97.3 WRIR - Richmond Independent Radio

Every week, the New Music selects new tracks from WRIR's library and all over the Internet. You can tune in to hear the latest Indie Rock, New Folk, Electronica, Punk, Metal and whatever else has caught the ear of host Derek Sunshine.

Recent Blog Entries

5/23/13 New Music for the Long Weekend

Lots of new music including The National, Survival, Japanther, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Man Or Astro-man and The Dodos

5/16/13 Summer Is Ready When You Are

Sunshine, warmer temps, crazy thunderstorms - yep, it's Summer. Tune in for new music from Speedy Ortiz, Positive No, Gun Outfit, Sam Amidon and Classix.

5/9/13 A Ton of new music of all kinds

There are three great records out this week from Savages, Deerhunter and Mikal Cronin. In addition to those, we'll hear new tracks from Bambara, Camera Obscura, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Dick Diver, Inter Arma, Ensemble Pearl, Colin Stetson and Deafheaven.

5/2/13 Psychedelic Sundown

I'll be lauching the show with psychedelic rock from Akron Family, Date Palms and Wolf People. As we return to earth, we'll hear from new music by Savages, Adventure and Trivial Shields.

4/25/13 New Music from Tom Jones To Queens Of The Stone Age

We have odd endpoints to the spectrum today, but tune in for new music from Tom Jones, The National, Junip, No Joy, Lilacs & Champagne, Guided By Voices, Odonis Odonis, Hanni El Khatib, and Queens Of The Stone Age.

4/18/13 Sum-sum-summertime!

It's summer, summer....oh wait, it's just April. But you can roll down the windows and rock out with new music from Milk Music, Tera Melos, Shake Some Action!, The Boats, Future Birds, Charles Bradley and Stephen Brodsky.