06-29-2026

KEXP Charts for the Week of July 3 - July 9

Add Date: July 13

NOTE: KEXP's charts include albums that have not been released to the public yet, but have been made available to KEXP for airplay. 

Top 90:  

  1. Vince Staples - Cry Baby (Loma Vista)
  2. Tierra Whack - WHACK'S MUSEUM (Interscope)
  3. Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE (OURNESS)
  4. Dead Pioneers - Wagon Burner (Hassle)
  5. Kelela - new avatar (Warp)
  6. DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Mass Appeal)
  7. Angélique Kidjo - HOPE!! (Parlophone/Warner)
  8. Cerrone & Adi Oasis - “New Highs” (Because Music)
  9. Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower (ANTI-)
  10. Baby Rose - YEARNALISM (Secretly Canadian)
  11. La Sécurité - Bingo!! (Bella Union)
  12. Francis of Delirium - Run, Run Pure Beauty (Dalliance)
  13. Spacemoth - Inward Eye (Greenway Records)
  14. Rell Be Free - Everything Is Everything (People Need Water)
  15. GENER8ION & Yung Lean - STORM (Iconoclast)
  16. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  17. Julia Jacklin - The Gem (4AD)
  18. Nia Archives - Emotional Junglist (HIJINXX/Island Records)
  19. Westside Cowboy - It Goes On (Island Records)
  20. mary in the junkyard - Role Model Hermit (AMF Records)
  21. Pond - Terrestrials (Mangovision)
  22. Slippers - Slippers 08 (K/perennial) 
  23. Kurt Vile - Philadelphia's been good to me (Verve) 
  24. Blondshell - Violins (Partisan)
  25. Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Cannonball (Fiction Records)
  26. Sylvan Esso - “Hot Slob” (Psychic Hotline)
  27. Tycho & Sea Lemon - “Anotherwave” (Mom+Pop)
  28. Boy Harsher - “Jeans” (Nude Club)
  29. Saul Williams - Leap Life (Big Dada)
  30. Telehealth - Green World Image (Sub Pop)
  31. Chinese American Bear - Dim Sum & Then Some (Moshi Moshi)
  32. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  33. Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open (Dead Oceans) 
  34. Ibeyi - Offerings (AWAL)
  35. Alewya - ZERO (Because London)
  36. Downtown Boys - Public Luxury (Sub Pop)
  37. CFCF - L.U.V. (BGM Solutions)
  38. Widowspeak - Roses (Captured Tracks)
  39. Sera Cahoone - I've Missed You All These Years (Sub Pop)
  40. Caroline Rose - “Yip Yip Yow” (SUCK Records)
  41. Fat Dog - Cancel Me (I’m Tired) (Domino)
  42. Gurriers - Nobody's Coming To Save You (Play It Again Sam)
  43. Interpol - This Mirror Weighs A Ton (Partisan)
  44. Steve Lacy - Oh yeah? (RCA)
  45. Adrian Younge - Afro Disco Makossa EP (Linear Labs)
  46. Diary - Spiral Bound (Kanine)
  47. Mike D - Thank You (Capitol)
  48. New Age Healers - Blowing Smoke Through the Choir (self-released)
  49. Kelsey Lu - So Help Me God (Dirty Hit)
  50. LEENALCHI (이날치) - Here Comes That Crow EP (Luaka Bop)
  51. Iceage - For Love of Grace & the Hereafter (Mexican Summer) 
  52. MUNA - Dancing On The Wall (Saddest Factory) 
  53. Modest Mouse - An Eraser and A Maze (Glacial Pace Recordings/Virgin) 
  54. proun - Maybe Luck (Good English) 
  55. Beth Orton - The Ground Above (Partisan) 
  56. Boards of Canada - Inferno (Warp)
  57. 44go - D1 (self-released)
  58. LOV - Iskwêw (self-released)
  59. Brian Jackson - Now More Than Ever (BBE)
  60. Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Black Butterfly (Dorado Records)
  61. Black Ends - “All I’m Bone” (Youth Riot) 
  62. Dinosaur Jr. - There Near (Jagjaguwar)
  63. Genesis Owusu - “HUMAN AGAIN” (Ourness)
  64. Getdown Services - Massive Champion (Breakfast)
  65. Jorja Smith - “What's Done Is Done” (FAMM)
  66. UCHE YARA - BODYSCANNER (goldendays FM)
  67. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - “Chicken Leg” b/w “If I Could” (Colemine)
  68. beabadoobee - Pylon (Dirty Hit/Interscope)
  69. Bonobo - Distance In Static (Ninja Tune)
  70. Ceremony - Tell Me Your Dream (Relapse)
  71. Ela Minus & Nick León - qué les pasó a mis amigos? EP (Smugglers Way)
  72. Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope (Partisan)
  73. Grace Cummings - Bloodhorse! (ATO)
  74. Jack White - Frozen Charlotte (Third Man)
  75. Kiwi Jr. - Blowin’ Up (perennial/K)
  76. Wishy - Nature’s Pill (Winspear)
  77. Let Your Hair Down - “Pingu’s Anthem” (College of Knowledge)
  78. Sibille Attar - Amor Fati (PNKSLM Recordings)
  79. Uh Huh Her - Nocturnes: Redux (Kill Rock Stars)
  80. TV Star - Music For Heads (Father/Daughter Records) 
  81. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  82. Yea-Ming And The Rumours - Residue (Dandy Boy) 
  83. Chico Detour - Wash It Down EP (Den Tapes) 
  84. Margo Price - Days Of Unrest (Loma Vista / Concord)
  85. Chanpan - autogratis (EQT Recordings) 
  86. Coals - magia (Sony Music Entertainment Poland) 
  87. Huarinami - nothing happens EP (self-released)
  88. Blue Lab Beats - The Blue Lab Beats Show (Blue Adventure) 
  89. DJ Seinfeld - If This Is It (Ninja Tune)
  90. PawPaw Rod - Picture Day: A PawPaw Rod Album (Independent Co.) 

