top 30 new albums for Jan 24 presents:
top 30 new albums for Jan 24
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 | Shana Cleveland | Manzanita | Hardly Art |
| 2 | Stereolab | Pulse of the Early Brain | Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp |
| 3 | Sadie | Phases | self-released |
| 4 | Frankie Cosmos | Inner World Peace | Sub Pop |
| 5 | Fievel Is Glauque | Flaming Swords | MATH Interactive |
| 6 | Butcher Brown | Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey | Concord Jazz |
| 7 | Westside Gunn | 10 | EMPIRE |
| 8 | Høly River | Høly River Shockoe Sessions LIVE | Shockoe |
| 9 | Ryan Kent | Dying Comes With Age | Rare Bird |
| 10 | The Ruta Beggars | Ever-Changing | MLN |
| 11 | Casey Foubert | EP 1 | zat-samuelson |
| 12 | Ernie Vincent | Original Dap King | self-released |
| 13 | Marlody | I’m Not Sure at All | Skep Wax |
| 14 | Orchestra Gold | Medicine | Orchestra Gold |
| 15 | Acre Memos | A Collection of Bird Songs | Double Yolk |
| 16 | Richard Dawson | The Ruby Cord | Weird World |
| 17 | Jambinai | Apparition – EP | Bella Union |
| 18 | La Femme | Teatro Lúcido | Disque Pointu |
| 19 | Big Joanie | Back Home | Kill Rock Stars |
| 20 | Aoife Nessa Frances | Protector | Partisan |
| 21 | Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn | Pigments | Merge |
| 22 | Tegan and Sara | Crybaby | Mom+Pop |
| 23 | Courtney Marie Andrews | Loose Future | CMA |
| 24 | Dungen | En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog | Mexican Summer |
| 25 | Nikki Lane | Denim & Diamonds | New West |
| 26 | Alvvays | Blue Rev | Polyvinyl |
| 27 | Melody’s Echo Chamber | Unfold | Weird World |
| 28 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Cool It Down | Secretly Canadian |
| 29 | Jake Blount | The New Faith | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 30 | Jessie Baylin | Jersey Girl | Missing Piece |
Anna C. January 24th, 2023
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Fievel Is Glauque, Frankie Cosmos, Sadie, Shana Cleveland, Stereolab
Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 13 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 13
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 | Sinkane | Dépaysé | City Slang |
| 2 | Esther Rose | You Made It This Far | Father/Daughter Records |
| 3 | Parsnip | When the Tree Bears Fruit | Trouble in Mind |
| 4 | Nas | The Lost Tapes 2 | Mass Appeal Records |
| 5 | Shana Cleveland | Night of the Worm Moon | Hardly Art |
| 6 | Oh Sees | Face Stabber | Castle Face |
| 7 | Dori Freeman | Every Single Star | Blue Hens Music |
| 8 | Black Belt Eagle Scout | At the Party with My Brown Friends | Saddle Creek |
| 9 | Tinariwen | Amadjar | Anti/Epitaph;Wedge |
| 10 | Chris Forsyth | All Time Present | No Quarter |
| 11 | Transylvania Stud | White Witch | Independent |
| 12 | Future Projektor | Terma | Independent |
| 13 | Patrick Bates | Salad Days – EP | Verses Records |
| 14 | Book of Wyrms | Remythologizer | Twin Earth Records |
| 15 | Swordplay | Paperwork | Audio Recon |
| 16 | Petrichor | II | Custommademusicva |
| 17 | Benjamin Shepherd | Hold the Line | Benjamin Shepherd |
| 18 | Prayer Group | Eudean – EP | Independent |
| 19 | New Lions | End Story – EP | Independent |
| 20 | Ki:Theory | Centrifugal – EP | Kringer Records |
| 21 | Sammi Lanzetta | Ceiling Mirror | 6131 Records |
| 22 | Hex Machine | Cave Painting | Minimum Underdrive |
| 23 | Butt | Bad Sex | self-released |
| 24 | Enforced | At the Walls | Independent |
| 25 | Sleepwalkers | Ages | Spacebomb Records LLC |
| 26 | Katie Dahl | Wildwood | Leaky Boat Records |
| 27 | Zachary Lucky | Midwestern | self-released |
| 28 | Twin Peaks | Lookout Low | Pod / Inertia Music / Space 44 |
| 29 | The Silence | Metaphysical Feedback | Drag City Records |
| 30 | Common | Let Love | Loma Vista Recordings |
Anna C. September 14th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Esther Rose, Nas, Parsnip, Shana Cleveland, Sinkane
Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:
MMBB: August 26, 2019
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.
