Handful Of Brains presents:

We’ll give away 2 tickets to Crumb, L’Rain, & Discovery Zone at The National on Fri, 8/23 on Handful of Brains! (Tu 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond Community Radio) We’ve also got an eclectic mix of music including Sparklehorse, Nathaniel Rateliff, Jack White, Jason Isbell, Tyler Ramsey, Daniel Donato, Dinosaur Jr., & more!

Dial your FM radio receiver to frequency 97.3 or listen on the World Wide Web at wrir.org.

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

    Handful Of Brains    August 20th, 2024

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Nov 15 presents:

The weekly chart reflects the diversity of programming on WRIR. In an average week, WRIR DJs play approximately 1,200 albums (and EPs and singles).

To make it on the list, an album must be released in the past year. Local bands and albums played by more than one DJ are given priority in the rankings.

Below the chart is a list of new albums added to the music library once that information has been compiled. Check back later if it’s not there yet.

1 Crumb Jinx Crumb
2 Piranha Rama You’ve Earned It Trrrash
3 Theravada Xennis Rodman 2000 Entertainment
4 Tacocat This Mess Is a Place Sub Pop
5 Automatic Signal Stones Throw
6 Doudou Copa Loin des Barreaux Diamond Prod
7 Angelica Garcia Jícama (Edit) – Single Spacebomb
8 Grebes House Creature Broken Circles
9 Quelle Chris Guns Mello Music Group
10 Juana Molina Forfun – EP Crammed Discs
11 Ibibio Sound Machine Doko Mien Merge
12 Smoke Fairies Darkness Brings the Wonders Home Year Seven
13 Coco Montoya Coming in Hot Alligator
14 Lucy Dacus 2019 Matador
15 The Purge Honesty self-released
16 Voarm Voarm self-released
17 Mirtaw Vandals MXC
18 Inter Arma Sulphur English Relapse
19 Locobeach Psychedelic Disco Cumbia Dorsal Fin
20 Illiterate Light Illiterate Light Atlantic
21 Copperhead Gazing in the Dark PTP
22 Toxic Moxie Falkonia self-released
23 Dharma Bombs Enjoy the View Dharma Bombs
24 Sammi Lanzetta Ceiling Mirror 6131
25 Camp Howard Cañón self-released
26 Russian Circles Blood Year Sargent House
27 Sleepwalkers Ages Spacebomb
28 NO BS! Brass A Decade of Noise self-released
29 Various Artists Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots Bloodshot
30 Landon Elliott Domino American Paradox

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    November 16th, 2019

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 27 presents:

The weekly chart reflects the diversity of programming on WRIR. In an average week, WRIR DJs play approximately 1,200 albums (and EPs and singles).

To make it on the list, an album must be released in the past year. Local bands and albums played by more than one DJ are given priority in the rankings.

Below the chart is a list of new albums added to the music library once that information has been compiled. Check back later if it’s not there yet.

1 Black Mountain Destroyer Jagjaguwar
2 Piranha Rama You’ve Earned It Trrrash
3 Vinyl Staircase Sidewalk! – Single self-released
4 One True Pairing One True Pairing Domino
5 Crumb Jinx self-released
6 Brittany Howard Jaime ATO / Fontana North
7 Camp Howard Cañón Egghunt
8 Dry Cleaning Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks – EP It’s Ok
9 Norie 9th Street Goodears Streaming
10 Haybaby They Get There Tiny Engines
11 Azrael Onassis The Holy Ghost of Nonfiction self-released
12 Sports Bar Something Good – EP Mister Falcon
13 Sea of Storms Saddest Faction Sound Era
14 The Wimps Plasma self-released
15 Mistress of the Strings P.S. self-released
16 Majjin Boo Go Between Egghunt
17 Slump Flashbacks from Black Dust Country Feel It
18 Sensual World Feeling Wild Stupid Bag
19 Sammi Lanzetta Ceiling Mirror self-released
20 FRANKIIE Forget Your Head Paper Bag
21 Chastity Belt Chastity Belt Hardly Art
22 Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence Sargent House
23 Gruff Rhys Pang! Rough Trade
24 Metronomy Metronomy Forever Because Music
25 (Sandy) Alex G House of Sugar Domino
26 Operator Music Band Duo Duo Broken Circles
27 Bat for Lashes Lost Girls AWAL
28 Guaxe Guaxe OAR
29 Adam Green Engine of Paradise 30th Century
30 Miss June Bad Luck Party Frenchkiss

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    September 28th, 2019

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