Mercury Falls presents:
Mercury Falls ~ Ep. 908.5? 909a? You wanna get me in a corner, kinda smother me with love but it’s too late (L.J. Hosts)
El Jay Mercury Falls May 18th, 2022
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: Boris, bryan ferry, Cate Le Bon, Father John Misty, la roux, shamir, Sharon Van Etten
top 30 new albums for Jan 25 presents:
top 30 new albums for Jan 25
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 | Holiday Ghosts | North Street Air | FatCat |
| 2 | Cate Le Bon | Pompeii | Mexican Summer |
| 3 | Bedouine | Waysides | Bedouine Music |
| 4 | The Umbrellas | The Umbrellas | Slumberland |
| 5 | Marissa Nadler | The Path of the Clouds | Bella Union |
| 6 | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | The Future | Stax |
| 7 | Beex | The Early Years: 1979-1982 | Beach Impediment |
| 8 | Roxy Girls | Roxy Girls Are in the Drink – EP | Moshi Moshi |
| 9 | The Exbats | Now Where Were We | Goner |
| 10 | Ducks Ltd. | Modern Fiction | Carpark |
| 11 | La Luz | La Luz | Hardly Art |
| 12 | Mary J. Blige | Good Morning Gorgeous – Single | 300 Entertainment |
| 13 | Black Country, New Road | For the first time | Ninja Tune |
| 14 | Aloa Input | Devil’s Diamond Memory Collection | Siluh |
| 15 | gnawing | You Freak Me Out | Refresh |
| 16 | Tinsley Ellis | Devil May Care | Alligator |
| 17 | Nell & The Flaming Lips | Where the Viaduct Looms | Bella Union |
| 18 | Rod Gator | For Louisiana | Blue Élan |
| 19 | Ana Egge | Between Us | StorySound |
| 20 | Catbells | Same As You – EP | SQFT |
| 21 | Ladyhawke | Time Flies | BMG |
| 22 | Robert Plant & Alison Krauss | Raise The Roof | Rounder |
| 23 | girlhouse | the second ep | Secret Road |
| 24 | David James Allen | The Architect | Garment District |
| 25 | Suntitle | In a Dream | Know Hope |
| 26 | Hush Club | Fingerprints & Stains | Full Send |
| 27 | Julia Daigle | Un singe sur l’épaule | Lisbon Lux |
| 28 | Curtis Harding | If Words Were Flowers | Anti- |
| 29 | Lizzie and the Makers | Dear Onda Wahl | self-released |
| 30 | Dummy | Mandatory Enjoyment | Trouble In Mind |
Anna C. January 25th, 2022
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Bedouine, Cate Le Bon, Holiday Ghosts, Marissa Nadler, The Umbrellas
Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 20 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 20
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 | Piranha Rama | You’ve Earned It | Trrrash |
| 2 | Esther Rose | You Made It This Far | Father/Daughter |
| 3 | Weyes Blood | Titanic Rising | Sub Pop |
| 4 | Cate Le Bon | Reward | Mexican Summer / MAGNIPH / Hostess |
| 5 | Jay Som | Anak Ko | Polyvinyl |
| 6 | Theravada | Xennis Rodman | 2000 Entertainment |
| 7 | Oh, Rose | While My Father Sleeps | Park The Van |
| 8 | Parsnip | When the Tree Bears Fruit | Trouble In Mind |
| 9 | Lizzie No | Vanity | self-released |
| 10 | Sunny War | Shell of a Girl | Hen House Studios |
| 11 | Lana Del Rey | Norman Fucking Rockwell! | Polydor |
| 12 | Bat for Lashes | Lost Girls | Bat For Lashes |
| 13 | Whitney | Forever Turned Around | Secretly Canadian |
| 14 | Penny & Sparrow | Finch | I Love You |
| 15 | Frankie Cosmos | Close It Quietly | Sub Pop |
| 16 | Chelsea Wolfe | Birth of Violence | Sargent House |
| 17 | The Curtis Brothers | Algorithm | Truth Revolution |
| 18 | Illiterate Light | Illiterate Light | Atlantic |
| 19 | Grebes | House Creature | Broken Circles |
