top 30 new albums for Nov 2 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 Parquet Courts Sympathy for Life Rough Trade
2 Tonstartssbandht Petunia Mexican Summer
3 Vanishing Twin Ookii Gekkou Fire
4 La Luz La Luz Hardly Art
5 Helado Negro Far In 4AD
6 Ant The Symbol Ant Hasn’t Heard of You, Either Vintage Youth
7 Beex The Early Years: 1979-1982 Beach Impediment
8 Southern Energy Ensemble Southern Energy Strut
9 Evan Elizabeth Lifecycle of a Phoenix self-released
10 Matthew E. White K Bay Domino Recording Co
11 Charles Owens Trio 10 Years La Reserve
12 Buffalo Nichols Buffalo Nichols Fat Possum
13 Julia Shapiro Zorked Suicide Squeeze
14 Atmosphere WORD? Rhymesayers
15 illuminati hotties Let Me Do One More Snack Shack Tracks / Hopeless
16 Broken Baby Late Stage Optimism Poor Man
17 Various Artists The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes Smithsonian Folkways
18 Men Without Hats Again (Part 1) – EP Sonic Envy
19 Colloboh Entity Relation – EP Leaving
20 Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert AGE 101
21 Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart Renew / BMG
22 Def3 & Late Night Radio Weddings & Funerals URBNET / Fontana North
23 Shannon & The Clams Year Of The Spider Easy Eye Sound
24 The Halluci Nation One More Saturday Night Radicalized
25 Evidence Unlearning Vol. 1 Rhymesayers
26 Hiatus Kaiyote Mood Valiant Brainfeeder
27 Squirrel Flower Planet (i) Full Time Hobby
28 Alessandro Cortini SCURO CHIARO Mute
29 Trace Mountains HOUSE OF CONFUSION Lame-O
30 Dummy Mandatory Enjoyment Trouble In Mind

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    November 2nd, 2021

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Top 30 new albums for week ending May 25 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

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Neko Case Hell-On Anti/Epitaph
2 Parquet Courts Wide Awake! Rough Trade
3 Tracyanne & Danny Tracyanne & Danny Merge
4 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom+Pop
5 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Sparkle Hard Matador
6 La Luz Floating Features Hardly Art
7 Speedy Ortiz Twerp Verse Carpark
8 The Lovely Eggs This Is Eggland The Lovely Eggs
9 The Skull Defekts The Skull Defekts Thrill Jockey
10 Superorganism Superorganism Domino
11 Now, Now Saved Trans-
12 Facs Negative Houses Trouble in Mind
13 Half Waif Lavender Cascine
14 Jennifer Castle Angels of Death Paradise of Bachelors
15 The Breeders All Nerve 4AD
16 Beach House 7 Sub Pop
17 Various artists African Scream Contest 2 (Analog Africa No. 26) Analog Africa
18 Pharrell Williams x Camila Cabello Sangria Wine – Single Columbia
19 Yeni Nostalji Yeni Nostalji Ropeadope
20 Saw Black Water Tower Crystal Pistol
21 The Purge The Bad Ideas We Build Worlds Purge Music
22 Gumming Human Values self-released
23 Lucy Dacus Historian Matador
24 Magnus Lush Hell Is Real – EP Trrrash
25 Opin Drifters EP Harding Street Assembly Lab
26 Piranha Rama Beach Body Trrrash
27 The Dead Tongues Unsung Passage Psychic Hotline
28 Mary Lattimore Hundreds of Days Ghostly International
29 Peach Kelli Pop Gentle Leader Mint
30 Deeper Deeper Fire Talk

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    May 26th, 2018

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Top 30 for May 9-15 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity ATO
2 Parquet Courts Human Performance Rough Trade
3 Thao & The Get Down Stay Down A Man Alive Ribbon Music
4 Julianna Barwick Will Dead Oceans
5 Graduates Rise Math Is Hard! self-released
6 Cyndi Lauper Detour Rhino
7 Lush Blind Spot 4AD
8 The Suffers The Suffers Rhyme & Reason
9 Kevin Morby Singing Saw Dead Oceans
10 Bob Mould Patch the Sky Merge
11 TEEN Love Yes Carpark
12 TacocaT Lost Time Hardly Art
13 Heron Oblivion Heron Oblivion Sub Pop
14 Cate Le Bon Crab Day Drag City
15 Aurora All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend Glassnote
16 Fruit Bats Absolute Loser Easy Sound
17 Eskimeaux Year of the Rabbit Double Double Whammy
18 Pity Sex White Hot Moon Run for Cover
19 Brian Eno The Ship Warp
20 Islands Taste Manqué Music
21 A Giant Dog Pile Merge
22 White Lung Paradise Domino
23 Clair Morgan New Lions & the Not-Good Night EggHunt
24 Modern Baseball Holy Ghost Run for Cover
25 Hazmat Modine Extra-Deluxe-Supreme Barbes
26 Al Scorch Circle Round the Signs Bloodshot
27 Nothing Tired of Tomorrow Relapse
28 Free Cake For Every Creature Talking Quietly of Anything with You Double Double Whammy
29 The Coathangers Nosebleed Weekend Suicide Squeeze
30 Lucy Dacus No Burden Egghunt

    May 16th, 2016

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