top 30 new albums for Nov 23 presents:
top 30 new albums for Nov 23
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 | True Body & Digital Hell | True Body & Digital Hell – EP | Funeral Party |
| 2 | Lunacy | Dust – Single | Dedstrange |
| 3 | Jackson+Sellers | Breaking Point | Anti/Epitaph |
| 4 | Maxwell Stern & Gordon M. Phillips | You Are With Me – EP | Alchemy Hours |
| 5 | The Wimps | Pillow and Blankey | self-released |
| 6 | Lucy Dacus | Home Video | Matador |
| 7 | Angélica Garcia | Echo Eléctrico – EP | Spacebomb |
| 8 | Dead Billionaires | Dead Billionaires EP | Clay Street |
| 9 | Outer World | Chapter 2 | Little Black Cloud |
| 10 | Luna Honey | Ballast | BLIGHT. |
| 11 | Mikrowaves | 20 Up 20 Down | Break Em Off |
| 12 | Bedouine | Waysides | self-released |
| 13 | Marconi Union | Signals | Just |
| 14 | SUSTO | Time in the Sun | New West |
| 15 | Trace Mountains | HOUSE OF CONFUSION | Lame-O |
| 16 | Henry Chadwick | We All Start Again | Swoon City |
| 17 | TONSTARTSSBANDHT | Petunia | Mexican Summer |
| 18 | Sam Russell & the Harborrats | Ocean Shores | KMV London |
| 19 | La Luz | La Luz | Hardly Art |
| 20 | Cedarsmoke | Into the Wild World | Cedarsmoke |
| 21 | Black Marble | Fast Idol | Sacred Bones |
| 22 | Xenia Rubinos | Una Rosa | Anti- / Epitaph |
| 23 | ONETWOTHREE | Onetwothree | Kill Rock Stars |
| 24 | Guided By Voices | It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them! | GBV Inc |
| 25 | Humbird | Still Life | Green Thumb |
| 26 | Atmosphere | WORD? | Rhymesayers |
| 27 | Efterklang | Windflowers | City Slang |
| 28 | Hovvdy | True Love | Grand Jury |
| 29 | Shannon Lay | Geist | Sub Pop |
| 30 | illuminati hotties | Let Me Do One More | Snack Shack Tracks / Hopeless |
Anna C. November 23rd, 2021
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Digital Hell, Gordon M. Phillips, Jackson+Sellers, Lunacy, Maxwell Stern, The Wimps, True Body
Top 30 new albums for week ending April 13 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending April 13
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 | The Sword | Used Future | Razor & Tie |
| 2 | Hop Along | Bark Your Head Off, Dog | Saddle Creek |
| 3 | Blush Face | What Do You Want? | Trrrash |
| 4 | Droopies | Responsible People | self-released |
| 5 | The Wimps | Reel Whirl | Trrrash |
| 6 | Lucy Dacus | Historian | Matador |
| 7 | Eels | The Deconstruction | E Works |
| 8 | Frankie Cosmos | Vessel | Sub Pop |
| 9 | Shannon & the Clams | Onion | Easy Eye / Nonesuch |
| 10 | Goat Girl | Goat Girl | Rough Trade |
| 11 | Yo La Tengo | There’s a Riot Going On | Matador |
| 12 | Shopping | The Official Body | Fat Cat |
| 13 | Awon & Phoniks | The Actual Proof | Don’t Sleep |
| 14 | Erika Wennerstrom | Sweet Unknown | Partisan |
| 15 | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Sex & Food | Jagjaguwar |
| 16 | PRhyme | PRhyme 2 | PRhyme 2 |
| 17 | Dungen & Woods | Myths 003 | Mexican Summer |
| 18 | Juliana Hatfield | Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John | American Laundromat |
| 19 | Kali Uchis | Isolation | Virgin EMI |
| 20 | Hinds | I Don’t Run | Mom+Pop |
| 21 | Mind Over Mirrors | Bellowing Sun | Paradise of Bachelors |
| 22 | Grendel | Age of the Disposable Body | Metropolis |
| 23 | Kenneka Cook | Moonchild | American Paradox |
| 24 | Radio B | Jesus Never Wore a Suit | The Association Of Great Minds |
| 25 | Michael Millions | Hard to Be King | Purple Republic Music Group |
| 26 | Opin | Drifters EP | Harding Street Assembly Lab |
| 27 | The Aces | When My Heart Felt Volcanic | Red Bull |
| 28 | Dr. Octagon | Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation | Bulk / Caroline |
| 29 | Tom Misch | Geography | Beyond the Groove |
| 30 | Alison Wonderland | Awake | EMI |
Anna C. April 14th, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Blush Face, Droopies, Hop Along, The Sword, The Wimps
Top 30 new albums for the week ending July 7th presents:
Top 30 new albums for the week ending July 7th
