Month: October 2016 (Page 3 of 4)

Concluding our look at Radio Free Charleston’s ghosts of Halloweens past, we go back to the last four years. Two of those years feature shows shot at ShockaCon, while 2014 saw us return to a more elaborate format with our Ouija show, featuring guests Mark Wolfe, Penny Maple and Kitty Killton. Last year I procrastinated and wound up reviving “Count Rudolf” at the last minute. Of course, this year we’re not going to have a Halloween special because Radio Free Charleston is on a temporary video hiatus.

Musical guests on these shows include The Renfields with Ari Lehman, The Nanker Phelge, HARRAH, Hurl Brickbat, The Jasons, The Big Bad and more.

Picking up the thread from four years ago, here are the remainder of the RFC Halloween treats.

2012

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This vintage April 2007 episode of Radio Free Charleston features a road trip to Parkersburg, West Virginia. Shot at a “Songpull” event at John Radcliff’s house, this episode marked three appearances in a row by Rad, and also featured music from Don Baker, Deron Baker and Josh Buskirk, plus there’s a special rendition of the RFC theme song by John Radcliff and Jerry Fugate.

You can read the original production notes here.

The PopCulteer
October 14, 2016

After a week of lazing about a bit due to your PopCulteer’s medical consultation out of town, The AIR will kick back into gear Monday with a slightly new schedule as we move some shows around, add a couple of new shows and special holiday events, and expand our afternoon musical offerings.

You can listen to The AIR at the website or on this pretend little box radio thingy…

Let me tell you about the changes on a day to day basis, starting with next Monday’s lineup.

As always, the day will kick off at 7 AM with a replay of the previous Friday’s episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat. Our 3 PM specialty music shows will always eoncore the following weekday at 7 AM.

From 9 AM to Noon, tune in for the best of local music as we bring you three encore episodes of Radio Free Charleston. At Noon, you can hear a replay of the previous week’s Laugh Appalachia, with Lee, Tiff, and Jay, followed by a replay of the previous week’s On The Road With Mel. At 1 PM, check out a full hour of Life Speaks with Michele Zirkle Marcum. At 2 PM, it’s the Independent Music Showcase on The AIR. 3 PM will see two hours of progressive rock with Prognosis, hosted by Herman Linte. This will be followed at 5 PM by Harrah’s Hard and Heavy, wherein Lee Harrah brings you an hour of hard and heavy music. At 6 PM, The Mystery Hour will surprise you every time. At 7 PM we will continue to bring you the best of That Conversation with Patrick Felton and at 9 PM, we’ll bring you The Best of The Real With Mark Wolfe. 10 PM sees the return of Six Degrees of Separation, an interview show hosted by Tim Dorsey and Jason “Roadblock” Robinson and recorded at The Empty Glass.

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Still recovering from a trip to WVU for medical reasons, your PopCulteer is taking it a bit easy for one more day. Today at 3 PM Radio Free Charleston International is a replay of our infamous “Bathroom Break” show, where we played the longest songs we could find. This classic aired back in February, and contain only five songs in its two hours.

You can tune in to The AIR website, or listen right on this little player thingamajig…

The rest of the day we’ll bring you classic episodes of The Swing Shift, Curtain Call, Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, Radio Free Charleston and Harrah’s Hard & Heavy.  Live From The Empty Glass kicks in at 10 PM. Next week we’re shuffling things around on The AIR, and bringing you some exciting new shows and a special Halloween event. Details on that will be in tomorrow’s PopCulteer.

We have another great line-up of talk programming once again today on The AIR. An all-new episodes of Life Speaks with Michele Zirkle Marcum, see’s Michele follow-up on a thread from last week’s interview with Chad Lindberg as she discusses the feeling that life is just a dream with her mother, Edie Nettle. Life Speaks continues to explore the everyday aspects of the paranormal, each week at 1:30 PM.

Also today, you can expect new-to-The-AIR editions of Lynn Browder’s Autism Discussion, The Real with Mark Wolfe and The Goon Show. We are also re-presenting, by popular demand, the On The Road with Mel about planning an out of town trip for Thrnaksigiving and later tonight you can hear the latest episode of The Gibby Hunters.

Curtain Call and The Swing Shift are in rerun mode because your PopCulteer was out-of-town for the first part of this week on Myasthenia Gravis business. They will return next week as part of a slightly-new  revamped schedule. Look for details this Friday.

