Month: September 2020 (Page 4 of 4)

Wednesday afternoon The AIR brings you brand-new “mixtape” styled episodes of Beatles Blast and Curtain Call!  You can tune in at the website, or on this embedded radio player…

At 2 PM, your humble blogger returns with a one-hour mixtape of quirky and wonderful covers of songs by the Beatles, together and solo, on Beatles Blast.  We celebrate the late-summer joy of singing Beatles songs with a collection of cool interpretations by a diverse collection of amazing artists. Check out the playlist.

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 10 PM, Friday at noon, and for this weekend, nothing on the weekend due to our RFC Labor Day Marathon, exclusively on The AIR.

Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs “Gimme Some Truth”
The Smithereens “All I’ve Got To Do”
Sarah McLachlan “Blackbird”
Jeff Lynne “With a Little Help/Nowhere Man”
Steve Harley “Here Comes The Sun”
Heather Nova “We Can Work It Out”
Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs “Beware of Darkness”
Wislon Pickett “Hey Jude”
World Party “Man We Was Lonely”
Edwin Starr “My Sweet Lord”
Fiona Apple “Across The Universe”
Golden Earring “I’ll Be Back”
Steve Earle “I’m Looking Through You”
The Jam “And Your Bird Can Sing”
Journey “It’s All Too Much”
Ben Harper “Strawberry Fields”
Yonder Mountain String Band “Think For Yourself”

At 3 PM Mel Larch devotes the entire hour of Curtain Call to a mixtape of songs from hit musicals from about 60 years ago, give or take five years. It’s the “greatest hits” of one of musical theater’s golden ages, presented as a bit of a time capsule in this year when stage productions are on pause. Check out this playlist:

“Put On A Happy Face” from Bye Bye, Birdie
“I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story
“Sit Down You’re Rockin’ The Boat”
“Getting To Know You” from The King And I
“If I Were A Rich Man” from Fiddler On The Roof”
“Food, Glorious Food” from Oliver!
“Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music
“Wouldn’t It Be Luverly” from My Fair Lady
“Camelot” from Camelot
“Don’t Rain On My Parade” from Funny Girl
“Brotherhood of Man” from How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
“Whatever Lola Wants” from Damn Yankees
“Try To Remember” from The Fantastiks
“I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair” from South Pacific
“So Long, Farewell,” from The Sound of Music

Curtain Call can be heard on The AIR Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM and 9 PM, and Friday at 10 AM. An all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

Tuesday on The AIR we deliver brand-new episodes of Radio Free Charleston, and NOISE BRIGADE.  In order to hear these lovely new sonic gems, you simply have to move your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay on this page, and  listen to this happy little embedded radio player…

We have yet another new Radio Free Charleston at 10 AM and 10 PM Tuesday.  This show kicks off with brand-new music from local band, Abandon The Ship (really, the album, “Overboard,” was just released three days ago), and new music from The Empty Hearts, Bananarama, Guided by Voices and The Killers with K.D. Lang. And also in this three-hour mix of local, national and international artists, we bring you a six-song set of tunes recorded live at Charleston’s World Famous Empty Glass, and a six-song suite from Athens Ohio-based Radarhill (with Nick Weckman).

Check out the playlist to see all the fantastic goodies we bring you this week…

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Abandon The Ship “All My Heroes OD’d on Herione”
The Soft Boys “I Wanna Destroy You”
The Bounty “Crisis In Faith”
The Empty Hearts “If I Could Change Your Mind”
The Amazing Delores “Love Magic”
Granny’s 12 Gauge “My Mind Is Somewhere Else”
The Company Stores “Still”
Tyler Childers “Charleston Girl”
Southern Culture On The Skids “King of the Mountain”
John The Conqueror “She Said”
New Country Rehab “Lizzie Died of a Broken Heart”
The Scrap Iron Pickers “Spy vs. Spy”
Mike Pushkin “Wrecking Ball”
Crack The Sky “Hold On/Surf City”
John Radcliff “RocknRolla”

hour two
The Heavy Editors “Within Reach”
TC&I “Scatter Me”
Joseph Hale “Time”
John Lennon “God”
Sheryl Crow “Mother Nature’s Son”
Brian May “Let Me Out”
Kate Bush “All We Ever Look For”
Red Audio “Radio Blah Blah”
The Aquabats “Walk Off”
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies “Faux Nice, Mock Fancy”
The Dollyrots “Nightlight”
Robert Smith “C Moon”
Susanna Hoffs & Matthew Sweet “Killer Queen”

hour three
Bananarama “Rhythm of Life”
Radarhill and Nick Weckman “Any Given Day parts 1-6”
Guided by Voices “Transfusion”
The Killers with K.D. Lang “Lightning Fields”
The Hatters “Mama”

Radio Free Charleston can be heard Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM, with replays Thursday at 2 PM, and Friday at 9 AM. This Friday at 5 PM we kick off our annual Labor Day Anniversary marathon of RFC, which will run through next Tuesday, pausing only for our Midnight Sunday marathon of The Swing Shift.

At 1 PM we bring you an encore of last week’s new episode of MIRRORBALL that you can read about HERE.

At 2 PM Steven Allen Adams graces us with a new edition of NOISE BRIGADE that opens with a double shot each of Rundown Kreeps and The Aquabats. Check out the playlist to see what Steve’s got up his sleeves…

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Rundown Kreeps “Yellow Truck”
Rundown Kreeps “We All Go”
Aquabats! “Bed Head!”
Aquabats! “Sneak Attack!”
Mad Caddies “Waiting for the Real Thing”
Richard Cheese “I Was Drunk”
Pennywise w/ Jim Lindberg “Boss D.J. (Cover)”
Kill Lincoln “Used Up”
Blink-182 “Quarantine”
The Slackers “Nobody’s Listening”
Kill Lincoln “Ignorance Is Bliss”
NOFX “Worse Things Happen at Sea”
NOFX “Glory Hallelujah”
Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra “Tunnel Vision”
Masked Intruder “Bad Reputation (Cover)”
Bayside “Interrobang”
Stand Atlantic “Jurassic Park”
The Real McKenzies “Beer and Loathing”
Sleater-Kinney “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone”
John Reuben “Soundman”

NOISE BRIGADE alternates weeks with Psychedelic Shack Tuesdays at 2 PM, with replays those weeks on Wednesday at 11 AM and 10 PM, Thursday at 8 AM, Friday at Noon, Saturday at 10 AM, Sunday at 4 PM and Monday at 7 PM.

At 3 PM your PopCulteer brings you some encore plays of The Swing Shift. I’m taking some time to work on our next batch of episodes, which will drop two weeks from now. We are quickly approaching episode 100 of The Swing Shift, and to mark the occasion I plan to devote three episodes to 100 years of Swing, with sets of tunes from each decade. Because of this, I want to take my time to pick the perfect playlist. And next week’s RFC marathon gives me an extra week to put it all together. The current plan is for episodes 99, 100 and 101 to all debut on the same day, in just two weeks.

You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 7 AM and 6 PM, Thursday at 2 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.