| 20 | Camp Howard | Cañón | Egghunt |
| 21 | ExKnives | Witches and Skindivers | self-released |
| 22 | Charles Owens Trio | Three and Thirteen | Ropeadope |
| 23 | Super Doppler | Super Doppler | Sweet Brother |
| 24 | Sycho Sid | Sunset Drive 2 | Mutant Academy |
| 25 | Sea of Storms | Saddest Faction | Sound Era |
| 26 | Koncept Jack$on | Newport 1000s | self-released |
| 27 | Omni | Networker | Sub Pop |
| 28 | Holy Roller | Holy Roller | self-released |
| 29 | Sammi Lanzetta | Ceiling Mirror | 6131 |
| 30 | Sleepwalkers | Ages | Spacebomb |
Anna C. September 21st, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Cate Le Bon, Esther Rose, Jay Som, Piranha Rama, Weyes Blood
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 26 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 26
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 | Piranha Rama | You’ve Earned It | Trrrash |
| 2 | Cate Le Bon | Reward | Mexican Summer / MAGNIPH / Hostess |
| 3 | Bobby Oroza | This Love | Big Crown |
| 4 | Nas | The Lost Tapes 2 | Mass Appeal |
| 5 | Mike Krol | Power Chords | Merge |
| 6 | Olden Yolk | Living Theatre | Trouble In Mind |
| 7 | Jamila Woods | LEGACY! LEGACY! | Jagjaguwar |
| 8 | Benjamin Shepherd | Hold the Line | self-released |
| 9 | Louisa Branscomb | Gonna Love Anyway | Compass |
| 10 | Hash Redactor | Drecksound | Goner |
| 11 | Minami Deutsch | Can’t Get There – Single | Höga Nord Rekords |
| 12 | Torche | Admission | Relapse |
| 13 | Gauche | A People’s History of Gauche | Merge |
| 14 | Sleepwalkers | Ages | Spacebomb |
| 15 | Big Fundamental | You Belong Here | self-released |
| 16 | Haybaby | They Get There | Tiny Engines |
| 17 | Minor Poet | The Good News – EP | Sub Pop |
| 18 | Illiterate Light | Sweet Beast – EP | Illiterate Light |
| 19 | Omen Stones | Omen Stones | self-released |
| 20 | Silvermoon | Leaving – EP | self-released |
| 21 | Prayer Group | Eudean | Buzzhowl |
| 22 | Goon | Heaven is Humming | Partisan / Fontana North |
| 23 | Dorian Electra | Flamboyant | Canyon |
| 24 | ViVii | Vivii | Dumont Dumont |
| 25 | Joanna Sternberg | Then I Try Some More | Team Love |
| 26 | Purple Mountains | Purple Mountains | Drag City |
| 27 | Drab Majesty | Modern Mirror | Dais |
| 28 | Magdalena Bay | mini mix vol. 1 | Luminelle |
| 29 | Emma Elisabeth | Melancholic Milkshake | self-released |
| 30 | Bleached | Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough? | Dead Oceans |
Anna C. July 27th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Bobby Oroza, Cate Le Bon, Mike Krol, Nas, Piranha Rama
Top 30 new albums for week ending June 14 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending June 14
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 | Tacocat | This Mess Is a Place | Sub Pop |
| 2 | Vic Spencer | Things Change I Don’t | Old Fart Luggage |
| 3 | Positive No | Teenage Waistline – Single | Dromedary |
| 4 | Cate Le Bon | Reward | Mexican Summer |
| 5 | Shana Cleveland | Night of the Worm Moon | Hardly Art |
| 6 | Jamila Woods | LEGACY! LEGACY! | Jagjaguwar |
| 7 | She Keeps Bees | Kinship | Ba Da Bing! |
| 8 | C Keys & Kazi | Keys 2 Kazi | Below System |
| 9 | Your Old Droog | It Wasn’t Even Close | Gogul Mogul |
| 10 | The Mountain Goats | In League with Dragons | Merge |
| 11 | The National | I Am Easy to Find | 4AD |
| 12 | Earth | Full upon Her Burning Lips | Sargent House |
| 13 | Faye Webster | Atlanta Millionaires Club | Secretly Canadian |
