Closing out an amazing year for new releases, here are WORT’s final music charts for 2017. You’ll hear a number of our hosts doing “Best of 2017” shows over the next few weeks, and don’t forget you can always listen to our on-demand archives to some best-of shows that have aired already. Though they never made it to #1, the Captain Beefheart tribute album by the duo pictured above, Nona Hendryx (Labelle) and Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band), is an ongoing favorite with many DJs.

 

 

See below for all the latest new music getting played on our rock, electronic, world and jazz programs, and here’s to an even better 2018!!

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Tricky, “Ununiform”

electronic
1 FEVER RAY Plunge Mute
2 OLIVER Full Circle Interscope
3 MURA MASA Mura Masa Polydor/Anchor Point/Downtown/Geffen
4 GIRAFFAGE Too Real Counter
5 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM American Dream DFA/Columbia
6 KING HENRY For You [EP] Duke City
7 WAX TAILOR By Any Remixes Necessary Le Plan
8 EMANCIPATOR Baralku Loci
9 TRICKY Ununiform False Idols
10 FOUR TET New Energy Text

 

 

 

 

Mickey Hart, “Ramu”

world
1 STRICTLY THE BEST, VOL. 56 VARIOUS ARTISTS VP
2 CHASSOL Big Sun Tricatel
3 BALKAN BEAT BOX Kum Kum (feat. A-WA) [Remixes] Digital Monkey
4 DEBASHISH BHATTACHARYA Hawaii to Calcutta: A Tribute to Tau Moe Riverboat
5 MICKEY HART RAMU Verve Forecast
6 GWYNETH GLYN Tro Bendigedig
7 MISTA SAVONA Presents Havana Meets Kingston 17 North Parade
8 3MA Anarouz Six Degrees
9 JESSE ROYAL Lily of Da Valley Easy Star
10 RICHIE COLE Latin Lover RCP

 

 

 

 

Joel Paterson, “Hi-Fi Christmas Guitar”

jazz
1 ANDERS SVANOE State Of The Baritone Vol. 2 Self-Released
2 HIROMI AND EDMAR CASTANEDA Live in Montreal Concord
3 RICHIE COLE Latin Lover RCP
4 SETH MACFARLANE In Full Swing Verve
5 BRIAN BLADE AND THE FELLOWSHIP Body and Shadow Blue Note
6 REGGIE YOUNG Young Street RGY Entertainment
7 MAKAYA MCCRAVEN Highly Rare International Anthem Recording Co.
8 ANOUAR BRAHEM Blue Maqams ECM
9 VINCENT HERRING Hard Times Smoke Sessions
10 JOEL PATERSON Hi Fi Christmas Guitar Ventrella