Anna C. July 8th, 2017
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Book of Wyrms, Lobo Marino, Saw Black, Southern Avenue, The Wimps
Top 30 for week ending Feb 17 presents:
Top 30 for week ending Feb 17
Anna C. February 18th, 2017
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Angelica Garcia, Imaginary Sons, Pete Curry, Saw Black, The Wimps
Top 30 for Dec 5-11 presents:
Top 30 for Dec 5-11
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lightfields | Feelings | self-released |
| 2 | The Wimps | The Wimps | Bad Grrrl |
| 3 | Get in the Car | Get in the Car | self-released |
| 4 | Camp Howard | Camp Howard | Crystal Pistol / Citrus City / Bad Grrrl |
| 5 | Avers | Omega/Whatever | EggHunt |
| 6 | Clair Morgan | New Lions & the Not-Good Night | EggHunt |
| 7 | Pete Curry | Doin’ Nothin’ | Crystal Pistol |
| 8 | Regina Spektor | Remember Us to Life | Sire |
| 9 | Aterciopelados | Reluciente, Rechinante y Aterciopelado | Sony Colombia |
| 10 | La Femme | Mystère | Disques Pointus |
| 11 | Abou Diarra | Koya | Mix et Metisses |
| 12 | Weyes Blood | Front Row Seat to Earth | Mexican Summer |
| 13 | Mor Thiam | Dini Safarrar | Jazzman |
| 14 | Rolling Stones | Blue and Lonesome | Interscope |
| 15 | Kadhja Bonet | The Visitor | Fat Possum |
| 16 | Lee Fields & the Expressions | Special Night | Big Crown |
| 17 | The Faint | Capsule: 1999-2016 | Saddle Creek |
| 18 | Danny & the Darleans | Bug Out | In the Red |
| 19 | Naked Pictures | Wade the Water | self-released |
| 20 | Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions | Until the Hunter | Tendril Tales |
| 21 | Gap Dream | This is Gap Dream | Burger |
| 22 | Shacks | The Shacks | Big Crown |
| 23 | Notwist | Superheroes, Ghostvillains & Stuff | Sub Pop |
| 24 | Sad13 | Slugger | Carpark |
| 25 | The Silence | Nine Suns, One Morning | Drag City |
| 26 | Agnes Obel | Citizen of Glass | PIAS |
| 27 | Vanishing Twin | Choose Your Own Adventure | Soundway |
| 28 | Communist Daughter | The Cracks That Built the Wall | self-released |
| 29 | Ricky Eat Acid | Talk to You Soon | Terrible |
| 30 | Lemon Twigs | Do Hollywood | 4AD |
Anna C. December 12th, 2016
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Avers, Camp Howard, Get in the Car, Lightfields, The Wimps
Top 30 for Jul 25-31 presents:
Top 30 for Jul 25-31
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Julie Ruin | Hit Reset | Hardly Art |
| 2 | Summer Cannibals | Full of It | Kill Rock Stars |
| 3 | Grass Panther | Vignette | Nosey Pants |
| 4 | The Wimps | The Wimps | Bad Grrrl |
| 5 | Doll Baby | Polliwog | self-released |
| 6 | Avers | Omega/Whatever | EggHunt |
| 7 | Naked Pictures | Nudes | self-released |
| 8 | Camp Howard | Camp Howard | Citrus City / Bad Grrrl / Crystal Pistol |
| 9 | Young Magic | Still Life | Carpark |
| 10 | Mitski | Puberty 2 | Dead Oceans |
| 11 | White Lung | Paradise | Domino |
| 12 | Frankie Cosmos | Next Thing | Bayonet |
| 13 | Juju | Juju | Sunrise Ocean Bender |
| 14 | Badbadnotgood | IV | Innovative Leisure |
| 15 | Puro Instinct | Autodrama | Manifesto Records |
| 16 | Kristin Kontrol | X-Communicate | Sub Pop |
| 17 | The Thermals | We Disappear | Saddle Creek |
| 18 | Dinner | Psychic Lovers | Captured Tracks |
| 19 | Bob Mould | Patch the Sky | Merge |
| 20 | Greys | Outer Heaven | Carpark |
| 21 | Sonny & the Sunsets | Moods Baby Moods | Polyvinyl |
| 22 | Minor Victories | Minor Victories | Fat Possum |
| 23 | Parquet Courts | Human Performance | Rough Trade |
| 24 | Steve Gunn | Eyes on the Lines | Matador |
| 25 | Andrew Bird | Are You Serious | Loma Vista |
| 26 | The Amazing | Ambulance | Partisan |
| 27 | Whyte Horses | Pop or Not | Self Released |
| 28 | Lydia Loveless | Longer [single] | Bloodshot |
| 29 | Hashish | A Product of Hashish | Subliminal Sounds |
| 30 | Globelamp | The Orange Glow | Wichita |
Anna C. August 1st, 2016
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Doll Baby, Grass Panther, Summer Cannibals, The Julie Ruin, The Wimps
