Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 6 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 6
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 | Angélique Kidjo | Remain in Light | Kravenworks |
| 2 | Jorja Smith | Lost & Found | RCA |
| 3 | Natalie Prass | The Future and the Past | ATO |
| 4 | The Purge | The Bad Ideas We Build Worlds | Purge Music |
| 5 | Nickelus F | Stuck | AGM |
| 6 | Angelica Garcia | Karma the Knife – Single | self-released |
| 7 | Young Scum | Young Scum | Citrus City |
| 8 | Kanye West | ye | GOOD Music / Def Jam |
| 9 | Saw Black | Water Tower | Crystal Pistol |
| 10 | Snail Mail | Lush | Matador |
| 11 | Kids See Ghosts | Kids See Ghosts | GOOD Music / Def Jam |
| 12 | Neko Case | Hell-On | Anti/Epitaph |
| 13 | The Essex Green | Hardly Electronic | Merge |
| 14 | The Interrupters | Fight the Good Fight | Hellcat/Epitaph |
| 15 | Pusha T | DAYTONA | Def Jam |
| 16 | Marisa Anderson | Cloud Corner | Thrill Jockey |
| 17 | John Coltrane | Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album | Impulse |
| 18 | Nur Black | Appeal of the Void | Purge Music |
| 19 | Deathhouse Blues | The Beer Battered Boogies | self released |
| 20 | Andy Jenkins | Sweet Bunch | Liberator Music / Spacebomb |
| 21 | The Cemetery Boys | Small Town Witch Nitemare | self-released |
| 22 | Piranha Rama | Piranha Rama | Trrrash |
| 23 | Dumb Waiter | Heck | JUJU |
| 24 | Brunswick | Five Years | Papa Hotel |
| 25 | Opin | Drifters EP | Harding Street Assembly Lab |
| 26 | Jim James | Uniform Distortion | ATO |
| 27 | The Milk Carton Kids | All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do | Anti- |
| 28 | Weller | Weller | Tiny Engines |
| 29 | Gorillaz | The Now Now | Parlophone |
| 30 | The Rock*A*Teens | Sixth House | Merge |
Anna C. July 7th, 2018
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Angélique Kidjo, Jorja Smith, Natalie Prass, Nickelus F, The purge
Metal Box presents:
TONIGHT!!! MUSIC FROM H.P. LOVECRAFT’S THE UNNAMABLE!!! Get ready to scream!!!
Tonight on Metal Box I will be playing music from the soundtrack of H.P.LOVECRAFT’S THE UNNAMABLE!!! Plus showcasing new albums from MORBID ANGEL, THE PURGE, FAD NAUSEAM, CRADLE OF FILTH, GRENDEL and PETER TURNS PIRATE…plus 80’S HEAVY METAL…GET READY TO SCREAM for your LIFE!!!
Yancy Lambert Metal Box April 20th, 2018
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: black metal, Cradle of filth, Darkwave, death metal, death rock, Fad nauseam, Goth rock, GOTHIC LIZARD, gothic metal, Grendel, Heavy metal, HORROR, Hp lovecraft, INDUSTRIAL, METALBOX, Morbid angel, movies, Peter turns pirate, post-punk, RVA, Scores, SOUNDTRACKS, The purge, The unnamable, WRIR, Wrir rva