Month: April 2017 (Page 5 of 5)

Our internet radio station, The AIR, is barreling along with a fresh batch of shows and a tweaked schedule.  Today, Radio Free Charleston opens with The Velvet Brothers, recorded live just last Friday. You can tune in at The AIR Website, or just settle down right here on this embedded radio player…

A t 1o AM and 10 PM Tuesday join us for a new hour of great local music on Radio Free Charleston. We recorded The Velvet Brothers live at The Cantina in Kanawha City last Friday. This week we also bring you great local music from The Company Stores, The Wren Allen Band, Fabulous Head, Bon Air, and more. Check the playlist further down in this post.

At noon we offer up an afternoon of mysterious music, as we await some new programming that hasn’t arrived yet.

3 PM sees a new episode of The Swing Shift, with the best Swing Music of the last century. You’ll find the playlist for this week’s show below the RFC playlist.

5 PM sees the return of Dexter Checkers and Ska Madness. Dexter is cooking up new hour-long episodes, but in the meantime we’re doubling-up on encores of his half-hour program.

At 6 PM our daily New Music Show continues, while at 6:30 PM, by Popular Demand, it’s The Crazy Show. At 7 PM we offer up a preview of the soon-to-return Psychedelic Shack, presented by Nigel Pye, and at 8 PM it’s a replay of last weeks Sydney’s Big Electric Cat.

10 PM is when Radio Free Charleston is heard again, followed by last week’s Radio Free Charleston International, and an all-night marathon of Herman Linte and Prognosis.

The AIR is the place to go for interruption-free music. Below the jump you’ll find the playlists I promised you:

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Our internet radio station, The AIR, rips in April with a fresh batch of shows and a tweaked schedule.  You can tune in at The AIR Website, or just twonk the magic ploonker right here on this embedded radio player…

After a long layoff, the fun starts at 3 PM with a brand-new episode of Prognosis. Herman Linte is back in the saddle and ready to bring you the best progressive rock from the last fifty years. Check out the playlist at the bottom of this post.

At 5 PM we bring you a classic episode of Harrah’s Hard & Heavy. In a couple of weeks we’ll have new shows from this series, but until then, you can rock out with your encore out.

At 6 PM we debut the New Music Show. This is exactly what the title says. It’s new music, a mix of local and non-local, presented in a rotation so that you can see the artist and song title displayed. You’ll get to hear some of the best tracks that we play on our specialty shows here.

At 6:30 PM it’s The (censored) Crazy Show. Now daily, by popular demand.

7 PM sees a new-to-The-AIR episode of That Conversation with Patrick Felton. This week it’s part one of Patrick’s talk with Sam Holdren.

9 PM brings us a new-to-The-AIR episode of The Best of The Real with Mark Wolfe. This time Mark talks to Clay Sayre, whom we just saw in Atlanta a few weeks ago.

10 PM revives a lost episode of Six Degrees of Separation. This talk show, hosted at The Empty Glass, delves into the mind of master bassist, John Inghram.

At midnight, settle in for an all-night parade of showtunes, as we bring you a marathon of Curtain Call, hosted by Mel Larch.

Here is your playlist for Prognosis, heard Monday at 3 PM, Tuesday at 7 AM and Wednesday at 8 PM…

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John Wetton and Robby Krieger  “All You Need Is Love”
Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy  “Tarkus”
Iron Butterfly  “In A Gadda Da Vida”
The Lennon Claypool Delerium  “Monolith of Phobos”
Lyrian  “Flight From The Enchanted”
Circuline  “Forbidden Planet”
Deep Purple  “Time For Bedlam”
Steve Hackett  “In The Skeleton Gallery”
Marc Almond  “The Days of Pearly Spencer”
Ben Craven  “Revenge of Komono”
Huis  “Man On the Hill”
Ghost Medicine  “Broken Corridor”
Obyssy  “Barbarian”
Lifesigns  “Voice In My Head”
Gandalf’s Fist  “Victims of the Light”
Bellerophon  Autumn Song”
Chat Noir  “Fundamental Mind”
Kansas  “The Lightning Hand”

This week we kick off “Monochrome Month” here in PopCult’s Monday Morning Art. For the next four weeks you can expect art created using a single color. Today it’s black and white, for a digital oil painting that attempts to recreate the view from my hotel room overlooking Grand Avenue on my last trip to the Windy City. I’m headed back there later in the month, so I figured “why not?”

Check Popcult later today for news on the newly-tweaked line-up over at our internet radio station, The AIR, and as always, click the image to see a bigger version.

Tonight the hit AMC series, The Walking Dead, wraps up its seventh season, a season in which they introduced fans to Negan and said goodbye to Glenn and Abraham, among others. To mark this event, we’re bringing you a selection of the videos we’ve posted about TWD over the years.

Above you see Mel Larch talking to Adam Minarovich and Jeryl Prescott, who appeared on the first season of the show. Below you’ll find our video travelogue of TWD filming locations in Senoia, Georgia, a talk with star walker, Don Teems, and a look at some previous year’s Walking Dead toys from McFarlane.

Below the jump, we’ve got all kinds of extra Walking Dead video for you.

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Radio Free Charleston headed into a bold new direction with episode 40 of the show.

This episode featured a slick new opening, new regular features and a fresh, upbeat attitude, as we undertook a major revamp to bring you the best local music, comedy, film and animation that West Virginia had to offer.

Of course, it was all a load of hooey. This was our first April Fool’s episode, and we brought it to the Flashback out of order so that you could enjoy the experience…and also so we wouldn’t have to bother doing anything new for April Fool’s Day this year.

Aside from the “new regular features” that would never be seen again (thanks for being a good sport, Eamon), and the presence of the frightening and mis-colored Radio Free Charleston toupee, this was a great show with music from Paul Calicoat (filmed at Route 60 Music) and Joe Slack (filmed behind the Kanawha County Public Library). Plus The No Pants Players returned with a hilarious April Fool’s Day Message, Award-winning filmmaker Eamon Hardimon did indeed grace us with the first of one installment of “Eamon In The Street,” and our animation this episode features Jerry “The King” Lawler in animated outtakes from his then- recent PopCult interview.

It was during the filming of the host segments in Huntington (while wearing a “Charleston” shirt and claiming that the different locales were in Kanawha County) that your PopCulteer’s trusty ride, the Cutlass Supreme, blew its cooling system, which limited us shooting in a three-block radius near Pullman Square. Had we been able to shoot the original gags that we’d planned, which were in extrememely poor taste, chances are that your humble host would have been lynched and strung-up, Mussolini-style, from one of the tasteful streetlights in the downtown Huntington area.

You can find the original production notes HERE.

And have a happy April Fool’s Day. Your shoe’s untied.