August 18, 2018 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #395)

9:01 AM Hot Chocolate • Brother Louie • A's B's & Rarities • EMI

9:06 AM Kacey Musgraves • Dandelion • Same Trailer Different Park • Mercury

9:09 AM Earth Girl Helen Brown • Flower of Darkness • Four Satellites Vol. 1 • In the Red

9:15 AM Tirzah • Basic Need • Devotion • Domino

9:18 AM Rumer • Aretha • Seasons of My Soul • Atlantic

9:21 AM Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble • Dripping Matter • Intergalactic Beings • FPE

9:25 AM Steve Hauschildt • Saccade (ft. Julianna Barwick) • Dissolvi • Ghostly International

9:31 AM Aretha Franklin • Let It Be • This Girl's in Love With You • Atlantic

9:34 AM Electric Light Orchestra • Stranger on a Quiet Street • Zoom • Epic

9:38 AM Izzy True • SadBad • Sad Bad • Don Giovanni

9:43 AM Michael Nesmith & The First National Band Redux• Propinquity (I've Just Begun to Care) • Live at The Troubadour • 7a

9:46 AM Tuomo & Markus • Life Leaving Your Body • Dead Circles • Schoolkids

9:49 AM Aaron Neville • Why Worry • Treacherous Too • Rhino

9:51 AM The Go-Betweens • Love Goes On • 16 Lovers Lane• Jetset

9:57 AM Matchess • Of Freedom • Sacracorpa • Trouble in Mind

10:01 AM Sparks • Over the Summer • Introducing Sparks • Columbia

10:05 AM Neko Case • Runnin' Out Of Fools • Blacklisted • Bloodshot

10:08 AM Andrew Bernstein • Broken Arc • An Exploded View of Time • Hausu Mountain

10:15 AM Buck Owens • He Ain't Been Out Bowling With the Boys • Country Singer's Prayer • Omnivore

10:18 AM Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians • Bass • Element of Light • Yep Roc

10:21 AM that dog. • He's Kissing Christian • Totally Crushed Out! • DGC

10:24 AM Chance the Rapper • Wala Cam • single • self-released

10:30 AM Aretha Franklin • How I Got Over • Amazing Grace • Atlantic

10:34 AM The Wildweeds • Happiness Is Just an Illusion • No Good to Cry • Confidential Recordings

10:36 AM Moon Rituals • Dressed in Black • Moon Rituals • Solar/Sonar

10:42 AM Louis Cole • Real Life (feat. Brad Mehldau) • Time • Brainfeeder

10:45 AM Kelley Stoltz • Our Modern World • Natural Causes • Banana & Louie

10:48 AM Lulu • The Man Who Sold the World • Heaven and Earth and the Stars • Chelsea

10:51 AM Franz Ferdinand • No You Girls • Tonight: Franz Ferdinand • Domino

10:57 AM Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis • Hardluck, Louisiana • Wild, Wild, Wild • Bloodshot

11:02 AM Funkadelic • Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock? • One Nation Under a Groove • Warner Bros.

11:08 AM Sleater-Kinney • Little Babies • Dig Me Out • Kill Rock Stars

11:10 AM Table Sugar • Baba Yaga • Collected Acknowledgments • Stucco

11:14 AM Mitski • Why Didn't You Stop Me? • Be the Cowboy • Dead Oceans

11:17 AM Rival Sons • Good Luck • Great Western Valkyrie • Earache

11:20 AM Martin Van Ruin • On the Level • Current Day • self-released

11:24 AM Carole King • (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman • The Legendary Demos • Rockingale

11:29 AM Aretha Franklin • Rolling in the Deep (The Aretha Version) • Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics • RCA

11:33 AM Gregor • A Song About Holding Hands • Silver Drop • Chapter Music

11:36 AM Saint Etienne • Mario's Cafe • So Tough • Warner Bros.

11:42 AM Beach Bunny • Prom Queen • Prom Queen • self-released

11:44 AM The Beths • Uptown Girl • Future Me Hates Me • Carpark

11:46 AM The Rolling Stones • Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow • Singles Collection The London Years • ABKCO

11:49 AM Clipping. • Work Work (featuring Cocc Pistol Cree) • CLPPNG • Sub Pop

11:56 AM Deaf Wish • The Rat Is Back • Lithium Zion • Sub Pop

August 4, 2018 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #394)

9:00 AM Erasure • Too Hot • Red Hot + Blue • Chrysalis

9:03 AM Arcade Fire • Crown of Love • Funeral • Merge

9:08 AM Jimi Tenor • Max Out • Order of Nothingness • Pilophon

July 28, 2018 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #393)

9:01 AM The Beach Boys • In My Room • Surfer Girl • Capitol

9:03 AM The Flat Five • Buglight • It's a World of Love and Hope • Bloodshot

9:06 AM Shemekia Copeland • I'm Not Like Everybody Else • America's Child • Alligator

July 21, 2018 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #392)

Trainee Sarah did the first two sets of the 10:00 a.m. as indicated below (and she did a great job).

9:01 AM SZA • Drew Barrymore • Ctrl • Top Dawg

9:04 AM Wye Oak • I Know the Law • Shriek • Merge

9:08 AM John Coltrane • Nature Boy • Both Directions at Once • Impulse!

July 14, 2018 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #391)

9:00 AM Marianne Faithfull • Past, Present and Future • Horses and High Heels • Naive

9:03 AM Frank Ocean • Bad Religion • Channel Orange • Def Jam

9:06 AM Andy Pratt • Lincoln Avenue • Further Disruption • self-released

July 7, 2018 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #390)

9:00 AM Sparks • Popularity • Sparks in Outer Space • Atlantic

9:04 AM Portishead • Strangers • Dummy • Go! Disc

9:08 AM Snail Mail • Full Control • Lush • Matador

Mid-year Top 40 albums of 2018

This is a pretty loose ranking of my favorite records of the year. The first eight or so are records I know will rank highly at the end of the year. From there, the rest of these are all good, but my estimation of each could rise or fall considerably over the next few months. Anyway, this has been a really good year for music so far, based on this and some of the many fine records that, as I'm typing this, I realize could have made the list.

1. Superchunk – What a Time to Be Alive
2. Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar
3. Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth
4. Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 – Black Times
5. Neko Case – Hell-On