Temple of Mirth!

Tue, May 16, 2023

Don your straw hat and join us as we enter the Temple of Mirth on Handful of Brains! (Tuesday 7 – 9 PM on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio). We’ll have creepy clowns and an eclectic mix of music including Quincy Jones, Deer Tick, Joni Mitchell, Bettye LaVette, Joe Strummer, Mikaela Davis, Andy Frasco, Queens of the Stone Age, Gilla Band, Alhaji Waziri Oshomah, Animal Collective, & more!

Dial your FM radio receiver to frequency 97.3 or listen on the Information Superhighway at wrir.org.

You can listen to the last two months of shows any damn time you want at https://www.wrir.org/show/handful-of-brains/

Show archive

Playlist

Fanfare Ciocarlia, “Song for Noga”

from It Wasn't Hard to Love You

Asphalt Tango Records - 2021

Drive-By Truckers, “Zip City (Live)”

from It's Great to Be Alive! (Live)

ATO Records - 2015

Quincy Jones, “Sanford and Son Theme (The Streetbeater)”

from You've Got It Bad Girl

A&M - 2013

Rand's Pick of the Week

Deer Tick, “forgiving ties”

from forgiving ties b/w the real thing

ATO records - 2023

Joni Mitchell, “Both Sides Now (Live at the Newport Folk Festival 2022/07/24)”

from Joni Mitchell at Newport

Rhino - 2023

Bettye LaVette, “Plan B”

from LaVette!

Jay-Vee Records - 2023

Neil Young, “Distant Camera”

from Silver & Gold

Reprise - 2000

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Secret Agent Man”

from Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years

BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2022

Mikaela Davis, “Promise”

from And Southern Star

Kill Rock Stars - 2022

Black 47, “Cashula”

from Home of the Brave

CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) - 2014

Andy Frasco & the U.N., “You Do You”

from L'optimist

Fun Machine Records/Soundly Music - 2023

They Might Be Giants, “Cloissoné”

from Join Us

Idlewild - 2011

Prince, “Slow Love (Live in Utrecht, The Netherlands 6/20/87)”

from Sign O' The Times (Super Deluxe Edition) [2020 Remaster]

Warner Records - 2020

Queens of the Stone Age, “Emotion Sickness”

from In Times New Roman...

Matador Records - 2023

Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach, “The Sweetest Punch”

from Painted from Memory: The New Songs of Bacharach & Costello

Island Mercury - 1998

The Jimi Hendrix Experience, “I Don't Live Today (Live at the Los Angeles Forum, Inglewood, CA - April 26, 1969)”

from Los Angeles Forum - April 26, 1969 (Live)

Legacy Recordings - 2022