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 for Oct 24-30 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Young Scum Zona Citrus City
2 Pete Curry Night Logic Crystal Pistol
3 Camp Howard Camp Howard Citrus City/Crystal Pistol/Bad Grrrl
4 LVL UP Return to Love Sub Pop
5 Naked Pictures Wade the Water self-released
6 Haley Bonar Impossible Dream GNDWIRE / Thirty Tigers
7 Warpaint Heads Up Rough Trade
8 Ultimate Painting Dusk Trouble in Mind
9 La Femme Mystère Disques Pointus
10 Slothrust Everyone Else Dangerbird
11 American Football American Football Polyvinyl
12 Bon Iver 22, A Million Jagjaguwar
13 Katie Burden Strange Moon Cautionary Tail
14 Psychic Twin Strange Diary Polyvinyl
15 Wovenhand Star Treatment Sargent House
16 Ian Sweet Shapeshifter Hardly Art
17 Against Me! Shape Shift with Me Total Treble
18 Duchess Says Sciences Nouvelles Slovenly
19 GRIT LA Don’t Love You Bodan Kuma
20 StarBenders Heavy Petting Institution
21 Husbandry Fera Aqualamb
22 Deap Vally FEMEJISM Nevado
23 Nots Cosmetic Goner
24 AJJ The Bible 2 SideOneDummy
25 High Waisted On Ludlow self-released
26 Pill Convenience Mexican Summer
27 Avers Omega/Whatever EggHunt
28 Jacob Collier In My Room self-released
29 Omni Deluxe Trouble in Mind
30 Jherek Bischoff Cistern Leaf

    October 31st, 2016

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Top 30 for Jul 18-24 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 The Wimps The Wimps Bad Grrrl
2 Naked Pictures NUDES self-released
3 Nelly Kate Woodshedding self-released
4 Recluse Raccoon Horse self-released
5 Shy, Low Hiraeth Spartan
6 Dadmobile Haste Makes Waste self-released
7 Get In The Car Get In The Car self-released
8 Imaginary Sons Don’t Impress Me Bossy Lil’ Thing
9 The Avalanches Wildflower Astralwerks
10 Clair Morgan New Lions & the Not-Good Night EggHunt
11 Eskimeaux Year of the Rabbit Double Double Whammy
12 Various Artists The Rough Guide to Peru Rare Groove World Music Network
13 Sons of the Void Sons of the Void Sunrise Ocean Bender
14 Frankie Cosmos Next Thing Bayonet
15 BADBADNOTGOOD IV Innovative Leisure
16 Smoke Break Everything Is Wrong Bad Note
17 Joe Bataan Call My Name Vampisoul
18 Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band 55 Big Crown
19 Sara Watkins Young in All the Wrong Ways New West
20 Kristin Kontrol X-Communicate Sub Pop
21 PUP The Dream is Over SideOneDummy
22 Tanya Donelly Swan Song Series American Laundromat
23 William Tyler Modern Country Merge
24 The Julie Ruin Hit Reset Hardly Art
25 Mourn Ha, Ha, He. Captured Tracks
26 Spray Paint Feel the Clamps Goner
27 Steve Gunn Eyes on the Lines Matador
28 Honey Radar Blank Cartoon WYR?
29 Jay Som I Think You’re Alright b/w Rush Fat Possum
30 William Bell This Is Where I Live Stax

    July 25th, 2016

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Top 30 for Jul 11-17 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Clair Morgan New Lions & the Not-Good Night Egghunt
2 Get In The Car Get In The Car self-released
3 Nelly Kate Woodshedding self-released
4 Toxic Moxie VHS Box Set self-released
5 Naked Pictures Nudes self-released
6 Money Chica Echo En Mexico Vampisoul
7 Joe Battan Call My Name Vampisoul
8 The Wimps The Wimps Bad Grrrl
9 Jeremy D. Simmons Pie in the Sky Elephant Ear
10 Tanya Donelly Swan Song Series American Laundromat
11 The Coathangers Nosebleed Weekend Suicide Squeeze
12 TacocaT Lost Time Hardly Art
13 Blood Orange Freetown Sound Domino
14 Miramar Dedication to Sylvia Rexach Barbes
15 Kristin Kontrol X-Communicate Sub Pop
16 Andy Shauf The Party Anti-
17 Kevin Morby Singing Saw Dead Oceans
18 Bob Mould Patch the Sky Merge
19 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity ATO
20 Frankie Cosmos Next Thing Bayonet
21 The Claypool Lennon Delirium Monolith of Phobos ATO
22 William Tyler Modern Country Merge
23 Aloha Little Windows Cut Right Through Polyvinyl
24 Whitney Light Upon the Lake Secretly Canadian
25 Cate Le Bon Crab Day Drag City
26 Fruit Bats Absolute Loser Easy Sound
27 Mystery Lights The Mystery Lights Wick
28 BADBADNOTGOOD IV Innovative Leisure
29 Omar I Want It to Be Freestyle
30 case/lang/veirs case/lang/veirs Anti-

    July 18th, 2016

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