Everything’s Gonna Be Better Next Year!

 

Everything’s gonna be better next year! Let’s start now with the final Handful of Brains episode of 2021! (originally aired Tuesday, December 28, 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio) We’ve got an eclectic mix of music including Little Feat, Johnny Winter & Edgar Winter, Ex Hex, White Denim, The National, Marianne Faithfull, Cassandra Jenkins, Khruangbin & Leon Bridges, Jake Shimabukuro, & Big Thief.

Here's a link to listen to the show: https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202112281900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2021/12/28/everythings-gonna-be-better-next-year-2/#playlist

(Photo: outofstress.com)

Handful of Brains Christmas Show!

 

Tonight on the Handful of Brains Christmas Show (originally aired Tuesday, December 21, 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio): Singing, dancing, laughing–and even skating! And a whole lot of Christmas music.

Here's a link to listen to the show: https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202112211900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2021/12/21/handful-of-brains-christmas-show/#playlist

RIP Mike Nesmith

 

Listen to Handful of Brains (originally aired Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio)! We’ll pay tribute to the late Mike Nesmith with a couple of songs from his pioneering music videos. Also in the eclectic mix: Jason Isbell And the 400 Unit, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., PIXIES, J Roddy Walston and The Business, Eddie Vedder, Holly Williams, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Linda Lindas, & more!

Here's a link to listen to the show: https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202112141900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2021/12/14/rip-mike-nesmith/#playlist

Sweet & Sticky

 

What’s sweet, sticky, and pink or blue? It’s Handful of Brains (originally aired Tuesday, December 7, 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio)! It’s also cotton candy which works because it’s Nat’l Cotton Candy Day. We’ve got a sweet, sticky, and eclectic mix of music for you featuring Matthew Sweet, The Hot Seats, Quilt, TURNSTILE, Christie, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Arcade Fire, Grateful Dead, Hana Vu, & more!

Here's a link to listen to the recording of the show: https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202112071900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2021/12/07/sweet-sticky/#playlist

(Photo by Jake Hart)

Let the music flow

 

Let the music flow to you tonight with Handful of Brains (originally aired Tuesday, November 30, 7 – 9 PM) on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio! We’ve got an eclectic mix of music including Bloc Party, People’s Blues of Richmond, Shovels and Rope, Dion, Black Sabbath, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Drive-By Truckers, Steeleye Span, The Black Crowes, Radiohead, & more!

Click here to listen to the show: https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202111301900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and click here to see the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2021/11/30/let-the-music-flow/#playlist

(Photo: NuSpark Media)

We Are Infinite

 

Sit back, relax and listen to Handful of Brains (originally aired Tuesday, November 24, 2021, 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio)! We’ve got an eclectic mix of music including KennyHoopla, Mick Jagger, Elvis Costello, Sons Of Bill, Lee Bains + The Glory Fires, SHEER MAG, Snail Mail, Peter Gabriel, Fear of Men, Dinosaur Jr., and more!

Here's a link to listen to the show: https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202111231900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3

 and a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2021/11/23/we-are-infinite/#playlist

(Photo: Getty Images)

Going Up The Country

 

Listen to Handful of Brains tonight (Tuesday 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio) for an eclectic mix of music featuring Phish, Goodnight, Texas, Editors, Wilco, Guided By Voices, Twiddle, TONSTARTSSBANDHT, Hurray for the Riff Raff and more!

Here's a link to listen to the show: https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202111161900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2021/11/16/going-up-the-country/#playlist

(Photo: Frontdoor Images/Getty Images)

Scrapple!

 

It’s Nat’l Scrapple Day! So fry up a big piece of that Pennsylvania Dutch mush and eat it while you listen to Handful of Brains (originally aired Tuesday, 11/9/21, 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio)! We’ve got an eclectic mix of music including Ween, Robbie Fulks, Randy Newman, The War On Drugs, Billy Strings, Grateful Dead, Electric Light Orchestra, Joe Jackson, Rick James, and more!

Here's a link to listen to the show: https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202111091900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2021/11/09/scrapple/#playlist

Sandworms!

 

Listen to Handful of Brains tonight (originially aired Tuesday, 11/2/21, 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio)! No songs about sandworms but we do have music from Wildcat Wildcat, Travis, My Morning Jacket, Wire, The Damned, Bad Religion, St. Paul and The Broken Bones, moa moa, Mitski & more!

Here's a link to listen to the show: https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202111021900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2021/11/02/sandworms/#playlist

Happy Halloween / Fall Fund Drive!

 

It’s the Halloween/Fall Fund Drive show tonight on Handful of Brains (Tuesday 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio)! We’ve got scary music from Hiatus Kaiyote, Tash Neal, Doug Gillard, Notwist, The Cocktail Slippers, Shannon and the Clams, Phoebe Bridgers, Shannon Lay, St. Vincent, Randall Bramblett, and more!

I also hope you’ll donate to WRIR at wrir.org during my show. You already show your support for me by listening to this crazy show and I can’t thank you enough. You allow me to take you on crazy jumps from genre to genre and hopefully play some old favorites and some new stuff you like along the way. Please support the station that gives me and other fellow-minded musical explorers a place to blow this out over the airwaves like no other station in #rva with a donation tonight. No amount is too small (or too big, either 😃). You can check out the Fall Fund Drive premium gifts at https://www.wrir.org/station/donate/.

Everyone at the station is a volunteer. We don’t pay anyone a salary. All our volunteers do it because they love it and want to be a part of our WRIR community and a part of the larger Richmond community. Help us continue to do it with a donation at wrir.org.

You can listen to the show here: https://vault.wrir.org/shows/202110261900.HandfulOfBrains.mp3 and here's a link to the playlist: https://www.wrir.org/2021/10/26/happy-halloween-fall-fund-drive/#playlist.