Anna C. Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution August 26th, 2019
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: Alison Sudol, Angie McMahon, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Season Ammons, Shana Cleveland, Shura, Weyes Blood
Top 30 new albums for week ending June 14 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending June 14
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 | Tacocat | This Mess Is a Place | Sub Pop |
| 2 | Vic Spencer | Things Change I Don’t | Old Fart Luggage |
| 3 | Positive No | Teenage Waistline – Single | Dromedary |
| 4 | Cate Le Bon | Reward | Mexican Summer |
| 5 | Shana Cleveland | Night of the Worm Moon | Hardly Art |
| 6 | Jamila Woods | LEGACY! LEGACY! | Jagjaguwar |
| 7 | She Keeps Bees | Kinship | Ba Da Bing! |
| 8 | C Keys & Kazi | Keys 2 Kazi | Below System |
| 9 | Your Old Droog | It Wasn’t Even Close | Gogul Mogul |
| 10 | The Mountain Goats | In League with Dragons | Merge |
| 11 | The National | I Am Easy to Find | 4AD |
| 12 | Earth | Full upon Her Burning Lips | Sargent House |
| 13 | Faye Webster | Atlanta Millionaires Club | Secretly Canadian |
| 14 | Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation | Sacred Dreams | Rocket |
| 15 | Omen Stones | Omen Stones | self-released |
| 16 | Benjamin Shepherd | Hold the Line | self-released |
| 17 | ohbliv | Give Thanks | Fat Beats |
| 18 | Prayer Group | Eudean | self-released |
| 19 | Copperhead | Copperhead | self-released |
| 20 | Shormey | Boogie Tape, Vol. 1 – EP | Citrus City |
| 21 | Membranes | What Nature Gives… Nature Takes Away | Cherry Red |
| 22 | Pixx | Small Mercies | 4AD |
| 23 | Bill Callahan | Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest | Drag City |
| 24 | Stef Chura | Midnight | Saddle Creek |
| 25 | Peter Perrett | Humanworld | Domino |
| 26 | Palehound | Black Friday | Polyvinyl |
| 27 | SACRED PAWS | Run Around the Sun | Merge |
| 28 | The Gotobeds | Debt Begins at 30 | Sub Pop |
| 29 | Mavis Staples | We Get By | Anti/Epitaph |
| 30 | Pronoun | i’ll show you stronger | Rhyme & Reason |
Anna C. June 15th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Cate Le Bon, Positive No, Shana Cleveland, TacocaT, Vic Spencer
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jun 7 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jun 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.
