top 30 new albums for week ending Aug 25 presents:
top 30 new albums for week ending Aug 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 | Dehd | Flower of Devotion | Fire Talk |
| 2 | Zhé Aqueen | The Hypnomonic Album | Heye Vibez |
| 3 | Henny L.O. | Sages | Mutant Academy |
| 4 | Tykoon Tha Misfit | Model Citizen | self-released |
| 5 | Positive No | Kyanite | Little Black Cloud |
| 6 | Keep | Keep – EP | Citrus City |
| 7 | Inter Arma | Garbers Days Revisited | Relapse |
| 8 | Olamina & Awareness | Back to the Mission | LOVE CITY |
| 9 | Orville Peck | Show Pony – EP | Columbia |
| 10 | Cut Copy | Freeeze, Melt | Cutters |
| 11 | Fontaines D.C. | A Hero’s Death | Partisan / Fontana North |
| 12 | Kenny Roby | The Reservoir | Royal Potato Family |
| 13 | Exploding Flowers | Stumbling Blocks | self-released |
| 14 | Courtney Marie Andrews | Old Flowers | Fat Possum |
| 15 | Emma Swift | Blonde On The Tracks | Tiny Ghost |
| 16 | Woods | Strange to Explain | Woodsist |
| 17 | Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher | Dead Oceans |
| 18 | GUM | Out In The World | Spinning Top |
| 19 | LA Priest | GENE | Domino |
| 20 | OHMME | Fantasize Your Ghost | Joyful Noise |
| 21 | Moemaw Naedon | Dr. Deadhorse | Soul Slime |
| 22 | Dan Bern | Quarantine Me | Kababa Music |
| 23 | Deerhoof | Future Teenage Cave Artists | Joyful Noise |
| 24 | Melenas | Días Raros | Trouble In Mind |
| 25 | Man Man | Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between | Sub Pop |
| 26 | Deante’ Hitchcock | BETTER | ByStorm Entertainment/RCA |
| 27 | Flat Worms | Antarctica | GOD? |
| 28 | Lilly Hiatt | Walking Proof | New West |
| 29 | U.S. Girls | Heavy Light | 4AD |
| 30 | King Krule | Man Alive! | True Panther Sounds |
Anna C. August 25th, 2020
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Dehd, Henny L.O., Positive No, Tykoon Tha Misfit, Zhé Aqueen
Handful Of Brains presents:
Oh Rats!
Tonight on Handful of Brains (7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio), we’ll celebrate Nat’l Rat Catchers Day early (it’s 7/22). We’ll have a couple of songs about rats along with music from Blitzen Trapper, Radiohead, Dehd, Anjimile, Lomelda, Grateful Dead, U2, Sleigh Bells, St. Vincent, The Bug vs Earth, and more!
Pet your cat, hug your exterminator, and pay that Pied Piper!
Tune in at 97.3 FM or on the World Wide Web at wrir.org.
(Graphic Artist: Christian Jackson)
TonyJ42 Handful Of Brains July 21st, 2020
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: Anjimile, Blitzen Trapper, Dehd, grateful dead, Handful of Brains, Lomelda, Radiohead, Sleigh Bells, St. Vincent, The Bug vs Earth, Tony Jordan, U2, WRIR