top 30 new albums for Aug 2 presents:
top 30 new albums for Aug 2
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 | Tomberlin | i don’t know who needs to hear this… | Saddle Creek |
| 2 | DJ Premier | Hip Hop 50: Vol. 1 – EP | Mass Appeal |
| 3 | Dumb Waiter | Gauche Gists | Ossein |
| 4 | Danger Mouse & Black Thought | Cheat Codes | BMG |
| 5 | Joey Bada$$ | 2000 | self-released |
| 6 | NO BS! Brass | Undying | self-released |
| 7 | Gregory Darden | The Soils | self-released |
| 8 | Plunky | Juju Jazz Poetics | N.A.M.E. Brand |
| 9 | Jake Xerxes Fussell | Good and Green Again | Paradise of Bachelors |
| 10 | Ryan Kent | Dying Comes With Age | Rare Bird Books |
| 11 | Jaywood | Slingshot | Captured Tracks |
| 12 | Elf Power | Artificial Countrysides | Yep Roc |
| 13 | Naima Bock | Giant Palm | Sub Pop |
| 14 | TV Priest | My Other People | Sub Pop |
| 15 | J.Rocc | A Wonderful Letter | Stones Throw |
| 16 | Brandon Coleman | Interstellar Black Space | Brainfeeder |
| 17 | Porridge Radio | Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To the Sky | Secretly Canadian |
| 18 | Elephant Gym | Dreams | Topshelf |
| 19 | V.C.R | The Chronicles of a Caterpillar: The Egg | Leaving |
| 20 | Congotronics International | Where’s the One? | Crammed Discs |
| 21 | Ben Marc | Glass Effect | Innovative Leisure |
| 22 | Erasers | Constant Connection | Fire Talk |
| 23 | Linqua Franqa | Bellringer | Ernest Jenning Record Co. |
| 24 | Papercuts | Past Life Regression | Slumberland |
| 25 | Ibibio Sound Machine | Electricity | Merge |
| 26 | Ed Schrader’s Music Beat | Nightclub Daydreaming | Carpark |
| 27 | Beach House | Once Twice Melody | Sub Pop |
| 28 | Cycles | Terraform | self-released |
| 29 | Viewer | First Date | Smooth N Groove |
| 30 | Jimetta Rose | The Gift: Around the Way Queen | Low Key Source |
Anna C. August 2nd, 2022
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Black Thought, Danger Mouse, DJ Premier, Dumb Waiter, Joey Bada$$, Tomberlin
top 30 new albums for Oct 13 presents:
top 30 new albums for Oct 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.
| 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 |
Anna C. October 13th, 2020
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Alex the Astronaut, Butcher Brown, Dumb Waiter, Naked Pictures, She
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 13 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 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 | Snail Mail | Lush | Matador |
| 2 | The Innocence Mission | Sun on the Square | Bella Union |
| 3 | Dumb Waiter | Heck | JUJU |
| 4 | Van Morrison & Joey DeFrancesco | You’re Driving Me Crazy | Legacy |
| 5 | Sarah Shook & the Disarmers | Years | Bloodshot |
| 6 | Blush Face | What Do You Want? | Blush Face |
| 7 | Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams | Vanished Gardens | Blue Note |
| 8 | Sleep | The Sciences | Third Man |
| 9 | Shannon Shaw | Shannon In Nashville | Easy Eye Sound |
| 10 | Angélique Kidjo | Remain in Light | Kravenworks |
| 11 | PMS and the Mood Swings | PMS and the Mood Swings | Burger |
| 12 | YOB | Our Raw Heart | Relapse |
| 13 | Bombino | Deran | Partisan |
| 14 | John Coltrane | Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album | Impulse |
| 15 | Manatree | Engines | self-released |
| 16 | Woolen Men | Post | self-released |
| 17 | Hoax Hunters | Dormant – EP | Cherub |
| 18 | Natalie Prass | The Future and the Past | ATO |
| 19 | Deathhouse Blues | The Beer Battered Boogies | self released |
| 20 | Nickelus F | Stuck | AGM |
| 21 | Big Kahuna OG | Sky Chryme | Mutant Academy |
| 22 | Tuamie | Emergency Raps, Vol. 2 | Mutant Academy |
| 23 | Desert Altar | Desert Altar | self-released |
| 24 | Jim James | Uniform Distortion | ATO |
| 25 | Gorillaz | The Now Now | Parlophone |
| 26 | Wimps | Garbage People | Kill Rock Stars |
| 27 | Wild Moccasins | Look Together | New West |
| 28 | The Smoking Flowers | Let’s Die Together | Bandaloop |
| 29 | Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever | Hope Downs | Sub Pop |
| 30 | Kamasi Washington | Heaven and Earth | Young Turks |
Anna C. July 14th, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Dumb Waiter, Joey DeFrancesco, Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, Snail Mail, The Innocence Mission, Van Morrison