top 30 new albums for Jul 20 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 Sault Nine Forever Living Originals
2 Mdou Moctar Afrique Victime Matador
3 Evidence Unlearning Vol. 1 Rhymesayers
4 Courtney Barnett Rae Street – Single Mom + Pop
5 Vaudou Game NOUSSIN Hot Casa
6 Curtis Harding I Won’t Let You Down – Single Anti-
7 Lucy Dacus Home Video Matador
8 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3000 self-released
9 gnawing You Freak Me Out Refresh
10 Reptile Tile Drop the Lead – EP Picky Choosie
11 ohbliv Darktwaine’s Esoteric Jam self-released
12 Tim Easton You Don’t Really Know Me Black Mesa
13 The Mountain Goats Dark in Here Merge
14 The Catenary Wires Birling Gap Skep Wax
15 Deap Vally American Cockroach – EP Cooking Vinyl
16 Dani and Lizzy The Opening 604
17 Bill and the Belles Happy Again self-released
18 BLK JKS Abantu / Before Humans We Are Busy Bodies
19 Wombo Keesh Mountain – EP Fire Talk
20 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones When God Was Great Hellcat/Epitaph
21 Colleen The Tunnel and the Clearing P-VINE
22 Ducks Ltd. Get Bleak Carpark
23 Squid Bright Green Field Warp
24 Mother Nature and Boathouse SZNZ Closed Sessions
25 TV Priest Uppers Sub Pop
26 Janet Simpson Safe Distance Cornelius Chapel
27 Miss Grit Impostor – EP Miss Grit
28 Sincere Gifts Ghost of America – EP self-released
29 Fake Fruit Fake Fruit Rocks In Your Head
30 Roland Roberts All About the Timing self-released

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    July 20th, 2021

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Apr 12 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 Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop
2 Book of Wyrms Remythologizer Twin Earth
3 Courtney Barnett Everybody Here Hates You – Single Mom+Pop
4 Eric Reed Everybody Gets the Blues Smoke Sessions
5 Ibibio Sound Machine Doko Mien Merge
6 Dexter Story Bahir Soundway
7 Minor Poet The Good News – EP Sub Pop
8 Inter Arma Sulphur English Relapse
9 Appalling Inverted Realm Redefining Darkness
10 Ash Wednesday Futlility self-released
11 Lobo Marino @ Appalachian South Folklife Center Lobo Marino
12 Scott Slay The Rail Bonfire
13 Partner Saturday the 14th – EP Father/Daughter
14 Shana Cleveland Night of the Worm Moon Hardly Art
15 Jim and Lynna Woolsey Long Ago Bonfire
16 Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze Don Giovanni
17 Sonny & The Sunsets Hairdressers From Heaven Rocks In Your Head
18 Orville Peck Pony Sub Pop
19 Nilüfer Yanya Miss Universe ATO
20 Ex Hex It’s Real Merge
21 Shlohmo The End Friends Of Friends
22 CHAI Punk Burger
23 X Wild Gift (2019 Remaster) Fat Possum
24 The Coathangers The Devil You Know Suicide Squeeze
25 Kiwi jr. Football Money Mint
26 Helado Negro This Is How You Smile RVNG Intl.
27 Yves Jarvis The Same But By Different Means Anti-
28 Living Hour Softer Faces Kanine / Fontana North
29 Matmos Plastic Anniversary Thrill Jockey
30 Flight of the Conchords Live in London Sub Pop

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    April 13th, 2019

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Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:

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    Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution    October 22nd, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 20 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 Natalie Prass The Future and the Past ATO
3 Hoax Hunters Dormant – EP Cherub
4 Fly Anakin & Ohbliv Backyard Boogie Mutant Academy
5 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom+Pop
6 Mazzy Star Still – EP Rhymes of an Hour
7 Tower of Power Soul Side of Town Artistry Music
8 Shannon Shaw Shannon In Nashville Easy Eye Sound
9 Drake Scorpion Young Money Entertainment / Cash Money / Republic
10 Angelique Kidjo Remain in Light Kravenworks
11 Piranha Rama Piranha Rama Trrrash
12 Shannon & the Clams Onion Easy Eye Sound
13 Oliver The Crow Oliver The Crow OTC
14 Snail Mail Lush Matador
15 Teyana Taylor K.T.S.E. GOOD Music
16 77:78 Jellies Heavenly
17 Mad Skillz Im the DJ….And the Rapper Big Kidz Ent
18 Peach Kelli Pop Gentle Leader Mint
19 Wimps Garbage People Kill Rock Stars
20 La Luz Floating Features Hardly Art
21 Saba Care for Me Saba Pivot
22 John Coltrane Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album Verve
23 The Jayhawks Back Roads and Abandoned Motels Legacy
24 Rodney Crowell Acoustic Classics RC1
25 Young Scum Young Scum Citrus City
26 Dumb Waiter Heck JUJU
27 Manatree Engines self-released
28 Desert Altar Desert Altar self-released
29 Ty Segall & White Fence Joy Drag City
30 Prana Crafter Enter The Stream Sunrise Ocean Bender / Cardinal Fuzz

