Assless Chaps

[sorry, no picture this week. my computer is acting funny. but click the link to the playlist to see it. It's a good one!]

Tonight on Handful of Brains (7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio), we’ll be wearing chaps with no pants (good thing it’s radio!) and a mask and spinning music from The New Pornographers, Jedd Hughes, Pearl Jam, Lenny Kravitz, The Beach Boys, Evans The Death, Kilburn & the High Roads, New Order, and more!

Here's a link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202005261900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3

And a link to the playlist and the picture: https://www.wrir.org/2020/05/26/assless-chaps/#playlist

A wop bob alu bob a wop bam boom!

A wop bob alu bob a wop bam boom! We’ll pay tribute to the late Little Richard tonight on Handful of Brains (originally aired 5/19/2020 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio). We’ll also have music from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Blitzen Trapper, The Heavy Pets, Old Crow Medicine Show, and more!

Here's a link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202005191900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2020/05/19/a-wop-bob-alu-bob-a-wop-bam-boom/#playlist

(Photo credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty)

This is just an intermission

On Handful Of Brains (originally 5/12/20 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio): This is just an intermission. Go to the restroom and get a beer. The bands will start again in just a little bit. In the meantime, I’ll provide your set break music with an eclectic mix featuring Lori McKenna, Khruangbin, The Tallest Man On Earth, The Sweet Water Warblers, Sarah Jarosz, Flaming Lips, The Beach Boys, Dinosaur Jr., Link Wray and more!

Here's the link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202005121900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2020/05/12/this-is-just-an-intermission/#playlist

Even This Is Going to Pass

Tonight on Handful of Brains (originally aired 5/5/2020 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio): Even This Is Going to Pass. And while it might not pass for months, at least I can help you pass the time for two hours with an eclectic mix of music including Low Cut Connie, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eliot Bronson, American Aquarium, The Thermals, Echo and the Bunnymen, John Grant, Peter Gabriel, Angelo De Augustine, Kyle Davis, The Mommyheads & more!

Here's the link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202005051900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3

(Photo credit: Antje Duvekot, from the video for “Even This Is Going To Pass — Eliot Bronson (featuring Lori McKenna)” at https://youtu.be/y75yxa5czT4)

Use Your Brains! Donate to WRIR!

Tonight on Handful of Brains (originally aired 4/21 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio), it’s the usual eclectic mix of music featuring Sonic Youth, Counting Crows, Retirement Party, Courtney Marie Andrews, American Aquarium & more.

But more importantly, it’s our Spring Fall Fund Drive! Please donate to WRIR at https://www.wrir.org/station/donate/. Pictures of the cool premiums are at the web site in the previous sentence if you can swing it. But no donation is too small (and no donation is too big, either!😄) Your donations help keep us on the air, keep the equipment running, keep the lights on. We are all-volunteer, so every dollar goes to the station. Your donations also help create the sense of community that WRIR brings to RVA, especially right now. When I’m on the air, I feel like I’m talking to my friends and connecting with you for a couple of hours a week. I feel the same listening to the other DJs, as I sit alone in my apartment or in the car. They play the cool music they found for me and I can feel RVA grooving to it, too. They help me discover new bands, new songs, new genres. And in a way, it’s the sound of RVA. This is not the same music you hear on every commercial station, being chosen by a guy in an office in NYC. This is music from DJs from right here in town, sharing the music they have a passion for and hoping to turn you, the listener, on to it. Please donate to help keep us going and turning you on.

PLEASE NOTE: You can donate at any time, even after the fund drive is officially over, and you can still get the premiums while they last!

Here's a link to the show: https://www.wrir.org/2020/04/28/use-your-brains-donate-to-wrir/#playlist