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Julia Jacklin - The Gem (4AD)
  2. Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open (Dead Oceans)
  3. Ibeyi - Offerings (AWAL)
  4. Widowspeak - Roses (Captured Tracks)
  5. Sera Cahoone - I've Missed You All These Years (Sub Pop)
  6. proun - Maybe Luck (Good English) 
  7. Beth Orton - The Ground Above (Partisan) 
  8. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  9. Margo Price - Days Of Unrest (Loma Vista / Concord)
  10. La Doña - Corrientes (Text Me Records)

Global: 

  1. Angélique Kidjo - HOPE!! (Parlophone/Warner)
  2. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  3. Ibeyi - Offerings (AWAL)
  4. Alewya - ZERO (Because London)
  5. Adrian Younge - Afro Disco Makossa EP (Linear Labs)
  6. LEENALCHI (이날치) - Here Comes That Crow EP (Luaka Bop)
  7. Ela Minus & Nick León - qué les pasó a mis amigos? EP (Smugglers Way)
  8. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  9. Orquestra Pacifico Tropical - El Poder (self-released) 
  10. La Doña - Corrientes (Text Me Records)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Vince Staples - Cry Baby (Loma Vista)
  2. Tierra Whack - WHACK'S MUSEUM (Interscope)
  3. Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE (OURNESS)
  4. DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Mass Appeal)
  5. Rell Be Free - Everything Is Everything (People Need Water)
  6. Saul Williams - Leap Life (Big Dada)
  7. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  8. Brian Jackson - Now More Than Ever (BBE)
  9. Blue Lab Beats - The Blue Lab Beats Show (Blue Adventure) 
  10. PawPaw Rod - Picture Day: A PawPaw Rod Album (Independent Co.) 

