Month: April 2016 (Page 3 of 4)

A new RFC International debuts at midnight, Thursday. This week it’s a challenging block of music that may remind you of a mixtape that your weird friend made. listen to it at AIRadio, or tune in right here on this embedded blog transistor radio…

Radio Free Charleston International is indeed new this week with two hours of great music that you probably haven’t heard before. New music comes from Cheap Trick, Weezer, Red Vox, The Enid, The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Mike And The Melvins, The dread crew of Oddwood, Brian Eno and more. Deep album cuts head your way from Captain Beefheart, Atomic Rooster, Emerson Lake and Palmer, the Buzzcocks and more. Weird and avant-garde music is supplied by Marc Ribot, The Residents, Killing Joke, and others.

It all kicks off at midnight, Thursday, with a replay Friday at 10 PM and Saturday at 11 AM, on Appalachian Independent Radio.

Special Thanks to Mitch O’Connell for this week’s art.

Tune in to hear what all the fuss is about.

Cheap Trick  “Roll Me”

Neil Young  “Sample and Hold”
Dubioza Kolectiv  “Alarm Song”
Marc Ribot y Los cubanos postizos  “Los Teenagers Bailan Changui”

Weezer  “Thank God for Girls”
Red Vox  “There She Goes”
The High Violets  “Bells”
The Enid  “Someone Shall Rise”
The Foreign Films “Sweet Sorrow”

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The fun continues on Appalachian Independent Radio today with a brand-new edition of The Booster Pack, and an encore presentation of On The Road with Mel. You can listen in to original, intriguing radio programs as well as the best of independent music at the AIRadio website, or on this nifty little radio-player thingy here in this blog…

At 10 AM, with a replay at 3 PM, tune in to The Booster Pack as Chase Henderson and Susie Sketchman spend an hour talking about Harry Potter, discussing the classic books and movies, the upcoming Potter projects and playing some cool Harry Potter-centric tunes. Each week Gorillafoot Productions explores the worlds of modern nerd/cool culture on AIRadio.The show replays Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening.

At 1 PM, On The Road with Mel takes a look at traveling companions and how to get along with one another on the road. Her guest on this show is her traveling companion and husband, the author of this blog. On The Road with Mel can be heard Wednesday and Saturday at 1 PM and Sunday night at 9:30. This Sunday at 1 PM on AIRadio you can tune in for a special one-hour presentation which combines both of Mel’s shows about traveling for theater into one handy 60-minute listening experience. Next week Mel returns with a new show, all about roadside attractions.

With your PopCulteer waylaid by dilated eyeballs, this week we’re bringing you a repeat of a universally-acclaimed episode of Radio Free Charleston from February. Tune in to Appalachian Independent Radio, or listen right in this here little radio player doo-hickey..

We kicked this show off with the title-track from the brand-new Under Surveillance CD, and ended it with a 27-year-old recording of Go Van Gogh recorded live at the legendary Charleston Playhouse.

Listen at 10 AM and 10 PM Tuesdays, with replays on the weekend. AIRadio brings you the coolest radio you’ll find coming out of Charleston.

RFCv4004 Playlist:

Under Surveillance  “Savannah Moon”

Tape Age  “Baby I’m Lost”
Ona  “Sleep, Rinse, Repeat”
Blue Million “Adam Bit The Apple”
Ann Magnuson “Falling For An Actor”
Jordan Andrew Jefferson “The Party’s Over”

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We kick off this week with our first new super-sized Monday Morning Art. It’s a digital painting called “Cyber Queen,” with apologies to Bill Gardner who is none to fond of the overuse of the word “cyber.” This was created by airbushing and then applying about forty layers of digital effects over a photograph I took a couple of years ago. The model is my imaginary daughter, Kitty Killton. Click to enlarge.

A PopCult note: Your loyal correspondent is having a very minor medical procedure done today, and will be away from his trusty computer for a day or two. Tuesday’s episode of Radio Free Charleston on Appalachian Independent Radio will be a repeat, but you will still find the playlist here so you can play along at home. We should be back to whatever passes for normal by Wednesday.

Last year your PopCulteer and his lovely wife, Melanie Larch, traveled to Senoia Georgia, where they film much of the hit AMC series, The Walking Dead. Mel directed this brief look at the town and its Official Walking Dead store, The Woodbury Shoppe.

Since the show recently wrapped its latest season, and this video just crossed the 1,000-view mark, we’re going to bring it to you again. We went back just last month, but we haven’t put together a new video yet.

Fans of AIRadio might note that it was this clip that inspired Melanie to begin her radio show about travel, On The Road With Mel, which can be heard on AIRadio Wednesday and Saturday Afternoons at 1PM, and Sunday nights at 9:30.

Episode Seventeen of Radio Free Charleston saw your host, Rudy Panucci, sporting a “Kung Fu Grip” Shirt, and was loaded with all sorts of cool stuff.

We had RFC Diva, Melanie Larch in a wrestling ring, cutting a promo; Music from John Radcliff and Under The Radar, recorded at LiveMix Studio; and we had an episode of Pentagram Flowerbox plus our end credit repurposed a Stan Freberg commercial as our animation.

