Greetings from the WORT Music Department!  Current events and radio go hand in hand, and with music involved it can be more emotional than ever. Last week WORT DJs did many tributes to the one and only Lemmy Kilmister with lots of spins from his work with Hawkwind [’71-75], The Damned [late 70’s] and The Head Cat [with Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats] as well as of course, Motorhead. Between that, fewer releases as the new year begins and people doing their Best of 2015 shows, we didn’t have a lot of new albums added to our charts last week or this week.

RIP David Bowie: I predict the bittersweet irony of the timing for his Blackstar release won’t be the major factor in its popularity; not only is he an international legend, but this is an amazingly intimate, dense, forward-thinking work of art which is sure to be listened to and talked about for years to come. WORT DJs will feature lots of Bowie’s work from all periods this week to be sure!!

We’re also beset by royalty, saints, geniuses and witches as newer releases make their way onto our playlists and charts. Prince‘s feisty funk rock takes top honors this week, but likely his reign will be short as more commercial outlets pick it up. King Gizzard is holding strong, and this might be the year Kelley Stoltz gets the name recognition he deserves. Ty Segall is at it again with two albums in the top 30; the prolific garage rocker switches between guitar on his eponymous albums and drums for Fuzz, so the sounds are different but the frantic energy remains. St. Germain makes a big leap on our RPM and Top 30 as well.

WORT, Madison Charts for the week beginning January 11, 2016

top 30
1 PRINCE HITNRUN Phase Two NPG
2 DAVID BOWIE Blackstar Columbia
3 KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Paper Mache Dream Balloon ATO
4 KELLEY STOLTZ In Triangle Time Castle Face
5 TY SEGALL Ty Rex Goner
6 BEAT HAPPENING Look Around Domino
7 ST. GERMAIN St. Germain Nonesuch
8 OKKERVIL RIVER Black Sheep Boy (Deluxe) Jagjaguwar
9 BOB DYLAN The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 Legacy
10 MAD GENIUS 2012 Mad Manor
11 SPOON Gimme Fiction 10th Anniversary Edition Merge
12 CARAVAN PALACE Robot Le Plan
13 GRIMES Art Angels 4AD
14 ALL THEM WITCHES Dying Surfer Meets His Maker New West
15 SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS It’s A Holiday Soul Party Daptone
16 FUZZ II In The Red
17 EL VY Return To The Moon 4AD
18 !!! As If Warp
19 JEFFREY LEWIS AND LOS BOLTS Manhattan Rough Trade
20 WOLF EYES I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces Third Man
21 CRIBSHITTER Acapulco
22 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS It’s Great To Be Alive! ATO
23 ARCA Mutant Mute
24 JOANNA NEWSOM Divers Drag City
25 DEERHUNTER Fading Frontier 4AD
26 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Garden Of Delete Warp
27 W-X W-X Castle Face
28 CHAPIN SISTERS Today’s Not Yesterday Lake Bottom
29 CHILDBIRTH Women’s Rights Suicide Squeeze
30 PROTOMARTYR The Agent Intellect Hardly Art

Jazz
1 STANLEY CLARKE/BIRELI LAGRENE/JEAN-LUC PONT D-Stringz Verve
2 FOOD This Is Not A Miracle
3 TIM WHALEN OBLIVION: THE MUSIC OF BUD POWELL Self-Released
4 TOMEKA REID QUARTET Tomeka Reid Quartet Thirsty Ear
5 THISBE VOS A Jazzy Christmas Prime
6 JOSH BERMAN A Dance And A Hop Delmark
7 CORY WEEDS AND THE JEFF HAMILTON TRIO This Happy Madness Cellar Live
8 JOHN SCOFIELD Past Present Impulse!
9 KARRIN ALLYSON Many A New Day: Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers And Hammerstein Motema
10 SAM TAYLOR My Future Just Passed Cellar Live

world/international
1 VARIOUS ARTISTS The Biggest One-Drop Anthems of 2015 Greensleeves/VP Records
2 CARLOS TIMON Solar Rape Pueblo
3 CEU Live Six Degrees
4 STICK FIGURE Set In Stone Ruffwood
5 DABY TOURE Amonafi Cumbancha
6 VARIOUS ARTISTS Augustus Pablo Presents: Rockers International Greensleeves
7 GRUPO FANTASMA Problemas Blue Corn
8 KARAVAN SARAI PROJECT Woven Landscapes Electrofone
9 VIEUX FARKA TOURE AND JULIA EASTERLIN Touristes Six Degrees
10 AFRO-LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA WITH ARTURO O’FARRILL Cuba: The Conversation Continues Motema

rpm/techno/industrial
1 ST. GERMAIN St. Germain Nonesuch
2 CLAPTONE Charmer Pias-Different
3 GRIMES Art Angels 4AD
4 COMPUTER MAGIC Davos Channel 9
5 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Garden Of Delete Warp
6 CARAVAN PALACE Robot Le Plan
7 ROBOT KOCH Hypermoment Monkeytown
8 INTROVERTED DANCEFLOOR Introverted Dancefloor Carpark
9 WOLFGANG FLUR Eloquence: The Complete Works Strike Force
10 RUSTIE Evenifyoudontbelieve Warp

loud rock/metal/hardcore
1 EXMORTUS Ride Forth Prosthetic
2 FIRESPAWN Shadow Realms Century Media
3 ADRENECHROME “God Sized Shadow” [Single]
4 TERAMAZE Her Halo Mascot
5 KAMPFAR Profan
6 PSYCHOSOMATIC clicking sound of a hammer pulled back buriedinhell
7 VISION OF DISORDER Razed To The Ground Candlelight
8 CULTURE KILLER Throes Of Mankind Metal Blade
9 OLATHIA Hunters Shred Foot
10 CAULDRON In Ruin The End

loud rock adds
1 VARG Das Ender Aller Lugen
2 BARONESS Purple Abraxan Hymns
3 ABORTED Termination Redux [EP] Century Media
4 SHRINE rare breed century Media
5 MEGADETH dystopia (single) ume