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Mass Appeal)
  2. Cerrone & Adi Oasis - “New Highs” (Because Music)
  3. GENER8ION & Yung Lean - STORM (Iconoclast)
  4. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  5. Nia Archives - Emotional Junglist (HIJINXX/Island Records)
  6. Tycho & Sea Lemon - “Anotherwave” (Mom+Pop)
  7. Alewya - ZERO (Because London)
  8. CFCF - L.U.V. (BGM Solutions)
  9. MUNA - Dancing On The Wall (Saddest Factory) 
  10. Boards of Canada - Inferno (Warp)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE (OURNESS)
  2. Kelela - new avatar (Warp)
  3. Cerrone & Adi Oasis - “New Highs” (Because Music)
  4. Baby Rose - YEARNALISM (Secretly Canadian)
  5. Rell Be Free - Everything Is Everything (People Need Water)
  6. Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain (Merge)
  7. Nia Archives - Emotional Junglist (HIJINXX/Island Records)
  8. Saul Williams - Leap Life (Big Dada)
  9. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  10. Ibeyi - Offerings (AWAL)

Jazz: 

  1. Saul Williams - Leap Life (Big Dada)
  2. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  3. Adrian Younge - Afro Disco Makossa EP (Linear Labs)
  4. LEENALCHI (이날치) - Here Comes That Crow EP (Luaka Bop)
  5. Brian Jackson - Now More Than Ever (BBE)
  6. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - “Chicken Leg” b/w “If I Could” (Colemine)
  7. Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope (Partisan)
  8. Blue Lab Beats - The Blue Lab Beats Show (Blue Adventure) 
  9. Greg Kramer - Heat Check (Krameroriginals)
  10. Sparklmami - in this body (Verve/Slowplay)

Northwest: 

  1. Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower (ANTI-)
  2. Rell Be Free - Everything Is Everything (People Need Water)
  3. Tycho & Sea Lemon - “Anotherwave” (Mom+Pop)
  4. Telehealth - Green World Image (Sub Pop)
  5. Chinese American Bear - Dim Sum & Then Some (Moshi Moshi)
  6. Sera Cahoone - I've Missed You All These Years (Sub Pop)
  7. New Age Healers - Blowing Smoke Through the Choir (self-released)
  8. Modest Mouse - An Eraser and A Maze (Glacial Pace Recordings/Virgin) 
  9. 44go - D1 (self-released)
  10. Black Ends - “All I’m Bone” (Youth Riot) 

Bay Area: 

  1. Spacemoth - Inward Eye (Greenway Records)
  2. Tycho & Sea Lemon - “Anotherwave” (Mom+Pop)
  3. Yea-Ming And The Rumours - Residue (Dandy Boy) 
  4. La Doña - Corrientes (Text Me Records)
  5. Ismay - Half Truth (Fossil Records)
  6. Kelley Stoltz - If You Don’t Know Me, Buy Now! (Dandy Boy)
  7. abracadabra - peel away EP (Melodic)
  8. Badvril - Lethal (Share It Music)
  9. Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew (Night School)
  10. Marika Christine - Enjoy The Clouds (Anxiety Blanket Records)

Adds: 

Baby Rose - YEARNALISM (Secretly Canadian) 
Kelela - new avatar (Warp)
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - A ? of WHEN (Domino)
foamboy - STUPID HOT (self-released)
Jack White - Frozen Charlotte (Third Man) 
Magi Merlin - POWER HOUSE (ONErpm/Bonsound)
MAQUINA. - BODY TRANSMISSION (Fuzz Club)
mary in the junkyard - Role Model Hermit (AMF Records)
Nappy Nina & Swarvy - Sow & So (Lucid Haus)
Ultra Lights - Pleasure’s All Yours (Chunklet Industries)
twisted teens - Florida Water Blues (Going Underground)
Allison Russell - In The Hour of Chaos (Fantasy/Concord)
Brokenchord - Lima Echo Crack! (South of North)
Chuck Strangers - Glory of the King’s Hand (Lex)
Galaxians - Feel In Motion (Some Pulp Recordings)
Greg Kramer - Heat Check (Krameroriginals)
Mouth Ulcers - Silent Pictures (LAB)
Shayk - FORWARD (Everything Is Perfect)
she’s green - swallowtail EP (Photo Finish Records) 
papaya noon - through the moods EP (First Word)
Tracey Nelson - Hercules (K/perennial)