Children of the Night: Vampires With No Shame

On Children of the Night: Vampires With No Shame (originally aired 11/10/18 3 - 5 AM on WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio): The Children of the Night have no shame. Now that it gets dark earlier, we can get out and feast on the happy hour crowd so much easier. And the nights are getting longer so we can prey until the wee hours of the morning. Our dining music this early morning includes The Replacements, Binker and Moses, Robyn Hitchcock, Mark Lanegan Band, The Seeds, Elvis Costello, Patrik Fitzgerald, Frightened Rabbit, and more!

Here's the link to the show. Note my show starts 29:33 into the file. Not sure what happened but there you go: http://files.wrir.org/shows/201811100300.ChildrenoftheNight.mp3

The show page with links to past shows can be found here: http://www.wrir.org/show/children-of-the-night/

Children of the Night: Underworld

On Children of the Night: Underworld (originally aired 11/3/18 3 - 5 AM on WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio): We hope you enjoyed Halloween. The Children of the Night did. Those trick or treaters are delicious. Such sweet blood when they are full of candy. But now we are back in the Underworld with an eclectic mix of music to celebrate with including Josh Ritter, White Denim, Phish from one of their Hampton shows this October, Bodega , Lucius, R.E.M. and more.

Here's a link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/201811030300.ChildrenoftheNight.mp3

Children of the Night: The Halloween Show 2018

On Children of the Night: The Halloween Show 2018 (original air date 10/27/18 3 - 5 AM on WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio): Children of the Night love Halloween. It allows them to blend in with all the costumed freaks. So much easier to pick off victims. We have an eclectic mix for the overnight feeding including The Rolling Stones, Television, Widowspeak, Pearl Jam, The Flatlanders, Turkuaz, Dead Man’s Bones and more. Be careful. That vampire behind you might not be in costume.

Here's a link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/201810270300.ChildrenoftheNight.mp3

Children of the Night: Guitars, Cadillacs, Vampires

On Children of the Night: Guitars, Cadillacs, Vampires (original air date 10/20/18 3 - 5 AM on WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio): This vampire drives around town in a big 1972 Cadillac convertible. When cars were built with American steel and could fit 8 people in the back seat. The vampire cruises the streets with his guitar in the passenger seat, looking for victims or jam sessions. And sometimes the two are the same. He turns on the radio and spins the dial to 97.3 WRIR. This is what he hears: Matthew Ryan, Caitlyn Smith, Courtney Barnett, Prince, Peter Perrett, Dan Baird, Oh Sees, Tony Allen, Arc Angels, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Thundercat, and more.

Here's a link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/201810200300.ChildrenoftheNight.mp3

Children of the Night: Vampires in the Weeds

On the episode of Children of the Night: Vampires in the Weeds (originally aired Saturday, 10/13/2018 3 - 5 AM on WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio): The vampires hide in the weeds, waiting for you to walk by. Or maybe they are really busy wait staff? Anyway, we’ve got an eclectic mix for your featuring Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Grateful Dead, Horse Feathers, Belly, Pile, The Seeds, Crushed Out, The Wombats, Miho Hatori, Queens Of The Stone Age, and more!

Children of the Night: RIP Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane and Otis Rush

On the episode of Children of the Night that aired on 10/6/18 (3 - 5 AM on WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio), we paid tribute to the late Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane and Otis Rush. We’ve also got tunes from them, Eric Clapton, Django Django, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Leftover Salmon, Phoebe Bridgers, White Denim, and more.

Children of the Night: Only Us Vampires

On the September 29th episode of Children of the Night: Only Us Vampires (originally aired 3 - 5 AM on WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio): It’s only us vampires up this late. Welcome to the tribe. We are rocking until we see the first, faint glimmer of daylight with an eclectic mix featuring Thrice, The Magpie Salute, Slaves, Grateful Dead, Jeff Tweedy, Eels, The Four Tops, Mayer Hawthorne, Magnetic Fields, Disclosure, Mott The Hoople, Marika Hackman, Amy Rigby, Paul Weller and more.

If you miss the show, you can catch it for up to two weeks on the sexy WRIRchive at wrir.org/listen. And here's a link to the show that lasts forever: http://files.wrir.org/shows/201809290300.ChildrenoftheNight.mp3

Children of the Night: Vampire Bacchanal

On Children of the Night: Vampire Bacchanal (originally aired 9/22/18 3 - 5 AM Saturday on WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio): Hope your Friday night is quite the bacchanal! We’re partying with the children of the night here and we’ve got the music to do it. An eclectic mix of music with Wrongtom Meets The Ragga Twins, Spain, Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, The Byrds, Big Gigantic, Little Wings, Wax Idols and more. So let the drunken revelry continue on to the dawn!

Here's the link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/201809220300.ChildrenoftheNight.mp3

Children of the Night: Vampires of the Storm

For those of you that might still be on my mailing list, HI!

Thought I might post the links to my radio shows on here, in case any of you are interested in listening and to keep the blog active.

So here's the info for last week's show and a link to the show.

On the 9/15 episode of Children of the Night: Vampires of the Storm (3 - 5 AM WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio): Beware of the Hurricane, er, the tropical storm, er, the rain! Yeah, the rain! While I’m glad Florence missed us, it did mean I had to scrap my plans to play Scorpions’ “Rock You Like a Hurricane” for three hours straight. Instead, we’ll have to make due with this eclectic mix featuring new, live R.E.M., IDLES, Neil Young And The Bluenotes, Roger Waters, Local Natives, Phish, Mates of State, The Delfonics and more.

Here's the link to the show. Note that there is dead air from 45 seconds in until 1:35 (that's a minute and 35 seconds): http://files.wrir.org/shows/201809150300.ChildrenoftheNight.mp3

This Is The End....

...Beautiful Friends.

Yes, all good things must come to an end. And this blog too. After 15 years, I will no longer be doing the Weekend Picks. We started as a weekly email to co-workers who had moved from the SF area and wanted to know what there was to do in Richmond. We went to the blog format in 2007 and have been going ever since and we've had fun!

Why stop now? I now have a weekly radio show on WRIR, 97.3 FM. It is called "Children of the Night" and will be eclectic, heavily psychedelic, sometimes funkadelic, maybe blues, perhaps pop, occasionally country. I don't have enough time to do both the show and the blog or I would never get out. So I'm going back to my original love, radio.

Getting the radio show is the good news.

The bad news is it is on from 3 - 5 AM on Saturday mornings.

The good news is I get to pre-record it so I don't have to be awake.

The other good news is that you don't have to be either. It will be available in the Music Show Archives at http://wrir.org/listen/ for two weeks after each show. I also plan on posting them here on the blog where they will remain for all eternity.

Just a few stats:

• This is the 1580th blog entry
• The three most popular all time: "IMDB for Music" 12/5/08 w/9400+ hits. "Weekend Picks: Robert Earl Keen,,.", 3/14/17, 1500+ hits, and "Springsteen & Richmond", 8/13/08, 600+ hits.

Thank you to all who have read the blog over the years. Some of you have been with me since the email days and I truly appreciate all of you. I've also made friends with some of you through the blog and I hope to see you around town at shows too.

NOTE: I will not be sending any more emails from my personal email account when I update the blog with the radio shows. If you wish to get an email from Blogger when I add a post, please sign up in the upper right of the blog.

That'll do it. Have a great weekend, year, life. I'll see you at the next show!

Tony Jordan