top 30 new albums for Sep 8 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 Nas King’s Disease Mass Appeal
2 Tough Age Which Way Am I? Mint
3 Cherry Pickles The Juice That’s Worth the Squeeze PNKSLM
4 Mourn Self Worth Captured Tracks
5 Crack Cloud Pain Olympics Meat Machine
6 RVG Feral Fire
7 Fontaines D.C. A Hero’s Death Partisan / Fontana North
8 ohbliv LewseJoints Number 10 (b) self-released
9 Deau Eyes Let It Leave Egghunt
10 Keep Keep – EP Citrus City
11 Inter Arma Garbers Days Revisited Relapse
12 Richmond Avant Improv Collective (RAIC) Chance Operations Blight
13 Fly Anakin At the End of the Day. Mutant Academy
14 Eyedress Let’s Skip to the Wedding Lex
15 Ganser Just Look At That Sky felte
16 Fantastic Negrito Have You Lost Your Mind yet? Blackball Universe / Cooking Vinyl
17 Sneaks Happy Birthday Merge
18 Laurence-Anne Accident – EP Bonsound
19 Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today Domino
20 Blu & Exile Miles Fat Beats
21 Zombi 2020 Relapse
22 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Sideways to New Italy Ivy League
23 Run The Jewels RTJ4 BMG
24 No Age Goons Be Gone Drag City
25 OHMME Fantasize Your Ghost Joyful Noise
26 Little Simz Drop 6 – EP AGE 101
27 Moemaw Naedon Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
28 Nation of Language Introduction, Presence self-released
29 Deante’ Hitchcock BETTER RCA
30 lindsay ASMR Love Letters Wildefolk

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    September 8th, 2020

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 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

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Bad Magic What’s Wrong with My Eyes? self-released
2 Mourn Sorpresa Familia Captured Tracks
3 Natalie Prass The Future and the Past ATO Records
4 Piranha Rama Piranha Rama Trrrash Records
5 Kenneka Cook Moonchild American Paradox
6 Manzara hello my name is … friend Nosy Pants
7 Saw Black Water Tower Crystal Pistol
8 Charles Lloyd & The Marvels with Lucinda Williams Vanished Gardens Capitol Records
9 Animal Collective Tangerine Reef Domino
10 Sudan Archives Sink – EP Stones Throw
11 Shannon & the Clams Onion Easy Eye Sound
12 Troy Roberts Nu-Jive Perspective Inner Circle Music
13 Snail Mail Lush Matador
14 Ty Segall & White Fence Joy Drag City
15 Let’s Eat Grandma I’m All Ears Transgressive / PIAS
16 The Internet Hive Mind Columbia Records
17 Eddie Palmieri Full Circle Ropeadope
18 Prana Crafter Enter The Stream Sunrise Ocean Bender / Cardinal Fuzz
19 Frankie and the Witch Fingers Drip / Tea – Single Let’s Pretend Records
20 Janelle Monáe Dirty Computer Bad Boy Records
21 Dylan Carlson Conquistador Sargent House
22 John Coltrane Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Deluxe Version) Impulse!
23 Pram Across the Meridian Domino
24 Big Kahuna OG Sky Chryme Mutant Academy
25 Desert Altar Desert Altar self-released
26 The Hold Steady The Stove & The Toaster / Star 18 – Single Frenchkiss
27 Evil Triplet Have A Nice Trip Evil Triplet
28 Bodega Endless Scroll What’s Your Rupture?
29 Mikaela Davis Delivery Rounder / Concord
30 Hologram Teen Between the Funk and the Fear Polytechnic Youth

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    July 28th, 2018

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Monday Breakfast Blend: July 23, 2018 presents:

You can read updates and get previews by liking this show on Facebook. Did you enjoy the show or want to listen to it again? You can find it in the archive player for the next two weeks.

    July 23rd, 2018

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Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:

You can read updates and get previews by liking this show on Facebook. Did you enjoy the show or want to listen to it again? You can find it in the archive player for the next two weeks.

    Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution    July 16th, 2018

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Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:

I drove through the tail end of that storm on Friday after spending about 7 hrs driving before I hit it, and that was not fun. But, the gorgeous weather we had all weekend almost made it worth it.

You can read updates and get previews by liking this show on Facebook. Did you enjoy the show or want to listen to it again? You can find it in the archive player for the next two weeks.

    Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution    July 9th, 2018

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Top 30 for Aug 22-28 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Lydia Loveless Real Bloodshot
2 Mamadou Barry & Afro Groove Gang Tankadi Label Bleu
3 Mitski Puberty 2 Dead Oceans
4 Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Miss Sharon Jones! Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Daptone
5 MOURN Ha, Ha, He. Captured Tracks
6 Yeni Nostalji EP self-released
7 Pete Curry Doin’ Nothin’ Crystal Pistol
8 Anthony Joseph Caribbean Roots Heavenly Sweetness / Strut
9 Andy Shauf The Party Anti-
10 The Julie Ruin Hit Reset Hardly Art
11 GØGGS GØGGS In the Red
12 Summer Cannibals Full of It Kill Rock Stars
13 Steve Gunn Eyes on the Lines Matador
14 Puro Instinct Autodrama Manifesto
15 Thee Oh Sees A Weird Exits Castle Face
16 Wye Oak Tween Merge
17 Bajka The World b/w Invisible Joy Philophon
18 Angel Olsen My Woman Jagjaguwar
19 Alex Cameron Jumping the Shark Secretly Canadian
20 Exploded View Exploded View Sacred Bones
21 The Album Leaf Between Waves Relapse
22 Of Clocks and Clouds Better Off self-released
23 William Bell This is Where I Live Stax
24 Davell Crawford Piano in the Vaults, Vol. 1 Basin Street
25 TTNG Disappointment Island Sargent House
26 Miss Tess Baby, We All Know self-released
27 Against Me! 333 [single] Total Treble / INgrooves
28 Weaves Weaves Kanine
29 Avett Brothers True Sadness Republic / American
30 The Wans Run Baby Run self-released

    August 29th, 2016

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