WNRN Staff Picks: Top 10 Albums of 2023

1. The Kills – God Games
2. Yard Act – Wheres My Utopia?
3. The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest
4. Margo Price – Strays
5. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel
6. Billy Nomates – Cacti
7. Jungle – Volcano
8. Joy Oladokun – Proof of Life
9. David Wax Museum – You Must Change Your Life
10. Blondshell – Blondshell 

1. Blur – The Ballad of Darren
2. Marty Stuart – Altitude
3. Joy Oladokun – Proof of Life
4. Gorillaz – Cracker Island
5. Boy Golden – For Jimmy
6. Viv & Riley – Imaginary People
7. The Murlocs – Calm Ya Farm
8. Jobi Riccio – Whiplash
9. Overcoats – Winner
10. Fruit Bats – A River Running to Your Heart

Country Feedback Top 10

1. Marty Stuart – Altitude
2. Turnpike Troubadours – A Cat In the Rain
3. Brennen Leigh – Ain’t Through Honky Tonkin’ Yet
4. Rachel Baiman – Common nation of Sorrow
5. Theo Lawrence – Cherie
6. Cat Clyde – Down Rounder
7. Logan Ledger – Golden State
8. Son Volt – Day of the Doug
9. Dallas Burrow – Blood Brothers
10. The Waco Brothers – The Men That God Forgot

1. The Salt Collective – Life
2. The Rain Parade – Last Days of a Rising Sun
3. The Would-Be-Goods – The Night Life
4. Swansea Sound – 20th Century
5. Sparks – The Girl is Crying in her Latte
6. Depeche Mode – Memento Mori
7. Dori Freeman – Do You Recall
8. Margaret Glaspy – Echo the Diamond
9. Viv and Riley – Imaginary People
10. Dogwood Tales – Rodeo EP

1. Boygenius – The Record
2. Jon Batiste – World Music Radio
3. Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
4. The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds
5. Cut Worms – Cut Worms
6. Black Pumas – Chronicles of a Diamond
7. Fruit Bats – A River Running To Your Heart
8. Genesis Owusu – Struggler
9. Viv & Riley – Imaginary People
10. Hiss Golden Messenger –  Jump For Joy

Top 10 New Rock Now Albums

1. Beach Fossils – Bunny
2. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine
3. Slowdive – Everything Is Alive
4. Hannah Jadagu – Aperture
5. Bully – Lucky For You
6. Wednesday – Rat Saw God
7. Sufjan Stevens – Javelin
8. Leisure – Leisurevision
9. McKinley Dixon – Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
10. Blondshell – Blondshell

1. Youth Lagoon – Heaven is a Junk Yard
2. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – The Silver Cord
3. Aesop Rock – Integrated Tech Solutions
4. Charles Wesley Godwin – Family Ties
5. Nym – False Noon
6. Gregory Alan Isakov – Appaloosa Bones
7. Sufjan Stevens – Javelin
8. Rodrigo y Gabriela – In Between Thoughts…A New World
9. The National – Laugh Track
10. Gorillaz – Cracker Island

1. Viv + Riley – Imaginary People
2. Mitski – The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We
3. Genesis Owusu – Struggler
4. Hozier – Unreal Unearth
5. Josh Ritter – Spectral Lines
6. Brent Cobb – Southern Star
7. Nickel Creek – Celebrants
8. Butcher Brown – Solar Music
9. Illiterate Light – Sunburned
10. Blondshell – Blondshell

1. Kara Jackson – Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love?
2. Foo Fighters – But Here We Are
3. The Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
4. Civic – Taken By Force
5. Joy Oladokun – Proof Of Life
6. Peter Gabriel – i/o
7. Ant The Symbol – I Know Who I Am (RVA artist with a who’s who of VA acts guesting)
8. Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds
9. Inhaler – Cuts & Bruises
10. Susto – My Entire Life

1. Jenny Lewis – Joyall
2. Adeem the Artist – White Trash Revelry
3. Samia – Honey
4. Black Pumas – Chronicles Of A Diamond
5. Depeche Mode – Memento Mori
6. Blur – The Ballad of Darren
7. Fruit Bats – A River Running to Your Heart
8. Illiterate Light – Sunburned
9. Mitski – The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We
10. David Wax Museum – You Must Change Your Life

1. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine
2. Claud – Supermodels
3. Hotspit – Memory of a Mirror Image
4. Boygenius – The Record
5. Bully – Lucky for You
6. Jon Batiste – World Music Radio
7. Hozier – Unreal Unearth
8. City and Colour – The Love Still Held Me Near
9. Slowdive – Everything is Alive
10. Local Natives – Time Will Wait for No One

1. Dogwood Tales – Rodeo (EP)
2. Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine
3. Wilco – Cousin
4. The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds
5. Black Pumas – Chronicles Of A Diamond
6. Hiss Golden Messenger – Jump For Joy
7. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – Live In London
8. Blondshell – Blondshell
9. Fruit Bats – A River Running To Your Heart
10. Genesis Owusu – Struggler

1. Boygenius – The Record
2. Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We
3. Laufey – Bewitched
4. Brigitte Calls Me Baby – This House Is Made Of Corners
5. 100 gecs – 10,000 gecs
6. The Kills – God Games
7. Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman…
8. Black Pumas – Chronicles of A Diamond
9. The National – Laugh Track
10. Andre 3000 – New Blue Sun

1. Fruit Bats – A River Running to Your Heart
2. Bakar – Halo
3. Hozier – Unreal Unearth
4. Brent Cobb – Southern Star
5. Joy Oladokun – Proof of Life
6. Genesis Owusu – Struggler
7. The Murlocs – Calm Ya Farm
8. Devon Gilfillian- Love You Anyway
9. Jobi Riccio – Whiplash
10. SYML – The Day My Father Died

1. Boygenius – The Record
2. Sufjan Stevens – Javelin
3. The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest
4. Jungle – Volcano
5. Margo Price – Strays
6. Fruit Bats – A River Running to Your Heart
7. Beirut – Hadsel
8. Jobi Riccio – Whiplash 
9. Squirrel Flower – Tomorrow’s Fire
10. Ratboys – The Window

1. The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds
2. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – Live In London
3. Black Pumas – Chronicles Of A Diamond
4. Gov’t Mule – Peace…Like A River
5. Dropkick Murphys – Okemah Rising
6. Queens Of The Stone Age – In Times New Roman…
7. Jon Batiste – World Music Radio
8. Wilco – Cousin
9. Cordovas – The Rose Of Aces
10. Jason Ricci & The Bad Kind – Behind The Veil

1. Sparklehorse – Bird Machine
2. Aesop Rock – Integrated Tech Solutions
3. billy woods and Kenny Segal – Maps
4. Be Your Own Pet – Mommy
5. F*cked Up – One Day
6. The National – Laugh Track
7. Sigur Rós – ÁTTA
8. Goat – Medicine
9. Margo Price – Strays
10. Baroness – Stone