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tacocat | This Mess Is a Place | Sub Pop |
| 2 | Shana Cleveland | Night of the Worm Moon | Hardly Art |
| 3 | Positive No | Teenage Waistline – Single | Dromedary |
| 4 | Drugdealer | Raw Honey | Mexican Summer / MAGNIPH / Hostess |
| 5 | Darkthrone | Old Star | Peaceville |
| 6 | Jamila Woods | LEGACY! LEGACY! | Jagjaguwar |
| 7 | Reigning Sound | Abdication… For Your Love | Merge |
| 8 | Grace Ives | 2nd | Dots Per Inch Music |
| 9 | Lovenloops | Bev Lives On – EP | self-released |
| 10 | Minor Poet | The Good News – EP | Sub Pop |
| 11 | Benjamin Shepherd | Hold the Line | self-released |
| 12 | Shormey | Boogie Tape, Vol. 1 – EP | Citrus City |
| 13 | Lobo Marino | @Appalachian South Folklife Center – EP | Lobo Marino |
| 14 | SACRED PAWS | Run Around the Sun | Merge |
| 15 | Willie Nelson | Ride Me Back Home | Legacy |
| 16 | French Vanilla | How Am I Not Myself? | Danger Collective |
| 17 | Earth | Full upon Her Burning Lips | Sargent House |
| 18 | Flying Lotus | Flamagra | Warp |
| 19 | Bambi Lee Savage | Berlin-Nashville Express | Hoof & Antler |
| 20 | Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble | Where Future Unfolds | International Anthem |
| 21 | Mavis Staples | We Get By | Anti/Epitaph |
| 22 | Ellis Paul | The Storyteller’s Suitcase | Rosella |
| 23 | Middle Kids | New Songs for Old Problems – EP | Domino |
| 24 | Juan Wauters | Introducing Juan Pablo | Captured Tracks |
| 25 | Nils Lofgren | Blue with Lou | Cattle Track Road |
| 26 | TK & The Holy Know-Nothings | Arguably OK | Mama Bird |
| 27 | Sebadoh | act surprised | Dangerbird |
| 28 | Clinic | Wheeltappers and Shunters | Domino |
| 29 | Operators | Radiant Dawn | Last Gang |
| 30 | Olden Yolk | Living Theatre | Trouble In Mind |
Anna C. June 8th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Darkthrone, Drugdealer, Positive No, Shana Cleveland, TacocaT
Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:
MMBB: May 13, 2019
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.
Anna C. Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution May 13th, 2019
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: Brutus, Combo Chimbita, Ex Hex, Four Eyes, Ibibio Sound Machine, Jackie Mendoza, L7, Little Simz, Priests, Shana Cleveland, SOAK, Stef Chura, TacocaT
Top 30 new albums for week ending May 10 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending May 10
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 | Drahla | Useless Coordinates | Captured Tracks |
| 2 | Tacocat | This Mess Is a Place | Sub Pop |
| 3 | Priests | The Seduction of Kansas | Sister Polygon |
| 4 | Norma Tanega | Sad About The Times | Anthology |
| 5 | Shana Cleveland | Night of the Worm Moon | Hardly Art |
| 6 | The Mountain Goats | In League with Dragons | Merge |
| 7 | Show Me the Body | Dog Whistle | Loma Vista |
| 8 | Angel Metro | Dark Days Bright Lights | self-released |
| 9 | Hackensaw Boys | A Fireproof House of Sunshine – EP | Free Dirt |
| 10 | Inter Arma | Sulphur English | Relapse |
| 11 | Monday Night | Scomaha, Vol. 1 | AllWeNeed |
| 12 | NDEFRU | Foreign Local – EP | Blue Ether Sound |
| 13 | Yatra | Death Ritual | Grimoire |
| 14 | The Mystery Lights | Too Much Tension! | Wick |
| 15 | Catfish and the Bottlemen | The Balance | Universal-Island |
| 16 | Unwed Sailor | Heavy Age | Current Taste |
| 17 | RGD | Million Reasons | Serious Machines |
| 18 | Craig Finn | I Need a New War | Partisan |
| 19 | L7 | Scatter the Rats | Blackheart |
| 20 | Wand | Laughing Matter | Drag City |
| 21 | The Yawpers | Human Question | Bloodshot |
| 22 | Daniel Norgren | Wooh Dang | Superpuma |
| 23 | Anna Tivel | The Question | Fluff and Gravy |
| 24 | Ivy Mairi | Polarity – EP | Bruce Trail |
| 25 | Emily Reo | Only You Can See It | Carpark / Hostess |
| 26 | FONTAINES D.C. | Dogrel | Partisan / Fontana North |
| 27 | The Budos Band | V | Daptone |
| 28 | Partner | Saturday the 14th – EP | Father/Daughter |
| 29 | Brutus | Nest | Hassle |
| 30 | Little Simz | Grey Area | AGE 101 |
Anna C. May 11th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Drahla, Norma Tanega, Priests, Shana Cleveland, TacocaT
Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:
MMBB: April 29, 2019
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.
Anna C. Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution April 29th, 2019
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: Brutus, Courtney Marie Andrews, Ex Hex, Ibibio Sound Machine, Jayda G, Jenny Lewis, Laura Stevenson, Little Simz, Partner, Priests, Shana Cleveland, Weyes Blood