Top 30 new albums for week ending Jun 21 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jun 21
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 | Orville Peck | Pony | Sub Pop |
| 2 | Sneaks | Highway Hypnosis | Merge |
| 3 | Ibibio Sound Machine | Doko Mien | Merge |
| 4 | GoldLink | Diaspora | Squaaash Club / RCA |
| 5 | Faye Webster | Atlanta Millionaires Club | Secretly Canadian |
| 6 | Nots | 3. | Goner |
| 7 | Minor Poet | The Good News – EP | Sub Pop |
| 8 | Positive No | Teenage Waistline – Single | Dromedary |
| 9 | Deer Tick | Mayonnaise | PTKF |
| 10 | Big G | Let’s Party | Stone River |
| 11 | Lucy Dacus | La Vie en Rose – Single | Matador |
| 12 | New Lions | End Story – EP | Nodderly |
| 13 | Graham Stone Music | Bad News | Graham Stone Music |
| 14 | Space Koi | Bad Man (feat. Kana Kiehm) – Single | self-released |
| 15 | Bedouine | Bird Songs of a Killjoy | Spacebomb |
| 16 | Peter Perrett | Humanworld | Domino Recording Co |
| 17 | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | And Now for the Whatchamacallit | P-VINE |
| 18 | Sufjan Stevens | Love Yourself / With My Whole Heart – EP | Asthmatic Kitty |
| 19 | Haybaby | They Get There | Tiny Engines |
| 20 | Christelle Bofale | Swim Team – EP | Father/Daughter |
| 21 | Sacred Paws | Run Around the Sun | Merge |
| 22 | Yohuna | Mirroring | Orchid Tapes |
| 23 | Jen Awad | Jewel of the Nile – EP | Jen Awad |
| 24 | French Vanilla | How Am I Not Myself? | Danger Collective |
| 25 | Pip Blom | Boat | Heavenly |
| 26 | Amyl and the Sniffers | Amyl and the Sniffers | ATO / Fontana North |
| 27 | Mavis Staples | We Get By | Anti- / Epitaph |
| 28 | Middle Kids | New Songs for Old Problems – EP | Domino |
| 29 | Pronoun | i’ll show you stronger | Rhyme & Reason |
| 30 | House and Land | Across the Field | Thrill Jockey |
Anna C. June 22nd, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Faye Webster, Goldlink, Ibibio Sound Machine, Orville Peck, Sneaks
Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:
MMBB: February 18, 2019
I’ll be giving away a pair of tickets to see Metric at The National this week. Listen, and when you hear me play a song off of their recent album, be the first caller to win!
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 February 18th, 2019
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: Allison de Groot, Ferron, Girlpool, Last Import Positive No, Leyla McCalla, Metric, Shannon Shaw, Sneaks, Tatiana Hargreaves, Y La Bamba
Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:
MMBB: February 11, 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 February 11th, 2019
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: Cherry Glazerr, French For Rabbits, Girlpool, Leyla McCalla, Liz Brasher, Sneaks, Tallies
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jan 25 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending 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.
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brunswick | Five Years | Papa Hotel |
| 2 | Petrichor | II | self-released |
| 3 | Toro y Moi | Outer Peace | Carpark |
| 4 | Mdou Moctar | Ilana (The Creator) | Sahel Sounds |
| 5 | Sneaks | Highway Hypnosis | Merge |
| 6 | Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch | An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil | Sacred Bones |
| 7 | Piranha Rama | S/T | Trrrash |
| 8 | Unmaker | Firmament | self-released |
| 9 | Michael Chapman | True North | Paradise of Bachelors |
| 10 | Colter Wall | Songs of the Plains | Young Mary’s |
| 11 | Gemini Love | This Is Not Science | self-released |
| 12 | Debrider | Gift Horse – EP | self-released |
| 13 | Large Margin | Large Margin | Cheap Cuts |
| 14 | Danny Burns | North Country | Pinecastle |
| 15 | Deerhunter | Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? | 4AD |
| 16 | Steve Gunn | The Unseen In Between | Matador |
| 17 | Buke and Gase | Scholars | Brassland |
| 18 | Pedro The Lion | Phoenix | Polyvinyl |
| 19 | DAWN | new breed | Local Action / Our Dawn Ent |
| 20 | Malibu Ken | Malibu Ken | Rhymesayers Entertainment |
| 21 | James Blake | Assume Form | Polydor |
| 22 | Daniel Romano | Finally Free | New West |
| 23 | CAVE | Allways | Drag City |
| 24 | Cat Power | Wanderer | Domino |
| 25 | Kikagaku Moyo | Masana Temples | Guruguru Brain |
| 26 | Doe | Grow into It | Big Scary Monsters / Topshelf |
| 27 | Fucked Up | Dose Your Dreams | Merge |
| 28 | The Dodos | Certainty Waves | Polyvinyl |
| 29 | Metric | Art of Doubt | BMG |
| 30 | Calvin Johnson | A Wonderful Beast | K |
Anna C. January 26th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Brunswick, Mdou Moctar, Petrichor, Sneaks, toro y moi
Top 30 new albums for week ending May 5th presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending May 5th
Anna C. May 6th, 2017
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Mac DeMarco, Mokoomba, Municipal Waste, Oumou Sangaré, Sneaks
Top 30 for Oct 3-9 presents:
Top 30 for Oct 3-9
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sneaks | Gymnastics | Merge |
| 2 | Lucy Dacus | No Burden | EggHunt |
| 3 | LVL UP | Return to Love | Sub Pop |
| 4 | Warpaint | Heads Up | Rough Trade |
| 5 | White Laces | No Floor | EggHunt |
| 6 | Necro Deathmort | The Capsule | Rocket |
| 7 | Derevolutions | Music | self-released |
| 8 | Dawes | We’re All Gonna Die | Hub / Q Prime |
| 9 | Diarrhea Planet | Turn to Gold | Infinity Cat |
| 10 | Western Medication | The Entertainer’s Secret | self-released |
| 11 | Southern Culture on the Skids | The Electric Pinecones | Kudzu |
| 12 | Warehouse | Super Low | Bayonet |
| 13 | Ian Sweet | Shapeshifter | Hardly Art |
| 14 | Lydia Loveless | Real | Bloodshot |
| 15 | Nick Waterhouse | Never Twice | Innovative Leisure |
| 16 | Angel Olsen | My Woman | Jagjaguwar |
| 17 | The Julie Ruin | Hit Reset | Hardly Art |
| 18 | Nots | Cosmetic | Goner |
| 19 | Pill | Convenience | Mexican Summer |
| 20 | Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs | Cats, Dogs And Ghosts | Asphalt Tango |
| 21 | True Widow | Avvologere | Relapse |
| 22 | Chook Race | Around the House | Trouble in Mind |
| 23 | Drive-By Truckers | American Band | ATO |
| 24 | Haley Bonar | Impossible Dream | GNDWIRE / Thirty Tigers |
| 25 | Thee Oh Sees | A Weird Exits | Castle Face |
| 26 | Pete Curry | Doin’ Nothin’ | Crystal Pistol |
| 27 | Itasca | Open to Chance | Paradise of Bachelors |
| 28 | Norah Jones | Day Breaks | Blue Note |
| 29 | Courtney Granger | Beneath Still Water | self-released |
| 30 | Bon Iver | 22, A Million | Jagjaguwar |
Anna C. October 10th, 2016
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Lucy Dacus, LVL UP, Sneaks, Warpaint, White Laces