Top 30 for Jul 18-24 presents:
Top 30 for Jul 18-24
| 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 |
Anna C. July 25th, 2016
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Naked Pictures, Nelly Kate, Recluse Raccoon, Shy Low, The Wimps
Top 30 for May 16-22 presents:
Top 30 for May 16-22
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clair Morgan | New Lions & the Not-Good Night | EggHunt |
| 2 | Toxic Moxie | VHS Box Set | self-released |
| 3 | The Wimps | The Wimps | BadGrrrl |
| 4 | Manatree | Manatree | Egghunt |
| 5 | NO BS! Brass Band | Brass Knuckles | self-released |
| 6 | ZOMBI | Shape Shift | Relapse |
| 7 | A Giant Dog | Pile | Merge |
| 8 | TacocaT | Lost Time | Hardly Art |
| 9 | My Darling Fury | Aches | self-released |
| 10 | Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool | XL |
| 11 | Beth Orton | 1973 [single] | Anti- |
| 12 | The Suffers | The Suffers | Rhyme & Reason |
| 13 | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Nonagon Infinity | ATO |
| 14 | Ra Ra Riot | Need Your Light | Barsuk |
| 15 | TEEN | Love Yes | Carpark |
| 16 | Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds | La Araña es la Vida | In the Red |
| 17 | Sunflower Bean | Human Ceremony | Fat Possum |
| 18 | Charles Bradley | Changes | Daptone |
| 19 | Aurora | All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend | Glassnote |
| 20 | Thao & The Get Down Stay Down | A Man Alive | Ribbon Music |
| 21 | Jessy Lanza | Oh No | Hyperdub |
| 22 | Hurry | Guided Meditation | Lame-O |
| 23 | Hazmat Modine | Extra-Deluxe-Supreme | Barbes |
| 24 | Ry X | Dawn | Loma Vista |
| 25 | Oscar | Cut and Paste | Wichita |
| 26 | Bleached | Welcome the Worms | Dead Oceans |
| 27 | Allen Stone | Radius (Deluxe Edition) | ATO |
| 28 | Autolux | Pussy’s Dead | 30th Century |
| 29 | Casey Mecija | Psychic Materials | self-released |
| 30 | Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros | PersonA | Community Music |
Anna C. May 23rd, 2016
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Clair Morgan, Manatree, NO BS Brass Band, The Wimps, Toxic Moxie
Top 30 for Apr 25 – May 1 presents:
Top 30 for Apr 25 – May 1
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imaginary Sons | Don’t Impress Me | Bossy Lil’ Thing |
| 2 | Toxic Moxie | VHS Box Set | self-released |
| 3 | The Wimps | The Wimps | Bad Grrrl |
| 4 | Lucy Dacus | No Burden | EggHunt |
| 5 | Camp Howard | Camp Howard | Citrus City / Crystal Pistol / Bad Grrrl |
| 6 | PJ Harvey | The Hope Six Demolition Project | Vagrant / Island |
| 7 | Wire | Nocturnal Koreans | Pink Flag |
| 8 | Cate Le Bon | Crab Day | Drag City |
| 9 | M. Ward | More Rain | Merge |
| 10 | TEEN | Love Yes | Carpark |
| 11 | Parquet Courts | Human Performance | Rough Trade |
| 12 | Thao & the Get Down Stay Down | A Man Alive | Ribbon Music |
| 13 | Pity Sex | White Hot Moon | Run for Cover |
| 14 | Free Cake For Every Creature | Talking Quietly of Anything with You | Double Double Whammy |
| 15 | The Coathangers | Nosebleed Weekend | Suicide Squeeze |
| 16 | Higher Authorities | Neptune | Domino |
| 17 | Chelsea Wolfe | Hypnos b/w Flame | Sargent House |
| 18 | Kyle Craft | Dolls of Highland | Sub Pop |
| 19 | Rogue Wave | Delusions of Grand Fur | Easy Sound |
| 20 | Woods | City Sun Eater in the River of Light | Woodsist |
| 21 | Teleman | Brilliant Sanity | Moshi Moshi |
| 22 | Prince Rama | X-treme Now | Carpark |
| 23 | Summer Cannibals | Say My Name [single] | Kill Rock Stars |
| 24 | Summer Twins | Limbo | Burger |
| 25 | Petra Haden | Imaginaryland [reissue] | Bar/None |
| 26 | Lucius | Good Grief | Mom + Pop |
| 27 | Laura Gibson | Empire Builder | Barsuk |
| 28 | The Bonnevilles | Arrow Pierce My Heart | Alive Naturalsound |
| 29 | Melaena Cadiz | Sunfair | Misra |
| 30 | Michelle Blades | Polylust | Midnight Special |
Anna C. May 2nd, 2016
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Camp Howard, Imaginary Sons, Lucy Dacus, The Wimps, Toxic Moxie