Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 6 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 Oh Sees Face Stabber Castle Face
2 Jay Som Anak Ko Polyvinyl
3 Piranha Rama You’ve Earned It Trrrash
4 Oh, Rose While My Father Sleeps Park The Van
5 Parsnip When the Tree Bears Fruit Trouble In Mind
6 Vanishing Twin The Age of Immunology Fire
7 Cate Le Bon Reward Mexican Summer / MAGNIPH / Hostess
8 Olden Yolk Living Theatre Trouble In Mind
9 Modern Nature How to Live Bella Union
10 Bryony Jarman-Pinto Cage And Aviary Tru Thoughts
11 Tropical Fuck Storm Braindrops FLIGHTLESS
12 Shannon Lay August Sub Pop
13 Sheer Mag A Distant Call self-released
14 Camp Howard Cañón Egghunt
15 FM Skyline Advanced Memory Suite Crystal Pistol
16 FutureProjektor TERMA self-released
17 Stephanie tangerine nightmare self-released
18 Radio B Kill the Dreamer, Vol. 1: New Independence The Association Of Great Minds
19 Sammi Lanzetta Ceiling Mirror 6131
20 Shormey Boogie Tape, Vol. 1 – EP Citrus City
21 Photosynthesizers Apollogy self-released
22 EVA Truthfully self-released
23 Queen of Jeans if You’re not afraid, i’m not afraid Topshelf
24 Boy Scouts Free Company Anti/Epitaph
25 Ezra Furman Twelve Nudes Bella Union
26 Sunny War Shell of a Girl Hen House Studios
27 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats’ Nest Flightless
28 Rose Dorn Days You Were Leaving Bar/None
29 Bodywash Comforter Luminelle
30 Little Church It’s Not You – EP Diversion

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    September 7th, 2019

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 7 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 Shadow Age Shadow Age – EP Native Of The North
2 Murder by Death The Other Shore Bloodshot
3 Manatree Engines self-released
4 Oh Sees Smote Reverser Castle Face
5 Ought Room Inside the World Merge
6 Saintseneca Pillar of Na Anti-
7 Orquesta Akokán Orquesta Akokán Daptone
8 Hozier Nina Cried Power – EP Universal-Island
9 Ava Luna Moon 2 Western Vinyl
10 Anna Calvi Hunter Domino
11 Amen Dunes Freedom Sacred Bones / Hostess
12 Swearin’ Fall into the Sun Merge
13 Colleen Green Casey’s Tape / Harmontown Loops Infinity Cat
14 Mitski Be the Cowboy Dead Oceans
15 Piranha Rama Piranha Rama Trrrash
16 Angel Metro Dark Days Bright Lights self-released
17 Widow Rings All the Angels Have Left – EP self-released
18 Young Scum Young Scum Citrus City
19 Fullscreen UltraZone – EP self-released
20 Natalie Prass The Future and the Past ATO
21 Andy Jenkins Sweet Bunch Liberator Music / Spacebomb
22 Manzara Hello My Name Is … Friend Nosy Pants
23 Toward Space Gently With a Chainsaw Cult 45
24 Elizabeth Owens Coming of Age self-released
25 Nur Black Appeal of the Void Purge Music
26 The Brutalists The Brutalists Cleopatra
27 Sumac Love in Shadow Thrill Jockey
28 Dead Now Dead Now Brutal Panda
29 Neil & Liam Finn Lightsleeper Inertia / PIAS
30 Beach Goons hoodratscumbags GRNDVW

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    September 8th, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Aug 24 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 Toxic Moxie BRATCORE (VCR cover) – Single self-released
2 Manzara Hello My Name Is … Friend Nosy Pants
3 Oh Sees Smote Reverser Castle Face
4 Mitski Be the Cowboy Dead Oceans
5 Kenneka Cook Moonchild American Paradox
6 Young Scum Young Scum Citrus City
7 Guerilla Toss Twisted Crystal DFA
8 Shannon Shaw Shannon In Nashville Easy Eye Sound
9 Songs From The Road Band Road to Nowhere Lucks Dumpy Toad
10 Phantastic Ferniture Phantastic Ferniture Polyvinyl
11 Preoccupations New Material Jagjaguwar
12 Wimps Garbage People Kill Rock Stars
13 The Beths Future Me Hates Me Carpark
14 Calicoco Float Dadstache
15 Noisia & Two Fingers Dzjengis – Single Division
16 Bad Magic What’s Wrong with My Eyes? self-released
17 Ohbliv Retrospective Paxico
18 Jason Jenkins Quartet Live @ The Barrel Thief self-released
19 Spooky Cool Every Thing Ever – EP Citrus City
20 Mass Gothic I’ve Tortured You Long Enough Sub Pop
21 Nothing Dance on the Blacktop Relapse
22 Death Cab for Cutie Thank You for Today Atlantic
23 Dizzy Baby Teeth Royal Mountain
24 CoCo O’Connor This Ol’ War Satarah
25 Glenn Jones The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works For 6 & 12 String Guitar Thrill Jockey
26 Still Corners Slow Air Wrecking Light
27 Jeremy & the Harlequins Remember This Yep Roc
28 Indigo Girls Live with the University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra Rounder
29 Basement Revolver Heavy Eyes Sonic Unyon
30 Hawks and Doves From a White Hotel Jullian

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    August 25th, 2018

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Sunrise Ocean Bender (1st, 3rd)/ Happy House (2nd,4th)/Altered Circuitry: ReWired (5th) presents:

Marée descendante... by Etienne Valois (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Anna C. here from the Monday Breakfast Blend, filling in for Mr. Atavist on one of my favorite WRIR programs.
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    Sunrise Ocean Bender (1st, 3rd)/ Happy House (2nd,4th)/Altered Circuitry: ReWired (5th)    August 23rd, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 1st presents:

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    September 2nd, 2017

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