hAVERSHAM 001The AIR, in case you didn’t know (in which case, welcome to your first ever visit to PopCult, please take the time to check out our many other fascinating posts and stories), is our nifty little internet radio station, broadcasting a unique and innovative collection of talk, comedy, and music, music, music. You can listen at The AIR website or on this marvelous and confounding little internet embedded doo-hickey thing…

Today on The AIR, we have a brand new episode of Laugh Appalachia at 9 AM and 9 PM. Following Laugh Appalachia, you can hear encore presentations of On The Road With Mel (ShockaCon), Radio Free Charleston (also about ShockaCon), Life Speaks with Michele Zirkle Marcum and The Best of The Real with Mark Wolfe (with RJ Haddy) and the special ShockaCon edition of Word Association with Lee & Rudy. At 1 PM you can listen to an encore of this week’s Radio Free Charleston International, about which you may read HERE.

3 PM sees a brand-new episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, which will include, in its second hour, the entire Live Stiffs Live album from the first Stiff Records tour in 1978, featuring Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Wreckless Eric and more. Check out the playlist:

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BEC NuImage 0006The The  “Infected”
Fun Boy Three  “The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum”
The Specials  “Friday Night, Saturday Morning”
Sigue Sigue Sputnik  “Love Missle F1 11”
Pretenders  “Talk of the Town”
Sparks  “Angst In My Pants”
Human League  “Being Boiled”
Public Image Limited  “Death Disco”
The Flying Lizards  “The Move On Up”
Blondie  “(I’m Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear”
The Vapors  “News At Ten”
Celia and the Mutations  “Mony Mony”
The Stranglers  “5 Minutes”
New Model Army  “No Rest”
Rich Kids  “Ghosts of Princes In Towers”
Holly and the Italians  “Tell That Girl To Shut Up”

Live Stiffs Live

Nick Lowe’s Last Chicken In The Shop
“I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock And Roll)”
“Let’s Eat”
Wreckless Eric and The New Rockets
“Semaphore Signals”
“Reconnez Cherie”
Larry Wallis’ Psychedelic Rowdies
“Police Car”
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
“I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself”
“Miracle Man”
Ian Dury and the Blcokheads
“Wake Up and Make Love To Me”
“Billericay Dickie”
Everyone
“Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll”

Magazine  “Touch and Go”
Wire  “Dot Dash”
Annie Golden  “Hang Up The Telephone”
The Divinyls  “Ring Me Up”
The Cure  “In Between Days”
The Clash  “Career Opportunities”

From 5 to 7 PM, we’ll bring you two hours of Prognosis, featuring the music of King Crimson. At 8 PM, it’s a special presentation of of Psychedelic Shack and then we have our regular Friday evening and mysterious and wild overnight programming. And remember, all day long Saturday, you can hear our best music programming including Curtain Call, The Swing Shift, Radio Coolsville, Harrah’s Hard and Heavy, Radio Free Charleston, Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, Prognosis, and most weeks, the bizarre and arcane Superfetch Supershow. Sunday sees ecnores of all of our talk programming.