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    July 21st, 2018

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Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:

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    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.

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

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Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:

It’s really hot out there. Stay cool by the radio.

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    Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution    July 2nd, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending May 25 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 Neko Case Hell-On Anti/Epitaph
2 Parquet Courts Wide Awake! Rough Trade
3 Tracyanne & Danny Tracyanne & Danny Merge
4 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom+Pop
5 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Sparkle Hard Matador
6 La Luz Floating Features Hardly Art
7 Speedy Ortiz Twerp Verse Carpark
8 The Lovely Eggs This Is Eggland The Lovely Eggs
9 The Skull Defekts The Skull Defekts Thrill Jockey
10 Superorganism Superorganism Domino
11 Now, Now Saved Trans-
12 Facs Negative Houses Trouble in Mind
13 Half Waif Lavender Cascine
14 Jennifer Castle Angels of Death Paradise of Bachelors
15 The Breeders All Nerve 4AD
16 Beach House 7 Sub Pop
17 Various artists African Scream Contest 2 (Analog Africa No. 26) Analog Africa
18 Pharrell Williams x Camila Cabello Sangria Wine – Single Columbia
19 Yeni Nostalji Yeni Nostalji Ropeadope
20 Saw Black Water Tower Crystal Pistol
21 The Purge The Bad Ideas We Build Worlds Purge Music
22 Gumming Human Values self-released
23 Lucy Dacus Historian Matador
24 Magnus Lush Hell Is Real – EP Trrrash
25 Opin Drifters EP Harding Street Assembly Lab
26 Piranha Rama Beach Body Trrrash
27 The Dead Tongues Unsung Passage Psychic Hotline
28 Mary Lattimore Hundreds of Days Ghostly International
29 Peach Kelli Pop Gentle Leader Mint
30 Deeper Deeper Fire Talk

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    May 26th, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending May 11 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 Frankie Cosmos Vessel Sub Pop
2 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom+Pop
3 The Pandoras Hey! It’s the Pandoras Burger
4 Childish Gambino This is America – Single RCA
5 The Messthetics The Messthetics Discord
6 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Tearing at the Seams Stax
7 Guided By Voices Space Gun GBV, Inc.
8 Orquesta Akokán Orquesta Akokán Daptone
9 Dr. Octagon Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation Caroline
10 Kenneka Cook Moonchild American Paradox
11 MGMT Little Dark Age Columbia
12 Carpenter Brut Leather Teeth Caroline
13 Djeneba & Fousco Kayeba Khasso Lusafrica
14 Eternal Summers Every Day It Feels Like I’m Dying… Nevado
15 Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog Saddle Creek
16 Love Roses What Doesn’t Thrill You self-released
17 Saw Black Water Tower Crystal Pistol
18 Buddha Council True Love Roots Musician
19 Natalie Prass The Future and the Past ATO
20 Andy Jenkins Sweet Bunch Liberator Music / Spacebomb
21 John Morand Scott’s Addiction Sound of Music
22 Radio B Jesus Never Wore a Suit The Association Of Great Minds
23 I Am the Liquor Feed on My Sorrow – EP self-released
24 Fly Anakin & Ohbliv Backyard Boogie Mutant Academy
25 Peace Kindness is the New Rock and Roll Ignition Ltd.
26 Amber Mark Conexão – EP PMR / Interscope
27 The Sea and Cake Any Day Thrill Jockey
28 Elke Bad Metaphors – EP Kobalt
29 Anemone Baby Only You & I Luminelle
30 Various artists How to Talk to Girls at Parties [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Masterworks

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    May 12th, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Oct 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

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    October 28th, 2017

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