Handful Of Brains presents:
Pants or no pants!
Pants or no pants, listen to Handful of Brains! (Tuesday 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond Community Radio) We’ve got an eclectic mix of music for you including Pixies, Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and The Band, Slobberbone, Deau Eyes, Can, Steve Gunn & David Moore, Fatoumata Diawara, & 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/
TonyJ42 Handful Of Brains July 16th, 2024
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: bob dylan, can, David Moore, Deau Eyes, Fatoumata Diawara, grateful dead, Handful of Brains, Pixies, Slobberbone, Steve Gunn, The Band, Tony Jordan
Top 30 new albums for week ending Oct 11 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Oct 11
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 | Spooky Cool | Every Thing Ever – EP | Citrus City |
| 2 | Steve Gunn | The Unseen In Between | Matador |
| 3 | Faux Ferocious | Pretty Groovy | Burger |
| 4 | Sunwatchers | Illegal Moves | Trouble in Mind |
| 5 | Femi Kuti | One People One World | Knitting Factory |
| 6 | Alpheus | Light of Day | Liquidator |
| 7 | Low | Double Negative | Sub Pop |
| 8 | Mekong Xpress & The Get Fresh Horns | Common Knowledge | EggHunt |
| 9 | Dom Flemons | Black Cowboys | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 10 | Gulp | All Good Wishes | E.L.K. |
| 11 | Debrider | Gift Horse | self-released |
| 12 | Unmaker | Firmament | self-released |
| 13 | Butcher Brown | Camden Session | Gearbox |
| 14 | Boygenius | Boygenius – EP | Matador |
| 15 | The Ar-Kaics | In This Time | Wick / Daptone |
| 16 | Aerica Lauren | Summer Forever | self-released |
| 17 | Eiko Ishibashi | The Dream My Bones Dream | Drag City |
| 18 | Marie Davidson | So Right – EP | Ninja Tune |
| 19 | Exdreams | Physical Contact | exdreams |
| 20 | Chemtrails | Cuckoo Split – EP | PNKSLM |
| 21 | Zoe Boekbinder | Shadow | Zoe Boekbinder |
| 22 | Polly Panic | Losing Form | Polly Panic |
| 23 | My Brightest Diamond | A Million and One | Rhyme & Reason |
| 24 | Black Masala | Trains And Moonlight Destinies | self-released |
| 25 | David Benedict | The Golden Angle | self-released |
| 26 | Alien Sex Fiend | Possessed | Cherry Red |
| 27 | The Sha La Das | Love in the Wind | Daptone |
| 28 | June West | June West | Broken Circles |
| 29 | Chersea | In Limbo | Fierce Panda Canada |
| 30 | Gretta Ray | hERE aND nOW | self-released |
Anna C. October 12th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Faux Ferocious, Femi Kuti, Spooky Cool, Steve Gunn, Sunwatchers
Top 30 new albums for week ending Feb 8 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Feb 8
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.
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steve Gunn | The Unseen In Between | Matador |
| 2 | Mattiel | Customer Copy – EP | Burger |
| 3 | Nikki & the Phantom Callers | What the Daughter Does, The Mother Did – Single | Tiny Tornado |
| 4 | Girlpool | What Chaos Is Imaginary | Anti/Epitaph |
| 5 | Juliana Hatfield | Weird | American Laundromat |
| 6 | Big Business | The Beast You Are | Joyful Noise |
| 7 | Mike Krol | Power Chords | Merge |
| 8 | Maggie Rogers | Heard It In A Past Life | Capitol |
| 9 | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Cyboogie b/w Acarine | Flightless |
| 10 | Ed Schrader’s Music Beat | Riddles | Carpark |
| 11 | Bas | Milky Way | Dreamville / Interscope |
| 12 | Idles | Joy as an Act of Resistance. | Partisan |
| 13 | The Seams | Another Side of The Seams | Hand Drawn Dracula |
| 14 | Continuation | First Songs | self-released |
| 15 | Doof | Tha Bridge Strangler | Gritty City |
| 16 | Petrichor | II | self-released |
| 17 | Debrider | Gift Horse – EP | self-released |
| 18 | Large Margin | Large Margin | Cheap Cuts |
| 19 | Leyla McCalla | The Capitalist Blues | Jazz Village |
| 20 | Cherry Glazerr | Stuffed & Ready | Secretly Canadian / Hostess |
| 21 | Flat Worms | Into the Iris – EP | Garage Punk |
| 22 | Rustin Man | Drift Code | Domino |
| 23 | Go Fever | Daydream Hawker – EP | self-released |
| 24 | Sneaks | Highway Hypnosis | Merge |
| 25 | Eerie Wanda | Pet Town | Joyful Noise |
| 26 | James Blake | Assume Form | Polydor |
| 27 | Lula Wiles | What Will We Do | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 28 | Emily King | Scenery | ATO |
| 29 | Matt Ellis | Rambler Pacifico | Krow Pie |
| 30 | Juan Wauters | La Onda de Juan Pablo | Captured Tracks |
Anna C. February 9th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Girlpool, Juliana Hatfield, Mattiel, Nikki and the Phantom Callers, Steve Gunn
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jan 4 presents:
Top 30 new albums for week ending Jan 4
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.
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spooky Cool | Every Thing Ever – EP | Citrus City |
| 2 | Steve Gunn | The Unseen In Between | Matador |
| 3 | Faux Ferocious | Pretty Groovy | Burger |
| 4 | Sunwatchers | Illegal Moves | Trouble in Mind |
| 5 | Femi Kuti | One People One World | Knitting Factory |
| 6 | Alpheus | Light of Day | Liquidator |
| 7 | Low | Double Negative | Sub Pop |
| 8 | Mekong Xpress & The Get Fresh Horns | Common Knowledge | EggHunt |
| 9 | Dom Flemons | Black Cowboys | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 10 | Gulp | All Good Wishes | E.L.K. |
| 11 | Debrider | Gift Horse | self-released |
| 12 | Unmaker | Firmament | self-released |
| 13 | Butcher Brown | Camden Session | Gearbox |
| 14 | Boygenius | Boygenius – EP | Matador |
| 15 | The Ar-Kaics | In This Time | Wick / Daptone |
| 16 | Aerica Lauren | Summer Forever | self-released |
| 17 | Eiko Ishibashi | The Dream My Bones Dream | Drag City |
| 18 | Marie Davidson | So Right – EP | Ninja Tune |
| 19 | Exdreams | Physical Contact | exdreams |
| 20 | Chemtrails | Cuckoo Split – EP | PNKSLM |
| 21 | Zoe Boekbinder | Shadow | Zoe Boekbinder |
| 22 | Polly Panic | Losing Form | Polly Panic |
| 23 | My Brightest Diamond | A Million and One | Rhyme & Reason |
| 24 | Black Masala | Trains And Moonlight Destinies | self-released |
| 25 | David Benedict | The Golden Angle | self-released |
| 26 | Alien Sex Fiend | Possessed | Cherry Red |
| 27 | The Sha La Das | Love in the Wind | Daptone |
| 28 | June West | June West | Broken Circles |
| 29 | Chersea | In Limbo | Fierce Panda Canada |
| 30 | Gretta Ray | hERE aND nOW | self-released |
Anna C. January 5th, 2019
Posted In: Charts
Tags: Faux Ferocious, Femi Kuti, Spooky Cool, Steve Gunn, Sunwatchers