Summer’s here, along with visions of trips, vacations and outdoor fun! Can’t go sun yourself on a sandy shore? Try the next best thing: listen to wonderful music curated by our knowledgeable, passionate DJs. Here’s what’s getting the most love from WORT hosts during the past week. Just close your eyes, kick back and listen, and imagine the sand between your toes!
WORT Charts for June 19, 2018
top 30
Artist Record Label
1 BEACH HOUSE Seven (7) Sub Pop [band pictured above]
2 KING TUFF The Other Sub Pop [in town 9/18 at Orpheum]
3 GUIDED BY VOICES Space Gun GBV Inc.
4 PANDORAS, THE Hey! It’s The Pandoras Burger
5 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Sex & Food Jagjaguwar
6 COURTNEY BARNETT Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom + Pop
7 LA LUZ Floating Features Hardly Art
8 PARQUET COURTS Wide Awake! Rough Trade
9 DR OCTAGON Moosebumps Bulk/Caroline
10 BURN THE PRIEST Legion: XX Epic
11 OF MONTREAL White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood Polyvinyl
12 ARCTIC MONKEYS Tranquility Base Hotel And Casino Domino
13 SUUNS Felt Secretly Canadian
14 LES SANS CULOTTES She Is Tossed By The Waves But Doesn’t Sink Disque Escargo-go
15 CLAUDETTES Dance Scandal at the Gymnasium Yellow Dog
16 HOT SNAKES Jericho Sirens Sub Pop
17 CHILDISH GAMBINO “This is America” [Single] RCA
18 OKKERVIL RIVER In The Rainbow Rain ATO
19 DAMIEN JURADO The Horizon Just Laughed Secretly Canadian
20 MOONDOGGIES, THE A Love Sleeps Deep Hardly Art
21 JOHN PRINE The Tree of Forgiveness Oh Boy
22 LORD HURON Vide Noir Republic
23 SPEEDY ORTIZ Twerp Verse Carpark
24 LEON BRIDGES Good Thing Columbia
25 JANELLE MONAE Dirty Computer Bad Boy
26 DR DOG Critical Equation We Buy Gold/Thirty Tigers
27 BREEDERS, THE All Nerve 4AD
28 RY COODER The Prodigal Son Fantasy
29 SHAKEY GRAVES Can’t Wake Up Dualtone
30 DAVID BYRNE American Utopia Nonesuch
top adds
Artist Record Label
1 JOHNNY MARR Call The Comet New Voodoo [The Smiths’ guitarist plays solo, pictured above]
2 PRIESTS Suck Sister Polygon
3 JOHN PARISH Bird Dog Dante Thrill Jockey
4 ESSEX GREEN, THE Hardly Electronic Merge
5 INNOCENCE MISSION, THE Sun On The Square Badman
6 MAD CADDIES Punk Rocksteady Fat Wreck Chords
7 UNI Uni Chimera
8 JOHN DUFFEY Epilogue Smithsonian Folkways
9 ETHAN GOLD Live Undead Bedroom Closet Covers Elektrik Gold
10 CLAPTONE Fantast PIAS
Heavy top 10
Artist Record Label
1 AMORPHIS Queen Of Time Nuclear Blast
2 LIK Carnage Metal Blade
3 AT THE GATES To Drink From The Night Itself Century Media
4 SKINLESS Savagery Relapse
5 BURN THE PRIEST Legion: XX Epic
6 BLEEDING THROUGH Love Will Kill All Sharptone
7 MICAWBER Beyond The Reach Of Flame Prosthetic
8 ALKALOID Liquid Anatomy Season of Mist
9 KATAKLYSM Meditations Nuclear Blast
10 EXMORTUS The Sound Of Steel Prosthetic
Heavy adds
Artist Record Label
1 IMPENDING DOOM The Sin And Doom Vol. II Entertainment One
2 SHYLMAGOGHNAR Transience Napalm
3 COHEED AND CAMBRIA “The Dark Sentencer” [Single] Roadrunner
4 HAKEN L-1VE InsideOut
5 EMBRACE OF THORNS Scorn Aesthetics Iron Bonehead
world top 10
Artist Record Label
1 FATOUMATA DIAWARA Fenfo Shanachie [pictured left]
2 ANDY BASSFORD The Harder They Strum Registered Alien
3 ANGELIQUE KIDJO Remain In Light Kraven Works
4 BOMBINO Deran Partisan
5 MYSTIC BOWIE Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads Red River
6 SLY AND ROBBIE MEET DUBMATIX Overdubbed Echo Beach
7 MYSTERY OF THE BULGARIAN VOICES, THE BooCheeMish Prophecy
8 CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO Bienaventuranza Wonderwheel
9 THIEVERY CORPORATION Treasures From the Temple ESL
10 BROWNOUT Fear Of A Brown Planet Fat Beats
jazz top 10
Artist Record Label
1 MILES DAVIS AND JOHN COLTRANE The Final Tour Sony/Legacy
2 EDDIE HENDERSON Be Cool Smoke Sessions
3 ELIANE ELIAS Music From Man From LaMancha Concord
4 KENNY BARRON QUINTET Concentric Circles Blue Note
5 JARED GOLD Reemergence Strykezone
6 ELLIS MARSALIS QUINTET Plays the Music of Ellis Marsalis ELM
7 NELS CLINE 4, THE Currents, Constellations Blue Note
8 JOEY ALEXANDER Eclipse Motema
9 KURT ELLING The Questions Okeh
10 RENEE ROSNES Beloved Of The Sky Smoke Sessions
electronic top 10
Artist Record Label
1 SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO Murmurations Wichita [pictured right]
2 NICKODEMUS A Long Engagement Wonderwheel
3 CHROME SPARKS Chrome Sparks Counter
4 THIEVERY CORPORATION Treasures From the Temple ESL
5 BRAZILIAN GIRLS Let’s Make Love Six Degrees
6 FAKEAR All Glows Counter
7 CUT CHEMIST Die Cut A Stable Sound
8 JON HOPKINS Singularity Domino
9 NIGHTMARES ON WAX Deep Shadows Remix [EP] Warp
10 DANIEL AVERY Song For Alpha Mute