Music! I Want Music!

 

And music you’ll get on Handful of Brains! (originally aired Tuesday, 03/17/2026, 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond Community Radio) We’ve got an eclectic mix of music, including Claypool Lennon Delirium, Margo Price, Courtney Barnett, Brown Horse, Lettuce, Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles, Mike Patton & The Avett Brothers, Lee Bains + The Glory Fires, The Black Keys, Peter Gabriel, BOBO & BEHAJA, Town Mountain, The Damned, & more!

You can listen to the show whenever you like here https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202603171900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and here's a link to the playlist https://www.wrir.org/2026/03/17/music-i-want-music/#playlist

Fall Fund Drive

 

We’ll be doing the Fall Fund Drive on Handful of Brains! (originally aired Tuesday, 10/24/2023, 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond Community Radio) Please give whatever you can to support independent radio in #rva at https://www.wrir.org/donate/ . No other radio station in town brings you the diversity in music that WRIR does. And this all-volunteer station is truly representative of the diversity of your community, with people coming together from all walks of life to make this station work. While I wish we could run the station on the rich enthusiasm of our volunteers, we need cold, hard cash to pay for equipment, utilities, rent, etc. Check out the cool fund drive premiums at https://www.wrir.org/donate/ and help us out!

Besides yapping about the fund drive, we’ve got an eclectic mix of music to play including Devon Gilfillian, The Mommyheads, Blind Melon, Margo Price, The Lemon Twigs, Micky Dolenz, Ty Segall, and more!

You can listen to the show anytime you want right here https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202310241900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and here's a link to the playlist https://www.wrir.org/2023/10/24/fall-fund-drive-5/#playlist

You can listen to the last two months of shows here https://www.wrir.org/show/handful-of-brains/

Listen with friends!

 

Listen with friends to Handful of Brains! (originally aired Tuesday, 10/30/2023, 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond Community Radio) We’ve got an eclectic mix of music including Margo Price, DJ Shadow, Stephen Marley, Susan Tedeschi, Bettye LaVette, Nils Lofgren, Toots and the Maytals, Twiddle, Prince & The New Power Generation, Al Green, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, & more!

You can listen to the show any time you want here https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202310031900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and here's a link to the playlist https://www.wrir.org/2023/10/03/listen-with-friends/#playlist

You can listen to the last two months of shows whenever you want here https://www.wrir.org/show/handful-of-brains/

Check out the new WRIR Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/wrir973fm

William Tyler and the Impossible Truth!

 

On Handful of Brains (originally aired Tuesday, 8/15/23, 7 – 9 PM), we gave away a pair of tickets to see William Tyler and the Impossible Truth w/ Burke Ingraffia at Richmond Music Hall at Capital Ale House on Friday, 8/18! We also paid tribute to Robbie Robertson and Sinéad O’Connor and played an eclectic mix of music including Roy Budd, Willie Nelson, Margo Price, Karina Rykman, Ziggy Marley, & more!

Here's a link to listen to the show whenever you want https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202308151900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and here's a link to the playlist https://www.wrir.org/2023/08/15/win-tix-to-see-william-tyler-and-the-impossible-truth/#playlist

You can listen to the last two months of shows anytime at https://www.wrir.org/show/handful-of-brains/

Kurt Vile!

 

Tune into Handful of Brains (originally aired Tuesday, 10/11/2022, 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio) for your chance to win 2 tix to see Kurt Vile & Julia Shapiro at The National, Weds, 10/12! We’ll also play an eclectic mix of music including Young Fathers, Aoife Nessa Frances, Sufjan Stevens, Bert Jansch, Rich Ruth, Town Mountain, Oren Ambarchi, Margo Price, SDF, Billy Strings, Blondie, Wilco, The Cult, Telefís, Lou Reed, & more!

To listen to the show on demand, go here https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202210111900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and here's a link to the playlist https://www.wrir.org/2022/10/11/kurt-vile-tickets/#playlist

If you want to check out some older shows, you can listen to them here https://www.wrir.org/show/handful-of-brains/

Musical Disinfectant

I've got musical disinfectant for your mind, body and soul tonight on Handful of Brains( originally aired 3/25/2020 7 - 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio)! It'll be an eclectic mix with music from Robbie Robertson, Yonder Mountain String Band, Radiohead, Eleanor Friedberger, Field Music, Maggie Rogers, Margo Price and more.

Here's a link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202003241900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3

And a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2020/03/24/musical-disinfectant/#playlist

Late Night Pick: Sturgill Simpson

Most excellent alt-country singer/songwriter Sturgill Simpson is on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (11:35 PM, NBC). The LA Times recently chose his album "A Sailors Guide to Earth" as one of the best albums of the year (so far) as did a number of other publications. We'll step back four years for this one from Sturgill:



Here's more alt-country, from a couple weeks ago, it's Margo Price and her appearance on The Tonight Show:

Late Night Pick: Margo Price

Tonight on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, alt-country singer/songwriter Margo Price appears as the musical guest (11:35 PM, NBC). Margo's album, "Midwest Farmer's Daughter" was named one of the 25 Best Albums of 2016 (So Far) by Paste Magazine. Here's the first single from that album, "Hurtin' (On the Bottle)":



From a couple weeks ago, here's The Avett  Brothers performing "Satan Pulls the Strings" on The Tonight Show:

Late Night Pick: Michael Stipe

Michael Stipe, former lead singer for R.E.M., will be making what I believe is his first solo appearance on a late night show, tonight on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 11:35 PM). No, I'm not counting the one line he sang on the last Colbert Report. Michael also has a kick-ass beard to show off. Here's one Michael did with his old band:



Here's Margo Price on Conan last week:

Late Night Pick: Margo Price

Country singer-songwriter Margo Price is on Conan tonight (TBS, 11 PM) to perform a song from her debut album, Midwest Farmer's Daughter. Margo is on Jack White's label, Third Man Records, and the album is getting great reviews so far. Entertainment Weekly also chose her as one of the 30 best bands they saw at SXSW a couple weeks ago. Here's Margo's "Since You Put Me Down":