David Byrne – producer, label maven, collaborator and Talking Head – visits Madison again this Wednesday for a sold-out show at the Orpheum Theater. You can enjoy music from his brand new album and more on WORT, whether you’re attending the show or not. Scroll down to see all the new music we’ve been spinning on our Top 30, jazz, world music, electronica and heavy rock charts, now including heavy metal top adds!
pictured: David Byrne
photo credit: Frazer Harrison / Getty Images
WORT, Madison Charts for the week ending May 8, 2018
top 30
Artist Record Label
1 DR DOG Critical Equation We Buy Gold/Thirty Tigers
2 YO LA TENGO There’s A Riot Going On Matador
3 BRAZILIAN GIRLS Let’s Make Love Six Degrees
4 DAVID BYRNE American Utopia Nonesuch
5 LA LUZ Floating Features Hardly Art
6 JULIANA HATFIELD Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John American Laundromat
7 TY SEGALL Freedom’s Goblin Drag City
8 SUNFLOWER BEAN Twentytwo In Blue Mom + Pop
9 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Pinned Dead Oceans
10 AMEN DUNES Freedom Sacred Bones
11 BREEDERS, THE All Nerve 4AD
12 GUIDED BY VOICES Space Gun GBV Inc.
13 AMAZING, THE In Transit Partisan
14 SUUNS Felt Secretly Canadian
15 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Sex & Food Jagjaguwar
16 HOT SNAKES Jericho Sirens Sub Pop
17 JANELLE MONAE Dirty Computer Bad Boy
18 ADRIAN YOUNGE Voices Of Gemma Linear Labs
19 DAMNED, THE Evil Spirits Search and Destroy/Spinefarm
20 MOONDOGGIES, THE A Love Sleeps Deep Hardly Art
21 BUFFALO TOM Quiet And Peace Schoolkids/Scrawny
22 NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS Tearing At The Seams Stax
23 PANDORAS, THE Hey! It’s The Pandoras Burger
24 NIHILIST CHEERLEADER Riot, Right? Perfect Attendance
25 PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! [Advance Tracks] Rough Trade
26 FRANKIE COSMOS Vessel Sub Pop
27 BEN HARPER AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE No Mercy In This Land Anti-
28 JIM JAMES Uniform Distortion [Advance Tracks] ATO
29 DECEMBERISTS, THE I’ll Be Your Girl Capitol
30 BEACH HOUSE Seven (7) [Advance Tracks] Sub Pop
world
Artist Record Label
1 DARSHAN Raza Chant
2 TURBANS, THE The Turbans Six Degrees
3 FEMI KUTI One People One World Knitting Factory
4 ORQUESTA AKOKAN Orquesta Akokan Daptone
5 CATRIN FINCH AND SECKOU KEITA Soar Bendigedig
6 YIDDISH GLORY: THE LOST SONGS OF WORLD WAR II VARIOUS ARTISTS Six Degrees
7 BOUBACAR TRAORE Dounia Tabolo LusAfrica
8 IMARHAN Temet City Slang
9 NORDIC RAGA Nordic Raga Riverboat
10 COLLIE BUDDZ “Legal Now” [Single] Harper Digital
jazz
Artist Record Label
1 KURT ELLING The Questions Okeh
2 RENEE ROSNES Beloved Of The Sky Smoke Sessions
3 BILL FRISELL Music Is OKeh
4 MILES DAVIS AND JOHN COLTRANE The Final Tour Sony/Legacy
5 KENNY BARRON QUINTET Concentric Circles Blue Note
6 NELS CLINE 4, THE Currents, Constellations Blue Note
7 DAVE LIEBMAN AND JOHN STOWELL Petite Fleur: The Music of Sidney Bechet Origin
8 EDDIE HENDERSON Be Cool Smoke Sessions
9 JOEY ALEXANDER Joey. Monk. Live! Motéma
10 VAN MORRISON AND JOEY DEFRANCESCO You’re Driving Me Crazy Sony/Legacy
electronic
Artist Record Label
1 BRAZILIAN GIRLS Let’s Make Love Six Degrees
2 QNTAL VIII – Nachtblume Metropolis
3 FAKEAR All Glows Counter
4 MOBY Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt Mute
5 SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO Murmurations Wichita
6 KASBO Places We Don’t Know Foreign Family Collective
7 CUT CHEMIST Die Cut A Stable Sound
8 WHAT SO NOT Not All The Beautiful Things Counter
9 TOKIMONSTA Lune Rouge Remixed Young Art
10 DANIEL AVERY Song For Alpha Mute
heavy rock
Artist Record Label
1 KALMAH Palo Candlelight
2 KAMELOT The Shadow Theory Napalm
3 MONSTER MAGNET Mindfucker Napalm
4 NUSE The Pain Collection Cornhead
5 STRYPER God Damn Evil Frontiers
6 ZEKE Hellbender Relapse
7 BEHEMOTH Messe Noire: Live Satanist Metal Blade
8 KOBRA AND THE LOTUS Prevail II Napalm
9 LECHEROUS NOCTURNE Occultaclysmic Willowtip
10 SEPTIC TANK Rotting Civilisation Rise Above
heavy adds
Artist Record Label
1 AMORPHIS Queen Of Time Nuclear Blast
2 ANTHRAX Kings Among Scotland Megaforce
3 TRAUMA As The World Dies Rivet
4 LUCA PRINCIOTTA BAND Rough Blue Metalville
5 GUS G Fearless AFM
6 DEAFHEAVEN “Honeycomb” [Single] Anti-/Epitaph
