Handful Of Brains presents:
Win tix to see Yot Club w/Boyscott!
Win tickets to see Yot Club w/ Boyscott at Richmond Music Hall on 5/31/2024 on Handful of Brains! (Tuesday 5 – 7 PM on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond Community Radio) We’ve also got an eclectic mix of music including G. Love & Special Sauce, Queens of the Stone Age, Beck, Kendall Street Company, Sparks, Depeche Mode, Little Feat, Orebolo, Sierra Ferrell, Esther Rose, & 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 here https://www.wrir.org/show/handful-of-brains/
TonyJ42 Handful Of Brains May 28th, 2024
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: beck, Boyscott, depeche mode, Esther Rose, G. Love & Special Sauce, Handful of Brains, Kendall Street Company, Little Feat, Orebolo, Queens of the Stone Age, Richmond music hall, Sierra Ferrell, Sparks, Tony Jordan, Yot Club
Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 20 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 20
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 | Piranha Rama | You’ve Earned It | Trrrash |
| 2 | Esther Rose | You Made It This Far | Father/Daughter |
| 3 | Weyes Blood | Titanic Rising | Sub Pop |
| 4 | Cate Le Bon | Reward | Mexican Summer / MAGNIPH / Hostess |
| 5 | Jay Som | Anak Ko | Polyvinyl |
| 6 | Theravada | Xennis Rodman | 2000 Entertainment |
| 7 | Oh, Rose | While My Father Sleeps | Park The Van |
| 8 | Parsnip | When the Tree Bears Fruit | Trouble In Mind |
| 9 | Lizzie No | Vanity | self-released |
| 10 | Sunny War | Shell of a Girl | Hen House Studios |
| 11 | Lana Del Rey | Norman Fucking Rockwell! | Polydor |
| 12 | Bat for Lashes | Lost Girls | Bat For Lashes |
| 13 | Whitney | Forever Turned Around | Secretly Canadian |
| 14 | Penny & Sparrow | Finch | I Love You |
| 15 | Frankie Cosmos | Close It Quietly | Sub Pop |
| 16 | Chelsea Wolfe | Birth of Violence | Sargent House |
| 17 | The Curtis Brothers | Algorithm | Truth Revolution |
| 18 | Illiterate Light | Illiterate Light | Atlantic |
| 19 | Grebes | House Creature | Broken Circles |
| 20 | Camp Howard | Cañón | Egghunt |
| 21 | ExKnives | Witches and Skindivers | self-released |
| 22 | Charles Owens Trio | Three and Thirteen | Ropeadope |
| 23 | Super Doppler | Super Doppler | Sweet Brother |
| 24 | Sycho Sid | Sunset Drive 2 | Mutant Academy |
| 25 | Sea of Storms | Saddest Faction | Sound Era |
| 26 | Koncept Jack$on | Newport 1000s | self-released |
| 27 | Omni | Networker | Sub Pop |
| 28 | Holy Roller | Holy Roller | self-released |
| 29 | Sammi Lanzetta | Ceiling Mirror | 6131 |
| 30 | Sleepwalkers | Ages | Spacebomb |
Anna C. September 21st, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Cate Le Bon, Esther Rose, Jay Som, Piranha Rama, Weyes Blood
Genre charts for week ending Sep 20 presents:
Genre charts for week ending Sep 20
AAA
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ESTHER ROSE | You Made It This Far | Father/Daughter |
| 2 | LIZZIE NO | Vanity | Self-Released |
| 3 | HOLY ROLLER | Holy Roller | Self-Released |
| 4 | JUSTIN PETER KINKEL-SCHUSTER | Take Heart, Take Care | Big Legal Mess |
| 5 | OTTOMAN TURKS | Ottoman Turks | State Fair |
| 6 | FANNY GRACE | Don’t Want It All | Self-Released |
| 7 | LUBA DVORAK | American Sin | Starr Street |
| 8 | EILEN JEWELL | Gypsy | Signature Sounds |
| 9 | TERRI HENDRIX | Talk To A Human: Project 5.3 | Wilory |
| 10 | BEN WINSHIP | Acorns | Snake River |
Hip-Hop
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THERAVADA | Xennis Rodman | 2000 Entertainment |
| 2 | SYCHO SID | Sunset Drive 2 | Mutant Academy |
| 3 | KONCEPT JACKSON | Newport 1000s | Self-Released |
| 4 | ALCHEMIST | Yacht Rock 2 | Self-Released |
| 5 | SAMPA THE GREAT | The Return | Ninja Tune |
| 6 | NAS | Lost Tapes, Vol 2. | Def Jam |
| 7 | SKYZOO AND PETE ROCK | Retropolitan | Mello |
| 8 | RADIO B | Kill The Dreamer Vol 1: New Independence | The Association Of Great Minds |
| 9 | GHOSTFACE KILLAH | Ghostface Killahs | Now Generation |
