If you’re thinking of holiday gifts for music lovers, check out some popular new releases getting airplay on WORT. From rock to international, from metal to jazz, electronic, folk, blues and pop, we spin it all! You’ll find most of them in your local brick & mortar record store, plus get hi-fidelity advice from ever-hip and knowledgeable record store clerks. MadCity Music, B-Side Records, Strictly Discs, Sugar Shack and Ear Wax each have unique collections of new and used records to tempt your earbuds.
Here are our overall top 30, new adds, heavy metal, electronic dance, jazz and world music charts for the week ending Dec. 12.
TOP 30
Rank Artist Record Label
1 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Who Built The Moon? Sourmash/Caroline
2 MORRISSEY Low In High School BMG
3 PROTOMARTYR Relatives In Descent Domino
4 FEVER RAY Plunge Mute
5 NONA HENDRYX AND GARY LUCAS The World Of Captain Beefheart Knitting Factory
6 OLIVER Full Circle Interscope
7 KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Polygondwanaland ATO
8 UNCLE ACID AND THE DEADBEATS Vol. 1 Rise Above
9 COURTNEY BARNETT AND KURT VILE Lotta Sea Lice Matador
10 OFFA REX The Queen Of Hearts Nonesuch
11 ALGIERS The Underside Of Power Matador
12 OCS Memory Of A Cut Off Head Castle Face
13 BETTE SMITH Jetlagger Big Legal Mess
14 E1SBAR Looser Futurism Polar Vortex
15 ARIEL PINK Dedicated to Bobby Jameson Mexican Summer
16 GIZMODROME Gizmodrome E A R / GmBh
17 METZ Strange Peace Sub Pop
18 BAD SIGNS, THE Black Magic Moments [EP] Number Nine Creative Cult
19 GIRAFFAGE Too Real Counter
20 GWAR The Blood of Gods Metal Blade
21 WEATHER STATION, THE The Weather Station Paradise Of Bachelors
22 ROBYN HITCHCOCK Robyn Hitchcock Yep Roc
23 GALACTIC COWBOYS Long Way Back To The Moon Mascot
24 WOLF PARADE Cry Cry Cry Sub Pop
25 SHILPA RAY Door Girl Northern Spy
26 ST. VINCENT MASSEDUCTION Loma Vista
27 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM American Dream DFA/Columbia
28 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Villains Matador
29 BECK Colors Capitol
30 DEATH FROM ABOVE Outrage! Is Now Last Gang/Warner Bros.
TOP ADDS
Rank Artist Record Label
1 MINUS 5, THE Dear December Yep Roc
2 MAKING MOVIES You Are Another Me [EP] 2-Mar
3 HOLD STEADY, THE Entitlement Crew [EP] Frenchkiss
4 VAN MORRISON Versatile Sony/Legacy
5 SWINGIN’ UTTERS Drowning In The Sea, Rising With The Sun Fat Wreck Chords
6 SCIZZORMAN Buried Pleasures [EP] Self-Released
7 LOUIE FONTAINE AND THE STARLIGHT SEARCHERS The Sun Ain’t Black Self-Released
8 L.A. LAW Law & Order Burger
9 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS “I Left My Body” [Single] Idlewild
HEAVY ROCK
Rank Artist Record Label
1 SONS OF APOLLO Psychotic Symphony Inside Out
2 MOONSPELL Seventeen Fifty-Five (1755) Napalm
3 CAVALERA CONSPIRACY Psychosis Napalm
4 COMMUNIC WHere Echoes Gather AFM
5 CANNIBAL CORPSE Red Before Black Metal Blade
6 CONVERGE The Dusk in Us Epitaph
7 ENTHEOS Dark Future Spinefarm
8 IMPUREZA “Leyenda Negra” [Single] Season Of Mist
9 GALACTIC COWBOYS Long Way Back To The Moon Mascot
10 ANNIHILATOR For The Demented Silver Lining
ELECTRONIC
Rank Artist Record Label
1 FEVER RAY Plunge Mute
2 GIRAFFAGE Too Real Counter
3 OLIVER Full Circle Interscope
4 ODESZA A Moment Apart Counter
5 KMFDM Hell Yeah earMUSIC
6 TRICKY Ununiform False Idols
7 ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS AND AZEEM Broken Puppets Switchstance
8 CARL CRAIG Versus Infine Music/Planet E
9 TOURIST Wash [EP] Londoner
10 COM TRUISE Iteration Ghostly International
JAZZ
Rank Artist Record Label
1 CORY WEEDS Let’s Groove: The Music of Earth Wind & Fire Cellar Live
2 HIROMI AND EDMAR CASTANEDA Live in Montreal Concord
3 ARTURO O’FARRILL AND CHUCHO VALDES Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico Motéma
4 REGGIE YOUNG Young Street RGY Entertainment
5 BRIAN BLADE AND THE FELLOWSHIP Body and Shadow Blue Note
6 KATAYOUN GOUDARZI, SHUJAAT KHAN, KEVIN HAYS, AND TIM RIES Will You? Tames
7 HAROLD MABERN To Love and Be Loved Smoke Sessions
8 MIKE STERN Trip Heads Up
9 DAVE STRYKER Strykin’ Ahead Strikezone
10 VERVE JAZZ ENSEMBLE Swing-A-Nova Verve
WORLD
Rank Artist Record Label
1 LEE SCRATCH PERRY AND SUBATOMIC SOUND SYSTEM Super Ape Returns To Conquer Subatomic Sound
2 CHUCK FOSTER Rebel Dub Catch Me Time
3 LADAMA Ladama Six Degrees
4 MAGNETICS, THE Jamaican Ska Get Up
5 TRIO DA KALI AND KRONOS QUARTET Ladilikan World Circuit
6 ANTIBALAS Where the Gods Are in Peace Daptone
7 MDOU MOCTAR Sousoume Tamachek Sahelsounds
8 SONGHOY BLUES Résistance Fat Possum
9 GOGOL BORDELLO Seekers and Finders Cooking Vinyl
10 ZIGGY MARLEY We Are The People Tour Tuff Gong International
