top 30 new albums for Sep 29 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.

1 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
2 Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia
3 Nubya Garcia SOURCE Concord Jazz
4 Osees Protean Threat Castle Face
5 Tyler Childers Long Violent History Hickman Holler
6 Deau Eyes Let It Leave Egghunt
7 Positive No Kyanite Little Black Cloud
8 Sweeping Promises Hunger for a Way Out Feel It
9 Usher Bad Habits – Single Brand Usher
10 Evidence Unlearning – Single Rhymesayers
11 Eric Slick Wiseacre Slick
12 Lance Bangs Whammy – EP Citrus City
13 Dumb Waiter Tsk JUJU
14 She TRL 2004 – EP self-released
15 Trapcry Stay Up (Longer Deluxe) 1986
16 Flung Shaky But My Hair Is Grown Citrus City / Topshelf
17 GULL Relative Stranger self-released
18 Strike Anywhere Nightmares of the West Pure Noise
19 Loud Night Mindnumbing Pleasure Vinyl Conflict
20 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
21 The Flavor Project Food for Thought Reeverb Entertainment
22 Tim Heidecker Fear of Death Spacebomb
23 Sleepless Void Fear self-released
24 Various Artists Stay Home Drunk Dial
25 Venal Flesh Die In Summer self-released
26 Haircut Cake – EP self-released
27 Newscaster 3.612574 self-released
28 Jyoti Mama, You Can Bet! eOne Music / SomeOthaShip Connect
29 Bill Callahan Gold Record Drag City
30 Marques Martin Brave & Afraid Operator

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    September 29th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for Sep 15 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.

1 Nas King’s Disease Mass Appeal
2 Don Bryant You Make Me Feel Fat Possum
3 Koncept Jack$on Thot Rap, Chapter 2 self-released
4 Nubya Garcia SOURCE Concord Jazz
5 The Psychedelic Furs Made Of Rain Cooking Vinyl
6 Lomelda Hannah Double Double Whammy
7 Bill Callahan Gold Record Drag City
8 Dumb Waiter Tsk JUJU
9 Iochroma The Hideous Triumphs Of Form And Function self-released
10 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
11 Positive No Kyanite Little Black Cloud
12 Fly Anakin At the End of the Day. Mutant Academy
13 JUJU African Rhythms 1970-1982 Strut
14 Thanya Iyer Kind Topshelf
15 Fantastic Negrito Have You Lost Your Mind yet? Cooking Vinyl
16 Bryony Jarman-Pinto Fish Factory Sessions – EP Tru Thoughts
17 Blu & Exile Miles Fat Beats
18 Sargeant X Comrade Magic Radio Black Buffalo
19 Jake Blount Spider Tales Free Dirt
20 Phoebe Bridgers Punisher Dead Oceans
21 Ángela Muñoz Introspection Linear Labs
22 Moemaw Naedon Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
23 Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton Smithsonian Folkways
24 Christian Lee Hutson Beginners Anti- / Epitaph
25 Chicano Batman Invisible People ATO / Fontana North
26 lindsay ASMR Love Letters – EP Wildefolk
27 Thundercat It Is What It Is Brainfeeder
28 Tame Impala The Slow Rush Interscope
29 Shadow Show Silhouettes RAS / Greenway
30 Vusi Mahlasela Shebeen Queen ATO

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    September 15th, 2020

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