| 10 | MISTER AND CURT CATARACT | Approaching Land | Self-Released |
Loud
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PELICAN | Nighttime Stories | Southern Lord |
| 2 | GHOST | “Seven Inches of Satanic Panic” [Single] | Metal Blade |
| 3 | CULT OF LUNA | A Dawn to Fear | Metal Blade |
| 4 | RUSSIAN CIRCLES | Blood Year | Sargent House |
| 5 | USA NAILS | Life Cinema | HEX |
| 6 | CEREBRAL ROT | Odious Descent Into Decay | 20 Buck Spin |
| 7 | DARKTHRONE | Old Star | Peaceville |
| 8 | BOOK OF WYRMS | Remythologizer | Twin Earth |
| 9 | FUTUREPROJEKTOR | TERMA | Self-Released |
| 10 | OUTSIDER | When Love Dies | Flatspot |
RPM
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MORT GARSON | Mother Earth’s Plantasia [Reissue] | Sacred Bones |
| 2 | 100 GECS | 1000 Gecs | Dog House |
| 3 | STEVE HAUSCHILDT | Nonlin | Ghostly International |
| 4 | TORRAINE FUTURUM | Miles from Heaven | Self-Released |
| 5 | HERON AND CRANE | Firesides | Hibernator Gigs |
| 6 | DANKMUS | It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Blurst of Times. | Dankcrest Enterprises |
| 7 | JONAS MUNK AND NICKLAS SORENSEN | Always Already Here | El Paraiso |
| 8 | CLARK | Kiri Variations | Throttle |
| 9 | KH | “Only Human” [Single] | Ministry Of Sound |
| 10 | JODY REYNOLDS | “Fire of Love” [Single] | Infinite Soundtracks / Night Drop |
World
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RACHID TAHA | Je Suis Africaine | Believe |
| 2 | EARLY CONGO MUSIC 1946-1962: FIRST RUMBA TO THE REAL RUMBA | VARIOUS ARTISTS | El Sur |
| 3 | VITTO MEIRELLES | Da Hora | Cooking Vinyl |
| 4 | LUCIBELA | Laco Umbilical | LusAfrica |
| 5 | AFROINS, LOS | A Gozar Salsomanos | Vampisoul |
| 6 | KALETA AND SUPER YAMBA BAND | Medaho | Ubiquity |
| 7 | OTAVA YO | Do You Love | ARC |
| 8 | TINARIWEN | Amadjar | Anti- |
| 9 | AGGROLITES, THE | Reggae Now! | Pirates Press |
| 10 | GARIFUNA COLLECTIVE, THE | Aban | Stonetree |
Anna C. September 21st, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Esther Rose, Mort Garson, Pelican, Rachid Taha, Theravada
Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 13 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Sep 13
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 | Sinkane | Dépaysé | City Slang |
| 2 | Esther Rose | You Made It This Far | Father/Daughter Records |
| 3 | Parsnip | When the Tree Bears Fruit | Trouble in Mind |
| 4 | Nas | The Lost Tapes 2 | Mass Appeal Records |
| 5 | Shana Cleveland | Night of the Worm Moon | Hardly Art |
| 6 | Oh Sees | Face Stabber | Castle Face |
| 7 | Dori Freeman | Every Single Star | Blue Hens Music |
| 8 | Black Belt Eagle Scout | At the Party with My Brown Friends | Saddle Creek |
| 9 | Tinariwen | Amadjar | Anti/Epitaph;Wedge |
| 10 | Chris Forsyth | All Time Present | No Quarter |
| 11 | Transylvania Stud | White Witch | Independent |
| 12 | Future Projektor | Terma | Independent |
| 13 | Patrick Bates | Salad Days – EP | Verses Records |
| 14 | Book of Wyrms | Remythologizer | Twin Earth Records |
| 15 | Swordplay | Paperwork | Audio Recon |
| 16 | Petrichor | II | Custommademusicva |
| 17 | Benjamin Shepherd | Hold the Line | Benjamin Shepherd |
| 18 | Prayer Group | Eudean – EP | Independent |
| 19 | New Lions | End Story – EP | Independent |
| 20 | Ki:Theory | Centrifugal – EP | Kringer Records |
| 21 | Sammi Lanzetta | Ceiling Mirror | 6131 Records |
| 22 | Hex Machine | Cave Painting | Minimum Underdrive |
| 23 | Butt | Bad Sex | self-released |
| 24 | Enforced | At the Walls | Independent |
| 25 | Sleepwalkers | Ages | Spacebomb Records LLC |
| 26 | Katie Dahl | Wildwood | Leaky Boat Records |
| 27 | Zachary Lucky | Midwestern | self-released |
| 28 | Twin Peaks | Lookout Low | Pod / Inertia Music / Space 44 |
| 29 | The Silence | Metaphysical Feedback | Drag City Records |
| 30 | Common | Let Love | Loma Vista Recordings |
Anna C. September 14th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Esther Rose, Nas, Parsnip, Shana Cleveland, Sinkane