Top 30 new albums for week ending Nov 15 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 Crumb Jinx Crumb
2 Piranha Rama You’ve Earned It Trrrash
3 Theravada Xennis Rodman 2000 Entertainment
4 Tacocat This Mess Is a Place Sub Pop
5 Automatic Signal Stones Throw
6 Doudou Copa Loin des Barreaux Diamond Prod
7 Angelica Garcia Jícama (Edit) – Single Spacebomb
8 Grebes House Creature Broken Circles
9 Quelle Chris Guns Mello Music Group
10 Juana Molina Forfun – EP Crammed Discs
11 Ibibio Sound Machine Doko Mien Merge
12 Smoke Fairies Darkness Brings the Wonders Home Year Seven
13 Coco Montoya Coming in Hot Alligator
14 Lucy Dacus 2019 Matador
15 The Purge Honesty self-released
16 Voarm Voarm self-released
17 Mirtaw Vandals MXC
18 Inter Arma Sulphur English Relapse
19 Locobeach Psychedelic Disco Cumbia Dorsal Fin
20 Illiterate Light Illiterate Light Atlantic
21 Copperhead Gazing in the Dark PTP
22 Toxic Moxie Falkonia self-released
23 Dharma Bombs Enjoy the View Dharma Bombs
24 Sammi Lanzetta Ceiling Mirror 6131
25 Camp Howard Cañón self-released
26 Russian Circles Blood Year Sargent House
27 Sleepwalkers Ages Spacebomb
28 NO BS! Brass A Decade of Noise self-released
29 Various Artists Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots Bloodshot
30 Landon Elliott Domino American Paradox

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    November 16th, 2019

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 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.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Jesca Hoop Stonechild Memphis Industries
2 Purple Mountains Purple Mountains Drag City
3 Prettiest Eyes Volume 3 Castle Face
4 Various Artists Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit’s ‘the Midnight Organ Fight’ Canvasback
5 Tacocat This Mess Is a Place Sub Pop
6 Joanna Sternberg Then I Try Some More Team Love
7 Snapped Ankles Stunning Luxury The Leaf Label
8 black midi Schlagenheim Rough Trade
9 Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar
10 Mal Blum Pity Boy Don Giovanni
11 Julia Shapiro Perfect Version Hardly Art
12 MANNEQUIN PUSSY Patience Epitaph
13 Stef Chura Midnight Saddle Creek
14 Jillian Rae I Can’t Be the One You Want Me to Be theDIYteam
15 Westside Gunn Flygod Is an Awesome God Griselda
16 Oh Sees Face Stabber Castle Face
17 Gothic Lizard Creeping Out of the Dark Cold Vision
18 Tijuana Panthers Carpet Denim Innovative Leisure
19 Sebadoh Act Surprised Dangerbird
20 Angelica Garcia It Don’t Hinder Me – Single Spacebomb
21 Lucy Dacus Forever Half Mast – Single Matador
22 Minami Deutsch Can’t Get There – Single Höga Nord
23 Sleepwalkers Ages Spacebomb
24 Bigal Harrison Bintage CONTROL Ent.
25 Radio B Kill The Dreamer Vol 1: New Independence AGM / Purple Republic
26 Sea of Storms Saddest Faction Sound Era
27 Minor Poet The Good News – EP Sub Pop
28 Benjamin Shepherd Hold the Line self-released
29 Shormey Boogie Tape, Vol. 1 – EP Citrus City
30 BUTT Bad Sex self-released

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    July 20th, 2019

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Top 30 new albums for week ending June 14 presents:

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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

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    June 15th, 2019

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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.

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    Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution    June 10th, 2019

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Jun 7 presents:

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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

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    June 8th, 2019

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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.

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    Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution    June 3rd, 2019

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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.

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    Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution    May 27th, 2019

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Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:

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    Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution    May 13th, 2019

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Top 30 new albums for week ending May 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.

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

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    May 11th, 2019

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Top 30 for Jun 27 – Jul 3 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Thao & the Get Down Stay Down A Man Alive Ribbon Music
2 TEEN Love Yes Carpark
3 TacocaT Lost Time Hardly Art
4 Gazebos Die Alone Hardly Art
5 Kristin Kontrol X-Communicate Sub Pop
6 Mitski Puberty 2 Dead Oceans
7 White Lung Paradise Domino
8 Lucy Dacus No Burden EggHunt
9 Gnoomes Ngan! Rocket Recordings
10 Frankie Cosmos Next Thing Bayonet
11 Summer Cannibals Full of It Kill Rock Stars
12 Chris Cohen As If Apart Captured Tracks
13 Regrettes A Living Human Girl Warner Bros.
14 Nap Eyes Thought Rock Fish Scale Paradise of Bachelors
15 The Suffers The Suffers Rhyme & Reason
16 Tanya Donelly Swan Song Series American Laundromat
17 Bob Mould Patch the Sky Merge
18 Frightened Rabbit Painting of a Panic Attack Canvasback
19 Aloha Little Windows Cut Right Through Polyvinyl
20 Sunflower Bean Human Ceremony Fat Possum
21 Boulevards Groove! Captured Tracks
22 Esperanza Spalding Emily’s D+Evolution Concord
23 Fruit Bats Absolute Loser Easy Sound
24 Casket Girls The Night Machines Graveface
25 Amber Arcades Fading Lines Heavenly
26 Levitation Room Ethos Burger
27 Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial Matador
28 Lydia Lunch and Marc Hurtado My Lover the Killer Munster
29 Big Thief Masterpiece Saddle Creek
30 Erin McKeown According to Us TVP

    July 4th, 2016

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