I Need You to Be Sweet Like Sugar

Listen to Handful Of Brains (originally aired 7/29/2020 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio)! We’ve got an eclectic mix including music from The Rolling Stones, Helena Deland, Mike Montrey Band, Shamir, Gillian Welch, Arcade Fire, Faces, Belly, Stevie Wonder, Dixie Dregs, The Lone Bellow, The Front Bottoms and more!

Here's the link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202007281900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3

And a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2020/07/28/i-need-you-to-be-sweet-like-sugar/#playlist

(Photo: Alamy)

Oh Rats!

On Handful of Brains (originally aired 07/22/2020 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio), we’ll celebrate Nat’l Rat Catchers Day early (it’s 7/22). We’ll have a couple of songs about rats along with music from Blitzen Trapper, Radiohead, Dehd, Anjimile, Lomelda, Grateful Dead, U2, Sleigh Bells, St. Vincent, The Bug vs Earth, and more!

Pet your cat, hug your exterminator, and pay that Pied Piper!

Here's a link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202007211900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3

And a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2020/07/21/oh-rats/#playlist

(Graphic Artist: Christian Jackson)

Get Nude!

Today is Nat’l Nude Day so in honor of that, I will do the entire show nude! Get nude with me and listen in to Handful of Brains tonight (originally aired 7/14/20 7 – 9 PM WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio). We’ll play an eclectic mix of music including Ariel Pink, Throwing Muses, Crash Test Dummies, Talking Heads, Joan Osborne, Bettye LaVette, Zero 7, Sting, Laura Marling, Brontë Fall, Allman Brothers Band and more!

Here's the link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202007141900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3

And a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2020/07/14/get-nude/#playlist

Suit Up!

Suit up and listen to Handful of Brains (originally aired 7/7/2020 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio)! We’ve got an eclectic mix of music including The Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Whiskey Myers, Phish, The Velvet Underground, Chromeo, Sharon Van Etten, and more!

Here's a link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202007071900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3

And a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2020/07/07/suit-up-2/#playlist

We know what you’re thinking

We know what you’re thinking on Handful of Brains (originally aired 06/30/2020 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio) and we know you want to hear stuff from The Mommyheads, Phoebe Bridgers, Joe Pera, Fiona Apple, Beck, Dennis Wilson, The Mighty Lemon Drops, The String Cheese Incident, Ben Glover, & more!

Here's a link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202006301900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3

And a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2020/06/30/we-know-what-youre-thinking/#playlist

(Photo: Electro-physiology sessions conducted by Dr. Duchenne and photographed by Adrien Tournachon, Paris, 1862)

Sowing the Seeds of Love

On Handful of Brains (originally aired 06/24/2020 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio), we’ll be sowing the seeds of love and hoping some of them bloom with music from Tears for Fears, Sonic Youth, Denise Chaila, Guided By Voices, Fontaines D.C., The Rolling Stones, John Prine and more!

Here's the link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202006231900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3

And a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2020/06/23/sowing-the-seeds-of-love/#playlist

(Art: Sower at Sunset, 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh)

Get Down! Make Love!

On Handful of Brains (originally aired 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio): Get Down! Make Love! Well, we can definitely cover the first part of that for you with an eclectic mix featuring Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, The O’Jays, Living Colour, Low Cut Connie, Khruangbin, Jerry Paper, The Mommyheads, Queen, Robert Earl Keen, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr, DJ Shadow and more! You’re on your own, and hopefully someone else, for the second part.

Here's the link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202006161900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3

And a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2020/06/16/get-down-make-love/#playlist

(Photo credit: keepcalms.com)

Champagne & Reefer

On Handful of Brains (originally aired 06/06/2020 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio): I don’t recommend Champagne & Reefer for everyone during this quarantine, but it’s certainly worked for me. OK, substitute cheap beer for champagne. I’m not that high-falutin’. On tonight’s eclectic mix of music, I’ve got tunes from All Them Witches, The Jerry Garcia Band, Jeff Beck, John Prine, Muddy Waters, Nzca Lines, Shovels and Rope, Sunglasses, Roy Clark, Yes and more!

Here''s a link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202006091900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2020/06/09/champagne-reefer/#playlist

Peace

One more night of curfew in Richmond and hopefully a peaceful one. This episode of Handful of Brains originally aired 6/2/2020 from 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio with music from Old Crow Medicine Show, Drive-By Truckers, Wilco, Katie Von Schleicher, Steel Pulse, Antibalas, empires and more.

Here's a link to the show: http://files.wrir.org/shows/202006021900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2020/06/02/peace/#playlist

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