Month: January 2014 (Page 4 of 4)

For our 150th episode, RFC looked back at LiveMix Studio, our early production partner and home to many increidble moments.  This episode includes classic LiveMix  performances by Raymond Wallace, The Nanker Phelge, The Ghosts of Now, Whistlepunk 2.0, Melanie Larch and The Feast of Stephen.

After the credits we unveiled a never-before-seen performance by Sasha Colette, backed by John Lily and Jonathan Wood.

In a departure from our normal format, this episode of RFC included interviews with RFC Big Shot, Brian Young, RFC Big Shot, Melanie Larch, and performers Lee Harrah, Dave Roberts and Raymond Wallace. We also hear from Tommy Medvick and Dan Jordan in archival interviews.  You can read the original production notes, from March 2012, here.

The PopCulteer
January 3, 2014

Time flies as the years pass. It seems like 2014 just got here a few days ago, and already it’s time for your PopCulteer to look back at this pivotal year. It’s hard to believe all the amazing things to which we bore witness this year. Let’s look at the highlights…

January

Record cold early in the month was followed by an unusual heat wave a couple of weeks later. Ninety-degree weather in the first month of the year was quite a shock, but just as everybody got used to it and fired up their air conditioners, a cold front moved in, bringing 47 inches of snow in three days to end the month.

Russia re-enters the space race by launching a “One-Boy Rocket” to the moon.

Mindful of the upcoming Congressional elections, Congress quickly passed new measures to extend emergency unemployment benefits.

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The PopCult Bookshelf will return next week as this week, my time has been preoccupied with a different medium. Television has become an issue for me. I’m talking about cable television. A few weeks ago,  I mentioned that I cut short a rant in the hopes that Suddenlink could help resolve some issues with the recent upgrade of their high definition cable boxes. The time for ranting has passed and today, I took a rather drastic action.

First, let me give you a little background. I live in the house I grew up in. This house has been wired for cable television since 1971. Back then, our company was Capitol Cablevision. With cable, we got six or seven channels and the bill was, I believe, less than five dollars a month.

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2014 will see many great things. Radio Free Charleston will hit the 200-episode mark. PopCult celebrates nine years as a blog. FestivAll turns ten. We’re planning to cover all sorts of cool pop culture events this year like JoeLanta, Tri-con, FestivAll, MEGO Meet, Shocka-Con, the Marx Toy Convention, car shows in Charleston and South Charleston plus stuff I can’t even thnk of at the moment, and we’ll also bring you news and video from the local music, art and theater scenes. Of course you’ll get your weekly doses of toys news, book reviews, essays and more. To kick off the new year, we’re bringing you a crappy little digital painting. We’ll start on all that other stuff tomorrow.