| 14 | Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation | Sacred Dreams | Rocket |
| 15 | Omen Stones | Omen Stones | self-released |
| 16 | Benjamin Shepherd | Hold the Line | self-released |
| 17 | ohbliv | Give Thanks | Fat Beats |
| 18 | Prayer Group | Eudean | self-released |
| 19 | Copperhead | Copperhead | self-released |
| 20 | Shormey | Boogie Tape, Vol. 1 – EP | Citrus City |
| 21 | Membranes | What Nature Gives… Nature Takes Away | Cherry Red |
| 22 | Pixx | Small Mercies | 4AD |
| 23 | Bill Callahan | Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest | Drag City |
| 24 | Stef Chura | Midnight | Saddle Creek |
| 25 | Peter Perrett | Humanworld | Domino |
| 26 | Palehound | Black Friday | Polyvinyl |
| 27 | SACRED PAWS | Run Around the Sun | Merge |
| 28 | The Gotobeds | Debt Begins at 30 | Sub Pop |
| 29 | Mavis Staples | We Get By | Anti/Epitaph |
| 30 | Pronoun | i’ll show you stronger | Rhyme & Reason |
Anna C. June 15th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Cate Le Bon, Positive No, Shana Cleveland, TacocaT, Vic Spencer
Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:
MMBB: June 10, 2019
You can read updates and get previews by liking this show on Facebook. Did you enjoy the show or want to listen to it again? You can find it in the archive player for the next two weeks.
Anna C. Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution June 10th, 2019
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: Cate Le Bon, Dressy Bessy, Haviah Mighty, Jamila Woods, Middle Kids, TacocaT, Xenia Rubinos
Top 30 new albums for week ending May 31 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending May 31
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 | Positive No | Teenage Waistline – Single | Dromedary |
| 2 | Cate Le Bon | Reward | Mexican Summer |
| 3 | Mavis Staples | We Get By | Anti- / Epitaph |
| 4 | Holly Herndon | PROTO | 4AD |
| 5 | ohbliv | Give Thanks | Fat Beats |
| 6 | FONTAINES D.C. | Dogrel | Partisan / Fontana North |
| 7 | Black Mountain | Destroyer | Jagjaguwar |
| 8 | Analog Suspects | Transmission 001 | Charged Up Entertainment LLC |
| 9 | Minor Poet | The Good News – EP | Sub Pop |
| 10 | Moniker | Private Prophet – EP | Good Eye |
| 11 | Benjamin Shepherd | Hold the Line | self-released |
| 12 | Luray | Dig | self-released |
| 13 | Lovenloops | Bev Lives On – EP | self-released |
| 14 | Sebadoh | Act Surprised | Dangerbird |
| 15 | Faye Webster | Atlanta Millionaires Club | Secretly Canadian |
| 16 | Rose City Band | Rose City Band | Jean Sandwich |
| 17 | Jackie Cohen | Zagg | Spacebomb LLC |
| 18 | Lydia Ainsworth | Phantom Forest | Zombie Cat |
| 19 | Pottery | No.1 | Partisan |
| 20 | beabadoobee | Loveworm – EP | Dirty Hit / Hostess |
| 21 | Jamila Woods | LEGACY! LEGACY! | Jagjaguwar |
| 22 | Dressy Bessy | Fast Faster Disaster | Yep Roc |
| 23 | Kelly Hunt | Even the Sparrow | Rare Bird |
| 24 | Haviah Mighty | 13th Floor | Haviah Mighty |
| 25 | Esperanza Spalding | 12 Little Spells | Concord |
| 26 | Fauvely | This is What the Living Do – EP | Diversion |
| 27 | ALASKALASKA | The Dots | Marathon Artists |
| 28 | An Horse | Modern Air | Lame-O |
| 29 | Lauren Crosby | I Said Take Me to the Water | self-released |
| 30 | Barrie | Happy to Be Here | Winspear |
Anna C. June 1st, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Cate Le Bon, Holly Herndon, Mavis Staples, ohbliv, Positive No