, Volume 11 Hangar 11
20 Richmond Avant Improv Collective (RAIC) Gestalt Cacophonous Revival
21 Benét Game Over! – EP Bayonet
22 McKinley Dixon For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her Spacebomb
23 Big Kahuna OG & Unlucky Bastards Flameboy Advance Mutant Academy
24 Angelica Garcia Echo Eléctrico – EP Spacebomb
25 Profound 79 & Starr Nyce Diamonds in the Sky Gritty City
26 Hotspit CC – EP avery magoruims wonder emporium
27 Talk Me Off Abyss – EP Smartpunk
28 audiobooks Astro Tough Heavenly
29 Hovvdy True Love Grand Jury
30 Carolyn Wonderland Tempting Fate Alligator

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    October 19th, 2021

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top 30 new albums for Aug 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 La Luz In the Country – Single Hardly Art
2 Castalia Blue Moon – EP self-released
3 Matthew E. White & Lonnie Holley Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection Spacebomb
4 Frames Every Room Know Hope
5 McKinley Dixon For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her Spacebomb
6 Benét Game Over! – EP Bayonet
7 RAIC Gestalt Cacophonous Revival
8 Prabir Trio Haanji self-released
9 Doll Baby Harmony Scar (acoustic demos) self-released
10 Big Fundamental Hyperbeam Bad Gateway House
11 Flight Club I’ve Been Kicked Out of Better Homes Than This – EP Open Your Ears
12 Enforced Kill Grid Century Media
13 Tennishu Maybe – EP James Infinite
14 Mitchel Evan Mitchel Evan The Label Group
15 LJ & the Sleeze Put Something Sleezy Between Your Legs – EP Eight Ball Record$
16 DJ Williams Short Stories – EP Projekt Music
17 Beex The Early Years: 1979-1982 Beach Impediment
18 Danja Mowf Word of Mowf Funtown/804 Flava
19 King Woman Celestial Blues Relapse
20 koleżanka place is Bar/None
21 Prince Welcome 2 America Legacy
22 Robin and Linda Williams A Better Day a-Coming self-released
23 Tyler, the Creator CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST Columbia
24 Anika Change Sacred Bones
25 Brittany Howard Jaime Reimagined ATO / Fontana North
26 Atmosphere Word? Rhymesayers
27 Nigel Hall Spiritual Regime Music Group
28 Umphrey’s McGee YOU WALKED UP SHAKING IN YOUR BOOTS BUT YOU STOOD TALL AND LEFT A RAGING BULL Nothing Too Fancy
29 Snapped Ankles Forest of Your Problems The Leaf Label
30 The Go! Team Get Up Sequences Part One Memphis Industries

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    August 10th, 2021

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