Go back to March, 2007, for “Kung Fu Grip Shirt.” You can find the original production notes here.

The PopCulteer
April 8, 2016

The big news this weekend in this special “All Stuff To Do” edition of The PopCulteer is the live radio broadcast concert by the band Trielement which you can listen to at Appalachian Independent Radio Sunday night at 10 PM.

You can visit the AIRadio website or just tune in on this convenient little internet radio embedded below…

If you can, it’s best to catch this incredible band live but if you can’t go out that late on the night before a Monday morning, the next best thing is tuning in to Charleston’s boldest independent radio station, AIRadio.

Trielement is a heavy progressive, mostly instrumental band consisting of Kenny Booth on guitar, Joey Lafferty on bass, and Dave Roberts on drums.  Once in a while, Kenny will even surprise you with an unexpected vocal turn.

The band will take a brief hiatus after this show so that they can finish their studio album debut.  In a few months, they will hit the road in support of Neil Zaza, guitar maestro extraordinaire.  If you want to catch the show in person, the music kicks off at 10 PM Sunday night at The Empty Glass.

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At that same embedded radio widget that you see above, you can tune in Friday night for a world of wonderment on Appalachian Independent Radio.  At 8 PM, it’s a brand new episode of Word Association with Lee and Rudy wherein Lee Harrah and your PopCulteer discuss Marx Toys and the soon-to-close Marx Toy Museum.

At 9 PM, Lee Hale brings us a new episode of Laugh Appalachia.  At 9:30, it’s a special bonus new episode of Word Association with Lee and Rudy about the long-ago days of Charleston radio.

10 PM sees a replay of this week’s Radio Free Charleston International, which you can read all about HERE.

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Thursday at midnight, with replays Friday at 10 PM and Saturday morning at 11, tune in for an all-new edition of Radio Free Charleston International, as we bring you a two-hour mix of music that no other radio station would dare to program.

Tune in to the AIRadio website, or listen to the show on this handy little radio-player widget…

You can hear RFC International every Thursday at midnight, with replays Fridays at 10 PM, Satuday mornings at 11 AM and late Saturday night/Sunday mornings.

This week we assault and educate your senses with new music from The Struts, The Anderson/Ponty Band, Killing Joke, Forbidden Planet, Jean-Michael Jarre and Tinita Tikarim. We mix that up with deep album cuts by Electric Light Orchestra, The Beach Boys, Gentle Giant, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Roger Daltrey and others. That all gets mixed in with cult artists like Aphrodite’s Child, Snakefinger, Klaatu, and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. We round out the show with a healthy dose of new and obscure artists to widen your horizons.

The end result, we hope, is a two-hour blast of thought-provoking aural excitement.

Just check out the playlist:

The Struts  “My Machine”

Anderson/Ponty Band “Owner of a Lonely Heart”
Aphrodite’s Child  “You Always Stand In My Way”
ELO  “Mahattan Rumble”
Snakefinger  “Trashing All The Loves of History”
Die Roten Rosen  “Zwei Mдdchen Aus Germany”

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The PopCult Toybox

One of the highlights of JoeLanta and The Great Atlanta Toy Convention each year is the great action figure parachute drop. The Marriott Century Center in Atlanta, which plays host to the convention, has a fifteen-story high atrium in their lobby. The management and staff are very patient and generous and allow a convention full of slightly whacked-out toy collectors and their families to hijack their facility for one night during JoeLanta so that they can use this lovely atrium, surrounded on fifteen floors by balconies, as a launching and landing area for GI Joe and other action figures who have been outfitted with working parachutes.

Think of it as a new kind of BASE jumping, with a much more manageable level of insanity.

This video is six minutes of the best of the parachute drop, set to music performed by the legendary band of ’59, Big Daddy. Camera work is courtesy of Melanie Larch, Lee Harrah and your PopCulteer, who must apologize for being so far behind in getting our coverage of JoeLanta and The Great Atlanta Toy Convention posted in a timely manner. The truth is that I simply got hammered with emergency assignments as soon as we got back. I haven’t even had time to unpack and enjoy my goodies from JoeLanta yet.

If I can get a break from crisis managment, the plan is to edit the wrap-up show and get the remaining panels and features posted over the next few days. Until then, enjoy the parachute drop!

This week on Mel Larch’s travel show on Appalachian Independent Radio, On The Road With Mel, offers up tips and hints on how to prepare for a safe and fun road trip. Mel tells you all about taking car of your car, gives info on handy websites and AAA membership and suggests just a few cool reasons to go on road trips.

You can listen to On The Road With Mel every Wednesday at 1 PM on Appalachian Independent Radio, with replays Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening.  Tune in at the AI Radio website or on this handy little pocket radio widget.

Also today at 10 AM, with a replay at 3PM on Appalachian Independent Radio it’s a brand-new episode of The Booster Pack, a great new pop culture show. Chase Henderson (of Gorillafoot Productions and Dr. Sketchys), Terry Bartley (owner and operator of Spoiler Warning Games and Comics), and rotating guests have in depth discussions about Pop Culture, and today they take on nostalgia.