Month: July 2019 (Page 4 of 4)

Celebrating three years as PopCult’s adjunct radio station, we have an afternoon of all-new-programming Tuesday on The AIR as we deliver new episodes of Radio Free Charleston, Psychedelic Shack and The Swing Shift to our loyal listeners. Zip on over and tune in at the website, or be a lazy bum and listen to this embedded radio player…

It all kicks off at 10 AM (with a replay at 10 PM– all times EDT) with a brand-new edition of Radio Free Charleston. This week’s show is once-again loaded with great local music by some of the Charleston area’s finest bands (and a few who were just passing through).

I’m also still experimenting with something new this week. If my experiment works (UPDATE: It should, now), you will be able to click on the episode number above the playlist that follows, and go to a page where you can download a low-res version of this week’s show.  I’m trying this to see if it’s feasible to do every week. We may have to take them down after a while to conserve server space or there may be technical issues since this is new thing. Give it a shot if you don’t have time to tune in to our live stream, why don’cha? So far it seems to be working.

Check out the playlist:

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Mediogres “Zombie Activist”
The Jasons “Mommy Got Beheaded By A Bimbo”
Kevin Scarbrough “Unsatisfied Animal”
The Heavy Editors “Meltdown”
Time And Distance “Hell To Pay”
Frenchy & The Punk “She Was A Flapper”
Geronimo “Not Just Stand There”
Todd Burge “That Damned Disguise”
Speedsuit “Upside”
Karen Allen “On and Off”
Byzantine “Moving In Stereo”
David Synn “Anesthesia”
Science of the Mind “Rat”
Feast of Steven “Tired of Sinkin'”
The Amazing Delores “Rats In My Trailer”
Fabulolus Head “Dopamine Phone”

Radio Free Charleston can be heard Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM, with replays Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM and 7 PM, Saturday at 11 AM and Midnight, Sunday at 1 PM and the next Monday at 8PM, exclusively on The AIR.

At 2 PM on Psychedelic Shack Nigel Pye checks in from Haversham Recording Institute with a 60-minute mixtape of groovy Psychedelic Rock. For the second week in a row, our friend, the Hippie Gnome, Nigel Pye, has cheerfully decided to provide us with a playlist for this new episodem so tune in turn on and check out the playlist…

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Todd Rundgren “Strawberry Fields Forever”
Donovan “There Is A Mountain”
The Turtles “Glitter and Gold”
Love Sculpture “I Believe To My Soul”
Frijid Pink “Sing A Song For Freedom”
Material Issue “Out Right Now”
Iron Butterfly “In A Gadda Da Vida”
Janis Joplin “Mercedes Benz”
Deep Purple “Flight Of The Rat”
The Flaming Lips “Do You Remember”
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band “Trust Us”
Syd Barrett “Octopus”

Psychedelic Shack can be heard Tuesday’s at 2 PM, with replays Wednesday at 11 AM, Thursday at 5 PM, Friday at Noon, Saturday at 9 AM and Sunday at 4 PM.

At 3 PM your PopCulteer returns to host a new hour of The Swing Shift as we continue to bring you the best Swing Music of the last century. This week we take bring you a broad assortment of new Swing, Retro Swing and vintage original Swing, and even a couple of swing covers of unlikely rock tunes. See if you can hear where your host absolutely blanks on the name of the band, Was (Not Was).  Pop your peepers at this list of hep cats…

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Louis Prima “Pennies From Heaven”
Squirrel Nut Zippers “Karnival Joe (From Kokomo)”
Jack’s Cats “Return of The Romantics”
Tony Pastor “Dance With A Dolly”
Sassy Swingers “Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down”
Bill Elliott Orchestra “White Heat Stomp”
Joe Stilgoe “Walk The Dinosaur”
Swing Ninjas “Salad Days”
The Sazerac Swingers “Brown Eyed Devil”
Megan and her Goody Goodies “I Wanna Be Loved By You”
Tommy Dorsey “On The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe”
The Speakeasies’ Swing Band “Gypsy Curse”
Brian Setzer Orchestra “Jumpin’ East of Java”
Sugarpie and The Candymen “Highway Star”
Royal Crown Revue “Trapped (In The Web of Love)”

You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 7 AM and 6 PM, Thursday at 7 PM and Saturday at 5 PM, only on The AIR. You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.

Remember, you can tune in to The AIR at all hours of the day and night for a variety and quality of programming that you will not find anywhere else. Check PopCult regularly for details on our new episodes.

Still mining the inspiration of New York City, this week finds your PopCulteer digging out some musty old oil pastels and a small canvas board to knock out a quick study of buildings and light and shadow and stuff. I spent a lot of time looking up back in May when we went to The Big Apple, and this one was done without photographic reference.

I warned you that I’d be doing New York-themed art up into July. Turns out I may even make it into August with this latest batch of work. In the future, art scholars will look at this work as my “New York Period.” Or perhaps they’ll call it a “rut.” More likely, no art scholars will be talking about this at all, but a guy can dream, can’t he?

You can click the image to see it bigger.

Meanwhile, Monday on The AIR, this week we bring you a Monday Marathon of Nigel Pye’s Psychedelic Shack. That starts at 7 AM. At 3 PM Herman Linte’s show, Prognosis, moves back to Mondays, followed by a classic episode at 5 PM, and replays of last week’s Radio Free Charleston and RFC International.  Then at 11 PM we kick it back over to Prognosis, with an eight hour marathon of great progressive rock.

July 1 marks three years since OnTheAIRadio morphed into The AIR, and became the internet radio arm of PopCult. To mark this milestone, we’re tinkering with the schedule and offering brand-new episodes of our afternoon music programming–hopefully for the whole month of July. We’ll tell you about our changes every day this week.

Our internet radio story goes all the way back to November, 2014, when I launched RFC volume three on Voices of Appalachia Radio.

VOA was a grand experiment at providing diverse viewpoints and elements, gathered around Charleston. Unfortunately, VOA was plagued by technical issues that hit just as an on-air station was launching, and most of our programs were courted by said station, and left for the actual airwaves.  You couldn’t really blame them because we were offline at the time.

No offers were ever extended to Radio Free Charleston to make that transition, so I stuck with VOA, and helped relaunch it as OnTheAIRadio. When it became apparent that the new station was going to primarily be my responsibility, I took sole ownership and rebranded it, and that’s where we are now, with The AIR. That’s the remixed logo graphic we ran at the time, updated to keep the URL current.

I’m having loads of fun, and we have somehow cultivated a small, but loyal, worldwide audience. We’re hoping to add some new shows to the schedule soon, too. It’s a good time to be a fan of The AIR. Just breathe it in, and enjoy.

You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on this embedded radio player…