Your humble blogger is on the mend after a harsh summer cold, followed by some sort of ritualized bloodletting, so I’ve put together a partly-new Radio Free Charleston that you can hear today on The AIR. To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.
You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.
It’s a free-format extravaganza as this week’s first hour is, with one exception, all newly-released tunes by the likes of The Heavy Set Paw Paws from Beckley, plus J. Marinelli, Byzantine, The Settlement, Brian Diller, Pulp and Slate Dump. We have a sneak peek of an upcoming single from Aliza Hava, who splits her time between Nashville and Ashland, Oregon…and who comes to us via our Chicago Pipeline. “Let It Roar” will be available on all streaming services on July 22, but you can get another new track of hers if you pre-order her upcoming album on Bandcamp. That album will be out in September, and you can get the title track, “Into The Light” now.
Also, I probably should have asked if you pronounce her name “Aleeza” or “A-Lie-za,” but I didn’t, so you can either be astonished at my accuracy, or amused by me mangling yet another name.
After all, I do still sometimes say, “dee-orama,”
After the first hour we revive an episode of Radio Free Charleston International from January, 2017, and I have to be honest, it’s one that I included in a compliation show just four years ago, but it’s also one of my favorite free-format cluster fudgesicles of a show that has everything from Oingo Boingo and Neil Young to Emerson Lake and Palmer and The Buzzcocks.
Your walking wounded blogger/radio host was able to put this weeks RFC together while still recovering from the rather stabby medical test I had done a week ago. Links in the first hour will take you to pages for the artists…
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hour one
Heavy Set Paw Paws “Summer Sweat”
J. Marinelli “So Much For The Tolerant Left”
Aliza Hava “Let It Roar”
Byzantine “The Clockmaker’s Intention”
The Settlement “Cycles (live)”
June Swoon “American Dream”
Brian Diller “Fill My Eyes”
Pulp “Spike Island”
Slate Dump “Honey, Watch For Deer”
hour two
Oingo Boingo “The Controller”
Neil Young “Sample and Hold”
Dubioza Kolectiv “Alarm Song”
Marc Ribot y Los cubanos postizos “Los Teenagers Bailan Changui”
The Cure “Let’s Go To Bed”
Red Vox “There She Goes”
The High Violets “Bells”
The Enid “Someone Shall Rise”
The Foreign Films “Sweet Sorrow”
The Hillbilly Moon Explosion “Heartbreak Boogie”
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band “Run Paint Run”
Mike & The Melvins “Dead Canaries”
The Residents “Japanese Watercolor”
St. Vincent “Krokodil”
The Dandy Warhols “Pope Reverend Jim”
hour three
Killing Joke “The Big Buzz”
Brian Eno “The Hour Is Thin”
Escapism “Ship To Shore”
The Range “Superimpose”
Filter “Pride Flag”
Dread Crew of Oddwood “Siren’s Song”
Atomic Rooster “Friday The 13th”
Black Stone Cherry “War”
Emerson Lake and Palmer “Toccata”
Hooverphonic “I Like The Way I Dance”
Danielle DeCosmo “Don’t Know What It Means”
The Buzzcocks “ESP”
Operators “Bring Me The Head”
Spoon “Hot Thoughts”
You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM, Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight, Sunday at 8 PM and Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different classic episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.
I’m also going to embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.
After RFC, stick around for encores of the most recent episodes of MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.
At 3 PM we give you an encore of two classic episodes of The Swing Shift. I know I’ve been neglecting my Swing Music showcase lately, but I play to rectify that situation with a stretch of new episodes coming every week beginning in August.
You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.
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