top 30 new albums for Aug 2 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 Tomberlin i don’t know who needs to hear this… Saddle Creek
2 DJ Premier Hip Hop 50: Vol. 1 – EP Mass Appeal
3 Dumb Waiter Gauche Gists Ossein
4 Danger Mouse & Black Thought Cheat Codes BMG
5 Joey Bada$$ 2000 self-released
6 NO BS! Brass Undying self-released
7 Gregory Darden The Soils self-released
8 Plunky Juju Jazz Poetics N.A.M.E. Brand
9 Jake Xerxes Fussell Good and Green Again Paradise of Bachelors
10 Ryan Kent Dying Comes With Age Rare Bird Books
11 Jaywood Slingshot Captured Tracks
12 Elf Power Artificial Countrysides Yep Roc
13 Naima Bock Giant Palm Sub Pop
14 TV Priest My Other People Sub Pop
15 J.Rocc A Wonderful Letter Stones Throw
16 Brandon Coleman Interstellar Black Space Brainfeeder
17 Porridge Radio Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To the Sky Secretly Canadian
18 Elephant Gym Dreams Topshelf
19 V.C.R The Chronicles of a Caterpillar: The Egg Leaving
20 Congotronics International Where’s the One? Crammed Discs
21 Ben Marc Glass Effect Innovative Leisure
22 Erasers Constant Connection Fire Talk
23 Linqua Franqa Bellringer Ernest Jenning Record Co.
24 Papercuts Past Life Regression Slumberland
25 Ibibio Sound Machine Electricity Merge
26 Ed Schrader’s Music Beat Nightclub Daydreaming Carpark
27 Beach House Once Twice Melody Sub Pop
28 Cycles Terraform self-released
29 Viewer First Date Smooth N Groove
30 Jimetta Rose The Gift: Around the Way Queen Low Key Source

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    August 2nd, 2022

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top 30 new albums for Oct 13 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 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
2 Naked Pictures W I D E Cheap Cuts
3 Dumb Waiter Tsk JUJU
4 She Trl 2004 – EP Brat Daddy
5 Alex the Astronaut The Theory of Absolutely Nothing Minkowski
6 Throwing Muses Sun Racket Fire
7 League of Space Pirates Space Pirates – Single self-released
8 Mourn Self Worth Captured Tracks
9 Gumming Overripe Vinyl Conflict
10 Tyler Childers Long Violent History Hickman Holler/RCA
11 Keep Keep – EP Citrus City
12 Dehd Flower of Devotion Fire Talk
13 Wax Chattels Clot Flying Nun
14 Lefthnd Ad Mausoleum American Paradox
15 Spacebomb House Band X: Kernel Eternal Spacebomb
16 Eric Slick Wiseacre Slick
17 Lonely Rooms Until We Have To Fuzzycat
18 ShotClock Side A – EP Say-10
19 Alex Jonestown Massacre Run-On Death Sentence Hail Peyton
20 Armwood No Filter Through The Vortex self-released
21 Loud Night Mindnumbing Pleasure Vinyl Conflict
22 Hewolf Into the Darkness… – EP self-released
23 Ruth Good Haunt – EP Citrus City
24 Outer World Fixed Like A Painting self-released
25 Valkyrie Fear Relapse
26 Sufjan Stevens The Ascension Asthmatic Kitty
27 Fleet Foxes Shore Anti- / Epitaph
28 Action Bronson Only For Dolphins Loma Vista
29 Anjimile Giver Taker Father/Daughter
30 Gillian Welch Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 2 Acony

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    October 13th, 2020

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 13 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 Snail Mail Lush Matador
2 The Innocence Mission Sun on the Square Bella Union
3 Dumb Waiter Heck JUJU
4 Van Morrison & Joey DeFrancesco You’re Driving Me Crazy Legacy
5 Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Years Bloodshot
6 Blush Face What Do You Want? Blush Face
7 Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams Vanished Gardens Blue Note
8 Sleep The Sciences Third Man
9 Shannon Shaw Shannon In Nashville Easy Eye Sound
10 Angélique Kidjo Remain in Light Kravenworks
11 PMS and the Mood Swings PMS and the Mood Swings Burger
12 YOB Our Raw Heart Relapse
13 Bombino Deran Partisan
14 John Coltrane Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album Impulse
15 Manatree Engines self-released
16 Woolen Men Post self-released
17 Hoax Hunters Dormant – EP Cherub
18 Natalie Prass The Future and the Past ATO
19 Deathhouse Blues The Beer Battered Boogies self released
20 Nickelus F Stuck AGM
21 Big Kahuna OG Sky Chryme Mutant Academy
22 Tuamie Emergency Raps, Vol. 2 Mutant Academy
23 Desert Altar Desert Altar self-released
24 Jim James Uniform Distortion ATO
25 Gorillaz The Now Now Parlophone
26 Wimps Garbage People Kill Rock Stars
27 Wild Moccasins Look Together New West
28 The Smoking Flowers Let’s Die Together Bandaloop
29 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Hope Downs Sub Pop
30 Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth Young Turks

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    July 14th, 2018

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