In the meantime, Wednesday is loaded with great talk, comedy and music. Listen at the website or on this sweet little radio widget…

Here’s the full line-up of all of today’s great programming on The AIR:

11 AM  The Lynn Browder Show About Autism NEW
Noon Curtain Call with Mel Larch Episode 011
1 PM On The Road With Mel Thanskgiving Travel
1:30 PM Life Speaks with Michele Zirkle Marcum NEW
2 PM The Real with Mark Wolfe with Chase Henderson NEW
3 PM Curtain Call with Mel Larch Episode 009
4 PM The Swing Shift Episode 001
6 PM The Goon Show NEW (now one full hour!)
7 PM The Best of Word Association with Lee and Rudy
8 PM Booster Pack
9 PM The RFC Interview with Mark Wolfe
10 PM The Gibby Hunters NEW!
11 PM The Comedy Vault Monty Python  NEW

Well, your PopCulteer is not exactly sick, but he is out of town for a medical evaluation related to Myasthenia Gravis. Because of this, we’re going to have some reruns this week on The AIR.

As is always the case, you can tune in at The AIR website or on this special little embedded radio player widget…

Radio Free Charleston, Radio Coolsville and Six Degrees of Separation all all repeats today, but they’re all very, very good shows and you will beat yourself up about it all week if you miss them. On top of that, we’ve snuck in special surprises and astonishing feats all day long. You’ll just have to tune in to hear what they are.

Next week we’ll have a lot of new shows on the schedule on The AIR, so you might as well get in the habit of listening now.

The AIR, our amazing yet obscure internet radio station, stages a special event on Monday. Since it’s no longer kosher to claim Columbus day as a sort of Italian Pride Day, we’ll just say, enjoy your day off and tune in for show tunes and swing music all day long.

We’re having a marathon that will alternate our Wednesday-afternoon music shows, Curtain Call and The Swing Shift, all day long, from 7 AM to Midnight.  You can listen at The AIR website or on this marvelous and confounding little internet embedded doo-hickey thing…

At 3 PM each weekday The AIR brings you a specialty music block to help you finish your day of wage-earning. On Wednesdays we’ve had two programs filling that bill. That will change next week, when Curtain Call, our musical theater show, expands to two hours, with the first hour being brand-new, and the second hour presenting an encore of a previous episode.

Fans of The Swing Shift need not despair, as our celebration of 100 years of Swing moves to Tuesday, and follows the same format. Radio Coolsville, which was heard at 3 PM on Tuesday, will move to 1 PM, and return with new episodes early next year.

Today you can hear Curtain Call and The Swing Shift airing in alternate hours, all day long.

On Curtain Call. Mel Larch brings you an hour of the best of musical theater. Over the course of the day you’ll hear showstoppers from “The Book of Mormon,” “Hamilton,” “Fun Home,” “Hedwig and The Angry Inch,” The Rocky Horror Show,” “Gypsy,” and more. Mel will bring you everything from the classics by Rogers and Hammerstein to brand-new shows and everything in between. Check it out during the even-numbered hours today.

Your Popculteer pops up as the host of The Swing Shift. You may recall earlier this year that I brought you two episodes of Radio Free Charleston International dedicated to Swing Music. Those were so well-received, and I had so much fun doing them, that I decided to go ahead with a weekly one-hour show that mixes together the best swing music from the last century into a concise, swinging, blast of jumpin’ music.

Today on the odd-numbered hours you’ll hear classic swing music from Benny Goodman, Harry James and Glenn Miller amid swing revivalists Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and more. The Swing Shift will move to Tuesday afternoons at 3 PM next week.

We kick off this week with a digital painting of a victorious Mad Man Pondo, from last weekend’s very successful IWA East Coast event, “Herdamania,” where thousands of dollars were raised to help rebuild the athletic program at the flood-afflicted Elkview Middle School. Pondo’s victory over T.J. Perkins was just one highlight of an evening that saw the return of such IWA East Coast stalwarts as Crowza, Mickie Knuckles, El Drunko and the founding father himself, Mad Man Pondo. We’ll keep you posted on more IWA East Coast happenings in the coming weeks here in PopCult.

Tonight it’s time to repeat an annual tradition and to do so we’re going to get into the spirit of the season and re-present our classic Halloween shows. If this all seems familiar, it’s probably because we find some way to do this every year.

This week we’ll look at the Halloween specials from our first seven years. You will see classic RFC performances by Clownhole, Whistlepunk, half the Pistol Whippers, Lil’ Guy from South Park Enteprises, Big Money, Go Van Gogh, Under The Radar, and more, plus all sorts of scary animation and guest appearances. Next week we’ll probably bring you even more RFC Halloween Madness, including what many people consider our finest show.

2006

Our first two-parter, now combined into one show. See Rudy Panucci get killed and resurrected as a ghost.

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Episode 17 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 an IWA East Coast wrestling ring, cutting a promo (she will not be in the ring tonight). Music from John Radcliff and Under The Radar, recorded at LiveMix Studio, and we had an episode of Pentagram Flowerbox and our end credit repurposed a Stan Freberg commercial. Go back to March, 2007, for “Kung Fu Grip Shirt.”  You can find the original production notes here.